#kevin yee

[window-to-oblivion]

Morph and morpherine doodles I made at the morphcord drawing sesh tonight :D

[stuff-diary]

Arcane (Season 2)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Arcane (Season 2, 2024, France/USA)

Creators: Christian Linke & Alex Yee (based on Riot Games' League of Legends)

Mini-review:

Whew, what a season! As of right now, I can't truly say it was as perfect as the first, but it still gave us so much of the same awesomeness that turned the show into a pop culture phenomenon. The animation, the art and the action scenes remain as mindblowing as ever, and the story continues to wear on its sleeve the big, bold heart that beats at its core. At the end of the day, it's pretty much impossible to tear your eyes away from the screen. However, during the last two acts I kept feeling like the pacing was too rushed, leaving some things unexplored; I would have loved to learn more about the Black Rose thing and characters like Sevika or Loris. I can't help but wonder what the show would have been like with more seasons. Still, one thing's for sure: with Arcane, Fortiche has achieved something that will go down in the history of animation and video game adaptations.

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Oliver meets Kevin for the first time redraw

[marcovaleyeah]

24.11.24

#Marco-Marathon | Arcane

Animated series Name: Arcane | Season 2 | (2024); Production studios: Riot Games, Fortiche Products; Directors: Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord, Barth Maunoury, Marietta Ren; Screenwriters: Mollie Bickley St. John, David Dunne, Nick Luddington, Ben St. John, Ash Brannon, Amanda Overton, Christian Linke, Alex Yee, Conor Sheehy, Henry G.M. Jones, Graham McNeill, Giovanna Sarquis; Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Ella Purnell, Kevin Alejandro, Katie Leung, Harry Lloyd; Genres: Science-fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: One series – 40 minutes | All series – 6 hours;

Arcane Season 2 (2024) continues to raise the bar for animated series. Fortiche's visual style impresses with detail and dynamism, turning every frame into an artistic masterpiece. The plot delves into the drama of Vi and Jinx, adding emotional tension, and the characters' relationships develop even deeper.

The series brilliantly balances between large-scale battles and touching moments, maintaining attention to detail and creating a strong emotional resonance. Even with its many storylines, the show holds its own with strong drama and spectacle.

Infinity is the only way to describe the visually and emotionally stunning finale, confirming the status of "Arcane" as one of the best series of our time.

My rating:

♾

[therealmrpositive]

Hollow Man 2 (2006)

In today's review, I find that some grudges still have to be seen to be believed. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2006 sci-fi thriller, Hollow Man 2 #PeterFacinelli #LauraRegan #ChristianSlater #DavidMcIlwraith #WilliamMacDonald #SarahDeakins

While the old phrase goes that seeing is believing, how does that account for what we feel? What emotions stir inside, the feelings of joy, or rage, how do those drive us to do impressive things, only limited by our physical beings? In 2006, a direct-to-video sequel attempted to show how far rage would go, even if you cannot see it in Hollow Man 2. The move to a more conspiracy-laden adventure…

[terrapia]

Farewell, Arcane

Thank you Fortiche.

Thank you Christian Linke. Thank you Alex Yee. Thank you Amanda Overton. Thank you Riot Games. Thank you Pascal Charrue. Thank you Arnaud Delord. Thank you Bart Maunoury. Thank you Marc Merrill. Thank you Brandon Beck. Thank you Jane Chung. Thank you David Dunne. Thank you Thomas Vu. Thank you Hailee Steinfeld. Thank you Ella Purnell. Thank you Kevin Alejandro. Thank you Katie Leung. Thank you Jason Spisak. Thank you Toks Olagundoye. Thank you Harry Lloyd. Thank you JB Blanc. Thank you Reed Shannon. Thank you Mick Wingert. Thank you Amirah Vann. Thank you Ellen Thomas. Thank you Brett Tucker. Thank you Ash Brannon. Thank you Nick Luddington. Thank you Graham McNeill. Thank you Henry Jones. Thank you Kristina Felske. Thank you Giovanna Sarquis.

Thank you - artists, music composers.

Thank you for creating something that has changed lives forever.

Thank you for bringing together an amazing community of people.

THANK YOU.

[ogrepoppenangleaksofficial]

First, I wanna say that the series is great and wonderful and fabulous. A million praises upon yee. Were I a rich aristocrat, you would be showered in patronage for the crews excellent creations. I have but two questions

Will we get to see what Kevin is up to at the house again while the gang tries to identify the ghoul in ep5? Most importantly, is there any chance of boy and door heading home and interacting with him?

