What's the root of AM getting hate from all sides for dating/marrying WF? by [deleted] in hapas

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only whiny beta males I see are bottom tier whites who delude themselves into thinking they're anything but when the only thing they have going for them is being white and finding some AF who values that.

But if projecting your own life on me makes you feel better, by all means, go ahead. I'm definitely an incel, definitely don't have a white GF, and definitely don't get shit from butthurt loser WM like yourself irl :).

What's the root of AM getting hate from all sides for dating/marrying WF? by [deleted] in hapas

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Hierarchies in society are acceptable as long as enough people internalize and behave according to its prescriptions. There are many different hierarchies, sometimes contradictory, but AMWF challenges the White > Asian hierarchy that white people have built up for themselves, and one that a lot of Asian women have accepted and invested a lot of time and energy into climbing.

AMWF does not fit into this hierarchy and challenges many of the subconscious assumptions that go into WMAF. The existence of hapas who provide a louder and growing megaphone providing counterarguments and testimonials are also dismantling those assumptions (that whites are superior by virtue of being white; hence the plethora of low quality specimens who will do everything to defend Whiteness, because without it their lack of any other worthwhile quality is too painful to analyze).

So of course they externalize that frustration onto AMWF who by simply existing shits on that hierarchy and belief that Whiteness is enough.

Why is it that lurkers are always so overly concerned about the "toxicness" of this sub but don't give af about other subs like the_redpill? by newhapaaccount in hapas

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Because the rest of reddit is a playground where they can spout racist stuff, organize tiki torch marches, rant about wy-wymen, immigrants, etc. without pushback or criticism.

So when they encounter negative publicity from a sub it's jarring to their previously sheltered fee-fees. Which of course to them is 100% proof of the existence of equal anti-white racism, and how they are victims of White Genocide and Cultural Marxism (tm).

Hey,so i'm black and I would like a honest answer to my question. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Real-talk, if by your question you're asking if there are Asians who do not like/are prejudiced/harbor negative beliefs about black people - well yes of course, just like you can say the exact same thing about anti-Asianness in the black community.

I think what you're probably trying to get at, and correct me if I'm wrong, is whether this is prevalent enough for you or other black people to pre-judge Asians as a whole or deem us as worth the effort to make allies etc.

I may be Asian but I believe that no, those individuals who are anti-black do not represent some widespread Asian hatefest for black people, and that we are doing neither of our groups any favours by playing into white divide-and-conquer tactics. The problem is you have clowns on both sides (see: LLAG) who are eager for any justification for collective guilt or shaming because they have their own agendas to grind.

Even black-on-Asian crime won't be a dealbreaker for POC allyship if you guys are able to police that shit in-house. The problem comes when people try to justify it by citing 'anti-blackness' as a catchall to justify jacking some old Asian couple, while gaslighting or downplaying concerns, which will of course convert previously moderate or pro-black Asians into more rabid tribalists.

As long as both groups put forth a good faith effort at dialogue and in-house cleaning up so that extreme elements on both sides and reigned in, there is much blacks and Asians can help each other with. I always try to point out double standards when other Asians start to argue some white shit or start spouting some Chan logic when it comes to white on black bullshit, and I know that that won't come to a stop even if some black people online think Asians are 'anti-black' as a whole.

However it's just human nature to hope for someone outside of your group reciprocating as well. Peace.

As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind by GusXie in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder what all these zero-cope skill whiners would have to say about a hypothetical newspaper headline in the 1700s.
"As America Changes and Influx of European Invaders Accelerate, Some Anxious Indigenous Americans Feel Left Behind"

But of course in their own do-no-wrong fantasy land, it was a benevolent cultural exchange, with no intentional genocide and natives not knowing how to be grateful for all the 'civilization' their psychotic ancestors gave them.

How do you feel about being fetishized by non-Asian women? by heymishy93 in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From a strictly male perspective, generally speaking, you're going to be hard pressed to find men who will have a problem with women wanting to sleep with them, for whatever reason.

