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seeing the terms “bad rep” and “good rep” applied to media that was created by and for an in-group makes me want to eat glass

“not sure if this is a good representation of the trans community :/“ right well a trans person made it, and they made it for other trans people, so. perhaps that logic is not applicable here. must we live our entire creative lives under the watchful eye of Cisgender Scrutiny? how can you compare self-expression to willful misrepresentation lmao

y’all want some cool, muslim-made, modest fashion ideas for your hijabi characters?

absolutely nobody asked but here, have them anyway (all via the Islamic Fashion Institute):

Ok, so it’s been a few days since I was first made aware of Kyle Gordon’s existence via DJ Crazy Times and the parody eurobeat song Planet of the Bass, and I wanna throw my two cents out there as an autistic person.

Kyle Gordon is an infuencer who’s specialty is character comedy, and DJ Crazy Times isn’t his only big character. There is also a series of Tiktoks featuring the ‘No-Fun Kid’, who is a negative pastiche of Autistic and other neurodivergent people: the No-Fun Kid needing to make special accomodations in order to live normally or having a meltdown are seen as ‘funny haha’.

Thing is, I’m worried about younger Gen Z/Gen α ND kids who might be targeted by their peers for showing the same traits. Because this has happened before.

I was targeted for being autistic in middle/senior high school because Joji/Filthy Frank was at his peak popularity at the time for his character comedy, and he also had a character (Lemon) who made fun of neurodivergent struggles. I ended up dropping out at the end of Year 11 because my mental health was that bad after 4 years of constantly being compared to Lemon without even knowing who he was until the end.

I feel like, by giving Kyle Gordon a platform, more kids will see the No-Fun Kid and find him funny, then they’ll see their ND peers as simple laughing stock when they’re struggling to function. Some of these peers will want to move schools/drop out in order to escape, and some will even consider killing themself as an escape (I know I did).

I don’t want any more kids feeling like pure shit because their struggles were trivialised by an online content creator. I don’t want them to go through what I did. So stop sharing DJ Crazy Times just because haha funny.

(he’s not even a non-English European, he’s American, so not only is he extremely ableist, but kinda xenophobic too!)

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