Cultural Gatekeeping

Keeping someone from experiencing, mocking, or appropriating your culture or someone else's culture.

1. You old heads not letting us mumble while we rap is C U L T U R A L G A T E K E E P I N G uhh...

2. Just because were not ChRiStIaN doesn't mean we cant burn crosses at our edgelord festival you C U L T U R A L G A T E K E E P E R S!

Cultural Gatekeeping

by Warble808 March 21, 2022

Gatekeeping

Gatekeeping is a way of protecting cool things (like certain music, style, hobby...) used by the OGs.We protect these things from posers/trend followers/normies so they dont become mainstream.If you get mad at people who gatekeep you are one of those 3 things(poser/trend follower/normie).If you support it and use it you are probably an OG/real fan.

Mia:hey i was bullying you for being emo in middle school but now i like that style and im a goth.
Lela:no you are not a real goth you are just following trends and you will hop on the next trend when this ends so might as well stop embarrassing yourself and embarrassing all the real goths.

Mia:noo but i found myself this is what i like
Lela: no you didnt you was an egirl a month ago and a vsco girl 5 months ago that is not how this works

Mia:its the gatekeeping for me🧚 ♀️
Lela:shut the f up

by theuntouchable January 13, 2021

Gatekeeping

After visiting someone you leave with their gate and keep it for yourself.

I am a big fan of gatekeeping , i visited my mom a while back and took her wooden gate.

by Phoenixhunter March 20, 2023

Men's Mental Health Month-gatekeeping

A cynical trend where the topic of Men's Mental Health Month, an important issue aimed at promoting mental health awareness among men, is intentionally utilized to invalidate or undermine the importance of Pride Month. This is often done by comparing the two inappropriately, suggesting that one is more significant than the other, or expressing that more attention should be given to Men's Mental Health Month, typically without showing genuine concern for men's mental health.

Dave: "Hey, have you noticed it's Pride Month everywhere, but no one even talks about Men's Mental Health Month?"
Rose: "Sounds like a classic case of Men's Mental Health Month-gatekeeping. You don't need to diminish the importance of one to highlight the other, you know."

by Crockercorp June 27, 2023

Cultural Gatekeeping

A term used by white americans to steal cultures that arent theirs and in the process guilt those people of the culture they are stealing

What do you mean I'm not Native-American Irish my Great-great-great-great-great grandfather came over from the irish potato famine and married a Cherokee Princess, quit your Cultural Gatekeeping

by Oure January 28, 2021

Gatekeeping

The act of protecting something so normies doesn't ruin it.

Normie: this is why this character is actually a transgender black male with autism, a thread
Cultured swine: this is why gatekeeping is good.

by normiesSeething October 7, 2021

Gatekeeping

The act of talking to a friend or peer who is taking a shit.

Person 1: *answers phone* "hello"
Person 2: "hey, whats up?"
Person 1: "nothing really, just sittin around."
Person 2: "WRONG! your gatekeeping again."
Person 1: "ewwww"

by Ndyah Hcaz June 13, 2010