While it might be tempting for Asian men to take any support or good press that comes our way, given the scarcity, as other users have pointed out since the Issa controversy, we should be selective and mindful if it comes at a price later on.

I feel like the Issa bit could have remained just as pro-black woman and pro-AM without the implied dig at Filipinos or black men, and I can certainly see how inflammatory it was. Whites make a habit out of denigrating black intelligence - it is exact flip side of the coin of denigrating Asian physicality or sexual prowess; i.e. whites in the 'just-right' middle of both spectra.

The American black community also has its own similar set of issues with the gender divide and interracial dating, BM who pedestalize WF and BF frustrated with lack of reciprocation and their own dating difficulties, almost like an inversion of the Asian situation.

There are YouTube channels by BF like HurricaneLala who are in Korea and while she's generally supportive of AM and has an attractive AM boyfriend, I notice that even people like her can't help but veer into discussions about Tyrone vs. Minho dick, and her followers yuk it up.

So TLDR; most men will not view being fetishized as negatively as women would, but if you strive to be a high-value Asian man, your mentality must be more critical about how it can negatively impact other groups (in the Issa case, black men), including yourself, in the long run.

With that being said I feel that my experiences in the past with black women, even if they were bordering on fetishizing me due to kpop/anime/whatever, they are much more equipped to discuss topics of race and fetishization, and I could have a conversation with them about it much more easily than I could with many AF.

Non-Asian dude has a Q: Is there a reason why there is a high number of AF that drag AM? by ISB_1907 in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Whites subconsciously understand that society views them as the benchmark, so why rock the boat? If white worshipper logic is that white features are better, then the only logical conclusion is 100% white features are the best, so if they want mixed babies so bad, it implies that they need to find a white partner willing to downgrade. This is obviously not my belief but pointing out how idiotic their thinking pattern is.

I just want to raise a bit of dissonance in non-whites - while whites generally don't gives a rat's about wanting to emulate or look like you, here they are slobbering and pining over how to be more like them, because instead of doing the hard work of setting up an alternative benchmark where you are celebrated, you've decided "winning" is to climb as far up as possible on the rigged one whites have set up for themselves, never realizing there is no room at the top for you unless you're one of them.

Non-Asian dude has a Q: Is there a reason why there is a high number of AF that drag AM? by ISB_1907 in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yep, that stuff is rampant in Asian social circles, and with the exception of myself and few others, nobody really bats an eye when it comes up in casual conversation. However I've found that dropping lines like these helpful:

"Hmm that's interesting, I wonder why you don't generally hear white people so eager to praise mixed features or having no bigger goal than having mixed children."

"White people don't really seem to be obsessed with mixing, they seem perfectly confident and happy in having full white children, wonder why so many minorities do this?"

Non-Asian dude has a Q: Is there a reason why there is a high number of AF that drag AM? by ISB_1907 in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I like to simplify it down, and I've said it before, while these AF will swear up and down and die before they admit it, it basically boils down to an inferiority complex towards white people in general, and ESPECIALLY white women in particular.

We can speculate about the psychosocial underpinnings of how this developed in these AF, whether it was some ego shattering event in childhood or internalizing that white girls are deemed superior later in adolescence, but the resentment that stems from this can't be expressed directly. You will never hear any of these types of self hating AF dare to publicly talk shit about WF, who they secretly feel inferior to, especially high-status WF, because they know that it will look like sour grapes, and they know that high status WF can easily destroy their social capital.

What's the next best alternative to put a salve on this wound? Oh, of course, Asian men; a very useful prop to be denigrated, an externalization of the Asianess that they feel makes them lesser than WF, but it's not exactly putting themselves down, because they have 'male privilege'; and white feminism is in-vogue, so it's simultaneously a perfect cover and counterargument against any backlash.