Thanks again for making something incredible

ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

boy & door are VERY diligent in their goal of protecting the exterior of the chapter house (looking at it from the o'tolley's across thje street)

kevin is

[aixeko]

HOLYFUCKINGHAIRNWOW WTFFFFF ELYSIA HELLO WTF MY WIFE MY WIFE HELLOOOOOO???? WTFF SHE'S ALIVE AND WELL SHE'S FUCKING ALIVE AND WELL I'M GONNA CRY I LOVE HSR SO MUCH

SHE FINALLY HAS AN ENG VA TOO IT SOUNDS PERFECT I'M GONNA CRY SHE'S REAL AND ALIVE

"It will be a romantic story like none that has come before-" YES YES YES YEE PLEASE PLEASE I'M ON MY KNEE STAY ALIVE IN JUST ONE UNIVERSE ONE FUCKING UNIVERSE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I NEED YOU MY BELOVED. I'M SORRY KAFKA BUT IF YOU DO NOT GET YOUR ASS HOME SHE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO NUMBER 1 IDGAFFFFFF (Lies, Kafka still solos but I love Elysia equally, she's my #1 in hi3) 😭😭

AND KEVIN WTFFFF KEVIN EXPY I'M CALLING ITTTTT

Flame chasers comeback FRR. But I'm scared... Himeko please stay alive too hahahahahahahah....

Sorry for spamming, this is HUGE news. I'M SO FUCKINF MOTIVATED TO WRITE NOW I CANNOT. ELYSIA IS FUCKINF BACK WTCKAOQJQKEBE

[transgaypiratesanta]

so I’ve seen some posts of quotes from the oxventure, and OH BOY. I have full-on NOTES about the oxventure and every piece of canon and fan theories I can get my grubby little paws on, AND I HAVE A LOT OF QUOTES. SO…. HAVE FUN WITH THESE!

DND

“Spicy… like a rat.”

“You asked the whales name?” “I’m just thoughtful like that.”

“Always check your bonfires for hedgehogs.”

“Needless to say Cthulhu is pleased and lunch is ruined”

“Oh no the cube! Not the cube!”

“He looks like dob but somehow evil and sexy”

“Nooooo… my mojo…”

“Oh you totally give the baby a dagger!” “That’s parenting 101”

“I flinch greasily.”

“Guys be real are we murder hobo’s?”

“I just wanna say I’m really proud of the amount of murder we’ve done.”

“Have you heard of the guild of the national trust?”

“Oo man I can’t wait to get redemption let’s kill everyone.”

“Do you have pamphlets?” “Let’s bore them to death!”

“Decisive action: throw that cat.”

“I have a moral objection but I’m going to let it happen because this seems cool.”

“🎵it’s getting hot in here. And they will all explode🎵”

“I lick the book and I am pleased”

“I know a lot of my plans revolve around watching dob sleep”

“Shut your filthy mouth Corazon”

“Let’s have a spooky sleepover.”

“Nature is beautiful.” “It sure was”

“+4! +2! +2! NUMBERS!”

“It’s not on fire or anything!” “Not yet, give me time!”

“We’re gonna have a sleepover in this crypt!”

“It couldn’t have been me-meant? If it wasn’t already… broked. That’s what I’ve always said”

“🎵maaaagic hand! Come out of my real hand!🎵”

“Wear whatever you want! Your bones, probably.”

“Their prudence hat”

“Is it orphans? You gotta tell us if it is.” “Ah. It’s orphans boss.”

“Skeletons… AHHHHHH”

“I love these loophole skeletons!”

“I would like to attempt to cast mend on the orphans”

“We just want less orphan juice”

“I’m imagining you making a snowman out of orphan paste”

“Oooo Skeletons be dexterous”

“We’re all team skeleton just some of us have flesh on top”

“I never liked you Kevin”

“Guys I’m not not in trouble”

“And then I turn the internal heat dial to cremation”

“BETTER OUT THAN IN DOES NOT APPLY TO ORGANS”

“MY ORGANS!”

“Do you want a vomit hug?”

“I’m putting my foot down on the husks.” “But then they’d just burst!”

