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what-even-is-thiss

Where’s the YA protagonist teen girl and her two boyfriends that are supposed to save us from this mess anyways

what-even-is-thiss

The dystopia books lied. The teen throuples aren’t coming to save us.

what-even-is-thiss

Save me teen dystopia love triangle

what-even-is-thiss

Teen dystopia love triangle save me

wolfythewitch

Commission

venusbambisa

#idwtbamg Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl is a sick IP. Has that classic, quality Cartoon Network feel.

drizzledrawings

Make women hairier in video games... she is running for her life she doesnt have time to shave

phanyaoi

DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME THE ROOM NUMBER WHERE ILYA AND SHANE FIRST FUCKED IS THE EXACT SAME NUMBER OF PHIL LESTERS FUCKING APARTMENT OR I WILL EXPLODE. WHAT THE FUCK.

fresas-bg

Epic x The Chosen

miss-wizard

DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

coleblackblood

As an American: Seriously, please don’t

miss-wizard

ok well i don't

alatismeni-theitsa

"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

kingwren

Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.

It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.

In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.

And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.

If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.

(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)

Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.

And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

onedivinemisfit

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

revcleo

Also like people who say "just leave tumblr if you don't want to see american stuff" it's fucking everywhere it's not just online, it's offline too, our politicians keep trying to copy the USA, your tarrifs bankrupted small sellers all over Europe, your proxy wars and ability to just stop wars with a phone call also influence us, in south america Venezuela is currently risking being bombed to distract people from the fact that your president is a paedophile.

Emerican Johnson once had a good video (which I can't find any more) about how he moved from being a capitalist into a socialist, which involved leaving the USA and then realising that people outside of the USA can't choose to ignore politics from the USA because of how much it affects everyone.

There's a good video by Jack Saint on cultural cringe, and how even unintentionally when there's a culture which is considered modern (like it fills the cinemas) it can make your own culture seem boring and shitty meaning you go towards the other culture and abandon your own history and sometimes even language. Like an interesting example of this is how 'white walls' are considered cool in Indian social media because of how there's so many people from the USA who have just plain white walls for their videos, rather than traditional Indian house designs. Especially because IKEA is expensive and out of reach for most people in India, so having a plain painted white wall with IKEA furniture is actually a status symbol!

There's been so many times I've tried to get through to a bunch of people from the US the sheer amount of stuff we can't avoid. But I think the indoctrination which people in the USA do go through has been made quite clear in some of the recent videos from Evan Edinger, where he can point out where the absolute nonsense he's recieved in his comments is mentally from, as he grew up in the USA but once he lived in another country he realised all the wool which had been pulled over his eyes.

Many people from the USA when confronted with the truth seem even unable to unwilling to actually listen to people from outside the USA. They just get angry and combative. Like arguments like "We have problems inside too!" Like yeah of course you do, we know, we can show you paths to help. "Why are you attacking us, there's lots of POC in the USA" do you think there's only white people outside of the usa? do you think there's only white people even in Europe or something? Very racist argument to make. "I'm not listening to an X" if the place someone comes from means you won't listen to them, never mind the xenophobia it just makes you look like a child if you say an argument is based on who someone is rather than what it says.

imoldbutimstillintothat

Exactly every single USAmerican (and Canadian) I’ve ever talked to have said ”I don’t know what that is” if I say what something cost in SEK, as if I should know the current exchange rate at any point and that they’re unable to look it up themselves. And I regret every time I replied to that and explained instead of going ok👍

And with the cultural norms etc it’s gone so far that some swedes have changed their wedding traditions because they’ve seen the bride being led to the altar by the father on TV/in movies/on social media. Not to mention that some people here think we have a jury in criminal courts when that’s never been the case.

Not to mention they can’t fathom that different countries have different histories when it comes to minorities and oppressed groups, equating and conflating them erases the particular struggle in different areas and with different cultures and people. Comparing and highlighting patterns is a good thing, but saying one thing is the exact same as another isn’t really helpful all the time.

