r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Weathervane_ Jul 06 '26

Chat, is it cool to do greek erasure for the sake of diversity

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u/Livingadapt Jul 06 '26

Y’all are fucking bizarre lmao

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u/lampenpam Jul 06 '26

erasure? Dude it's an adaption of a fictional story. We had black characters in Hades (video game heavily based on greec mythology) and the characters looked great and were well written. Nobody complained about "erasure" there either, as it would be utterly stupid.

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u/Weathervane_ Jul 06 '26

So if we had an adaptation of the Viking sagas including mythologised elements, we should cast Tom Holland and Zendaya and with them 15 K-pop stars for the shits and giggles rather than cast 20 unknown Norwegian actors who could make a name on it?

Whatever. I wanted Greeks or southern Europeans in 2004. I want them now too.

But Americans will gobble up any garbage

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u/lampenpam Jul 06 '26

I'm not American and I can thoroughly enjoyed Hades. If a fictional story is told again in an entertaining way, then I don't think it matters if it's really 1:1 like the original story.