“Chronically online”

[Cousinmuffin]

The very Gen Z term that’s been coined to describe comments made by people who only consume ‘woke’ media without any concept of the real world. If you use TikTok or other SM like me you’ll have witnessed it.

My favourite thing I’ve seen today - a young white girl posting a TikTok of her Afro. Cue angry Americans claiming she cannot use the term because it’s related to African American heritage. The best part? This girl is from Africa 😂

Anyone witnessed something like this, people so desperate to be woke but just make you eye roll and laugh?

I'm not sure I understand, why is the best part that the girl is from Africa?

Oh well, to me that does sound like the best part @Cousinmuffin

Somebody who is literally from Africa shouldn't have to listen to a white tiktokker tell her that afro is an African American term only!

Hang on, I think I got this the wrong way around! I'm a dope. Regardless of my hairstyle or what I call it.

I’ve seen someone from Germany, who was white, aghast that official UK forms ask for your ethnicity using the standard census classifications. People from the UK tried to explain its to do with equality monitoring and resource planning at a national level and that different ethnicities actively campaign to be recognised. But the video creator and people in the comments were having none of it. We are just a horribly racist country apparently, which is true but not because of this. They were also horrified at the use of Gypsy as an option even when explained that’s how some people identify!

Have also seen a white British women who married a Nigerian man and wore traditional dress at her wedding reception chosen and gifted to her by her Nigerian mother in law. The amount of hate she got from woke Americans was mad. Nigerian women in the comments were very supportive.

My favourite though was a woman who looked white but was half Mexican told she shouldn’t wear the traditional earrings her Mexican grandmother made for her as it was cultural appropriation. Americans have some very odd ideas about race.

@xJoy Are you reading it as the white girl with the afro is from Africa? That's my interpretation of it.

@ChilliBandit the lady in the nigerian clothes reminds me of my own experience actually! When I was little, my family befriended a family of asylum seekers. They’d have us round for dinner all the time and while we were there the mum loved dressing the female members of my family in sarees. For the simple purpose of dressing up and she loved to see us in them. I can only imagine how the internet would react that white little girls were dressing up in traditional clothing just because it looked pretty to them. But that was literally what the mother of their family wanted!

@Cousinmuffin - Don’t get me wrong, I am fully aware cultural appropriation can be an issue but I do not get the issue with people respectfully appreciating and participating in another culture with the full blessing of people who are part of that culture, or in the case of the part Mexican woman I mentioned, her own culture!

As I said Americans have a very specific view of race (see Whoopi Goldberg and her holocaust comments). This seems to be pervasive online with young Americans being very vocal.

Was "cultural appropriaton" something invented by white people? Because I have never met anyone from a different culture who wasn't proud to share their food, customs, hairstyles, even clothing . My workforce back in the 80s was populated with Africans, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Indian folk to name but a few.
All were keen to invite other colleagues to parties, dinners, etc, offering to braid the children's hair etc. Nobody thought anyone was stealing anything from anybody.
How I long for those days when nobody cared what others did!!

Hey now, the vast majority of Americans recognize this faux outrage for what it is - performative virtue signalling to get social media "likes".

It's really just a tiny minority but their voices are amplified by social media. They seem to spend a good chunk of their time trawling Twitter looking for something they can express outrage over.

So silly, especially when there's so much happening in the world that rightly deserves attention at the moment!

Neopronouns are another chronically online take that has me laughing to be honest.

teenagers going by it/itself ze/zem. Bloody touch some grass! I can do ‘they/them’ as it’s generally used language but the other stuff is ridiculous. I genuinely saw pizza/pizzaself once.

The DID stuff is cringe AF too and definitely under the "chronically online" banner. Watching tiktoks on the FakeDisorderCringe subreddit is a guilty pleasure of mine.

@Rememberal did you ever see the “wonderland system” on TikTok. I think the videos about it are hard to find now but it was great. Someone who was faking DID doing terrible accents and mapped out their entire wall to explain the layout of this land that these alters lived in. Absolutely batshit but wholly entertaining.

@Rememberal - Given how rare DID is, those that have it do seem to congregate on social media…