@@CHClNOfullmelt The opposite isn't reality champ. Black creators have the talent to create their own content so they don't have to plunder another culture.
@@Epiphoneplayah America it's not just one culture, it's the culture of half of the world. If you were right there would be a lot of things you shouldn't eat or wear or do
@The Tribal Funkster Lol what trends? Regardless of what race starts them, trends are gonna be forgotten in a while anyway, that's just how it is. People move on to the next thing.
@@benjaminjackson9449 If white people can't say the n word then blacks shouldn't either stop being gatekeepers of words when you are a Hypocrite about it.
woah i used aave without even knowing that its racist. im not a native english speaker and learned english from watching vines and youtube videos. i had no idea that this way of speaking is associated with a race and used to mock black people. thank you for this video! very educational
@@reversemitosis4213 Me, too. My native language isn't English either and I adapted "period" from The Internet without knowing its heritage is from AAVE. I learned 15 minutes ago, What AAVE is and I'm very glad I learned about it so that I can get better not using it as a non-black person
@@noway3119 I think its most commonly described as a dialect not a full blown language. It has distinct grammar and words not present in mainstream American English.
Just hate that I get called acting like a white girl for speaking proper English 🙁. Im so tired of people expecting me to talk a curtain away because I’m black and it’s offensive!
PREACH SIS! The amount of times white women in college would try to 'correct' my sentences whenever I talked in AAVE was enough to drive me up the damn wall! Yet they wanna turn to me for help on assignments because they knew I knew what the fuck I was doing. 🙃
The witness for Trayvon Martin's case a young African American women. Was deemed inarticulate due to her venacular being AAVE. So it's sad that people can make careers talking that talk. But young Trayvon was denied justice due to witnesses vernacular.
Are u kidding me!!!!!! That’s so fucking frustrating and shameful. I remember back around 2014 when everything w Michael Brown was going on, a family friend of mine from STL was mocking I wanna say Michael’s mom for how she talked on the news, aka in AAVE. So fucking disrespectful. And then she also mocked her after she received supposed ‘media training’ aka no more AAVE. Wish I could go back in time and rip this racist girl a new one.
Actually, the critics were spot on. Jeantel was a stand-in for Brittany Diamond Eugene - rumored to be her half-sister - who was the real ear witness, and did/does not speak or behave like Rachel. Pretty much all of Rachel's testimony was perjury, and she herself was a special needs student, 18 yrs old in 9th grade, and part of an amazing legal fraud. Do some digging, and ask yourself why the people alleging these things haven't gotten sued yet for libel or slander.
The part of Gen Z considering black culture their ‘pop’ culture was very eye opening, never looked at it that way before thank you for the video raising awareness
I think it is exceptionally ironic that many white members of gen z can consider themselves as "radical" or even aware of their privilege only to consume and commodify a surface deep understanding of black culture.
To be fair, black culture has influenced american pop culture and has for years, so many white people recognize the elements of black culture that have gone mainstream and find a sense of familiarity that isn’t necessarily reciprocated
@Black Queens Would you say Eminem is a musician, or does he have to make "black music"? Is " American " good enough for a black person in America, or only "African American"?
My mom uses AAVE with her black students and says she is “speaking their language”. She uses it to be “credible” with them and connect. I have been trying so hard to find a video explaining why it’s inappropriate because she won’t listen to me. This video is definitely gonna help 🙏
Oh wow I'm glad my video could help! There are dozens of other ways to connect with and build trust with her Black students. I hope she can find them 😊
This would make me feel so uncomfortable and disrespected I really hope you had that talk with her. As a black student when I see teachers do this it feels more like mocking then trying to understand us....
I had a teacher who did that, even before I became ‘woke’ and stuff, I was always uncomfortable. It makes us feel like you’re making fun of us or trying to ‘get down on our level’. Tell her even if she thinks no one notices, we all notice and people are probably talking about her behind her back
Humor and coolness is subjective not objective. You are not the emperor of humor or coolness. If someone wants to be an actor and put on a voice as a bit, they have every right. Take the stick out of your ass and stop trying to control people, it is cringe.
"But when these white boys on tiktok do it, it's hilarious! Their intelligence is not questioned at all....Why aren't black people given the benefit of the doubt?" This was necessary. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Please do! She and her pissy and fake AF moderators block everything said to her about using a black accent and appropriating. She uses gay abd straight black men as her "black shields." They're just too poor to notice it or care
I question anybody's intelligence who can't speak like an intelligent person. There's slang and then there's sounding like you never learned how to read or write. I'm from the hood and I can't stand how ghetto some of my classmates were. It's not cute on anybody it's just trashy.
im a gay white boy and we all know that a lot of gay males use blaccent, i looked this up and im so glad i found this video. i dont think i use a blaccent when i speak but if im being honest i have to admit that ive used it at some point, especially when saying things like “chile anyways so” and “periodt pooh”. it breaks my heart to see that i was this ignorant and that i was hurting people or making people uncomfortable when speaking. what im trying to say is thank you for making this video and informing me. im so glad that i can now learn from my mistakes and do better. im sorry to you and your community for having used a blaccent at some point.
Wow, it's so cool to know this video had such an impact on you! Like I said, I'm really not against ppl thinking AAVE is cool and even using our terms (properly) here and there. But when nonblack ppl use it just for clout/to seem cool or hip, it starts to seem like mockery and that's where my issue lies🤦🏾♀️
@@missmxo1340 You're literally proving the point by saying it's from 90s ballroom culture, which was largely influenced by black women and gay black men. Ballroom was originally created for black people after they were being discriminated against in the drags. You don't even know the culture you're speaking about. Ballroom has almost exclusively been a space for black men and women. Find a culture of your own and stop stealing our shit.
Anyone else notice that the "sassy blaccent" is used a LOT by white gay men? Im queer myself but damn I see it so much and it always made me feel weird to say the least
Is it bad for gay people to talk like this? I love drag queens and a lot of them talk like this and i dont know if supporting them is bad or not if its offensive
@@sheepobly If you’re non black it’s not cool but just try to educate them and if they try to excuse it or what so ever down the line of excusing it then you shouldn’t support them then 🤷🏽♀️
black people often have to code-switch between a more standard english and BVE to get a job or not get mocked, whereas a non-black person can switch between the two without worrying about those kinds of problems
lmao that is downright wrong. No matter what race you are but speaking in AAVE can get you mocked by racists cos they think the language itself is inherently inferior. You're actually diluting how racist it is cos you're too horny to blame those "other races".
@@user-it2rk7yz2i ballroom was started by Black and Latino lgbt youth tho. so im not sure what point youre making here. They had originally started as integrated scenes but racism that ran rampant in the lgbt community in the 1920s alienated black and latino lgbt youth. the ballroom culture we know today has black and latino lgbt origins so its not fair to say it was "gay before black".
@@user-it2rk7yz2i more like they got most lingo from black women and carried it to ballroom then it spread as people shared it with their community plus made some of their own words
Are you Mexican or are you Mexican-American? I'm pretty sure most americans would have a heart attack listening how we talk in Mexico, over here theres no problem making fun of gays, blacks, asians, etc.
@@missingclover Mexican American. I do know how offensive and dark humor is in mexico because I have relaitves there. Try being pansexual in a mexican family lol.
@@erikan.n8409 Foo' means fool and Cuh means cousin. It was just adopted into slang used by mostly mexican americans. Also they say it in a "latino accent" and it just aint it chief
the fact that when i was in middle school i thought this was just stan twitter language says SO MUCH about how little people are aware of this issue. thank god i finally educated myself and can now call others out for their use of AAVE.
@SKY *-* its dumb to say that black people created it, just say it originates from the black community since blacks never choose to just make a new word and it comes from words from the English vocabulary and a vague cultural aspect of some African tribes which is some sort of foundation for some aspects of black culture
@SKY *-* ion think that’s what they meant by “usage of AAVE”. Though it wasn’t clear, there’s good chance that they meant “(incorrect) usage of AAVE”. But I guess it’s better to be safe
At my school there’s a whole thing about white guys using heavy Indian accents to make others laugh, (sometimes they would even draw bindi on their foreheads or put their hands together and go ‘ooooommmm’ as if they were praying or meditating) and it’s honestly so frustrating because if anyone called them out they would say they were ‘honoring the Indian culture’ and it’s annoying AF bc I'm Indian American.
omgg a lot of boys at my school would call one of the only indian-american kids at our school "baljeet", and use a fake indian accent whenever they were talking to him. they all thought it was hilarious but you could tell that he was uncomfortable.
What do you think of my friend going as "a Jamaican guy" for Halloween? I haven't talked with him about it yet, cause idk if I'm white knighting or not. He got a hemp hoodie with stripes and thought it would fit as a Jamaican guy costume. I'm afraid he's just gonna say "I like the culture" as imitation is the best form of flattery. The situation doesn't feel right though, he doesn't study Jamaican culture, or have Jamaican stuff so I don't get a sense of appreciation. I've also been reading about how people get offended with stereotyping cultures, but also people think it's dumb to get mad about it cause it's someone liking the culture and not being offensive.
Girl I feel you. As an Indian woman myself I was heavily bullied in middle school for being a "fob": my accent was thick, my attitude and behavior were more traditional, I just didn't fit in. Yet on "multicultural" day when I wore a lehenga to school, people kept telling me my dress was so pretty and "exotic". I always felt somewhat like a spectacle
My father was a teacher in the 70s and 80s and took a teacher-focused course on AAVE (as you said, it was called "Ebonics" back then for teachers) and the school-focused training taught all the instructors the rules and grammar of the dialect, because the point of showing the differences was to show teachers that students weren't speaking "wrong," but were speaking another form of English, same as any other dialect.This video is fantastic. I'm glad RUclips recommended it to me.
@@ashcruz904 Sociolinguistics was very big back in the 60's! William Labov published the book "The Logic of Nonstandard English" in 1969 after having done research work through interviews with African American children, I haven't read it yet, but his hypothesis is that non-standard English has its own logic, and that teachers should indeed learn to accept this as a correct variety of English ! (just for some extra info :))
@@ashcruz904 the dialect actually slowly gets closer to it's own creole language the further back in time you go, at one point it was it's own creole language similar to Haitian Creole or Seychellois Creole for French. However unlike those places, the English never left and the slave revolts failed and after being assimilated into society as citizens, we slowly changed the creole into just a dialect of english and now the grammatical structures and vocabulary from those west african languages are mutually intelligible among speakers of other English dialects.
Honestly its annoying as a Jamaican when I hear a person say a Jamaican cuss word or try to speak patwa for a joke. "Surprisingly" people actually laugh at that. Then when ME an actually JAMAICAN speak patwa/patois I get ridiculed saying I sound dumb.
the fact that people view AAVE as "uneducated" never sat right with me as someone of creole (French Caribbean) heritage. While the lexicon of french creole is French and the lexicon of AAVE is English we both share the same syntax because our ancestry is of the same west african origin, we were just dropped off at different ports so we ended up adopting the words from the language spoken in the countries we were dropped off at. basically the way we speak and form sentences stems from the fact that we were taken from the same area in africa during slavery, but the words we use to form those sentences (english vs french) come from which slave owner we got left with.. because we had to communicate with them.. so if youre dropped of in a country that speaks french, youre going to use french words, if youre dropped off in a country that uses english GUESS WHICH WORDS YOURE GOING TO USE?? All while maintaining the same original syntax from our african ancestry.. because that's one of the harder things to learn when speaking a different language. It's easy to memorize words. It's harder to learn a new way to form sentences, thoughts, and convey ideas with said words in a brand new syntax. Which anyone who has actually learned another language will tell you.. and because we were all slaves no one was about to formally teach us how to do it.. so while yes we learned the words (aka lexicon) of our respective colonizers, we all, regardless of if they were english or french, kept our west african syntax.. For example, in AAVE if someone were to say "Where you is?" or "who that is?" theyre deemed uneducated because they didnt say it "properly" by normal english standards, but if you translate them from AAVE into "proper english" like we do when translating ANY OTHER LANGUAGE into "proper english" (because its not like we'd keep the same sentence structure when translating korean into english or russian to english, right? no, we'd put it into english syntax, duh) those 2 sentences translate to "where are you?" and "who is that?" respectfully. If i were to speak my native language, french creole, and translate "where are you?" and "who is that?" i would say: "Ki kote ou ye?" and "Kiyes sa ye?". Those 2 sentences translated literally and word for word is: "Where you is" and "who that is". 1) ki kote > where; ou > you; ye > A variation of 'se' which means 'is', but is specific for when you put 'is' at the END of a sentence. 2) kiyes > who; sa > that; ye > is. they literally translate to "where you is" and "who that is"... BECAUSE WE SPEAK WITH AFRICAN SYNTAX USING FRENCH LEXICON. Laymans terms we use french words with african sentence structure and grammar... AAVE is that exact same thing except ENGLISH lexicon, meaning just using english words with african sentence formation... So if my language isnt deemed "uneducated" just a different language WHY IS AAVE uneducated?????. AVVE is just an ENGLISHIFIED creole.... just like my language is a FRENCHIFIED creole.. its not "uneducated" its a different language, or a sub language of english. if we're going to sit here and say AAVE is "improper" then we have to also say those who speak AMERICAN, CANADIAN AND AUTRAILIAN ENGLISH, also speak "improper" because the mother tongue for your language is BRITISH ENGLISH.... and then we get into the fact that english in general is just words borrowed from germanic, roman, and latin languages..... like theres 13 languages TOTAL influencing english, including arabic, celtic, hebrew, just to name a few. if thats the case cant we just call english "Improper german" ect?? The flack black languages and black speech get go back to the racism associated with anything black or african in origin in an attempt to demean, belittle, and demonize black culture. so it gets slapped with "thats uneducated" WHY?? BECAUSE ITS BLACK AND BLACK PEOPLE DO IT?? ok so why is it that things that are black or from black people inherently are associated with BAD, GHETTO AND UNEDUCATED? WHY IS IT THAT IF BLACK PEOPLE AND SPECIFICALLY AFRICAN AMERICANS SPEAK IN A CERTAIN SYNTAX ITS UNEDUCATED BUT WHEN ANY OTHER CULTURE SPEAKS IN A SYNTAX OUTSIDE OF ENGLISH SYNTAX ITS NOT UNEDUCATED, JUST DIFFERENT? for example: in spanish its Noun > Adj, in english its Adj > Noun. youd be saying 'shirt red' instead of 'red shirt'. thats not seen as ghetto just a different language because they use different sentence structure than english. just like how AAVE or ANY language stemming from or influenced by afican languages have a different sentence structure than english. JUST LIKE HOW ANY LANGUAGE WHEN COMPARED TO A COMEPLETELY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE IS GOING TO HAVE 2 DIFFERENT SENTENCE STRUCTURES, BECAUSE THEYRE DIFFERENT.. but when its BLACK languages its ghetto and uneducated? So again WHY IS THAT??... IS IT PURELY BECAUSE RACISM SAID SO?? OH 👍🏽 AAVE IS NOT UNEDUCATED. ITS. A. DIFFERENT. LANGUAGE.. but you have to TRANSLATE IT. GO FIGURE. Just because you hear english words doesn't mean that you don't translate the sentences anymore. Jamaican patois is in English lexicon, you still have to translate it to understand what's being said.. Tagolog (spoken in the Phillipines) uses Spanish words because they were owned by Spain, does that now mean you don't translate Tagolog to a native from Spain just cause they use some spanish words?? No. Do we belittle and call Filipinos uneducated? No.... Hmm ok, so then why are you not translating AAVE and belittling those who speak it?? IS THE ANSWER AGAIN BECAUSE RACISM AND YOUR OWN PREJUDICES SAID SO???
