Now, I’m seeing so many Black hairstyles.
And it even spills over into the custom content community where, like, people will make CC (custom content) and they never are inclusive when it comes to hairstyles. The color palettes on the clothes that are not really flattering to darker skin tones. XMM: Yeah! Makeup still needs so much improvement. GC: Yeah, there was no real popping lip gloss back in the day. Then I just ended up making the skin tones, because I was like how am I going to be able to tell the stories I wanna tell if the stories I want to see and the content I want to make, isn’t even there for us to make? Because beyond, there was also hair, different noses, and body types, Sims having more accurate butts and bigger thighs and calves to go with those butts, bigger breasts, different, like, you know, more curvaceous, proper makeup to go along with these skin tones.
The darker ones just have this ghastly grey undertone.
And I’m like well what’s wrong with these skin tones? And I was like well they’re kind of ashy and dull and grey and I just started going through the skin tones and every one of them looks fine until you get to the darker ones. Do I have some type of self-hatred issues that I don’t know about? No, I don’t. I went in CAS (Create-A-Sim), and I was like, I don’t feel like I make enough darker Sims. I’m looking around like, “where are the Black people, where are the Black stories?” I see all these happy-go-lucky white families and I’m like, “where are the happy-go-lucky Black families? Where are the stories with Sims that are like, darker, and Black? Where is it at?” I’m looking around and even amongst some Black simmers, I still wasn’t seeing enough dark-skinned representation either so I was kinda just like, so I’m gonna have to be the one to do this because I don’t see it! When I started making Let’s Plays, I realized that something was terribly wrong. In 2016, I left Twitch for YouTube, started making videos. XMiraMira: I started casually making content in 2015. Game Crate: At what point did you realize there was a need for more Black content and Black-created content in The Sims? Our conversation, lightly edited for clarity, follows. An avid gamer since age 4, the New Yorker and Twitch partner sat down with us to share insight into her world. With more than 100,000 subscribers on YouTube and 39,000 on Twitch, xMiraMira is making a name for herself in an industry that has not been known to be inclusive to women like herself. Winner of the first-ever The Sims esports competition, The Sims Spark’d, and creator of the infamous melanin pack for The Sims 4, she represents for Black women gamers around the world and the elusive yet ridiculously creative Sims community in the realest and most engaging way, bringing an edge to the gaming community with her fashionable stylings, storytelling, and raw, unforgettable personality. XMiraMira is a staple in the Black content creator community.
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