The Race Change Community Obsessed with Turning Asian

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Based on the internet’s ethnicity swappers Hall of Fame starring: Oli London, Rachel Dolezol, Martina Big, and Xianh Nishi - it seems to be isolated incidents that don’t happen very often. Recently a community called RCTA or ECTA has been gaining traction, which stands for race or ethnicity change to another. They claim you can turn into any race you want by listening to subliminals, supporting the community by creating RCTA content on TikTok and progress-checking each other on Discord. It’s pretty wild and they seem to be more focused on changing from Caucasian to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The prevalence of Asian media all over the world has made impressionable young people want to connect with these cultures… by morphing into one of them. The Tiktok Race Change Community Obsessed with East Asian Appearances and Aesthetics #edvasian

[@Tanaka1168]

As a Southeast Asian girly, I have actually been harassed by one of these people online saying I'm a fake asian because i'm not pale. I am Indonesian 🗿

[@amphibian2982]

Bruh

[@Atemourisan]

Dafuq 😑 These people aren't right right in the head 😑

[@Lilly-ud6qs]

This is so real! I'm Jamaican and got accused asian fishing by a ⚪️ person because if my natural eyeshape. My Grandad is literally half Chinese and we all inherited his eyes. These people have serious issues.

[@aureliaaurita8138]

Problem here is with Korean and Japanese idols and actors who go through plastic surgery and their fans start to persuade everyone that it's their natural features and pale skin, not tons of makeup. Blame Asian celebrities and their fans.

[@Tanaka1168]

@@aureliaaurita8138 the celebrities are simply meeting standards of the industry, they are victims in this cycle as well as the young fans whom look to these types of media growing up. The culprit is the entertainment industry, which by the way did the exact same thing to eurocentric features. Not even decades ago and even now, asians also wish they had the typical straight button nose and big doe eyes american celebrity had and would go through extensive plastic surgery, makeovers, and skin bleaching to look like westeners. It's always the industry, never the people.

[@AZ-tv7zv]

One time, this girl came up to me and asked me all excited if I was Japanese. I said no. She then steps back, gets all offended, and goes "why not" like GURL WDYM WHY NOT

[@Mioochii]

XD

[@thepinkelephant2520]

WHY NOT 💀💀💀💀

[@imamerican3720]

Why not is CRAZY 😭

[@midnight_sky8635]

NAH-

[@coco.clownie]

what happened after..? 💀

[@fly_little_raven]

The summer before I started grade 5, I watched The Secret Garden (1993), and I told myself that I was going to talk in an English accent (I’m from Canada), braid my hair everyday and act like a mysterious & moody orphan from the 1900s. I’m so glad TikTok hadn’t been invented yet or I know I would have been on there searching orphancore or something

[@GaySatanicClowns]

I feel like everyone had that phase.

[@pigeon6554]

omg i love the secret garden but ive never watched the movie ive only read the book

[@n.m.6027]

orphancore lmao I'm dead

[@hughcaldwell1034]

I am laughing and fighting with myself about looking up "orphancore" now...

[@notanotherjoana]

I’m laughing so hard

[@Kpop_crumbss]

They really believed Barbie when she said "You can be anything" 💀

[@Naurrrrrrrrr]

Lol 💀

[@VintageVirgo2002]

And that's exactly why i liked Bratz and Monster High instead. Oof. 😅

[@Kpop_crumbss]

@@VintageVirgo2002 HELPP

[@vainetuxx]

They took it LITERALLY when all she meant was about hobbies and jobs 😭🤦‍♀️

[@VR-gs9hd]

It's that post-camera and post social media attention addiction, since these types tend to stare at their mug all day like Snow-White's bitter and resentful antagonist did.

[@cassinipanini]

"Rcta is not the same as being transracial, we are more educated *then* they are." I JUST KNOW THESE PEOPLE ARE 15 YEARS OLD

[@arooniez]

I bet most r below that age tbh

[@SeonasStudio]

So glad my cringey teenage crap isn’t immortalised on the Internet forever 😅

[@maenad1231]

Ikr They even used “culture” as a synonym for “racial makeup” Anyone & everyone could change their actual culture…it’s called MOVING

[@dfjulesful]

I really hope they are!

[@lyneyed]

no bc whats the difference...

[@sadsatan..]

It’s funny how back in the day people would make fun of black,Hispanic and Asian features only for everyone now wanting to look like us

[@boooooooooooooyou]

white losers wanted to be black in the 90s too 🤷🏻

[@sheFEISTY.43110]

I know right? lol

[@plotoyadnaya_rossiyanka]

Would you be offended if I said that not “everyone” wants it? 💀

[@ch3rrikiss]

​@@plotoyadnaya_rossiyankano what's offensive is the western white males that fetishise these people and demonise thier own, adding to this issue

[@bmona7550]

@@plotoyadnaya_rossiyankaI would applaud you. The fetishism now is insane. I miss the time when POC are left alone and judged as a person and an individual

[@jacksmith7660]

As a person who is Native American, I’ve had people tell me they feel a spiritual connection with my race, these people went as far as dying their skin and/or hair to match mine then went and told me how we look like family 💀 btw I’m a brown guy with black hair and it’s odd as shit whenever people do this. You can respect other people culture and learn about it, but to change your race is odd as hell man and pretty annoying.

[@weheartaaliah]

exactly and the way they group all natives together as if they're one people and not from different tribes is so dumb 😭

[@illianagarcia4826]

I’m also Native American I’m Taino descendants from quisqueya when I was little people went up to me and said I am Korean or Japanese I said no they say I look Asian and then I said oh thanks for the compliment but no I’m not Asian I’m Latina American mix with Dominican and Puerto Rican and Taino and Afro Caribbean

[@blue-uv4mh]

Dying their skin? Like, as in black face?? Make-up? Or with some actually staining dye?? Regardless of which wtf holy I-don‘t-even-know-what-anymore

[@jacksmith7660]

@@blue-uv4mh There’s this white chick that I work with who does some tanning stuff she told me about since I met her she’s been dying her skin. Not sure what it is, just that she said it’s something she puts on herself so that her skin will be a dark brown.

[@blue-uv4mh]

@@jacksmith7660 Oof… tanning isn‘t supposed to let you drop more than a few shades, I can‘t imagine the amount of product she’d have to slap on multiple times a day to go from white to brown wtf… Normally the deepest shade you can go with tanning while being white is a sunburned looking orange lol So if she’s really tanning herself desi or really any deeper than orange it sounds an awful lot similar to blackface at least to me…

[@scalylayde8751]

When I was a kid I straight up lied about being part Asian (I am super white) because I was into anime and just wanted it to be true so I could be more like my favorite character. I got the well deserved bombastic side eye and was immediately called out for it. Believe me, I am SO glad that cringey part of my childhood wasn’t documented on the internet.

[@meifennellysieu7510]

I have an intrusive memory that sometimes pops up from when I was maybe eight. When my dad told me one of my great-grandparents was possibly Native American, I told one of my Native classmates that I was also Native American, and tried to compare skin tones with her. I still think about that. (As it turns out, that great-grandparent wasn't even Native American, which makes the whole thing even stupider).

[@kkkender]

Seems to me like now it is documented in the internet 🙃

[@ShadySideUp]

@@meifennellysieu7510this has happened to soo many white kids it’s something we’re all gonna have to talk about a little more one day soon. It’s like every other white kid in the USA was told they have Native American lineage somewhere and we were just kids trusting what our elders told us. And then went around claiming something that wasn’t true at all. It clicked for me pretty young, about 13 that it wasn’t true. I am 23 now and just took an Ancestry test to track more of my lineage and sure enough not a single drop of anything but white in my DNA. But my mother was claiming up the very day until I showed her my results that my dad was for sure part Native American because his grandpa told him that his grandma was… So literally everyone was lied to by another elder and turned to tell the same lie they thought was truth to their own children 🤦🏽‍♀️ just an absolute mess.

[@asiakai9955]

@@ShadySideUpeveryone wants to not feel guilt about colonialism so bad

[@EllieofAzeroth]

​@shadylight7710 fun fact, the DNA testing companies (23 and me, ancestry, etc) don't have United States Native American DNA to reference in their database so it makes everyone look like they have no Native American in them. There's a good shot your family was right, you just can't compare DNA to a database that doesn't exist

[@sophiehann0]

Im tired of society choosing a “new hottest race of the year” and causing people to attempt to cosplay it for a few years before they get bored/“it goes out of style” and then picking another race to taint 😭 they’re treating races like tinder profiles…

[@kevinle1083]

Well, welcome to our modern dumb-founded society.

[@bigdog3695]

I know like, it was black, then kinda Latina or mixed, now east Asian. Kinda wondering what's next, maybe south Asian?...probably going to be wearing hijabs as fashion. As a black girl, I'm invested in the next arc lol

[@realityisascam]

@@bigdog3695I'm going to become a NEET if they ever start wearing hijabs as a fashion trend because that will truly be an endpoint for my tolerance of society

[@hhbeom]

@@bigdog3695 it was so funny when every white girl wanted to be black. as a fellow melanin charged human, my eyebrow was permanently raised whenever i saw the rejects of tiktok goin on ab blm like they dont js wanna say the n word

[@feedesylvestre3200]

​@@hhbeomthis might be overly cynical but it's the cynicism I can understand 😭 To be serious tho, it obvious that these kids (they're definitely dumb kids) who definitely insecure about their looks and fetishizing them. It's like how feel when I see 14 year old Bjorn Andersen while disregarding what he has gone through.

