I remember being made fun of for wearing braids, hoop earrings, wigs, and sew in weaves. I was experimenting with different hair styles because I was bored with my hair. It wasn’t just white people who bullied me. Black people made fun of me as well and even said I wore weave because I’m trying to be white. I was also bullied for my dark skin. Now 10 years later, what I was bullied for is now in style.
People leave out the most important part.. mediocrity “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde.
I love how yt people just discovered long acrylics with designs. Never saw them w anything beyond French tips until recently. Goes to say, that we drive the culture and set the trends
This is so true. I'm a licensed nail tech and can't be more surprised that bold colorful designs, length, and bling has become more popular outside the black and latinas community, when a few years ago normal french tips was the standard and anything else was "ratchet", "impractical, over the top", and "ugly".
Black culture is the new pop culture fr. I’ve watched a ton of video essays on how this happened and it’s interesting and strange. As a white person who loves street style I get it but also people tend to take things too far (appropriate) and don’t give credit where credit is due. it’s a very weird time to be alive.
@@nancym3041 khadija mbowe (I believe that’s how it’s spelled) does excellent videos and also tee noir. A lot of suggested creators will come up who are similar if you look up those two
the video helped me realize the extent of appropriation of black culture by the kardashians and it makes me more furious than ever about when black women were getting mocked, ridiculed and disrespected for this lifestyle (more early 2010s) on social media, the kardashians were using this to enter "high fashion" and then were regarded as icons for "inventing" and influencing a new fashion style. and their lack of acknowledgement and understanding even today is so disheartening.
I will never understand how some of the Kardashians are married/have married black men like Kanye for example did he just not care that Kim & her family regularly appropriate our culture???
Best example is Dapper Dan. His custom pieces and logomania were first labeled as ghetto until Gucci was caught stealing his designs and they were celebrated for their "creativity"
Is it at all similar to the way that gay men are stereotyped as being extremely clean/well kept to combat the other raging belief that they are “dirty/sinful”?
Growing up and realizing in hindsight how black femininity was always denied for me. I was raised by my black father into white respectability. Even as a teenager hed hold me down to cut my nails down when they got too long to avoid being “ghetto” or having “witchy poo nails”. He took my eyebrow scissors and tweezers and i had my hair relaxed for as long as i can remember. Also was discouraged from wearing any jewelry that was too flashy. Now that I’m older I’m glad i can embrace these things and in a way take control of my own body and identity
Your channel is so underratedddd. I learn more and more about the black community and black women in particular from you each time. Please keep them coming! 💖
Aww, this video was truly a love letter to the "ghetto fabulous" look that so many every day black girls are ridiculed for rocking. That last quote summed everything up really well. Thank you!
@@_VISION. Simply being black and feminine while engaging in your culture,especially when it has been masculine see for so long.Elaborate on how that’s destructive.
..and THATS why a wt women rolling her eyes at my nails is a microaggrestion. You better go off!! I really appreciate how much effort you put into this video. The topics, the editing, the memes, the background, the outfit, the history, the citations! I'm in awe 🙌🏾
damn... you've really opened my eyes on how classism and elitism and our perception of what is "ghetto" and the fact that that even is considered a bad thing is so deeply rooted in racism, colonialism and misogyny. I really gotta look into my own biases here, thank you for making this video. brb gotta go educate myself
naurrr imagine watching a video from one of your fav youtubers and seeing your channel pop up🥺🥺 absolutely loved this video it's so amazing to see black women talking more about these topics and how important our contribution to fashion/pop culture is and how it continues to live on decades later❤️❤️
I screamed. Not me coming home from a thrift store last week with a leopard print plate, a rainbow zebra print pillow case, and regretting not getting a leopard print blanket I saw. 💀💀💀💀
Yeah 👀, I remember in 2009 when I was a kid, going to the outlet store in my area and buying these outfits that were FULLY matching monochrome sets. I stopped wearing them after someone told me I looked ghetto in 6th grade. To this day, I love a matching set lol. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Your take on black people culture is quite educational for me as an African. From my view I see the struggle to maintain your roots and embrace your culture that has for so long been deemed unfit until white people tried to take it. I wish you could make a video on the need for unity between the mother land and the diaspora and african Americans
Damn I feel so embarrassed that I used to have a racist mindset (associating satin mini dresses, animal print and long acryllics with 'cheapness' and 'tackyness') and was too damn ignorant to realise that it was even racially rooted, let alone ridiculous and misogynistic, despite it being right in front of me. Can I get a yikes, please.
