the riverside's definitions

you can't be racist to white people

a phrase meaning "I am racist to white people"

a person who has just practised acts of affirmative racism 3 minutes ago: “you can't be racist to white people”

by the riverside October 8, 2023

Blacktober

You know how Hollywood couldn’t find black actors to play black characters, and instead repainted white actors in that position? And how that’s called whitewashing and racial equality activists made a huge fuss about it?

What if Twitter “artists” took this month to celebrate black people, but they can’t find black characters to draw, so they repaint non-black characters to fill that position.

Blacktober is when they do that racist shit for the whole of October.

“happy #blacktober!! i drew naruto! #blackedit”

by the riverside October 10, 2023

ass o'clock

A time very late at night or very early in the morning when most people are or ought to be asleep.

My sleep schedule is ruined because my favorite YouTuber uploads at ass o'clock

by the riverside November 3, 2023

bottom left

Perverted and stupid. Originates from one Hololive stream where the Vtubers were rated on an alignment chart of how pure (seiso) they are and how smart they are.

lmao your oshi is bottom left

by the riverside November 5, 2023

smartass TV

A smart TV that doesn’t fucking need to be one.

So every smart TV.

Nobody would ever want to have a smartass TV that collects your data, shows you ads, and has a wiretap that goes straight to the government.

by the riverside November 15, 2023

Primos effect

The phenomenon where a creative work designed to represent and/or celebrate a minority is hated by said minority for being stereotypical and degrading.

This effect is named after the Disney Channel animated series "Primos", which got a great deal of backlash for containing negative stereotypes and incorrect Spanish.

The opposite is the Speedy Gonzales effect, named after Speedy Gonzales, the Looney Tunes character who is both criticized for being a Mexican stereotype, and beloved for being a heroic, quick-witted, and lovable cultural icon by Latin-Americans.

In June 2017, the city of Philadelphia adopted a Pride Flag with additional black and brown stripes on top, intended to represent people of color. However, this flag and its further redesigns gathered backlash for being uninclusive, including from LGBT people of color. This is an example of the Primos effect.

by the riverside January 26, 2024

columbusing

The act of columbusing refers to being the first (famous) white person to “discover” something or somewhere that non-white people (and some white people) have known for a while. Popularized in a CollegeHumor skit, it references how Columbus is credited for “discovering” the New World in 1492, although there were already ingenous people on there, and besides, vikings had already reached the Americas centuries before.

Twerking has been around since at least the 90s, but it only entered the public conscious after Miley Cyrus got away with columbusing it.

by the riverside August 11, 2023