As a white person(and not even in a white guilt type of sense but I just genuinely feel embarrassed to be acossciated in the same race as certain idiotic individuals atleast), the fact that there have been and still are people who actually unironically want to be a different race and/or ethnicity is just so cringe and offensive like what the hell boy wtf??I know this is gonna sound maybe super specific to complain about, but people on Twitter seem to notice it too so I am gonna attempt in my best efforts to explain ok? Good, so like there are apparently people on TikTok(obvious white people)who don't identify as RCTA(remember when that was a thing?)who I haven't seen directly appropriate black/afrocentric culture visually like others have in the past(Like blackfishing or racebaiting in general), but at the same time still heavily fetishize people of color???It's like those white girls who wanna be east-asian because of the spoon-fed, watered down ver. of the culture which is just anime and k-pop in their eyes. It also goes for other white people who keep saying they want to be black or a brown latina(specifying since being latine isn't a race technically)because they're for once being appreciated somewhat on a mainstream social media platform. Like no, Stacy, you don't actually want to be POC and you'll never be able to because you were born as a white person who is visibly white, you just want to be some sort of counterfeit sexualized-aesthetic fantasy of one because its trending right now!! Sorry if this rant is all over the place and I knkw maybe I haven't been specific enough which I sincerly apologize for but pease tell me I am not the only one who sometimes notices these things Istg.
Hyper Specific Polls: they are polls, and they are pretty specific
Forget fidget spinners, Flossing, The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Heelys, The Mannequin Challenge, Gangnam Style, and Avocado Toast. This is the latest fad. It's so on-trend, everyone is doing it. You wouldn't want to be the one not doing it, would you? It would be social suicide. More important still you must let everyone know that you are doing it, at least post about it, for goodness sake, lest you be in on the trend but unaware to the similarly on-trend masses. If a fidget spins in the forest, but no one is there to know, has it really spun? After all, if everyone is in on it, who are we to argue? When it comes down to everyone vs. not everyone, there can only ever be one winner. So you're either with us or against us, and the choice is yours. Because when everyone is casting their minds back to the Halcyon days of Late-April 2023, they will reminisce on one thing, and one thing only: #hyper specific polls.
So if you're looking to get down with the kids or, like Principal Skinner, fretting that you may be falling out of touch, we have the answer. And it's very simple: you've just got to load up a post, select polls, and get hyper specific with it. Voila! Taco eating? Middle names beginning with E? Severe allergies to stone fruits? Taxidermy? Beating old schoolmates with purses? Going to Colorado? No subject is off limits. And now you too are a hallowed member of the masses of Everyone.