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When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

Magic design will always follow the will of the players, as a collective whole. If the majority of players want the game to go in a certain direction, that’s what R&D will do, albeit making the choices that lead to the best gameplay in that direction.

The players, again as a collective whole, can change their mind and Magic will adapt. Just because we do something one way doesn’t mean we will always do it that way. If opinion shifts, we will shift with it. It is the best interest of Magic that we follow the desires of what that players want.

But you all have to understand two things:

1) What you personally believe the direction of the game should go might not be the current desire of the collective whole. And recognizing your perspective is not lined up with that of the larger collective can be hard to do.

2) The loudest voices on the Internet are not necessarily representative of the collective whole. It’s why we have so many metrics and an entire team to break down what the data is telling us.

So yes, we very much listen to what you all are saying, and I never want people to feel that they shouldn’t be empowered to share their opinion. This blog, in specific, is a place for you all to voice what direction you would like to see the game go.

In exchange, I’m using this blog to be as open as I can about what all the data we collect is telling us about what the collective whole wants. I’m speaking for a lot of players whose voices aren’t heard as much online, so it might often feel as if it isn’t what you all might believe is the desires of the collective whole.

I can’t share all the data, as much of it is proprietary, but I’m always happy walking through our understanding of it and explaining how it’s guiding our focus.

I do enjoy the back and forth on this blog. Again, I just ask that you all state your opinions politely. Everyone here is a real person with real feelings, myself included.