#like i'd love to leave room for nuance here but also i am biting and stabbing with a fork

[glitterdustcyclops]

this musing sparked by a random youtube vid the algo fed me (can you believe there is ita bag drama on tiktok? because of course there is)

i am...wary of going too hard in on the whole "asian fishing" debacle. as someone who doesn't personally Look Asian myself i have, shall we say, Complex Feelings around asian culture (especially asian diaspora culture!!) and the alienation that mixed folks can feel, growing up first or second generation & being raised to assimilate into white/western culture. so i'd never want to presume someone else's right to express an identity that is meaningful to them just because to me they don't look "asian enough" to me, that is gross

BUT ON THE OTHER HAND

seeing this influx of skinny white bitches who have made being skinny & kawaii their whole personality get love and praise and attention and MONEY for pretending to be japanese (always japan or mainland china, never taiwan or singapore or god forbid, SEA) does make me see red kinda. because you just know that if they looked like me (fat) they would not nearly be as popular or as praised. it is only because of their adherence to white, western standards of beauty that they can get away with cosplaying as a completely different race for clout, and that is absolutely fucked.

(yes this whole thing is a massive subtweet of the tiktok creator twinbuns, who i had never heard of until this moment but i absolutely do not like)