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A notable trigger for these recent changes was a critique from Welsh Wilson, host of Arms of Tied podcasts, who claimed that D&D's portrayal of orcs is racist—despite admitting that D&D is not even his preferred game. Wilson's public condemnation sparked a cascade of similar accusations from various media outlets, including comicbook.com, Monkey Paws Games, and Riot Games writers like Dante Douglas.