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Otakuman >> #51453
Posted on 2016-01-06 00:08:34 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
What "meme" do the words on Rose's shirt refer to?

suomynonA >> #51454
Posted on 2016-01-06 02:16:45 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
the "down with cis" meme, in which artists draw their favorite/requested characters in said shirt as a means to support the idea of "rebelling against" the "cis-heteronormative patriarchy", idk i'm kinda paraphrasing it.

suomynonA >> #51456
Posted on 2016-01-06 02:35:32 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
this includes making (purposefully or not) gender/sexual identities of fictional characters as anything OTHER THAN cishet or "straight" (e.g. can be as simple as what is pictured above, AKA non-white Rose Lalonde, to something like say John Egbert as a bi-racial trans genderfluid polysexual).

outside of this context, the concept seems like, at worst, an attempt to be "edgy" or "counter-culture" and, at best, a "sincere/passive" attempt to suggest more representation of non-white/non-straight identities (or maybe an exploitation of the willful omission of concrete character backgrounds).

in recent times, however, the notion, and the contrived "importance" of representation has made some parts of fandoms like Homestuck, Steven Universe, AND more recently Undertale, esp. on tumblr, an insufferable and majorly divided place, much as bronies have done to the 4th gen MLP fandom.

tl;dr people using fictional characters as soapboxes for their own idealisms and goals.

NothingSpecial >> #51461
Posted on 2016-01-06 17:01:26 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
people using fictional characters that were created by someone else as soapboxes for their own idealisms and goals.
Important addition.

suomynonA >> #51463
Posted on 2016-01-06 18:48:51 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
^forgot to add that "created by someone else" line in my second post. thanks for that.

Anonymous >> #51473
Posted on 2016-01-08 16:32:25 Score: 3 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
The down with cis meme isn't rebelling, it's making fun of a tumblr post that got insanely popular and was one of the most clearly fake stories ever told http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/959679-down-with-cis

suomynonA >> #51479
Posted on 2016-01-08 19:29:58 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
^certainly, but you know how things on the internet can go from a fake trend to ironically real ideal, especially on tumblr...

suomynonA >> #51480
Posted on 2016-01-08 19:31:36 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
and often times pics like these with said shirt weren't drawn with the intent to be "ironic"

Anonymous >> #51481
Posted on 2016-01-08 20:16:53 Score: 1 (vote Up/Down)   (Report as spam)
honestly it's just a joke.. it's like "reverse racism" and "heterophobia" and all that shit


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