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🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've had a fantastic Wednesday. Welcome back to the Philip |
0:04.5 | DeFranco show. Buckle up. Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing |
0:08.8 | we're going to talk about today is this racism controversy that has just blown up on TikTok. Right. |
0:13.5 | And so what we're seeing here in general are tons of teenagers coming under fire for videos that a lot of people have deemed races as part of the new how's my form trend. Right, essentially the way this trend works is you have the person in the video seemingly |
0:23.2 | offering advice or information to attract a specific kind of audience. |
0:26.3 | It then cuts to a clip of now that I have insert blanks attention, with it then cutting to a |
0:29.7 | heavily edited, often oversaturated clip of them imitating that person or group and asking, |
0:34.0 | how's my form. Right, and so with this trend, there have been some tame examples that blew up like that of David Dobrick. |
0:38.3 | It starts off with him duetting a TikTok that says how to get out of the friend zone with your assistant. |
0:42.3 | Then it cuts to the user saying, now that David Dobrick's here, can I get a Tesla? |
0:45.3 | Right, harmless. |
0:46.3 | Funny, makes fun of the fact that a lot of people think of cars away in his videos. But the problem with this situation is what we've seen is that many teenagers have used racist stereotypes while making their videos. |
0:58.0 | I mean some of the videos that have blown up also received a ton of backlash, like connecting Chinese people with eating bats, |
1:03.0 | references to black people eating watermelon and getting arrested, references to Mexicans mowing lawns, jumping over fences, |
1:08.0 | referencing Arabs sneaking bombs through security. And the thing is, in addition to the general backlash, a number of these graders have faced, |
1:13.6 | it seems like some online have made it their mission for these teenagers to face consequences. |
1:16.6 | Some even going as far as doxing them, sharing information like their full names, schools, social profiles, even home addresses. |
1:22.6 | Also an interesting aspect to this story is because a number of the people who are part of this trend are younger. |
1:26.6 | The people using this app are younger. We saw an example where one teen who mocked black people in reference to three-fifths compromise. |
1:32.3 | She faced so much backlash to this seemingly leaking into her personal life that her father eventually forced her to post a video apology. |
1:37.3 | I didn't mean for it to come up as racist, even though considering the context of it, I didn't mean it like that. |
1:44.8 | I was just doing a TikTok trend and my actions weren't okay. |
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