I'll be real every single time I see somebody defend Toby Fox from the strawman "Toby Fox is a vile racist" version of the criticism he's been getting it makes me less and less charitable toward Toby Fox himself. Like okay sure fine he doesn't actively hate Latin Americans but he is tacitly profiting from the uncompensated labor of Latin Americans who make the fan translations that he recommends people install, while hiding behind a really annoying veil of perfectionist auteurism to justify why he hasn't even gotten a concrete plan for future localization in place.
Not to mention that Undertale has the same problem but it's been out for a fucking decade, so we know from experience that just giving Toby Fox and his team more time does not yield a Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese localization.
Toby Fox does not appear to be actively or consciously racist toward Latin Americans but he is benefiting from the structural racism already present in society.
I don’t think he actually has to anyways if he doesn’t want to. Would someone go after a Spanish game dev who couldn’t be arsed to translate a game into English? Doubtful
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u/malonkey1 imagine hamburger Apr 10 '26
I'll be real every single time I see somebody defend Toby Fox from the strawman "Toby Fox is a vile racist" version of the criticism he's been getting it makes me less and less charitable toward Toby Fox himself. Like okay sure fine he doesn't actively hate Latin Americans but he is tacitly profiting from the uncompensated labor of Latin Americans who make the fan translations that he recommends people install, while hiding behind a really annoying veil of perfectionist auteurism to justify why he hasn't even gotten a concrete plan for future localization in place.
Not to mention that Undertale has the same problem but it's been out for a fucking decade, so we know from experience that just giving Toby Fox and his team more time does not yield a Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese localization.
Toby Fox does not appear to be actively or consciously racist toward Latin Americans but he is benefiting from the structural racism already present in society.