Meme fame location in East Asia subjects subjects to double racial scrutiny

Evidence

However, Heidi Yeh found herself embroiled in an extensive web of internet folklore and slander that she was unable to counter, despite her best attempts and statements to the press. Her ideo-geographical location within East Asia subjected her to double scrutiny; first internally within the region by dedicated internet users known as the “human flesh search engine” who devoted their time to tracing people’s data online and exposing their deceit, and then externally among hegemonically white, Western internet users around the world who viewed this incident with ethnocentric lenses as “just another weird Asian fad.” — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 182

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarship on racialized viewing of Asian internet content and existing notes on ‘exoticism’ chapter themes. — connects to: Real-time meme encyclopedias ended the secrecy of subcultural innovation — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 190; Intra-regional racial hierarchies operate among Asian peoples independent of Western imposition — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1911; Becoming a meme erases the person’s context and identity markers — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 164 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Becoming a meme erases the person’s context and identity markers #expands (0.80) — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 164
• Meme celebrities range from faces to personae, with unwilling participants resisting identification #responds-to (0.75) — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 175
• Real-time meme encyclopedias ended the secrecy of subcultural innovation #complicates (0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 190
• Intra-regional racial hierarchies operate among Asian peoples independent of Western imposition #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1911