A dozen vehicles throng the Place de la Concorde, engines howling and wheels bouncing, to demonstrate against the recently adopted pension reform. However, the police headquarters recently banned demonstrations in the square after recent clashes. But some Internet users have found the solution: they are demonstrating… in mario kart 8 deluxe.
The mobilization of opponents of the pension reform also involves video games. And for this game, Mario Kart is the perfect tool: the best-selling Nintendo Switch game benefits from several expansions with new circuits, one of them entitled “Promenade à Paris” and inspired by the Place de la Concorde.
the youtuber Mister Flech for this reason he chose him to organize this staging on March 20. The video of the “protest” already accumulates more than two million views on Twitter.
“A symbolic form of mobilization”
Between the cute graphics, upbeat music, and limit of 12 players per race, the impact of this virtual mobilization is necessarily quite limited. But his driver does not hide it, and he talks about an initiative aimed above all at “making people smile”. “At no time did I publish it thinking that it could have a concrete impact,” explains Mister Flech to West of France.
Somehow it has become a tradition: every social movement has the right to its reproduction in video games. The “yellow vests” had generated numerous rallies on the verge of parody, gta online TO animal crossing.
Source: BFM TV
