Can the Sh*t_ say videos be used for good?

Unless you have been living under a virtual rock, you have probably heard of or watched a Sh*t __ Say video.  This trend was started by the Sh*t Girls Say video created by Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Shepherd. This video was posted on Youtube in early December and since then, there have been several spin-offs , some hilarious and some dry as the Sahara desert.

Like many people, I was beginning to get annoyed by all of the spin-offs.  "I'd use the term "played out" to describe how I feel about this meme right now if "played out" itself weren't a tad bit of a tired term itself. But that's what it has all become," said writer Thembi Ford in Clutch Magazine. However, my annoyance went away when a link to Sh*t White Girls Say to Black Girls showed up on my Facebook feed. In that video, a Black girl posing as in a blonde wig spouted off a bunch of racially insensitive sayings to a figurative Black girl. Predictably, the video drew a lot of controversy but I believe that video showed people that racism comes in many forms.

Another video that made me a fan of this meme was Sh*t Everybody Says to Rape Victims. In this video, it shows what someone might hear when they tell people they have been raped. The video covered everything from victim blaming to the downplaying of the trauma of male victims.

Those two videos showed me that something as silly as an internet video trend can be used to educate. Racism and sexual abuse are two subjects that are still considered taboo. If these videos can address these issues and others, I think I can tolerate another month of Sh*t __ Say videos.