# Blizzard's Diversity Chart Blizzard's Diversity Chart, officially the Diversity Space Tool, is a radar graph developed by Activision-Blizzard subsidiary King for rating video game character designs across categories like ethnicity, body type, gender identity and sexual orientation. After the tool was unveiled in a May 12th, 2022 corporate blog post, gaming Twitter spent the next day roasting it as corporate-speak dystopia and remixing the showcase Overwatch chart with characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and other franchises. ## Origin On May 12th, 2022, the Activision Blizzard newsroom published a post titled "King's Diversity Space Tool: A Leap Forward for Inclusion in Gaming," introducing the Diversity Space Tool built by its mobile-game subsidiary King for internal character design review[1]. The post laid out the seven-axis radar and included the Overwatch showcase image that would soon be edited into memes[1]. Backlash and format emergence both happened on May 13th, 2022, when gaming site Fanbyte wrote up the tool as "coming off as mildly dystopian" and its account tweeted the article with the caption "fucking weird," collecting over 710 retweets and 4,300 likes within three hours[2][4]. The earliest known exploitable edits of the Overwatch showcase chart surfaced within hours of that Fanbyte tweet. - **Platform:** Activision Blizzard blog / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** King (tool); Unknown (meme edits) - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview The chart itself is a seven-axis radar graph plotting a given character along categories like culture, ethnicity, age, ability, body type, gender identity, sexual orientation and socioeconomic background, with each axis scored to produce a lopsided polygon[1]. King's own showcase slide ran Overwatch's Zarya, Lúcio and Torbjörn through the graph, and that specific slide, with its three overlapping polygons, is what Twitter users grabbed and started captioning[2]. As an exploitable, Blizzard's Diversity Chart works by swapping the sample Overwatch cast for other fictional characters and scoring them against the same axes for comedic effect, usually to point out that the metric is absurd or that a chosen character maxes out one axis in an unflattering way[4]. The tone across the earliest edits leaned heavily sarcastic, treating the tool itself as the punchline rather than any single character on it[3]. ## How It Spread The Fanbyte tweet from May 13th, 2022 acted as the main vector, drawing quote tweets within hours from gaming personalities and critics who treated the tool as a case study in corporate tone-deafness[3]. Video game journalist Jim Stephanie Sterling posted a joke about the tool that collected over 260 retweets and 1,900 likes in the first three hours[5], and other quote tweets in the same window described the tool as "a deeply psychotic thing to produce"[6]. Parody edits of the Overwatch showcase chart followed the same day. Twitter user @ChrisHawkner posted a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure crossover edit on May 13th, 2022 that pulled over 740 views and 25 likes in two hours[7]. Discussion stayed concentrated on gaming Twitter over the next 24 hours and faded quickly after the news cycle moved on, with the tool itself quietly dropping out of King's public communications[4]. ## How to Use A typical post takes the original Zarya/Lúcio/Torbjörn radar graphic and swaps the three characters for a chosen trio, often from one franchise, then redraws or re-skews the polygons so one character comically fills or flattens the diversity axes. Captions commonly frame the swap as a straight-faced "corporate audit" of fictional characters, with the humor coming from how badly the metric fits the subject. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Blizzard's Diversity Chart? It is the meme nickname for King's Diversity Space Tool, a seven-axis radar graph for rating character designs on culture, ethnicity, age, ability, body type, gender identity and sexual orientation that Activision Blizzard unveiled in May 2022[1]. ### Where did Blizzard's Diversity Chart come from? King, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, built it as an internal character-design review tool and published a blog post introducing it on May 12th, 2022[1]. The graphic went viral the next day after Fanbyte wrote it up[2]. ### What does Blizzard's Diversity Chart mean? As a meme, it mocks the idea of auditing fictional characters against a corporate diversity rubric; critics on Twitter framed the tool itself as the joke, calling it "fucking weird" and "deeply psychotic"[3][6]. ### How do you use Blizzard's Diversity Chart? Users typically take the original Zarya, Lúcio and Torbjörn showcase chart and swap the three characters for other fictional trios, like @ChrisHawkner's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure edit from May 13th, 2022[7]. ### Is Blizzard's Diversity Chart still popular? No. Discussion and edits stayed concentrated in the 48 hours after the original May 13th, 2022 Fanbyte tweet and faded as the news cycle moved on[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.activisionblizzard.com/newsroom/2022/05/king-diversity-space-tool]() 2. [https://www.fanbyte.com/news/activision-inexplicably-introduces-tool-to-rate-character-diversity-metrics/]() 3. [https://twitter.com/FanbyteMedia/status/1525182833324544000]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blizzards-diversity-chart]() 5. [https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1525194974031142915]() 6. [https://twitter.com/G0ffThew/status/1525191064440647682]() 7. [https://twitter.com/ChrisHawkner/status/1525206322475634690]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/blizzards-diversity-chart Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library