“Is it bad that bear me wants to eat the husks? No I won’t I’ll be good”

“And I’m trying desperately to remain eye contact with HER, and not look at you guys swimming around in sandwiches”

“It’s in runes or something what is that?” “That’s a seven.”

“The consequences! They’re here again!”

“Meowwww” “I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!”

“Awh. And I’ve got his BOOTS!”

“Dob what did I tell you about necromancy?”

“Let’s put capitalism in the lake!”

“We can always claim it’s the fireworks show!” “NOT IF WE’RE DEAD!”

“Dogs are bound in skin!”

“MERILWEN THERES A BEAR! GO TURN INTO A BEAR OR FIGHT IT… or marry it… or something”

“Have we tried to befriend the footprints?” “Talk to the footprints!”

“Two very impulsive boi’s”

“Grease man from the ocean”

“Respectfully yeet him off the mountain.” “A somber yeet”

“If I was in something for 2 years”

“I saw the holes on the front and thought ‘that must be all the holes’ but then I looked on the back and there was ANOTHER HOLE THERE!”

“What are you dreaming about?” “Salmon.”

“Oh no they’ll take over the world with inexpensive furniture!”

“Break his spirit.” “And his back 😈”

“3 dimensional chess is just chess!”

“AUGH. OH YES. BISQUE 😩”

“What’s in this drawer? Dob? Oh no that’s a paperclip.” 

“Person in charge of the Prudence mech”

“🎵yees I’m the best at thunderwave turns out!🎵”

“My shin!” “My Shin!” “… our Shin.”

“DID YOU JUST SUGGEST MERILWEN COMMIT AUTOCANNIBALISIM IN BEAR FORM?”

“I’m just a chicken walking around with a flameblade”

“🎵Eleanor rigbee, lived in a hive because she was a bee. Whooedy whee!🎵”

“The pirate. Didn’t. Say that.”

“This is the energy in the room we’re all going to regret later” “says that of the orphanage.” “I regretted it later!”

“Though he could discover spoons at any point”

“Phase one: walk to crime. Phase two: do crime”

“I’ll just do it and be a legend”

“In a way we’re already married in a very deep and legal way.” “For tax purposes.”

“Why is there so much tentacle milk here?”

“You just hear anarchy noises from out the window”

“We’re running out of time before he murders us accidentally with an idiom” “with beans”

“I’m buying ecstasy from an owl?”

“The sounds of muffled pirate violence”

“She might just destroy the world, which is where we keep all our stuff!”

“I faint.” “Okay dob’s having a short rest” “OH YEAH!”

“Thick orange hot water”

“She’s got the cutest little forces of darkness 🥰”

“As the Druid, no.” “As the dm, INSPIRATION!”

“I cast shatter on the only planet we have”

“I cast fracking”

“WE. ARE. COASTAL!”

“The eldrich being Flannery”

“We’re fracking landlords”

“Now we leave you and see if you go buduhduhduhduh”

“Cattle go missing, we never find out what happens to all the Harris’s” “season over.”

“It’s practically a victimless crime, unless there’s a victim, in which case hopefully it’s a hard to trace crime”

“I grease Merilwen to give her the best chance”

“WHY AM I DYING?”

“Because you told me to piss off!” “So you did THIS?” “yeah” “I HAVE MINUTES TO LIVE!” 

“How’s the shat?”

“I cast mending on our friendship 🥺”

“How does a jackle… lift a bunch of cars?” “I don’t know.” “You jack ‘em all.” *weird laughter*

“Yes. No more pain where you’re going friend. No, you’re not very nice actually.”

“Well, solved the Richard problem!” “But what about the Dob problem”

“It’s very demeaning, so okay.”

“Well no Millie or ori that is obviously not okay. Little idiot.”

“Oh I HATE nature”

“Who wants in on my corpse sled idea?”

“Dob.” *quiet laughter* “oh no.”

“I give them an appraising look as if sizing up their corpses”

“I am literally everyone else in the world which means I am the best at sighing crying sad goodbying to my plot, the npc’s, the sanctity of lore…”

“These patrons aren’t gonna lick themselves!”

“Ohhhh it’s a sex thing.”

“Rule 3 no kink shaming.” “Damn right.”

“He drifts out the door… to go find something to kiss.”

“WAIT! I’ve had a thought! I want to kiss the dragon man.”

“Well. You’ve effed this right up Dob.”

