Whether it be a form of self deprecation from white majority media outlets like “barstoolsports” or stereotypical prejudice from places like “black twitter”, this idea of “whiteness” lacking in some sort of cultural substantiality is both very confusing and very real IMO. I say confusing because I think this “white people” meme is referring to a very specific majority in the US and not for instance Icelandic or Scandinavian cultural qualities. Despite white people in general getting painted with a very large brush in varying context, there remains a social trend that is observably negative in nature. The qualities of “white” culture, in my experience, have not been seen as endearing or even remotely positive. Just search “White People” on most social media platforms and you will be bombarded with generalization after generalization that often times are only relevant to personal experience with specific individuals, yet portrayed as a universally experienced and understood anthropological phenomenon. It isn’t just media either. I have been to a lot of different countries and my whiteness only seems to have negative meme context in the US. It is not cross culturally understood information in a lot of ways. This may be only relevant to my personal experience but it seems like this trend doesn’t only affect me.
There’s a very real and viral cultural disdain for “whiteness” in the US