A writer named KIM CHI got caught pretending to be Asian… because she wanted a literary agent

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@lanchile1483 24 дня назад

Hello! I'm the OP of the document and twitter thread! (and also a long-time watcher of your channel!) I just wanted to quickly address a few things: 1) The document is no longer available publicly because the person whose face Kim used in the profile pics requested to have it taken down. I'm happy to see you also saw my tweet about it and censored her in the video! Thank you! (To anyone wondering, no I'm not putting the doc back up. I'm also just too lazy to censor her throughout the doc and honestly the post accomplished what I wanted it to, which was to warn others in the writing community.) 2) About "Jina Wu" and what an Asian household looks like. This has been brought up to me before and I agree that I definitely could have worded it better and apologize for how it might have sounded.Asian Diaspora is too diverse to quantify. I truly wish I had saved the doc... because it's hard to explain WHY I clocked it as inauthentic without being able to show it. 3) When the ~asian music~ played during the slideshow of tweets started playing I fucking bark-laughed. 4) Yes to EVERYTHING you said there at the end. Anyway thank you for being hilarious as always and for covering this!!!!!!

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Thank u for putting this together and trusting ur instincts!!

@luxxiourius 24 дня назад

U ATE SO MUCH

@itsgonnabeanaurfromme 24 дня назад

Your instincts definitely paid off. Even here in asian countries, the mixing of different races. Fil-Chi, Thai-Jap, Viet-White and we have absorption of other cultures to the point that names can be anything. Filipino names are the best. Genesis, Cherry Pie, Princess, I once had a child at the end of an 18 hour hospital shift whose name was Alucard and his mom told me his dad liked video games.

@VeraFran 24 дня назад

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme@itsgonnabeanaurfromme oh gosh my friend who lives in Korea has a lot of Filipino friends and she said they have similar energy to us Brazilians and this comment just confirmed. Brazilians are very creative when it's time to naming their kids.

@Kimmaline 24 дня назад

@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I knew a girl named Christmas Lyte. I mean...go them!

@frankundercoverdragon6288 24 дня назад

Gonna pretend to be Italian, my pen name will be Pete Zeria

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Mamma Mia

@Lovefortea448 24 дня назад

Gonna pretend to be american and name myself Eagle Gun

@KateeAngel 24 дня назад

@@Lovefortea448😂😂😂😂

@nohintshere 24 дня назад

gonna pretend to be French and name myself Bay Guette

@danieltobin4498 23 дня назад

Let’s tone it down a little. Italians have unfortunately been the victims of racism and have historically been viewed as an inferior race by racists.

@ChessiZ444 24 дня назад

Smh she chose Kim Chi when she’s ITALIAN and clearly should have chosen Liz Anya.

@moustik31 24 дня назад

STOP! 😭😭😭

@Noirlovelessrose 23 дня назад

Wait I'm crying, I went to school with a guy whose mom's name is Elizabeth Anya and I just realized why she never wanted to be called "Liz". 😂 Thank you for reminding me about her that was hilarious to put together.

@KayleighWalters-uw5ng 21 день назад

Liz Anya reminds me of the "Do you carry a lunchbox?!" scene in That's So Raven

@ngtskynebula 21 день назад

NOOOO 🥹

@missAlice1990 21 день назад

I know it's a joke but actually for an Italian person Liz Anya and Lasagne would sound completely different because in Italian each vowel is always pronounced in the same way in every context (bar loanwords), no matter whether the syllable is stressed or not. So the word "lasagne" would have a fully realized Ah sound in the first syllable and Eh sound in the last syllable. While Liz Anya would have an EE and Ah sounds, respectively.

@AM_artworks 24 дня назад

“Pho’get About It” is a hysterical name for an Italian/Vietnamese fusion restaurant. Sounds delicious too. She went into the wrong business

@bunnyellabell 20 дней назад

i've definitely heard this joke before and am almost certain she didn't come up with it herself. but maybe i'm wrong idk

@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 20 дней назад

The Wong business 😂

@BlueGangsta1958 17 дней назад

I feel like Vietnamese restaurant owners have a competition going on on who has the best pun in their name. Never seen a Viet restaurant without a pho pun. That said, my sample size is fairly small IRL so maybe it's just a coincide

@Dionysian.Cryptid 16 дней назад

@@BlueGangsta1958 I don't look at the pho section too often but I'm fairly sure I always see at least one pun on the menu about pho

@pam7705 7 дней назад

@@BlueGangsta1958ive seen iPho and it was hysterical. Whats the best one that youve seen? 🤣

@BennetRenard 24 дня назад

Does anyone else feel fucking awful for the girl whose photo she used as her pfp? I mean DAMN that's shitty.

@lulucool45 22 дня назад

identity theft!!!

@user-i9z 16 дней назад

Yeah, holy shit. They were friends too. I feel like that's worse than just grabbing a random person's pic off of google. How do you face someone and talk to them normally when, behind their back, you're using your selfie togehter to catfish as them?

