The "Chronically Online" Curse
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someone could post like “happy fathers day to my dad!” and someone else will be like “not everyone has a good dad.” like wtf do u expect them to do about that 😭
thats trauma dumping💀
I’ve seen people say that kind of crap too. Like yeah, my dad sucks too. But that’s irrelevant to that comment
someone could literally say "God bless!
someone could be like “my pronouns are they/them” and immediately they could get dragged by people arguing their existence 😩
@@JusticeForChuuu when ppl go "of course you have pronouns in your bio" in a totally unrelated discussion 💀
"You wanna normalize not drinking during pregnancy because you don't want your baby to have disabilities, isn't that a little ableist"?
Her: 👁️👄👁️
like dude. disabilities are HARD. nobody wants to have them because of discrimination and stuff like that. why would you NOT want to try to protect your child from discrimination??
Not only that, doesn't drinking whole pregnant risk literally k/ll the baby? Like omg.
Omg people said this????
@@arinaira1417 it was from a satire post
Unrelated and very late, BUT HARLEY QUINN ANIMATED SERIES PFP ⁉️⁉️🔥🔥
People do have the right to be offended and outraged about certain things but when you get to the point of getting mad at everything and everyone you should start asking yourself if you’re in the wrong for making a situation out of nothing. Like calm down its not that big of a deal if someone does something you dislike.
YEAH. THIS !! EXACTLY
Exactly
Cough cough* most of twitter users
agreed!
I am so mad at you for having this opinion 🤬
There's also a very common thing online of Americans assuming everyone on the internet is American. A bunch of people on Twitter attacked someone for tweeting about what a great day they were having when all the Roe v Wade stuff happened....but it was a German girl, with no knowledge or investment in American politics at all.
To be fair most people I’ve seen online who speak English are Americans. The other people I’ve interacted with the most are Germans, coincidentally.
@@x_slaughotto_x3129 It's the most commonly used language on the planet.
@@BrotakuDon Really? I didn’t know that, I would assume Spanish or Chinese would be and not English. I can see why it is that way though.
@@x_slaughotto_x3129 It's the primarily used language in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada and for nearly a century has been required learning in a great deal of the world. Mandarin is also incredibly common, though very difficult for non-native speakers to learn.
@@x_slaughotto_x3129 problem is most people on the internet who speak english are NOT american. it's just easy to assume they are because in most conversations you see, the topic won't come up and they seem to have maybe 2% knowledge on american affairs: or just enough to carry a conversation. lots of people speak english as a second or third or even fourth language, and will very easily and fluently communicate with you from nigeria, the philippines, india, brazil, from literally wherever, with you being none the wiser. and then when they slip up, or mention something that might hint they're not american... instead of people thinking, "oh! they must live somewhere else", they go OMG UR SO BAD AND IGNORANT HOW COULD U UR PROBS RACIST" or some weird take that only makes sense from an american lens.
for example, i was once watching this video about black experiences and things, but the video (even though it was talking about black people as a whole) kept calling them "african americans". in the comment section, somebody thought to correct the video and said "not every black person is african american". the replies to said comment, of course using their massive brains, were all about how EVERY black person has ancestry from africa and you shouldn't be ashamed! why do you dislike africa? that's internalised racism! that's a coloniser mindset!! literally 50 and counting angry or snarky replies to this person using harsher words than i did to tell this black person how much they hate themselves....... instead of just guessing _they weren't american,_ which turbned out to be the case in the end. and that's not even the only time i've seen that exact scenario, the same "afro american" argument happen with the same conlusion. completely innocent comments and topics being blown out of proportion because smoothbrains can't fathom english speaking internet users not being from the us. it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so damn sad.
I know Emily made up that argument but I have literally experienced something similar. I once reblogged a post about meal-planning tips and someone accused me of being classist and ableist because some people can't meal plan. Like damn sorry, I still want to know how to make easy soup recipes.
I think it's because social media has a way of becoming extremely personal, and so when people see stuff on their timeline they cannot help but try and relate it to themselves even if they have to bend over backwards to ensure the most bad faith misinterpretation of a stranger's opinion. That combines with the insistence on morality in every aspect of life. It is no longer enough to simply not like a celebrity, you have to manufacture reasons why they are actually bigoted monsters in order to justify your feelings.
I've been called racist, lesbophobic, and ableist because I said I headcanon Elsa as ace.
Terminally online people really need to sign out for a few days.
It's about power, I think. I think the people who spend so much time offended online get off on the opportunity to have power over someone else. I also think social media has just become a tool for social and cultural conditioning and it's becoming increasingly more dystopian and less social.
I've been called ableist for saying I don't want to have children because I don't want to pass down VEDs to them. 😀
by that logic, just using the internet is classist bc some people can’t afford it lmao. some people really do pick the strangest things to be outraged over
@@cassianand0r Most of them aren't outraged. That's the thing, it's performative and completely superficial. It's becoming even more pronounced now, at least in Western culture, due to an alarming and sharp increase in political tribalism.
People do not view others as individuals and scour their social media in an effort to shove them into some box, to determine what tribe they are in so they can decide what to label them.
I just wanna say that i absolutely love Emily's sense of humour and her word choice for some reason makes her funnier.
@@shiptowreck855 LMAO😭
@Findley
i thought you were fr at first lol
had me in the first half
@@shiptowreck855 LMFAO
Agreed !!
fr
The argument at 2:27 is literal art and I think Emily deserves a PhD just for that
IKR
It was a little too accurate I was getting Twitter war flashbacks🥲
Are you assuming that Emily doesn't already have a PhD? Is it because she's a girl? That's sexist. /s
@@decoratingletters5659 well are you assuming that she has a PhD? JUST CUZ SHE'S ASIAN!? That's a little racist
@@cursey7304 are you assuming they thought she had a phd cause she's asian? that's a bit too racist
I remember seeing a post that was angry about a video where a baby was cured of deafness because the parents were “not willing to have a child with a disability.” Like, I doubt the kid is going to grow up and be upset that they have all of their senses
"She was 14. Her name was Emily. She had BLM and pride flag in her bio."
@Linda Les Facts
like sure their reasoning is ableist, but at least the kid can go through life knowing they were given a second chance to hear the world. not everyone gets a second chance in life. most people live with what they were given, and if that was hearing loss or deafness, then they found ways to live in the world by getting accommodations or things that aid them. its always difficult to live as a disabled person at some point in life, and this kid now doesnt have to experience the ableism and difficulties disabled people experience (unless they becomes disabled or is diagnosed for something else later on). ultimately, what im trying to say is the parents thoughts arent cool but the action is fine.