And: most people in my part of the world (Europe) and in many other countries are held hostage by English when we communicate with each other. Any and all mistakes are laughed at by people who barely can say hello in a second language. (Or even spell ”our” as ”are” and ”a lot” as ”allot” and don’t know the difference between ”it’s” and ”its” in their very first language.) And often it turns out that our languages have more in common with what words mean and English is the odd one out (talking to an Italian guy once he said some words are similar in Italian and English but have different meanings, I said it’s the same with Swedish and English and mentioned the word eventuellt/eventually and it turns out he was thinking of the same word). It’s often easier to talk to someone who has English as their second language because their attitude is that they’re trying to understand you and it’s only English as a first language speakers who’s ever told me my English isn’t a as good as I think it is when they’re slightly annoyed with me. Yet proving they understood what I meant when they point out what I said slightly incorrectly. They do not appreciate me immediately switching to Swedish for some reason 🧐 and French people have a reputation for being rude? Lmao? At least you don’t hear them coming from four blocks away and they don’t wear sports clothes in art museums.

Not to mention the constant messages from online friends about how absolutely hilarious it is that a Swedish word means something else, and often impolite, in English. Sometimes with an outright suggestion that we should change it. But at the same time it’s unforgivable if I confuse eventuellt (possibly) with eventually (at a later time, in the end).

And your cinnamon rolls look like absolute cumbuns but god forbid I point that out 😔

langtaler

Austrian here. All of this. All. Of. This!!!

I once was chosen to be lay judge and the presiding judge said: "To be clear from the beginning. You do not call me Euer Ehren (Your Honour). I am not American. You refer to me as Frau Richter or Vorsitzende (Madam or Chief Judge). This is not television. This is an Austrian courthouse."

We have problems with American media -we really do.

But I really do not object that English is used as a lingua franca throughout Europe. I had to learn French at school because it was widely used in commerce then. It is a lot more difficult to learn than English - at least in lower grade education and for persons who do not enjoy learing languages very much.

We need a common language here on this continent of a thousand languages not counting dialects. It is good to have something in common, apart from a very diveded European Parliament and NATO.

I very much agree that the American Way of LIfe has shaken European traditions after WWII and media could be little bit more diverse. But this is within our hands. You can write your demands to your local TV or radio stations at any time. ORF - the Austrian state television - for instance has a "Publikumsrat" - the watchers' council. Build a grassroot movement, get things done. After all Europeans live in democracies and have the right to contribute to day to day politics

You can also demand a smarter dubbing of American TV productions or movies. Send a letter to dubbing studios explaining the problematic dubbing of "911" instead of local help- and emergency lines. Often it only is that simple to make a change.

You can join a choir or local traditional music or costume group to preserve these traditions you miss so much. You can retell, rewrite, repaint myths and fables if you have the feeling that they will be forgotten. After all this is what Brothers Grimm did with German and French fairytales some decades ago. If you feel it is time to preserve then please, please! Start preserving and do not complain on the dominance of mainstream media.

If we feel American social media is censoring too strictly - what on earth is stopping us from startin a liberal European platform? Start some crowdfunding, find some code writers. We have got smart people in Europe. And if the orangutan on the other side of the pool starts jumping and shreeking again about American data being stolen and forbidding EuroTok in the US - so be it.

Whining will not change anything. Actions, demonstrations, demands, commitment will.

eroticcannibal

STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

eroticcannibal

I know this sounds jokey and funney but I am serious and it is ableist and infantilising and inaccessible so stop

axelfenfox97

listen man, im not even deaf. i just use captions because the mental illness means i cant fucking hear the tv if the cats are Existing Noisily. i still get mad when instead of the “fuck” that they clearly said, they put “****” like… bro what do those four asterisks mean. there are multiple four letter words in the english language. that could literally be anything. but also I’m an adult, I’ve chosen to watch content featuring expletives, I’d like to know what the characters are saying.