@junainahrahman4156 24 дня назад

At this point RF Kuang needs to add a disclaimer in Yellowface that its not a DIY tutorial

@joannamarieart 24 дня назад

The melanin deficient really out here putting the DUMMIES in "guides for dummies"

@dereineschwarzerabe 24 дня назад

It keeps happening it's insane

@TheoMurpse 24 дня назад

I'm not in the publishing community so I read that book before I knew this was a thing that was happening. How could any white writer think being Asian was going to help them get a deal? I can just walk through a bookstore and observe the overwhelming whiteness of the titles available. Turn on TV. Go to the movies. It's so clear! I went to a screening of Better Luck Tomorrow a couple decades ago, a movie featuring almost entirely Asian American cast, and the director said in a talkback that movie bean counters categorize Asian patrons as white, which was one of many reasons he thought there hadn't been anything since Joy Luck Club. Basically there were no numbers for Asian patrons of any kind. They're just lost among white data. Unless society radically reconfigured itself since then AND book market analysis is that different from film ones...

@stingrayceviche 24 дня назад

Actually, “Yellowface” is about an Asian writer pretending to be white in order to get a book deal - which is a ludicrous premise. You dont see a lot of people of color pretending to be white to get into colleges or land book deals - but you do see the converse phenomenon quite a bit, which essentially undermines the idea of “white privilege”.

@WhereMyHug 24 дня назад

Stoop 💀

@bagofbonesmp3 24 дня назад

Kim Chi season 8 drag race finalist should sue for impersonation

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Appropriating drag culture !!

@kseni_vely 24 дня назад

How wrong is it that this was the exact first thing I thought of 😆

@artsandgoodies4653 24 дня назад

@@kseni_velyyep came here and kim chi the drag queen is who i thought of

@theatrefans1 24 дня назад

That’s why I clicked on this. I thought ’Kim Chi wrote a book?’. I mean she didn’t even mention it on Trixie’s Pit Stop.

@jadeharley7190 24 дня назад

@@theatrefans1legit what I was thinking too

@sukerbole2463 24 дня назад

the fact that she just used her own twitter account baffles me? she didn't even delete her previous tweets about being of italian heritage?

@geministrial950 19 дней назад

Clearly she's not very smart

@snakesnoteyes 12 дней назад

This level of grift is like that trad wife on tik tok who lost her job after saying the n-word, and then tried to cozy up to fascists only to complain how they needed to be more inclusive, and then got found out for having a half black kid from her posts of her kid. Like I know it’s easy to grift right wingers, but you have to put some effort into it. Girl was a single mom with a job, she ain’t even a trad wife.

@lavenderdblasio1578 24 дня назад

Man the funniest thing is how quick she folded. All that effort for nothing! I was half expecting her to say she was wasian and only half italian or something 😭😭

@sleepy.timaeus.arts. 24 дня назад

so true. especially since she was talking about an italian/vietnamese fusion restaurant as far back as 2020 ( 11:26 ), i thought she'd really claim she was mixed and maybe say back in the day she was really only open about her italian heritage. it wouldnt be too off the mark from how some mixed kids might denounce part of their heritage, or might not be as in-touch with one part of themselves.

@WarriorXena446 19 дней назад

Shoot she could've gone with that and be believable for a few years.

@aquaabouttogetfunky 18 дней назад

Yeah, if she was smart, she would have said she was wasian

@stephaneyperez4126 24 дня назад

Gonna pretend to be white to get a book deal, gonna name myself Sal Tee

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Cra Kur

@ghostofanant 24 дня назад

@@withcindy 😭😭

@balletbookworm 24 дня назад

@@withcindy actual spit take LOL omg

@sofie.h 24 дня назад

not enough extraneous letters i fear… better off with something like salle teigh

@edatthegovernance 24 дня назад

Gang... Sal Tiberius Kraker.

@valentines9999 24 дня назад

my first thought was "THE DRAG QUEEN????" 😭

@definitelynotashark1799 24 дня назад

Right??? 💀 Girl that name is TAKEN.

@BiteSizedBeet 24 дня назад

LOL same!!

@kseni_vely 24 дня назад

Same 🫂

@artsandgoodies4653 24 дня назад

Yep same

@haileys5224 24 дня назад

Same 💀💀 I was so confused because she talks about immigrating on her season.

@ratwasnotbad4230 24 дня назад

“I let my profile pic determine my POC status” …

@l.u.n.e 23 дня назад

my jaw dropped pls

@denizkaragullu6239 20 дней назад

She was so blatant with the plausible deniality

@elliedee123 17 дней назад

I wrote that one down to comment - makes anything she says about 'oh, I didn't know,' utterly pathetic. You can't choose your POC status. You either are or aren't. Acting like it's a surprise that people are upset/hurt by the active deceptions you perpetrated and then 'removing herself' to 'let the healing begin' (even though she was kicked out of forums, etc., for the deceit).

