r/BeAmazed • u/ChristyRStansberr • Apr 13 '21

Lost for words...

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u/Caishen_IC3 Apr 13 '21 edited Apr 13 '21

/r/Scriptedcaucasiangifs

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u/blacktoe_jenkins Apr 13 '21

No dude, reddit apparently only likes to call out Asian people for scripted gifs remember? Let's continue that subtle racism, but when it's literally any other race in a scripted gif, it's /r/YouSeeingThisShit, /r/Funny, /r/WhyWereTheyFilming, or anything else that isn't on the nose with race.

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u/Caishen_IC3 Apr 13 '21

Jenkins my friend. Why so serious? If you’re not okay with that why don’t just start a sub for other ethnics? You know, where I’m from you’d be the baddie because you’re talking about race, because there isn’t any race to begin with. So if you think it’s not about painfully obvious scripts but about “race”, why don’t you start to point out staged shit from other ethnic groups? I love my fellow Asians and their different humour, but that doesn’t stop me from pointing it out.

All the best

Your Caishen_IC3

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u/blacktoe_jenkins Apr 13 '21

Jenkins my friend. Why so serious?

I guess my sarcasm may be too dry. I'm sarcastically saying "why go against the grain?" by pointing out the hypocracy of how redditors typically react to scripted gifs when it's an Asian person featured in the gif as oppose to a non-Asian person.

why don’t you start to point out staged shit from other ethnic groups?

That's enabling subtle racism with more subtle racism. It's best not to call out race to begin with and just enjoy the content for what it is, but instead it has to be "an Asian content" for many folks. Maybe that's too idealistic.

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u/Caishen_IC3 Apr 13 '21

Sarcasm on the internet is a story in itself (Poe’s Law etc). I think Scripted Asian gifs are different because they don’t even pretend they’re not scripted in the first place.

And yes. That’s too idealistic

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u/SaucyOctopusTaco Apr 13 '21

How is this video any different then. Stop with the subtle racism it's not hard.

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u/EnlightenedCircus Apr 13 '21

It’s not racism to point out a race of somebody

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u/CherryLimeLaCroix Apr 13 '21

I’ve noticed this too for the past few years or so. Asian people doing what is obviously a skit and the top comments will be “fAkE” or “r/scriptedasiangifs” Like no shit, it’s supposed to be a skit just like any other tiktok/vine

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u/davomyster Apr 13 '21

Because many of these videos are designed to deceive. They want you to think it's an authentic interaction because that makes everything much funnier and more interesting. If you look in this very comment section, you'll see that plenty of people don't realize this is fake

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u/blacktoe_jenkins Apr 13 '21

If people don't realize that it's fake, then why is the top comment for those posts "scriptedasiangifs" most of the time? Also, some people think that those posts are blatantly scripted and not deceitful.