“Well, if you’re dreaming about that, it’s probably out to get you.” “Every time you sleep, it gets a little bit closer.”

“It is always agonising Johnny!”

“Let me use my bonus action to slip in my own grease”

“All things must drink. I say wisely, and inaccurately”

“You take 4 points of… becoming soup damage”

“It occurs to all of you, and pardon my infernal, this is a shit idea.”

“Why do i have find steed if it’s not a rodeo?”

“I cough up some hemp and rope.” “Oh perfectly horrifying! Sure, yeah.”

“We never elected a leader!” “How could you talk to your leader like that?”

“I like turning into a cat all the time, the problem is I can’t do it.”

“that horny crew member sticks his head out to watch”

“So it’s slightly uncomfortable… and you outlive all your lovers… sounds like a good thing!”

“I wish to arrest Cthulhu now start screaming”

BLADES IN THE DARK

“Sir we’re in an antique shop.”

“What a great excuse to do some crime, though!”

“Nothing bad has ever happened to me in my entire life, I don’t think it’s going to start now!”

“Is it meant to be on fire? Because it’s on fire.”

“ITS A MASTERCLASS! It’s not a masterclass…”

“Classic squiffy, what a lad.”

“Hey! I need you to do me a favour! Well I say a favour, I’m compelling you.”

“We do a literal hitman, as in you run up, and hit the man.”

“He’ll live, but not well.”

“Spinning tops in places you don’t want them”

“I want a ghost who’s obsessed with me!”

“Everyone’s going out the front door! I’m just gonna set the house on fire!”

“Here’s what happens Barnaby, you glorious liability.”

“Have you heard about this thing called a union?” “… Let’s montage the rest of this conversation”

“Roll me for ‘Dave? Dave!’”

“Barbaby and workers rights are on the opposite end on the political spectrum”

“It’s not apoplectic with rage, it’s apoplectic with being right.”

“Fresh fish!” “Lovely crimes!”

“It’s going terribly here in the present! Maybe it went better in the past!” “Let’s retreat to the safety of the past.”

“I didn’t want to taste the sweat of the poor in the air!”

“So you want to be a nice, clean, sanitised butcher?”

“It’s like riding a bike” “a violent bike” “it’s like punching a bike”

“I came here to study ghosts, not become one!” “Imagine how much study you could do if you became one!” “I can’t hold pens!”

“The gilded idiot”

“Hands in the middle. Aaaaand dead Barnaby!”

“I’m choking a guy out… with my thighs”

“I smile. In a way that  conveys limitless rage”

“I do not want to be traumatised because of archiving!”

“Won’t someone think of the molluscs?”

“Lilly and Zilly on a wedding adventure”

“Generally I judge things, but sometimes I choke them unconscious”

“The tiny urchins really wanted us to do it”

“No one tell him he has NO SOUL”

“Who is this anthropomorphic mouse?” (It was a child)

“Sorry I tried to fix it with fish”

“I’m going to start a clock that the wonderful mechanical man is working on without any of you”

“Are these children going to be okay?” “We’re they okay to begin with?”

“Stop making out with that brick!” “I’m not- do you know what making out is, Edvard?”

“I let my hatred of stairs get the better of me”

“I’m furious at my forearm.”

“It’s a piece of trash! Looks like something Edvard would make!”

“Mechanical man parts”

“Moving on briefly from infanticide, good job, I just asked you for your name”

“A healing cloak is quite hard to fill so I thought stuff that, I’ve acquired 2 giant goats”

DEADLANDS

“How old are you?” “Old enough. Are you old enough to make good decisions?” 

“No more digging graves for neat, I’m gonna be putting people in graves for money!”

“I had a mule once.”

“That’s adulthood. Being angry all the time, but pushing it down until it’s the right time.”

“Have you ever met someone in your life who doesn’t like jerky?”

“I REMEMBER IT BEING A SIN”

“Let’s hope they’re extremely religious”

“Yeah well Andy’s lying, Andy wants us to fail.”

“I like to drink milk after I shoot two men in the throat”

“Very well then, Mr… not free”

“As you pass by the door, it does clip on the brim of your hat and it falls over your eyes and you can’t see anything.”

“Okay, okay.” *silence* “AAAAAAAH”

“I look at the other one, which seems like his spirit it hasn’t been broken yet 😡”

“I’m saying it nicely but in my head im like: I will kill you later.”

