Super Straight

About

Super Straight or SuperStraight is a term coined by TikToker kyleroyce to describe a type of heterosexual person that only dates cisgender members of the opposite sex. The term has been labeled transphobic by multiple social media users and sparked online debate about its legitimacy, and has been used by communities like /pol/ to spread transphobic rhetoric. Following its circulation on social media in March 2021, other related terms were coined, including "Super Gay," "Super Lesbian," "Super Bi" and "Superphobic."

Origin

On February 21st, 2021, TikTok^[1] user kyleroyce posted a video captioned "who else is super straight?" in which he explained that due to being called "transphobic" after refusing to date trans women, who he did not consider to be "real women," he decided to created a new label for his sexuality, choosing the term "super straight" to identify heterosexual people who exclusively date cis people (reupload shown below).

Yo, guys, I made a new sexuality now, actually. It's called "super straight," okay. Since straight people, straight men as myself get called transphobic because I wouldn't date a trans woman, you know, like, "-Would you date a trans woman? "-No" "-Why? That's a female" "-No, that's not a real woman to me, like, I want a real one" "-No, you're just transphobic!"
So, now I'm super straight! I only date the opposite gender – women – that are born women, so you can't say I'm transphobic now, because that's just my sexuality, you know?

As of March 5th, the video received over 13 million views on TikTok with the hashtag #superstraight gaining over 11.9 million tags.^[2][3] On March 6th, Kyloroice removed the video from TikTok,^[4] writing that people were sending his mother death threats over it. On March 3rd, 2021, Twitter^[5] account @OGSuperstraight reuploaded the video, with the reupload gaining over 263,900 views in five days.

Spread

On February 28th, Urban Dictionary^[6] user Don1001 added a definition for "super straight," with the definition gaining over 640 likes and 320 dislikes in one week. On March 1st, Urban Dictionary user Zesteas added an alternative definition that gained over 1,600 likes and 670 dislikes in one week.

On March 1st, the /r/SuperStraight^[7] subreddit was launched, gaining over 16,000 members in one week.

On March 1nd, 2021, TikTok user @heartxhitta suggested choosing black and orange as a flag for super straight, with @Kyloroice^[8] posting another video captioned "Super Straight's official flag: let our voices be heard!" (video made private, still image shown below).

On March 2nd, TikTok^[9] user tblizzy posted a video about the spread of the term in which she criticized it, also accusing TikTok of "not letting" negative response videos about the trend be seen. The video received over 3 million views in one week (shown below).

Starting on March 5th, 2021, several threads about the spread of the term were made on 4chan's /pol/ and other boards, with users urging others to assist the spread of the term and the black-and-orange flag (post screenshots shown below). For example, on March 5th, an anonymous user created a thread on /pol/^[10] board that received 323 replies. Another thread^[11] created on the same day received over 410 replies. In the threads, multiple users referred to "super straight" as "SS," making a reference to Nazi Germany's Schutzstaffel.^[12][13]

On March 6th, 2021, Twitter user @supa_str8^[14] made a post about the term, claiming that Super Straights were a part of the LGBTQ+ community. The tweet received over 1,300 retweets, 10,300 quote retweets and 6,300 likes in three days.

In the following days, TikTok videos in which users both criticized the movement and came out as super straight went viral (examples shown below).

Following the spread of the term, terms "super gay," "super lesbian," "super bi" and "superphobic" also gained spread online.^[15][16]

Various Examples

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6936418830373735686

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6935678937322540289

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6935006895698709765

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