Okay, so I’m sitting here trying to wrap my head around this whole mess. People are literally creating mods to rip Black and gay characters out of The Sims 4. Like, what year is this? 1950?
Last week, my daughter came home from school and wanted to know why anyone would want to make all the Sim families look the same. She’s 12 and gets it. Apparently some grown adults don’t.
The Mod That Nobody Asked For
Now there’s this mod going around. Won’t mention it here because those guys don’t deserve the coverage. But basically? It takes any LGBT or Black character in the game and changes them to straight and white. Automatically.
I’ve been a Sims player since my college days. Beginning with the first one when your character couldn’t even climb stairs without becoming disoriented. And now we have this incredible game where you can make any kind of family that you want. And some people consider that… bad?
My neighbor Jake is gay and married to Mike. They’ve got two adopted kids. When The Sims included same-sex marriage and adoption, Jake was ecstatic. At last, a game that allowed him to build a family like the one he knew.
Now imagine a stranger deciding Jake’s family does not deserve to exist. Even in a video game. And that’s essentially what this mod is.
EA Actually Did Something Right
And credit where it’s due; EA came through. They wrote legal letters to the websites that were hosting this garbage. Their lawyer, Lisa Chin, was not playing around. She essentially wrote, “Take this down or we’ll make you take it down.”
Honestly? Nice to see a big gaming company finally grow a spine on this stuff. All too frequently, they simply bury the problem and hope it disappears.
Only this is where it gets exasperating. One site’s mod vanished. Then popped up on another. Then another. It’s similar to fighting cockroaches: when you kill one, five more appear.
The Whack-a-Mole Game From Hell
WIRED did some research and uncovered dozens of these hate mods on various forums. Not just racist stuff either. Antisemitic mods. Homophobic ones. The whole disgusting menu.
One forum admin referred to EA’s takedown request as “targeted censorship”. Censorship? Really, dude? We are discussing mods created for the purpose of making minorities cease to exist. That’s not free speech. That’s digital ethnic cleansing.
I thought gamers were getting more inclusive. Guess I was wrong about some of them.
Why This Hits Different
Now, my family isn’t that diverse. I’m white, married to a white woman, and I have two kids. Pretty standard suburban setup. But even I can tell this is so messed up.
Last month, my daughter created this whole Sims family with two married moms who had one kid they adopted and another they had through IVF. She spent hours on it. Created whole backstories. Then she pipes up and says, “Look, Dad, it’s like Emma’s family!”
Emma’s her best friend. Has two moms. Sweet kid.
Now imagine some creep downloading a mod that would delete Emma’s family from the game entirely. Make it so that families like hers just … don’t exist.
That’s not about gameplay preferences. That’s closer to saying that some people don’t deserve representation.
The Community Strikes Back
The good news? The vast majority of Sims players find this whole Sims 4 racist mod being blocked 2025 by EA situation absolutely insane. The community is up in arms so far in support of EA’s maneuvers.
I socialize on a couple of Sims forums. The feedback has been fantastic. Folks telling stories about how they came to build a mixed or diverse brood. Sharing screenshots of their mixed-race Sims, of their LGBT couples, and of their nontraditional families.
It’s like the community said, “You want to erase diversity? We’ll create twice as much.”
That’s the spirit I love about gaming communities when they’re at their best.
The Technical Cat and Mouse Game
And there is one thing: stopping these mods is more difficult than you would believe. EA can issue as many takedown notices as it likes. But the internet is a big place. Close one site, and the mod pops up on 10 others.
They could likely code some manner of detection system into the game itself. Render it such that these mods will simply not function. That could also stand in the way of legitimate modding, which has always been massive in the community of The Sims.
Besides, tech-literate bigots would likely find workarounds regardless.
What Really Gets Me Mad
You know what burns me up about this whole Sims 4 racist mod being blocked 2025 by EA mess? The Sims has always been about expression and inclusivity. It’s a game, literally, about building families and communities.
EA didn’t put diversity features in there to be politically correct or whatever. Players wanted them, so they did it. Actual players with actual families that didn’t fit the 1950s nuclear family mold.
My buddy Carlos is Mexican-American. His wife is Korean. Their kids are gorgeous and speak three languages between them. When The Sims added more diverse skin tones and cultural clothing options, Carlos was thrilled. He could finally make a Sim family that actually looked like his.
These mods want to take that away. For what? To make the game “pure”? Give me a break.
The Bigger Fight
This isn’t exactly about The Sims. It’s a question of whether gaming spaces will be inclusive or exclusive. Whether we are going to let hate groups access our hobby to spread their garbage.
It matters every time a company like EA takes a stand. Yeah, they’re not perfect. They’ve failed in a manner of speaking a lot. But on this? They’re on the right side.
Moving Forward
The fight’s not over. These mods are still out there. They’ll keep popping up on new sites, finding new ways to spread.
But here’s what gives me hope. My daughter and her friends don’t see diversity as political. They see it as normal. They create mixed families in The Sims because that’s what families look like in their world.
The people making these hate mods? They’re dinosaurs. They’re going extinct, and they know it.
The future belongs to kids like my daughter. Kids who think it’s weird that anyone would want all the Sim families to look exactly the same.
And honestly? That future can’t come fast enough.