Honestly I used to side eye “Ghetto Fabulous” fashion, but now after seeing this video it sorta opened my eyes and now I’m kinda digging it. It’s not something I would *personally* wear, but one other black women it looks dope. They make it look cool and hip, as we black people always have.
Thank you so much for your work! I'm Russian, and I've never been anywhere near the US, but regardless of that your content is extremely interesting and educational to me Good luck with everything you do!
she never fucking misses! all of your videos are AMAZINGGGGGG OUTSTANDING AND SIGNIFICANT . the production, script, and everything involved in your videos is just 🤌🏼🤌🏼 you can see the amount of effort you put into them! love you and your channel, thank you for all of this!!!! it’s the way i looked for synonyms of outstanding and none of them described how i feel ab your work
@@GDL364 In an interview, she talked about how she suffered a broken nose and other Injuries from a past relationship, which is why she got a nose job :/
18:00 I’ve been wanting fake nails for years and my mom has been getting them for almost 20 years and like... hell yeah it’s a lot of effort, even with the simple stuff my mom and I get/want. Being able to put together and coord any wardrobe takes a lot of time and effort too, props to the girls who have this look honestly.
*I feel like the old ghetto "fashion" has become the new modern "icy" if you know what I mean* *like Mary J Blige is like the modern Saweetie* and also I see now a lot of white people trying to look boogie/expensive which is cool because I never tought that they would ever do that. Black people are the blueprint never forget that.
Mary J didn’t even dress similar to Saweetie back in the day. Maybe some of the hairdos but that’s about it. Mary dressed in baggy clothes and had a tomboy type swag when she first came out. Then eventually she was styled by Misa Hylton. Misa had a very monochromatic or sometimes matchy style of dressing people. Saweetie doesn’t really give that. Mary wouldn’t even be comfortable in a lot of stuff Saweetie wears because she doesn’t like showing a lot of skin. Watch The Remix on Netflix if you would like to learn more about black fashion from the 90’s.
Watching this as a Brit IMO it's interesting to hear your take on this as a lot of this is what would be considered 'chavvy' and 'tacky' in the UK and more of a class issue than a race issue. Chavs are typically white working class individuals (however rich people, even celebs who act like this are considered chavvy as well) who are on benefits and live in a council house, behave uncouthly and have a lot of (probably fake or nicked) designer items such as clothing and bags. The women typically have acrylics and excessive makeup/eyelashes/badly filled lips.
15:48 a lot of the things in that blog post don’t match up with how we used “ghetto” when I was a kid. Though also as a kid one of my parents called my South Pole jacket “ghetto” and I was so confused cuz I was like “but it’s a nice jacket” and I was 10. I know now why they said that though :/
You bringing up how much work goes into "ghetto fabulous" fashion kind of hit the nail on the head for me---I feel like conservative white people go after poor woc who fit that aesthetic especially because "of course if you're putting your time into looking like that, you're not spending that time working and therefore it's of course YOUR fault entirely that you're poor."
I just don’t get people. I don’t get why we can’t appreciate and enjoy that poc have brought so much culture, fashion, ideas and knowledge to the world and should be giving credit and adored for sharing the knowledge You can’t get long nails but call black girls with long nails ghetto. It makes zero sense to me. I don’t understand why people have to hate so much and put people down for shit we all participate in and love and enjoy. I went to a racist school and have had people try to force me to say the n word and got jumped by drunk 40 year old men with my baby daddy and had to watch my family shit talk my beautiful daughter all because of skin. It makes no sense and makes me want to cry and I’m Hispanic i don’t even face no where as much racism as my daughter will or my friends have had :(
i feel like you should have discussed more abt how this impacts dark skin nonmen (colorism). as well as how have they contributed in the ghetto fabulous aesthetic, same with Black lgbt+. the examples that you gave were of light skin women and a culture vulture. (just a critic and an observation)
I remember seeing a brand of miss-matched socks being sold at toys r us when I was 12 and Cece from shake it up either wearing or referencing miss matched socks while simultaneously getting the memo that non-matching socks are trashy and ghetto from everyone around me.
