Mika Ellison

And I feel like I can say this.

Waysians are kind of hot right now.

Like, some of our biggest stars right now are Weijian.

Alyssa Liu, of course, who skated to a song by Leve, who is Icelandic and Chinese.

And obviously, Hudson Williams, star of Heated Rivalry.

He's Korean and white.

And that show, by the way, had over 10 million viewers, which is a lot.

That's like nearing network TV numbers for a shoestring budget streaming show about gay hockey players.

Or like in music, Olivia Rodrigo is our Filipino Oasian princess and has the most streamed album by a female artist on Spotify.

It's because of me.

Sorry.

It's because of me.

It's because of me.

And beyond them, Oasians are kind of everywhere in pop culture.

TV shows like The Summer I Turned Pretty, Industry, The Pit, musicians Mitski and Michelle Zahner, the lead singer of Japanese Breakfast, are both also Oasian.

And it's like, it's not just that there are a lot of Waysians coming up in the culture right now, usually Waysian kids born in the 1990s and 2000s, they're kind of coming of age.

What's really interesting to me is this social discourse and all the memes about it.

I think it really says something about how attitudes around certain multiracial identities have changed.

And like part of this is really celebratory.

Waysians are talking about Waysians, finding community in the shared identity.