TikTokers use a “Family Guy” audio for being transphobic

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Seth Macfarlanes family Guyis known for his outrageous and gritty humor, and a variety of sound bites from the twenty-one seasons (so far) have gone viral tick tock.

However, the jokes are the TV show will not be offensive and your resulting TikTok audios have the power to do the same.

case study, a new one Lois Griffin TikTok audio Is trending and some of the videos don’t use their likeness forever.

The audio where we hear Lois say, “Yeah, I don’t know, I think I didn’t wake up, okay? You win with your gay stuff‘ was first used by strange TikToker Winter Vanity (@winter.vanity). In her video from 2022their lips sync to the sound while disguised as Lois.

The audio picked up steam in February this year and has now been used in almost 13,000 Tiktok videos. Some have been carefree and take the idea of ​​“being awake” to a hyperbolic and comedic level: a TikToker used the audio to poke fun at how some nouns are in Romance languages ​​like Spanish sex-specific.

“When I fail Spanish because I keep changing the words wrong,” they wrote in the overlay text of theirs tick tock with the Lois Griffin audio. Likewise another TikToker joked that they didn’t wake up because they “wrong gender[ed] a table‘ in French class.

But others use the audio to be transphobic. TikToker used the audio make fun of something Neopronouns, transgender lesbians and the concept of genderless parenting.

many tiktokers, transgender and cisgender, have called the use of the audio for his transphobia and general prejudice.

“These videos are simply transphobic” wrote a non-binary male identifying TikToker in the overlay of her video Using the audio. “Get over yourself lol, gender is complex.”

“Most people using this audio are just horrible,” another tiktoker wrote in the overlay text of her video.

Why it matters

online rhetoric about fringe groups translated into action.

At the moment is the transgender community against an immense antagonism in the US in the form of Laws against transnationals, transphobic statements of people with wide reach who Trans people deathsAnd public nuisance.

Lily Contino, a trans woman who was verbal molested at a California cheesecake factoryShe spoke to the Daily Dot about the origins of transphobic hatred.

“It’s a tough time out here for trans people,” Contino said the Daily Dot last weekadding that what is said online “empowers and encourages people to show themselves in public.”

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