Idk where I heard this, but like some notorious designer person or smn said that to find true fashion trends or new inspo you had to go down to the “poor” zones and see what kids where wearing or experimenting with.
The usage of "Ghetto" even 300 years later is sad as it shows both the common conditions we create that cause ghettos as well as the normalization of racist city building.
I'm not a native english speaker so AAVE wasn't thought at school to me and growing up without that much internet access or even a smartphone I'd only see this language in movies and it would be heavily portrait as unintelligent or wrong. Only last year I discovered it's like regionalism in Brazil. Thus depends of where you live and how was your upbringing (in cultural sense) and it's not wrong at all. 🤯 #themoreyouknow
I just discovered your channel a day ago and god each of your videos is A+ material. Not to mention that your voice is so beautiful istg I could listen to it to hours on end
Amazing video as always! I hope the algorithm picks you back up again because I had to search for you to pop back up on my recommended even though I'm subscribed and have watched most of your videos
Like... damn. You went tf off in this and I don't mean that lightly. You are an incredible researcher, writer, AND entertainer. As someone with the same interests, I love how much I learn from you.
I scrolled and saw no comment about this so I would like to thank you for the Brittany Broski bit because she's lowkey a problematic fav of mine. Seems like a nice girl and she's funny and all that but chiiiiiile.... that lecture she tried to give on "stan twitter lingo" or whateva..... girl..... where do you think those little gremlins got it from??? I'm tired.
AAVE is what's called a dialect at the very least in other languages but xenophobic and incurious people. Racism is a pillar of classism, that like all isms allow poor workers in a predominant group to feel like owners. This is done by these workers partaking in gatekeeping and subjugation of an underclass they benefit from existing, however marginally. It also serves to obfuscate the class struggle for the beneficiaries and to divide the energies of those effected both by classism and the racism that buttresses it.
As a white girl, I both hate and love hearing about the history of black women in the Western culture. I love it because it helps me understand, as best as I can, some of the struggles y'all go through. This helps me be a better ally overall. I hate it because Jesus Christ is the history of racism depressing because I can't go back and yell at these racist fucking assholes of the past. I literally hate seeing racism and I have no patience for it around me. However, I still sometimes catch myself having racist thoughts (hate admitting it but it's true, I'mtrying to improve on it) and I always try to smack them down when they pop up before trying to figure out where they came from. Society, especially white society, really has tried to force racism on everyone and I dispise it. No one deserves that. We're all freaking human and whether your skin is dark or pale, you should be treated as an equal. Just because I'm the equivalent of a goddamn ghost, or raw ham if I spend too long in the sun, doesn't make me better than anyone else. It just makes it easier for me to scare kids on Halloween. Side note, totally off topic but damn do I love your outfit! Those colors are amazing on you and that bit of lace popping out from under the fuzzy jacket is cute af. And your hair is always fabulous. Edit: typo. Got too heated and forgot to fix it before posting. Also, sorry if nothing makes sense. I am extremely sick right now (sixth day of this shit, I'm done).
I understand what you meant by the term, but all poverty is "nonconsensual". Except maybe for some orders of monks. I think you meant something closer to "forced" or "artificial."
Aren’t the words “forced” and “non-consensual” synonymous? What’s the difference? Also, artificial means something completely different but might work better if she was talking about people who could afford to leave “the ghetto” but couldn’t actually leave due to redlining. So they’re not poor but they’re forced to stay in poor areas.
Listening to you speak really grounds me. But seriously i grew up in the “ghetto” of La and now i live in Baltimore. so I’ve experienced Two polar opposite “ghettos” and what i’ve noticed that no matter which “ghetto” im in, whether 2000 miles away or not, It has always been >10% white in those areas
Okay so I watched your twilight video and I am in love with your voice! So I am gonna binge watch everything by you. Also loved your analysis. So happy with myself on finding you. Sometimes algorithm is a gift.
Random 'sleep-deprived, meds haven't kicked in yet, probably incomplete/incoherent thought'- animal prints get associated with black people because animal prints are also associated with a "tribal aesthetic". Like how anything with geometric patterns is labelled "Aztec".
