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"I created it because I was sick of being labeled with the very negative terms for having a preference, something I can't control, and getting labeled by the community that preaches acceptance with that sort of stuff," Royce said.Īs trans activists have repeatedly stated, not wanting to date a specific person who happens to be trans is not necessarily transphobic. Royce told Insider that the phrase was "never meant to be hateful," and that "a lot of people have the same opinion" but are "too scared to say it in fear of the backlash and the misinterpretations." Trans creators, who already face substantial harassment on social media platforms, are now also dealing with comments littered with black and orange emojis. Online vendors started hawking "super straight" apparel to further ridicule the LGBTQ pride movement by mimicking pride merchandise.Īmateur rapper Robert Charles' 2012 song Super Straight, which repeats the phrase "I'm super straight" in the hook, has been coopted as the "pride anthem" for the movement. Screenshots posted to Twitter show 4chan users explicitly linking the "super straight" acronym SS to the Nazi SS and pairing it with the Nazi salute, as well as co-opting language used by the LGBTQ community to call anyone who disapproves of the "sexual identity" a bigot.Īgitators adopted a "super straight pride flag" that imitates PornHub's logo (and ironically, the logo of the gay dating app Grindr), and have used black and orange emoji to publicly identify as "super straight." TikTok users have been adding the black and orange square emoji to their bios the way many LGBTQ users include the gay pride flag emoji to theirs, and have mocked important LGBTQ rites of passage by making fake "coming out" videos.
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4chan users on the /pol/ board - an incendiary discussion space notorious for its popularity with far-right trolls - discussed further spreading the "super straight" trend to "drive a wedge" within LGBTQ circles, Insider reports. In the weeks since, people have openly identified as "super straight" online to justify their transphobia and mock the struggle for LGBTQ rights. The video racked up more than two million likes before it was taken down.
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21 and re-uploaded to YouTube, Royce claimed critics couldn't call him transphobic for refusing to date trans women - and refusing to acknowledge them as women - because he had decided that "super straight" is a new "sexuality" that should be respected. The phrase "super straight" was recently coined by TikTok user Kyle Royce. Over the last two weeks, (mostly cis) people on social media have started openly identifying as "super straight." The movement, born on TikTok and popularized on 4chan, is a troll campaign by far-right agitators to invalidate trans people's gender identities and justify blatant transphobia. News flash: The "super straight" trend on social media, where users claim a "new sexuality" which demands the same respect as those with marginalized sexual identities, is actually just blatant transphobia mocking LGBTQ people and their activism.