@garuda9416 24 дня назад

I'm so inspired by her authentic asianness, I think I need to embrace my indian roots more and rename myself 'Kur Ri' 😍😍😍

@sugarbaby1974 21 день назад

OMG, choked on my coffee!! 🤣

@hanakotobami 15 дней назад

Sam Osa

@sapphextwin 24 дня назад

jk rowling ahh asian name😭🙏🙏

@withcindy 24 дня назад

FOR REAL HAHA

@Freebiehuman 24 дня назад

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING SIGDLWHZIDJD

@Primalintent 24 дня назад

Reminder that Joanne Rowling doesn't have a middle name. She just added a K. because she thought J. Rowling would be too boring.

@msjkramey 24 дня назад

@@Primalintent there's a lot to criticize her for, but what's wrong with giving yourself a middle name?

@jacobd1984 24 дня назад

⁠@@PrimalintentActually she does. Her full name is Joanne Koanne Rowling.

@otter.mayhem 24 дня назад

Kim Chi is an international drag queen superstar, and is actually Korean. Apart from her work in drag, she's writing two books right now - a cookbook, and a children's book about a queer Asian American boy dealing with his identity and trying to save his local library. They're not currently published, but she also has a makeup line and social media channels etc. Just wanted to shout out a real Korean author named Kim Chi who is actually doing incredible work to promote diversity and inclusion for Asian-Americans and queer people!

@Walklikeaduck111 24 дня назад

Ugh

@crow-with-a-small-c 24 дня назад

@@Walklikeaduck111 Ugh your way outta here

@zoerice4227 24 дня назад

@@Walklikeaduck111 keep quacking, duck boy, I'm sure you'll hear your own echo eventually

@Grey_3438 24 дня назад

@@zoerice4227 LMAO 💀💀

@SenshiSunPower 23 дня назад

Does the children's book have a title yet? I'm trying to find it, but most articles about her don't mention the books and my searches bring up books about kimchi (also by Korean American authors, they look great.)

@SuperSisby 24 дня назад

I'm happy there was criticism on the comment of the family not sounding Vietnamese. As a black American who was raised in a predominantly white area (with the secondary majority being various Asians), I'm far removed from my black culture. The only black people I regularly interacted with throughout most of my life were my mom and brother. I've been told I type white and once had a black man giving my a haircut say my name sounded white. Which was intentional on my mom's part, since she thought it would help be get in college. I sometimes joke about how "white" I am. I'd be great criticism in a story towards an author not writing a proper black character. I also saw this criticism used against The Scholomance series, where some said Galadriel didn't act Indian enough and leaned too far into her Welsh heritage. Which was a theme of her overall story and pointed out in the first book. I was happy to see people combat that criticism for the same reasons I said above. So while the person who wrote the reveal was correct, that specific "gotcha" was pretty poor.

@lazydroidproductions1087 20 дней назад

Yeah. The way a family or an individual reflects their “cultural origin” or whatever can be very very different than the “standard” which really just means you’re relying on stereotypes because your family hit those too. Like yeah it turned out she was entirely faking an Asian identity but you could talk to her and ask and inquire about the character’s family history to understand the writing decisions behind the family acting how they did instead of just judging “huh feels like white writing.” Like, the entirety of my dad’s side is from the Middle East, if I wrote about the way I was raised I’m sure it would fit much more into the generic American stereotype than any middle eastern American stereotypes of “the family and how things are like when you grow up”

@firelordoregano5632 20 дней назад

fellow victim of the "talking white allegations", being told you "type white" is fucking wild. it's not like speaking tone and inflection (makes it pretty easy to tell when another black person is speaking, even when they don't use aave) translates through text, so the implication is just that using full sentences and punctuation is a white trait. like ???

@Neomie92 18 дней назад

@@firelordoregano5632And it’s also a hilarious assumption. I’ve been told I type and I act white, as a Black physician. My parents also gave me a European name to help me get into college. So you can imagine the shock and concern on peoples faces when I show up sounding like Megan Thee Stallion or Cardi B. idc if I have an MD, you can’t take the ghetto outta me, so the assumptions are wild 😂😂😂 I’ve shown up to job interviews and physically seen people clutch their pearls

@bettyunicorn6132 17 дней назад

I consider myself mixed. My dad is black and my mom is white. The only black thing about me is my hair. 😭 It’s something I’m mildly self-conscious about.

@pliktl 16 дней назад

❤

@scara4473 24 дня назад

THE ZOOM INTO THAT ONE TINY PIXEL OF YOU TOOK ME OUTTTT

@Awesomesauce1_8_6_4 24 дня назад

NOT KIM CHI 💀😩 That is foul

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Some stuff u can't make up

@EvTheFlickFan 24 дня назад

That shit feels like a joke from an adult 2010's comedy show, not something an actual person would try 💀

@erraticonteuse 24 дня назад

KIM. CHI. 😬😬😬😬😬

@Lovefortea448 24 дня назад

Mf cant even use a normal name like diana le

@Blanche_255 24 дня назад

LITERALLY LIK WHAT

@yapdog 24 дня назад

As a Black writer, I'm gonna write a book about the white experience of being oppressed in this woke world that's destroying my white culture. My pseudonym: *Colin Izer* _EDIT: Based on the interest conveyed in the replies I'm actually working on the initial plan for this book😅 So, if it becomes a thing, and it blows up big, it'd be all of your supportive comments and likes that made it happen. Thanx, y'all 🫂_ Wish me luck!