[@strxwberrypuff]

I got yelled at by one of them because they said I’m not Asian. I am in fact Indian. Please open a world geographic map.

[@Ultraviolence2024]

yes, americans are not the best in geographic 😂😂😂

[@superiorclownery]

India is a South Asia country...

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

@@superiorclownery Did you really write that and not think about it? Please read your comment very slowly...

[@superiorclownery]

@@nomoretwitterhandles it's a fact, you can google it right away. I get why OP feel irritated when some white people acclaim OP is "Asian" and that's because those people are ignorant. But denying a fact is not helping it. OP is in fact, Asian, and they're from India, is an Indian. That's it

[@a_xlxl_a]

whats OP?@@superiorclownery oh wait nvm it means original poster

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Mental health in teens has been ignored for too long.

[@MrPandabros]

That's the main area it's focused on lol

[@Ignisan_66]

That's by design.

[@ravencats31]

I'm Korean, and it's honestly so detrimental to hear about this. A lot of people fetishize my culture, turning it into an "aesthetic" and minimizing the true beauty and appreciation it deserves. Honestly, I hate people who are "RCTA." Like, girl, you can't change your race.

[@Flowku]

Lmao your culture is plastic surgery to look western 😅

[@Pongocity.]

Gen Z has a weird obsession with romanticizing things in toxic ways. First they wanted to have autism/adhd/Tourette’s and now they want to fully change their race.

[@misantrope6267]

Or gender

[@Truelegendofzeldafan]

I work at a Korean restaurant and there's one customer who makes me cringe- she will constantly complain to my (Korean) bosses that there are no Korean men to date, how she wants to learn the language because she's so invested in the culture (read: BTS), was SHOCKED to learn that I wasn't any percentage of Korean because "I could easily pass for half" (no I can't.), and then promptly stopped talking to me at all in favour of speaking to my bosses because they're Korean. It's crazy how K-pop has created a widespread fetish for Korean men in general- although god help any poor soul who doesn't look like an idol.

[@nailartguy3363]

@@misantrope6267You can actually change your gender, you just can’t change your chromosomal sex. I mean, many intersex people have literally changed gender because they were assigned a gender at birth that didn’t match their actual chromosomal sex.

[@angelicvega7040]

I recall seeing a Japanese woman trying to “look more Korean” and another girl who was Korean trying to ✨manifest✨ having grown up in Japan and suddenly speak Japanese through self affirmations. I feel like everyone is simultaneously having a mental break 😅

[@AveryWeinstein]

I’ve had many mental breakdowns, but I just got piercings and tattoos.🤣

[@thisannoyinggirlrightthere9359]

Yup, I see it all over tiktok, Japanese people trying to be Korean and Korean trying to be Japanese. Writing their name in the other country's writing system. I'm on the anime/kpop/Japanese side of tiktok since I can understand some Japanese and there's a LOT of them, but at least most of them do say their real ethnicity. It reminds me of other Asians especially from south Asia pretending to be "hot Korean Idol-like" back in 2020. It is just weird, and let's not even talk about these rcta, or earlier would be categorized as weeaboo/koreaboo.

[@riochime386]

😂😂 the ending is so true yet funny

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@excalibro8365]

The grass is always greener on the other side.

[@Leonardo-ln4zj]

People think beauty is race 😭 You can be beautiful whatever your race is 😭 What world am I living in 😭

[@WhitneyDahlin]

It's always been like this! I'm almost thirty and when I was in 8th grade in like 2003 girls in middle school would look up these witchcraft "spells" online that would change their eye color. Or change their hair color or turn them into a real vampire or a real angel and they genuinely believed it worked! It's literally this exact thing but more high tech! They would practise these spells and do the spells every single night trying to turn their eyes purple or whatever.

[@DearBill]

Yeah I remember era of runway and cover magazines with Brazilian and Russian models. From this point, Russian girls always presented to be pretty, not because of individual beauty but because of ethnicity. I admit they are pretty but not all, i don’t think everyone look like Vlada Roslyakova or Natasha Poly in Moscow streets.

[@thecaprikid1329]

This 😢

[@ZZZ90_]

I sometimes get insecure of my skintone or my features, but i like looking at the cultures of my ethnicities to feel better👍🏾

[@Bluemoonjellyfishh]

I am so sorry lol

[@Xsksnssjccxghb]

That RCTA (chinese to American) parody had me dead. McynzLEIGH💀🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

Lmao 😂

[@SimplyJJ._.]

Bro I’m Chinese and I am so tired of people saying their ‘Chinese’ name is their name. They’re literally putting random Chinese words together for their ‘new name’ 💀

[@shionlilac]

I saw someone calling themselves a Chinese name that translated to Smart Pickle 💀 Also, because of these people, as a half Brazilian and half Japanese, I sometimes get called a "fake asian" because I don't "look very asian" (I simply don't have stretched eyes), and they accuse me of asian fishing. When I tell them that I'm simply mixed they say "Then you're just Brazilian, you don't live in Japan, you don't know the culture(I actually do know, my family makes sure of it.), you're not a TRUE Japanese". Comments like these really hurt, why do I have to "erase" or "ignore" my ethnicity just because I'm not pure Japanese?

[@shionlilac]

And yeah, these people need to make at least a basic research before making their cough -fake- cough "new name". I mean, there are some guides out there on the internet, they're for naming fictional characters but... At least it's a little better than calling yourself "Smart Pickle" 💀👍

[@anathemat-002]

Hey, at least the stupidity in choosing names isn't exclusive to these people so they might have a chance to get over it with how common it is elsewhere. Like, for example, JK Rowling, an English speaking lady who's language was descended from Latin, chose to use the Latin derived English name "Remus Lupin" for her Werewolf character... which essentially translates to "wolf wolf" Basically she, in full confidence, named this man the modern equivalent of the "moon moon" meme and ran with it. If she can get away with that, there's hope for redemption, even for "smart pickle"

[@clementine127]

@@anathemat-002not to mention cho chang 💀💀

[@kaputt_jay3873]

@@shionlilac "Smart pickle" sounds like one of those autogenerated kahoot names

[@Iyana]

I can't imagine how uncomfortable and terrifying it must be to have someone come up to you and ask "Can I claim your face?"

[@JackdawFeathers]

It sounds like something the alien in the opening of a sci-fi flick would say before tearing a girl’s face off 😰

[@reidalyn2328]

If someone say that to me I would count that as sexual harassment and immediately deck them in the face

[@WardofSquid]

​@@JackdawFeathersThis is literally the premise of the hit horror movie "Get Out".

[@kalynn9226]

@@JackdawFeathers That's exactly what it sounds like. I'd be scared for my life if someone said that to me.

[@frey439]

Black mirror type of shit

[@StanMelanie00]

As a Nigerian girl the " eat watermelon and fried chicken" threw me for a loop.😭😭💀💀

[@yelan1918C1hans]

As a chinese girl, i can confirm a 10/10 way to turn chinese according to rcta: dance like jiafei and shriek like her like a fucking siren 🥰 Ofc and eat cats 💀 🤡

[@sixtybladez]

okay that’s actually wild as a black person wth 💀💀

[@jordannewman177]

Well well well, what do we have here?

[@sugarskulls2817]

I really hope that person was being satirical to show how racist and fucked up rcta is lmao

[@jaeydec9163]

@@sugarskulls2817 right? like that HAD to be satire

[@Hhoollttzz]

I'm mixed race between Japanese and Brazilian and I live in Brazil, so when I was a kid I was the only Asian girl in my school. That's why the thing about pretending to have Asian eyes is really sensitive. When being Asian wasn't a trend, I used to consider having plastic surgery to be "normal" like my friends (I was like 8), I used to hate my eyes. Today, I can see the beauty of my culture and accept my appearance the way it is, but being bullied for not looking like other kids and experiencing lowkey racism all my life still makes me feel bad. So seeing these people pretending and changing their appearance without being aware of how extremely offensive this is makes me pissed.

[@Me-vk1lu]

Same. I’m a quarter Japanese, half Filipino, and a quarter Puerto Rican. My name is the most Japanese name you can think of though, and it makes me pissed when people think my name is a trend. It’s hard already for mixed kids to live with an identity in this world, and here are people trying to take what little we have.

[@meifennellysieu7510]

It's such a surreal experience having a thing we got bullied over suddenly becoming a hot commodity, AND a thing to gatekeep and hold over actual Asians.

[@careca1112]

Sempre me perguntei isso mas, oq vc considera Brasileiro? Pq agora eu n sei pq eu tb tenho descendencia japonesa por parte de mãe, mas ela nasceu no Brasil ent, Brasileiro da sua parte seria tipo indigena(nativo)ou tipo geral mesmo (imigrante, tipo Europeu, etc) ? Acho q ficou meio confusominha pergunta mas no geral quero perguntar, meu pai tem descendencia europeia e minha mae japonesa ent eu seria meio Brasileiro/Japones? (Obs:Nasci e moro no Brasil)

[@SMCwasTaken]

¿Hablas Portugués?