“Not trying to be rude, why do you smell so bad? I’m not trying very hard”

“Contracted late-stage tuberculosis. Got better.”

“Animal that’s been jerked”

“Tell me your life story”

“JERRY WHY”

“Horses can play, and you’re worried about if they can sit?”

“I’ve got a d8, but it’s now -2, because I’m DEAD”

*stabs someone in the eye* “oh sorry, I simply stopped paying attention!”

“Heck. Furthermore, dang.”

“One of the strangulation ones.” “Oh fun!”

“Is sharp rope a thing? WELL SHARPEN IT.”

“Sticky mc bang bang!”

“It was a terrible crime, I cut my lawn and i cut it too short. Anyway I’m to be hanged.”

“The cell is now swarming with ants.” “Yay!”

“Murder, for example, would be a no no!”

“He’s the same old Nate he’s just soft and cold”

[mayisgoingnuts]

Damn 😔😔😔😔😔 We were too girlboss gaslight gatekeep for the user /j

I can see Kevin being the biggest softie around Tom in the mornings. Like before he leaves for work he always pecks her on the face or smth. And then he returns home later on, and out if exhaustion, bro just groans and collapses in her arms./j

Yuh huh😔/j

YEE!! He looks like he'd just kiss her for 3 minutes straight in the morning, and if she asks about it he just goes "did what?" in a sleepy voice before leaving

[crossover-enthusiast]

mm yees the nonsense.

Mikey and Garcia are officially uncle and nephew!!! They are. deranged together.

Mikey uses a unicycle as his main mode of transportation :>

He's in the same age group as Kevin and Radford and all them and I need to figure out what they would think of him...

I want Mikey to work at some sort of horror attraction, something WAAY bigger and more expensive then just a haunted house, like a bigass festival thing. The type you need to sign a waver to get into bc the scare actors are allowed to touch you

Mostly bc i have this idea of The Crew (kevin, radford, streber, uhh ethan idk etc etc) going and Mikey just. scooping Radford up while on a unicycle. The others are like "!?!? We need that!?!?!"

I also have this idea of him at the festival doing some sort of horror routine that involves audience participation, and he pulls up Kevin. But Kevin gets really, really scared and starts- freaking out or something. like crying idk. and Mikey just takes off his hat and is like "Hey, man.. yknow this is all an act, right? Here, feel my knife, dude, it's not real."

My partner pointed out that "Mr. Clown and The Jester" sounds like a sitcom and now im picturing them with a spooky short with some sort of laugh track in the background and its them like hiding a body or some shit

i think thats all??

OOOOO

Okay I love all of this

Mikey being a festival scare actor while also being a deranged murderer is amazing- like ESPECIALLY him trying to comfort Kevin with everything not being real is. Ironic I like it a lot

Also I just imagining Radford. SCREAMING as he just gets fucking YOINKED but by the end he's actually having fun this is neat

Also I just appreciate Mikey being Garcia's nephew. Crazy runs in the family and I love it

[medium-observation]

SUNSET BOULEVARD RELEASE

Sunset Boulevard - Kennedy Center

February 8, 2023 - Medium Observation

Video | Matinée

Cast:

Stephanie J. Block (Norma Desmond), Derek Klena (Joe Gillis), Auli'i Cravalho (Betty Schaefer), Nathan Gunn (Max Von Mayerling), Paul Schoeffler (Cecil B. DeMille), Michael Maliakel (Artie Green), Kevin Pariseau (Sheldrake), Tyler Ross (Manfred), Lance Roberts (Sammy), David Andre (Ensemble), Lauren Blackman (Ensemble), Julio Catano-Yee (Ensemble), Colin Cunliffe (Ensemble), Haile Ferrier (Ensemble), Emily Harvey (Ensemble), Wonza Johnson (Ensemble), Aubrie Knapp (Ensemble), Ryland Marbutt (Ensemble), Maria Cristina Posada Slye (Ensemble), Kristin Yancy (Ensemble)

Notes:

An incredible capture of this show for Closing! Some wandering is seen but never takes away from the action. Some shakiness from readjusting at time but never a lot. Very little washout is seen, only in major wideshots.

4K

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Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAryoz

Video is $20

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[alex-kresnik]

F1 Tag Game! Tag some people you'd like to get to know better!