@@rrrrssss156the parents are not being ableist. there is nothing wrong with wanting your child to grow up with all their senses if possible. it’s super weird to call them ableist because they got the chance to cure their child from deafness lol 💀
@@kaihatesyou no saying "i am not willing to have a disabled child" is ableist because you dont want a child because of what they're not able to do. it is focused on disability, not the child. saying "i dont want my child to stay disabled" is different because it focuses your worries for the child. words have impact. also i AM disabled, so ive learned over the years what it looks like when someone cares about you vs. someone who cares about their comfort levels. i believe people can change and these parents likely will realize that it is rude to not want a disabled child because theyre disabled. some parents treat their disabled children like shit because theyre a "burden" to the family. its dangerous thinking. obviously i jumped from a to f in the last part, but words that aren't necessarily hateful (but unknowingly uncool) can fuel hate and normalize it. im done talking about this because its a sensitive topic for me, but i hope you understand that im not pulling shit out of my ass when calling it ableist.
In my opinion, chronically online people get too focused on an issue that they forget about the actual issues.
For example, someone told me I was offensive towards people with eating disorders because I posted a cake I baked with my mom. Meanwhile, that said person completely ignores and doesn’t understand the sufferings people with ED go through.
The phone screen’s become people’s safest shield I swear.
i completely agree! just to add an example, a comment i read on reddit mentioned how people nowadays love to use the word "trigger" to say "I don't like this" ("this triggers me") which is (intentionally or not) making fun of people who actually have triggers that could harm them
I have eating disorder and I don’t see anything triggering about people showing that they baked cake with family. And people shouldn’t have to walk on egg shells when posting stuff online this much. If someone claimed to be ed safe space then they should care about their followers but otherwise there is no reason to be mad.
@@Sunoocheeks1111 exactly! Thank you for saying that.
@@knifecat9178 thanks lol
Oh! Eating disorders!
I literally thought ED was erectile disfunction and I couldn't help but thinj "wow, this dude is VERY open about his issues" lol
The thing is, people on social media fight just to fight 💀💀💀 they got nothing better to do
not all of us fight you should think about the bigger picture here we just tryna communicate 🙄
i came here to chill after writing boomer hate on boomer content and I just couldnt stop it feels soooo goooooood
Literally though. Like when I argue with someone online, I go in with the intention of teaching or being taught. They're just arguing for arguments sake. I genuinely want to help a person see from another perspective or help myself see from another perspective.
@@jjyyoou you're one in a million on the internet
@@jjyyoou But I think people who argue for the sake of arguing are mostly on Twitter, I don't really find those people on youtube. It's usually someone says a stupid point and everyone gets mad at them
As someone who lives in a war zone, I completely agree. I feel like people who have no idea what's happening will attack you for misspelling a country's name. I am so sick of feeling like my existence is an argument you can make online.
Ooh that last sentence hits real hard
exactly, some people that aren't even from said nationality get offended on others behalf for things that have no impact on real life while if they truly cared they would be doing something else
hello from a fellow living 40 km away from the front line. hugs. same
people WILL fight over literally anything, a woman on facebook fought with my mom over hand towels. HAND TOWELS.
There's some context missing and I need it deeply
Lol🤣🤣🤣
"Actually you shouldnt buy hand towels, my grandmas cousins brothers barbers sister was strwngled by a hand towel"
“Hand towels killed my grandma.”
Red hand towels are incredibly offensive, since my husband died in a workplace accident and his best friend sent me a jar of his blood and labelled it as "homemade jam" and when I ate it, it tasted weird and then he kidnapped me and took me to the middle of the forest and sacrificed me to Ra
''The Bible is older than Twilight'' quote of the day
I want to go back in time and write Twilight before the bible.
@@mystii8134 okay?
I need that on merch
I dont know why but her videos really remind me of the kind of videos I used to love during the early 2010s, with the explanatory sketches and all. I love it
Omg exactly! I love the format, but it seems to be dying out nowadays so I’m glad Emily is reviving it! 😁
Reminds me of nigahiga :)
Hell, even in UA-cam comment sections people will start arguing/attacking you for your opinion. I feel like sometimes you can make a discussion out of the topics, but they don't want to _talk_ to you as another human being OUTSIDE of the screen, they just want to yell at you their opinions because of the safety of the screen. It's all very toxic, I find unplugging to be necessary these days rather than getting caught in cross fire that doesn't even matter.
omg I feel you someone got mad at me because I said I liked how traditional african clothes look
@@bogwife7942 I'm struggling to find WHY someone would get angry. Like I'm looking for ANY reason and i can't find one.
@@bogwife7942 I feel you so much man- it's like they forget that it's okay to have a difference in opinion from someone, they just HAVE to voice it 🤦
@@clare769 they were mad because they thought I was generalizing african countries 💀
It's interesting how people think becoming verbally abusive would change others opinions.
i once got told that going in the sun and getting tan was blackface. not even going out with the intention of tanning, just going out and becoming tan because I'm in the sun.
NO WAY
@@insanityk4y I WISH I WAS LYING
Tf?
Not even grass can save that girl she needs to be exiled immediately
@@insanityk4y Hi fellow ATLA fan
Idk, some people can be absolutely horrible online or they can be overly sensitive and insensitive at the same time. Realistically I don’t think anyone actually talks that way to people in real life. At the same time it’s an amazing place with communication we’ve never known before and a tool for true self empowerment, we’re using this thing totally wrong!
right! the anonymity allows people to be the absolute worst and pick fights for no reason that they wouldn’t do face to face
Your comment is *chef’s kiss*
EXACTLY
social media discourse on pretty much any issue (or should I say “issue”) is so out of touch with reality, which is funny bc those same people dogpile on anyone they, by their own definition, consider to be out of touch
So much pointless arguments happens online, I remember last year a Chinese person on tik tok had an account which I'm pretty sure was dedicated to teaching Chinese and in one of the videos she said a Chinese word that sounds like the n word and people were cancelling her for it. But I have to say queer discourse on tik tok is the worst most toxic dump I have ever encountered but I can't stay out of it without forming an opinion even though it's so pointless.
Happens to Koreans all the time, especially K-pop bands, as the word "you" is very similar to the n-word in Korean. Shit's fucked, it's not their fault it sounds so similar.
@@LoreCatan something like that happened to me and my friend too. Her name is so similar to the n-word, but it actually translates to “painting” or “sweetheart” in my language. One time she commented on my now-deleted ig post and someone got mad at her name being similar to the n-word.
@@updated_autopsy_report1 well you know how nigga's get trying to cancel people
what's the queer discourse? I havent encountered it, so I am curious
As someone trying to learn Chinese, I've seen stuff like this online and like.... it's honestly so stupid. Words that sound like the N word exist all over the world, but they mean totally different things. wait until they find out about the country "Montenegro"....
"Everything is OK as long as it benefits me." I am going to steal that. Consider it already stolen, because it benefits me.
