#IN THE NOTES LMAO I meant in the comments? replies? idk its twitter

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Chipspeech Twitter Archive Update

Hi I should have done this months ago.. I do not know when (or if) I am going to finish that website lmao. So I am just going to share my notes from Google Docs. Should be easier to read than the original posts and helpful as a starting point if anyone else decides to make a website :3

The documents are all on commenting mode so feel free to make comments to bookmark things for yourself or write your thoughts or whatever. Under the cut I have put some formatting notes.

It's a folder, each year of Twitter posts is its own document (I tried to compile them into one but it lagged too much). There is also a document with all of the original Tumblr posts (from the accounts I could find, no tags yet but I will go back and get them eventually, also no dates but they're all from 2015), and one with the bios from the official website for ease of access.

The formatting is a little (a lot) weird and there are probably pictures that need resizing/transcription but I figured it's better to give people access now. The text is small (to keep the page count as low as possible) so you will have to zoom in.

It goes by day, organized with a bulleted list. The top level bullets are each character that tweeted that day. The second level bullets are original tweets/retweets by that character. The third+ level bullets are comment threads under that tweet, the organization here is inconsistent but imo still readable (if you think something needs an edit for clarity let me know and I'll fix it).

For each character's section of the list, normal text is that character's tweets/comments. Italicized text is anyone who is not that character. If it is labeled with unitalicized text, it is that character/important account (e.g. the official Chipspeech account), otherwise it is a fan. I also included some labels and/or clarifying comments for Vocaloid producers I like, they're not central to the story though

I got rid of the line breaks within the tweets when copying them down because it was easier to format. Sorry about that. Idk how to fix it other than going through everything again but it doesn't take away from the story so I'm leaving it for now.

If something came from a website other than Twitter, I tried to provide the link (unless its content was deleted). I did my best to transcribe the Clyp posts that were not deleted.

If something is a text-only retweet, it is marked with [retweet]. If it includes an image, it's probably a screenshot of the whole thing. I only included retweets that felt story-relevant (so no miscellaneous cat pictures, Apple-related aesthetic images, etc.), but if people really want it I can go back and add the rest.

Deleted tweets are noted with [deleted tweet], with the characters they came from if applicable. Idk how Twitter works but it the person in the thread is replying to the username of a certain character, I assumed it was that character's tweet that had been deleted. If something says [deleted Dandy thread], assume there is a deleted Dandy tweet in between each of the listed tweets (or another character, but it's usually Dandy). That was meant to be a temporary time-saver and I've gone back and fixed the ones I've found, but there's probably more I accidentally skipped.

Anything not in English is translated in a comment. Except the X-Sampa (I will fix that sometime but there's not much of it). Also it was done with the built-in Google Translate feature so it may be a little incorrect. Unclear pictures and whatnot also have clarifying comments. I can add more clarifying comments (or image IDs) if anyone needs them.

I tried not to include any unattributed fanart but there are some that I forgot to copy the handle for (I am also fixing these when I find them).

As for any future updates to this folder as a whole, I kind of want to go back through each account's liked tweets to see if there's anything funny in there but idk when that will be. That would probably be its own document.

Honestly I should have given everyone access back in June.. oops. If you have any questions you can put them in a comment on this post (or reach out to me another way, idk). As I mentioned before, feel free to use all of this as a starting point if you're making your own website.

I'll pin this post so it's findable in the future. Also sorry for disappearing for several months (it will happen again).

[heyangelfire]

a few months ago i wrote this essay for the APIDA newsmagazine i was formerly part of about calls for diversity and how transparent/erasing they can be 

like how some people and even organized groups on twitter and elsewhere would take the opportunity of the success of diverse films with mostly Black casts to shout about how diversity was more than 2 races and Latinx and Asian people needed rep too 

it wasn’t as bad this year as in previous years post-awards ceremonies, but still. it’s somewhat true but there are ways to say it w/o piggybacking on other people’s buzz and thereby discrediting the incredible strides their films have made. our communities need to be doing their own work 

i also brought up how an incredible part of having so much opportunity for diversity is that we get previously underrepresented groups taking center stage, for example, with Moonlight, in the form of Afro-Latinx rep with Juan’s (played by Mahershala Ali, which, again, underrepresented success) identity centered on being Cuban and Jharrel Jerome publicly stating that he identifies as Afro-Latino (he has Dominican heritage). So like, we have Latinx rep, but not rep that non-Black people want to readily claim. I think there were similar examples from other films that i cant remember, but 

I just thought about it again when I saw Gina Rodriguez’s tweet about how she was happy Marvel and DC were doing so well with diversity and women rep but that we need Latinx rep too 

And many people in the notes agreed, but being more knowledgeable about the franchises, were quick to point out what we do already have (Tessa Thompson in upcoming Thor Ragnarok and Zoe Saldana in GotG are both Afro-Latina). Again, it’s not perfect, they are two lighter skinned women, one of whom plays a green-skinned character, but they still exist. I think even in our calls for more (and more inclusive) rep we should be careful to recognize what already exists, because otherwise it is too much like erasure. I do not think it is a coincidence that this mostly happens with Afro-Latinx characters, either. 

People also pointed out what should be inevitably coming down the pike - America Chavez and Miles Morales (Young Avengers + Spiderman), Latina Catwoman (? not sure if this was confirmed?), etc. 

I don’t fault Gina for this because I’m sure her heart was in the right place, but I just think we shouldn’t be taking the cultural renaissance (of sorts,,, again it’s very imperfect) that we’re currently having for granted, because as we can see it is already being taken away in some places (@ all the diverse TV shows that have been canceled recently) and as history has shown, these tend to come in waves with intense periods of drought in between. 

If we want to work towards better and more sustainable/long-lasting media representation, i don’t really think there’s a need to be making these flippant <140 characters over-generalized calls for diversity that don’t specifically acknowledge what’s going right/going wrong bc it just comes across as slightly alienating rather than bridge-building. extending a hand and investing yourself more thoroughly in media, making suggestions and using connections based on knowledge, experience and a genuine passion for increasing diversity in an inclusive way seems like a more thorough way to go about it. 

we’re trying to emphasize that we’re not just quotas to be filled or boxes to be checked off, but to me that’s exactly how it seems with tweets/comments like this. i don’t want to see a random Latinx character thrown in as the short friend who has a couple one-liners and occasionally hams up their accent for laughs, or as the hypersexualized siren, or even if it’s not one of these overdone stereotypes, I don’t necessarily need a random character just to be there. I’d rather have a character with a story, purpose, a reason to exist and a richness to them that complements the rest of a richly and thoughtfully diverse cast. And some acknowledgement of mixed-race (even non-White European mixed-race) characters would be nice too.