Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race
Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race
Practitioners of “race change to another,” or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to truly become a different race.
This only goes to prove that current prevailing attitudes from all races towards the other races are inherently flawed. There's no excuse for any of it; racism does real damage to real people, and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, asian, hispanic or anything else.
There is no room, no defense, no rational reason at all for racism.
In addition to the racism, I'm also seeing a worrying trend of "reality bending" (idk the specific term). I've heard about it before, and its basically trying to manifest your dreams through affirmations and wishing really hard. I this is especially worrying because it's a sort of obsessive escapism, and very dangerous because it prevents you from engaging in reality for the hope that you will manifest into the "perfect" one. In this case, you basically sidestep the gruesome realities of racism and its effects through a vaporware, ephemeral, "poppy" aesthetic. Race becomes a sort of commodity, an aesthetic to be used and discarded once its done, and not a historical system of oppression to be dismantled. We need to be careful of those who commoditize oppresion....
This is the best summary I could come up with:
So far, she believes that by listening to YouTube videos with lo-fi music and photos of East Asian facial features while she sleeps, her vision has cleared, her eyelids have become smaller and her hair is just a bit darker.
Media experts also point to the potential dark side of the exocitization of Asian culture, saying it could be a form of modern yellowface, or the act of non-Asian people’s making their appearance more “Asian-like.”
Her account, like those of many other RCTA TikTok creators, features walls of rambling text about her progress and goals and addresses the haters over videos of fashionable East Asian women dancing to Japanese and Korean music.
The white text written by Alisa overlays a video originally posted by TikTok user @simcard_x, in which she dances to the pop song “LOVE & JOY” by the Japanese singer Yuki Kimura.
One subliminal, which has been viewed over 200,000 times, says watching it will give a viewer a “mongoloid skull” — an outdated and harmful anthropological category, according to a 2019 statement by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
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