The sly smile of knowing you have done your job well.
This diagram is incredibly funny when you realize it’s entirely inspired by Lindsay Ellis putting her foot in her mouth and white-woman-tears-ing herself off twitter. This is literally day three or four of the most comedic just-gotta-tweet-through-it overreaction you can imagine.
Deets? haven’t seen anything about this (not on twitter all the time myself).
To give you the bullet-point summary:
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Lindsay makes an offhand, short review of Raya and the last dragon, calling it an “Avatar: The Last Airbender Redux”
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Asian-Americans on Twitter pretty mildly criticize her for it, both for calling a story that is written by Asian creators and almost entirely cast with Asian-Americans a rip-off of a show written by white people that is only taking up an Asian-inspired aesthetic, as well as some eye-rolling at yet another example of an Asian IP being compared by default to the one Asian-inspired property every white millennial is at least passingly familiar with. On the whole, pretty low key, very much “Look, we get what you mean, but watch literally any other show, please, we’re so tired of this” kinda style and tone.
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Lindsay decides to, instead of backing off or really clarifying, start trying to tweet through it, and comes off as condescending and dismissive, calls her critics “Crazies” as well as picking the incredibly poorly chosen phrasing “I can see how you could take it that way if you squint” when the overwhelming majority of her initial critics were Asian.
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After a few hours of this, the Twitter waters have been chummed sufficiently to start drawing the usual mob of opportunistic shitsharks, who proceed to go very hard on her, while pretty much ignoring the issue and screaming at her about a dozen different other perceived slights. Her stans jump to her defense, and in the process, both start harassing the original people taking issue, and dismissing their claims as wrong, dumb, invalid, and as being an obvious attempt to tear Lindsay down for no reason.
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Lindsay deletes her Twitter, or at least suspends it - I think the latter, but obviously, I’ve no way of knowing. By this point, the original issue is entirely drowned out by white woman tears, and it’s entirely about Lindsay.
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The takes about cancel culture start, how Lindsay has been canceled, parasocial relationships and toxicity accusations fly thick and fast, etc, etc, as the story slowly gets twisted around further and further to suit. Other YouTubers start talking about it, mostly from the perspective that Lindsay got harassed off Twitter, and excusing her initial response. And as go the quasi-celebrities, so go the fans, and we arrive at this point, where it’s day four of people carrying on about it.
Thank you sir for the quick summation.
Does management ever get held accountable? Or do they always pass the buck to the person who pushed the button?
Never forget