@Vatterju 24 дня назад

Nah this one got me 💀 up there with Ray Cyst

@abbyzoetewey538 24 дня назад

This is pretty good.

@alicegaiba 24 дня назад

Can't wait to read your masterpiece

@TisPopRock 24 дня назад

I will purchase that book lmao

@apizzathatgiantforthesimpl5191 24 дня назад

COLIN ISER! 😂 THAT'S BRILLIANT!

@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk 24 дня назад

she used Kim Chi as her fake Asian name??? thats like if I called myself McDonald as my fake American name, what a mastermind.

@NormanFRockwell0_0 24 дня назад

Actually Mack donalds is pretty good name

@jazwhoaskedforthis 23 дня назад

Earl Bigmac

@lincolny2220 21 день назад

McDonald is a Scottish name actually

@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk 21 день назад

@@lincolny2220 yes but it's a stereotypical American food

@s4ltenj0y3r 17 дней назад

Ronald McDonald

@sheshereisntshe297 24 дня назад

This is what I term as the "boredom of privilege"; where the people that the socio-economic, institutional and systematic societal structure was caterd to benefit from become disillusioned and lost due to the boredom that comes with the lack of struggle. They then romanticise the idea of suffering and hardships, because to them it excites them, it gives them attention, makes them feel special. It's why they do this. They've been privileged for so long that the see those who struggle as exciting. And when society realizes our struggles and finds the bare minimum ways to help us, they then shriek about how we're getting special treatment and privileges.

@Eepop_stuffs 23 дня назад

It's giving Marie Antoinette larping as a poor person

@somelurker6115 22 дня назад

This 100%. Society reeeeeally loves an underdog. My relatives have helpfully demonstrated that some white folks are so desperate to be that romanticized down-on-their-luck hero that they start making problems up so they can LARP as oppressed. "But whaddabout affirmative ackshun???" asks 60-y/o white man who hasn't been a student, or unemployed, for 30+ years (Hi Dad 🙄)

@lordarthur2165 20 дней назад

Damn that makes a lot of sense, like it explains rich people trying to act like they were oppressed too.

@geministrial950 19 дней назад

That explains all the rich homesteaders

@mateap.736 18 дней назад

You worded this perfectly actually

@maximumbees 24 дня назад

"KIM CHI"??? naming a character ham burger right now

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Naming a French character French Fry

@biteofdog 24 дня назад

@@withcindy or Crêpes Suzette.

@camille1324 24 дня назад

Hamish Berger. Scottish/German #ownvoices

@Lovefortea448 24 дня назад

Arrocito Asado: My Peruvian-Uruguayan oc

@Eosinophyllis 24 дня назад

Frye Bred. They’re indigenous

@rockabillywonder420 24 дня назад

"girl you're italian? that's one of the spicy whites" I AM IN TEARS

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Like gurl just get a tan like the other Italianx do

@Sleipnirseight 24 дня назад

Spicy whites who still colonized right up there with the worst of em! It's like saying the Portuguese or Spanish are spicy.... Idk how to feel about that lol

@crestflames492 24 дня назад

@@withcindyITALIANX IM SCREAMING

@blueyeshadow2738 24 дня назад

The way I’ve seen people actually try to claim Italians as poc in the year of our lord 2024 😭

@LivingEncyclopedia 24 дня назад

@@blueyeshadow2738If they’re American, let them know that the FAFSA now asks what flavor of white you are. Italian’s included.

@otakulys 24 дня назад

Yeah, I don't know how I feel about the person who wrote that saying she "read" as a white woman. My best friend is black, grew up in an all black neighborhood in New York, has a grandmother from the deep south, and checks off plenty of nifty little stereotypes that are internalized by people of all races including black, and she is regularly assumed to be white online due to those commonly internalized stereotypes. I myself struggle with my own racial identity due to a lot of weird assumptions and beliefs held by many Americans (especially white but not always), including those with good intentions. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the person meant, but it rubbed me the wrong way. There is no one way to be a certain race. We have to be careful that in calling out bad behavior, we aren't over-correcting and creating more division and gatekeeping. The fact that she was right, too, makes me think people are going to double down even more, while completely missing the overall point. Also, my apologies if this has already been addressed elsewhere, or if I'm just seriously misunderstanding what she was trying to say. She seems to bring it up multiple times both in how the character was written and how the woman herself behaved, so I'm just wondering if maybe I'm taking it the wrong way.

@sweetie_babie 23 дня назад

True, once on reddit someone was convinced I wasn't black because I used yellow emojis instead of the black flesh toned ones😂. People will assume race over the weirdest of things and it's a part of discrimination and internalized racism. Saying people "talk white", "dress white", "act white" is just stripping people of their identity --- but it's worse on the internet because you can't just point to your features and disprove allegations that you're "wrong" or don't belong. Super annoying and frustrating.