THIS! I wish I could magically make people understand about creoles & dialects, ntm the fact that languages change & develop- if they didn't, we'd still speak Old English, & be able to read Beowulf. We can't, so do we speak "bad English"? Or, if we speak Old English today, is it "bad English"? No, we're speaking a different language! Even Shakespearean English uses grammar we'd call wrong today (& standard spelling didn't exist), but it's seen as the height of culture.
So many great points! Non-Black people have been ignorant about using AAVE for so long, I’m glad to see these conversations being brought to the mainstream. I wish everyone would learn and acknowledge the history / origins of these terms - so much of what people consider “internet culture” is really Black culture. I took an intro to LGBTQ+ class, watched Paris is Burning, and realized so much of the popular terms these days came from Black drag queens and ballroom culture. The more you know!! (Also thank you for mentioning me, that’s so sweet 🥺💛)
Growing up in a majority black community, it's just how everyone talks, and if you don't talk like everyone else you might not even be understood and will certainly be ridiculed.
Sparrow白兎 I understand the ridiculed part because people always told me I talk “white” when I didn’t use AAVE, but that just made me not use it even more. I think some people in the black community push this agenda that you have to do something the “black” way which makes it even harder to discover individuality🤔
Also, because of how other languages are structured aave is easier for a lot of ESL people to pick up due to the similarities (not that dialects need justification but that means aave actually makes more sense than ‘standard’ English)
@@jude8067 that's so interesting! i didn't know that but it makes sense. english is a hot mess of a language because it's such a mashup of words and rules from other languages, and anything that can make it more consistent isn't a bad thing.
@@rickr0113d ik! this is y black ppl dont wanna let white people wear our hairstyles... because they'll steal and claim them. I mean when kim kardashian wore box braids, they nearly got renamed as "kim k braids". Our hair is a big part of us and we're not ready to have it stripped out of our culture
As an African I finally see what AAs have been saying for years. I'd only understand it intellectually before but now I've witnessed AA culture being pillaged and looted globally without paying homage to it's origin. Alternative rnb is now considered pop by gen z. For example younger asian listeners don't know that everything their favourite idols do is heavily influenced by AAs not general American trends. It's painful.
Omg the idol thing. Specifically for kpop i wonder if being from such a homogenized country the divide between cultures in america is hard for them to comprehend. I wish Black Americans would get some credit for the literal international influence they've had instead of giving the praise to a country that exploits them.
I think you mean kpop since I’ve never seen any other Asian idols using it and I agree there are kpop idols that have profited from aave but not all of them use stuff from black culture at all and some idols are really wonderful people 😊
@@Soyouel They're not saying they're not wonderful people. You can be a nice person while still knowingly or unknowingly appropriating a culture due to miseducation and ignorance.
do y'all remember that bella Hadid interview "homeboys gonna like... get it" like sis tried and failed horribly because whyyyyy was she talking like that knowing good and well she never speaks that way
Also, Black and Afro Latina Trans Women is where most of the LGBTQ+ communities get their slang. It's brought from Black and Brown communities to the gay community to the mainstream.
it’s crazy because words that come from black culture like “ sis, boo, purr, period,” ect...are labeled as twitter/tik tok lingo and so now when black people use those worlds naturally because 95% of us grew up with it, you get labeled as “basic” or they’ll say stuff like “when you base your personality off tik tok lol” when it’s really them copying a form of speaking that we naturally used and taking words that don’t belong to them just to later deem them as annoying or basic
The fact that I’ve seen multiple videos of white millennials making parody’s about the way that gen-Zer’s “talk” while not even realizing that it’s not “youth” or “internet” culture and that it’s actually AAVE blows my mind. They really and I mean GENUINELY think that stuff is brand new. I be wanting so bad to just tell them to go pick up literally any black movie from the 90’s (before social media) and I promise you you’re going to hear that SAME lingo. It’s just frustrating. Loved the video btw.
Its almost like being black is a costume. When non-black people where the costume it's funny, but when the costume is in itself it "not proper english" and we should "change the way we speak because it doesn't sound right".
Would you want to be anything else but black? Flavorless and untalented? Totally uninteresting as a human being? Folks want “flavor”👩🏾🦱 and we’re the only ones who have it. I hate that we are so fucking cool in everything we do They hate that we’re athletic fast strong and fearless They want to be black but cannot. So they borrow and think they can make a black person out of whatever they are It’s really sad If I wasn’t black I could not except myself either I would keep trying to be something more
@@markleewife125 No it wouldn't, no race is superior to any other, the 'black culture' mentioned here is usually from western influence. Go to sub-saharan africa village and no 'black people' there will have similar mannerisms.
I'm from a country in Africa and I have been living in America for about 14 years... I don't know how to use AAVE. People have said I'm trying to act white because of my vocabulary and my inability to "talk like an African American" and I've said many times, I don't know how and I don't wanna look like an idiot trying to copy people (and failing) who were born speaking it!
That is just stereotyping your race? That’s wrong. It’s like pressuring an Asian person on why they can’t speak their native language. There are many nationalities in America like Asian Americans and African Americans and usually they will learn English as their first language.. the world is evolving and I hope our people’s brains will do the same
People always forget that African Americans aren’t the only black peoples in the world , and I hate that speaking “proper” makes u trying to be white like make it make sense
Yesss!!!! I'm also from Africa and I've lived here 7 years,but when I was in middle school people would ask me why I talked so "proper" and after that I stated to fake different accents and slang to hide my true one
You don’t have to talk a certain way because of your race or where you come from. We’re human. The way you speak makes you unique, speak however you want to speak, as long as you can get your points across.
“Im from “Africa””. 🙄 watch as you perpetuate the “Africa is a homogeneous unit which is basically one country” stereotype. Please say the name of your country
@Angelina Sosa You see It!!! they appropriate our natural way of life and swear "we never where there" half of americas invention has a black man behind it, and thats a fact!!! They just want to continue the narrative that we don't invent. When in actuality...we do and still continue to!!! They try to take our wave pretty much half of them can't relate or don't even know or associate with us, but swear they know what we do!! When it comes to creativity you guessed it aboriginal people are the source!! You guys need to wake up too, love
as a gen z person who used a lot of parts of AAVE (like tea, sis, and that stuff), i learned a lot from your video, its really educational and i wouldnt have known otherwise, i never looked into it
wait I'm really confused is it wrong to use those words because I use them with all my friends no matter the color of their skin, and I don't use it to be funny either I just use it
@@abbyj1252 idk and i dont have a say on it either (yt person here), but i think its alright as long as its not being disrespectful and stuff? like reclaiming something people got shamed for for ages is obviously fucked up but using certain words isnt bad i think
But he didn't use it to mock black people. Her point wasn't saying that you cant use it. And also non people of color can grow up with this kind of accent
@@unknowns78 he grew up in the Philippines….I can guarantee you won’t find people speaking in a blaccent in the Philippines… where they speak an entire different language…cmon now. Then he moved to Hawaii….it’s not like he moved to a predominantly black area. Please watch the videos of him saying the n word and mocking and exaggerating black women and then come back and try to tell me he’s not mocking them
@@WithAngelWings I'm not against the idea of saying that word. It shouldn't be used tho. And you can tell me the name titles of the videos. Also there is a difference between exaggerating an accent and faking one just to mock someone and even he could've got the accent through the internet.
@@unknowns78 I'm from the Philippines and I guarantee you 100% NOBODY speaks like Bretman Rock does. Walang wala. Blaccent lang talaga yung ginawa niya. He's just really using AAVE.
Dorito Dew I did when I first read it like two weeks ago at a friend’s house. I quickly caught on within the hour though, and when I voiced what I initially thought it was, my friend Elijah laughed really hard. It was a good day.
What if that's what makes it funny lol, i think everyone is so uptight nowadays in regard to sensitivity. It's like everything is racist or disrespectful when it's not 🙄 Cant we all learn to laugh a little?
Exactly...the genetic traits, cultural style, and traditions of other races are subpar until white mainstream steals it and use it....THEN it's "trendy", "cool", and "in-fashion". Bye! GTFOH!
THANK YOU! the amount of times when I was younger, classmates would stop me and just pull their eyes to mock my eyes? and now they’re the same ppl idolizing fox eyes
Jay Aye And unfortunately I think it will always be this way until the damage and influence of European imperialism is eradicated in the coming generations and everyone who is not of European descent is viewed as equal. And people will conflate my statement as a complaint about white privilege." The victor writes history and colonizing Europeans did win throughout. I'm surprised I still learned about Native Americans in the American public education system. The education system sure tried to play that down. America is built on destruction and hatred. The country our mothers, fathers, and relatives came to with big dreams and promises of freedom is the same America that treats any non white immigrant or even multi generational American born citizen as a second class citizen. America is supposed to be a melting pot, but what diversity is there really when you're only considered American if you're white by a huge majority of your fellow "Americans." Disappointing.
White folks will never get it until they comprehend Black Culture is Jazz! Jazz musically breaks ALL the rules & sounds dope asf. We break all the rules & still drip! We dope asf!
I am a black South African and I am also sick of white South Africans using the way we speak for comedy. PS- the way black South Africans speak isn't the same as African Americans I can just relate
They speak that way to be “funny” because they think that style of vernacular is funny. They are literally (though "unintentionally") making a mockery of how some people talk which in turn continues to perpetuate the negative connotations of that vernacular.
shit i do the same thing with Indian accents. Mad respect to those tech geniuses but man are their accents funny. Especially the Gujarati, love those guys.
@@hughmungus99 i hope you understand that what you're doing is highly offensive. mocking a groups typical accent because you find it "funny" is racist and demeaning. you don't have to purposefully be offensive for it to happen.
Guys, chill. We Indians know our accent sounds funny. Why do you think Lilly Singh speaks like a black American girl in spite of growing up in Canada? South Indians, north Indians and north east have different accents, and we make fun of each other all the time. Of course, some of it is meant in a hurtful way.
@@janeakindele-abe6855 well just like i don't care if people make racist jokes towards blacks or make fun of AAVE, i also don't care about making fun of other groups as long as it's in a joking manner. Everyone needs to stop taking shit so seriously and stop looking to be offended. Obviously me mocking an indian accent doesn't mean i have something against indian people or that i think they are lesser somehow just like if someone mocks my accent i don't fucking care and i laugh with them and if you learned to chill out and take a fucking joke then you would too.
I study linguistics and any serious linguist will tell you that AAVE is a sociolect (or language, the distinction between dialect/sociolect and a language is really arbitrary) of it's own, beacause it has completely regular grammatical and phonological features. It bugs me so much when people who know nothing about linguistics feel the need to call AAVE bad or improper English, or mistakes. Language mistakes are irregularities, AAVE features are regular and meaningful systems of grammar and meaning, just like with standard English.
@@miketrotman9720 Yes there's defnitely a connection between the two, however the exact early origins of AAVE are still under debate (research suggests that early AAVE was closer to Brittish dialects of that time). But as the south kept using slavery more and longer, and even after slavery was technically abolished still used black servants for a long time, it's reasonable to assume that during that time period AAVE picked up a lot of features from southern american English (and culture). Your point about New England is interesting, since we know that African Americans were present (although in varying and sometimes small degrees) in most other states, but since they were allowed to integrate more into society instead of being segregated as lower class people / workers, they probably integrated more into the language and culture as well, so we might not have even had something like AAVE in that case.
It pissed me off when it was and is called " ebonics" I was a kid when it was coined that. It's NOT! It's a dialect and even then, there are various dialects spoken amongst us Black folk.
