The movement doesn’t end with offensive memes and hate speech. Super straight supporters have also taken to posting “coming out” videos and accusing those who oppose their fictitious orientation of being “superphobes.” Insider reported that 4chan (a discussion board site popular among right-wing trolls) wrote about their intention to divide queer and trans people using the left’s tactics against themselves in an effort to drive a wedge in the LGBTQ+ community. Those who’ve subscribed to the super straight trend have taken to using the language of LGBTQ+ advocacy in an appropriative attempt to both ridicule that community while legitimizing their own.
He insists that the video wasn’t intended to be hateful and that his opinion is shared by many, but they’re “too scared to say it in fear of the backlash and interpretations.”ĭespite TikTok’s efforts to ban this behavior by blocking users from searching “super straight” and relevant keywords or using it as a hashtag, the trend is still infecting popular platforms like Twitter and Reddit (though Reddit has also banned r/superstraight, a group that described itself as “A Community for Oppressed Men and Women that consider their Sexuality/Gender/Religion to be ‘Super Straight’” and collected 30,000 users in a matter of days). In an effort to keep the movement alive on banned platforms, supporters have been commenting with black and orange emojis - the colors of their “pride flag”- on trans and other queer creators’ content.
“I created it because I was sick of being labeled with the very negative terms for having a preference, something I can’t control, and getting labeled by the community that preaches acceptance with that sort of stuff,” Royce told Insider. The video, with its many prejudices and inaccuracies, accrued over two million views before it was removed from the platform for violating its Community Guidelines regarding hate speech. So you can’t say I’m transphobic now because that’s just my sexuality.” I only date the opposite gender - women that are born women. But that’s not a real woman to me, I want a real woman. Straight men like myself get called transphobic because I wouldn’t date a trans woman.
“I made a new sexuality,” TikTok user KyleRoyce says to the camera while sitting in his car.