Aren’t the main characters gay coated in that show?
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funnystuff97@lemmy.world 8 months agoK-On is one of my favorite guilty pleasure shows, and for some reason saying that now makes people suspect I’m a Nazi.
I ain’t letting them have this one. It’s a stupid show about high schoolers drinking tea and playing music, dammit.
Cicraft@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
“Gay coated” is just an amazing eggcorn that I have never heard before.
So eggcorns are misheard phrases that are then reinterpreted in a way that still makes sense in context, and that video makes the point that they’re not actually wrong, and sometimes they can compete with the original phrase.
The original term is “gay coded”, as in the creators have used commonly recognised “code” to signal that the characters are gay.
But I actually love the idea that they’re just slathered in the gay, just lubed up head to toe.
Cicraft@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Woops
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Never apologise for gay coating.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This has been referred to as “bone apple teas” for many years, but “eggcorn” is a good single-word term for it.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I’d say they’re different to bone apple tea because that’s a nonsense phrase whereas these could conceivably stand in for the original.
Eggcorn in particular has somewhat replaced acorn in a region of the US where those words sound the same, and the reason it’s not wrong is because it is a corn - a seed - and it does have an egg shape in it, so “eggcorn” is deacriptively accurate.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Gay-coded, but yes, and it was directed by a woman working at one of Japan’s most employee-friendly studios.
But Nazis aren’t really famous for their intelligence.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Bocchi is still safe. And has a lot of K-On! references. Just saying.
Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wtf what is the relation between k-on and nazis??
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Memes. They hijack pop culture and turn it into a dogwhistle, like if you’ve seen people randomly saying “is that a jojos reference?” underneath some worryingly bigoted comment on youtube, they’re trying to indicate that they’re a fellow right wing asshole. For a long time “subscribe to pewdiepie” was used. Both references had some nazi connection, like jojos had a nazi character, and pewdiepie flirted with nazi stuff in a deniable way.
The point is that it’s silly and innocuous so that if anybody tries to call it out then they can just gaslight them and point out how silly it is, and they’re clearly making something out of nothing.