I remember being made fun of for wearing braids, hoop earrings, wigs, and sew in weaves. I was experimenting with different hair styles because I was bored with my hair. It wasn’t just white people who bullied me. Black people made fun of me as well and even said I wore weave because I’m trying to be white. I was also bullied for my dark skin. Now 10 years later, what I was bullied for is now in style.
I feel you. It's sad how you got to be bullied for now being praised for your look :/ this the world we growing up in that I hate
First they hate then they emulate... Its an ancient idea and quote
@@justrenee2640 "imitation is the highest form of flattery" it just takes a decade or two for _some people_ to figure it out and catch up lolol
Black people probably bullied u because they seen straight hair and compared it to white
People leave out the most important part.. mediocrity
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde.
Finally Lil Kim getting the recognition that she deserves, she walked no, STRUTTED so the girlies can run today. 💅🏾
PERIOOOOOD
And that's on period! Kim is the it girl that inspired all the girlies.
To see how she has changed now is so heartbreaking, yes to giving her more of the credit she deserves!
Gotta give flowers to Misa Hylton who curated that ICONIC style thru Kim and Mary J. Blige 😍😍😍
You know none of them are running, gliding, slidding, maybe? But not running in heels
"and they had a white refrigerator "-Nene Leakes
the way I recite this every day
@@Shanspeare same. I'm obsessed
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I hate elitism but Nene in this clip was effing hilarious. I love her
“i was ughhh not a white refrigerator, girl pls put ur shoes on, let’s go find u a home honey ooo lord”
I love how yt people just discovered long acrylics with designs. Never saw them w anything beyond French tips until recently. Goes to say, that we drive the culture and set the trends
This is so true. I'm a licensed nail tech and can't be more surprised that bold colorful designs, length, and bling has become more popular outside the black and latinas community, when a few years ago normal french tips was the standard and anything else was "ratchet", "impractical, over the top", and "ugly".
Black culture is the new pop culture fr. I’ve watched a ton of video essays on how this happened and it’s interesting and strange. As a white person who loves street style I get it but also people tend to take things too far (appropriate) and don’t give credit where credit is due. it’s a very weird time to be alive.
@@baik4499 Can you recommand me (us, for anyone interested) some of these videos please?
Exactly
@@nancym3041 khadija mbowe (I believe that’s how it’s spelled) does excellent videos and also tee noir. A lot of suggested creators will come up who are similar if you look up those two
the video helped me realize the extent of appropriation of black culture by the kardashians and it makes me more furious than ever about when black women were getting mocked, ridiculed and disrespected for this lifestyle (more early 2010s) on social media, the kardashians were using this to enter "high fashion" and then were regarded as icons for "inventing" and influencing a new fashion style. and their lack of acknowledgement and understanding even today is so disheartening.
No but keeping talking about it. The Kardashians are legit colonizers in every sense of the word.
Omg exactly, looking at the pictures of Lil' Kim you can really see how Kylie is just styled exactly like her then claims she invented that style
Facts
I will never understand how some of the Kardashians are married/have married black men like Kanye for example did he just not care that Kim & her family regularly appropriate our culture???
@@apinchofdisappointment you wanna know how girl... She's white 2) she has BOOKU money 3) she's culturally relevant
The red hair with your skinnnnnn
Edit: you eating this aesthetic upppp
oop thank you bestie!
nom nom nom!
"imma always ride for my black barbies" I KNOW THATS RIGHT
💯❤️
Best example is Dapper Dan. His custom pieces and logomania were first labeled as ghetto until Gucci was caught stealing his designs and they were celebrated for their "creativity"
Now he has a partnership with them
"white people just whitepeopling"
Is the best discription of the tiktok algorithm I've ever heard.
I feel like “ghetto fabulous” subculture could also be a reaction to black women (especially dark skinned bw) being masculinised in media as well?
I also feel that way !
Is it at all similar to the way that gay men are stereotyped as being extremely clean/well kept to combat the other raging belief that they are “dirty/sinful”?
I get that
@@RomanZolanski123 you both really brought up a great point. i would love to see a discourse for both topics honestly.
@@RomanZolanski123 interesting!!
so unrelated but you look SICKENINGLY good
thank you bestie
she always does
My inspo during my childhood but of course respectability politics had me thinking it was wrong. I saw luxury 🤧
PERIOD!!!!!!
NO BUT SAME.
