Before I crack on though, I think the "Yookay" culture existing and the "Yookayification" of the wider British culture are two different things.
The Yookay culture is essentially a label on what what used to be "Urban culture". But now with a bigger ethnic minority population in our cities (where the white population are literally a minority now), it is morphing into something more than an "over there" phenomenon. It is now breaching beyond the city walls into "Deep England".
This will be either minorities moving out of the cities into the provinces, bringing their Yookay vibes with them, or (and I think this one is more important), transmitted to the population via electronic media - this is the "Yookayification" of Great Britain. Which is not a completely British phenomenon, it is, as you highlight, a culture formed by non-white Brits with an identity crisis, trying to forge their own "thing". I would argue, the Yookay culture we know is essentially what African American ghetto culture looks like when transmitted this side of the pond.
And you do not just see it in Britain, this culture exists in France, Belgium, Holland etc. they are actually all very similar - Yookay culture, French banlieue culture etc. and unfortunately, I do not see much in these cultures that the indigenous white population can look at it and say "Oh yeah, I see that's an organic part of our mosaic. Love it.".
Ironically, a lot of young white males do like this culture and mimic it, speaking the slang, changing their accent for it. But as it's essentially a working class culture (which frankly speaking, does draw a lot of it's vocab, symbols etc. from violent gangster rap, drill etc.), there's something unsettling about that.
But anywho, let's put that all aside and say fine, whatever. It exists, cool.
I think the REAL issue, with this Blue Peter clip, is partly how we are constantly having ethnic minorities over-represented in the media these days. Or should I say, maybe less that they are over-represented, but now white males have become ridiculously under-represented.
It genuinely is shocking to my eyes when I go home and turn the TV on, just how many minorities there are on the TV and a complete absence of white boys. It's not organic at all.
And to see, two Yookay lads, dressed in CHAV CLOTHES (they are just are - I think we have over-corrected in not being snobby and should not be shy to be a bit harsh on demanding standards), presenting science on the most Middle England show of all time, with an Asian female presenter, a bunch of hijab kids in the background and the token soyboy hipster white guy (who is the ONLY white male allowed in such scenarios) just feels like a culture defeat for many white Brits. There is just no escaping this forced Yookayification of our culture. Not even good old Blue Peter.
For me personally, this is NOT to have a go at anyone who is born and raised here and could be pointed out as someone "Yookay". And those two lads aren't doing any harm, in fact they're doing a nice thing for kids. There is objectively nothing wrong with what they have done. But that clip has to be taken into context of the bigger picture of everyday Yookayification of the mainstream culture and the erasure of (especially) white males from mainstream culture.
They are there, with an Asian female host, a bunch of hijab kids in the background
My hunch is that the backlash on that Blue Peter clip, is the inorganic "Yookayification" of our mainstream culture which becomes more and more relentless over the years. That clip is the dumbing down of culture with blackface.
I think the reaction to "Yookay" culture that we see on social media is a reaction to "Yookayification" of Britain. People are Ok (indifferent) with it organically forming with some communities (even if they are not fans). Britain is a pretty liberal society. What people don't like is the imposition and affirming of this culture at a national scale. It can feel very in your face.
I am not a fan of the representation because I don't even think "Yookay" is a representative of urban inner city kids. I think this caricature represents a certain social strata. However, I acknowledge that some find belonging in this subculture because they haven't presented anything else. This feeds into why I am passionate about my church work and creating a different avenue.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Much appreciated. It adds value to the discourse.
You are 100% correct there, that "Yookay" does not represent all urban inner city kids and we do risk "Yookay" basically becoming a slur for ethnic minorities. Let's just be real.
Another point I wanted to make, but wrote too much already, is that I think this Blue Peter scene also ties into the dropping of standards and dumbing down of culture - which is separate from the Yookayification of culture.
It's like Keir Starmer wearing trainers with his suit. But these two lads were kind of in the same vein.
I purposely made this piece short because I felt it could spiral and lose focus. Lol. So I completely get you there. I also agree with you about standards.
I was reading everything I could on "Yookay" today after I saw someone complain about the Blue Peter thing and say that the accents were 'foreign.' Seriously? Where else in the world can you find that accent?
