I know we’re like shitposting about the apparent and imminent demise of Twitter but I can’t help but feel like a library is on fire. So much fandom history is potentially going to be lost. I know screen shots and all that are forever and there are tumblr master posts but there’s also something about physically going to Louis’ account and seeing AIMH right there. Or Liam’s snake habitat tweet. Or Niall’s last night was a great night but no one talk to me tweet. All of baby Larry’s lovesick nonsense. IDK man. It’s fucking depressing.
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as he should
the only good thing that godforsaken website has done recently
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the bird app is not a real place iswear (it's ealry im sorry)
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Saw a titkok of this dude being really cringe and someone in the comments goes like 'I hope you end up on twitter'
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I'm back from a trip to hometown and I barely used any social media for three (!) weeks.
I swear, leaving Twitter for 21 days is sure doing miracles to one's mental health.
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"Hey I'm kind of bored, I think I'll open up Twitter"
*opens up twitter*
*immediately closes twitter*
"Well that was a mistake"
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Twitter is really a cesspool isn't it. Why are so many people starting crap about TZP being a white man?! Have they seen him? Like....WTF?! And when people say he isn't and give reasons, they dog pile and become racist. Why do they hate him so much?! I don't understand! First the outing and now this! I am really starting to hate that place.
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Black/Racial Coding Doesn't Equal Racial Stereotypes
I can not believe we live in a society that genuinely believes racial coding = 'stereotypes but woke'...
Y'all, racial stereotypes are overexaggerated and meant to generalize a group as a whole....
Yes, racial stereotypes are technically coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is based on stereotypes. [Think square = rectangle but rectangle =/= square.]
If it was all the same, you can not create any characters with a race because anything can be a stereotype by their POV.
Gave your white oc straight hair? "Racist. Not all white people have straight hair."
Gave your black oc dark skin? "Racist. Not all black people have darker skin."
Your character comes from a place with a language other than English, and they dare speak in that language? "Racist. Not every person knows their home language."
All of these rebuttals in isolation are correct, but context is extremely important. Yes, if someone claims an entire group of people have to look like XYZ to be a certain race, that's stereotyping. Making characters who happen to have very common traits among certain races, specifically the one they're meant to represent, is not.
You can literally spin anything into being racist if you view characters with this amount of malicious intent.
Getting so butthurt over someone simply calling a character X-coded (especially when it's confirmed and extremely obvious) is so incredibly dumb.
Getting mad at people critical of an X-coded character because there's no traits for people to actually connect the dots (without reading an outside source) is also extremely dumb.
TLDR: Racial coding is simply giving characters traits to represent a certain race. Racial stereotypes are still coding, but that doesn't mean racial coding itself is inherently stereotypical. Otherwise, every depiction of race is a stereotype and/or racist.
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