Speaking for myself as someone with a disability, just because it doesn't reduce my value as a person doesn't mean it has a neutral impact in my life. There are constantly times that it makes life more difficult and I wish I didn't have to deal with it. My personal quality of life is reduced because of it. I can't speak for every disabled person obviously, but in my opinion if you don't have to add unnecessary challenges to basic day to day living for your kid then maybe don't????
agree . otherwise its child abuse in my opinion. If they Do it on purpose.
Yeah, empowerment and accomodation doesn't have to mean idealising.
Personally, my disability doesn't damper my life at all. It has advantages and disadvantages. If I'm in a room alone, I don't care that I have it. It's just a part of me. It's how the society I live in reacts to it that makes my life kind of hell
My view of disability is very much: There are inherent disabilities like severe depression and chronic pain that decrease the person's quality of life on their own. Society just makes it worse. Then there are non-inherent disabilities like autism, deafness, blindness, etc. that don't damper the person's quality of life at all on their own. It's the fact that the society around them makes it hard to live like that, because the systems in place aren't built to support them. It's built to support "normal" people
In the same way that a person with legs would be disabled in a legless society, an NT would be disabled in an autistic society. It just matters who the society is built for. Their status as disabilities is still valid because they act as disabilities in the world we have now
I would never trade it for the non-disabled counterpart ever. I would trade the world for one who treats those who are different better, or even one that is built for people like me and still treats the people who are different better. However, I don't think it's wrong to try and avoid a path where your kid exists in a society that is built against them. It is ableist to view the child's deafness as something wrong with them or a burden though (which from what I know, is the entire reason the parents went through with it)
@@gloop7458 I'd argue that's not the case. Society that fully consists of autistic people likely wouldn't be able to function as a society in the first place. It's great that your disability doesn't affect you negatively! But a person with legs could do everything a legless person can do, and NT people adapt quickly and wouldn't have a problem functioning in either society. It's the same reason geniuses aren't "disabled" or "outcasted" - having something additional doesn't make you disabled, but lacking something does, and by definition a disability is something that hinders your functioning (be it physical, cognitive etc.)
I think our society has advanced to a point where we're able to accommodate for everyone regardless of how well they're able to function, and disability can even prove to be highly beneficial in some aspects (like savant autism) but in no way should having a disability itself be glorified. It is what it is. A disability.
@@rajidae9354 As an autistic person who has friendships with other autistic people I’m quite sure a majority autistic society would still function and be a form of society it would just work differently and people would just be more straightforward, place less emphasis on tone, not be expected to make eye contact, mind their own business more, and multiple different ways of communication would be accepted… but we’d still want to be together because we still want connection and for many autistic people talking about your interests with a (usually also autistic partially because they get that it can be a love language partially because it’s not very accepted by most non-autistic people unfortunately) person who appreciates your enthusiasm even if they don’t fully get what you’re talking about at first and explaining it to them is one of the BEST feelings in the world… the idea that just because we have more trouble communicating with the majority of people means that we can’t communicate with EACH OTHER has actually been proven wrong repeatedly… look up the double empathy problem… this is actually a great demonstration of that we DON’T live in “a society that has advanced to the point where it can accommodate everyone of all functioning levels”… I’m not a savant… they call me “high-functioning” because I can talk most of the time even tho it’s in large part scripts I created as a survival mechanism and they don’t see the breakdown I have every day I get home from a day of pretending to be an acceptable type of person and repressing my natural responses to be what I feel like I have to be in order for people to treat me like I have value… ableism is NOT the acknowledgement that there are things certain people can’t do. The person with legs has improved ability to get around so that isn’t the best comparison. Ableism is the concept of that making us less valuable and less HUMAN… I’m autistic and I’m still a human being who wants connections I just express myself differently so my mostly neurodivergent friend group is the only place where I actually get to be myself and be treated like a person at the same time.
I called out a video that said "if you're going to hell you're going to be brutally molested by 16 autistic clowns" me and other autistic creators on tiktok we're bullied mercilessly to the point where we were told that it's not that serious and that we're chronically online. That was 3 weeks ago and me and my friends are still getting bullied to the point where people are sending us death threats and sending us money on our cash app just to tell us to shut. I have to ask this question to myself who's the one really "chronically online."
Someone sayinh "autistic clowns" isn't gonna kill you so you shouldn't be that fired up about it. Plus being autistic shouldn't be the only thing you define yourself with to the point of getting angry when the word is used as an insult. Ofcourse the people attacking you and your friends are in the wrong too but you were too for calling out that video pretending you're gonna end autism related ableism for once and all.
i’m so sorry!
I'm so sorry that happened to you and your friends! Hope you bought yourself a delicious treat with the money you got.
" WHY WOULD I READ A BOOK THAT'S HELLA OLD" Sounds like something they would ACTUALLY say
but why WOULD I read a book that’s hella old /hj
Once saw a dude who said he "hates all girls" because he's never met one that was nice to him,,, then proceded to say trans men counted too because they "didn't know how to act like guys".... (This person was a trans man???) His excuse was he didn't count because unlike other trans guys he has a bunch of brothers whos examples he can follow. Like????
that's beyond me lmao
what does that even mean I'm so confused
He does realize theres no “wrong” or “right” way to be trans right?
Hopefully you made a typo there... But if you didn't, what do you mean like that because that is not a good look.
@@thomasdaltonw whoops sorry I’ll fix that
today i saw people argue over whether or not the use of different fonts was ableist and i went to the OPs profile and they were like 16 and like it really makes sense that they think thats one of the biggest issues of being disabled as opposed to how badly the disabled get bills piled onto them in places like the US
Learn how to punctuate please.
well they can make it hard for screen readers or dyslexic people so i can see where they're coming from but don't entirely agree
100% this can be said for a lot of issues. trans teens will start internet wars over someone accidentally misgendering someone, but they don’t talk about trans women being murdered at higher rates, lack of medical care, job and housing discrimination etc etc. it’s because they aren’t experiencing those things yet.
I have yet to watch the video, but this made me think of some years ago where I was venting on twitter about a situation regarding my mother's neglect and said something about how we should talk about children that were abandoned by their mothers, and some chronically online folks legit came after me for taking away the conversation from the struggles of single mothers and fathers that refuse to recognize the child's existence, like??????
My dude, I'm talking about my own goddamn life 😭
Why do people think there can't be more than one conversation lmao
Reminds me of the men in the comment section of every single post about women being sexually abused saying "men get raped too!"
@@edensylvester13 Oh my god, exactly! And I just know those people don’t actually care about male victims of assault. They just want a “gotcha” moment.
Ah I remember when TheOdd1sOut was getting heat because he made a tone indicator joke on Twitter when he didn’t know what they were meant to be. Instead of educating him, a lot of people just threw slurs and called him ableist. I’m sure some people were trying to educate but that whole comment section and the comments to his apology were probably the most hostile I’ve seen a comment section be
Pretty sure to this day people are still using that to put dirt on him.
omg that pissed me off as an autistic person who sometimes uses and benefits from tone tags, bc like...its obviously not common knowledge?! Like that sucks, things that are accommodating should be common knowledge, but thats societys fault, not TheOdd1sOut's fault that he doesnt know something outside of his circles. And once hed been educated, he retracted his statement and apologise. I dont like calling people too sensitive, but the internet needs to calm tf down
A tone indicator? I've honestly never heard of that before, could you please explain what that is, and why that's ableist?
