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i'm not gonna sit here and tell you i think it's bad that i'm still hearing this in 2024 outta anyone obviously but
it's getting very weird to hear "trans rights" be said out loud on streams, still, like it's a call-and-response, meme-like phrase instead of a contextually impactful statement
reminds me of a twitter thing going around a couple years ago where everyone in gamedev was just QT-ing each other saying "trans rights are human rights", which like, sure, i don't want to downplay the impact potential of mass signs of solidarity, and the passive pressure of making an ever-broadening range of public figures feel like they should Say Something, even if that thing is a sentence that feels like it was sanded down in a boardroom to be as inoffensive as possible. but then i started seeing the chuds in the mentions of a bunch of people who don't normally talk publicly about anything regarding human rights or societal equity, etc. starting to break down like "nooooo is there no sAfE sPaCe left for my bigotry anymore" just because their favorite youtubers made the bare minimum stand in validation of trans people as human beings worthy of dignity and respect like everyone else. so at least there was some silver lining there of being like, yeah, at least we're pushing these jerks out and making them feel unwelcome. but just reflexively saying "trans rights" as a stream meme the same way they yell "hype" in a weird, racist way on GDQ constantly sure feels, uhhhhhhhh, weird. i mean like, no people group is a monolith etc. and im not even trans so wtf do i know but it sure feels--from where i'm sitting at least---tokenizing and like, counterproductive isn't the word i'm looking for, but like . . . . ? they're just Saying Words. like, they say "trans rights" on stream the way i say "far cry 2" to myself quietly every few hours. or i guess a better analogy is white libs with "BLM" in their bio. like, i guess it's intended as a display of solidarity and support, but like . . . ? idk, am i way off base here
no that's definitely the sentiment i share and like, i am trans. there absolutely was a time where seeing meaningfully important people saying (or parroting) it was unquestionably good. but now like in GDQ it's a situation where you're kinda preaching to the choir like.... those assholes have been pushed out and all that's left is a phrase that gets defanged the more you say it in the same way that, like you said, people will just yell hyyyyyype over shit. like just saying it as a thing to peace out before you leave just feels like i'm being recited a bumper sticker at this point, yknow?
it's just, like, come onnnnnn
anyway damon's right
I know it's not the focus of the comment, but yelling "hyyyype" has racist undertones??
Yeah I got completely lost at that part lol even if I agree with the other part about trans right being said randomaly in streams
Speedrunners have their own dialect, I've learned, that's built from a mountain of repurposed words with new meanings. They make up new words for tech and tricks all the time, as is necessary, they also use a bunch of gamedev words in a completely different way than intended. I can't remember the last time I heard a speedrunner say "lag" or "RNG" and mean what those words originally meant. I love speedrunners, I think what they do is extremely cool, and I love the way they've been able to build a network of micro-scenes around each game into one big community. It's rad as hell. But the other thing I see a lot of—and this is at least partially due to the kinds of faces that tend to show up on screen in the English speaking world—is a whole hell of a lot of white speedrunners doing really embarrassing Blaccents. I don't think it's conscious, I don't know if they're just trying to adopt a persona for the camera and mic or what, but in recent years it's been a lot of white people doing this weird, like, cartoonish idea of a hip-hop hypeman, and doing these weird caricature accents and voices that I haven't seen since the halcyon days of half-drunk over-confident white dads at BBQs in the 2000s. When people at GDQ are compulsively yelling "HYYYYYPE", they're doing a voice, a generic impersonation of another race. I dunno. I've never seen anyone else bring it up so maybe it's all in my head, but it's always made me grind my teeth a bit.
It makes sense, it's probably more noticeable to someone that grew in an english speaking space
it very much feels like the scientifically calculated bare minimum signifier of support to absolve someone, in the eyes of an audience who doesn't really care past shallow affirmations, from actually having to do anything with the beliefs they claim to hold.
If you just say "trans rights" on your twitch stream/youtube channel/socials/whatever you're "spreading a positive message" and, thus, doing praxis.
