The survey first gauges the perceived gender of various words such as guy, dude, womxn, women, and so on. To assess the perceived neutrality of both folks and folx, I created a survey that was distributed through social media such as Swampy Memes for TWAMPy Teens, Swampy Memes for LGBTQ Teens, and my personal social media accounts. However, it is not any more or less neutral than the original folks and is not viewed as a better alternative. This paper argues that the use of folx is meant to index the support of non-binary individuals and show inclusivity through language. One suggestion is to use the word folx, which is a variation of the word folks where the ‘-ks’ is replaced with an ‘-x.’ Using “folx incorporates the x that is being widely used to bring in more identities to conversations, such as womxn, Latinx, and alumx” (Robertson, 2018: 47), thus adding to a tradition of using ‘x’ or ‘-x’ to show inclusivity. Since the rise in awareness of non-binary identities and how greetings such as guys and dudes are inherently masculine, thus marginalizing both women and non-binary individuals, there has been an increased need for a gender-neutral way to address groups of people. Yt folx swear that being a poc isn’t that difficult and that we’re just being sensitive/weak/offended on purpose but start to unravel at the seams when faced with any racialized situation.Building off recent research on gender-neutral language, this paper will examine the use of folks and folx concerning usage and perceived neutrality. …as well as more systematic forms of oppression black Americans face. Idk why yt folx tell black folx 2 go back 2 Africa like they nosy thievin asses wudnt follow us just 2 see wut we doin & steal wut we create These injustices can include forms of cultural appropriation… Welcome to UCI, where YT folx vandalize school property by writing “it’s okay to be white” where ever they can. Welcome to UC Irvine, where the YT Folx feel threatened when anyone checks them, where YT folx really believe in reverse racism and color blindness. Other times yt folx addresses unjust practices black Americans experience or perceive. Yt folx are always like "Homygawsh a train at night that's literally the most dangerous" but they'll go cliffdiving in shark infested water. Sometimes yt folx playfully stereotypes things white people like or do. People of color, especially black Americans, may use yt folx in both humorous and serious contexts, typically to call out white privilege. Puh are other variants, meant to look like names.Īs its spelling indicates, yt folx is internet slang primarily found on social media sites such as Twitter or Facebook. Yt folx exists alongside other internet slang terms for white people, including wypipo, a humorous term based on the phonetic pronunciation of “white people.” Y.P. Indeed, some white people have pushed back against yt folx, seeing it as a racist term -a reverse racism viewpoint which often overlooks the long-running inequality and inequity minorities have faced in the US. The deliberate misspellings of yt folx may have spread as a way around censors and moderators online, given that some may see white folks as a slur. Why do YT folx believe that holding the door for you (especially when you’re a mile away) is gonnna solve systemic oppression? □ It’s evidenced on 2006 on Twitter, the year the platform began, and thus likely had been in use in black internet spaces before it. Together, yt folx became a slang phrase for “white folks” by the mid-2000s. We should note that elsewhere in culture, folx serves as a gender-neutral way to refer to members of or signal identity in the LGBTQ community. phat or thicc), and folx, for folks, seems to follow in this vein. Whitey, evidenced since at least the 1830s, has been used by black Americans to disparage white people, especially implying oppression and racial discrimination. By at the early 2000s online, whitey was spelled phonetically at yt.īlack slang has a history of alternate spellings (cf. The yt in yt folx appears to stem from the slang term whitey.
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