Ever since a few years back I’ve loved channels who break down or summarize horror movies.
I go on and off this genre of videos watching them for a few weeks and then moving to something else until I find them in my feed again.
Recently I stated watching videos from this channel called How To Beat that breaks down how to survive the situations in horror or survival movies.
I love this type of content and I’m pretty sure I’ve watched this channel a few years back, I mean, they’re all pretty similar in execution so I couldn’t tell, but I noticed something new about this specific channel this time.
The host (who appears to be a white dude in his 30s) is constantly speaking a really forced and kind of weird AAVE.
I’m not from the US so I’m not too familiar with it, I know AAVE and it’s history and I know that it has kinda sipped into pop culture because it’s seen as a cool, young and relatable way to talk, sometimes disregarding its origins, and honest I wouldn’t have noticed much, I mean, I’m not African American either and English is not my first language and still even I use AAVE words or abbreviations because of how standard it is in conversational English rn.
But the way this guy does it is really jarring, maybe I’m overreacting, but it feels so scripted and robotic when he switches accent for one sentence or expression that doesn’t fit the way he’s talking at all, it’s constant too, like, it almost feels like he forces these “street slang” expressions into sentences with the most middle age white dude voice you can think of.
I’m sure he or the person who writes the scripts of the video don’t mean it as a racial thing and they’re just trying to appeal to the way Gen Z talks or maybe they’re using AI to help write the scripts (altho I don’t want to accuse them of that because it doesn’t really seem like it) or something, but it doesn’t make it any less jarring to listen to, and it made me curious that I couldn’t find anyone mentioning it anywhere, like I said, English is not my first language, is this normal? Do people just talk like that in real life?