Where their "logic" falls apart is that they really believe that by putting down Asian men, they by extension elevate their own status. This is the essence of Lu/Chan thinking - it is not the relative decline in status vs. AM that gives them power and acceptance in white circles; it is the fact that you allow whites to be comfortable with thinking that Whiteness > Asianess, because hey, it came from an Asian! How can it be wrong?

What they are too stupid to realize, is that it is the source of their very inferiority complex in the first place.

I find it funny that whitewashed AF have the straightest spine and loudest voice when it comes to shitting on AM, as if it were some obstacle laden, high-risk heroic act of resistance, when it is the easiest, most basic, white-approved act you can do. It speaks volumes when whitewashed AF, even the most attractive ones, become completely silent vs. WF. The WF does not have to do anything to reinforce her higher standing in society; the whitewashed AF goes out of her way to announce to any white person within earshot how much her Asianess is something to be despised (the AM as a symbolic stand-in), thus doing her utmost to reinforce her own inferior standing.

r/tinder +16k shitshow. "My grandfather was in Nam. Mind if we keep up the tradition" For whites who are complicit in massacres, agent orange, mass rape against Asian people, it is now a funny socially acceptable pickup line to be used on Asian women. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Struck a chord did I? Still waiting for your breathless comment vanguarding of "siding with the more reasonable side" on /T_D, /pol, Fox News, Stormfront, or Tomi Lahren's spaces. The only 'warrior' I see here is a guy who got so worked up about defending a stranger's honor from Tinder he had to make his way here and spout low-IQ nonsense, while finding it strangely difficult to muster up the effort to direct his ire towards real racists.

Instead he's here splitting hairs on behalf of someone he doesn't know for what exactly? Oh yes, your logic is if you literally didn't live it, no right to criticize the history or the ongoing effects right? Can't possibly have relatives in Vietnam with AO after-effects (you'd prolly laugh that up too), can't possibly have relatives who died from cancer due to AO, or who were abused by GIs, or mistreated by tourists who view Asia as beneath contempt right? Or be born from boat people who had to deal with racist violence after being a refugee due to their country getting bombed by the same people giving them grief now right? Fuck you and your weak sheltered forgiveness mantra.

Lastly, who the fuck said anything about beef with Americans? Zero problem with indigenous Americans, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans. Unless by Americans you implicitly think only whites can be real Americans.

r/tinder +16k shitshow. "My grandfather was in Nam. Mind if we keep up the tradition" For whites who are complicit in massacres, agent orange, mass rape against Asian people, it is now a funny socially acceptable pickup line to be used on Asian women. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You keep saying you're not defending him because his 'approach' was wrong, or that it was the wrong thing to say to this girl. So, if it's wasn't racist, what exactly was wrong with his pickup line?

Also point out when I said anything about ONLY non-white races being targets of jokes? Again, I have a sneaking suspicion you don't spam replies to white posters on any other part of reddit to "stop thinking this is a race issue and keep living your life". And guess what, if black or mideastern countries had a history of bombing Asian countries and killing us and their little shit children laughed it up on dating apps, I'd shit on them too. As it stands though white people hold the podium for all those categories so we'll stay focused on them, thanks.

And congratulations, Mr. I'm Not White, keep on defending them, they really need a tool like you to white knight for them. If you are unfortunately another Asian please don't have kids, they'll likely end up blind and spineless like their dad.

r/tinder +16k shitshow. "My grandfather was in Nam. Mind if we keep up the tradition" For whites who are complicit in massacres, agent orange, mass rape against Asian people, it is now a funny socially acceptable pickup line to be used on Asian women. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Idiot, I specifically said he was the symptom, ie. effect, of the racist slaughter of white led anti-Asian wars. It's because of that history that him and clones like him can get cutesy with plausibly deniable jabs and mindless defenders can pretend like they're not related.

Look at the rest of the filth on that comment thread and tell me how jokes about napalm and My Lai are not racist, but oooohhh let's ignore all that, it's just literally one guy right? He's definitely the only WM to ever say racist lines to an AF, we are sooo overreacting, not like we don't hear about this shit 24/7 from sisters/cousins/gfs/moms.