@orangeants 18 дней назад

I’m from south east asia, born and brought up, I don’t even hide it on twitter and my name isn’t white you wouldn’t BELIEVE the number of times I’ve been called a “woke white girl who doesn’t understand” etc on twitter or YT

@qazwsx014jsbd8 12 дней назад

Yeah I'm glad the person was right, but the whole document was a bit off imo

@marianamauricio 24 дня назад

14:17 the music used in those american movies where you KNOW they just googled "generic asian music" took me OUT 🥴😭

@withcindy 24 дня назад

It was called "lotus" on iMovie

@anirlarchivist 24 дня назад

“this is not diverse representation, this is diverse desperation” I’M DYINGGG

@poojabalaji6410 22 дня назад

FR I SCREAMED

@mummifiedbutterfly 24 дня назад

Sis had an entire library of names from asian countries, and just chose the name of a food. 💀💀💀

@anothercub6958 24 дня назад

Real "name a woman" energy

@fujoshipeanut5074 24 дня назад

I'm sure it was for plausible deniability. "Oh I'm not pretending to be Asian, I'm just expressing my love of this side dish!"

@numerals8939 23 дня назад

It wouldn’t be as bad if she had claimed she was Vietnamese (the name not her trying to do yellowface). But sis straight up claimed herself to be Korean with the name Kim Chi

@bigjedimullet 23 дня назад

this reminds me there is canonically a Star Wars character named Shu Mai

@lolithatkills9156 23 дня назад

Bro I’m bout to act white to get into college I’ll let y’all know how it works

@denizkaragullu6239 21 день назад

8:00 I am so happy that you brought this up. I live in Turkey and my household is very different from a traditional Turkish household. I can bring my boyfriend over, I can come home late or go on a vacation with my male friends. And I am surrounded by families like mine here. Even though my mom is a muslim. People who are not from around here have a very rigid idea of what a muslim or Turkish household is supposed to look like. Even in my own country, people from the east have difficulty grasping people from the west don't live like them

@StarLine317 19 дней назад

'Black Like Me' taught people exactly zero lessons.

@kai_fatallysapphic 24 дня назад

someone go write a book pretending to be an American named Big Mac

@giantpinkcat 24 дня назад

The 4 races: Black Brown Asian American

@kai_fatallysapphic 24 дня назад

@@giantpinkcat all used to live in peace, until the British attacked

@BiggamusMackenzie 23 дня назад

On it.

@deljeetsanghera8659 23 дня назад

@@BiggamusMackenzie Lmfgao

@yusufkadar 23 дня назад

Don't tell me he's a boxer!

@Aisling-ep7wj 24 дня назад

"Cho Chang, okay sorry someone already took that" made me cackle.

@Rowan_d 24 дня назад

Fully recommend naming a white Australian charcter Democracy Sausage.

@NiarahHawthorne 22 дня назад

Or Fairy Bread

@sugarbaby1974 21 день назад

@@NiarahHawthorne Fairy Bread would be a kickass drag name.

@NiarahHawthorne 21 день назад

@@sugarbaby1974 Agreed.

@elliedee123 17 дней назад

Only if it's dystopian (America Singer anyone?). 😂

@snrd3r 17 дней назад

Ethnically Asian but grew up in Australia, his name is Tim Tam

@PoopHobbit 24 дня назад

I feel very bad for her friend whose photos were being used to catfish ):

@PokhrajRoy. 24 дня назад

Kim Chi once said: “…But, one white queen's misfortune is my booking, so thank you, Katya!” and someone took that a step too far.

@bicarbonat1 24 дня назад

This is a sign to rewatch the Griselda ILTW

@lethaldream50 24 дня назад

LMAO, excellent time to deploy that quote

@nostopplease2033 24 дня назад

This is the third time already 😭 By the end of the year we're gonna have too many nickels

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Imma be rich!!

@elizzadeath 24 дня назад

THAT'S ENOUGH NICKELS 🤣

@genesisofthebetween 24 дня назад

3 nickels is too many already

@mahogara 24 дня назад

Honestly, it's starting to feel like we, pocs, are overly privileged. Where are all those advantages and opportunities that white people see Pocs are getting over them? I would like some of those too.

@monicoreheart 24 дня назад

4 if you count cate giving asian names to her goodread accounts that she used to give negative reviews

@rionaprimavera98 24 дня назад

'Pop out the pixel like, surprise surprise! It's Cho Ch*nk' I CANT💀😭 The 'Asian' music playing, too 😂 Seriously, my day is slightly better after this video lmaoo

@joshualin5476 12 дней назад

That joke was wild

@rotsu2108 22 дня назад

"finally, its my turn to get hatecrimed" made me spittake

@roselover411 24 дня назад

I'm gonna pretend to be Japanese and say my name is Sakura Matcha, it'll totally work

@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 18 дней назад

Cebulski is that you?

@roselover411 18 дней назад

@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 idk who that is, did someone literally do that??

@Lisaa3124 24 дня назад

Not the asian music during the tweet montage 😭😭😭

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Thank u for noticing

@ArturGlass.C 24 дня назад

It took me out lmao

@PRGME7 20 дней назад

Ah yes. The fruit ninja music.