@@LoreCatan a tone indicator does pretty much what it says on the tin, it indicates the tone behind a typed message. For a lot of autistic people, we struggle differentiating between tones when listening and speaking (hence the stereotype of us being "blunt" and "rude"), and its the same with reading. Most of the time we use them to spare a misunderstanding and avoid unnecessary conflict.
Some more common examples would be /s for sarcasm, /gen for genuine, /j for joking, and /srs for serious. I personally use /s and /gen the most, but only really when talking to other neurodivergent people, because i dont need to rely on them as much as others.
Hope that helped! /gen
(and that was an in context example)
@@bellac6311 oooh! I've used these myself funnily enough, I use /j the most, but I genuinely thought it was a reddit thing, or maybe it originated from there.
Never knew they had a name.
this literally happened to me 💀💀💀💀
Hot takes: I don't think it's a civil duties for people with a platform to talk about things that they don't feel like talking about or it doesn't fit their usual style. I know this take is hotter than the Sun's core, but that's just opinion, my opinion.
naur thats just facts yo
You're right
No use saying "hot takes" if you're dealing with the insane majority of Twitter. They'll always make not-so-problematic things a "hot take".
That's just the truth my guy
It’s really a lot of children who don’t really know how to form their own opinions, and just recite whatever they see, which always blows something one person said into “the right thing”.
there's always "you don't know how hard my life is" for thirteen year old boys who are running out of arguments.
the only people who use "you don't know how hard my life is" are 12 year old boys who punch holes in their walls because mom took away their playstation for the day
I have never seen that argument point ever lol. And they don't usually say that they would probably respond with the nerd🤓 emote or who asked and stuff like that
Respectfully, I don't think judging children for thinking their lives are hard is the right course of action here. It invalidates their feelings and contributes to their depression and anger.
Or occasionally when the other person is telling someone to "get over yourself" when they mention their mental health.
@@hinamatsuro1908 once some 12 year old boy tried to insulte me by saying "shut up you're a woman". Like i didn't know that😐😂
the sketches were so funny literally made my day. rewatching rn
OMG HI AURORA ^__^
AURORA IS AN EMILY FAN TOO?
This video explains pretty much all the reasons why I quit social media ..I was becoming part of this and I was like wtf is wrong with me
Okay same, in 2020 I was constantly participating in comment sections on instagram and I didn't even realize how sensitive I became over everything because I consumed so many sensitive opinions. I got banned by accident (well I was trolling as Britney Spears), best thing that happened. I use social media to post (ig, yt), it's way better to just make a video about what you think than having endless convos with people online/follow aesthetic pages on instagram and ignore the bs. But it was kinda traumatic to be in that headspace LMFAO
Same !!!!
I’m glad you and the people in the replies are learning how to not argue for the sake of arguing 🤍
UA-cam is a form of social media.
UA-cam is a form of social media.
The 'twitter fight' was so well scripted, thanks for a good laugh Emily
Please 😭 this is way too accurate, that fight gave me war flashbacks
rightt 😭
Likee- I asked a group chat what games they played and that somehow spiraled into an argument about racism 😭😭
@@bsffr LITERALLY THEY BE DOIN TOO MUCH
@@bsffr Bruhh 2 days ago I commented on a "health at every side" post by some activist woman, the post basically said that the school was "racist, fat phobic and ableist" for saying that one child should eat more than cheese and crackers ... I was like "How the f is that racist, fat phobic etc." and she blocked me IMMEDIATELY. She truly was online, chronically.
I saw a tik tok about perfumes and one girl said it’s disrespectful to wear perfume and everyone needs to take people that get headaches from strong smells into consideration
Nyahh, i can relate to that ^^". Because sometimes there are a few people which have taken a whole aftershave bottle for breakfeast... But i wouldnt write something like that in social media....
"Scissor sisters!" HELP EMILY YOU ARE TOO FUNNY 😭😭
Even more funny when you realize the term scissor sisters wasn't made to refer to lesbians but to refer to two sisters that killed their [parents?] with scissors. This is the origin of the band Scissor Sisters, specifically their song "I can't decide" [everyone remembers that song, right?] that refences their case basically.
But a lot of people just think lesbians whenever the name pops up, especially on twitter, so it became a thing, which makes the whole skit even more realistic.
@@LoreCatan I LOVE THAT SONG.
@@steamyvegetables1445 YESSSSS
@@LoreCatan 😭
i've always hated the notion that you have to make it public everything you support in our modern age. it makes me think back to the height of the blm protests when it felt like you were in the wrong if you didn't repost every political infographic that you saw while donating as much as possible while also attending a protest every single day. if i donate in secret (because my finances are my business) and i only repost things a couple of times is that supposed to mean that i don't care or that i care any less?
Literally the people I know who actually genuinely cared the most didn't post about it on social media. It feels very "I want brownie points" if your entire feed is about every single current event you support. I feel that way when people do the same thing to the LGBT community. I don't need to have the label of "ally" anywhere in my bio, or in life in general. I don't need a descriptor for not hating and supporting LGBT people. I honestly assume everyone is not racist, sexist, homophobic, etc until proven otherwise.
i got called a racist just bc i told some black girl on twitter to learn the difference between ethnicity and race...the most shocking thing was that there are people unironically agreeing with her
Jesus Christ, the fact that people, especially Americans, don't know the difference between race and ethnicity concerns me
what was the exact argument about?
This reminds me a lot of the situation that happened between Twenty One Pilots and people wishing for him (or the singer specifically) to speak up about Black Lives Matter with how big the band's platform was. I completely understand people wishing to have such a huge problem in America be recognized by those who hold more power when it comes to the internet, but at the same time I sincerely found it ridiculous how so many people were ready to throw hands at the guy because he wasn't speaking up about it, claiming he didn't care at all when, like what you've said, posting nothing about it doesn't equate him to not giving a shit about the issue. Then he kind of made it as a joke and that offended people, and I guess that was of poor taste, but it doesn't take away the fact how people think they have any authority over somebody to be morally correct pretty much. This is why any attempts of bringing awareness to issues like this end up feeling so performative when people are forced into something just to fit into the mold of how not to be problematic just so they can be on the internet in peace
My thing is what can the white male lead singer of Twenty One Pilots really say about BLM that hasn't already been said? I don't speak on a lot of issues for the black community because I'm not black. It's not my place to be speaking up for a group of people that I personally don't share a lived experience with. That's like wanting a straight man to lead a protest about women's rights. Of course I'll reshare things that I feel are resonating, or I will uplift the voices of my black friends, but I shouldn't be expected to come up with some paragraph that won't even come close to being as poignant as something someone from that group would say.
one time i had someone tell me they were triggered by the word "circle" and that I offended them. I get it but also like...its a shape...its a word...how was i supposed to know?