[@careca1112]

@@SMCwasTaken 💀💀

[@aceyagami1398]

"Face claim" just sounds so creepy. Subliminals are a weird thing too, reminds me of weird videos i have come across promising to transform you into dragons and stuff like that

[@elpueblonomuere]

it used to just be for fictional stories and stuff to help people envision the characters, now somehow it’s evolved into wanting to steal/replicate the face of another human being??

[@indecisive.dice.roll.325]

As a someone with mixed ethnicity, my race changes with whichever government document I'm currently filling out 🤡 Edit: since this comment blew up, I feel obligated to share that one of my government permits required race to be filled out and I put mixed in the blank spot (driver's license doesn't ask for race so I legitimately didn't know what to put). The permit arrived yesterday and it says "Race: U" which means UNKNOWN 😭😭 y'all, mixed people don't exist we're simply a figment of your imagination

[@acaribun]

LOL

[@puppydogs68]

As a Turkish person I feel called out 😭. I’m either middle eastern, white, or Asian depending on whatever document it is 💀

[@belizbingollu9691]

​@puppydogs68 Same, and it doesn't matter what I pick out of those 3. Whenever I just give my name and state I have an accent because English is my second language, they just assume I'm Latino/ Hispanic descent 💀

[@kaili_28]

yup

[@graymonk5972]

mood, im kazakh and russian. you gotta pick and choose Real Carefully lmao

[@inusocials6295]

I can’t help but also notice some colorism when it comes to this community. I always notice that these guys try to go for paler skin to fit in with beauty standards despite many people in east Asia having darker skin and tanned skin as well. It makes me kinda sad being South East Asian because it tends to reinforce that somehow we are lesser asians.

[@thegoldendeffodils]

As a South Asian, I feel you 😢

[@pm1529]

As a SEA myself, its exactly how it feels!!

[@RenegadeContext]

Do they learn anything about the culture though or are they just going for the aesthetic? If it's the latter they're likely to just copy celebrities

[@Cyhcg5uhgb]

As someone who thinks that SEA people are some of the MOST beautiful on earth (especially man). You are beautifull and definitely not lesser then. Also tan Asians are incredibly attractive.

[@bluchismoon]

​@@RenegadeContextthey're what used to be called weaboo/koreaboo. They know nothing about the actual culture or history of the race or ethnic group they're targeting. All they've ever seen is the entertainment side. Otherwise why would they always pick pictures of celebs or "pretty" east Asians?

[@MegaAwesomeAnnie]

Important to note with almost all of these cases is that members of the RCTA community rarely dig deeper into the negative traits / expectations associated with their chosen race. So it's not even completely accurate to say they are drawn to a specific race / culture, more that they are drawn to the idealised versions of that race. I find that with many people who adore Japanese culture, for example, they're often unaware of aspects of the culture relating to hard work, such as karoshi (overwork death), or issues with stigmatisation of those with mental health issues and how it's still very difficult to discuss mental health in the public arena.

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

Bro they'd tell you you were lying and that it's white washed propaganda to put "them" down as "Japanese" people 😭😭😭😭

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

Exactly, it's all so surface level so it's like... do you *really* identify with that race? Like, *all aspects* of that race? Because there are negatives along with the superficial cute aesthetic things that you like about it, just like with any race. It's so gross and insensitive.

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

@@rhythmandblues_alibi I grew up in a really diverse place where my friends and everything knew I was mixed race.... I moved with my grandparents to the white suburbs of a different city (my step grandpa is white and my grandma is very very white passing Metis) I got called Ching Chong a lot... Until my grandma finally let me go to the "downtown inner city" school. Still got called Vietnamese but yk it is what it is ATP. I wasn't bullied anymore for "being" Asian... I'm not Asian my dad is half black half native American and my mom is Metis 🥴

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

@alexandrahenderson4368 I'm so sorry that happened to you, that is so disgusting and unfair that people treated you that way. It's sickening that now this stereotypical East Asian look is in fashion I bet the same people who judge someone entirely superficially without knowing anything about them would think you were cool because of it 😒 People are so fickle and shallow, it is gross.

[@alexandrahenderson4368]

@@rhythmandblues_alibi yeah when that same school found out my dad was half black I had kids calling me the n word and then saying they were also mixed 💀💀💀 like buddy you're whiter than me and we are not saying that shit

[@thesloth8280]

As a mixed asian person (Chinese and Filipino) I think that people admiring Asian cultures is a sign of respect but there comes a point when it comes to far and these people are proof of it lol

[@Nique25]

And this is where cultural appropriation comes into play. When appreciate moves clearly past that

[@Mushess]

Fetishization definitely, people need to get a grip and stop being weird

[@AppleCinderr]

As a Vietnamese person, viet people seem to also want to look Japanese or Korean too 😭 Saying “You look Korean/Japanese!” is seen as a compliment. People are also forgetting that MANY asians don’t have snow white pale smooth skin. We have tanner skin! I have not seen anyone as pale as the models they’re trying to be 💀It’s a beauty standard in Asia to be paler so seeing people try to “become paler to look asian” is wild!

[@bear44444]

yeah thats east asian feature after plastic surgery tho not their real real east asian face ,, well lets not ignore what real Korean before surgery looks like😂😂

[@aureliaaurita8138]

Even Korean/Japanese themselves don't look like that.😂 Makeup, plastic surgery - that's not natural racial face features. Just modern asian beauty standards. They will change. Just wait.

[@DemonKind-ub3hd]

Yeah

[@Leispada]

its classist in the end :) pale, frail (or fat) and long nails means you don't work the farm. Its like this in many cultures

[@reirei4803]

not vietnamese but seasian and ive had people tell me i look korean/japanese as a compliment and i just stare at them like what do you guys want me to say cause i sure as hell am not gonna say thank you

[@amndajo]

When I was younger, I wanted to be Japanese because I was influenced by manga, anime, and Japan. I was a weeb. I was twelve. I was cringe. I'm 24 now, and I still sometimes wake up in cold sweats thinking about my weaboo self. I even tried to go to a Japanese school when I only knew how to say Hi in Japanese. These kids are going to have so much fun reliving these memories when they're older and more developed. Plus, with the addition that it wasn't just your close friends and family who saw it, but millions of people. RIP.

[@aqira2yoo486]

You may have just closely associated mangas anime etc with japanese which is normal, so ultimately you might have just wanted to become and look like an anime girl 😭 just a thought

[@amndajo]

@@aqira2yoo486 Lmaoooo yeah that's 100% what happened. I was such a weeb. 😂

[@MercifulGrace.]

This happened to me as well 😭

[@amndajo]

@@MercifulGrace. BIG OOF to our cringe days 😭😂

[@MercifulGrace.]

@@amndajo Yeah 🤣

[@ElizaKnows]

Absolutely love the transformation to American. And you’re right, I am so glad my weirdness at 14 was not on public display. We kept that to a fanfic in a notebook traded between friends. Thank goodness.

[@Carrot880]

Pro tip for changing eyeshape: get yourself hypothyroidism! The upper eyelids will get so swollen they look like monolids. The rest of your face will get rounder and puffier too, giving that soft k-pop star look!

[@odapunkt]

Or if you overdose on salt, high five for living the life!

[@maenad1231]

This isn’t just cringe it’s also like terror/creepy. Makes me picture someone’s screaming “ I MUST WEAR YOUR FACE, I MUST BE YOUR RACE” “I MUST DO AS YOU DO, I MUST EAT WHAT YOU EAT, I MUST WEAR WHAT WEAR, I MUST BE YOU”

[@bekichan91]

No one show tiktok the movie FaceOff... terrible things might happen

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@TedEhioghae]

I MUST BE TREATED AS A MAN, I MUST BE TREATED AS A WOMAN, I CAN USE THE MALE BATHROOMS AND LOCKERS, I CAN USE THE FEMALE BATHROOMS AND LOCKERS. Same energy.

[@ErinaceousZ]

​@@TedEhioghaeThere's no way you're comparing this to trans issues. 🤦

[@timmy7219]

Why not they are all insane

[@keithhamburger5235]

I did not get bullied my entire life for being Asian just for this to happen 💀

[@baeber]

now the youngins want to be just like you

[@chai_lattes]

😂😂😂 seriously I'd like a refund on all the racial trauma and mental health issues I've accrued over the years

[@yongkysiaw6597]

Ironic really

[@b1ueberrytongue]

Bruh same like wth😓😰

[@PreemptiveStrike]

BIG MOOD fam. Literally used to get asked, why are your eyes so small and ugly when I was a kid. Look how the turn tables lmao

[@PirateGirlypop]

Half British and half Thai person here. I was talking about my fear of dogs when I was in class once, told that if a dog was chasing me I should turn around and eat it by one of my classmates. 🤐

[@v0id.of.illusi0nss]

THAT IS WILD.....

[@odapunkt]

😢

[@spicynoodles2742]

The most impressive thing is how many of this kids confuse race with nationality. Like korean is not a f*cking race, is a nationality, we all can change our nationality, but not our race.

