WMAF / White Male Asian Female
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About
WMAF is an internet slang and acronym that stands for "White Male Asian Female". Online, it is used to describe interracial couples that consists of a White man and an East Asian woman. Memes about WMAF often contain stereotypes, racism, raceplay or race-bait.
Origin
The origin of the acronym is unknown. The earliest traceable use as an hashtag on Instagram was in a post made by loveknowsnocolor on August 28th, 2013.[1] The page generally shared photos of random interracial couples of all combinations.[2] Its earliest traceable use on 4chan is from February 10th, 2012, on the /a/ board.[3] The first entry of Urban Dictionary on the meaning of WMAF was made on December 26th, 2014, by Indian Bastard, and it received over 15,500 thumbs up in 8 years.[4]
History
Although it's impossible to trace historically the first instances of what can be considered in the modern era as a WMAF relationship, an early example can be made of Hjør Fleinson Hálfsson of Augvald, king of Avaldsnes (in modern-day Norway) and Ljufvina, a princess of Mongolian descent. (shown, below) [5] Their twin sons, Geirmund and Hamund Heljarskinn, were born around 850 AD.[6]
Accounts were taken of European sailors and merchants and their interactions with Asian colonies and traders, particularly with Japan. The Portuguese purchased large numbers of Japanese slave girls to bring to Portugal for sexual purposes, as noted by the Church in 1555.[7] There are multiple depictions by Japanese artists from the 17th and 18th centuries depicting Dutch, French and American sailors with Japanese courtesans, many of them of erotic nature.[8][9][10] After World War II, as many as 45,000 Japanese war brides were wed to (mostly White) American men,[11][12] and 650 more to Australian men.[13] After the Korean War, over 6,000 Korean women came as wives and fiancées of American servicemen, a cohort sometimes known as the Korean War Brides.[14]
Reception
According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, released on November 21st, 2021, WMAF is the most common non-Hispanic interracial marriage, numbering to 902,000 marriages and being 25.4% of all interracial marriages in the United States of America. [15] On October 22nd, 2022, content creator Brian Xu described this phenomenon as "statistically weird", due to WMAF singlehandedly almost outnumbering WMBF, AMWF and BMWF marriages combined (shown, below).[16][17]
On the internet, WMAF is often the target of slander, which comes from netizens of various political and ideological sides.[18][19][20] Incel communities openly hate WMAF and mainly condemn Asian women.[21][22][23][24][25] Asian male-dominated spaces on Reddit and other websites also detest it, arguably more than any other group.[26][27][28][29] White supremacist and alt-right cartoonists such as A. Wyatt Mann, Hedgewik and (more subtly) StoneToss, all commonly displayed sentiment against miscenation towards East Asians in their comics.[30][31][32] Some liberal and left-leaning groups consider WMAF to be controversial, blaming racial fetishization, colonialism and the fact that female Asian-American celebrities are also often in WMAF relationships, sometimes portraying that on the big screen.[33][34] It could be argued that WMAF is actually underrepresented in media, taking into consideration the real life numbers and stereotypically common sight of said relationships.[35][36] As noticed by Redditors who have different opinions on the matter, WMAF couples are quite popular on Chinese social media site Xiaohongshu (Little Red Book),[37][38] which has at least two verified couples with a large following: Aria and Brandon (with over 350,000 followers), and Alfie and Angel (with over 190,000 followers).[39][40]
Spread
On November 11th, 2021, FunnyJunk user caligula posted a screenshot of a tweet by @Kobayashi_BSLSK pointing out that the first Marvel movie directed by an Asian woman, Eternals, had a WMAF couple as the main characters (shown below, left).[41] The post received over 1,500 uovotes in one year. In the Twitter thread, it was also pointed out that the Asian female director, Chloe Zhao, has a White boyfriend herself.[42] On December 29th, 2021, Instagram meme accounts "was" and "totally" shared a supportive post towards Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song, who had welcomed their first child (shown below, right). The post received over 376,000 likes in one year.[43]
On December 22nd, 2021, iFunny user Krona shared a Seinfeld meme that pointed out that both white supremacist and Twitter leftists hate WMAF, which garnered 35 smiles in one year (shown, below).[44]
On October 6th, 2021, a screencap asking for tickets to see a Chinese film that featured a WMAF romance (The Curse of Turandot) was posted on /tv/ and shared on the board at least 20 times (shown below, left).[45] On August 23rd, 2022, a meme featuring various White DOTA professional players with Asian girlfriends and wives was posted on /vg/ (shown below, right).[46]
On YouTube
On June 20th, 2017, a YouTuber named Quapanaut made a video in which he displayed in succession a high number of WMAF YouTube personalities. The video is titled "Hapas: Our Dads are White and Our Moms are Asian". The video received 50,000 views and 610 likes in 5 years.
On November 29, 2020, The Asian Theory uploaded on their YouTube channel a video titled "Why Are White Guys Taking All The Asian Girls?". The video received over 498,000 views and 12,000 likes in 2 years.
