Yassification

2020 August 26, @puppyoveralls, “I’m choking on the yassification gas”, in Twitter, retrieved March 7, 2022.

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Referring to itself as the “yassification” of Wordle, this take on the original puzzle game asks you to guess words which have relevance to the LGBTQIA community.

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Earlier I outlined the way “yaas” functioned as in-group slang, and then as a meme in the form of yassification. Meme aggregate pages post this kind of content to boost their own profile, making money off ads and merchandise. Eventually, the commodification is so far reaching that it is disconnected not just from QTPOC, and not just from queerness, but disconnected from any community meaning at all. This can be seen with Yaasification shirts available on AliBaba and other mass merchandise sites.

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To yassify yourself and get stuck in with the yassification trend on Twitter, it’s kind of up to you on your best photo editing method. The most commonly used one, though, is FaceApp.

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