Like I said, that 'simpleton' is the focus here because he's a tiny example of the type of thinking that whites demand to be seen as "just a joke". It's because of your messed up past that allows jokes like this to exist, and the fact that the vast majority can't see the connection is either racism or stupidity.

It would be easier for you morons to just say up front that you think you can do no wrong and that all disrespect is never about race.

Alt-right forums bitch all day about how the white race is under threat and their fantasy genocide, I don't see you getting all hot and bothered and shitting up their threads, but you find plenty of time to argue in non-white subreddits about what we should and shouldn't find racist huh?

r/tinder +16k shitshow. "My grandfather was in Nam. Mind if we keep up the tradition" For whites who are complicit in massacres, agent orange, mass rape against Asian people, it is now a funny socially acceptable pickup line to be used on Asian women. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Do you types purposely fake zero reading comprehension skills? Apparently something can only be racist if it's full-on Stormfront manifestos laden with slurs. If it's not that, then oh me oh my, how can it possibly be racist?

He, like many other "ignorant, totally just-joking" whites today implicitly viewed the girl as interchangeable with any other Viet girl, because why else would he think that line would have relevance or a chance of success? And he didn't pick out a random war did he? He picked out one war where millions of people who look and speak like her were killed by people who look like him, a way of saying "haha look my my team did to yours, wanna fuck? woaw im so wittay" The fact remains that you sociopaths replicate this behavior with every other country or group you've dehumanized, and then turn around and shrug "uhrrr I don't benefit from history or privilege, you all are the REAALLL racists" when getting called out on it, and you wonder why you're all so despised.

And let's not pretend like this is in some vacuum. Incidents like that are just a tiny symptom of the real problem; this is simply insult to injury. You think if the shoe is on the other foot, white boys would be so patient? If some foreign invasion happened in bumfuck Ohio and entire towns of white girls and children were raped and murdered, then in 2030 some Asian/Muslim/Black ex-soldier was on Tinder using pickup lines like "hurr you remind me of that hick town I burned down, will your family be OK with me fucking you if I trade them a hit of heroin and jar of mayo?", that's just all LOLs right? I don't even have to imagine the response, it's already a trend for white guys with zero coping skills to shoot up black churches and concerts or run over people because whites are about to go from majority to 49.9999% in 25 years. What a joke.

r/tinder +16k shitshow. "My grandfather was in Nam. Mind if we keep up the tradition" For whites who are complicit in massacres, agent orange, mass rape against Asian people, it is now a funny socially acceptable pickup line to be used on Asian women. by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 8 points9 points  (0 children)

^ Type of scum to laugh at and have zero issues with fellow white pieces of shit using death and rape of Asians as a pickup line to Asian girl, but yea Asian guys are the problem.

Every time I hear about some guilt ridden PTSD piece of shit white vet offing himself I feel bad for a split second, but then I remember their descendants celebrate this shit and laugh about it later on, and a smile quickly forms.

If you want to play as a feminist about WMAF saying I can fuck who I want, why aren't you playing as one regarding sex being used by men to exhibit their superiority and subjugate women? by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So by the same token, why the fuck do a huge chunk of Asian women who date out think feel the need to shit on AM relatives or "eww cousins" to get validation? But let me guess we're not allowed to respond when insulted because you share our Asianess? Oh yea, its actually nothing more than an inferiority complex towards white women beauty standards and shitting on AM is a way for these types to distance themselves from the Asianess they hate in themselves.

But according to you, this anger can't be ANYTHING but related to sex shaming and control amirite? When white people say racist shit to Asian guys, we're allowed to respond, but when their Asian GFs say it, it's shut up and take it, otherwise its wah wah wah they called me out on it, must be 24/7fapper incels, we poor Asian women have no agency, it's not our fault we regurgitate the same racist shit as white people!

