{"id":63847,"date":"2025-01-28T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/what-does-rcta-mean-on-tiktok-controversial-term-explained-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:43:15","slug":"what-does-rcta-mean-on-tiktok-controversial-term-explained-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/what-does-rcta-mean-on-tiktok-controversial-term-explained-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"What does RCTA mean on TikTok? Controversial term explained &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does RCTA mean on TikTok? Controversial term explained TIKTOK: thatonerctaexposer \/ .linoamiRCTA is both a popular term and a trend that has gone viral on social media platforms, like TikTok. But what does RCTA mean? TikTok is a hub for all different types of content, and just like any other social media platform, people on the app use a variety of slang terms and acronyms to communicate with each other. While most terms on TikTok are void of controversy, you may occasionally find problematic ones, like the d-slur, that end up disrespecting certain groups of people. Recently, the problematic acronym \u2018RCTA\u2019 has been trending on the short-form video app, which has led many creators to educate their followers on why it\u2019s inappropriate. If you\u2019re out of the loop, here\u2019s everything to know about what it means. RCTA meaning on TikTok RCTA stands for \u2018Race Change To Another.\u2018 It is another term for \u201ctransracial,\u201d which refers to the concept that a person can transition to another race. There\u2019s another alternative to the term called ECTA, meaning \u2018Ethnicity Change To Another.\u2019 One of the most infamous examples of transracial people is Oli London, a British influencer who at some point claimed to be Korean and was undergoing plastic surgery to look like BTS singer Jimin. Members of the RCTA community don\u2019t necessarily want to change their appearance to look like another race, but they believe they can manifest the identity using \u2018subliminals.\u2019 Many of them are focused on transitioning into East-Asian ethnicities due to their love for K-pop, K-dramas, and anime culture among other things. On TikTok, RCTA-identifying people have been heavily criticized and deemed as ignorant. One of the biggest criticisms of the community is the idea that they cannot fully understand the experience of being an ethnic minority and go through the racism and prejudices associated with the race they\u2019re identifying as. If there are any other phrases or slang terms on TikTok that you don\u2019t know the meaning of, you can check out our guide to learn all about the most popular words on the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does RCTA mean on TikTok? Controversial term explained TIKTOK: thatonerctaexposer \/ .linoamiRCTA is both a popular term and a trend that has gone viral on social media platforms, like TikTok. But what does RCTA mean? TikTok is a hub for all different types of content, and just like any other social media platform, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}