[@tetraia]

I’m Vietnamese, and seeing other people try to “become” Asian is such a funny, yet slightly offensive thing to see 💀

[@baotruong6623]

I wishes I was a big black man

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@Chillikilli]

@@baotruong6623💀💀

[@t2jhkt3b8adb5]

for some reason they always go for "pretty idols" hmmm 🤔

[@user-ym7kl5dt9v]

also vietnamese here, i saw the thumbnail with the white woman changing her name in the a viet name, and i was like 😶😶

[@septanine5936]

it's so interesting seeing these people try to become other races in looks alone, ignoring their food, history, traditions, and basically all other parts of their culture. it's like they're trying change skins as if they're in a video game but its irl. it's the comodification and simplification of thousands of people's existence, and honestly, I think it's pretty disrespectful to them

[@callmeplez813]

Fax bro

[@HonestlyHolistic]

it's called "fetishization"

[@married_to_tofu]

sadly this is just rlly chronically online ppl

[@sayk5728]

couldn't have said it better myself!👏

[@brix-rb9dg]

@EnchantingArtist Not really, they aren’t so much as sexualizing the race and more just targeting the areas they see as easier. Keep on mind this is mainly kids and teenagers doing this so it’s pretty clear some 9 year old who wants to be Asian isn’t thinking about them sexually.

[@spritezilla_the_bebop]

I've been into anime and Japanese history, culture, and language since I was 12, but I am proud to say I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be Asian or to turn myself Asian. I respect the culture, instead of envy it and reinforce stereotypes. I am a white American and nothing will change that.

[@NikolaiWhitlock]

Same I'm of Irish and French descent and American and heavily into anime and kpop but I'm not gonna "transition" into another race. Its borderline just weird NGL, not to mention you can appreciate a culture without being if that heritage there's videos and stuff so idk who told these kids they have to transition for this stuff

[@opalizedfossil]

Here's the thing, if you're asian, you get made fun of and called slurs, but at the same time people make fetishes out of it and act like if you become asian, everybody automatically likes you. There are pros and cons, you are treated differently, it's not all fun and games. I hate people who do that, and their reasonings never make sense.

[@im_a_fig]

being chinese and told once, "oh do you speak asian?" people are absolutely just dumb sometimes. people in this video especially. its not an aesthetic to be asian, its different cultures, we are different people. all cultures are unique and different in their own ways!💗

[@sourdrop]

During the final of my sophomore history/geography class, my teacher was grading some of the tests that kids had just turned in and throughout the rest of the period while we were still taking our tests she would sometimes say things like "Islam is not a country." "Antarctica is not Alaska." and, the one to top them all "Niger doesn't have two G's." After class, she took me aside and thanked me for always listening and paying attention in class, which was a very meaningful thing to hear as I'd often been accused of not doing those things before I got my ADHD diagnosis. I ended up getting an A+ on the final and the moral of the story is pay attention in class lol

[@batteryacidsorbet]

someone asked my sister "do you speak african?" in primary school. when she told them african wasn't a language, they proceeded to say, "do you speak nigerian?" NIGERIAN ISNT A LANGUAGE😭😭😭

[@debatable98]

I don’t really blame them for the “do you speaks Nigerian” one as a Nigerian though. In School, you’d usually learn about French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German (Romance Languages), then Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Thus people associate the name of the nation with the language the people speak. It’s fairly logical. As a kid, I would assume people from Kenya spoke Kenyan or people from Senegal spoke Senegalese. So when people ask me if I speak Nigerian, I always explain that there are several languages spoken in the country. The African one is much worse, however, it could also be because they’ve heard of the language Afrikaans and think it’s the only language in Africa. I’m not making excuses, just trying to explain where a lot of the confusion comes from. Lack of education.

[@batteryacidsorbet]

@@debatable98 yeah, i wouldn't blame them either, but "do you speak african" is just sad to hear tbh. i do explain what language i actually speak, which is yoruba, and explain that nigeria has many languages and cultures.

[@saniterexa]

When I was travelling abroad in California, I asked a group of girls for some directions. After helping me, they started asking me where I'm from and I told them that I'm from Finland. They got all excited and asked me to speak some European. At the moment I didn't comprehend what they said and started speaking Finnish to them. After they were impressed and said "So that's what European sounds like", my brain malfunctioned and then I explained to them that it was Finnish and European is not a language. That was the most shocking thing that ever happened to me, I knew Americans are known for being dumb (at leat around here they're known for that) but I didn't think they'd be that dumb... 💀

[@khazz33]

I love how you can't even wear clothes from or just generally appreciate and partake in other cultures without being accused of "cultural appropriation" anymore, while we have people out here wanting to change their race lmao

[@jaycynn]

Exactly!

[@thesleepydot]

​@@ae112 that's not comparable at all. The ethical issue with cultural appropriation is the fact that white people often benefit from other people's culture WHILE the people who that culture belongs to are PERSECUTED for the same reasons. A common example is black people being discriminated or microaggresed for both their natural hair, and protective hairstyles like box braids, WHILE white celebrities profit from adapting the same aesthetics, like bhad bharbie or the Kardashians. Are people from the UK persecuted for weating sneakers originally made there?

[@marieclaireching]

​@@thesleepydotI agree. While I understand the point OP is making that some people really do point out cultural appropriation wrongly sometimes. I think white people have an issue with appropriation as a whole. You would not see minority celebrities changing their looks by racial feature trends. Why? Because minority celebrities are known and defined (by the public) by their race. They would essentially lose their public figure by changing their race. Meanwhile white people are accepted as whatever they are and can "gain exoticism or a change in flavor". Black people would damage their natural hair trying to straighten it or wear wigs. Hell, non-black people doing perms know it can be damaging. And they would be discriminated against (for example, from a job) just by how "racial" their name sounds or if they "looked too racial". Having dreads or natural curls was seen as "not appropriate" AKA not white. It carried a stigma and reputation. So when white people wear it: their hair texture isn't that way, they don't fave repercussions of discrimination, and it didn't even come from their culture. Triple whammy. Personally, it pissed me off to see a white girl wear a Chinese traditional qipao dress to her prom. Which could be fine. It was already problematic because she was probably dressing that way to look unique. But her and all her friends posing in kung-fu and karate poses? That's inappropriate. Just like a girl wearing box braids, wearing long nails, fake tan & bronzer, and talking AAVE and twerking. It's just fucked up to see a stereotyped caricature of your own people

[@qwandary]

They're not cultural wear lol @@ae112

[@thesleepydot]

@@marieclaireching Wow I completely agree with everything you said! I see a lot of people trying to discredit the idea of cultural appropriation, and it's often for their own benefit, so they can continue to culturally appropriate or support people who do that without the guilt. But the truth is that participating in or taking/getting inspired by other people's culture is NOT a non-ethical issue. Whether people like it or not, it has real life effects, more often than not bad ones. And to do that with such lack of care for a the significance of cultural aspects/attire etc such as with that girl who wore a Chinese traditional qipao dress to her prom..... no words. The least she could have done was not reinforce racial stereotypes and caricatures :///////

[@ernieyams]

I love how deadpan you are when discussing such unhinged topics. It makes it that much funnier 😅

[@twinkiesnails8857]

Honestly as a teen i remember really wanting to be japanese, i am white, i remember emulating japanese makeup, but i never went as far as rcta shit. As i got older i actually had people tell me i looked asian, despite not being Asian. I long since stopped fetishizing the east asian community, but ive come to the conclusion at this point i have features that arent common on white people because as i got older i would have people literally question my race or if i was mixed, to the point i questioned my ethnicity and make me very self conscious of my features and being directly questioned about my ethnicity. It 100% made me realize how gross race fetishism is and how harmful making those assumptions are to people.

[@lemooontee]

As a nigerian i think its safe to say you don’t need to wear braids to be considered nigerian 💀💀 Nah but seriously imagine waking up one morning and then somebody asks if they could claim your face 🤡

[@Zayashuku]

That part! It is like "UM NOT YOU COLONZING MY FACE??? CAN'T YOU JUST GO UNDER THE KNIFE LIKE THE KARDASHIANS AT LEAST " RCTA is for the poor people who can't spend 100k to play with their face 😂

[@lemooontee]

@@Zayashuku Celebrities: Can buy faces RCTA: Claims faces Like what kind of collection are they starting???

[@lemooontee]

@@BuffLuigi rcta ppl think asia is just japan korea and china atp

[@nanqros3]

right like tf you mean eat watermelon to become nigerian

[@skyandthemoon]

The "eat watermelon and fried chicken" isn't even Nigerian they are just being racist tbh a lot of these "race changers" are just trolls

[@stellart5664]

Calling it transitioning is also impacting the trans community. It’s associating transitioning with these delusions and can lead people to say transpeople are like these RCTA people

[@datdailykid7512]

Explain how they arent

[@mi.04.ya.01]

same w calling their race a 'deadrace' my asian n trans ass is shaking his head

[@No_True_Scotsman]

They should be associated because they are exactly the same. If one is valid so is the other.

[@No_True_Scotsman]

​@@mi.04.ya.01So your identity is valid but these peoples' aren't? Nope, can't have it both ways. Transgenderism is exactly the same as transracialism.

[@magalieg273]

Time to wake up! It's the exact same thing.

