In 2009, all Asians in the US had was Joy Luck Club, pandas and "azn." Complete cultural irrelevance and felt like representation peaked in the 90s.

Since then Asian Americans were a major part of some of the defining subcultures of the 2010s: raving, streetwear and designer fashion, anime, K-pop, gaming/streaming, tech bros, millennial wanderlust, MUA YouTube, "cool" chefs and campus politics.

Since the 2020s Asians have continued to take Ws while avoiding any backlash. The newest American ultra billionaire is Asian and is perhaps the only tech billionaire that isn't hated by most of the country, yet. Trump lost in 2020 in part due to backlash from healthcare workers, TikTok lovers and the optics of "Kung Flu" while winning in 2024 by softening on China and Tiktok. Stop Asian Hate was genuinely the last moment of left idpol unity before its collapse and that fake crisis was endorsed even by conservatives who focused on "who exactly are beating up Asians in SF 🤔." Asian directors won best picture three years in a row without any DEI accusations. Asians shifted right in 2024 and successfully rolled back Affirmative Action alongside whites but the focus is only on Arabs and Latinx for "betraying" the coalition. Even in this current moment Indian hate in the US and Canada is at all time high while Asians (who drive up the cost of housing more than Indians I bet) are enjoying record high Q scores. All while the stereotypical "virgin" has slowly shifted from pittiable East Asian math nerd to detestable South Asian bobs and vagene type. The entire political spectrum sees East Asian countries as the pinnacle of culture and India as a smelly den of male feminists. Jews are kicked out of leftism for their loyalty to a Muslim oppressing ethnostate while activists download little redbook. Every town has multiple boba shops and the number continues to increase.

Not sure if it's all a psyop or the payoff of several decades of keeping your head down and doing your homework but I'm wondering how much longer it can continue.

Trump sent every fed a Fork in the Road email offering 9 months severance if they quit in the next 2 weeks

🚨 NEW: This is the full buyout memo from the OPM sent to all Federal employees titled “A Fork in the Road.” The pillars of the new Federal government are clearly laid out.

If Federal employees wish to resign they simply put “RESIGN” in the subject line of the email they… pic.twitter.com/fFCiSAiprV

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 29, 2025

I attribute this solely to this community and the solidarity found in it. I'm the only person on my team of 8 that's on Reddit and not only have I been better informed, I've been faring better than the others. Two people went on stress leave and frankly I'd be one of them too if I didn't have this community. I'll continue to do my job and fight for the position I've earned. It took me 10 years of applying and 20 years experience in my field to get here. I will not be pushed out by two billionaire trust funds babies. I'M NOT LEAVING!'

I was chill and laid back prior. Now I'm digging my heels in out of spite. I'm a big time hater and being petty is my favorite thing to do.

I can hold a grudge like it's my job

I knew my grudge-holding skills would come in handy someday.

I've never been more motivated to stay. Before the "buyout" memo, I was ready to go job hunting, but then a revelation hit. I took an oath under this position to the American people and leaving my job under the current state would be failing to maintain my oath as civil servant.

I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Did you guys know how much of the posting on /r/fednews takes place when they should be working?

And that there is netflow data for every federal agency to determine who these employees are?@DOGE @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/7Hicz91pjY

— 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛 (@Aristos_Revenge) January 29, 2025

Pure Kino.

JUST IN: Wendy Williams seen crying from an assisted living facility while giving an interview to TMZ, says she has only been outside twice in 30 days.

Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and was moved to an assisted living facility by family.

Williams, 60, is… pic.twitter.com/MxIjlotCm1

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 12, 2025

!coons

Another great example of American education going down the drain

🇬🇧 Meanwhile in London

“He’s got a knife, he’s got a knife”

Man burns Quran on the Streets & is quickly attacked by a knife wielding maniac pic.twitter.com/lEK9nO6Zw3

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) February 14, 2025

!britbongs

!ummah

WARNING: EXTREMELY BORING AND PERSONAL BLOGPOST AHEAD, I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT READ IT UNLESS YOU'RE A OR MY FRIEND. THANK YOU.

i debated whether or not to make this post but ultimately decided i should lay out my reasons for (attempting) to quit using the site again, if only to get one last good dose of attention, maybe get some finality, and exist as a cautionary tale. this is not a "frick you userbase" post or insistence for the administration to do anything about the sites content or userbase, simply my logic for why i think i personally should stop using it. i would also generally advise other trans people to avoid the site as well but i know plenty of people who do get something out of reading chud shitholes (seriously i see so many ovarit/kf screenshots on tttt reddit its insane).

