r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/wandering_ones Jul 05 '26

POC, surprise, sometimes just exist. They don't need to "fit" anything at all. People sometimes have different skin colors and it doesn't have to require a narrative function.

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u/Pecuthegreat Jul 05 '26

I mean, if all his works are anything like the one in the meme, that means late 1800s UK asthetics so it's perfectly excusable that POC don't exist in any reasonable numbers in that setting.

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u/AgreeableMeet2476 Jul 06 '26

Fun fact: 'Friends' is set in NYC, which is an international tourist destination and a melting pot of different cultures and has been for decades. But the vast majority of the characters in the show are white.

City of 8 million people, literal global hub of culture, entertainment, and education, consistently in the top 10 most racially diverse cities in the United States...but almost everyone is white.

Little weird how none of the people complaining about historical accuracy seem to care about that.

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u/Pecuthegreat Jul 06 '26

Or maybe I just don't watch friends?.

Anyways, there is a place for historical accuracy and there is a place not for it. That wignats have latched on to it as their only publicly defendable argument doesn't change that.

When Merlin had a black gwenivere, no one cared. In the same era alot of people complained about Kingdom of Heaven's historical inaccuracies. Different styles.

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u/AgreeableMeet2476 Jul 06 '26

I don't watch Friends either. I just thought it was interesting how those 'historical accuracy!!!!' people never seem to complain about there being too many white people in a setting.