Yeah, I have a strange sense of pride in it even though its formation was nothing to do with me. Maybe, it's similar to how I feel about Geordie and simply because I can understand the strongest variation of it while Americans, for example, are mystified. This is a weirdness of Britishness I am particularly fond of. All these accents on one tiny island! MLE is local, though, and there's a barely discernible undercurrent of it in my daughter's vowels and a stronger one in my nephew and nieces. I'll always remember it when I was travelling alone in San Francisco and felt a little uneasy because there are so many people there who are deeply eccentric in a way that just isn't British so I couldn't read it easily and then I heard an MLE accent and immediately felt reassured. Sikh lads. I said hello to them in a way I would not have done at home, but they heard my accent too and understood immediately why I was introducing myself and grinned at me. Then we bumped into each other from time to time and always grinned and exchanged a couple of sentences. I just felt better knowing they were there and I think they felt that way about me too. At home, we might not have felt we were of the same tribe, but in the US, our shared elements of culture were much clearer and also comforting. How to tap into that on a broader cultural level while at home, I do not know.
It's seen as unbritish because it is unbritish. White British and white british culture are under assault, being replaced without democratic consent by globalist jews. The blacks are too low IQ to realise they are being used as a bioweapon along with other non-whites. 50% of urban blacks are in social housing. 70% of somalians are in social housing. Diasporans of all backgrounds identify with their country of origin until its time for the welfare or motability benefit, or to shit over white identity.
Jewish DEI is being used to displace whites in corporate and media life, mainly with africans. Cultural icons like doctor who have been replaced destroying viewing figures leading to cancellation. Will the next James Bond be black? Snape is black, Stonehenge was built by blacks! (it wasn't). Cheddar man was black! (he wasn't). Jewished authored Bridgerton inserts blacks into UK costume drama. Africans are vastly overrepresented in adverts too. It's exhausting. Naturally when another cultural icon like Blue Peter is seen to have had the cast replaced with monosyllabic infantile jamaican patois speaking africans it draws ire from the indigenous. If you grew up with blue peter in the 80s or 90s you lived through the last of a near homogenous white britain.
"We're just as british as you". No, you're second or third generation immigrants, on welfare. Measurably more ethnocentric, violent and criminal than whites. Speaking pidgin dialects of jamaican, asian english.
Lets turn off access to taxpayer money and see how british you are
When you say "Yookay", I say "Garage". It's been around for thirty years, parodied by Ali G and 'People Just Do Nothing'. It only became a meme when mainstream America recently started taking an interest in urban Britain's music of the 90's. Jungle is the other side of the same record.
Good read.
Before I crack on though, I think the "Yookay" culture existing and the "Yookayification" of the wider British culture are two different things.
The Yookay culture is essentially a label on what what used to be "Urban culture". But now with a bigger ethnic minority population in our cities (where the white population are literally a minority now), it is morphing into something more than an "over there" phenomenon. It is now breaching beyond the city walls into "Deep England".
This will be either minorities moving out of the cities into the provinces, bringing their Yookay vibes with them, or (and I think this one is more important), transmitted to the population via electronic media - this is the "Yookayification" of Great Britain. Which is not a completely British phenomenon, it is, as you highlight, a culture formed by non-white Brits with an identity crisis, trying to forge their own "thing". I would argue, the Yookay culture we know is essentially what African American ghetto culture looks like when transmitted this side of the pond.
And you do not just see it in Britain, this culture exists in France, Belgium, Holland etc. they are actually all very similar - Yookay culture, French banlieue culture etc. and unfortunately, I do not see much in these cultures that the indigenous white population can look at it and say "Oh yeah, I see that's an organic part of our mosaic. Love it.".
Ironically, a lot of young white males do like this culture and mimic it, speaking the slang, changing their accent for it. But as it's essentially a working class culture (which frankly speaking, does draw a lot of it's vocab, symbols etc. from violent gangster rap, drill etc.), there's something unsettling about that.
But anywho, let's put that all aside and say fine, whatever. It exists, cool.
I think the REAL issue, with this Blue Peter clip, is partly how we are constantly having ethnic minorities over-represented in the media these days. Or should I say, maybe less that they are over-represented, but now white males have become ridiculously under-represented.
It genuinely is shocking to my eyes when I go home and turn the TV on, just how many minorities there are on the TV and a complete absence of white boys. It's not organic at all.
And to see, two Yookay lads, dressed in CHAV CLOTHES (they are just are - I think we have over-corrected in not being snobby and should not be shy to be a bit harsh on demanding standards), presenting science on the most Middle England show of all time, with an Asian female presenter, a bunch of hijab kids in the background and the token soyboy hipster white guy (who is the ONLY white male allowed in such scenarios) just feels like a culture defeat for many white Brits. There is just no escaping this forced Yookayification of our culture. Not even good old Blue Peter.