@CSRaeburn 24 дня назад

The fury with which I am googling this so I may share a news article with my writing group cannot be overstated! However, I am being presented with recipes for kimchi and SEO articles about the best kimchi brands. Now I am overcome with the desire to try making kimchi. Thank you, Cindy, for my latest hyperfixation!

@alisdraws 24 дня назад

I think one thing that people have real trouble with is marketing their personalities? You kinda need to market yourself to make it online, but it's really hard to have the cold blood and the self awareness necessary to understand what about yourself is 'marketable'. They then try to turn to faking a race because they see race as a gimmick you can use for that, to make yourself interesting. Then they hope to get their work out there once they get finally noticed You need to be able to understand yourself as a brand and that's super hard, but not as much if you're actually role playing and someone else

@noodlepoodle3582 17 дней назад

THIS!!

@MDSpencersLs 24 дня назад

RF kuang is getting her paycheck

@withcindy 24 дня назад

The rich get richer

@Kye9842 24 дня назад

wdym. What's up with her?

@paingwen1235 24 дня назад

@@Kye9842she wrote this book called yellow face about thus exact type of situation

@alannafish 24 дня назад

@@Kye9842 she wrote a literary fiction novel about an author assuming her successful author friend's asian identity to publish a book

@Kye9842 24 дня назад

@@alannafish so it's just about yellowfacing? not sure what the issue would be

@moonlight.corpse 24 дня назад

kim chi 😭😭😭 this is hilarious and atroucious at the same time (jk rowling taking notes rn for the name)

@withcindy 24 дня назад

U just have to laugh

@strangeaelurus 24 дня назад

Fr like at least pick a good name 😭😭

@moonlight.corpse 24 дня назад

@@strangeaelurus nah, she really had the need to be rac1st to the core

@tired690 24 дня назад

@@moonlight.corpse audacity of white ppl* it's only white ppl doing this 😭

@homelesscuzmycatranovermyhouse 24 дня назад

RIGHT??? They're not even trying anymore😭😭

@mocagami 24 дня назад

that ending rant about all the disadvantages really said things i could never put eloquently into words 👏👏 no matter what it is it's always "ah you're good at this cause you're asian" and it feels backwards to be judged for the color of your skin and not the amount of effort you put into it, no matter what.

@GenZDoomer9000 24 дня назад

You're correct that generally using a country flag in your twitter is a signal that you are actually from that country, or solidarity. I'd just like to add that it's not just Palestine. As a member of Terminally Political Twitter, I follow many people who are not Ukrainian but have Ukrainian flags in their usernames to signal their support. People do this for Taiwan and Armenia to a much lesser extent. But aside from Ukraine and Palestine, generally using a flag in your username signals you're from there. PS As a white person, you can generalize about white people as much as you want. And in the pursuit of your bingo card I shall cross the race-faking frontier to fake something nobody has ever tried: West Asian. Yes, I'm going to pretend to be Finnish.

@bigjedimullet 23 дня назад

You could call yourself Sauna Moomintroll

@TheAdarkerglow 24 дня назад

I'm surprised her Italian name isn't Pepper Roni.

@PRGME7 20 дней назад

Lego island reference?

@nooneofnote8453 19 дней назад

@@PRGME7now I have to rewatch Joel/Vargskelethor’s Lego Island playthru, thanks for the reminder

@PRGME7 19 дней назад

@@nooneofnote8453 np

@rosemary3029 10 дней назад

@@PRGME7my best

@latteatthelibrary 24 дня назад

At this point, I blame RF Kuang for giving them an instruction manual AND a list of justifications

@DavidMiller-cu2xq 24 дня назад

The fact I went in this thinking this was gonna be Drag race related

@nopesiedaisy 13 дней назад

Now I want to pretend I'm Italian and call myself Amy Retti

@toganium4175 24 дня назад

I like how so many people are comparing the “Kim Chi” pseudonym to the character of Cho Chang in Harry Potter.

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Jkr inspo

@thewolfandherbooks 24 дня назад

"Girl, you were Italian. You were one of the spicy whites." 😭😭😭

@Lovefortea448 24 дня назад

Embrace the italian heritage!

@laiatezenas3300 24 дня назад

I don't even think she was Italian! Notice how she came from Las Vegas and didn't answer that other person's question which was "What part of Italy do you come from?" She's probably a WASP who started pretending she was Italian because she thought it was spicier, and then stepped up into pretending to be a woman of colour.

@ayabouchareb6791 22 дня назад

@ville__ tf is wrong with you ???

@beaniebean4885 19 дней назад

@@ayabouchareb6791it's just a troll/bot, ignore them.

@Shortcakeeeeeee 19 дней назад

@@ayabouchareb6791 It’s probably just a bot, ignore it lol.

@morphing_erebus 24 дня назад

I'm totally an Indian named Samosa Korma, pls send literary agents my way, thx. Like, come on! 😭Thanks Cindy, although it's sad that at this rate we'll have a bingo before the year is out.

