How Virtua Fighter fumbled on Vanessa Lewis | Colourism in video games

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United Kingdom Fragmented Pixels
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Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9eNn9V2Mrw


Game:
Virtua Fighter 4 (2001)
Duration: 8:19
1,472 views
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This week’s video, I talk about how they fumbled Vanessa Lewis—Virtua Fighter’s first Black woman character. I discuss colourism and how this drastic change reinforces negative attitudes towards darker skin tones.

Of course, any insulting or insensitive comments will be removed—as usual.

0:00 Intro
0:15 Thoughts on Vanessa Lewis
1:34 What is colourism?
2:48 The problem with this issue
5:58 Conclusion
8:01 Outro


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At this time, Fragmented Pixels has 1,771 views for Virtua Fighter 4 spread across 2 videos. His channel published less than an hour of Virtua Fighter 4 content, or 2.65% of the total watchable video on Fragmented Pixels's YouTube channel.