abakkus replied to your post:I watched the Urbance official trailer and it looks cool as hell. Don’t let tumblr ruin this for you and the plot of the story sounds really great. keep your head up high okaytbh i dont totally understand the sudden hate? like we have p much the same plot info we did when they talked about it before the kickstarter, so what changed??Who knows? Maybe people didn’t look at the same website that is there now that was there when the trailer was first floating around? Because to my knowledge nothing more has come out that wasn’t available a year or so ago when Urbance first popped up. Or maybe Tumblr is even more hypercritical than they used to be about anything that doesn’t fit their perfect mold of “all-inclusive/representative.”
I do not mean to sound glib about the issue of gender and sexual orientation representation in media. But as an African-American who is excited to see an animated series that explores themes of African American culture that isn’t Boondocks or Black Jesus, I’m really irritated that people are skewing Urbance’s yet to be revealed storylines and characters.
I was linked to this earlier and it’s the only thing that mentions homosexuality:
Also there’s the question of homosexuality, and this is probably the biggest topic and the most risky for now.
I try to balance everything How to balance guys and girls dancing, communication fighting, happiness, a pretty tough subject and homosexuality.
I’m certainly intrigued by that, how homosexuality is perceived by people besides me.
Further down:
I was pretty surprised when I started to put the trailer online. I had a lot of positive comments. Probably 80 percent of people really appreciated it, and about 10 percent people were really concerned about the question of homosexuality.
At first I was a bit disturbed, but now I see that people were just really concerned.