[@jessical4866]

Last year one of my friends asked me how I felt about non-Asians getting surgery to have “Asian eyes”. I was baffled. Now I’m just horrified.

[@aspergianstoryteller6204]

After seeing this, I suddenly feel more relaxed about being an appreciator of other cultures. Like, it feels as though I've now seen two different extremes about race and since neither are me, I'm probably doing ok.

[@MJ-mp1fx]

Ways to connect with and appreciate another culture: try their food, listen to their music, read their literature, learn their language, ask people from that culture respectful questions. Ways not to appreciate another culture: try to embody every stereotype of that culture

[@Window4503]

Same goes with gender. There’s no logical barrier between the two, just general cognitive dissonance and denial that it’s the same line of thinking applied to a different section of identity.

[@MJ-mp1fx]

@@Window4503 are you talking about drag queens or trans people?

[@AARon-eo9lu]

​@@MJ-mp1fxI imagine they are referring to the trans community considering drag queens aren't so much trying to change their entire identity, what they do is more a character and less deep topic.

[@anniek3866]

Literally just listen to people of that culture, support their fights, and appreciate the differences we all have as humans and how beautiful all cultures are

[@anniek3866]

​@@Window4503There are studies showing the brains of trans people best match their preferred gender they transitioned to Realistically the terms themselves are made up The ideas of race and gender were made up by people

[@jessy-zc8ld]

The racism and colorism is so real here it’s awful

[@aureliaaurita8138]

It has nothing to do with racism. Just teen phantasies due to lack of education and too much free time.

[@ConnectDots.]

Against Whites in the West true

[@raeannahoskinson2699]

As a multiracial person (white and Asian), I fear these people will make others disbelieve my and other mixed people’s existence

[@k1tsunek]

I was looking for this comment. It’s especially strange to view this as a mixed person

[@gordonramslay9955]

As a transgender person, this rtca shit is so crazy 😭

[@GGUFSNAS]

I agree!!

[@blood-soup]

My jaw dropped at “deadrace”, absolutely insane

[@alfalldoot6715]

Well just go get another surgery that will make you different from them

[@ayszhang]

I want Olli to live with a Korean ajuma who will beat him and shame him every day for everything he does until he becomes a lawyer, doctor or engineer. Get the whole package

[@mtshyna]

😂 Interesting lmaoooooo

[@lusus999]

Hahahaha!!! 😂😂😂

[@underw777]

Lmaoooo

[@aeoligarlic4024]

Oli has "detransitioned" btw, he said he found jesus 😂

[@saferoundhouse5910]

​@@aeoligarlic4024somehow that does not surprise me in the slightest

[@vladimirprostran1896]

I truly don’t understand this. There must be something wrong with these people’s mental health. I am from Europe (Serbia, to be exact) and consider myself a huge enthusiast of Asian cultures. I have a BA and MA degrees in Chinese studies and I lived in China for 15 years. I speak Chinese language and am learning Indonesian now. I am also curious about Thai, Lao and Burmese cultures and languages. And yet it has never occurred to me to try and “become” an Asian by having surgeries. This truly baffles me.

[@brix-rb9dg]

Yeah, it’s mainly a poor mental health thing, if you look more into it you realize it’s mainly children who want to do things like this. It always stems from reasons like “I got bullied for being black so I want to not look like this anymore” it’s a very sad development

[@BirdieImagineeBCH]

@@brix-rb9dg don't disrespect actual mental health victims they're just dumb asf kids who like to be racist on discord

[@mofthemoth5755]

I think its mainly because some people who feel disconnected from their culture and spend too much time consuming other culture's media so they resonate with that more. Idk still weird and most of these people need therapy. Also can i just say, as a burmese person, I find it sweet you find my culture interesting :]

[@vladimirprostran1896]

@@mofthemoth5755 Thank you, that’s very kind of you! I hope I’ll get to learn more about Burmese people, language, food and culture:-)

[@exp-io853]

I'm so excited for you! Im indonesian and im happy when people want to learn our language and culture through it. I hope you the best! Some people say Indonesian is easy but what's hard are the slangs 😅 it's great to learn others language and respectfully get into it than changing ourselves and claiming we're something we're not.

[@JennyLeigh2001]

I want to look more square, so I’m watching minecraft subs at night

[@aviewer9516]

😂

[@monkey1053]

Dang

[@PirateGirlypop]

LMFAOAO

[@terrorists-are-among-us]

They're lazy but want to pretend to be Asian 🤯😂🤡

[@jcwt_pdx]

As a Black woman artist, I am going to pretend this trend never existed from the start. And I learned the Japanese language on my own at first, but then I went to classes for that. ⭐️🦋

[@rinrin7287]

I'm a Caucasian woman who's been into Japanese culture for over 15 years. And I've never even thought of changing my fckn' race...Honestly what's wrong with people nowadays

[@sofycolt27]

Same. Those people just have identity crisis and probably just teenagers. I mean at that age, mostly everyone wants to be "special" .

[@baeber]

they hate themselves and have no confidence this isn't the right way on being a better version of yourself. I hope they can have peace with themselves someday.

[@thisisnancybot]

Seriously. You can just appreciate the art.

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@munmunil]

oil london is leading them

[@tafellappen8551]

As someone who used tumblr as a teen during the superwholock era i feel a primal parental need to protect these children from the wider internet while they figure out how to fight off the catastrophic symptoms of being 14

[@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet]

Eh superwholock was harmless, it was just cringey, this is full on offensive lol

[@tafellappen8551]

@@iamjackspyramidshapedhelmet there was a lot more going on around that time. Superwholock was kind of just one of the more benign symptoms of being 14. Others include thinking youre right about Things which you have no damn clue about. Because having no clue is literally how being a child works. So it doesnt make these kids any more right but it does mean i bet money that in 5 years almost all these kids will look back on this phase and feel physically ill with themselves.

[@Alex-fc8xn]

I WISH they were just making high quality gifs and obsessing over Misha 😭 like, I know there were some awful fanfics but at least people weren't being super effing racist

[@shugochararox100]

this is it this is the comment i can relate to 😭 seriously just wanna let these kids be cringey in the "rawr xD" way I was (...am. the way i am. i have not gotten better, i have just gotten older /lh /j ww) and not blindly racist like.... this ugh

[@JazzyCrumbles]

I loved tumblr during the superwholock era. Just a ton of gifs that everyone understood and got reblogged constantly and a LOT of fanfic lol

[@hozier_hoser_hoe]

As a nigerian i was flabbergasted😭😭 like what???💀

[@alaskawashington]

i am barely on socials at this point and completely missed this concept’s existence, and my lord, this is insane. at this point it almost seems like everyone is committed to getting worse and worse until there’s nowhere lower to go. i will say, however, that kid’s “goodbye mitski. sorry mom” literally triggered a coughing fit and had me crying. watching this while sick was apparently not a safe choice on my part.

[@CanonessEllinor]

Not that this whole thing isn’t absurd (and impossible), but there also seems to be something going on here with young people feeling so disconnected from their own bodies and faces. I lived in Japan for a while, and after some months of being surrounded by only Japanese people and Japanese beauty standards, I started getting really self-conscious about my body in ways I had never felt back in Europe. I started getting surprised when I saw myself in a mirror, and deeply disappointed when the outfits I wore (following Japanese fashion) looked all wrong with my face and proportions. My nose was too large, my hair was too frizzy, my eyes were too deeply set, my hips were too wide, and I was way, WAY too tall. Obviously I never thought I should actually BECOME Japanese (because, y’know, that’s impossible), but my perception of “normal” shifted to something that was very far from what I could conceivably look like, and it was a very strange feeling. I think all humans to some degree observe their peers and build a standard of normality from those observations. But when you’re used to being part of a majority, your brain doesn’t know how to deal with looking different from the people around you. I suspect what’s going on with these kids is that they immerse themselves so deeply in Asian-dominated online spaces (particularly K-pop) that their brains are exposed almost exclusively to Asian faces. They start subconsciously comparing themselves with what their brain perceives as their “peers” and come up lacking. And then, since they most likely grew up as part of a majority population, they don’t know how to deal with that disconnect, so when some deranged TikTok show up on their FYP saying that actually, their distress is legit and that they can “become” Asian to resolve it, they jump right in.

[@TheKeaneKat]

I think you hit the nail on the head

[@anonymousloris]

exactly.

[@KnockedupNout]

This comment is seriously a hidden gem here!

[@KristenKras]

You know, I wanted to be different, not so white as everyone around me was darker (tanning) than me but I realised no matter how much I'd like to look different, it wasn't going to happen.

[@ChikaJihyo]

You hit the nail on the head. I’m black and had a phase like that with kpop as a kid but thankfully this whole rcta mess wasn’t a thing so I got over that phase quick 😭

[@setheus]

I'm crying the term "faceclaim" is when you're a writer or artist, and find someone who looks like a character in your story, so you use that face as a reference, not for LITERALLY STEALING IT LMAO

[@GaiaCarney]

Edvasian, you’re so droll, you make me laugh 😆 ty

[@bball3048mm]

RCTA is common within the Asian American community. Some adopt the preppy White culture. Others adopt the Black urban hip hop culture.