Tagged by: @starlightiing

Who is your favorite driver?: Alex Albon

Do you have other favorite drivers?: Kevin Magnussen is my #2, then Logan and everybody else. Pls don't make me rank them I am lazy.

Who is your least favorite driver?: No

Do you pull for drivers or do you like teams as well?: I like teams bc of their drivers, so drivers.

If you like teams, what team do you pull for?: Willaims 100%. Haas bc Kevin.

How long have you been into F1?: Since the Australian GP 2024. So. Uh. March?

What got you into F1?: Jessica said "watch race with us" and I said "k". LOL tbh I don't remember? Cute boys? Vrooms? What more could I ask for?

Do you enjoy Fanfic/RPF?: Reading it? Yes. Writing it? Yes *sobs*

How do you view new fans?: I'm still technically considered a new fan myself? So no problems here. I'm very introverted tho so sorry I don't come barging into your fandom houses with my theories/ideas/headcanons/random shouting about cute boys.

If you could take over as team principal for any team, who would it be and why?: Either Williams or Haas. Bc I want to hang out with Alex, Logan, and Kevin. I'd be ass at it tho, they'd def fire me.

Are your friends and family into F1 as well?: Jessica got me into it and Stu answers all my questions. They're great to have around in general, but it's made getting into the sport 1000000% more easier and enjoyable. My dad likes NASCAR so I think I could convince him to watch F1 with me.

Are you open to talking to other fans/making friends?: Yee. As long as you don't mind me screaming about my top three at the weirdest times and then disappearing for an eternity. I'm so bad at remembering to reply to things I'm sorry. But feel free to scream at me about your favs too!

I'm not tagging anyone, I'm lazy. But feel free to copy and do it yourself!

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Wish Kevin A Happy Asian Heritage Month Please :3

I'll tell Mya too

[afrocentrism-debunked-by-ola]

Misrepresentations of Egypt(ians) in the Media

Adele James playing Cleopatra in Netflix's Cleopatra (2022), vs. a statue of Queen Cleopatra.

Afrocentrist narratives misrepresent Egypt and Egyptians in Pop-Culture despite ample scientific and historical evidence that prove those narratives wrong. 

This blog attempts to investigate the mechanisms and agendas of how Afrocentrist narratives and relevant ethnic and racial misrepresentation of Ancient Egyptians manifest in the various forms of multimodal digital media and pop-culture, from an Egyptian perspective. It also aims to delineate the repercussions of Afrocentrism on the history and heritage of both: Egypt and Sub-Saharan African nations, mainly to prove that Afrocentrism only ensures the spread of racist hate speech towards Northern Africans whose skin is not black rather than celebrate the greatness of the long shunned Sub-Saharan African heritage. Afrocentrism should be about reviving the tribal heritage the Black peoples of Africa instead of claiming credit for other nations’ history. This paper will basically criticize the pseudohistorical Afrocentric narrative that is advertised in Pop-Culture, official museum displays of defaced replica of Ancient Egyptian statues to have Sub-Saharan features, as well as theatrical and cinematic normalization of the image of Ancient Egyptians played by Black actors. The results of the ongoing Afrocentric (social) media campaign can only fuel socio- and geopolitical conflict among the peoples of Africa as well as further bury the Sub-Saharan precolonial heritage by only focusing on falsely proving their ownership of Ancient Egyptian accomplishments.

Since the 1970s, Afrocentricity/Afrocentrism has been around, defying logic, history, and science. Yet, somehow this culturally-appropriating narrative has found its way out of the founding academic papers into a lot of recent media productions such as: Netflix’s 2023 ‘documentary’ “Cleopatra” in which the Macedonian-Egyptian Queen and other Egyptian characters are portrayed Black, to which Egyptians reacted in a social media campaign to defend the attempt to blackwash their history through falsifying information that definitely arise from an agenda. This Afrocentric belief is advertised by celebrities, like Michael Jackson in his music video “Remember the Time” in the 1970s; Beyoncé and Rihanna who portrayed Queen Nefertiti in a Dutch museum and on Vogue cover respectively (Yee), in 2023; as well as Kevin Hart who supported a group of animators on the TV program “Shark Tank”, granting the team Black Sands Entertainment around $500,000 to promote Afrocentrism through Anime and Comics, resulting in an online backlash from Egyptians under the hashtag #CancelKevinHartShow that led to taking down his stand-up comedy show that was scheduled to take place in February – also in 2023 (Nowar). It is worth mentioning that the academic world as well is still actively pushing for Afrocentric ideology, as a group of African American professors had planned the One Africa Conference in February 2022 to take place in Aswan, and the Egyptians reacted with the hashtag #stopafrocentricconference, and it was indeed taken down (Aidi). 

