"Daquan is a White Girl and black twitter is dead"
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Mattlikewhoa
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So it seems...
PhoenixDark
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But stupid sht is just considered stupid innocent (or not so innocent) shit for most people, yet for whatever reason stupid shit is "black culture" for us. I'm tired of seeing black people play into this, such as the topic last week about gay men stealing "black culture" from black women. Or the complaints about Miley stealing "twerking" from black culture as if that's our official dance.
Mammoth Jones
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Good article. Very interesting.
Sho_Nuff82
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I just watched the Richard Pryor skit for the first time. The audience is in riotous laughter when he announces basic things like the unemployment rates being different for whites and blacks, and the initiative to get blacks into the space program. I mean, adding black coaches and owners to the NFL is a punchline.
It's really, really bizarre. I'm imagining my parents at 23 watching this, and it blows my mind.
It's really, really bizarre. I'm imagining my parents at 23 watching this, and it blows my mind.
Naw these are culturally specific urban references.
Robot Pants
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Oh please.
dark_chris
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Daquan meme was pretty good
Now I'm not sure I see it as lighthearted satire knowing who was behind it tho.
Should i feel guilty for laughing at these? lol.
RockTurtle
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But Tumblerites who can't understand a joke or try to dissect beyond the scope of it's meaning MUST be heard and their opinions heralded throughout the internet as de facto facts and ideas.
and when one racist/idiot/ignoramus takes a joke the wrong way, then EVERYONE must surely see it the same.
IncandescentPrecept
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Seriously:
OldAsUrSock
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Ha one of my favorites. I want to know the image was originally for.
These Dequan memes are so good.
Sho_Nuff82
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I have to agree here. To black people who don't want white people making fun of low brow black culture jokes/memes/videos - stop posting low brow black culture jokes/memes/videos.
Twerking is not a cross I'm willing to die on. Dequan is not a cultural cornerstone worth preserving.
Probably just stock photo aimed at child abuse and other such themes.
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Anyway, didn't know this was a meme, i had seen the pic in the OP in the funny pics thread, and assumed it was just internet-style satire about suburban white preconceptions and stereotypes/racist paranoia.
We've reached an odd point in social commentary where any person who takes a cartoonishly academic and professorial approach to any stupid mundane issue and pens some dissertation about said issue is automatically given legitimacy because of 1) presentation and 2) people racing to establish themselves as "enlightened" among some internet psuedo-intelligensia.
The humor of these memes for me are a combination of the never depicted Dequan, the rebellious white girl, and the struggling parents. Obviously, the core of these is Dequan, so a lot of the humor rides on a stereotype. Since he is never shown, the stereotype helps form a continuity between all of the different images. Personally, the funniest part is the struggle between the daughter and the parents. Dequan gives it some context, but the stock photos do a lot of the work for me.
What about "____ RACIAL STEREOTYPES BE LIEK!" vines. I mean how am I ever going to teach my children about their culture if no one takes a stand and protects all these videos about mothers throwing chanclas for future generations? Think of the children!
I agree though, people feed into these stereotypes enough in their own right, stopping it before others jump aboard would be ideal. Either way, most of this stuff is innocuous enough to just ignore it till the fad passes. The internet has all the attention span of a 3 year old after all.
UncleSporky
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Wait wait wait, why are people talking about the Kermit meme?
Is that supposed to be a black culture thing somehow?
Is there some weird hidden meaning that white people aren't supposed to get about it? Seems kind of straightforwardly funny...
Is that supposed to be a black culture thing somehow?
Is there some weird hidden meaning that white people aren't supposed to get about it? Seems kind of straightforwardly funny...
Angelus Errare
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A good 1/2-2/3 of "black twitter" aren't even black. Black twitter is about as black as a step competition at Harvard.
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sixteen-bit
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Is it Dequan or Daquan?
lol I don't know.
Booty Patrol
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I just read the Kermit thread rn. That meme is hilarious (but I do think it's funniest with the tea image and when people don't try to come up with their own variations of 'but that's not my business' and let the image alone convey that). It's funny how people get upset and lash out when they aren't in on the joke.
These pictures just perpetuate negative stereotypes, it might seem innocent when a bunch of youngsters grow accustomed to these jokes do you believe these memes do not influence the way people think about African-American males? I can sort of understand how these jokes work, as a sort of gallows humor and a coping mechanism, but I don't really see them as something positive.
victreeb3l
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Dequan meme was great. Laughed at a lot when it first came out.
DoktorEvil
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That's an actual thing? The whole lightskin vs darkskin discussion?
Oh man, you think you get upset, I absolutely LOVE having rice and beans always attributed to Latinos, because obviously we can't afford to eat anything else BUT rice and beans and plantains. Not to forget, people making fun of the way we speak English if we emigrate from a Spanish speaking country.
SturokBGD
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It's not even close to the same thing and I apologise for making the comparison because I am well aware of the difference but as a Scotsman living in North America I have to riff on the stereotyping thing pretty much every single day - as the article itself says, think of it as an alternative to being angry all the time. So this kind of humor cracks me up.
It blows my mind that people don't get that Richard Pryor skit. It blows my mind that there are white people, speaking as a white man myself, that are completely unable to handle humour that makes fun of white people. "Daquan" isn't a negative stereotype in my mind (at least not unless the meme specifically makes him out to be and even at that it's often just making fun of white people's perception). I'm laughing at the idiot parents in the meme who can't handle their daughter being in an interracial relationship.
It blows my mind that people don't get that Richard Pryor skit. It blows my mind that there are white people, speaking as a white man myself, that are completely unable to handle humour that makes fun of white people. "Daquan" isn't a negative stereotype in my mind (at least not unless the meme specifically makes him out to be and even at that it's often just making fun of white people's perception). I'm laughing at the idiot parents in the meme who can't handle their daughter being in an interracial relationship.
Soodanim
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The article compares two twitter posts and how many favourites they have is presented as an example of how people find it funnier when the jokes don't make fun of whites, but the truth of that comparison is that the one with more favourites is simply funnier.
I don't really have a comment on the rest of it.
I don't really have a comment on the rest of it.
Tim the Wiz
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The 'cultural singularity' mentioned in the article is an interesting idea. I think a reboot is definitely coming.
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Oh man, you don't even know the half of it. I find it weird because I'm black but I grew up in Nigeria and I see black people here bringing each other down on skin tone. It's fucking ridiculous, y'all are all black. That's how the world sees you. Not lightskin or darkskin, black.
OldAsUrSock
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I will never understand the lightskin black.
Stems from slavery. We were all treated like shit but fairer skin blacks better.
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