@Carl Panzram you are aware that the English language that you're using still isn't correct either. Also...there are only "White" supremacists. At this point you should have just sat this one out. Smh
@Carl Panzram Dude an entire legacy of linguistic research proves that wrong. Linguists don't just say that to "please the woke crowd". This is based on research and studies and testing and testing, not a matter of opinion. It also seems that you're missing the point. One person making "the same mistake" over and over again isn't a dialect/sociolect no, that's just an individual quirk or maybe a speech deficiency. But if an entire group of people always says something one way, and that way of saying it corresponds with a set meaning, that everyone in that group understands and produces clearly, than you're not talking about a "mistake". What is said is what is intended to be said. AAVE speech characterized as full of mistakes is a caricature created by white people in the era of blackface. In truth, AAVE (although of course there are regional varieties) has completely regular systems of pronunciation and grammar that are well researched and documented. I wish people would take the time to actually study the linguistic field a little instead of jumping to conclusions on something they apparantly know nothing about.
As someone who's not black I had NO IDEA that speaking that way is offensive. I honestly thought it was just a cute and funny internet slang. I am kinda cringing now because I used to always say things like 'chile' and 'periodt'. Thanks for this video!
How can yall all be American live in the same country and think that how another group of people’s slang ( who are from the same country) is an Internet slang? I’m not American and I never thought AAVE is an Internet slang... I’m asking because this is super confusing to me
its weasel so you mean you never knew that this is an African American dialect? Come on!! If you consume mainstream media it’s pretty obvious that it’s a dialect from black people in the states... there are so many different English dialects how can someone think it’s „ Internet slang“ idk I’m not trying to be rude but it doesn’t makes sense to me..
@@sweetcutecoolgirl I literally never knew how to tell between some dialects and I have never been that exposed to African Americans until a couple years ago because of social media. And since I knew virtually nothing about different dialects I thought AAVE was just slang. Again I never knew about this until this video, which I am grateful for
As someone who has learned English mostly from the Internet, when I heard aave terms I just thought they were like american slang or something like that, so when I found out what it was a little while ago I was horrified that I had been using it for so long without knowing. I think this topic should be talked about a lot more because neither me or any of my friends knew about aave even after using it for so long, and now I feel so bad lmao
This is my exact situation too.I am from India and I have learned English mostly from internet so I have been using lots of aave when I speak and I feel so bad about it now,I really want to know what is specifically aave so I can stop using it so I am really researching on it rn.
I'm from America, but until like three weeks ago I had never heard of AAVE either. I knew what a Blaccent was, just never realized there was a name for it. I have been using words like, 'Period, Sis, Slay, and Hella' for years. Everyone I know has. I always thought they were just internet slang. Imagine my shock when I found out they were not internet slang. I'm glad I found out about it. I don't want to come off as another ignorant white American. I try to learn about all cultures. I find them beautiful and fascinating.
I have a friend who changes her whole voice, attitude, and mannerisms when she's around black people. It's so ridiculous, and I don't understand how or why she has black friends who don't want to punch her in the throat.
Hm. Maybe she's code switching. I'm black and it's something most black people do given the social element we're around. But it has to be natural. But if it sounds forced like she's *trying* to be *cool and hip* then that's a lil iffy!
@@chibimoon1432 I think I've witnessed my boyfriend do what you're talking about, he is black, and the way he speaks to his own family and friends is very different than the way he speaks in front of my family. It used to bother me because it made me feel like he was afraid to be himself in front of my family, but he explained to me that it's something he would have to try really hard not to do, and that he's been doing it his entire life, and that's it's almost a survival skill. My friend I was talking about in the previous comment just does it because she thinks it's cool, she's the type of person to change to fit in with whatever group of people she's with at the moment, but unlike my boyfriend, you can tell it's not natural at all, and that it's an act
@@b.mcknight8686 oh then yeah! That's not cool. A friend of mine in middle school was the same way. Depending on if she was with her close friends she'd use AAVE to sound cool or more "chill" it was little weird, because she wouldn't talk like that around me. She was like a different person, I could also tell it wasn't natural so. Whatever I guess!
Just commenting to say that we should stop calling AAVE grammar "errors" and "mistakes" in grammar because it's not an error, it's just not standard American English grammar and never was intended to be
Hey... Would you mind explaining why that sentence is a subversion of AAVE? Like... What it means and how it should actually be? I'm a Brazilian who speaks English as a Foreign language, I'm asking out of curiosity. Thank you 😊
@@thaiscarvalho4946 so in context Finna or Fonna depending on ones accent is the AAVE version of "going to" so adding gon or gonna after the use of finna is redundant. One correct way to use 8t would be to say "We're fonna get something to eat. You comin?"
I have this one friend who does the most tryna use aave and she would say “finna gonna” on accident a bunch of times 😭 like if you can’t speak just stop and don’t
Thanks to everyone for the support on this video! Lately I've been getting a lot of questions from nonblack ppl asking me if saying certain things is ok based on their specific circumstances. *I can't answer that.* I am not a spokesperson for the black community and I can't control your speech. As I mentioned in the video, it's all about intention. If you're still confused, *do more research.* :)
I do i have question though... Does it make me a racist person if im singing a song that has the n word in it and i use it even though im White (half asian)? Can you explain to me why people say its racist because i really dont understand T~T
@@mr_sugas_fire3015 saying the n word if you're not black is racist. don't do it. don't even type it. the n word has been used (and still is) by white people to insult black people. the reason black people say it is now is bc we are reclaiming the word for ourselves, so its our word and can't be used an insult to us. I haven't done all the research but this is mainly from what I know so if anyone sees a mistake please let me know so I can fix it :)
In high school me and my friends definitely used AAVE inaccurately, assuming it was from “Stan” culture (especially tumblr) we lived in Australia and were so far removed from the reality and history of the language. As an adult I’ve made a conscious decision not to use AAVE as it was never mine to use in the first place! I wish more non-black people would acknowledge the origin of the language they claim for stan/online culture especially those who live in the US, you KNOW who’s language you’re stealing and you KNOW the racial double standard that protects you from criticism whilst simultaneously dis-crediting the intelligence of the people you steal it from.
oh another Austrailan tumblr user !! I heavily relate to this. I used to use a blaccent often in high school and only found out recently how many words I once used were AAVE, so I've distanced myself from it all. there's not a lot of African Australians either which I think makes things worse, because if you're not able to interact with a real person from that culture, you're more likely to see them as a caricature, which I believe is what I did
Actually since I’m not from America, before this video I didn’t even know that Blaccent existed, when I heard it I always thought it was a certain accent from a part of America. Thank you so much for educating me!
@@elbuki4547 the important of your comment is that you did research. Something many people don't even think about doing on the Internet 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Not even just about this topic. It applies to everything
You might hear some variants that sound similar but they’re actually southern accents or bayou accents. Just a like ~fun fact~ so you don’t think any accent that’s similar is trying to make a mimicry of it.
In a lot of ways it is a regional accent, it's just that the region is scattered black pocket communities throughout the US. This at least partially comes from shared origins in either large plantations or major city centers who then spread in groups and formed said pocket communities. Unless I have thoroughly misinterpreted, Tee seems to be of the mind that if you're nonblack and use a blaccent just for the jokes, thats a problem. "Just for the jokes" is a decent part of that because within those communities there are nonblack people who earnestly speak in this way because they grew up with it. Most notably, many Latinx people from large cities will adopt aave heavily into their speech, because of proximity and intermingling with black neighbors. There are white people (and any other race or ethnicity) whose normal accent is not far from the stereotypical blaccent. But like, black people can tell the difference between the real deal and a put on. Tbh if you pay attention its really not that hard to spot even if you're not black. Also any white person who has spent enough time around black people to earnestly have speech patterns similar to black people would know how to stay in their lane, so like... Tl;dr There are nonblack people who use the blaccent in a legitimate way because of region but they aren't usually an/the issue
crazy thing is the “sis do be finna go and slay” example probably went over a lot of non-black people’s heads cause they genuinely don’t understand the structure of AAVE.
@@easytiger35 you may say that it's improper speaking of a language but that's how alot of languages happen. If two groups of people start our speaking the same language and then you separate them for a long enough period of time they will no longer be able to understand each other. Language evolves. With the improper education of black people and segregation it makes sense that a different version of English was created. Like U.S English is different than UK English and Australian English but it's all English. And if you feel AAVE isn't proper English. Then the English you speak is in proper. You don't use the same English as the first colonial people. If white people spoke AAVE and African Americans spoke "proper English" of today. Then AAVE would be considered "proper English" and the "proper English" would be considered AAVE.
Will Strickland not exactly, there are still rules to dialects and slang. Slang words have meanings and you can’t just shoves any combo of words together so the grammatically correct aave version of “sis do be finna go and slay” would be something like “sis do be slayin doe”
It's even sounds cringy when "forced" by other black people that naturally DO NOT speak like that.... it sounds almost patronizing. Just be authentic to yourself people!
@@poiseblemiramoon6992 What does that have to with what she said? If you feel like speaking like that ok. But it's not authentic then why? Like she said It comes across as forced if it's not natural to one.
I was born in the U.S. but my parents are originally from the Caribbean. I don’t use AAVE because despite being black and going to a predominantly black & Hispanic school where it was used all my life, we never personally used it growing up and it just seems odd to start using it now. Like you said, it comes off unnatural. So when I see non-black people using AAVE it just seems even more ridiculous especially when you think about the fact that there are some black people that don’t use it just like how some blacks choose not to use the n-word. But then you have white people and off-whites thinking because they have black friends, they can say the n-word all they want smh.
I know what you mean. I had a friend who had just move to the U.S from Uganda so she had an accent. I live in a predominantly white town and so does she. But out of nowhere she was putting on an accent and trying to speak AAVE and it just sounded wrong. I may not be African American but I can always tell when someone s faking an accent and it always makes me cringe. I also have another friend who is black and tries to do AAVE and it's annoying couse her parents are African and don't speak like that and she grew up in white places. I think AAVE is cool but I don't think black people who didn't grow up speaking it should try to to seem cool or more "black". At the end of the day there are so many ways to be black and we should all embrace them.
The problem I have as a non american person is that I don’t know what AAVE differentiates from American English, so although I’d definitely renounce on using AAVE, how should I do that?
As a black woman, I want to give you, your flowers!! I recently started following you and I honestly have to say your videos are so refreshing and intriguing, I love everything you stand for and represent ❤️ Stay blessed you beautiful black queen
I find it funny how when I called out a white girl at my school who was using AAVE as a joke and pretending that it was her natural dialect (it was not), I get called racist even though she litterally said "How can you speak a color, like how tf can you speak purple, blue, green?? Like this is how I talk". I'm so glad that there is someone like you who, as a black woman (I am white) can explain and educate people on the importance of your beautiful culture. Love you lots 💕💕
@selenite aave is by and for black people. When slaves were brought to America they didn’t speak English so they made their own version. I’m black and my entire family uses aave. Not all black people use aave. But black people created it. That was the whole point of the video. You clearly had a question and they video answered it. Stop playin w me
As a 50 something year old man with kids your age, I doubt that I'm part of your subscriber demographics. However, I find myself binging your videos and really enjoy your content. Great job young lady. 👍
@@Bedhead_Brodi Yeah but he apologized and held accountability for his actions. He's also like 16 that time. The good thing is he didn't do it again after he apologized unlike some other idols
I’m so glad that is black creators are breaking are silence, hopefully people will listen and if they don’t we’ll have to just stop showing our support.
Yesss, white people need to appreciate black people and other POC speaking up about these issues because it isn't and shouldn't be their job in the first place. (I'm incredibly thankful for this video for example.)
I grew up code switching since I was little,and to have the way of speaking I was told to steer myself away from become a trend by the exact people I learnd to speak "proper" for is constantly mind blowing
Don’t you love when people claim not to like African Americans but are so quick to take certain things from our culture. -cough- -cough- Danielle Bregoli -cough- -cough-
And Malu trevejo. She’s always wearing box braids but likes to say she rocks it better than black woman like..... since 2016 I still don’t know why she’s still famous
But right here you're encouraging/reinforcing her culture vultureness by calling her by that name. I refuse to call her anything but her government name, Danielle Bregoli.
My cousin puts the "accent" on with her boyfriend and it hurts me and my other cousin on a physical level. Edit: I did not notice this comment got 7 replies jesus
see the thing that really gets me is, these celebrities and influencers won’t dress up in a Sari, they won’t pull a chinese accent to seem more intimidating or aggressive. yet for some reason, they have NO problem doing it to black culture. they do it to black culture and it’s just “trendy” it’s just “fashion”
I agree and they may not use a Chinese accent for aggressiveness but they do it when putting nails on, eating with chopsticks, etc for funny purposes. It’s a lot of stereotyping.
I just wanna remind anyone reading the comments that celebrities influencers and other people do in fact use south and east asian accents on a regular basis in a VERY degrading way. It's to the point where native speakers and people with the actual accent are often not taken seriously. yet they look into asian cultures to find beauty hacks and for the aesthetics of the culture such as henna, chopsticks in hair etc , as the OP comment said because it's seen as trendy and fashionable.
@@Chaampagneee I admit even some Asian with exaggerating Singlish, English Malaysian accent, or English Chinese accent for comedic purpose but outside sketch/sitcom sound so cringe. It's not offensive, but just, like, why. Then when it's white people doing it, it gets double cringe. It's offensive not because it's racist (it is tho) but because how horrible it is. Never laugh at that kind of joke, not even from the genuine Asian one. Also,... Chopsticks are not cultural appropriation honey, it's just eating utensils ❤️❤️❤️❤️ should Chinese restaurant forbid white people eating with chopsticks???? Don't be cringe 💀💀💀
The word hella. Good god, i have gotten in so many disagreements about that word. I used to cringe at my friend who moved to LA and started using it. Like please sit your lily white hind end down, you are embarrassing your local gay, in public no less! I am the local gay btw. Like hella orginated in a black neighborhood in either Sacramento or San Francisco, i can't remember which. It ain't surfer slang (which is already an appropriated sport). Ffs, ain't is AAVE. Like it isn't that hard to do a brief search of where words and idioms orginate from! Like even the word "cool" is AAVE. Thelonious Monk made so many words for AAVE that have just been absorbed into the mainstream. It isn't hard to be mindful of this stuff.