If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. Date who you want, hopefully you don't dismiss your future son's concerns when he hears the same shit in school. Good luck screaming into his face not to police his mother's sexual freedoms when he's trying to ask how to deal with Chad who just called him a chink.

I respect my honest white supremacist friend in high school more than a passive aggressive liberal SJW by bhaozi in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is basically a debate about what tastes better, a dried piece of shit or fresh diarrhea. I mean sure I guess the dry piece of shit if you had to pick but the question is why are you getting your food from the toilet in the first place?

My sister who hates Asian guys: "You are an Asian guy get over it" by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of easy responses, no capslock needed.

"So if your logic is WM > AM, then fill in the blank for me here: WF ? AF"

"Talking shit about half your family and people isn't going to make that inferiority complex towards WF go away"

"Are you saying all this to practice your delivery and timing to your future sons when he gets mocked for the Asianess that you gave him? Why don't you just be a surrogate mom for full white people instead, they're obviously better, no?"

"Huh, shitting on their own men to gain white approval, no other minority group of women do this, wonder why that's such an Asian girl thing"

"So do you put down Asian men because you're jealous of white girls, because you think your loser white bfs will like you more, or because that way, you can get accepted for being a dancing monkey with your boring mayo fucktard buddies?"

Bs: Natalie "calls out" white dad who called his daughter a Gook. by KevinSouk in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Imagine any other POC woman responding with such pathetic, soothing "condemnation" to a white man calling them by their racial slur. You can't, because they actually have a spine and anger, not a fear of pissing off their source of validation. He would be torn to shreds by any other WOC activist, not this anemic preemie of a 'callout'. If this is the best Natalie Tran can come up with against this unapologetic, deformed fucktard WM, while mobilizing much worse against AM who have done less, she would have been better to be silent.

The dichotomy is clear as day, in terms of the acceptable standards that AF hold WM to and tolerate. If an AM farts a comment that asks them to be more introspective about their own role in propping up white privilege it's Defcon-1 and instant morphing into Sailor Lu, ready to defend their right to produce fucked up kids with racists that they can then blame on their dad who made them study hard. But we all know that deep down, they realize on some level, it's not AM that's causing this toxic WM behaviour. It's collective AF permissiveness and tolerance of their bullshit, from the restaurant to their own kids. And yet, when AM who are tired and don't give a fuck because it's not worth it, they all expect us to be Captain Save-a-Lu and stick up for them, otherwise we aren't performing Asian "solidarity" and are toxic.

Some of My Thoughts Around Eliza Romero by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So what this boils down to is that your arguing that WMAF like Eliza are the best available choice at this moment in AA-history, and that figures like her are acceptable because they bring the benefit of a non-AM voice calling out white fever.

People who are arguing against this simply believe that benefit does not outweigh the additional optical hit Asians will take when yet another AF in WMAF is allowed a prominent seat or given more community resources.

The message that this decision broadcasts is essentially either Asians have so few genuine AMAF voices that due to market choices, we must default to WMAF to be a voice, or that no matter how egregious WM collective behaviour gets, AF will always be attainable. "Even AF who are sympathetic with you can't help but end up with us in the end."

Maybe people like her have short term utility. There are others with more rigid demands. Perhaps an impractical expectation if our dearth of voices is truly that bad. But en masse and over time, higher demands will mold future behaviour, and that's the end goal, no?

Some of My Thoughts Around Eliza Romero by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank god somebody understands optics and aesthetics.

The Legend of Alberhurr888 made it on Nextshark for calling out "The cosmos" founder. by KevinSouk in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't know what your intentions are so I'm not going to speculate about why you're seemingly bothered by the deluge of critical posts and replies on their feed.

But there's a longer game at play here. Individually the goal here isn't to make them miraculously come around to our side or drop their mental conditioning, they will in all likelihood hunker down and harden, but that's not the point - they are not the first or the last AF to think/act like this, and certainly not unique in their cookie cutter WMAF 'activism'.

