A writer named KIM CHI got caught pretending to be Asian… because she wanted a literary agent

Hello! I'm the OP of the document and twitter thread! (and also a long-time watcher of your channel!) I just wanted to quickly address a few things: 1) The document is no longer available publicly because the person whose face Kim used in the profile pics requested to have it taken down. I'm happy to see you also saw my tweet about it and censored her in the video! Thank you! (To anyone wondering, no I'm not putting the doc back up. I'm also just too lazy to censor her throughout the doc and honestly the post accomplished what I wanted it to, which was to warn others in the writing community.) 2) About "Jina Wu" and what an Asian household looks like. This has been brought up to me before and I agree that I definitely could have worded it better and apologize for how it might have sounded.Asian Diaspora is too diverse to quantify. I truly wish I had saved the doc... because it's hard to explain WHY I clocked it as inauthentic without being able to show it. 3) When the ~asian music~ played during the slideshow of tweets started playing I fucking bark-laughed. 4) Yes to EVERYTHING you said there at the end. Anyway thank you for being hilarious as always and for covering this!!!!!!

Smh she chose Kim Chi when she’s ITALIAN and clearly should have chosen Liz Anya.

At this point RF Kuang needs to add a disclaimer in Yellowface that its not a DIY tutorial

“Pho’get About It” is a hysterical name for an Italian/Vietnamese fusion restaurant. Sounds delicious too. She went into the wrong business

Does anyone else feel fucking awful for the girl whose photo she used as her pfp? I mean DAMN that's shitty.

Gonna pretend to be Italian, my pen name will be Pete Zeria

Gonna pretend to be white to get a book deal, gonna name myself Sal Tee

“I let my profile pic determine my POC status” …

the fact that she just used her own twitter account baffles me? she didn't even delete her previous tweets about being of italian heritage?

Kim Chi season 8 drag race finalist should sue for impersonation

Kim Chi is an international drag queen superstar, and is actually Korean. Apart from her work in drag, she's writing two books right now - a cookbook, and a children's book about a queer Asian American boy dealing with his identity and trying to save his local library. They're not currently published, but she also has a makeup line and social media channels etc. Just wanted to shout out a real Korean author named Kim Chi who is actually doing incredible work to promote diversity and inclusion for Asian-Americans and queer people!

I'm so inspired by her authentic asianness, I think I need to embrace my indian roots more and rename myself 'Kur Ri' 😍😍😍

Man the funniest thing is how quick she folded. All that effort for nothing! I was half expecting her to say she was wasian and only half italian or something 😭😭

my first thought was "THE DRAG QUEEN????" 😭

"KIM CHI"??? naming a character ham burger right now

THE ZOOM INTO THAT ONE TINY PIXEL OF YOU TOOK ME OUTTTT

I'm happy there was criticism on the comment of the family not sounding Vietnamese. As a black American who was raised in a predominantly white area (with the secondary majority being various Asians), I'm far removed from my black culture. The only black people I regularly interacted with throughout most of my life were my mom and brother. I've been told I type white and once had a black man giving my a haircut say my name sounded white. Which was intentional on my mom's part, since she thought it would help be get in college. I sometimes joke about how "white" I am. I'd be great criticism in a story towards an author not writing a proper black character. I also saw this criticism used against The Scholomance series, where some said Galadriel didn't act Indian enough and leaned too far into her Welsh heritage. Which was a theme of her overall story and pointed out in the first book. I was happy to see people combat that criticism for the same reasons I said above. So while the person who wrote the reveal was correct, that specific "gotcha" was pretty poor.

NOT KIM CHI 💀😩 That is foul

"girl you're italian? that's one of the spicy whites" I AM IN TEARS

This is what I term as the "boredom of privilege"; where the people that the socio-economic, institutional and systematic societal structure was caterd to benefit from become disillusioned and lost due to the boredom that comes with the lack of struggle. They then romanticise the idea of suffering and hardships, because to them it excites them, it gives them attention, makes them feel special. It's why they do this. They've been privileged for so long that the see those who struggle as exciting. And when society realizes our struggles and finds the bare minimum ways to help us, they then shriek about how we're getting special treatment and privileges.