Growing up and realizing in hindsight how black femininity was always denied for me. I was raised by my black father into white respectability. Even as a teenager hed hold me down to cut my nails down when they got too long to avoid being “ghetto” or having “witchy poo nails”. He took my eyebrow scissors and tweezers and i had my hair relaxed for as long as i can remember. Also was discouraged from wearing any jewelry that was too flashy. Now that I’m older I’m glad i can embrace these things and in a way take control of my own body and identity
He did you a favour. Those types of people do not advance in this life run by white people. I believe in respectability politics.
@@tamiwithani So you let white people control your life
Your channel is so underratedddd. I learn more and more about the black community and black women in particular from you each time. Please keep them coming! 💖
💜💜💜💜
Capitalize the B in Black.
@@mahlatsemokgope9011 its not that deep
@@mahlatsemokgope9011 lmfao what
@Motown Gayes people never write "White" either bruh
Aww, this video was truly a love letter to the "ghetto fabulous" look that so many every day black girls are ridiculed for rocking. That last quote summed everything up really well. Thank you!
There's an expectation that black girls be feminine but also not "try too hard." You know people would talk shit either way
Black American femininity is just on it’s own lane! Truly one of a kind!!!
Yeah on its own lane into destruction
@@_VISION. What are you going on about?
@@frilledgyaru291 what is black femininity? What are the characteristics?
@@_VISION. Simply being black and feminine while engaging in your culture,especially when it has been masculine see for so long.Elaborate on how that’s destructive.
*masulinised
..and THATS why a wt women rolling her eyes at my nails is a microaggrestion.
You better go off!! I really appreciate how much effort you put into this video. The topics, the editing, the memes, the background, the outfit, the history, the citations! I'm in awe 🙌🏾
Now it’s shocking to me that so many young white girls are wearing their nails like that.
@@GDL364 Oh you talking bout Bully Eyelash
@Motown Gayes why’re you bringing other women down
@@youraveragelesbian4181 I mean she is an example 😭
@@reserveeuphoric2283 she is just as bad pls don’t oblivious to the things she has done
"Get a 'Ghetto Fabulous' mug for your friend Rihanna" 😂
I KNOW that killed me! i wanted to point it out but i was side tracked by the "unbeweavable" LMAO
PLEASE😭😭 where did it say this??
@@miaomiaou_ when she read the urban dictionary definition bottom
I love the way you make your videos aesthetically pleasing while talking about these important and yet interesting topics. It’s perfect ෆ
thank you bestie!
damn... you've really opened my eyes on how classism and elitism and our perception of what is "ghetto" and the fact that that even is considered a bad thing is so deeply rooted in racism, colonialism and misogyny. I really gotta look into my own biases here, thank you for making this video. brb gotta go educate myself
naurrr imagine watching a video from one of your fav youtubers and seeing your channel pop up🥺🥺 absolutely loved this video it's so amazing to see black women talking more about these topics and how important our contribution to fashion/pop culture is and how it continues to live on decades later❤️❤️
I love your channel! You’re doing amazing bestie 💜💜💜
That robe looks so comfy! Imma put on my own and get some tea before I watch 💅🏽🍵
get comfy!!
@@Shanspeare ❤❤❤
“Why do so many black people have tones of animals print things”
Me, a black girl who can’t get enough of animal print clothing: 👁 👄 👁 🐆🐆🐆
I screamed. Not me coming home from a thrift store last week with a leopard print plate, a rainbow zebra print pillow case, and regretting not getting a leopard print blanket I saw. 💀💀💀💀
I also love animal print things. They're so pretty. Especially the white tiger ones
Yeah 👀, I remember in 2009 when I was a kid, going to the outlet store in my area and buying these outfits that were FULLY matching monochrome sets. I stopped wearing them after someone told me I looked ghetto in 6th grade. To this day, I love a matching set lol. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
I wish I had more animal printed stuff. The only animal print stuff I own is on Animal Crossing.
Wait did the video mention this? Anyone has the timestamp if so
That Urban Dictionary definition triggered my flight or fight response
Lmao 😭😭 too funny
Celebrities are worshipped. That needs to stop.
HEEEYYY the aesthetic is wonderfull as aways❤️
thank you bestie!! :))
Your take on black people culture is quite educational for me as an African.
