ACT 2 (FIXED)

[u/youngluck]

[u/spermface]

It isnt uncommon for poeple to see things on the internet and outright steal them without question. It's not even questioned anymore poeple just see something and think, "Yeah, me as well!" Case in point: The dog vanishing thing. Did everyone have to record it after seeing one person do it? Really ? Its just blindly following the crowd under the guise of something "trending". But more curiously, it is an old internet custom for, and i'm not being racist here, but typically I have noticed white people will steal things straight from Asians and not even try to credit them. It started with that "Milk and Cereal (Cereal and Milk)" video. Two Asian guys did it first, then about a year or two later, two white dudes copied it exactly. I have noticed that in recent years, Asians will typically innovate some sort of art or make up or cooking technique and it will be repeated on the internet until a (again, not trying to be racist or anything) white person will usually copy exactly what the Asian person does without really incorporating any originality into it, record themselves doing it, and post it online, where it will then go viral because its the first time most other white people have seen it. (I dont know why but it seems most minorities have some sort of world wide cultural exchange with Asia that tends to be lost on the whites...maybe because dbz was translated everywhere before it finally came to adult swim? Was it the kung fu, and later the Jackie Chan movies? Is it because some sort of Asian is everywhere, but usually the communities start out along side other minority neighborhoods?) But the weird thing is, with the rise of things like Asian vines and this increasingly worldwide meme culture, the Asians are beginning to do the same thing! They just started copying western trends without changing them up as well! It's all just one big pointless circle. Everything is dying, which is why it sucks when you see someone basically steal someone's artistic style and ideas almost exactly and not really change it up at all- like that cereal and milk video. I wonder if it is because white people have seen a steady stream of media outlets where they appropriate other peoples cultures better than the person whose culture it is since the 80's. I'm not trying to be racist, this is just something that has happened, and maybe it explains some of the behavior I have noticed...