For me personally, this is NOT to have a go at anyone who is born and raised here and could be pointed out as someone "Yookay". And those two lads aren't doing any harm, in fact they're doing a nice thing for kids. There is objectively nothing wrong with what they have done. But that clip has to be taken into context of the bigger picture of everyday Yookayification of the mainstream culture and the erasure of (especially) white males from mainstream culture.
They are there, with an Asian female host, a bunch of hijab kids in the background
My hunch is that the backlash on that Blue Peter clip, is the inorganic "Yookayification" of our mainstream culture which becomes more and more relentless over the years. That clip is the dumbing down of culture with blackface.
Yes, I agree with your overarching point.
I think the reaction to "Yookay" culture that we see on social media is a reaction to "Yookayification" of Britain. People are Ok (indifferent) with it organically forming with some communities (even if they are not fans). Britain is a pretty liberal society. What people don't like is the imposition and affirming of this culture at a national scale. It can feel very in your face.
I am not a fan of the representation because I don't even think "Yookay" is a representative of urban inner city kids. I think this caricature represents a certain social strata. However, I acknowledge that some find belonging in this subculture because they haven't presented anything else. This feeds into why I am passionate about my church work and creating a different avenue.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. Much appreciated. It adds value to the discourse.
You are 100% correct there, that "Yookay" does not represent all urban inner city kids and we do risk "Yookay" basically becoming a slur for ethnic minorities. Let's just be real.
I could have wrote loads more but stopped there lol.
Another point I wanted to make, but wrote too much already, is that I think this Blue Peter scene also ties into the dropping of standards and dumbing down of culture - which is separate from the Yookayification of culture.
It's like Keir Starmer wearing trainers with his suit. But these two lads were kind of in the same vein.
I purposely made this piece short because I felt it could spiral and lose focus. Lol. So I completely get you there. I also agree with you about standards.
I was reading everything I could on "Yookay" today after I saw someone complain about the Blue Peter thing and say that the accents were 'foreign.' Seriously? Where else in the world can you find that accent?
It's distinctly British! You know that it comes from these isles. Hence, why I think the reaction to "Yookay" is a symptom of something deeper.
Yeah, I have a strange sense of pride in it even though its formation was nothing to do with me. Maybe, it's similar to how I feel about Geordie and simply because I can understand the strongest variation of it while Americans, for example, are mystified. This is a weirdness of Britishness I am particularly fond of. All these accents on one tiny island! MLE is local, though, and there's a barely discernible undercurrent of it in my daughter's vowels and a stronger one in my nephew and nieces. I'll always remember it when I was travelling alone in San Francisco and felt a little uneasy because there are so many people there who are deeply eccentric in a way that just isn't British so I couldn't read it easily and then I heard an MLE accent and immediately felt reassured. Sikh lads. I said hello to them in a way I would not have done at home, but they heard my accent too and understood immediately why I was introducing myself and grinned at me. Then we bumped into each other from time to time and always grinned and exchanged a couple of sentences. I just felt better knowing they were there and I think they felt that way about me too. At home, we might not have felt we were of the same tribe, but in the US, our shared elements of culture were much clearer and also comforting. How to tap into that on a broader cultural level while at home, I do not know.
It's seen as unbritish because it is unbritish. White British and white british culture are under assault, being replaced without democratic consent by globalist jews. The blacks are too low IQ to realise they are being used as a bioweapon along with other non-whites. 50% of urban blacks are in social housing. 70% of somalians are in social housing. Diasporans of all backgrounds identify with their country of origin until its time for the welfare or motability benefit, or to shit over white identity.
Jewish DEI is being used to displace whites in corporate and media life, mainly with africans. Cultural icons like doctor who have been replaced destroying viewing figures leading to cancellation. Will the next James Bond be black? Snape is black, Stonehenge was built by blacks! (it wasn't). Cheddar man was black! (he wasn't). Jewished authored Bridgerton inserts blacks into UK costume drama. Africans are vastly overrepresented in adverts too. It's exhausting. Naturally when another cultural icon like Blue Peter is seen to have had the cast replaced with monosyllabic infantile jamaican patois speaking africans it draws ire from the indigenous. If you grew up with blue peter in the 80s or 90s you lived through the last of a near homogenous white britain.
"We're just as british as you". No, you're second or third generation immigrants, on welfare. Measurably more ethnocentric, violent and criminal than whites. Speaking pidgin dialects of jamaican, asian english.
Lets turn off access to taxpayer money and see how british you are
When you say "Yookay", I say "Garage". It's been around for thirty years, parodied by Ali G and 'People Just Do Nothing'. It only became a meme when mainstream America recently started taking an interest in urban Britain's music of the 90's. Jungle is the other side of the same record.