I am very curious of the context for this, why exactly were they 'triggered' and how were u even using the word in the first place bc I cannot think of a single way the word 'circle' could be offensive
@@thesk8rwhosaidseeyal8r27 people were arguing about the casting for the Wicked movie and tweeted that "the whole Wicked movie argument is just going around in circles, it's counterproductive" and someone said that they were trigged by the fact i said the word circles.
@@LivTheSlayer interesting. I never would have thought anything surrounding the Wicked movie could be triggering. Controversial maybe but Wicked is just so unproblematic lmao.
@@LivTheSlayer How dare you say Circles, you’re getting sent to the gulags Liv
@@LivTheSlayer You shouldn't even try to get them, they're obviously a) trolling b) crazy.
The 'ablist' part and 'classist' part killed me. Scrimin'
ablist? 😭😭😭
@@_y2k Well, discriminating against people without abs could be ableist, so now we already have a word for it if someone wants to start a new argument about that 😀
@@AV-we6wo bro what💀ableism means discrimination against someone who cannot physically function properly,having abs or not having abs doesn't make any difference in living a normal functioning life
@@garbage3559 honestly.
@@garbage3559 hello without core muscles how you gettin out of bed
i’m so glad i’m off social media, it’s definitely a war zone
honestly it's better for my mental health to just not read comments anymore. I know it's hypocritical that I'm typing this but I only do it with channels I know their audiences haven't turned to complete shit, and Emily's audience has always been down to earth as far as I've seen.
It’s why I’ve contemplated deleting social media to be honest. I feel like it’s been this way since 2020, or at least when I started noticing it since I was on the internet more during the pandemic. I care about a lot of world issues but seeing constant messy arguments about them that never go anywhere, or are hardly ever helpful just made the internet more miserable to be on. I’m still on it but I try to follow mostly positive stuff to avoid seeing that, and stay offline more. Oh yeah, and I avoid checking comments when I can too.
Honestly I totally agree with you. As a gen Zer who's HUGE on human rights, I'd like to be the last person to say my generation is too sensitive.... but we're getting there. There are ACTUAL systemic issues literally everywhere, and people are hung up about what some uneducated K-POP idol said or what some random stranger posted at 3am. Like who cares???? We need to focus on more life-threatening situations for people instead of screaming in an echo chamber on how everyone is problematic
As a fellow gen z who’s huge on human rights, I agree. Though I do get the reasoning to why many try to tackle smaller problems as opposed to the more pressing systemic ones. It often feels like sometimes there’s nothing you can do, and not enough people care etc etc. But you want that satisfaction that you’ve fixed something, or you’ve done some good for the movement, so you try to “solve” a smaller problem.
And that’s not even going into the amount of discourse bait people use to control the conversation and distract from big pressing issues. Not a lot of people realise that a lot of online discourse is intentionally and maliciously stirred up
@@mimsilvernote Good points, I def agree with you on people trying to solve smaller issues because the bigger ones are severely difficult to fix.
100%, it distracts from the biggest issue of all which is capitalism and class dynamics. but tell these kids to read a book or listen to an audiobook and they call you ableist, even if you’re disabled yourself lol
THIS
no but like, as a gen z who cares about human rights, gen z is quite literally the most sensitive generation. its horrible to be a part of it.
2:38 SCISSOR SISTERS LMAOOOO
Please tell me she knows that's a band...
You realize "chronically online" is a very real thing when you go a party and talk to a group of young people (college aged) and it legit sounds like someone is reading a Twitter thread to you. It doesn't even feel like real conversations. Just a contest to see how much they can mention homosexuality, identity racism and oppression in a ten minute convo. The way social media drastically changed people, and the way so many completely dismiss that fact, is yes very concerning...
Literally, Im so scared for this generation because we've forgotten what the real world is like, we need to snap back to reality and quickly.
This comment makes the assumption that those conversations didn't exist before they became commonly talked about online, which isn't true.
These conversations were definitely taking place, the people who were talking about these same exact issues in the 40s, 60s, 80s, etc. just took place in smaller and less visible communities. Now that the internet can connect so many people, more people can see and join these conversations (including younger people who are in those online spaces more).
Now, I won't comment on the quality of those conversations because there are plenty of performative people who have no idea what they're talking about. But, I don't see the concern in simply having conversations about those specific topics.
@@Arri7979 I feel like it only becomes dangerous at the point where you realise that your personal feelings, thoughts and opinions are not in line with what you're actually saying. Because you're so used to regurgitating text you feel is expected of you, completely disconnected from your own feelings about it and experiences with the topic in real life.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also do think that the changing internet slang and buzzwords have also eroded some of the authenticity of expression aming peers. Group think and peer pressure have always been around, and so have a variety of serious sociopolitical issues, but the youth nowadays likely spend less time and effort actually getting to know/understand more about the topics, and more time jumping onto the bandwagon with the first explanation they see or are exposed to in their curated spaces. And in conversation this comes out as very brief, shallow or uninformed opinions which have often, very obviously not been thought out.
When it takes ten seconds to post and thought you have online and potentially be rewarded, you're not exposed to the kind of critical thinking you need to stand up under scrutiny in the physical world. I think of it like the difference between having autocorrect helping you spell on your phone or word processor, then having to write out something entirely without it and suddenly realising there are several words you don't know how to spell properly.
i’m sorry but “homosexuality” is killing me 😭
idk how people talking about those things doesn’t sound real. that’s conversation about oppression. u just sound like u never cared to talk about it. and talking about it is “not scary” it’s revolutionary to so many peoples lives. i get what u mean and partially agree and these words are diluted but that doesn’t mean they aren’t real
i found it ableist that emily could act so well. like wow okay, maybe for you its easy, but for the LESS FORTUNATE WHO CANT MOVE THEIR BODIES AT ALL, it was really offensive. do better.
ikr.. and shes wearing makeup what about the people that are ALLERGIC TO MAKEUP... seriously she needs to calm down
and the multiple outfit changes too like how about people who can’t AFFORD that many clothes, a bit classist to me….
ikr also what about her HAIR... what about the people that dont have hair and have to use WEAVES.. that have a chance of being SNATCHED
seems a little WEAVIST to me
Also, Emily keeps speaking. Like, okay, I guess your just ABLEIST to the mute people that can't!
I’ve seen this happen all the time and gets so annoying
Sjws: gets offended at literally everything for no reason
Anti sjws: “sjws get so offended at everything!” *proceeds to get offended when a teaser photo of a film with a MC is female, gay, or black
Just gotta say a quick thanks, because I was getting really, well. Might've been spiralling a bit because of all the online I've been consuming, I'm not one to argue online, but I do read them and it gets to me. So when your video popped up, it was like, it grounded me lol
I realized some of these things were really silly and I shouldn't let them get to me so much.
