Emily BLM ACAB Is Typing

About

Emily BLM ACAB Is Typing… refers to a variation of an online catchphrase and slang term (Emily) used most often by right-leaning web users and trolls to mock stereotypical left-wing SJW's, particularly young women who are Black Lives Matter supporters, use the term ACAB and make the movement a lifestyle (similar to how the term Karen is used to mock aggressively conservative women). It is also used to mock stereotypical white girls more generally. The phrase first began circulating in mid-2020, increasing in use over the course of the year and throughout 2021, largely popularized by TikTok.

Origin

Oh My God, Emily, You're Such A Crackhead

The exact origin of the label "Emily" as a way to describe young, aggressively liberal women is unknown but seems to have begun on TikTok, likely in 2020.

On May 17th, 2020, TikToker davis.ochoa posted a video in which he acts like a stereotypical "white girl," doing "random" things while he chants over a girl saying "oh my God Emily, you're such a crackhead," garnering over 12.7 million views in just under a year (shown below).

The video inspired a number of users to make similar videos mocking basic, young white girls as "Emilys," and increased the use of the hashtag #emily for similar videos (examples shown below, left and right). Although not overtly political in subject matter, this helped popularize "Emily" as a slang term for stereotypical white girls, eventually leading to political punchlines, similar to how the term "Karen" began as a less political term but became that way over time.

Emily Montes

A possible support point for the term is an allegedly 5-year-old rapper named Emily Montes (previous TikTok accounts @mynameisemilyandiamfiive and @mynamesemilyilikeroblox) who used to have a popular TikTok account in early 2020 where she posted original rap songs, many of the most viral being pro-BLM and social-justice-themed. Although her TikTok, Twitter and Instagram pages no longer exist, the raps are still posted to Rapchat^[1] and YouTube^[2] under the account "Emillllyyy" and topic "Emily Montes." It is unknown if these songs are legitimately written and performed by a 5-year-old or not (examples shown below, reuploaded to YouTube).

Emily's untitled song for George Floyd (above, right) was reposted a number of times across social media in June 2020, and some of her other songs have gained hundreds of thousands of collective views across posts on YouTube and social media in general.

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Urban Dictionary

On June 25th, 2020, Urban Dictionary^[3] user emily clzo posted a definition for the term "ACAB," defining it as, "acab means all cops are bastards. the terms originally a gang slogan. acab DOES NOT MEAN ALL COPS ARE BAD, it’s means (to sum it all up) the cop system sucks. 😌" The post gained overwhelmingly negative reception. On August 7th, Urban Dictionary^[4] user Jentriliquis posted another definition for ACAB, writing, "This means all cops are bad. People that use this are usually named Emily" seemingly in direct response to emily clzo (shown below, left and right).

On October 27th, YouTuber^[5] Neddyfram uploaded a video titled "emily✨♋🏳️‍🌈✊🏿 ACAB/BLM is typing…" showing this interaction in a stylized way, garnering over 2,000 views in eight months (shown below).

Emily Is Typing…

Over the course of 2020 leading into 2021, the variable sentence fragment "Emily Is Typing…", mimicking the phrasing of a message you might see as someone is writing a comment or DM, often expanded with a number of emojis and terms stereotypically attributed to young liberal girls (i.e. ACAB, BLM, star signs, pronoun preferences, etc.), started growing in popularity as a way to label content or posters as "Emilys."

For example, on July 24th, 2020, Instagram^[6] user @icyboner posted a video in which an Asian woman reacts to and gets offended by a Filthy Frank video, captioned, "🧚‍♂️Emily✨ACAB🚫👮‍♀️BLM✊🏾 is typing…" implying the content shown might attract the ire of Emilys (shown below). The video garnered over 3,900 views in nine months.

On October 11th and 14th, TikToker^[7][8] @joe_mama740 posted two Turtle Song Persian Language videos with on-screen text referring to "Emily ACAB BLM," garnering over 9,500 and 241,000 views respectively in six months (shown below, left and right).

On January 15th, TikToker^[9] @reidbotsko posted a comedy skit in which someone who is about to be canceled by an "Emily" tricks her into saying the n-word, thus canceling herself, garnering over 950,000 views in three months (shown below).

On February 3rd, Twitter^[10] page @AllBigMistakes posted a For Really Big Mistakes meme saying Communism was a mistake, garnering over 4,900 likes in two months. A minute later, they commented on their own post with an image of someone in a Communist shirt typing on their phone captioned, "*Emily ☭ 14 acab 1312 blm she/her is typing on your Communist Meme*" as if expecting criticism, garnering over 1,200 likes and 100 retweets in the same span of time (shown below).

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