anyway i have the big depression. i'm not the most suicidal i've ever been and i'm not considering self harm but i would describe my mental state as seriously fricked up bros. this means more bedrotting, more binge eating, more lapses in executive function, more isolation. i've also for the first time in my short 27 year timespan on this earth actually dug more into these feelings and analyzed them, though this has not lead to any great understanding or an "a-ha" moment on my part. at best it's made me relate more to the stereotypical descriptions of depression and dysphoria. i'm not gonna go too deep into that because its embarrassing tbh. in the past i haven't really considered rdrama to be a major factor in this. a contributor to be sure but i always thought i got more out of it than it took for me. maybe that was delusion or maybe i was just better at tanking the damage in the past. maybe i just took enough and longer breaks and i was never cut out for using the site for an extended period of time. idk. here's some conjecture for why i think its particularly bad for me now:

1) half the country despises my existence and while this fact has always been true it hasn't been as relevant. this leads to me being inundated with a double dose of hatred shoved into my face, first when i see the news elsewhere and again when i browse rdrama. and yes i know nothing ever happens and im being hysterical and yadda yadda yadda. nobody can take my HRT away from me, diy exists. nobody (besides immigrants) is going to be put into camps, things will get better it'll just take time. doesn't mean it's not scary. should i be scared boymoding in a red state? probably not but seeing a news article about kim reynolds trying to legally declare me subhuman certainly isn't fricking helping me not be scared.

2) rdrama has just continued to go on a downward spiral? being someone who started using 4chan at age 12 in 2010 and was constantly called out for being a newstrag, i never really bought into "communities degrade over time" rhetoric. mainly because people are always saying shit is getting worse and i was either too dumb to recognize it or part of the problem myself in the past. but anyway. its definitely a thing with rdrama. a lot of users i liked or at least recognized as someone worth my time have been banned or left the site. and the people coming in to replace them are not the best and brightest. its just. i really really don't care if youre a chud. like yes seeing your ignorant opinions about certain topics does tend to make me flare up with angst, but i really try to not take it too seriously and just have a fun time. it just feels like people aren't coming here to have a fun time or shoot the shit about hobbies or do a little casual reddit trolling. it feels like they're coming here to make themselves and everyone around them miserable.

3) i have better social avenues elsewhere. i'm not talking about tttt because i don't think i'll ever feel like i fit in there, but i do have a friend now who i feel like is on a similar wavelength to me. and interacting with that person has made me realize i have so much more me to express than i am capable of doing on rdrama. its a rather dire comparison that has made me realize more and more how fricking stupid i am for putting up with this for so long. i said it the other day, lonely people tend to act deranged, and it turns out having your sole social outlet be a website full of people that hate you is pretty fricking deranged. being surrounded by people that hate me has been my modus operandi for a long time (much longer than i've been on rdrama), and only now am i realizing how fricked up that is. i'm not conceited enough to say i'm finally growing up, but i do think this time is a little bit different. idk we'll see i guess lmao

thats that. i'll respond to comments here but after that im outie 5k, gonna log out everywhere and scramble my password again. i once again do not know how to end this post

!cuteandvalid

Im finding that very short-form stuff works better. Unfortunately all I have left is longer stuff.

!coons

A senator yelling that the science can be wrong, but we shouldn’t question it because The Science is settled, perfectly sums up the absurdity of what we dealt with during Covid pic.twitter.com/bEnXt4v3cC

— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) January 30, 2025

IDK what the context is

First Anna goes off on discount Anna Kasparian (Emma something, the r-slurred host of pod save america or similar podcast, doesn't matter which one they're all the same):

>You're a nepo baby rich b-word, frick you as a staff, record label and as a motherfrickin' crew

I remember Emma telling me, verbatim "I never have to work a day in my life if I don't want to" because of how wealthy her family is. Your mom threw a nice little fundraiser for Sen. Gillibrand in 2019, right? I get why you're so attached to a party that fricked over the working… https://t.co/zbFeRiWkFv

— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) February 2, 2025

Then some dumbass tried to pin her as jealous of... hasan the r-slurred host of pod save america (all the same, doesn't matter)

At least she’s doing the work… weren’t you also jealous of Hasan..?

— Dieter (@Bukniak) February 2, 2025

Well, surprise, that dude hasan is the nephew (actual nephew, not an nword euphemism) of Anna's long time co-host Chunk Yoghurt and she spills the beans on how he's scared of his viewers and secretly hates them

Hasan is a slave to his audience. I've never seen a man more terrified of the people who watch his streams. I would never be jealous of that. https://t.co/0YfEMSCpMb

— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) February 2, 2025

I made a joke ONCE about how I'd like to just play video games and make millions and these morons took it literally. I would rather scrub pottys than be Hasan. He's glued to a computer for 8+ hours a day, placating an audience I know for a fact he hates. Maybe don't open up to… https://t.co/XpQmpg1aWI

— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) February 2, 2025

Hope you enjoyed the post, have a nice day dramatard

I'll find as it shows up.

recovered edgelords and others that almost fell down the rightoid pipeline, how did you escape it? Im curious

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 28, 2025

i actually talked and listened to girls

— space cadet🐝 (@neurodivergentastronaut) January 29, 2025

Funnily enough I joined the army and it changed my views on everything, now I’m a non-binary hoe

— GEHRMY (@Gehrman1987) January 29, 2025

'transed by the military' kinda goes hard as a backstory i wont lie....