From my view I see the struggle to maintain your roots and embrace your culture that has for so long been deemed unfit until white people tried to take it.
I wish you could make a video on the need for unity between the mother land and the diaspora and african Americans
The library background is everything 😍
I love it!
I was just about to say that 😂
Damn I feel so embarrassed that I used to have a racist mindset (associating satin mini dresses, animal print and long acryllics with 'cheapness' and 'tackyness') and was too damn ignorant to realise that it was even racially rooted, let alone ridiculous and misogynistic, despite it being right in front of me. Can I get a yikes, please.
Honestly I used to side eye “Ghetto Fabulous” fashion, but now after seeing this video it sorta opened my eyes and now I’m kinda digging it. It’s not something I would *personally* wear, but one other black women it looks dope. They make it look cool and hip, as we black people always have.
did you change your username
ty for talking about the Jewish origin of the word ghetto- it means a lot to see us being represented in history
Thank you so much for your work!
I'm Russian, and I've never been anywhere near the US, but regardless of that your content is extremely interesting and educational to me
Good luck with everything you do!
When did your voice get so soothing?? 😴
around the time I got this microphone that drowns out everything else LMAO
It's a really nice mic, tbh. I've been loving watching you upgrade your equiptment lately. Your channel looks great!
when you threw in *deep ancestral sigh* ... i screamed. amazing video as per usual !!!!
Great video. I would love to see you talk about afrofuturism.
she never fucking misses! all of your videos are AMAZINGGGGGG OUTSTANDING AND SIGNIFICANT . the production, script, and everything involved in your videos is just 🤌🏼🤌🏼 you can see the amount of effort you put into them! love you and your channel, thank you for all of this!!!!
it’s the way i looked for synonyms of outstanding and none of them described how i feel ab your work
RIP lil Kim's old face. I wish she saw the beauty in herself that we all saw in her 😢
She went true alot so i dont even blame her
I heard she got work done bcs her face was damaged from abuse
@@oblimistic emotional abuse from men. She thought she was ugly.
@@GDL364 In an interview, she talked about how she suffered a broken nose and other Injuries from a past relationship, which is why she got a nose job :/
@@oblimistic I read the same article. I hate that she went through that.
18:00 I’ve been wanting fake nails for years and my mom has been getting them for almost 20 years and like... hell yeah it’s a lot of effort, even with the simple stuff my mom and I get/want. Being able to put together and coord any wardrobe takes a lot of time and effort too, props to the girls who have this look honestly.
*I feel like the old ghetto "fashion" has become the new modern "icy" if you know what I mean*
*like Mary J Blige is like the modern Saweetie*
and also I see now a lot of white people trying to look boogie/expensive which is cool because I never tought that they would ever do that. Black people are the blueprint never forget that.
No sweet Queen Mary is the blueprint sweetie is trying to look like mary and other black women artis
@@zoejackson9668 ya that sentence really had me confused. like do kids really not know who mary j blige is????
@@zoejackson9668 ooh
Mary J didn’t even dress similar to Saweetie back in the day. Maybe some of the hairdos but that’s about it. Mary dressed in baggy clothes and had a tomboy type swag when she first came out. Then eventually she was styled by Misa Hylton. Misa had a very monochromatic or sometimes matchy style of dressing people. Saweetie doesn’t really give that. Mary wouldn’t even be comfortable in a lot of stuff Saweetie wears because she doesn’t like showing a lot of skin. Watch The Remix on Netflix if you would like to learn more about black fashion from the 90’s.
@@TyraStanks you're right
Watching this as a Brit IMO it's interesting to hear your take on this as a lot of this is what would be considered 'chavvy' and 'tacky' in the UK and more of a class issue than a race issue. Chavs are typically white working class individuals (however rich people, even celebs who act like this are considered chavvy as well) who are on benefits and live in a council house, behave uncouthly and have a lot of (probably fake or nicked) designer items such as clothing and bags. The women typically have acrylics and excessive makeup/eyelashes/badly filled lips.
I've heard of that phrase, but I could barley understand it.
