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Here's What You Would Look Like If You Were Black or Chinese refers to a series of posts in which selfies are race swapped with FaceApp or other programs so that the race of the person in them is changed to Black or Asian. Started by X / Twitter user @VLONEPREDATOR, the format spread on the platform in December 2023. The trend also became widely associated with @VLONEPREDATOR's profile picture, the Smiling Buck Tooth Emoji.

Origin

The earliest known post of X^[1] user @VLONEPREDATOR quoting a person's selfie post and sharing edited versions of their photo where they are made to appear "Black" or "Chinese" is a December 6th, 2023 post that gathered over 5,000 likes in over a month (seen below).

Spread

In the following days, @VLONEPREDATOR made more similar posts based on selfies shared by women online. For example, on December 9th, 2023, @VLONEPREDATOR made a post that received over 390 reposts and 8,400 likes on X^[2] in four days (shown below, left). On December 10th, the user made another post^[3] that gained over 2,900 reposts and 44,000 likes on the platform in three days (shown below, right).

Starting in mid-December 2023, other users joined in on the trend and posted memes referencing it. For example, on December 11th, 2023, X^[4] user @RAPGD_ made a post that received over 120 reposts and 2,100 likes in two days (shown below, left). On December 12th, X^[5] user @dyingscribe posted an American Psycho Business Card Scene meme referencing the format that received over 810 reposts and 18,000 likes in one day (shown below, right).

Doxxing Attempt

On January 6th, 2024, an anonymous X^[6] user posted an image of a young man claiming to have unearthed @VLONEPREDATOR's identity (seen below, left). Later that day, @VLONEPREDATOR^[7] quoted the post with photoshopped versions of the young man, depicting him as "Black" or "Chinese." The post was captioned "here’s what i would look like if i was black or chinese."

Related Memes

Smiling Buck Tooth Emoji

The Smiling Buck Tooth Emoji is a vector graphic emoticon and emoji that is smiling with its mouth wide open and its buck teeth showing. The image was widely used on Twitter / X, Instagram and elsewhere in late 2023, as a reaction image. In 2024, the emoji became a symbol for the Black or Chinese meme because it was X user @VLONEPREDATOR's profile picture.

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