@@cocococo765 ya and like as a white person I say peridot and "and I oop" (love jasmine masters) but some people rly sound like they ar having a stroke when they say SO much of it and dont know anything about it
@@jade4025 I'm a black alternative girl as well and seeing how non blacks treat being alternative is wild I swear they're the same people that question my blackness for liking alternative stuff but now it's a trend
I used to use a “blaccent” in high school thinking it was hilarious, that it would bring a point to a joke in former videos I created. I’m ashamed and wish I was educated/corrected earlier because I thought it was okay to do this and that people still think this is acceptable (which blows my mind) I’ve learned and grown and want to thank you for bringing this subject into the limelight. @ Non- Black people, You can be funny and get to your point of the joke across without a “blaccent.”
Great video! I am from the Middle East and English is not my first language so I can’t really tell accents apart, but I just realized I unknowingly picked up some “AAVE” phrases from white and queer influencers. Thank you for educating me 👍 Be proud of yourself and don’t let others take advantage of your culture!
As for the Jackie Aina situation...AAVE isn't grammatically incorrect. It has its own set of grammar/structural rules that differ from "standard" American English. It would be like calling ASL grammatically incorrect because it isn't SSE, lmao.
@@peachpaty8873 Full disclosure, I'm not deaf so my understanding of sign language and deaf culture is rudimentary at best! SSE stands for "sign supported English," which shares many of the same signs as ASL but it's signed in the grammatical order of standard spoken English. Some of the signs are different, too, not even accounting for dialectic differences...it is a good learning tool for folks who were born hearing but became hard of hearing/deaf later in life, and I believe it is also used to assist deaf children in learning to read written English.
@@kitbracadabra Jackie didn't do anything wrong! She's just referenced in the video. One of her video titles was written in the grammatical style of AAVE and people were "correcting" her in the comments.
The fact that I didn't notice that I associated black culture with pop culture is so scary. Sometimes I'm not even aware of things until a channel like Tee Noir points it out. Thanks for making this video.
@@that1guy167 you sound pressed. Commenting under dozens of people's comments saying the same thing. Just admit you're in denial /not willing to acknowledge the facts in front of you and move on.
@@that1guy167 LMAOOO you sound mad asf. Once again, just say you don't understand and/or you're in denial and move on. Either you feel targeted because the video is directed at people like you, or you're just supremely ignorant. Either way, get some help.
Billie Eilish and NF (both artists) have a similar 'blaccent' despite them being white, but I just think it's the genuine way they speak. It's not mocking in any way... but THOSE people, the ones who use it for 'humour', yeah no thanks.
@@Juan-en7yd its not all the time that she speaks that way but you can definitely tell sometimes. i think it might be her just dragging out words but idk. and its definitely subtle.
I’d say Ariana Grande, for example, is a much more egregious example of switching to a blaccent, because it’s paired with hella blackfishing in the rest of her persona, and because we have an entire library of examples of how white and white-sounding she was when she was younger. I think Billie just talks like that.
No one asks about your hair or your lip color, because we’re so enthralled with your intelligence, charisma, and conversation. It’s refreshing and a compliment.
As a black/latino Brazilian man, I appreciate your POV. Great video. If I might add something to it, it's also important people understand this is a reality for brothers and sisters in the media IN THE US. It probably happens in others countries as well, but... for instance, in Brazil, there's no particular accent to different ethnicities, unless you're from a more traditional and geographically closed indigenous, japanese, quilombola, german, italian etc..community . It's more about where you live, your city, your state, your region. Culturally charged practices can vary a lot from place to place.
I live in south Alabama (Love it🙄) but I always find it super funny that white people here like to tell black people to "speak proper English" and then turn around and say things like "Ain't gunna lah cain't wait ta go home an' drank mah beer"
And then when black people finally set our foots down and lay some boundaries on what is or isn’t ours, those same white people will say “this is southern culture, not black”. 😒
Girl right I'm from birmingham al and these wypipo will try and talk like us. And when we talk how we talk we get looked at funny asf I hate when these white girls try to talk or imitate me and my friends they get mad when we just look at them. They be tryna relate and can't
As a 74yrs old retired dentist I see things are still the same. I got educated in the segregated American school system. How often I would hear-" you don't sound like a black,you don't act like a black person,etc esp from educated whites,some Asians, middleastern medical professionals. As I watch and review some of the BS on RUclips nothing changed in fact I think it's gotten worse.
....am I the only one who just realised that literally everything that had been pop culture...originated from black culture...music...fashion...almost everything starts as black culture then it gets appropriated...if you think I’m wrong just look up anything that’s considered cool and stylish and research if it has black origins...if I’m wrong I’ll delete this comment
@@Tamara-lu5bx I think they were referring to people who didn’t grow up in that environment. I know some non black people who just grew up that way so they can’t help but use aave because that’s all they know. But there are also people (on Twitter and tiktok especially) who use aave as a joke but would never use it in real life.
Subscribed!!! Ma’am PLEASE do not stop creating! I loved the video and thank you for the sources, the articles and videos you cited were fantastic. As someone who is mixed and light, I have always struggled with fitting in and explaining many of the points you made , I will definitely be sharing. Thank you for breaking things down intelligently and in a very easy to understand way. Love and positivity to you!
“So if you’re a non black creator and your humor is contingent on black culture, maybe you’re just not funny” EXACTLY
Shane Dawson's whole career, but also many modern creators as well
So the opposite is also true right?
@@CHClNOfullmelt The opposite isn't reality champ. Black creators have the talent to create their own content so they don't have to plunder another culture.
@@Epiphoneplayah America it's not just one culture, it's the culture of half of the world.
If you were right there would be a lot of things you shouldn't eat or wear or do
@@CHClNOfullmelt no shit.
"people love it for parody but hate it when it's authentic" - oh my god you hit the NAIL on the HEAD
YES WOW
Get over it....ppl have been doing that with my (southern) accent ever since Moby Dick was a minnow!
BlancheDubois girl a southern accent is not the same thing as aave and we can’t “get” over it when we are always being mocked
What?
right!
A wise person once said... "everybody wants to be Black until the cops show up" (paraphrasing)
Waiting for y'all to call out Tana Mongeau!!
i don’t want to be black
@@stacieraexoxo4562
Who is that?
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Why not?
@Nate Dogg
Cops tend to think darker skinned people are guilty automatically.
"They want our rhythm but not our blues."
Why have i never heard this before. GENIUS!
Preach
This whole topic sounds racist to me
@@davidokeefe7551 against who?
@@ebsolsbeerbottle3002 anyone who's not black
"They want our rhythm and none of our blues."
FACTS! 👐
They took the blues
LOUDER! FOR! THE! PEOPLE! ON! THE! BACK!
I was about to say they took that too!
@The Tribal Funkster
Lol what trends? Regardless of what race starts them, trends are gonna be forgotten in a while anyway, that's just how it is. People move on to the next thing.
a white person Not saying the n word is not a heroic act, ITS COMMON SENSE.
Edit. A non black person saying ...
@@Blaze6432 Educate yourself, please.
@@Blaze6432 umm I think you missed the point on both sides...but go off I guess.
@@benjaminjackson9449 If white people can't say the n word then blacks shouldn't either stop being gatekeepers of words when you are a Hypocrite about it.
XxMissGxX why would u wanna say that word so bad???? Tf it’s weird and not ever black person says the n word.
XxMissGxX Bro wtf? Stop gatekeeping? Do you understand how dumb you seem rn?
As a black speech-language pathologist, I appreciate your stance.
Black speech pathologist? Correcting people speaking black? What is this profession?
Helter Skelter they’re just black and a speech pathologist
Starfire lmao.... I was like WTF ?! Duh
Congratulations! It’s so heartwarming to see black women in every field possible🎉
Oh nice! I'm black and I also want to be an SLP!
woah i used aave without even knowing that its racist. im not a native english speaker and learned english from watching vines and youtube videos. i had no idea that this way of speaking is associated with a race and used to mock black people. thank you for this video! very educational
Thankyou for educating yourself 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤
@@r3ckyamvs its bare minimum that i can do
@@brajan6062 ❤
same here i’m glad people are talking ab this
@@reversemitosis4213 Me, too. My native language isn't English either and I adapted "period" from The Internet without knowing its heritage is from AAVE. I learned 15 minutes ago, What AAVE is and I'm very glad I learned about it so that I can get better not using it as a non-black person
why are people saying AAVE is “internet slang” now?
Sun *girl* language? I’ve heard that before but I don’t understand why it would be a language. I might just be ignorant- I probably am.
@@noway3119 I think its most commonly described as a dialect not a full blown language. It has distinct grammar and words not present in mainstream American English.
@ It's just a dialect
Blxck Bxddie it’s a language lol look it up
@@buddybrodie7730 No it's not, it's a dialect.
"sis do be finna goin slay" actually physically hurt
I feel the pain repeating this in my head--
Perioddd!!!!
I though i was having a stroke
it makes me cry
OK but I’m going to actually keep saying this because it’s so funny 😂
“The answer is racism, by the way, but Imma keep going.” YOU ARE SOLID GOLD. I’m so happy I stumbled upon your video today.
Laughed so hard at that!
Same
PERIODT 💯 🤣😂
Waiting for y'all to call out Paris Hilton's friend, youtuber Tana Mongeau!!
Just hate that I get called acting like a white girl for speaking proper English 🙁. Im so tired of people expecting me to talk a curtain away because I’m black and it’s offensive!
PREACH SIS! The amount of times white women in college would try to 'correct' my sentences whenever I talked in AAVE was enough to drive me up the damn wall! Yet they wanna turn to me for help on assignments because they knew I knew what the fuck I was doing. 🙃
Frrr
Been Latina as well, people saying I am trying to be white like I just want to be grammatical correct
@@SieMiezekatze wooww 😐
Well English is a white/Anglo language 🤷🏿♂️
The witness for Trayvon Martin's case a young African American women. Was deemed inarticulate due to her venacular being AAVE. So it's sad that people can make careers talking that talk. But young Trayvon was denied justice due to witnesses vernacular.
Are u kidding me!!!!!! That’s so fucking frustrating and shameful. I remember back around 2014 when everything w Michael Brown was going on, a family friend of mine from STL was mocking I wanna say Michael’s mom for how she talked on the news, aka in AAVE. So fucking disrespectful. And then she also mocked her after she received supposed ‘media training’ aka no more AAVE. Wish I could go back in time and rip this racist girl a new one.
@@meghansullivan6812 Yeah very disrespectful.
I remember that too
I never knew this. This is so upsetting and aggravating.
Actually, the critics were spot on. Jeantel was a stand-in for Brittany Diamond Eugene - rumored to be her half-sister - who was the real ear witness, and did/does not speak or behave like Rachel. Pretty much all of Rachel's testimony was perjury, and she herself was a special needs student, 18 yrs old in 9th grade, and part of an amazing legal fraud. Do some digging, and ask yourself why the people alleging these things haven't gotten sued yet for libel or slander.
The part of Gen Z considering black culture their ‘pop’ culture was very eye opening, never looked at it that way before thank you for the video raising awareness
I think it is exceptionally ironic that many white members of gen z can consider themselves as "radical" or even aware of their privilege only to consume and commodify a surface deep understanding of black culture.
It truly was, especially as a gen z kid.
Yes, thats why i dont like people wearing black hairstyles cause now its just called "a hairstyle"
To be fair, black culture has influenced american pop culture and has for years, so many white people recognize the elements of black culture that have gone mainstream and find a sense of familiarity that isn’t necessarily reciprocated
@Black Queens Would you say Eminem is a musician, or does he have to make "black music"? Is " American " good enough for a black person in America, or only "African American"?
My mom uses AAVE with her black students and says she is “speaking their language”. She uses it to be “credible” with them and connect. I have been trying so hard to find a video explaining why it’s inappropriate because she won’t listen to me. This video is definitely gonna help 🙏
Oh wow I'm glad my video could help! There are dozens of other ways to connect with and build trust with her Black students. I hope she can find them 😊
This would make me feel so uncomfortable and disrespected I really hope you had that talk with her. As a black student when I see teachers do this it feels more like mocking then trying to understand us....
I had a teacher who did that, even before I became ‘woke’ and stuff, I was always uncomfortable. It makes us feel like you’re making fun of us or trying to ‘get down on our level’. Tell her even if she thinks no one notices, we all notice and people are probably talking about her behind her back
absolutely haTe when a teacher does this near me or towards me. The uncomfortable levels in the room 📈
Aurora Rosa it’s kinda degrading lol, it’s like I’m some foreign object
'if your coolness and your humor is contingent on your proximity to Black culture..... maybe you're just not funny" - quote of the year
Humor and coolness is subjective not objective. You are not the emperor of humor or coolness. If someone wants to be an actor and put on a voice as a bit, they have every right. Take the stick out of your ass and stop trying to control people, it is cringe.
"But when these white boys on tiktok do it, it's hilarious! Their intelligence is not questioned at all....Why aren't black people given the benefit of the doubt?"
This was necessary. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Waiting for y'all to call out Paris Hilton's friend, youtuber Tana Mongeau!!
@@stacieraexoxo4562 I don't know her - let me look her up.
Please do! She and her pissy and fake AF moderators block everything said to her about using a black accent and appropriating. She uses gay abd straight black men as her "black shields." They're just too poor to notice it or care
I question anybody's intelligence who can't speak like an intelligent person. There's slang and then there's sounding like you never learned how to read or write. I'm from the hood and I can't stand how ghetto some of my classmates were. It's not cute on anybody it's just trashy.