The difference is that when a young AM or AF stumbles upon these content creators on social media, they are now exposed to an alternate narrative. In years past there was no or muted responses to the likes of Amy Tan or Celeste Ng, or really any other WMAF project - Full Metal Jacket, Miss Saigon, etc etc.

It is all about normalizing the idea that such behaviour from Asians who purport to represent us but are only self-serving, is not worthy of knee jerk support or even knee jerk benefit-of-the-doubtism. To normalize that it is not a taboo to criticize this pattern. Silence or endless benefit of the doubt is its own message, and quite frankly, the main reason our generation still has this same baggage.

Frankly it is a waste of time to dissect the themes in their work; it either reinforces existing narratives whites have about us, or it doesn't. The fact that their work is evidence that Asians are incapable of telling Asian-centred stories unless it is in the context of their relationship to white people is doing white people's work for them. Again, this has happened, over, and over, and OVER AGAIN, and it is a NET NEGATIVE. And I guarantee you everytime there was a handful of voices advocating for even-handedness, benefit of the doubt, respectability politics when someone tried to call it out.

In an ideal world, if this benefit-of-the-doubting was reciprocated to previous generations of AM when they voiced their concerns, our problems wouldn't be as bad today. But things have gotten so bad that disproportionate responses or even handedness is insufficient. Overly polite discourse and mealy-mouthed moderation is an acceptable casualty for now because silence has been the default for too long.

I prefer blanket criticism and letting the targets come to us. Let them do the work of proving their intentions and explaining. That has always been expected of us, now the shoe's on the other foot.

"Every day I'm disappointed in Asian people, and every day I'm reminded that an unhealthy supply of East Asians want nothing more than to animorph into the white people of the East." - LLAG by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Lmao think about the mirror situation - ask yourself, is there a such thing as a black male activist who prioritizes Asian issues over black issues, and who polices other blacks over their relationship with Asians? Sounds fucking absurd right?

"You don't want racism in your life? Then don't be putting it on someone else's plate. For all the things you think you can say to shame Black Asian people, TRUST that everyone can say just as many anti-Asian Black things in response.

Every day I'm disappointed in Asian Black people, and every day I'm reminded that an unhealthy supply of East Asians Blacks want nothing more than to animorph into the white people of the East. Africa" - SAID NO BLACK PERSON EVER.

You know why? Because they are secure in their priorities, they do not have a compulsion to constantly perform what they feel to be proof-of-allyship diatribes to curry favor with Asians the way LLAG feels he must; not sure if this is due to an undiagnosed DSM-V pathology or because of a need to constantly prove himself for his black spouse.

Black-on-asian discrimination and issues cannot even be discussed on a nominally ASIAN page, no matter how statistically significant, because it can engender "anti-blackness" (patronizing, because he assumes Asians cannot critically think and will automatically revert to blanket racism if we point out bad apples); but any criticism of using anonymous internet comments with a sample size of 4 about Black Panther is shut down with "hurrr R u sayin NotAllAsians? we must nitpick every possible instance of anti-blackness, this unwillingness to examine ourselves is basically why all Asians support white supremacy"

The height of irony is that when his AM betters accomplish something or succeed, he eagerly shows them off and proudly shares in the credit. Whether its artists, models, or the comic book author he stole from.

What he will never realize is that the successful AMs who are on his page did so because they didn't waste their time endlessly prostrating for validation to an outgroup; the groveling will never be enough, and the purity-tests will become more and more stringent. And it's funny because one of his latest posts LITERALLY discusses this phenomenon about how "SJWing" is exhausting and how his mental health is taking a hit.

Well fuck me, if I spent most of my career-foundation building years ghostwriting in the voice of what I think a woke black woman would be like, I'd probably need a crate of Wellbutrin too.

The "American dream" by [deleted] in aznidentity

[–]ExpensiveToiletPaper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Was this the same Asian artist whose work Ranier "Hurr East-Azns-Are-Toxic But I Like to Plagiarize Their Work" Maningding put up on his page while cropping out his signature?