It's Okay To Be...

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Following @SkyWilliams It's ok to be white It's ok to be black. t's ok to be asian. It's ok to be hispanic. It's ok to be female. It's ok to be male. It's ok to be gay It's ok to be straight. It's ok to be YOU But it's NEVER okay to put this s--- in my f------ stores are you f------ kidding me ALNA S COCOA mited eali HOT& SPICY CINNAMON HLAVORED OREO 3, CINNAMON CANDY FLAVOR CREME ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED COOKIES CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES SLIt WHEN OPENED ED 0.7 OZ( &SPICY CINNAMON ARTI 3:09 AM-22 Jan 2018 %e QA 651 Retweets 2,551 Likes 083 651 2.6K

enabler @Troyavision Follow It's ok to be white It's ok to be black. It's ok to be asian It's ok to be hispanic. t's ok to be female It's ok to be male It's ok to be gay. It's ok to be straight. It's ok to be YOU But it's NEVER okay to use 3-in-1 shampoo/conditioner/bodywash 8:19 PM - 19 Jan 2018 72,472 Retweets 262,083 Likes @G.帧の湿铋@や 592 t 72K 262K

simon | Hanjosi #UpTheAnte @hanjosi Follow It's okay to be white It's okay to be black. It's okay to be Asian It's okay to be Hispanid It's okay to be female It's okay to be male. It's okay to be gay It's okay to be straight It's okay to be YOUU It's NOT okay to steal art from other artists and claim it as ur own 4:08 AM- 19 Jan 2018 429 Retweets 1,035 Likes 10t9 1.0K

Emi Jones @TheEmuEmi Follow It's okay to be white It's okay to be black. It's okay to be Asian It's okay to be Hispanic. It's okay to be Native American It's okay to be female It's okay to be male It's okay to be gay It's okay to be straight. It's okay to be YOU It's NOT okay to play Sonic Colors 8:48 PM- 17 Jan 2018 县畤● ③ 108 Retweets 426 Likes 138 108 426

Widowmaker. @OverWidow Follow It's okay to be white It's okay to be black It's okay to be Asian It's okay to be Hispanic It's okay to be Native American It's okay to be female It's okay to be male It's okay to be gay It's okay to be straight It's okay to be YOU It's not ok to spam the Need Healing button. 8:55 AM-18 Jan 2018

cya everyone! @saldadinno Follow It's never okay to be white. It's never okay to be black. It's never okay to be Asian. It's never okay to be Hispanic It's never okay to be female. t's never okay to be male. It's never okay to be YOU. It's only okay to be a gamer. 6:26 PM-16 Jan 2018

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It's Okay To Be… refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person says "It's okay to be" several different types of races, sexualities, gender expressions, etc., and ends with "but it's NOT okay" be something humorous, often a fandom-related transgression.

Origin

The snowclone began spreading around the time of the It's Okay To Be White prank pulled by 4chan users. As the controversy spread on Twitter, the snowclone began spreading as users made posts saying it was okay to be any race. For example, one of the posts featuring text resembling the eventual snowclone was posted by@xolexieox^[1] on November 3rd, 2017 (shown below).

Lexie @xolexieox Follow It's okay to be white, black, Arab, Hispanic, Asian, female, male etc., it's okay to be yourself. It's okay to express. lts okay to speak. It's okay to be you. Don't let anyone else tell you it isn't okay to be you. You're all you have, have self-love and respect. 6:20 PM -3 Nov 2017

Spread

On November 27th, Twitter user @mathgrant^[2] posted a tweet which used the "It's okay to be X, it's okay to be Y, but it's NOT okay to be Z" that would become the standard for the snowclone (shown below).

Grant Fikes @mathgrant Follow It's okay to be white It's okay to be black. It's okay to be Asian. It's okay to be Hispanic. It's okay to be [insert other race here]. If one of these statements offends you and the others don't, then you're a racist. And it's not okay to be racist. 2:02 AM-27 Nov 2017

On January 14th, 2018, user @enssra^[3] uploaded the first known joke variation, gaining over 30 retweets and 90 likes (shown below, left). On the 17th, Twitter user @snsdmanager^[4] uploaded one of the popular variations, a variation about Korean pop band BTS that gained over 960 retweets and 550 likes (shown below, right).