Hence, the movement is currently celebrated by a lot of Black people, especially African Americans, who engage in online campaigns, supporting the spread of the false Afrocentric beliefs promoted in popular media, especially in the last couple of years. In resistance, the Egyptians are launching awareness campaigns and resisting any potential promotion of the Afrocentric theory, counter-arguing with factual evidence. The author of this paper is just one more Egyptian who is adding to the corpus of Anti-Afrocentric dialogue in an attempt to academically refute the Afrocentric allegations against the Egyptians as the rightful heirs to their ancestor’s legacy, highlighting the jeopardies of falsifying history for both, Sub-Saharan and Egyptian heritages, as well as the underlying malicious agendas fueling the Afrocentric racist discourse. 

An exhibition in a Dutch museum that depicts black American singers, entertainers, and artists like Beyonce and Rihanna as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt has sparked a cultural conflict.(Wikimedia Commons/Twitter)

"Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson, behind the scenes.

Anthony and Cleopatra, Stanford Festival (2015), directed by Barry Avrich.

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo (black actress, obviously) play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power. Directed by Simon Godwin (Romeo & Juliet, Hansard).

Data Collection/Analysis Methods

Since this research is focused on analyzing the misrepresentations of Ancient Egyptian heritage in pop-culture, particularly social media posts and media productions, the primary resources would be materials collected from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, as well as some media productions, like the abovementioned works. Also, less popular productions, like Anthony and Cleopatra which presented by The National Theatre of Britain in 2018 in which all the Egyptian character, including Cleopatra, were portrayed by black actors. Some secondary resources would include newspaper reports and social media conflicts. To illustrate, Netflix’s mini-series “Cleopatra” (2023) received its fair share of criticism until its genre was officially changed from ‘documentary’ to ‘fictionalized’ story, with some Egyptian lawyers suing Netflix for the falsification of history, while the mini-series received a terribly low rate on IMDB and other platforms. Meanwhile, Afrocentrics were reactive on social media, defending their beliefs and cheering for the latest Cleopatra, supporting their argument with nothing more than photos from their trips to Egypt, posing with the monuments, and writing captions that explicitly denote that they are “back home”, following the steps of famous celebrities who also do this. In another backlash, Egyptians started spreading cultural awareness about the Egyptian identity in an unprecedented enthusiasm to promote a stronger sense of identity and educate their social circles about the dangers of the Afrocentric beliefs and the importance of standing up for our culture on (social) media. All of these social media interactions can serve as a well of resources to study the phenomenon in question.

P.S. A random social media user once commented: "Egyptians can't have been black. They used black eyeliner and it was easy to see, unlike the actress who had to put a ton of golden glitter and blue outline for the outliner to be that visible!"

References

Agnihotri, Akanksha. “Dutch Museum’s Beyonce Exhibit Sparks Controversy in Egypt.” Hindustan Times, 21 July 2023, www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art-culture/dutch-museums-beyonce-exhibit-sparks-controversy-in-egypt-101689926841925.html.

“Antony & Cleopatra.” National Theatre at Home, www.ntathome.com/antony-and-cleopatra. Accessed 16 Feb. 2024.

Aidi, Hisham. “Egypt and the Afrocentrists: The Latest Round.” Africa Is a Country, 2022, africasacountry.com/2022/03/egypt-and-the-afrocentrists-the-latest-round#:~:text=By%20mid%2DFebruary%2C%20the%20One,of%20an%20abiding%20Arab%20racism.

Nowar, Mariam. “Kevin Hart and Afrocentrism: Why Some Want His Show Cancelled in Egypt.” El-Shai, 13 Dec. 2022, www.el-shai.com/kevin-hart-and-afrocentrism-why-some-want-his-show-cancelled-in-egypt/. 

Yee, Vivian. “Black Artists Embrace Ancient Egypt. Egyptians Aren’t Happy about It.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 18 June 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/world/middleeast/egypt-african-dutch-museum.html.

"Stratford Festival: Antony and Cleopatra." IMDb, IMDb.com, 4 Sept. 2016, www.imdb.com/title/tt4144932/.

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