@SchadenFloyd 18 дней назад

“The slippery slope of the slant-eyed sleuth” had me choking oh my god 😂

@PhoebeTheFairy56 24 дня назад

As a white person I don't get how someone could see people making lists of books about poc experiences and agents saying they want to represent more poc authors and then come to the conclusion "people only want stories about poc now" instead of "people are trying to give poc authors opportunities in a field they're often overlooked in". And if anyone should know about how the publishing industry is biased towards whatever they assume the most people would buy (even if they think it wouldn't be that _good_ ), which inherently makes minority-centric stories less likely to be picked up, it should be _someone trying to get a book deal for over a decade_

@erinkatrina4201 24 дня назад

I think this is down to how simplistic a lot of social media posts are, they don’t provide a lot of context as to why there is a push for own voices, they just make lists about “recommended diverse books” and I think what Cindy is saying is right, that if you’re in this bubble it can get easy to lose sight of actual facts lol like book sales

@anahnnemus5187 24 дня назад

Some really see even a little leveling of the playing field as the other races getting an advantage not a balance of the scales. It's the reason why affirmative action is seen so negatively by certain people.

@charlesintune 23 дня назад

Well that's because you're not insane

@PangurO-ow2ud 23 дня назад

@@anahnnemus5187 At this point it's happening to any privileged group. See the manosphere. Oh no, men are no longer as privileged as they were? They must be oppressed now!

@NiarahHawthorne 21 день назад

Because some people really see everything as a zero-sum game, meaning that "wHiTe AuThOrS aRe BeInG rEpLaCeD bY tHe WoKe MoB" I guess (obvious sarcasm is sarcasm)

@therealmermaid12 24 дня назад

As a black person who is always at the forefront of racism i would like to congradulate asians for recieving your 'the white ppl hate us cuz they aint us award' This has been passed down from colour to colour and now its ur turn

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Mom says it's my turn to be appropriated!

@hanakesseibi.5b.273 23 дня назад

As an Egyptian when is it my turn?

@sillybillybee 23 дня назад

@@hanakesseibi.5b.273 Egyptian isn't a race, unless you mean Arab or North African lol.

@So_Indecisive 23 дня назад

@@hanakesseibi.5b.273 pretty sure, it was few decades ago

@denizkaragullu6239 20 дней назад

@@sillybillybee race doesn't exist anyways so it is weird to get hung up on what a race/ethnicity or nationality is.

@Emu_bird 23 дня назад

Read a book once where an Asian character was named Anna May. I think about that often.

@caseywiththehat9018 24 дня назад

So excited for you to become Italian!

@JuniperJadePR 24 дня назад

Kim probably saw a ScarJo movie & thought, "I look Asian enough".

@essxsolo 24 дня назад

Pretending to be a poc in order to gain an advantage is truly WILD. Some people have zero grasp of reality.

@helenl3193 21 день назад

When you don't have the talent/skills/luck to make it in your field of choice, it's always so much easier to blame diversity drives/the system, etc, rather than do the work to improve yourself/your project. It's deeply depressing how little this pattern of behaviour seems to have changed in my 40+ years on the planet. I guess at least people get called on it more publicly now, but so far that doesn't seem like it's that much of a disincentive. Zoomers save us from the mediocre white people! -a cripplingly self-aware mediocre white woman

@draconicfeline6177 15 дней назад

People are like cats, when they have the privilege to go anywhere, a door is a grand offense.

@ElfInTheFlowers 24 дня назад

That conclusion was on fire and is literally my experience in the academy… just replace “writing” with “research”. The competition, shoehorning into only studying “your people”, and rarity of academic jobs is pretty much identical, along with the misunderstanding of what being a minoritized group means. Intersectionality doesn’t mean that one gets a double pass on anything, on the contrary. In the US it just means that your life can be twice as hard. Also, reading Kuang’s Yellowface right now (saw your review a long time ago)… the timing is painfully impeccable.

@ren.sparks 24 дня назад

this is literally the plot of Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

@malikamaybe 24 дня назад

Your rant at the end speaks to meee. The expectation to write about trauma first and foremost no matter the genre, the potential to be dragged harder over smaller issues than white writers, finding out whether you passed the "good representation" test, this vibe that your work is meant to be representing everyone of your race as if you're a monolith like you brought up so many great and disheartening points. And I've been looking for videos of writers talking about their querying journeys and came across one who literally was like 'I think it's hard rn for white writers because a lot of agents are looking for POC' and I felt my eye twitch.

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Yup!! Ur expected to represent a whole race rather than ... Just writing a story u care about

@bigjedimullet 23 дня назад

The expectation of writing about trauma is a thing that really bums me out. I have distinct memories of being a kid in the 90s and realizing that all the books I read about Jewish people were also about the Holocaust (at least until I discovered the All-of-a-Kind Family books, which were genuinely a relief to read).

@EruditeGayming 24 дня назад

She really said "Give me an ethnic drag name, any drag name." So lazy.

@theproducers1967 24 дня назад

And picked one that was already taken by a total legend! Who's actually Korean!

