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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 33 points 10 months ago

Smooth

[-] ChaosAD@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Why the hell you Americans divide white/black everything?

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'd like to take the opportunity to ask.. what the hell is this community about? I saw it in Reddit and I didn't get it either.

Is this mocking white people, like "first world problems" kinda deal? Like they are so privileged, they are detached from reality, and we need to mock their detachment in a specific place where everyone joins, points fingers at them and laughs? I have no problem with that, I'm really asking.

If anyone is wondering, I'm a light skinned Latino who grew up being called white in his country but then was called dark skinned in the US. I'm too privileged for my country but not privileged at all for US standards.

[-] wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 11 points 10 months ago

It's the white version of black people Twitter

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

That's the real answer. The subreddit was a response to BPT, which focused on distinctly subcultural elements the same way as e.g. Scottish People Twitter. WPT was the more generic internet-culture screenshot clearinghouse.

Other instances have wisely decided to call that space "Microblog Memes."

[-] brainschaden@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

But why does a black version even exist?

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

So is this a sub created by white people who felt excluded from the black people community?I really need to know. This has bugged me for quite some time.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I've always taken it as stuff that the stereotypical white person would enjoy, in this case from Twitter. There's a few "white people thing" type subreddits (and now Lemmy communities), not just Twitter.

It's a specific brand of humour that is stereotypically associated with pasty white cracker types.

[-] Dirk_Darkly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

You might be overthinking this.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Does this mean the title is meaningless or makes no sense and this is just a "any Twitter post" community?

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

steal it for irl actions

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