This is a little vent post about this youtube short I just watched on the “viral no-water chicken soup”, which is like pretty obviously asian inspired based on the ingredients (if you search for this phrase you’ll find it).

The keen eye will be able to identify it as chinese with the inclusion of goji berries. Idk if it’s a specific soup (some have claimed it is) but it’s just weird that some people hopping on this trend don’t want to acknowledge that it’s asian?

And it’s one thing to not identify it as asian if you’re getting this trend several creators downstream who have already stripped that adjective off of it, but the crazy thing about this short is that everyone in the comments was mobilizing to support the creator in denying that it was important to acknowledge that it’s asian? Implying people were whining for simply pointing it out politely and insisting that it’s okay because every culture has a chicken soup. Shocking how many times I saw these two sentiments repeated.

Like bro just say “thanks I didn’t know!” No one was mad until you did this weird little dance around giving the acknowledgment.

Also disheartening was that this was a black creator and lots of these comments were from other non-asian POC. Someone had the audacity to bring up kpop and black appropriation as if (1) it was at all relevant and (2) multiple things can’t be bad?

I’ve attached some screenshots of comments demonstrating what I mentioned, and as you can see they’re pretty mild, so it’s not a huge deal. But it just feels like people are acting real weird about it all.

Asian erasure or something like that