Not only can users download sims that look like them, but they can also get other black-themed content hair products and weaves, clothing that we might be more likely to wear, and makeup that actually pops with melanin.Īccording to Ashleigh, making custom content requires an “extreme” amount of graphic design skill and time, but the majority of users give away their content for free because of the moral cause: they believe that it’s important for black people, who for so long have battled to see themselves reflected in the mainstream media and in positions of power, to have representation in the virtual world. There’s lush, dark skintones and different hair textures – braids, afros and even laid edges. There’s different sites where you can get custom content for the sims in general, but Tumblr is where it’s at for black folks, with users such as Xmiramira, Ebonixsims and Blvck Life Simz leading the way. There is a whole black simming world that is taking diversity into its own hands. To Dazed's knowledge, they have never tried to reach out to any of the black simmers creating custom content. Despite trying to reach them for comment for this article, we’re yet to receive a response. Not a lot of people think that black people like videogames or computer games so they’re probably not hiring enough black people to work in graphic design or production."ĮA does support the usage of custom content in Sims 4, although it says that users will be doing so "at their your own risk". I don’t think EA purposefully leaves them out, but I think it’s an afterthought. If you make them black the skins make them look really ashy, or they’re a bad colour, or make them straight up the colour black. “One thing that I noticed was that there was never really any nice options in the ‘base’ game for any of the black characters. When I ask Ashleigh why it was important for her to collate the images, she tells me she’s been playing the game since it first came out. The post was shared nearly three thousand times.
Ashleigh Nicole Tribble, a 27-year-old from New York, had put together some stunning images of specially customised black Sims doing their thing and looking fly. Just two weeks ago however, The Sims came steamrolling back into my life when a Facebook post on the black simming community went viral. So, when I was gifted a new computer, I actively didn’t download The Sims (and started going out and drinking underage instead). But there reached a point in my life, at the tender age of 14, that I realised that I was spending too much time on the game. I would spend hours poring over my characters, watching them go through everything from their first love to pregnancy and heartbreak – and sometimes sadistically killing them by taking away the ladder from their swimming pool. Like many of us growing up I was obsessed a computer game called The Sims made by Electronic Arts (EA).
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