[@AduPadu]

Im indian nepali and according to people i look “korean” or “japanese” because of my eyes and fair skin. So once in india i was walking and this girl comes up and asks me “r u korean?” And im like “no, im literally from the same country as you bro” and then she didn’t believe so she accused me of “korean fishing” 💀💀💀

[@Kitty294_]

Holy goodness what 😂

[@louiee28]

Yeah That's true. Northeast Indians are the main victim for that.All Indians are racist towards them just because they look different from others

[@jellie00]

thats exactly why ppl also have to learn geography and ethnic groups existing in eveery country in the world how can ppl be this dumb

[@mek101whatif7]

The fuck

[@lovelyetherealbutterflies8250]

i'm so sorry about that. as somebody who is a south asian with eastern himalayan dna, i faced the same problem. a lot of desis can be super close-minded and hypocrites. the amount of indian people who called me korean sucks.

[@saxviars9749]

honestly I’m shocked this trend is actually affecting people irl! Like I empathize with people wanting to look like idols, but to ask regular people if they can be your “face claim” is so wild. I would be so creeped out if anyone asked me that…

[@ivoryphoenix7]

That is super weird. A person already has a claim on their face; it’s THEIR face.

[@clownrat5759]

I’ve always thought this way too😭 i get it if it’s for reference but that has the same energy as kinning living people. Which I’ve literally experienced, and yeah, it’s JUST AS WEIRD as you’re thinking. Imagine how weird and uncomfortable i felt having someone who was obsessed with me saying they “kinned me”. I think i would’ve freaked if they asked me to be their “faceclaim”

[@dubblebubbletoilandtrouble6646]

It feels very "Get Out"-ish lol @@ivoryphoenix7

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@TedEhioghae]

The LGBTQ+ cult suddenly got super popular too.

[@OwOUwUOnO]

I love how you narrate things like "Ah-Hoo!-Hoo!" / "Ah-Hee!-Hee!" I laughed so hard

[@mahrinui18]

As a trans person I fucking wish I could change my face with subliminals. Finding an FFS surgeon is really rough so I wish I could just hop on KZbin and get it done for free

[@sarasmith8803]

The one where they said that they started eating more American food to get the American body made me laugh💀

[@virgofairy88]

Omg 😂 I think I heard about how Chinese influencers were eating veggie sticks and crackers to fit an “American” aesthetic. If they really want to do that, start eating McDonald’s

[@jellyrolly]

they have no idea that most americans don't have the 'american body' they want 🤣🤣🤣 if they want to look like michelin man, their statement would be true.

[@bmona7550]

Just drink Starbucks 24/7 and eat out at McDonalds all year. You’ll be American!

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

SCREAMING

[@alexarosalia6331]

Man, this reminds me of one time I had a “friend” tell me he was “more Asian than me” because he knew this one specific thing when he was watching anime about Japanese culture. I’m Filipino American and at least I’ve actually left the states to visit my parents’ motherland. ☠️ He was a third generation Italian, who never left the state, let alone the country, and only knew about Japan through anime. This just feels like an old “ problem” with a new facelift and name

[@magical-soap5359]

Oh the audacity of him! Makes you wanna eye roll

[@alexarosalia6331]

@@magical-soap5359 💯 The audacity of white men is relentless ☠️

[@francinebacone1455]

Agreed, this is not new for bored colonizers. Ever heard of the Boston Tea Party? Can't scream hard or loud enough in ingorance's face, it seems. Sorry you experienced that.

[@bluchismoon]

For sure, AI said it before, these are just weaboos and koreaboos (idk what the Chinese equivalent would be for the ones trying to morph into Chinese ladies) with a new name. They've appropriated not just from those cultures, but also terms from the trans community and tried to legitimize their obsession.

[@alexarosalia6331]

@@francinebacone1455 it’s ok. I just wish i was meaner to him hahahaha

[@alicja505]

As someone from Eastern Europe…everyday the US surprises me more and more…how can you WANT that, be VOCAL about it and PROUD?😭I feel like it started out as trolling and people ran with it cause be fr, how people think this is normal

[@brady5006]

It probably was a joke and kids didn't understand that.

[@DaniZeAlmighty]

As a eastern european, specifically romanian, i can agree that some americans are dumb

[@sophaloafa5989]

As a Gen Z American, I can assure you that we’re not all hopeless and also feel disgust towards these kinds of people on the Internet.

[@twotruckslyrics]

this is not all of us 😨😨

[@alicja505]

@@twotruckslyrics well i know that but it’s lowkey scary either way lol

[@rsmobyrd]

I watched one of these subliminals (I thought it was a brow tutorial lol) and i was so annoyed/confused i was like who is this for what's the point.. now i know

[@Pavcade]

lmao i also made that mistake when i first came across them, i sometimes use them though bc i find that they work really good for any mental stuff like mental blocks, anxiety, confidence, etc.

[@Pepperz543]

Can we talk about how that “Nigerian” instruction had nothing to do with Nigerian culture at all and instead is just a racist caricature of black American culture? This is why we can’t have nice things 😒

[@Misslee4326]

My jaw literally dropped when I saw it. It’s like every kid at my school would explain the African American culture and half of them are African American 😭

[@annastasiadeloise]

It was the same thing for the Japanese one next to it…

[@ametrine4k675]

Coming from a Korean/Japanese mixed person, this trend really is creepy, but at the same time just so sad. I’m still in school right now, and it’s really unsettling to see other people my age acting and doing stuff like this. I’ve often been told that for being pure East Asian, I’m unusually tan and that “i don’t look asian” despite having completely Japanese and korean features. Seeing people act like this now, it feels almost like I’ve been “switched out” and like I no longer have an identity because according to this trend, I am “not Asian” because I don’t fit the standard. I want to extend my heart to all of you tan East or Southeast Asian girlies, you aren’t alone! We are ALL Asians, and you are just as beautiful as everyone else ❤

[@e1221]

I’m sorry you have to go through that. Darker asian skin is so beautiful (as are all skin tones) and I hope you know their stupidity doesn’t diminish your identity in any way!

[@anonymousloris]

most asian people from those countries (that i've met) are tan. idk what they're talking about. they're weirdos

[@MAIVBOT]

@@e1221 FOR REAL 🙏

[@user-qn1jp6ck8b]

Another creepy thing is those white chick do surgery to make their eyes looks more Asian more foxy but as a real Asian who has those foxy eyes when born has to face all the f***king racist shit the whole life by having all the features. That’s just so wrong…… white ppl who did a artificial foxy is beautiful and stunning but Asian who has it will be called omg your eye so small ( *pull their eyelid) Ching Chong Ching Arigato 😅 wtf is that……Even ppl who think your feature is beautiful you have to consider is that because they like who you are or they just follow the trend….. 🙄

[@whatislife8879]

I don’t know much about my blood line as I’m from Australia and a lot of funky things happened there, that being said I do know my grandmother said she has Finnish and Maltese blood from her mother.

[@daniellebillingsley2003]

This is WILD! Fads come and go but the internet is FOREVER. I too am grateful the internet was not around during my cringiest years. I really appreciated your point about these kids embracing the look but not the culture as a whole. For all the time that young lady is putting in to changing her eye shape (yikes!) she could be fluent in Korean by now. What a time to be alive!

[@carebear136]

Your voice is so soothing what the heck

[@evaboeglin5690]

I think it often stems from (mostly white kids) feeling detached from any ethnic culture or traditions. It’s something I definitely missed growing up and wished I had, but I’ve never been delusional enough to try to “change my race”??? I’ve had moments where I wished I was a different race because I longed for an ethnic culture and history that I didn’t have. Hopefully these kids wake up and smell the roses when they get older.

[@dongysakura418]

All it takes is a simple dna test. So many white people actually have culture they are just to lazy to connect to it

[@purrrrrrrple]

For me it's because they do feel entitled to take whatever they want, that's what they were taught. Like the world is literally theirs

[@seraph3m]

the great thing about culture is that it’s so vast; it’s totally possible to develop a personal connection to cultures one didn’t grow up with, but it takes a lot of work. and interacting things that might not immediately be aesthetic or feel welcoming. it’s like making friends.

[@Mimikyu_8]

It's definitely more white entitlement and modern day colonizer/imperialist behavior of stealing and appropriating the parts of non-white cultures they like while also fetishsizing and dehumanizing said people. Historically there's always been a white culture fascination with the "taboo" of non-white society whether it be African/African American dance and speech or Asian foods and customs. Then white people proceed to steal from said cultures either for benefit or rebellion against the oppressive nature of white society but then at some point they go back to embracing whiteness because they don't actually want to lose their white privilege. I'm African American and grew up in a predominantly middle to upper middle class white neighborhood most of my life and I remember in the 5th grade we had a culture project and all these kids were proudly talking about their French, German, Russian, English, etc heritage. Then in middle/high school this is the mid 2000s-2010s and they all to certain degrees were acting black bc that's what was popular in pop culture like right now being Asian is cool bc of kpop and anime. They used aave just like gen z does now (no it's not gen z slang), they learned hip hop dances just like white gen z kids take dances from black creators on tiktok, they wanted tans, fuller lips, started twerking, etc. We're now almost 30 and like no offense I have no bad feelings towards them but they're like the whitest people on Facebook. And I expect these kids to be no different. It's really more a phase of white people are bored with whiteness or it's not the cool thing in pop culture so they cosplay as being not white temporarily but are never gonna give it up bc as we can all tell from the racism in all of this they have not stopped being white and aren't going to stop.