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

i watched filthyfrank, idubbbz, pewdiepie, etc and never fell down any sort of right pipeline, which is weird cause ive seen a lot of ppl say theyre like “babys first right content”

— skibidi potty no egg 🍋🎰 (@honkedspleen) January 29, 2025

filthyfrank is one of those great satirical characters imo
too many dumbfricks laughed -with- this intentionally vile creature than -at- him like intended, which is why...

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

amazing friendship with trans man

— Zariah (@Zariahcat) January 28, 2025

Lmao imagine getting radicalized by Ben Shapiro tho:

My high school biology teacher explained how s*x and gender are different and I was like “oh that makes sense”

— Kasey 🚬🦈 (@sodastoque) January 29, 2025

my high school biology teacher once said "i have nothing against gays but i find it unnatural" (germany, btw)
lucky you lol

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

High school biology education is so often really failing the students. We need biology teachers to at least make one class to talk purely about how almost nothing is binary and about how beautifully messy biology is 😔

— Seviel (@Sumeru_Sevi) January 30, 2025

Thought everyone was joking, one day realized not everyone was

— Bored_FritzYT (@BoredFritz) January 29, 2025

You're a sp00k enabler. Should have fallen down the rightoid pipeline. You love sp00ks and you ought not to. Sp00ks don't like you - the rightoids are a bulwark against said sp00ks. Sp00ks will not show you the same respect you show them. Sp00ks will do sp00k things

— Orange_DYE (@OrangeDYE2) January 30, 2025

I'm actively fighting against falling down the pipeline so I occasionally say things that some people might find "edgy".

It's mainly because I tend to lean to the economic right, but for social issues I support progressivism.

— SpaceWalker (@SpaceWalkerReal) January 29, 2025

i think that a country that has to pay taxes and calls itself the "richest on earth" should also get something in return for said wealth, things that benefit everyone, like a functional public transport system and medicine, things declared as "radical, socialist" in the US

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

I started working full-time and didn't have enough time to watch hours and hours of youtube essays. So I just slowly drifted away from that ideology. I'm so glad I got out before TikTok was a thing because I know I would be cooked

— Culti (@CultiZk) January 29, 2025

I escaped it by going to college. Leaving my small town and actually experiencing life and other people from different backgrounds, I understood that empathy is better than being making edgy jokes. Getting to meet other people who are different from you teaches so much

— Sycamore’s Source (@sycamoressource) January 30, 2025

In high school the only kids who were kind to me were queer kids. So I started sitting at their table. I had already been repressing my own trans side for years and being around them let me break free and be more of myself.

— FemboyFishing🏳️‍⚧️🎣 (@FemboyYt) January 29, 2025

https://x.com/hontologies/status/1884807384805060618

I fell down the Anti-SJW pipeline cause of a bunch of YouTubers. I climbed out of after I found myself disagreeing with them more and more and hearing them just get meaner and more extreme over time until eventually I just kinda went "why tf am I watching this?"

— Zestful Maple (He, Him) 🏳️‍🌈 (@ZestfulM) January 29, 2025

I was very anti-woke starting in like 2013, 2014. It seemed illiberal, unfair, and anti-meritocratic. I never went full Trump but I certainly was anti-left.

I think some combination of AI progress, the political pendulum swinging, and a better understanding of how power is…

— noah (@nkreu113r) January 30, 2025

started seeing my mom differently in the eyes of mgtow and it hit me like a truck that i’m following something sinister

— str_br (@Teller038) January 29, 2025

!nonchuds

It's a mystery to me why a great guy like you couldn't manage to win over voters, what with ageism, ad hominem attack and lying about other people's kids as a strategy. pic.twitter.com/DNBRNT7uxo

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025

ROSS ULBRICHT LOST $12M ON PUMPFUN...

Ross Ulbricht, or someone with access to his wallets, just accidentally nuked the price of a pumpfun coin sent to him while trying to provide liquidity on Raydium.

Because he initialized the liquidity pool at the wrong price, $1.5M of the… pic.twitter.com/kN5BN2mN49

— Arkham (@arkham) January 30, 2025

lmao