So... Thank you! Sorry if this ramble was annoying, I'm kinda bad with formatting my thoughts lol but figured I should share
"Actually it's offensive to be talking about being chronicly online because Some people don't have anything else how could you say all of that its classist and-"
Very cool video
I've heard "Oh its ableist to say chronically online". People are THAT chronically online.
@@Nakia11798 The way I’ve heard that too 💀💀💀💀
@@Nakia11798 ive heard chronically ill ppl having a issue with it specifically. not abled ppl, but thats just my personal experience
@@Nakia11798 in my experience ppl who complain ab the term chronically online are usually the most chronically online..
@@0-79kmj right!
The How To Be Offended skit made me laugh because a while ago my friend posted her ‘kpop unpopular opinions’ (that were basically just factual statements like TWICE is from JYP) and I found a way to be offended about all of them.
@@lovesick3317 LOL
@@lovesick3317 or jypapi
the part about expecting people with a platform to talk about seemingly every single issue in the world has actually happened to me. I remember one time on Twitter (of course) there was something going on in the USA and i actually talked about it and retweeted resources and all that yknow but I had also made a tweet that was about idk how cute my necklace looked or smth like that at that time. and some ppl actually got mad because "i clearly didn't care enough about the situation if I was tweeting stuff like this" I was a 14 yo on cartoon twt dammit 😭 and I didn't even have a big platform to begin with. u gotta understand not everyone is able to speak on everything and if they don't that really doesn't mean they don't care....talk about performative activism
Dude around that time I had a phase on instagram where I felt like I needed to post everything about BLM all the time on my stories because I'm privileged enough that racism doesn't affect me day-to-day so I NEEDED to be constantly aware of the struggles black americans face. And while that was certainly eye opening, the sheer amount of depressing shit I as a 14 year old saw was mental health ruining and I realized that I could just make sure I'm aware of the overarching issues instead of doomscrolling for 4 hours.
the most chronically online thing ive seen recently is sneegsnag posting a picture of 'unseasoned' shrimp that led to people digging up 8 year old tweets and accusing him of being transphobic/ ableist. i was actually in shock of how that unravelled
I literally saw a post abt someone saying that an eastern european person that spoke multiple languages was classist because not everyone has the oportunity to use daddys money for language learning. The person who made the comment was british and not poor by any means 1) eastern europe as a whole isn´t doing that well economically 2)it is mandatory for all to learn/speak MINIMUM of 3 languages (usually mother tongue, russian and english) and 3) the person who this comment was directed towards was from a poor single parent household
5:02 I’m autistic. I really hope my kids aren’t, because I do NOT want them to go through what I had to. I felt so weird and excluded as a little kid. I would be devastated if my kid went through that.
i remember one person started to attack me for having "ela/dela" (she/her in portuguese) pronouns on my bio, why do some american people just forget the world is not the united states, and people can speak more than one language??
I was literally just thinking about how being on stan twitter has warped my sense of thinking so much, and then I saw this video 😭 message received, I'll be logging off lmaoo
how are you doing now ?
i think the best example of this is flag discourse like when people on twitter kept saying the new gay flag was problematic for "copying" the lesbian flag or bc it was based off a old problematic flag
I think they just need to leave stuff alone. We don't need a new "inclusive" flag, the old one was already meant to include all gender and sexual minorities.
@@Nakia11798 yeah, the rainbow flag was meant to represent everyone, its silly to keep changing the flag, and fighting over it- rather than focusing on literally ANYTHING else.
I don't hate the progress flag, but- is silly
kai satou!
@@Foolishly_Royalty i dont think changing flags or making flags for specific communities is a issue, considering every part of the community is unique in its own way, but the issue is thinking every flag is going to be 100% original.
@@ris1111 yess hes my favorite :)
literally summarizes the internet these days 😭
I've had white people harass me and call me racist for bringing up issues of misogyny in the afro-american community, even though I'm black and this directly affects me and not them.
i'm sorry can i ask u a question? (concerns racism)
i had a situation and i don't if i was wrong or right and it's really important to me to know that.
@@usermeowblue Sure, what is it?
@@citrus_sweet I want to say that english not my first language, my first language is russian. here is place called Caucasus, people from this place in my country called caucasians and that's how they called themselves, they are often muslim and non-white.
I had a dialogue with a woman on TikTok on this topic, I said that using this word as an analogue of the word white is wrong, and in my language we don’t do that, so it’s obvious to me. she constantly cited racism against black people and slavery in the USA (she was black). I have a feeling that we didn’t understand each other at all. I honestly don’t understand what happened at all, but she banned me. The question is, was it correct for me to mention her race? I thought it made sense because it was a conversation about racism, but I feel like it was wrong (I talked about this situation with my friends because americans in general often don't understand people from other countries, no offense)
sorry if this is stupid question 😭😭😭
@@usermeowblue This isn't a stupid question -- besides, I'm mixed afro-native and the majority of Americans don't understand natives either, only the anglo-saxon standard. The issue is that Americans are taught that Caucasian means European (blame Johann Friedrich Blumenbach), it's even on our government documents, so even though it's not true many of them will never realize that nor learn of the existence of the Caucasus. I don't think you were in the wrong and you shouldn't have been banned but racial issues are still a constant in American society and she probably thought it was an attack.😓
@@citrus_sweet Thanks for explanation! When I was younger, I thought that the USA was a country that was almost free of racism (for some reason many in my country think so), I was so surprised when I found out that this was a lie. Sometimes I'm surprised at HOW racist the USA is, no less than Russia where I'm from lol...
I was talking with my mom about this just today. She was talking about how she was dieting at her job and she was really happy about it, and then her coworker said that she had trauma with dieting (which is legit). But usually she goes around judging other peoples diets.
I recently uninstalled TikTok after 5 years of having it... It's not really fun anymore and the subject you spoke about really does make it worse
the Oscar deserving portrayal of arguing on twitter is a little TOO realistic 😭
like there are genuinely a lot of stuff to be mad about in the world, but i think everyone feels guilty about literally everything that they make it everyone else's problem too. look we're all leaving our mark on the world, we all leave some sort of footprint. whether it's physical like our carbon footprint or the memories we leave other people. there are so many issues and we all don't want to deal with them all the time, its hard to always want to be political in a time where everything is political.
i think a big part of it is that we all think that the 'perfect' person with perfect ideals have a set belief system. and we all don't fit those extreme ideals, and we don't really have a reason to NOT be that person so people always go to extremes. truth is, even if we believe that being a certain type of person is what we all should strive for, we don't always follow it. that's because we're all multifaceted people. some times we do things that aren't considered bad but more like mildly not accepted. like holding doors for others, not doing chores often, talking back to people, not tipping, ignoring your surroundings, etc etc. just because you do those things, it's not like that's your entire personality and even if you know you shouldn't do it, it's not like it's something worth berating and harassing people over.
and maybe there's no good reason that you shouldn't be the ideal person, but dude we're just people. i don't think it's bad for us to have a few flaws. it doesn't mean that i approve of those things, because I don't really, but i don't think small imperfections like that are worth getting upset about. they should just be things pointed out and moving on, change is up to you but at least you can decide whether or not to change based on what YOU think you should do. either choice doesn't really matter
this explained exactly what I thought, thank you!
