We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge: We need to shut down all proclamations of "X-coded" until we figure out what the hell's going on. My girlfriend showed me people getting heated up about Boothill, a cowboy character in one of those gacha games the kids play these days, being "Native-coded" because... he got his land stolen.

Every time I think I'm terminally online I remind myself that in 2021 there was a mini-kerfluffle on TikTok because a white girl cosplayed as Socko, the white athletic sock voiced by white man Bo Burnham, because someone considered the sock to be "POC-coded" and I tell myself that I'm doing okay.

We need to shut down all proclamations of "X-coded" until we figure out what the hell's going on. My girlfriend showed me people getting heated up about Boothill, a cowboy character in one of those gacha games the kids play these days, being "Native-coded" because... he got his land stolen.

The character looks like this and talks in a mumbly Texan accent, and his backstory is basically the plot of "The Outlaw Josey Wales", for the record.

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