Girl your outfit is really giving me 90s classy cool Lil Kim vibes and I LOVEE IT💕✨
15:48 a lot of the things in that blog post don’t match up with how we used “ghetto” when I was a kid. Though also as a kid one of my parents called my South Pole jacket “ghetto” and I was so confused cuz I was like “but it’s a nice jacket” and I was 10. I know now why they said that though :/
"Alright I pushed that hernia back in and I am ready to go!" - every amazon warehouse employee
I know it’s not new, but your set is just ✨chef’s kiss✨
Can we take a minute to appreciate how good she looks💅🏾
You ATE and left NO crumbs 🧚🏾♀️Shaniya like Twain but Fabulous 💅🏾
You bringing up how much work goes into "ghetto fabulous" fashion kind of hit the nail on the head for me---I feel like conservative white people go after poor woc who fit that aesthetic especially because "of course if you're putting your time into looking like that, you're not spending that time working and therefore it's of course YOUR fault entirely that you're poor."
I just don’t get people. I don’t get why we can’t appreciate and enjoy that poc have brought so much culture, fashion, ideas and knowledge to the world and should be giving credit and adored for sharing the knowledge
You can’t get long nails but call black girls with long nails ghetto. It makes zero sense to me. I don’t understand why people have to hate so much and put people down for shit we all participate in and love and enjoy. I went to a racist school and have had people try to force me to say the n word and got jumped by drunk 40 year old men with my baby daddy and had to watch my family shit talk my beautiful daughter all because of skin. It makes no sense and makes me want to cry and I’m Hispanic i don’t even face no where as much racism as my daughter will or my friends have had :(
It's called white supremacy bro
i feel like you should have discussed more abt how this impacts dark skin nonmen (colorism). as well as how have they contributed in the ghetto fabulous aesthetic, same with Black lgbt+. the examples that you gave were of light skin women and a culture vulture. (just a critic and an observation)
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Love how informative this was, layered with your amazing aesthetique 🖤
the spongebob clips were everything to me. love the Bob. also as always, a great video
The growth of this channel over the past few months is *chef's kiss* 🤌🏾
I don’t think there’s EVER been a RUclips video that’s appealed to me as much as this one 🤍🤍 thank you 🤗
I remember seeing a brand of miss-matched socks being sold at toys r us when I was 12 and Cece from shake it up either wearing or referencing miss matched socks while simultaneously getting the memo that non-matching socks are trashy and ghetto from everyone around me.
oh we’re eating good tonight. i haven’t clicked so fast on a video in a while
Idk where I heard this, but like some notorious designer person or smn said that to find true fashion trends or new inspo you had to go down to the “poor” zones and see what kids where wearing or experimenting with.
The usage of "Ghetto" even 300 years later is sad as it shows both the common conditions we create that cause ghettos as well as the normalization of racist city building.
I'm sorry, I'm not even a minute into the video and DAMN THAT OUTFIT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AMAZING. I LITERALLY HAD A DOUBLE TAKE WHEN YOU CAME UP.
your style is so captivating to me and your soothing voice is everything!
I'm not a native english speaker so AAVE wasn't thought at school to me and growing up without that much internet access or even a smartphone I'd only see this language in movies and it would be heavily portrait as unintelligent or wrong. Only last year I discovered it's like regionalism in Brazil. Thus depends of where you live and how was your upbringing (in cultural sense) and it's not wrong at all. 🤯 #themoreyouknow
okay but your videos are literally so GOOD like wow-
Urban decay from divestment in Black areas and investment in the white suburbs. Learning this history from you is so great 😌
I just discovered your channel a day ago and god each of your videos is A+ material. Not to mention that your voice is so beautiful istg I could listen to it to hours on end
Amazing video as always! I hope the algorithm picks you back up again because I had to search for you to pop back up on my recommended even though I'm subscribed and have watched most of your videos
that urban dictionary definition had my jaw resting on the floor 😭
Like... damn. You went tf off in this and I don't mean that lightly. You are an incredible researcher, writer, AND entertainer. As someone with the same interests, I love how much I learn from you.
I scrolled and saw no comment about this so I would like to thank you for the Brittany Broski bit because she's lowkey a problematic fav of mine. Seems like a nice girl and she's funny and all that but chiiiiiile.... that lecture she tried to give on "stan twitter lingo" or whateva..... girl..... where do you think those little gremlins got it from??? I'm tired.
Your voice makes my adhd calm down 💕
I LOVE that you bring in history with your vids.
Love your fluffy coat looks so warm and nice. It also just looks really good on you.