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either.

[@VoxtekEnt.Official]

As a trans person, these people saying their race is "my deadrace" and saying they have a "deadname" because they "changed races" is offensive to literally everybody, what the heck.

[@pikitat]

I was just thinking the same thing!! Like come onnn 😭

[@DungeonTracks]

Yeah that was giving "trying to seem legitimate through connection to queer people" energy.

[@usermeowblue]

same! im trans person too

[@tadanohitohitogr8450]

SAMEEEEE

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

@@usermeowblue I'm also a black rapper trapped into a white accountant body.

[@ImogenShade]

I fell in love with the Korean language from watching Lost. I love how flowy & soft it sounds, quite ethereal sounding!

[@Itz_Gumball]

And?

[@iloveapples2428]

I’m the only Asian on my moms side of the family and the amount of times I’ve been told to “OPEN YOUR EYES” during photos when they’re already as wide as they can go 😭 quarter Korean

[@MissGourmandefr]

You cannot change your DNA 🤷🏻‍♀️ if they ever have kids, questions are gonna rise and that’s gonna be a very uncomfortable moment for everyone

[@jiorno_jowana]

You sound like transphobe

[@clarabp2613]

They can put them subliminales in the womb like people put Mozart or Beethoven

[@koomine3087]

​@@clarabp2613🤣🤣

[@kai_fatallysapphic]

well technically you can change your dna or how it expresses itself, but that's used in treating genetic diseases, not changing your ethnicity. dna is by no means a static and unchanging thing!

[@reve605]

@@clarabp2613 LMAO 😭

[@KiaStout]

I don't understand why people can't just be fascinated by Asian culture, why do people try and fool themselves? You are who you are. Learn a language travel the world there is nothing wrong with that, but don't pretend to be what you're not.

[@Pappyeggs]

Literally. I can’t think of anything more disrespectful to your ancestors than trying to pretend you’re from an entirely different culture for like any reason other than the whole “POC sometimes feel a need to blend into white culture in order to not get singled out and discriminated against” thing. That’s just depressing. I mean this whole race change thing is depressing too but it’s at least somewhat laughable to watch a white person look like they’re shitting themselves in order to look more uhhhh “Asian”.

[@peanutfries3217]

This! There is no problem if you prefer a culture's/country's fashion, make-up or media. The weird thing starts for me if you make it your whole personality and force yourself to be someone you're not. (especially if you're starting to deny your real self)

[@koobie83]

Because it seems white people fail to understand that cultural sharing and appreciation doesn't have to mean appropriation and ownership.

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either..

[@TedEhioghae]

"You are who you are." That applies to the LGBTQ+ community too. They should stop trying to change themselves as accept themselves for who they are.

[@Yamaguchi_Tadashi]

I had a friend (emphasis on the HAD) we had a mutal friend 'H' who looked super like east asian because 'H's eyes (just sort of everything about them) she got questioned a lot for them ( shes also like super short so maybe that helped?? she has a american southern accent though so if you hadnt talked to her maybe id get it) so the friend who i had (i guess in jealousy) kept claiming she was part asian at first i didnt take her seriously because if you said "really?" Shed say no but recently shes just been saying yes and been trying to do "asian" makeup (not even specific) She once said "all asians" are her type. I asked what she meant by that and she only said "korean, japanese and chinese" i proceeded to list off other asian people like fillipinos and she brushed me off and scoffed so, needless to say im convinced shes listening to those sublimnals even if shes never told me that.

[@manguy4227]

whats even worse is that the people that feel so "connected" to these cultures dont even know ANYTHING about the real culture, and are instead just going off stereotypes to try and become that race. even if these are kids i don't understand how they can be so racist, why do their parents not educate them? in 10 years this is gonna be the new "dark past" every youtuber has.

[@cinnamontoastcrunch1666]

PRECISELY THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT I LOVE YOU

[@strangerpainter]

I like to wear korean inspiered makeup, in that style. But never ever would i pretend to be korean, and i dont get why people do that, its so strange.

[@lolima9986]

all the culture they know is k-pop. i don’t know how they can do this when asian communities obviously don’t accept them so they’re doing harm to the culture just to be different

[@Forums_]

Being half White and half Asian has never been such a conflicting time for me

[@peanutfries3217]

Same! It's like you're a part of something but you'll never be seen as a complete someone because you're split into two or more parts. For my European family I'll always be the Asian and for my Asian family I'm the European.

[@baeber]

just focus on your nationality where your parents are from doesn't need to have a lot of value to you but if it does all power to you.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Bruhhh same

[@reahsahpagel3354]

‼️‼️‼️ that part

[@maira3590]

@@peanutfries3217 That's why I don't agree with "half" being used as a descriptor for mixed race people. The implication is distasteful. I'm not "half Asian/European". I'm a whole person like everyone else??? (I know it's one of the most common terms to use. I don't kick up a fuss when someone who doesn't know me uses "half" but I don't have to like it.)

[@orvos1459]

As a mixed race person (Mexican), I always struggled with this. lol

[@lattesrgood]

As much as this video caused some nightmares, I loved the edits- they're casually hilarious

[@hope52677]

The "face claim" thing is so creepy! I can't imagine just seeing some random using your face because they want to murph into it 😰

[@puppydogs68]

It sounds like something out of a horror movie…jealous ugly person sees pretty person’s face and manifests it to morph into them and eventually they steal their body and their identity…😶

[@bluchismoon]

​@@puppydogs68thing is, some of these kids aren't really ugly, they just wish they looked like the Asian celebs and anime they see.

[@a-goblin]

weirdly enough, face claims have been around for years, although for really niche roleplay communities. typically, though, the face claiming roleplayers didn't literally want to morph into another person, so it was mostly harmless in context and limited to their roleplay communities. this version of it is like a whole other rank up in fucking weird.

[@ravenanne1734]

I'm glad shapeshifters aren't real tbh

[@marshmallowrockets]

@@puppydogs68Get Out, but make it Asian

[@Kanai799]

I used to be apart of the subliminal community and left it because it was too weird. Because I kept seeing become Asian, or Korean. I didn’t want to support the community anymore and reported a lot. Like why are you changing your race? It’s ok to appreciate one’s culture but the fetishization of Asians are getting out of hand.😭😭

[@duck8049]

Yeah. I only go for subliminals that boost mental health and bring luck! Those are good >:)

[@luvrrrd]

When I first started using subs abt 6 yrs ago, the community was super weird with a lot of subs regarding race changing and thinner (like, REALLY thin) body types. I don't associate with that side of the comm. anymore, for obvious reasons, but as the comment above stated, subs are really good for mindset shifts and have aided me in multiple occasions, so they're not all bad

[@iamjustkiwi]

The subliminal community is the most bizarre, cult adjacent thing I've ever seen discussed as though it's totally cool and normal. It's a weird cross between religious faith and pseudoscience that seems to really reel in people as of late.

[@alskarmode]

"I used to be a part of the subliminal community and left it because it was too weird" is so funny. The entire premise of "subliminals" is weird

[@Yea___]

Race is a social construct, unless....

[@-kate110]

As a pale asian i once could bullied for being asian they think im Chinese even though im filipino also they made fun of me of being pale

[@Smallclementine]

It actually makes me so scared being associated with that. I am white, like my race will not change. Neither am I trying to change it. But I live in Japan and have different interests and cultural influences all around me that basically shaped me. I am generously scared people might think I am acting the way I am or trying to change my race. Like in japan it’s no problem, no one is questioning me. But I am concerned about other people overseas judging me or considering me as cringe or intimidating

[@Potato-so6zr]

Agreed.

[@Smallclementine]

@@Potato-so6zr I feel so seen right now, thank you! I am glad I am not the only person with that fear. I speak Japanese but I am scared to post like a video with my friends using Japanese and getting judged by the people from Europe watching it, trying to Asian fish and being 'uwu kawaii anime girl'. So I can only upload without sound lmao

[@Potato-so6zr]

@@Smallclementine I don’t know Japanese, but it’s one of the languages I plan to learn. I also feel the same way. People might think I’m a weeaboo or “trying to be Asian” by liking Japanese food or media, and not even just Japanese culture any East Asian or South East Asian culture. So I kind of get embarrassed. 😞

[@churros4613]

The reason this triggers me so much is because all the things they're doing to "change" their race are things I used to get heavily bullied for as someone who moved from China to England as a child - the eyes thing, having my language mocked, being told my food was disgusting. Like it's great if asian things are now being appreciated but they it's frustrating they don't realise at all how hard it was for us years ago

[@kevinle1083]

Prolly because they never experienced racism in their lives and are prolly just ignorant.

[@sukilenz1901]

That's the thing that pisses me off the most about "wanting epicanthal eyes"- I can not tell you how much racist shit I get for this all of the time and have gotten for my whole life. It wasn't fun as a kid having people tell me to open my eyes all the fucking time. ugh.

