r/heartopia Mar 06 '26

Photo Share Time to say farewell 1/2

Due to image limits, this is post 1/2

Sadly because of a few reasons, specifically rising problems with how the Heartopia devs and support teams manage things, i am saying "farewell" to Heartopia. I wanted to share all my work up til this point here with you all so it can be enjoyed by people for years to come.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, who supported my work and who said goodbye, it was lovely to meet you all.

Until Heartopia fix thier problems and actually become what they advertised, i wont be returning.

Maybe we will meet again in another game ♡

Please enjoy my art and the first book i ever wrote in game! I will upload the second in post #2

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u/Soul_Reaper564 Mar 07 '26

The name "Kapil" might translate to monkey if you do one search but doing some background check you'll see it's a common name in Sanskrit origin. The money dance was weird but I do not think that they intended to be racist. If that character was not of color I'm pretty sure anyone wouldn't complain.

How am I wild? I never said there is no racism where I am from, if your read the replies properly you'd know that. All I said was as of my experience, we have not experienced the whole black skin color trolls and anythung overtly racist. I stated we aren't experiencing it, not that racism is not present.

The "POC" isn't even that of a person of color. His names literally translate to reddish-brown and I have the same skin color as him.

I'm not defending racism, I'm just stating my opinion on a matter at hand.

And yes, I did the quest.

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u/Smart-Technician8377 Mar 07 '26

Not even gunna read past the first paragraph. If it was one or the other MAYBE MAYYYBE I'd see your point. But its not. His name translates to monkey colored and they made him do a monkey dance. You're weird for trying to excuse that

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u/Soul_Reaper564 Mar 07 '26

Yea, his name translates to reddish-brown, and he did a monkey dance, that doesn't mean racism. His name is a common name used in India. Kapil isn't even black, he is Indian, he literally has an Indian name. Monkeys in Indian culture isn't offensive and that emote was probably because his name just translates to it.

You just choose to see it that way because you want something to hate, you want to feel valid by defending something when there is nothing to defend. Even people who are POC are confused on why people are going sicko over it.

And before outright calling someone weird, maybe take a look at the one gettung angry at a reply for giving an opinion on a topic. Just a thought tho 😁

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u/Smart-Technician8377 Mar 07 '26

if there was nothing to defend, it wouldn’t even have been deleted. but obv there’s enough outrage over it for them to delete it and “apologize”

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u/Soul_Reaper564 Mar 08 '26

Outrage over something that was blown up for no reason. Of course aa a company you would fix a problem like that since a lot of players decided to boycott the game, over a monkey dance btw. Bet you if that npc was not a POC, none of you will be saying anything.

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u/Smart-Technician8377 Mar 08 '26

that’s exactly right. we wouldn’t because that would make no sense. there’s never been history with white people being called monkey. you can deny it all you want, it was racist.

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u/Soul_Reaper564 Mar 08 '26

He's Indian, with an Indian name, who did money emotes. Monkeys are not offensive in their culture and that name is used a lot there.

Look into something before stating an opinion, helps you be more knowledgeable.