When black people talk like that someone says "can u speak proper" or "u sound ghetto"
im a gay white boy and we all know that a lot of gay males use blaccent, i looked this up and im so glad i found this video. i dont think i use a blaccent when i speak but if im being honest i have to admit that ive used it at some point, especially when saying things like “chile anyways so” and “periodt pooh”. it breaks my heart to see that i was this ignorant and that i was hurting people or making people uncomfortable when speaking. what im trying to say is thank you for making this video and informing me. im so glad that i can now learn from my mistakes and do better. im sorry to you and your community for having used a blaccent at some point.
Wow, it's so cool to know this video had such an impact on you! Like I said, I'm really not against ppl thinking AAVE is cool and even using our terms (properly) here and there. But when nonblack ppl use it just for clout/to seem cool or hip, it starts to seem like mockery and that's where my issue lies🤦🏾♀️
Well as a gay white man, can you stop
@@originalsmountup2019 um i think he might've been implying that
missmxo1 black lgbtq.
@@missmxo1340 You're literally proving the point by saying it's from 90s ballroom culture, which was largely influenced by black women and gay black men. Ballroom was originally created for black people after they were being discriminated against in the drags. You don't even know the culture you're speaking about. Ballroom has almost exclusively been a space for black men and women. Find a culture of your own and stop stealing our shit.
Anyone else notice that the "sassy blaccent" is used a LOT by white gay men? Im queer myself but damn I see it so much and it always made me feel weird to say the least
yeah i never realised it before this video :/
It could be because a lot black women have a very unique feminine expression.
Is it bad for gay people to talk like this? I love drag queens and a lot of them talk like this and i dont know if supporting them is bad or not if its offensive
@@sheepobly If you’re non black it’s not cool but just try to educate them and if they try to excuse it or what so ever down the line of excusing it then you shouldn’t support them then 🤷🏽♀️
@@armyvelvet1236 Okay, Thank you
black people often have to code-switch between a more standard english and BVE to get a job or not get mocked, whereas a non-black person can switch between the two without worrying about those kinds of problems
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@@alvamind5286 nobody thinks its cute when anyone talks like that
@@alvamind5286 I think white people or nonblack people shouldnt even use aave.
lmao that is downright wrong. No matter what race you are but speaking in AAVE can get you mocked by racists cos they think the language itself is inherently inferior. You're actually diluting how racist it is cos you're too horny to blame those "other races".
Truth!!!
This really called out a lot of the gay white men and their “inner black woman”
HA so so true
And the worst is Jeremy Starfish, he uses AAVE a lot and he's racist AF!
Straight Black women have been "appropriating" the ballroom/gay culture since the 70s the fact is that it was gay before it was black but go off
@@user-it2rk7yz2i ballroom was started by Black and Latino lgbt youth tho. so im not sure what point youre making here. They had originally started as integrated scenes but racism that ran rampant in the lgbt community in the 1920s alienated black and latino lgbt youth. the ballroom culture we know today has black and latino lgbt origins so its not fair to say it was "gay before black".
@@user-it2rk7yz2i more like they got most lingo from black women and carried it to ballroom then it spread as people shared it with their community plus made some of their own words
I'm mexican and part of me dies when a white person calls me "foo'" or "cuh"
I'm sorry, what does that mean?
Are you Mexican or are you Mexican-American? I'm pretty sure most americans would have a heart attack listening how we talk in Mexico, over here theres no problem making fun of gays, blacks, asians, etc.
Why?
@@missingclover Mexican American. I do know how offensive and dark humor is in mexico because I have relaitves there. Try being pansexual in a mexican family lol.
@@erikan.n8409 Foo' means fool and Cuh means cousin. It was just adopted into slang used by mostly mexican americans. Also they say it in a "latino accent" and it just aint it chief
Doing an angry New Yorker voice will always be 100x funnier than doing a blaccent
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@@kaylalaufeyson8828 Omg ur hair so cute girllll
@@xxsquidwardsmumxx3916 AHHH THANK YOU💕💕
the fact that when i was in middle school i thought this was just stan twitter language says SO MUCH about how little people are aware of this issue. thank god i finally educated myself and can now call others out for their use of AAVE.
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@SKY *-* its dumb to say that black people created it, just say it originates from the black community since blacks never choose to just make a new word and it comes from words from the English vocabulary and a vague cultural aspect of some African tribes which is some sort of foundation for some aspects of black culture
@@handsomeboi3767 that’s why it’s called AAVE vernacular is in the abbreviation. Pay attention next time.
@SKY *-* ion think that’s what they meant by “usage of AAVE”. Though it wasn’t clear, there’s good chance that they meant “(incorrect) usage of AAVE”.
But I guess it’s better to be safe
At my school there’s a whole thing about white guys using heavy Indian accents to make others laugh, (sometimes they would even draw bindi on their foreheads or put their hands together and go ‘ooooommmm’ as if they were praying or meditating) and it’s honestly so frustrating because if anyone called them out they would say they were ‘honoring the Indian culture’ and it’s annoying AF bc I'm Indian American.
omgg a lot of boys at my school would call one of the only indian-american kids at our school "baljeet", and use a fake indian accent whenever they were talking to him. they all thought it was hilarious but you could tell that he was uncomfortable.
What do you think of my friend going as "a Jamaican guy" for Halloween? I haven't talked with him about it yet, cause idk if I'm white knighting or not. He got a hemp hoodie with stripes and thought it would fit as a Jamaican guy costume. I'm afraid he's just gonna say "I like the culture" as imitation is the best form of flattery. The situation doesn't feel right though, he doesn't study Jamaican culture, or have Jamaican stuff so I don't get a sense of appreciation. I've also been reading about how people get offended with stereotyping cultures, but also people think it's dumb to get mad about it cause it's someone liking the culture and not being offensive.
Girl I feel you. As an Indian woman myself I was heavily bullied in middle school for being a "fob": my accent was thick, my attitude and behavior were more traditional, I just didn't fit in. Yet on "multicultural" day when I wore a lehenga to school, people kept telling me my dress was so pretty and "exotic". I always felt somewhat like a spectacle
That's honestly awful, I'm so sorry
omg thats awful
My father was a teacher in the 70s and 80s and took a teacher-focused course on AAVE (as you said, it was called "Ebonics" back then for teachers) and the school-focused training taught all the instructors the rules and grammar of the dialect, because the point of showing the differences was to show teachers that students weren't speaking "wrong," but were speaking another form of English, same as any other dialect.This video is fantastic. I'm glad RUclips recommended it to me.
That is so cool!!
Wow I’m surprised that even existed back in the 70s and 80s
@@ashcruz904 Sociolinguistics was very big back in the 60's! William Labov published the book "The Logic of Nonstandard English" in 1969 after having done research work through interviews with African American children, I haven't read it yet, but his hypothesis is that non-standard English has its own logic, and that teachers should indeed learn to accept this as a correct variety of English ! (just for some extra info :))
@@ashcruz904 the dialect actually slowly gets closer to it's own creole language the further back in time you go, at one point it was it's own creole language similar to Haitian Creole or Seychellois Creole for French. However unlike those places, the English never left and the slave revolts failed and after being assimilated into society as citizens, we slowly changed the creole into just a dialect of english and now the grammatical structures and vocabulary from those west african languages are mutually intelligible among speakers of other English dialects.
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Honestly its annoying as a Jamaican when I hear a person say a Jamaican cuss word or try to speak patwa for a joke. "Surprisingly" people actually laugh at that. Then when ME an actually JAMAICAN speak patwa/patois I get ridiculed saying I sound dumb.
Especially white people who try to speak patois after learning you’re Jamaican, or they say the most stereotypical stuff
Yep. We just got over the “mon” phase (we wasn’t even saying mon...we were saying man with an accent but anywho..) like leave us alone.
Yep this is rlly annoying 🙄 also jamaican accents are so pretty and I hate when people make fun of them
me too like da faq Jamaicans don't sound like dat
in the UK we use a lot of Jamacian slang but that's mostly in London. also I'm African (black), can I say it?
the fact that people view AAVE as "uneducated" never sat right with me as someone of creole (French Caribbean) heritage. While the lexicon of french creole is French and the lexicon of AAVE is English we both share the same syntax because our ancestry is of the same west african origin, we were just dropped off at different ports so we ended up adopting the words from the language spoken in the countries we were dropped off at. basically the way we speak and form sentences stems from the fact that we were taken from the same area in africa during slavery, but the words we use to form those sentences (english vs french) come from which slave owner we got left with.. because we had to communicate with them.. so if youre dropped of in a country that speaks french, youre going to use french words, if youre dropped off in a country that uses english GUESS WHICH WORDS YOURE GOING TO USE?? All while maintaining the same original syntax from our african ancestry.. because that's one of the harder things to learn when speaking a different language. It's easy to memorize words. It's harder to learn a new way to form sentences, thoughts, and convey ideas with said words in a brand new syntax. Which anyone who has actually learned another language will tell you.. and because we were all slaves no one was about to formally teach us how to do it.. so while yes we learned the words (aka lexicon) of our respective colonizers, we all, regardless of if they were english or french, kept our west african syntax..
For example, in AAVE if someone were to say "Where you is?" or "who that is?" theyre deemed uneducated because they didnt say it "properly" by normal english standards, but if you translate them from AAVE into "proper english" like we do when translating ANY OTHER LANGUAGE into "proper english" (because its not like we'd keep the same sentence structure when translating korean into english or russian to english, right? no, we'd put it into english syntax, duh) those 2 sentences translate to "where are you?" and "who is that?" respectfully. If i were to speak my native language, french creole, and translate "where are you?" and "who is that?" i would say: "Ki kote ou ye?" and "Kiyes sa ye?". Those 2 sentences translated literally and word for word is: "Where you is" and "who that is". 1) ki kote > where; ou > you; ye > A variation of 'se' which means 'is', but is specific for when you put 'is' at the END of a sentence. 2) kiyes > who; sa > that; ye > is.
they literally translate to "where you is" and "who that is"...
BECAUSE WE SPEAK WITH AFRICAN SYNTAX USING FRENCH LEXICON. Laymans terms we use french words with african sentence structure and grammar... AAVE is that exact same thing except ENGLISH lexicon, meaning just using english words with african sentence formation... So if my language isnt deemed "uneducated" just a different language WHY IS AAVE uneducated?????. AVVE is just an ENGLISHIFIED creole.... just like my language is a FRENCHIFIED creole.. its not "uneducated" its a different language, or a sub language of english.
if we're going to sit here and say AAVE is "improper" then we have to also say those who speak AMERICAN, CANADIAN AND AUTRAILIAN ENGLISH, also speak "improper" because the mother tongue for your language is BRITISH ENGLISH.... and then we get into the fact that english in general is just words borrowed from germanic, roman, and latin languages..... like theres 13 languages TOTAL influencing english, including arabic, celtic, hebrew, just to name a few. if thats the case cant we just call english "Improper german" ect??
The flack black languages and black speech get go back to the racism associated with anything black or african in origin in an attempt to demean, belittle, and demonize black culture. so it gets slapped with "thats uneducated" WHY?? BECAUSE ITS BLACK AND BLACK PEOPLE DO IT?? ok so why is it that things that are black or from black people inherently are associated with BAD, GHETTO AND UNEDUCATED? WHY IS IT THAT IF BLACK PEOPLE AND SPECIFICALLY AFRICAN AMERICANS SPEAK IN A CERTAIN SYNTAX ITS UNEDUCATED BUT WHEN ANY OTHER CULTURE SPEAKS IN A SYNTAX OUTSIDE OF ENGLISH SYNTAX ITS NOT UNEDUCATED, JUST DIFFERENT?
for example: in spanish its Noun > Adj, in english its Adj > Noun. youd be saying 'shirt red' instead of 'red shirt'. thats not seen as ghetto just a different language because they use different sentence structure than english. just like how AAVE or ANY language stemming from or influenced by afican languages have a different sentence structure than english. JUST LIKE HOW ANY LANGUAGE WHEN COMPARED TO A COMEPLETELY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE IS GOING TO HAVE 2 DIFFERENT SENTENCE STRUCTURES, BECAUSE THEYRE DIFFERENT.. but when its BLACK languages its ghetto and uneducated? So again WHY IS THAT??... IS IT PURELY BECAUSE RACISM SAID SO?? OH 👍🏽
AAVE IS NOT UNEDUCATED. ITS. A. DIFFERENT. LANGUAGE.. but you have to TRANSLATE IT. GO FIGURE. Just because you hear english words doesn't mean that you don't translate the sentences anymore. Jamaican patois is in English lexicon, you still have to translate it to understand what's being said.. Tagolog (spoken in the Phillipines) uses Spanish words because they were owned by Spain, does that now mean you don't translate Tagolog to a native from Spain just cause they use some spanish words?? No. Do we belittle and call Filipinos uneducated? No.... Hmm ok, so then why are you not translating AAVE and belittling those who speak it?? IS THE ANSWER AGAIN BECAUSE RACISM AND YOUR OWN PREJUDICES SAID SO???
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THIS! I wish I could magically make people understand about creoles & dialects, ntm the fact that languages change & develop- if they didn't, we'd still speak Old English, & be able to read Beowulf. We can't, so do we speak "bad English"? Or, if we speak Old English today, is it "bad English"? No, we're speaking a different language! Even Shakespearean English uses grammar we'd call wrong today (& standard spelling didn't exist), but it's seen as the height of culture.
Thank you for taking the time to write this. Well said!
🙌🙌🙌 yes my fellow French creole sis #factsss. What an awesome take!
The way you pulled up with a WHOLE linguistics lesson here…truly iconic behavior.