@@sereingrl thanks, i think not only are people just bored with their lives, but i think guilt plays a LOT into why people act chronically online
Easily, the most chronically online thing I've ever seen was someone getting canceled for Asian fishing because they had a Japanese name. They were Finnish, from Finland, a country 7,000 km from Japan, and had a most definitely Finnish name, which they were given at birth. To make this even worse, I, too, have been told this exact same thing. Just an FYI, Sara and Sakari are, in fact, Finnish names.
The guy self promoting themselves in the middle of the fight is so accurate 💀
yeah just yesterday i basically got witch hunted by multiple people simply for commenting that i personally think this one person is a better vocalist than the other person. they were like "stop bashing __, you're such a hater, talentless, ugly etc". like dude, i never said something like that the person is untalented and sucks, i just shared my opinion that someone else is a better vocalist. but i guess saying someone is better at something is offensive these days.
Oh no!!!! Someone likes a different artist than me.. must riot
@@Foolishly_Royalty lmao right but the funny thing is that both persons are in the same group meaning i'm a fan of them both haha. but well i guess since i'm a fan i'm not allowed to say that one member is better at something than another member??
@@boombayuna536 yeah, like- having a favorite member of group is fine, I dont understand some people lmfao. If a friend was like "oh I like x person, more than y person" it'd never be like "BUT I LIKE Y PERSON!!!!" That's just- stupid
People will really kill for artists, and its scary lmao
Oh my God you have an opinion!? TO NORTH KOREA YOU GO
the way your skits look like caricatures of what people on twitter are like but you really need to spend 2 seconds in a twitter comments section to find those exact arguments is sending me, you were so on point with every single one 😭
For some people, this might seem like a video about a totally random thing, but I've seen this happen so much. Like, I didn't even know "Asian plays piano" was a stereotype at all, and I once got three different people angry at me on Twitter because I said that a celebrity who happened to be Asian probably did well in school when the original poster asked how he got where he was. (He's a music producer.) And it wasn't even an insult or anything, it was literally just an observation, and a positive one too.
And I agree the "not posting = no empathy" point as well. Some of that is seeping into real life lately. There's a Russian musician who didn't post about the war in Ukraine, and for simply not posting about it (and being Russian, I guess), she literally got banned from two different shows she was set to perform at, and then got negative articles written about her until she was basically forced to post her opinion, which was, of course, disapproving of the Ukraine invasion. It's just ridiculous, a lot of people also just don't like talking about stuff like that. Like, what is there to even say? Everyone's already heard about it anyway, right?
That russia ukraine thing you mentioned literally being in russia and stating such opinion could be harmful to them.
I'm literally WORRIED about my sister. Ever since flip phones were invented, she had been addicted to her phone ever since. You could literally ask her a question or warn her about something urgent and she'll just nod or say "okay" while her eyes are glued to her screen. She literally NEVER takes a break. If it's dead she'll stay with her phone till it's charged. I'm literally SIXTEEN and she's a grown adult who doesn't even work. Maybe because my mom taught me how life without excessive use of technology is manageable, it was NEVER a challenge for me to take a break from my phone. In fact I probably only use it max 2-3 hours every day. I really like books, baking, fashion, makeup, basketball and watersports. The sad truth about phone addiction is that the one who appears to be addicted to their phone, forgets how beautiful earth is and is stuck in some sort of virtual world where they can't focus on anything else but their screen. This is a reminder everyone, you don't need to spend a whole day on your phone! Outdoors is free to walk around and get some fresh air, life is short, knowledge is unlimited and the earth is a beautiful planet that we should explore!
she doesnt have any eyesight problems by that either?
I love the way Emily talks about certain topics, even the small bits. I recently stopped being friends with someone because they were so chronically online that it was bad. They made everything into an opinion, even tho facts it was a fact and if you didn't act and were like they, you weren't allowed an opinion. And I don't mean harmful opinions. Here's an example : He said a broken rock was a quartz. Me and another friend explained that it's just a simple broken rock. What do they do? They start fighting with us and saying we opress his opinions.
Moral of the story: Stop making everything into an opinion and maybe discuss politely with ur friends.
Once I saw this thing where a person talks about how their older brother writes them and their younger sister encouraging notes pretending to be their mom (who works a lot) and how both of them know but don’t say anything because the brother puts up this whole bad boy persona and how they found it sweet and the comments were full of people comparing this real life person to Billy from Stranger Things and it managed to spiral into this whole argument over wether Billy was a good person or not. Like how did someone talking about their brother doing a nice thing for his sisters become a debate over the political correctness of a fictional character that was designed to be an asshole? These people need to touch grass ASAP.
On my bucket list is to meet Emily one day and talk over a coffee at starbucks or somewhere, anywhere in the world.
"empathy exists outside of Twitter" SAY IT LOUDER!!!!
Implying that politicians are good sources of information on anything is pretty dumb
agreed lmao
I have an older sister and when we’re outside I like to push her and she acts as if we’re in an Indian soap opera , it’s just an inside joke we do and someone literally said that I like to “ @buse “ my sister to other people and tried to spread that around , I’m sorry m’am what the actual fu$k 👀
i remember posting something about not liking a trait of my own autism, and all of the comments were “you’re faking because you’re not overly enthusiastic about being autistic” and whenever i do act happy about my traits all the comments are like “you’re just romanticizing autism and you don’t actually have it” WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO!
The skit about "thinking outside the box" reminded me of studying something called 'Critical Thinking' (mandatory course) at secondary school and the only way to get good marks was to come up with the most outlandish explanations and connections possible.
I love what you say about people having a platform feel this pressure to express their thoughts and feelings about something. I’m not some sort of religious leader that needs to speak up about some thing, we need to stop having the mentality that we need people we look up to to confirm or reaffirm or deny that something is right or wrong. This is a sign that we’re getting back to the old world ideas of old church Europe, we need someone we see as better than us to be making decisions of what’s right or wrong. This is partially why I don’t want to participate in this, and also I don’t want my UA-cam channel to end up becoming polarized, you know? The only things I address are things that are relevant to me, like I occasionally make videos making fun of UA-cam ads
I’m glad the term “chronically online” has been coined. I came to the realization back in the prehistoric internet era of 2014 that I was spending too much time online and it was coloring the way I viewed the world and people in a very negative way. I didn’t have an eloquent term to describe what my realization was. I distinctly remember saying the sentence “internet people are not real people,” meaning the issues and opinions you find online do not in any way reflect the way real people in your life behave. It was my way of trying to describe the idea of being chronically online without having the term.
