The post was shared nearly three thousand times. Ashleigh Nicole Tribble, a 27-year-old from New York, had put together some stunning images of specially customised black Sims doing their thing and looking fly. Just two weeks ago however, The Sims came steamrolling back into my life when a Facebook post on the black simming community went viral. So, when I was gifted a new computer, I actively didn’t download The Sims (and started going out and drinking underage instead). But there reached a point in my life, at the tender age of 14, that I realised that I was spending too much time on the game.
I would spend hours poring over my characters, watching them go through everything from their first love to pregnancy and heartbreak – and sometimes sadistically killing them by taking away the ladder from their swimming pool.
Like many of us growing up I was obsessed a computer game called The Sims made by Electronic Arts (EA).