I love that your glasses are louder than your voice. Thank you not yelling, your videos are so soothing.
AAVE is what's called a dialect at the very least in other languages but xenophobic and incurious people.
Racism is a pillar of classism, that like all isms allow poor workers in a predominant group to feel like owners. This is done by these workers partaking in gatekeeping and subjugation of an underclass they benefit from existing, however marginally. It also serves to obfuscate the class struggle for the beneficiaries and to divide the energies of those effected both by classism and the racism that buttresses it.
As a white girl, I both hate and love hearing about the history of black women in the Western culture. I love it because it helps me understand, as best as I can, some of the struggles y'all go through. This helps me be a better ally overall. I hate it because Jesus Christ is the history of racism depressing because I can't go back and yell at these racist fucking assholes of the past. I literally hate seeing racism and I have no patience for it around me. However, I still sometimes catch myself having racist thoughts (hate admitting it but it's true, I'mtrying to improve on it) and I always try to smack them down when they pop up before trying to figure out where they came from. Society, especially white society, really has tried to force racism on everyone and I dispise it. No one deserves that. We're all freaking human and whether your skin is dark or pale, you should be treated as an equal. Just because I'm the equivalent of a goddamn ghost, or raw ham if I spend too long in the sun, doesn't make me better than anyone else. It just makes it easier for me to scare kids on Halloween.
Side note, totally off topic but damn do I love your outfit! Those colors are amazing on you and that bit of lace popping out from under the fuzzy jacket is cute af. And your hair is always fabulous.
Edit: typo. Got too heated and forgot to fix it before posting. Also, sorry if nothing makes sense. I am extremely sick right now (sixth day of this shit, I'm done).
White fridges are considered ghetto? So you're telling me I've unknowingly been ghetto all my life?
can we just appreciate the fur coat in july
I love the ambiance of this video. It sets the tone and gives a shout out to the video's topic.
Great video. Good content. Love the facts.
You’re voice is so soothing
I understand what you meant by the term, but all poverty is "nonconsensual". Except maybe for some orders of monks.
I think you meant something closer to "forced" or "artificial."
Aren’t the words “forced” and “non-consensual” synonymous? What’s the difference? Also, artificial means something completely different but might work better if she was talking about people who could afford to leave “the ghetto” but couldn’t actually leave due to redlining. So they’re not poor but they’re forced to stay in poor areas.
I think monks choose humble living not poverty. You don't choose poverty, it chooses you
How about "manufactured"
Girl, you need a podcast
I've never been so grateful for ad breaks in my life. I really needed the break while I had to listen to that blog post. Great video!
Listening to you speak really grounds me. But seriously i grew up in the “ghetto” of La and now i live in Baltimore. so I’ve experienced Two polar opposite “ghettos” and what i’ve noticed that no matter which “ghetto” im in, whether 2000 miles away or not, It has always been >10% white in those areas
I am in the ER on morphine, which has kicked in. Your voice is ASMRazing. Thank you for helping to keep me calm.
you're quickly becoming my favorite youtuber. I adore your content. keep it up!
Okay so I watched your twilight video and I am in love with your voice! So I am gonna binge watch everything by you. Also loved your analysis. So happy with myself on finding you. Sometimes algorithm is a gift.
i love the way you speak! so articulate with such high vocabulary🤩
You are such a genius and it’s crazy
Your background, I'm in love 😍📚
I can’t watch your videos late at night, with this voice Imma fall asleep right away, watching it again now cos I was really enjoying it
I love this. The editing, your outfit, just everything is amazimg
I've never been happier with my youtube algorithm I think you're my new fave
I just found your channel, and I'm loving it!
On point as always. Oh u dropped this btw 👑
Another amazing video 💗 you never miss !
Really appreciate the research you do regarding terms etc. Good stuff!
Every video you make is outstanding! 🥰🥰
I look is giving on all levels today!!!!!!! You look fabulous my dear!
Ahhhh the ugggghhh as if at 0:34 was so satisfying gosh
Random 'sleep-deprived, meds haven't kicked in yet, probably incomplete/incoherent thought'- animal prints get associated with black people because animal prints are also associated with a "tribal aesthetic". Like how anything with geometric patterns is labelled "Aztec".
I thought when you were reading the guy’s quote low brow was a makeup technique that I don’t know about 😅😅