8:48 reminds me of how stupid MCU fans bullied Elizabeth Olsen off of Instagram for not posting something the day Chadwick died.
rip in peperonni, Johnwick Blowsmen...😭😭😭💔💔💔
this video couldn't have come at a more perfect time... social media is an insane place :O
i saw one of those reddit videos on tiktok, the question was basically "what would be considered normal 10 years ago but not now" and in the video the reply was "my back", completely normal tiktok, BUT the people in comments were seriously saying being white/male/straight, these people clearly never leave their home.
FRR IVE SEEN THOSE ON YT SHORTS
i wanna believe they’re joking but idk man💀
Have you ever seen The Good Place 🤣. It doesn't matter how good you try to be you can't make everyone happy and you will only make yourself miserable trying.
Posted about me crying in a cafe the other week, two people got into a fight and one told the other to kms themselves like what
over what ???? lmfao
@@lilttigerit started with “the lesbians” then went off the trails from there
I like to think that the sketch at 6:03 is the prelude to how the people from the first sketch learned to snowball the harmless tweet, since they are wearing the same clothing and hairstyles. Clearly they were taught well.
This video was brilliantly written! You are one intelligent human being Emily!
I guess it's the same thing people used to do (still do??) to women in beauty pageants "wow you're so pretty anyway how do you plan to solve world hunger?"
My tiktok fyp is always filled with this shit abt bad stuff going on and the people are like "if you don't post abt this, you're a bad person, you're racist/ableist/classist" and i just kinda sat there like "bro I was just crying what"
I don't know where I saw it and who said it but I saw something about how social media is basically an echo chamber. That's so true.
We've gone from going online to meet new people and possibly be friends with them while respecting their thoughts, beliefs and opinions (if they're not prone to hurting others, I guess) to tearing people down just because they think or behave different from you.
I basically spent my late tweens to teenage years online and, the shift from being chatty with people and not being afraid to put your thoughts out there to people being rude and, trolls and, attacking you because they've read your post a million hundred ways and couldn't end up thinking what your actual intentions were behind said post has been overwhelming.
As a prequel to this … do a UA-cam search for “Monty Python argument”. Those guys invented social media arguments a couple decades before the internet
one of my triggers is my little pony (dont ask) but i never blow up on anyone for simply talking about a show about ponies and friendship LMFAO
i have been very immersed into social media probably all of my life, although i'm just 18, it has changed drastically. it has taken a huge toll on my mental health. it gave me false security, that i could speak up about issues and use my voice. but in reality, all of the issues i "can" talk about, has to follow specific rules or else i will get slandered and cancelled. i remember i got cancelled online for something i wasn't even aware was bad, and i was fully open to being educated. but instead people were calling me all sorts of things and slandering me when all i did was talk about something i feel like has been appropriated nowadays.
this might be a little bit of a rant so pls bear with me.
i am transracially adopted. and the word "transracial" today has a new meaning that people like oli london has coined when it is far from its original meaning. transracial is and has not been a stand alone word, and it belongs to adoptees who are adopted across races. i use this word and not 'multicultural' because i don't feel like i belong to more than one culture. i see people on tiktok, people on twitter and literally everywhere thinking that "transracial" means changing races. when it does not.
i tried to make a post about it, and i suppose i worded it wrong. i guess, all i wanted was validation (?) that i have the rights to feel upset when people are using this term wrong, when people group transracial adoptees with transracial /identifying/ people when we are nothing alike. but in reality, all i got was backlash. people calling me stupid, that i was transphobic and that my views were racist. all because i wanted people to know that transracial is an adoptee term, and not a term used for changing races.
i'm desperately trying to find transracial adoption representation, or someone who can relate to me because it feels so immensely lonely sometimes. it wasn't until i got into reddit that i could at least find people who had the same adoption experience as myself. but still to this day, people are appropriating that word. and maybe i am sensitive, maybe my view is completely wrong and i am aware words changes meaning over time. but it just sucks i suppose?
the way the argument was so on point 😭😭
"I like pancakes."
"Why do you hate waffles???"
The first skit had me going “its just a skit its just a skit its just a skit-“
Also the skits today were all 10/10 😋
9:20 TYSM FOR FINALLY SAYING THIS BC WHEN I SAID THIS TO MY FRIEND SHE WAS LIKE "That's so inconsiderate." LIKE GIRL NO-
I’m a Christian, but dang that Twitter argument caught me off guard and I laughed so hard 😂😂😂
1:33 this entire thing is just so true. Bringing in anime, sexuality, religion, race, where it just doesn’t even make sense at all, finding any reason to argue over the stupidest things, etc 😭😭
I have a prime example of this (and one of my worst internet experiences). I was on a tiktok once (can't remember what the video was about) and someone in the comments said that they hate when neurodivergent people use their disorder as an excuse or explanation. I replied that it's not an excuse but it is sometimes an explanation for why they may feel/act differently (me being neurodivergent myself btw which i mentioned later in the conversation), like someone with ADHD IS going to act different than someone without it, however, it is not an excuse. We went back and forth like this for ten minutes because she kept saying "you can't excuse your behavior because of your illness" and I literally kept telling her I AGREED but she kept twisting my words so I blocked her. Before I blocked her I guess she saw my instagram which was connected to my tiktok at the time (not anymore after this lol) and commented on every single one of my posts calling me ableist, tearing down my looks, and making bad comments about me. I once again blocked her, and a week later ended up posting something about the argument because I couldn't delete one of the comments calling me ableist and didn't want people to think I was and she was watching me STILL on another account and dmed me terrible things about how ugly and stupid I am and straight up told me that I was faking my mental illness. Like it is so incredibly crazy to stalk and harass someone about a tiktok argument.
i remember making a joke about the fitness gram pacer test and someone responded saying "delete this, this is offensive because my friend actually almost died because of the fitness gram pacer test and you are causing me mental strain." and i still sometimes think about that tbh
I think it's all about attitude. I think when you see a ton of shit that's mildly offensive you kinda lose it on something or someone who doesn't deserve it. It'sike the difference between "I'm so tired of these fucking abelisy assholes not giving a fuck about this comminuty. It's shocking that its allowed to not use captions." vs "hey can you use captions on your vids please? It's super helpful for hard of hearing and deaf folks" justtry to be nice about it. I've never seen anyone when it comes to captions talk as bad as I gave that example they've all been chill and I agree that captions are super helpful
yes exactly
i agree! if i preach about compassion towards groups of people i also have to give someone the benefit of the doubt that they weren’t trying to hurt people’s feelings
Yea