@Taxkha 24 дня назад

Kim Chi sounds as if JK Bowling made a new asian character

@laurensimendinger8887 23 дня назад

I first saw this in TikTok and immediately knew you were gonna jump on it

@dedel1303 24 дня назад

Finally, after all these years, we have them all

@withcindy 24 дня назад

Like pokemon we gotta catch em all

@wandererswanderingdaughter1756 24 дня назад

It hasn't even been *one* year

@moustik31 24 дня назад

You mean after 6 months. All these cases happened this year! 😭

@cameroniizuka 24 дня назад

13:32 "pop out of the pixel like surprise it's cho ch***" was so funny for no reason

@matcha_chai 24 дня назад

I dropped the plum I was eating because it was so unexpected and hilarious .😂😂

@user-i9z 24 дня назад

BYEE I listened to the video while in another tab and was not expecting that when I clicked on the timestamp 😭😭😭

@Earth2indie 18 дней назад

You CLOCKED them so well at the end omg😭they think they have an advantage using other peoples experiences but then aren’t ready to experience the same shit

@vrixphillips 20 дней назад

lmfaoooooo not cho ch**k in the corner of a single pixel!!!! love you cindy

@natanbcpc 24 дня назад

I can't believe this has become its own video genre by now 😭

@ashleyboyette7502 24 дня назад

zooming in on the Cindy pixel left me in actual tears holy shit

@PastaBeato 24 дня назад

13:06 - 13:33 this part is so fire I NEED cindy's book to be published ASAP

@nicola4900 24 дня назад

Loved the point you made about "Asian-ness" being a term that means something different to everyone. I'm mixed and born in Canada where my family lost much of their language through WW2 internment and its downstream effects. I've always experienced my Asian-ness as precarious and subject to challenge in a way. Even though her instincts were right this time and this writer was pretending, I'm so glad you made the point that everyone experiences ethnic/cultural/racial identity differently.

@lenapawlek7295 24 дня назад

Yes!! This was such a good point i really appreciated this as well

@machinegunlament 24 дня назад

Seconding this, I'm mixed and even though I'm closer to my dad's side, my family is very non-traditional and I didn't have a lot of the same experiences as other people from my background did growing up.

@ambersmith2612 24 дня назад

I feel it narrows down our cultures and families to white washed stereotypes to talk about what “ Asianness” and Blackness” cause most of the time it’s just boiled down to “aggressive” mothers or things like that

@arambles1 24 дня назад

you know what, rf kuang? i'm sorry that i called yellowface pretentious and mid. please stop orchestrating these incidents, you've proved your point edit: her name was KIM CHI???? dear lord

@raini0705 20 дней назад

desperate people always think the grass is greener on the other side. no fool, it's the same damn grass 😤

@zoeswenson8137 24 дня назад

I just know Ms maam was preparing some food, looked down at her jar of kimchi, and didn’t think any further.

@SF-hn5um 24 дня назад

*raises fisticuffs* "How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man???"

@cacarlin70 23 дня назад

*white woman

@minkstar9021 24 дня назад

I imagine RF Kuang must watch all this drama go down on a cinema size plasma screen while twirling a glass of red wine.

@vl5164 19 дней назад

The last segment really nailed it all, great video

@not.cypher 24 дня назад

thank you for always putting the chapters in your videos its incredibly helpful ♥️

@withcindy 24 дня назад

You're so welcome!

@CMAlongi 24 дня назад

So we can all agree that R. F. Kuang looked into the future and wrote a documentary rather than comedic thriller, right?

@alyxleaf 24 дня назад

If I had a quid for every white author found to be faking their race in 2024, I'd have enough money to pursue writing full time

@fallensoap1 24 дня назад

that conclusion was beautiful!!!❤❤❤

@arielb98 24 дня назад

Cindy, you devoured the last part 👏🏽👏🏽

@hardnewstakenharder 24 дня назад

Patiently waiting for the debuts of TACO DORITO and COLLARD GREENS to hit shelves soon.

@Lovefortea448 24 дня назад

Chimi churri gonna make a debut rn

@lordarthur2165 24 дня назад

As a Brazilian, I would choose the pen name COXINHA in a heartbeat.

@slayygela 24 дня назад

For a second I thought you were talking about Kim Chi from RuPaul’s Drag Race and I was like well as far as I know Kim Chi is VERY Asian… Then the realization hit me 😭😭

@mayakl 16 дней назад

Petition for Cindy to release her uncut ranting videos. I could srsly listen to you yap forever

@Spidermanslefttoenail 24 дня назад

If i had a nickel for everytime I've seen a writer pretend to be another race this year, I'd have 3 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it is happening at all 😭

@echotango4591 18 дней назад

It’s not weird, it’s an easier way to get published if you’re not already a massive name. Second gen immigrant stories are formulaic at this point.

@seansimons1257 24 дня назад

now i'm just imagining a book where the protagonist claims to be a racial minority that the author isn't apart of and they behave like a complete stereotype, but halfway through the first chapter you realize, "oh the POV character is just a compulsive liar who constantly makes stuff up"

@Eepop_stuffs 23 дня назад

That would actually be a super interesting book

@bigjedimullet 23 дня назад

I’m into it! Reminds me of one of my favorite video games, Kuon-halfway through you realize that one of the protagonists is either lying about what’s going on or flat out not experiencing the same stuff. It rules.