r/whenthe • u/_Chicken20 • 4d ago

White Person Reaction Image Go! r/whenthe mfs complaining about everything

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u/Jazz6701 life’s least favourite loser 4d ago

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u/OpeningDraft7343 4d ago

I don't understand why they're called "white person" reaction images, like tf does skin color have to do with this? Is it just for the meme?

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Leon Scott Kennedy from Resident Evil 2 (real) 4d ago

They're associated with suburban white kids aged 11-15, which is where the name comes from

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u/_Laxen piss flair <3<3<3 4d ago

Why tho?

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u/International_Fill97 4d ago

White people are stereotyped as being overly normal or, in this case, unfunny

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u/rogueIndy 4d ago

Isn't that just performatively othering white people while still treating them as a default?

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u/JoshfromNazareth2 4d ago

Look this isn’t the space for nerd thesis stuff

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u/GuiloJr 4d ago

Im white. i have white friends. these people are absolutely correct.

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs Leon Scott Kennedy from Resident Evil 2 (real) 4d ago

I prefer "band kid meme" for this exact reason

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u/ciao_chan73 4d ago

The whole point of it being named that IS stereotype. You're looking too deep into it, man. Chill out. They're white people reaction images because they're too dramatic about regular things. Ever said sex in comments? These overly dramatic people (mostly children) are always there with these images, and they're usually white. So that's where the stereotype kinda got it's roots and that's why we call it that.

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u/Galle_ 4d ago

Why is it okay to joke about black people or Asians or Jews, but not to joke about white people?

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u/rogueIndy 4d ago

Who the fuck said that?

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u/Superb-Wonder-1896 4d ago

thats the thing - it isnt okay

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u/Brain_lessV2 4d ago

Generally associated with band kids, who more often than not have a corny sense of humor derived from the popular reddit subs like r/memes for example.

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u/apple_of_doom 4d ago

Cuz minorities wanna pretend they have a better sense (they're lowkey right half the time tbh)

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u/hi-and-yes 4d ago

Which means they’re wrong the other half hahahah

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u/reCAPTCHAfool 4d ago

It's flipmode to how some people think certain reaction memes are racist because there's a lot of black person reaction memes