So many great points! Non-Black people have been ignorant about using AAVE for so long, I’m glad to see these conversations being brought to the mainstream. I wish everyone would learn and acknowledge the history / origins of these terms - so much of what people consider “internet culture” is really Black culture. I took an intro to LGBTQ+ class, watched Paris is Burning, and realized so much of the popular terms these days came from Black drag queens and ballroom culture. The more you know!! (Also thank you for mentioning me, that’s so sweet 🥺💛)
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hi Tiffany!!
Madonna brought Vouge like Mylie Cyrus brought Twerking 😆
Growing up in a majority black community, it's just how everyone talks, and if you don't talk like everyone else you might not even be understood and will certainly be ridiculed.
Sparrow白兎 I understand the ridiculed part because people always told me I talk “white” when I didn’t use AAVE, but that just made me not use it even more. I think some people in the black community push this agenda that you have to do something the “black” way which makes it even harder to discover individuality🤔
AAVE is a dialect, therefore, the grammatical errors that apply to common American English are NOT errors in AAVE ‼️
Also I’m sure you’d look so amazing bald 💛
Hahahaha we just might have to see 🤷🏾♀️
Also, because of how other languages are structured aave is easier for a lot of ESL people to pick up due to the similarities (not that dialects need justification but that means aave actually makes more sense than ‘standard’ English)
AAVE is the breakdown of the English language.
@@jude8067 that's so interesting! i didn't know that but it makes sense. english is a hot mess of a language because it's such a mashup of words and rules from other languages, and anything that can make it more consistent isn't a bad thing.
They literally took “and I oop” and said it was created by white teenage girls😳
omg i know, thinking it’s made by “basic white vsco girls”
oh shit I didn’t even think of that
RIGHT WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THAT
When ot was actually made by a gay black man LMAO
@@rickr0113d ik! this is y black ppl dont wanna let white people wear our hairstyles... because they'll steal and claim them. I mean when kim kardashian wore box braids, they nearly got renamed as "kim k braids". Our hair is a big part of us and we're not ready to have it stripped out of our culture
As an African I finally see what AAs have been saying for years. I'd only understand it intellectually before but now I've witnessed AA culture being pillaged and looted globally without paying homage to it's origin. Alternative rnb is now considered pop by gen z. For example younger asian listeners don't know that everything their favourite idols do is heavily influenced by AAs not general American trends. It's painful.
I'm happy some Africans now see the truth and what we have to put up with 😞
I agree
Omg the idol thing. Specifically for kpop i wonder if being from such a homogenized country the divide between cultures in america is hard for them to comprehend. I wish Black Americans would get some credit for the literal international influence they've had instead of giving the praise to a country that exploits them.
I think you mean kpop since I’ve never seen any other Asian idols using it and I agree there are kpop idols that have profited from aave but not all of them use stuff from black culture at all and some idols are really wonderful people 😊
@@Soyouel They're not saying they're not wonderful people. You can be a nice person while still knowingly or unknowingly appropriating a culture due to miseducation and ignorance.
do y'all remember that bella Hadid interview "homeboys gonna like... get it" like sis tried and failed horribly because whyyyyy was she talking like that knowing good and well she never speaks that way
Omg that video🤦♀️ it seemed so unnatural and forced
@ExtraSwirl what does having plastic surgery have to do with using aave?
Omg noo I wanna forgot that happened lol
Thats the first thing that came to mind for me lol. And then Rich Brian mocks her during his interview
she also didnt know what the hell to say 💀🤷♂️
Black women created iconic humor and most “stan culture” words like we been knew this
THIS
Also, Black and Afro Latina Trans Women is where most of the LGBTQ+ communities get their slang. It's brought from Black and Brown communities to the gay community to the mainstream.
Imagine tryna celebrate regression 🤣
period ❤️
“stan” comes from a song by Eminem, a white guy.
it’s crazy because words that come from black culture like “ sis, boo, purr, period,” ect...are labeled as twitter/tik tok lingo and so now when black people use those worlds naturally because 95% of us grew up with it, you get labeled as “basic” or they’ll say stuff like “when you base your personality off tik tok lol” when it’s really them copying a form of speaking that we naturally used and taking words that don’t belong to them just to later deem them as annoying or basic
@Joshua Fancher
You....didnt understand... why words existed?-
yeah and they’re also labeled as “gen z lingo” as well i think which is weird
Purr is a DC word
Okay wait so should I not say things like peridiot or Like bussin. Pleas let me know I would like to be educated. :/
@@isthisbetter4122 you can say things like that, just know where it came from.
The fact that I’ve seen multiple videos of white millennials making parody’s about the way that gen-Zer’s “talk” while not even realizing that it’s not “youth” or “internet” culture and that it’s actually AAVE blows my mind. They really and I mean GENUINELY think that stuff is brand new. I be wanting so bad to just tell them to go pick up literally any black movie from the 90’s (before social media) and I promise you you’re going to hear that SAME lingo. It’s just frustrating. Loved the video btw.
Don't hesitate to tell them to go watch old movies.
It’s funny cuz literally almost every term comes straight from New Orleans first.
@@kuritheking False.
"people love it for parodies sake but hate it when it's authentic"....damn i felt that
Its almost like being black is a costume. When non-black people where the costume it's funny, but when the costume is in itself it "not proper english" and we should "change the way we speak because it doesn't sound right".
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Right
nothing but facts
Would you want to be anything else but black?
Flavorless and untalented?
Totally uninteresting as a human being?
Folks want “flavor”👩🏾🦱
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we’re the only ones who have it.
I hate that we are so fucking cool in everything we do
They hate that we’re athletic fast strong and fearless
They want to be black but cannot.
So they borrow and think they can make a black person out of whatever they are
It’s really sad
If I wasn’t black I could not except myself either I would keep trying to be something more
Exactly!
“When you are using it incorrectly..... we can always tell” 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if black people stopped making “content” for a year, I just wanna see what would happen
No white tik tokers dancing badly to dance trends for one
There would be less revenue being generated towards these damn culture vultures and they would have to go back to square dancing.
honestly black people should do a mass exodus from social media and see them all fend for themselves 💀
The world would "die" of boredom, cause we are their source of entertainment weather they realize it or not
@@markleewife125 No it wouldn't, no race is superior to any other, the 'black culture' mentioned here is usually from western influence. Go to sub-saharan africa village and no 'black people' there will have similar mannerisms.
She does her research. This is a whole degree.
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Yes, she has put in some work into this video. My first time watching her and as a 55yo male I like what she's putting out.
Lol idk who she think she is. She don’t represent none of my brothers
@@stevenartiss8537 who said she was trying to.
Whole degree?
Ok but sis DO go finna be slay!!!!!!
Pretty sure Kat’s comment is the reason for this video showing up on my feed. So thanks for that! *smashes subscribe*
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Period!!!
I had a stroke reading this 🤣
I read this RIGHT AS SHE SAID IT
I'm from a country in Africa and I have been living in America for about 14 years... I don't know how to use AAVE. People have said I'm trying to act white because of my vocabulary and my inability to "talk like an African American" and I've said many times, I don't know how and I don't wanna look like an idiot trying to copy people (and failing) who were born speaking it!
That is just stereotyping your race? That’s wrong. It’s like pressuring an Asian person on why they can’t speak their native language. There are many nationalities in America like Asian Americans and African Americans and usually they will learn English as their first language.. the world is evolving and I hope our people’s brains will do the same
People always forget that African Americans aren’t the only black peoples in the world , and I hate that speaking “proper” makes u trying to be white like make it make sense
Yesss!!!! I'm also from Africa and I've lived here 7 years,but when I was in middle school people would ask me why I talked so "proper" and after that I stated to fake different accents and slang to hide my true one
You don’t have to talk a certain way because of your race or where you come from. We’re human. The way you speak makes you unique, speak however you want to speak, as long as you can get your points across.
“Im from “Africa””. 🙄 watch as you perpetuate the “Africa is a homogeneous unit which is basically one country” stereotype. Please say the name of your country
I miss when white girls were more like Britney Spears 😩
Exactly
@Angelina Sosa You see It!!! they appropriate our natural way of life and swear "we never where there" half of americas invention has a black man behind it, and thats a fact!!! They just want to continue the narrative that we don't invent. When in actuality...we do and still continue to!!! They try to take our wave pretty much half of them can't relate or don't even know or associate with us, but swear they know what we do!! When it comes to creativity you guessed it aboriginal people are the source!! You guys need to wake up too, love
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you miss plastic white girls
Yesss! They almost extinct now like 😳🤣🖤
"sis do be finna gonna go slay" made both me and my unborn descendants cringe
It....doesnt even make sense either? As a black person myself,,,,,BITCH?? HUH??
It's like an AI machine is trying to piece together how to speak like this lol
@@soso-mx8nb YEAH that's fr what it sounds like
literally made me wanna DIE
IN-Deeeed.
“When people use AAVE only for [clout], I don’t trust you” OMG THANK YOU 👏🏽
What's AAVE?
The Possible aave is an acronym for african american vernacular english
melanchlys ... vernacular?? I’m sorry I have no idea what that means imma look it up tho
as a gen z person who used a lot of parts of AAVE (like tea, sis, and that stuff), i learned a lot from your video, its really educational and i wouldnt have known otherwise, i never looked into it
wait I'm really confused is it wrong to use those words because I use them with all my friends no matter the color of their skin, and I don't use it to be funny either I just use it
@@abbyj1252 idk and i dont have a say on it either (yt person here), but i think its alright as long as its not being disrespectful and stuff? like reclaiming something people got shamed for for ages is obviously fucked up but using certain words isnt bad i think
@@emandaing9359 thank you!!
@niya it says “as in ‘I/we been knew’”
@niya obviously by itself it’s not. The list gave the context
Realizing Bretman Rock really made a whole career out of this..
But he didn't use it to mock black people. Her point wasn't saying that you cant use it. And also non people of color can grow up with this kind of accent
@@unknowns78 he grew up in the Philippines….I can guarantee you won’t find people speaking in a blaccent in the Philippines… where they speak an entire different language…cmon now. Then he moved to Hawaii….it’s not like he moved to a predominantly black area. Please watch the videos of him saying the n word and mocking and exaggerating black women and then come back and try to tell me he’s not mocking them
@@WithAngelWings I'm not against the idea of saying that word. It shouldn't be used tho. And you can tell me the name titles of the videos.
Also there is a difference between exaggerating an accent and faking one just to mock someone and even he could've got the accent through the internet.
@@unknowns78 I'm from the Philippines and I guarantee you 100% NOBODY speaks like Bretman Rock does. Walang wala. Blaccent lang talaga yung ginawa niya. He's just really using AAVE.
@@M00NL9GHT Did you not read my last comment?
Not yt people finding out chile is child in aave and not chili 💀 and yt is white for yall that are confused chile
Thisss😤😤😤
LMAO did people really think that???
Dorito Dew I did when I first read it like two weeks ago at a friend’s house. I quickly caught on within the hour though, and when I voiced what I initially thought it was, my friend Elijah laughed really hard. It was a good day.
@@doritodew9998 yea because i'm Mexican lol
I thought people were randomly writing the country name and wasn't sure why
Fun fact: If a joke isn't funny without you changing your voice and accent, then it's not funny.
Preaaaccch!!
Exactly!!
Exactly
Ahnuld, anyone?
What if that's what makes it funny lol, i think everyone is so uptight nowadays in regard to sensitivity. It's like everything is racist or disrespectful when it's not 🙄
Cant we all learn to laugh a little?
My Asian eyes: ridiculed and hated on for my entire life in America. Bullied throughout life and still so.
Fox eye makeup: gOrgEoUs
Exactly...the genetic traits, cultural style, and traditions of other races are subpar until white mainstream steals it and use it....THEN it's "trendy", "cool", and "in-fashion". Bye! GTFOH!
Isn’t it called Koreeboo? I might be wrong.
THANK YOU! the amount of times when I was younger, classmates would stop me and just pull their eyes to mock my eyes? and now they’re the same ppl idolizing fox eyes
Jay Aye And unfortunately I think it will always be this way until the damage and influence of European imperialism is eradicated in the coming generations and everyone who is not of European descent is viewed as equal. And people will conflate my statement as a complaint about white privilege."
The victor writes history and colonizing Europeans did win throughout. I'm surprised I still learned about Native Americans in the American public education system. The education system sure tried to play that down.
America is built on destruction and hatred. The country our mothers, fathers, and relatives came to with big dreams and promises of freedom is the same America that treats any non white immigrant or even multi generational American born citizen as a second class citizen. America is supposed to be a melting pot, but what diversity is there really when you're only considered American if you're white by a huge majority of your fellow "Americans."
Disappointing.
I’m sorry, that must be really frustrating and the fox eye trend is just an even more normalization of racism against Asians.
White folks will never get it until they comprehend Black Culture is Jazz! Jazz musically breaks ALL the rules & sounds dope asf. We break all the rules & still drip! We dope asf!
Amen to that
Non-black*
TRUE!!
I am a black South African and I am also sick of white South Africans using the way we speak for comedy.
PS- the way black South Africans speak isn't the same as African Americans I can just relate
Right, that’s just as annoying. Nonblack ppl shouldn’t be imitating us, ever.
Right, I was at gymnastics the other day and one of the niggas there were doing an isiXhosa blaccent. I felt so uncomfortable.
Yes omg. You get white tryna "choma" you by speaking "black" like no bye
@Mantsi Artilia ne, like 2 years ago there was this girl, she said that she hates it when Xhosa people speaks Xhosa coz she thinks we are skinnering.
Especially white teachers
So they can seem more relatable or cool around black children ( I am south African too)
They speak that way to be “funny” because they think that style of vernacular is funny. They are literally (though "unintentionally") making a mockery of how some people talk which in turn continues to perpetuate the negative connotations of that vernacular.