Related Memes
2020 Ken-Sama
On August 30th, 2021, a photograph of a man who was rumored to be Ken-Sama himself and his Japanese wife was posted on /r9k/ by an anonymous user and captioned "I can't fucking believe that this is Ken-sama. Not only he slimmed down, he now has a qt Japanese gf" (shown, below).
Vivienne Tye / laowhy's Wife
Vivienne Tye (née Wei), often abbreviated as "Vivi" and widely known online as "laowhy's Wife", is a Chinese YouTuber who gained online popularity for being married to American YouTuber and vlogger Matthew Tye, commonly known as "laowhy86" or "C-Milk." Tye's physical appearance, particularly the side profile of her face, spawned several memes, racist caricatures and photoshops that mocked her features. Comments and insults that criticized her looks came from both Chinese and western netizens.
Types Of Guys Asian Girls Go For: Soft White Guy
Types Of Guys Asian Girls Go For: Soft White Guy is a TikTok trend consisting of Asian female users in WMAF relationships showing their white boyfriends matching the description of "Soft White Guy" as a TikToker on the original sound describes how Asian women like soft white guys. The original audio was first uploaded in October 2021 and went viral over the following months.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7024789547632315654
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7022137850967756059
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Instagram – #love #loveknowsnocolor #black #interracial #wmaw #awwm #wmaf #interraciallove=
[2] Instagram – loveknowsnocolor=
[3] /a/ – Thread # 61143955
[5] Avaldsnes – Hjør og Ljufvina
[6] Geni – Geirmund Hjørson Hjörsson, Heljarskinn
[7] JSTOR – Slavery in Japan
[8] Woolley & Wallis – An unusual Japanese scroll painting has emerged, which reveals sordid details of the country’s trade links with Holland during the 17th and 18th centuries.
[9] Granger Historical Picture Archive – JAPAN: DUTCH TRADER. Dutch trader and a Japanese geisha at the Dutch settlement on the island of Dejima, Nagasaki Bay, Japan. Scroll painting, early 18th century.
[10] r/wmafs – There is a lot of WMAF Erotica in ancient Japanese paintings and scrolls. I censored them with emojis to keep it SFW, but I'll link you in the comments the uncensored / < Archived Copy >
[11] The Washington Post – From Hiroko to Susie: The untold stories of Japanese war brides
[12] FSI – Japanese War Brides: An Oral History Archive
[13] ABC News – Japanese war bride's dress illustrates immigration history at National Museum
[14] Migration Policy Institute – Korean Immigrants in the United States
[15] U.S. Census Bureau – America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2021
[16] Brian Xu (TikTok) – Episode 1 | no other interracial pairing has this connection #wmaf
[17] Brian Xu (Instagram) – the prevalence of one interracial pairing is a statistical outlier
[18] r/NoStupidQuestions – Why does WMAF get so much hate?
[19] Quora – How can I stop hating Asian women for dating White men, and White men for dating Asian women?
[20] Quora – Why does WMAF get so much hate?
[21] Incels.is – RageFuel WMAF relationships in recent commercials
[22] Incels.is – WMAF is a meme and does not exist
[23] r/IncelTear – I was having a good day until I saw complete strangers interacting with each other. You wonder why you’re miserable. Get a life.
[24] Incels.is – Noodlewhores always looks and seem to happy with the white boyfriend
[25] Incels.is – NOODLEWHORE can't hide her attraction for WHITE CHAD
[26] r/IncelTear – Asian woman on r/aznidentity gets downvoted to oblivion…….. for having a white boyfriend
[27] The Michigan Daily – The ricecel phenomenon
[28] Slate – Men’s Rights Asians Think This Is Their Moment
[29] Amped Asia – Why Asian Dudes Need to Stop Hating on WMAF
[30] Benjamin Larsen – Benjamin E. Larsen blog
[31] r/VaushV – Weeaboo Stonetoss ripoff tries confusingly to say Asian racemix bad. This a sad for weebs.
[33] Yahoo News – Everyone's allowed to love whoever they want: Boo Bitch star Lana Condor addresses her onscreen WMAF relationships
[34] Quora – Are WMAF couples a problematic phenomenon due to the many related social issues fetishization, alt right, internalized racism, white worshipping, power dynamics, etc? Why or why not.
[35] The Hollywood Reporter -How Hulu’s PEN15 Is Putting the Spotlight on an Underrepresented Community
[36] Reddit / Twitter – Surprisingly based take. WMAF is underrepresented in Hollywood despite the ricecels bitching and moaning about it
[37] r/wmafs – Today I have discovered a website called xiaohongshu, it's essentially Chinese Instagram and I've found so many WMAF couples casually being shared, it's actually amazing. There's so many of them who are young, beautiful and wealthy. This one in the video is the very first ones I found
[38] r/Expatshame – Chinese social media infested with WMAF
[39] Xiaohongshu – AriaAndBrandon
[41] FunnyJunk – Parental panther
[42] iFunny – first Marvel movie directed by an Asian
[43] Instagram – the fact that they’ve been together for 5 years never fails to amaze me
[44] iFunny – White Supremacists and Twitter Leftoids meeting at the Anti-WMAF relationship convention
[45] /tv/ – image search
[46] /vg/ – Thread # 397269683
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