[@ellahere2300]

From what I've learnt about the food in England from my British BF, British people calling Chinese food "disgusting" is confirmed insane bevahior

[@Naddi_]

It's so true, I'm South Asian- Bengali, but I was always scared to bring my food in, my whole family was harassed for many months, my sister was called a slur in school and it just haunts me😭

[@a_xlxl_a]

@@sukilenz1901 AND ITS NOT LIKE WE ALL HAVE SINGLE EYELIDS TOO. but i do realise most asians i see online seem to have single eyelids. like this youtuber has single eyelids too... so it would make sense for their misconceptions... but still, its not ust asians who have single eyelids 😭😭

[@Tankunish]

I'm white and this is the first time I'm hearing about this being a thing. This sounds like young children who are not obsessed with a culture that isn't their own, but obsessed with one niche aspect and want to be a part of it (ie. Anime or Kpop). These kids need either an intervention or therapy. This obsession isn't healthy and needs to be addressed.

[@jellie00]

young kids wouldn't even do this sht but i get your point

[@junarashiyama6844]

idk abt therapy and all tht bc most ppl eventually grow out of it 🤷‍♂️

[@reneshultzaberger46]

Thank you for your practical and no non sense approach to these subjects. I fear what the internet has done to our children…i have a 15yo and a 5yo and i can tell you i will not make the same decisions as i did with my first child regarding the internet with my second.

[@JL0ndon]

When Oli London decided to also be Filipino, made me want to cry. Like I understood the pains of Koreans being targeted by him too. I am Filipino and hearing him try to speak Tagalog made me hurt physically

[@miisoma]

im filipino as well 😭, WHY IS THIS MAN TARGETING PINOYS, PLEASE LEAVE US ALONE ✋🏻💔😭☠️

[@e1221]

It’s wild that every time I hear about oli london he’s a different ethnicity

[@Gridkeeperr]

Wait, what? This is a surprise to me. I’m glad he’s out of his phase from trying to be another race.

[@Alex-fc8xn]

A bit random, but my partner is Filipino-American and I've been interested in learning some Tagalog (I know their mum speaks it, I assume their dad does as well but I can't remember if I ever asked and don't want to assume cause I know there are a lot of languages in the Philippines and they just speak English to me when I visit) but have no idea where to begin learning and don't want to put them through my awful pronunciation in the beginning, lmao. Last I checked, Duolingo doesn't have it

[@JL0ndon]

@@Alex-fc8xn oh good question. I’ll say even though Duolingo doesn’t have Tagalog, it’s not a great language learning tool. You’ll learn phrases and build a vocabulary but it doesn’t give you the grammar rules. I learned Swedish through the app Rosetta Stone and they have Tagalog. It teaches you in a way like you’re a kid. It’s a great way to begin a language. On top of that the book series and app “teach Yourself” is a good way to supplement the Rosetta Stone to learn the grammar and hear people speaking it. I have heard good things about the Rosetta Stone version with Tagalog. Anywho- good luck! If u have any questions let me know!

[@gccbytmfrd]

........ I had NO idea such a "community" even existed, I learn new crazy things about the human species every day 💀💀

[@MsElizaRae]

Big facts but we should've seen this coming. Especially after Oli London

[@gccbytmfrd]

@@MsElizaRae Yes I suspected he was probably not the only one, but a whole community with a name, a specific vocabulary, dozens of dedicated youtube videos with millions of views, hundreds or even thousands of tiktok accounts... Scary

[@BaldCoryxKenshinfan]

This type of thing has existed for years (koreaboos) but I guess this year, it’s grown so much. 😭

[@MsElizaRae]

@@BaldCoryxKenshinfan Koreaboos and weeaboos are pretty tame compared to these..new characters lol

[@leandrasouzadecarvalho1099]

Watching this as a Brazilian cracked me up cuz that interview in the end it’s so unseriousKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKOKKK

[@jennylovegood6282]

Ppl think I'm rcta for wanting to learn Korean but I just like the language and its not like I'm watching subliminals to become asian

[@NiaJustNia]

As someone who works in a primary school and we have to flag a child being exposed to risky things on the internet every week, in my experience, this likely stems from loneliness. Kids who struggled to make irl friends because they're lacking the social skills because their parents basically dumped them in front of a screen rather than interacting with them (and no, this isn't an exaggeration, we literally have to have structured lessons teaching the children how to play without a screen, especially after covid. Behaviour problems from poor social skills is massively increasing), so the child is faced with trying to socialise and bond with the only thing they do have access to: the internet. They feel forced to make themselves seem as exotic and exciting as possible to keep people's attention, so they can feel part of a community. Wanting to change race to fit in even more makes sense progress wise, because they never actually become less lonely fabricating an imaginary life, driving them to become more desperate to belong somewhere. I'm in Scotland, and in the primary (grade) school I work in, we genuinely have children who speak in American accents because their only source for attention and language development came from American TV shows and games their parents put on a tablet for them, rather than parenting. We have literal 4 year olds with phones and tiktok. It's insane.

[@mangotar0]

Scottish kids speaking in an American accent is pretty funny though 😂

[@monbub]

I feel so sad for the next generation. im def not having kids lol, I don't wanna raise someone in this type of society. that's basically waiting for a car crash to happen.

[@KtT-sn8cy]

Ikr, I visited Cambridge and met someone from Aberdeen Scotland but originally I though they were American because they just sounded American! After a while of speaking to them I heard small hints in their voice of a Scottish accent but honestly was shocked at that

[@zerotodona1495]

Why do you all let gayness near children if you’re suppose to report that type of stuff…?

[@NiaJustNia]

@@zerotodona1495 gayness? You think we report gay parents for being gay? If you have to report gay relationships, as the only difference is the gender of the partner, straight relationships would also have to be reported, so the only people not being reported would be single parents, who would be reported the second they experienced any romantic interactions with anybody of any gender 😂

[@kandibear_]

I feel bad for people who have so much low self esteem they want to change their race.

[@TedEhioghae]

And people that change their gender too.

[@lilcomment1946]

⁠@@TedEhioghae This starting to get weird now, this is the third time bruh 💀💀. Did your heart get broken by as trans person or sumthin???

[@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit]

@@TedEhioghae me when I randomly bring up random unconnected topics because I want to be angry: 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@malbasedvalentine3210]

@@lilcomment1946no, there’s just an obvious correlation when you don’t allow your own dogmatic views get in the way of logic.

[@BenShapiroismywaifu]

@@TedEhioghaetf?

[@allen7585]

I love watching your videos because I feel like my life is bleh sometimes but I see that it’s not me…because everybody is just so fucking crazy

[@MononokeLynn]

Why does this remind me of the animal-Kin tumblr communities of the 2015ish??? And I see my desire to have a glow-up to look like Emmy Rossum is still possible - I just have to think Emmy Rossum thoughts. 😂😂😂 I need more passion, more passion, more energy, more energy, more footwork, more footwork.

[@thelying2594]

As a black girl I can understand why this is happening. Racism is so prevalent on social media sometimes I fear going outside reading some of the things. I have wondered what life would be like as another race but then theres internal worry and then there's straight up fetishism. Cultures are beautiful but ALL of them are. I stopped wanting to change myself and start wanting to make a better space for everyone instead. This is Gen z's version of Tumblr depression and anxiety trends. It harms the actually inflected such as Trans people and the Races they wanna "change" into. People are not an aesthetic, you can love a different culture but DO NOT disrespect it by being someone you are not.

[@malbasedvalentine3210]

You’re partially correct, no person should force themselves to be something they’re not, race or gender, but no one should view it as racist or wrong for appropriating other racial cultures. Especially if some do it as an offensive joke. Because all races are quite guilt of appropriating other cultures.

[@madday9589]

The transgender ideology is the same as the transracial one, you only support one over the other because the media has pushed transgenderism propaganda for so long. People of the same gender but different ethnicity or race actually have more in common biologically than those of different genders and same ethnicity or race (so ya a black and white man have more in common than a black man and black women) so transracial can have a stronger argument (still dumb and not valid). Be happy with the way you were born! Everyone is unique just focus on intertwining your personality into how you were made

[@thelying2594]

@@malbasedvalentine3210 Appropriating and fetishism are 2 different things. I like Douyin Makeup but I will never say I'm Chinese that's the difference

[@La-meiga-celtibera]

Lots of black women dye their hair colour to blonde. Do they want to be blonde it is more attractive than black or dark hair colour in general? I honestly don’t like to see it.

[@TedEhioghae]

Not everything is racism. Black Americans should get that in their head. You people are not victims.

[@alejandrameyer1745]

I'm hispanic. I've been bullied because of it. Never in a thousand million years would I have EVER imagined coming across someone TRYING to be hispanic?????? Like what the hell??????

[@TedEhioghae]

I mean, if you can change your gender, why can't you change your race? FYI, you can't change either.

[@TedEhioghae]

Right. Imagine being a man all your life, then, a woman transitions and suddenly thinks she is the same as a man.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@TedEhioghae Imagine?

[@klarah.2344]

Girl, I see you everywhere up in these comments with these trans remarks, what's your problem? Aren't you also a minority?

[@milleen._8908]

IKRRRRR just a year ago I was asked in school if I knew any narcos personally and made fun because of my looks and now they want to be “latina” and spicy or sm shit like that. Is honestly very concerning😭😭