Omg you’re really pretty ‼️‼️‼️
shit i do the same thing with Indian accents. Mad respect to those tech geniuses but man are their accents funny. Especially the Gujarati, love those guys.
@@hughmungus99 i hope you understand that what you're doing is highly offensive. mocking a groups typical accent because you find it "funny" is racist and demeaning.
you don't have to purposefully be offensive for it to happen.
Guys, chill. We Indians know our accent sounds funny. Why do you think Lilly Singh speaks like a black American girl in spite of growing up in Canada? South Indians, north Indians and north east have different accents, and we make fun of each other all the time. Of course, some of it is meant in a hurtful way.
@@janeakindele-abe6855 well just like i don't care if people make racist jokes towards blacks or make fun of AAVE, i also don't care about making fun of other groups as long as it's in a joking manner. Everyone needs to stop taking shit so seriously and stop looking to be offended. Obviously me mocking an indian accent doesn't mean i have something against indian people or that i think they are lesser somehow just like if someone mocks my accent i don't fucking care and i laugh with them and if you learned to chill out and take a fucking joke then you would too.
I study linguistics and any serious linguist will tell you that AAVE is a sociolect (or language, the distinction between dialect/sociolect and a language is really arbitrary) of it's own, beacause it has completely regular grammatical and phonological features. It bugs me so much when people who know nothing about linguistics feel the need to call AAVE bad or improper English, or mistakes. Language mistakes are irregularities, AAVE features are regular and meaningful systems of grammar and meaning, just like with standard English.
@@miketrotman9720 Yes there's defnitely a connection between the two, however the exact early origins of AAVE are still under debate (research suggests that early AAVE was closer to Brittish dialects of that time). But as the south kept using slavery more and longer, and even after slavery was technically abolished still used black servants for a long time, it's reasonable to assume that during that time period AAVE picked up a lot of features from southern american English (and culture). Your point about New England is interesting, since we know that African Americans were present (although in varying and sometimes small degrees) in most other states, but since they were allowed to integrate more into society instead of being segregated as lower class people / workers, they probably integrated more into the language and culture as well, so we might not have even had something like AAVE in that case.
LMAO
It pissed me off when it was and is called " ebonics" I was a kid when it was coined that. It's NOT! It's a dialect and even then, there are various dialects spoken amongst us Black folk.
@Carl Panzram you are aware that the English language that you're using still isn't correct either. Also...there are only "White" supremacists. At this point you should have just sat this one out. Smh
@Carl Panzram Dude an entire legacy of linguistic research proves that wrong. Linguists don't just say that to "please the woke crowd". This is based on research and studies and testing and testing, not a matter of opinion. It also seems that you're missing the point. One person making "the same mistake" over and over again isn't a dialect/sociolect no, that's just an individual quirk or maybe a speech deficiency. But if an entire group of people always says something one way, and that way of saying it corresponds with a set meaning, that everyone in that group understands and produces clearly, than you're not talking about a "mistake". What is said is what is intended to be said. AAVE speech characterized as full of mistakes is a caricature created by white people in the era of blackface. In truth, AAVE (although of course there are regional varieties) has completely regular systems of pronunciation and grammar that are well researched and documented. I wish people would take the time to actually study the linguistic field a little instead of jumping to conclusions on something they apparantly know nothing about.
watching this video in 2024... "we can always tell" resonates STRONGLY
As someone who's not black I had NO IDEA that speaking that way is offensive. I honestly thought it was just a cute and funny internet slang. I am kinda cringing now because I used to always say things like 'chile' and 'periodt'. Thanks for this video!
saame.
How can yall all be American live in the same country and think that how another group of people’s slang ( who are from the same country) is an Internet slang? I’m not American and I never thought AAVE is an Internet slang... I’m asking because this is super confusing to me
@@sweetcutecoolgirl I'm not American either. So the only times I have heard AAVE is through the internet.
its weasel so you mean you never knew that this is an African American dialect? Come on!! If you consume mainstream media it’s pretty obvious that it’s a dialect from black people in the states... there are so many different English dialects how can someone think it’s „ Internet slang“ idk I’m not trying to be rude but it doesn’t makes sense to me..
@@sweetcutecoolgirl I literally never knew how to tell between some dialects and I have never been that exposed to African Americans until a couple years ago because of social media. And since I knew virtually nothing about different dialects I thought AAVE was just slang. Again I never knew about this until this video, which I am grateful for
As someone who has learned English mostly from the Internet, when I heard aave terms I just thought they were like american slang or something like that, so when I found out what it was a little while ago I was horrified that I had been using it for so long without knowing. I think this topic should be talked about a lot more because neither me or any of my friends knew about aave even after using it for so long, and now I feel so bad lmao
Well, u now know so it's ok
lmao?
This is my exact situation too.I am from India and I have learned English mostly from internet so I have been using lots of aave when I speak and I feel so bad about it now,I really want to know what is specifically aave so I can stop using it so I am really researching on it rn.
I'm from America, but until like three weeks ago I had never heard of AAVE either. I knew what a Blaccent was, just never realized there was a name for it. I have been using words like, 'Period, Sis, Slay, and Hella' for years. Everyone I know has. I always thought they were just internet slang. Imagine my shock when I found out they were not internet slang. I'm glad I found out about it. I don't want to come off as another ignorant white American. I try to learn about all cultures. I find them beautiful and fascinating.
same :(
I have a friend who changes her whole voice, attitude, and mannerisms when she's around black people. It's so ridiculous, and I don't understand how or why she has black friends who don't want to punch her in the throat.
Hm. Maybe she's code switching. I'm black and it's something most black people do given the social element we're around. But it has to be natural. But if it sounds forced like she's *trying* to be *cool and hip* then that's a lil iffy!
That happens so much in London 😩
@@chibimoon1432 I think I've witnessed my boyfriend do what you're talking about, he is black, and the way he speaks to his own family and friends is very different than the way he speaks in front of my family. It used to bother me because it made me feel like he was afraid to be himself in front of my family, but he explained to me that it's something he would have to try really hard not to do, and that he's been doing it his entire life, and that's it's almost a survival skill. My friend I was talking about in the previous comment just does it because she thinks it's cool, she's the type of person to change to fit in with whatever group of people she's with at the moment, but unlike my boyfriend, you can tell it's not natural at all, and that it's an act
@@b.mcknight8686 oh then yeah! That's not cool. A friend of mine in middle school was the same way. Depending on if she was with her close friends she'd use AAVE to sound cool or more "chill" it was little weird, because she wouldn't talk like that around me. She was like a different person, I could also tell it wasn't natural so. Whatever I guess!
Have you ever called her out out for that? 😕
Just commenting to say that we should stop calling AAVE grammar "errors" and "mistakes" in grammar because it's not an error, it's just not standard American English grammar and never was intended to be
It's improper
"Do be finna gon slay" took me out.... I hate when people use AAVE incorrectly its like hearing nails on a chalkboard
Hey...
Would you mind explaining why that sentence is a subversion of AAVE?
Like... What it means and how it should actually be?
I'm a Brazilian who speaks English as a Foreign language, I'm asking out of curiosity.
Thank you 😊
(I mean... I understand the "do be" and the "gon slay". I don't get it the way it was used and why it's incorrect. Hahaha)
@@thaiscarvalho4946 so in context Finna or Fonna depending on ones accent is the AAVE version of "going to" so adding gon or gonna after the use of finna is redundant. One correct way to use 8t would be to say "We're fonna get something to eat. You comin?"
right i’m white but that’s just really embarrassing.
I have this one friend who does the most tryna use aave and she would say “finna gonna” on accident a bunch of times 😭 like if you can’t speak just stop and don’t
IMO, using a "blaccent" and aave with the intention to appear more humorous is just modern-day blackface
FR!
That's on facts and on Periodtttt boo
What’s aave mean?
What
BQueen that’s true
Thanks to everyone for the support on this video! Lately I've been getting a lot of questions from nonblack ppl asking me if saying certain things is ok based on their specific circumstances. *I can't answer that.* I am not a spokesperson for the black community and I can't control your speech. As I mentioned in the video, it's all about intention. If you're still confused, *do more research.* :)
I do i have question though...
Does it make me a racist person if im singing a song that has the n word in it and i use it even though im White (half asian)? Can you explain to me why people say its racist because i really dont understand T~T
@@mr_sugas_fire3015 saying the n word if you're not black is racist. don't do it. don't even type it. the n word has been used (and still is) by white people to insult black people. the reason black people say it is now is bc we are reclaiming the word for ourselves, so its our word and can't be used an insult to us. I haven't done all the research but this is mainly from what I know so if anyone sees a mistake please let me know so I can fix it :)
In high school me and my friends definitely used AAVE inaccurately, assuming it was from “Stan” culture (especially tumblr) we lived in Australia and were so far removed from the reality and history of the language. As an adult I’ve made a conscious decision not to use AAVE as it was never mine to use in the first place! I wish more non-black people would acknowledge the origin of the language they claim for stan/online culture especially those who live in the US, you KNOW who’s language you’re stealing and you KNOW the racial double standard that protects you from criticism whilst simultaneously dis-crediting the intelligence of the people you steal it from.
oh another Austrailan tumblr user !! I heavily relate to this. I used to use a blaccent often in high school and only found out recently how many words I once used were AAVE, so I've distanced myself from it all. there's not a lot of African Australians either which I think makes things worse, because if you're not able to interact with a real person from that culture, you're more likely to see them as a caricature, which I believe is what I did
Actually since I’m not from America, before this video I didn’t even know that Blaccent existed, when I heard it I always thought it was a certain accent from a part of America. Thank you so much for educating me!
This is so crazy to me !
Same ! I thought it was common slang until one day in Twitter I saw a girl complaining about yt people using AAVE, and I did my research
@@elbuki4547 the important of your comment is that you did research. Something many people don't even think about doing on the Internet 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Not even just about this topic. It applies to everything
You might hear some variants that sound similar but they’re actually southern accents or bayou accents. Just a like ~fun fact~ so you don’t think any accent that’s similar is trying to make a mimicry of it.
In a lot of ways it is a regional accent, it's just that the region is scattered black pocket communities throughout the US. This at least partially comes from shared origins in either large plantations or major city centers who then spread in groups and formed said pocket communities. Unless I have thoroughly misinterpreted, Tee seems to be of the mind that if you're nonblack and use a blaccent just for the jokes, thats a problem. "Just for the jokes" is a decent part of that because within those communities there are nonblack people who earnestly speak in this way because they grew up with it. Most notably, many Latinx people from large cities will adopt aave heavily into their speech, because of proximity and intermingling with black neighbors. There are white people (and any other race or ethnicity) whose normal accent is not far from the stereotypical blaccent. But like, black people can tell the difference between the real deal and a put on. Tbh if you pay attention its really not that hard to spot even if you're not black. Also any white person who has spent enough time around black people to earnestly have speech patterns similar to black people would know how to stay in their lane, so like...
Tl;dr There are nonblack people who use the blaccent in a legitimate way because of region but they aren't usually an/the issue
crazy thing is the “sis do be finna go and slay” example probably went over a lot of non-black people’s heads cause they genuinely don’t understand the structure of AAVE.
@@easytiger35 ... but there is. I wish I had the link on hand but there's a great video talking more in depth about the history and structure of AAVE.
Will Strickland that’s how dialects kinda work
@@easytiger35 you may say that it's improper speaking of a language but that's how alot of languages happen. If two groups of people start our speaking the same language and then you separate them for a long enough period of time they will no longer be able to understand each other. Language evolves. With the improper education of black people and segregation it makes sense that a different version of English was created. Like U.S English is different than UK English and Australian English but it's all English. And if you feel AAVE isn't proper English. Then the English you speak is in proper. You don't use the same English as the first colonial people. If white people spoke AAVE and African Americans spoke "proper English" of today. Then AAVE would be considered "proper English" and the "proper English" would be considered AAVE.
Will Strickland not exactly, there are still rules to dialects and slang. Slang words have meanings and you can’t just shoves any combo of words together so the grammatically correct aave version of “sis do be finna go and slay” would be something like “sis do be slayin doe”
Will Strickland do the research then come back, it’s a legit dialect
It's even sounds cringy when "forced" by other black people that naturally DO NOT speak like that.... it sounds almost patronizing. Just be authentic to yourself people!
Say it again girl. For the ppl in the back, front, sides and for the ones still standing outside waiting in line.
@@poiseblemiramoon6992 What does that have to with what she said? If you feel like speaking like that ok. But it's not authentic then why? Like she said It comes across as forced if it's not natural to one.
I was born in the U.S. but my parents are originally from the Caribbean. I don’t use AAVE because despite being black and going to a predominantly black & Hispanic school where it was used all my life, we never personally used it growing up and it just seems odd to start using it now. Like you said, it comes off unnatural. So when I see non-black people using AAVE it just seems even more ridiculous especially when you think about the fact that there are some black people that don’t use it just like how some blacks choose not to use the n-word. But then you have white people and off-whites thinking because they have black friends, they can say the n-word all they want smh.
I know what you mean. I had a friend who had just move to the U.S from Uganda so she had an accent. I live in a predominantly white town and so does she. But out of nowhere she was putting on an accent and trying to speak AAVE and it just sounded wrong. I may not be African American but I can always tell when someone s faking an accent and it always makes me cringe. I also have another friend who is black and tries to do AAVE and it's annoying couse her parents are African and don't speak like that and she grew up in white places. I think AAVE is cool but I don't think black people who didn't grow up speaking it should try to to seem cool or more "black". At the end of the day there are so many ways to be black and we should all embrace them.
The problem I have as a non american person is that I don’t know what AAVE differentiates from American English, so although I’d definitely renounce on using AAVE, how should I do that?
As a black woman, I want to give you, your flowers!! I recently started following you and I honestly have to say your videos are so refreshing and intriguing, I love everything you stand for and represent ❤️ Stay blessed you beautiful black queen
I find it funny how when I called out a white girl at my school who was using AAVE as a joke and pretending that it was her natural dialect (it was not), I get called racist even though she litterally said "How can you speak a color, like how tf can you speak purple, blue, green?? Like this is how I talk". I'm so glad that there is someone like you who, as a black woman (I am white) can explain and educate people on the importance of your beautiful culture. Love you lots 💕💕
@selenite did you even watch the video?
@selenite aave is by and for black people. When slaves were brought to America they didn’t speak English so they made their own version. I’m black and my entire family uses aave. Not all black people use aave. But black people created it. That was the whole point of the video. You clearly had a question and they video answered it. Stop playin w me
@selenite gurl I- 🤦🏾♀️
@selenite all black people aren't African American. What are you talking about
@selenite "How can you speak a race?". Its called "African American"VE for a reason.
I unconsciously have been using AAVE for jokes, and I'm trying to educate myself and change
that is maturity right there. thank u
We love and accept growth ❤️
Love that💜
Much appreciated
Good for you , also educate your friends
This girl is super-pleasing to the eyes and ears.
I really want to like but damn.. I don't want to ruin the perfection
@@lanygorl8344 thanks for not
@@lanygorl8344 no❗
As a 50 something year old man with kids your age, I doubt that I'm part of your subscriber demographics. However, I find myself binging your videos and really enjoy your content. Great job young lady. 👍
A lot of kpop idols do this too 😶
Wendy from Red velvet is one that I know.
BTS’s leader has a history of this as well
There was a whole video of Mark and Johnny teaching Chenle how to say aave to speak to Steph Curry
@@venalisa3116 I love RM, he is my idol, but yeah I agree. In the past he used lots of AAVE
@@Bedhead_Brodi Yeah but he apologized and held accountability for his actions. He's also like 16 that time. The good thing is he didn't do it again after he apologized unlike some other idols
I’m so glad that is black creators are breaking are silence, hopefully people will listen and if they don’t we’ll have to just stop showing our support.
Amen! I thank the Black creators in all media platforms educating the people who needs a history message or act plain ignorant on purpose.
Yesss, white people need to appreciate black people and other POC speaking up about these issues because it isn't and shouldn't be their job in the first place. (I'm incredibly thankful for this video for example.)
"the answer's racism by the way, but imma keep going" 💀
Waiting for y'all to call out Paris Hilton's friend, Tana Mongeau!!
I grew up code switching since I was little,and to have the way of speaking I was told to steer myself away from become a trend by the exact people I learnd to speak "proper" for is constantly mind blowing
Don’t you love when people claim not to like African Americans but are so quick to take certain things from our culture. -cough- -cough- Danielle Bregoli -cough- -cough-
And Malu trevejo. She’s always wearing box braids but likes to say she rocks it better than black woman like..... since 2016 I still don’t know why she’s still famous
Tatiana Er exactly
She hates black women but she'll take that bbc anyday
Lorraine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But right here you're encouraging/reinforcing her culture vultureness by calling her by that name. I refuse to call her anything but her government name, Danielle Bregoli.
My cousin puts the "accent" on with her boyfriend and it hurts me and my other cousin on a physical level.
Edit: I did not notice this comment got 7 replies jesus
SAME
Wut did you mean
Tell her to stop🤷🏾♀️.
Call her out. Don’t just sit by
@@Khapresha fr
see the thing that really gets me is, these celebrities and influencers won’t dress up in a Sari, they won’t pull a chinese accent to seem more intimidating or aggressive. yet for some reason, they have NO problem doing it to black culture. they do it to black culture and it’s just “trendy” it’s just “fashion”
I agree and they may not use a Chinese accent for aggressiveness but they do it when putting nails on, eating with chopsticks, etc for funny purposes. It’s a lot of stereotyping.
i agree with what ur saying, but alottt of celebrities have appropriated asian and south asian culture. Like alot.
I just wanna remind anyone reading the comments that celebrities influencers and other people do in fact use south and east asian accents on a regular basis in a VERY degrading way. It's to the point where native speakers and people with the actual accent are often not taken seriously. yet they look into asian cultures to find beauty hacks and for the aesthetics of the culture such as henna, chopsticks in hair etc
, as the OP comment said because it's seen as trendy and fashionable.
@@Chaampagneee I admit even some Asian with exaggerating Singlish, English Malaysian accent, or English Chinese accent for comedic purpose but outside sketch/sitcom sound so cringe. It's not offensive, but just, like, why. Then when it's white people doing it, it gets double cringe. It's offensive not because it's racist (it is tho) but because how horrible it is. Never laugh at that kind of joke, not even from the genuine Asian one.
Also,... Chopsticks are not cultural appropriation honey, it's just eating utensils ❤️❤️❤️❤️ should Chinese restaurant forbid white people eating with chopsticks???? Don't be cringe 💀💀💀
yet they say we gate keep alot while they would never say this to other cultures
Ppl telling you you get your personality form TikTok as a black women is blowing like it’s beyond me 😭
I am a Latina from NYC who has NEVER approriated AAVE, but when I moved to Cali all these white kids love to. I'm so tired lmao
The word hella. Good god, i have gotten in so many disagreements about that word. I used to cringe at my friend who moved to LA and started using it. Like please sit your lily white hind end down, you are embarrassing your local gay, in public no less! I am the local gay btw. Like hella orginated in a black neighborhood in either Sacramento or San Francisco, i can't remember which. It ain't surfer slang (which is already an appropriated sport). Ffs, ain't is AAVE. Like it isn't that hard to do a brief search of where words and idioms orginate from! Like even the word "cool" is AAVE. Thelonious Monk made so many words for AAVE that have just been absorbed into the mainstream.
It isn't hard to be mindful of this stuff.
@@kraziiXIII for real.
if u grow up around ppl using aave u cant blame em
Now that I think about it latinas and other poc never used aave like that in nyc, at most the n word
@fxncy.shyla_ ! ur natural accent is something u cant control
Seeing non black egirls speak in aave is probably the most disturbing
If I hear someone say "chilly" one more time I will scream.
@@fruit4evr literally the entire Y2K Twitter speaks aave it's gross
@@cocococo765 ya and like as a white person I say peridot and "and I oop" (love jasmine masters) but some people rly sound like they ar having a stroke when they say SO much of it and dont know anything about it
My alternative ass has to constantly call that bs out, black alternative ppl are the blueprint and deserve respect within the community.
@@jade4025 I'm a black alternative girl as well and seeing how non blacks treat being alternative is wild I swear they're the same people that question my blackness for liking alternative stuff but now it's a trend
I used to use a “blaccent” in high school thinking it was hilarious, that it would bring a point to a joke in former videos I created. I’m ashamed and wish I was educated/corrected earlier because I thought it was okay to do this and that people still think this is acceptable (which blows my mind) I’ve learned and grown and want to thank you for bringing this subject into the limelight. @ Non- Black people, You can be funny and get to your point of the joke across without a “blaccent.”
character development 😌
✨ growth ✨
takenbyliam 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING YOURSELF 💛
Thank you for educating yourself. That's what it means to be a true ally
Great video! I am from the Middle East and English is not my first language so I can’t really tell accents apart, but I just realized I unknowingly picked up some “AAVE” phrases from white and queer influencers. Thank you for educating me 👍 Be proud of yourself and don’t let others take advantage of your culture!
As for the Jackie Aina situation...AAVE isn't grammatically incorrect. It has its own set of grammar/structural rules that differ from "standard" American English. It would be like calling ASL grammatically incorrect because it isn't SSE, lmao.
Sorry I'm ignorant, what's SSE?
@@peachpaty8873 Full disclosure, I'm not deaf so my understanding of sign language and deaf culture is rudimentary at best! SSE stands for "sign supported English," which shares many of the same signs as ASL but it's signed in the grammatical order of standard spoken English. Some of the signs are different, too, not even accounting for dialectic differences...it is a good learning tool for folks who were born hearing but became hard of hearing/deaf later in life, and I believe it is also used to assist deaf children in learning to read written English.
@@clownbash Oh, got it! Thank you!
What did Jackie do?
@@kitbracadabra Jackie didn't do anything wrong! She's just referenced in the video. One of her video titles was written in the grammatical style of AAVE and people were "correcting" her in the comments.
Non-black creators appropriating a "blaccent" or AAVE purely for comedic effect is way too reminiscent of minstrel shows for me
Oh my god yup
Right.
Especially if they are portraying the angry black woman and use the “European” English to portray the calm white woman 🙄
THIS
Meghan Sullivan oh true, true
The fact that I didn't notice that I associated black culture with pop culture is so scary. Sometimes I'm not even aware of things until a channel like Tee Noir points it out. Thanks for making this video.
@Ariss Miraculous hmmmmm
I’m especially aware of it whenever I watch videos that are like where tiktok sounds come from and the entirety of it is black women
@@that1guy167 you sound pressed. Commenting under dozens of people's comments saying the same thing. Just admit you're in denial /not willing to acknowledge the facts in front of you and move on.
@@that1guy167 LMAOOO you sound mad asf. Once again, just say you don't understand and/or you're in denial and move on. Either you feel targeted because the video is directed at people like you, or you're just supremely ignorant. Either way, get some help.
Yes same
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“The answer is racism by the way, but imma keep going”
PFFHSHDJ I LOVE YOU
THIS LOGIC SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE
Billie Eilish and NF (both artists) have a similar 'blaccent' despite them being white, but I just think it's the genuine way they speak. It's not mocking in any way... but THOSE people, the ones who use it for 'humour', yeah no thanks.
how does billie have a blaccent? she just seems to talk in like a monotone voice
@@Juan-en7yd its not all the time that she speaks that way but you can definitely tell sometimes. i think it might be her just dragging out words but idk. and its definitely subtle.
I’d say Ariana Grande, for example, is a much more egregious example of switching to a blaccent, because it’s paired with hella blackfishing in the rest of her persona, and because we have an entire library of examples of how white and white-sounding she was when she was younger.
I think Billie just talks like that.
DoItWithGrace I think for Ariana’s case it has a lot to do with her friend group, I don’t believe she has any ill intention behind it.
@@l3unnies This is what I think, maybe she picked the accent from her friends this is a really common phenomenon
No one asks about your hair or your lip color, because we’re so enthralled with your intelligence, charisma, and conversation. It’s refreshing and a compliment.
Thanks but I get questions about my hair and lip color every single video that's why I was surprised no one asked in this one.
As a black/latino Brazilian man, I appreciate your POV. Great video. If I might add something to it, it's also important people understand this is a reality for brothers and sisters in the media IN THE US. It probably happens in others countries as well, but... for instance, in Brazil, there's no particular accent to different ethnicities, unless you're from a more traditional and geographically closed indigenous, japanese, quilombola, german, italian etc..community . It's more about where you live, your city, your state, your region. Culturally charged practices can vary a lot from place to place.
It's so damn cringey! Glad you made this video!
I live in south Alabama (Love it🙄) but I always find it super funny that white people here like to tell black people to "speak proper English" and then turn around and say things like "Ain't gunna lah cain't wait ta go home an' drank mah beer"
I was just thinking about that. No one says anything about southern white ppls way of speaking smh
"Ain't gunna lah" BAHA
And then when black people finally set our foots down and lay some boundaries on what is or isn’t ours, those same white people will say “this is southern culture, not black”. 😒
I live in North Carolina but same even tho I’m a white person, I’m not trying to get rid of my whiteness but lots of white ppl are hella annoying
Girl right I'm from birmingham al and these wypipo will try and talk like us. And when we talk how we talk we get looked at funny asf I hate when these white girls try to talk or imitate me and my friends they get mad when we just look at them. They be tryna relate and can't
The “maybe your just not funny” is a fact‼️
right
As a 74yrs old retired dentist I see things are still the same. I got educated in the segregated American school system. How often I would hear-" you don't sound like a black,you don't act like a black person,etc esp from educated whites,some Asians, middleastern medical professionals. As I watch and review some of the BS on RUclips nothing changed in fact I think it's gotten worse.
....am I the only one who just realised that literally everything that had been pop culture...originated from black culture...music...fashion...almost everything starts as black culture then it gets appropriated...if you think I’m wrong just look up anything that’s considered cool and stylish and research if it has black origins...if I’m wrong I’ll delete this comment
Yup this is true as shes explaining 😊 thank you for acknowledging it!
Unfortunaly you are right...😂😂
There's plenty examples of things not appropriated. The internet, for one.
空白王 アテム I wouldn’t say fashion but the rest seems pretty right
Niffirg Gee we were talking about culture, the internet cant be appropriated
Oh my GOD she really said “Maybe you’re just not funny,” and I started WHEEZING like O U C H but also you tell em👏🏻
I cringe when non-blacks use AAVE
Don’t say “blacks” when referring to black people
What abt the ppl who grew up in those places with AAVE and are non black
@@Tamara-lu5bx I was asking myself the same thing...
@@Tamara-lu5bx I think they were referring to people who didn’t grow up in that environment. I know some non black people who just grew up that way so they can’t help but use aave because that’s all they know. But there are also people (on Twitter and tiktok especially) who use aave as a joke but would never use it in real life.
@@ramiyahlee6108 Thx for explaining, i think i understand know 😄
Subscribed!!! Ma’am PLEASE do not stop creating! I loved the video and thank you for the sources, the articles and videos you cited were fantastic. As someone who is mixed and light, I have always struggled with fitting in and explaining many of the points you made , I will definitely be sharing. Thank you for breaking things down intelligently and in a very easy to understand way. Love and positivity to you!