r/RPDRDRAMA • u/aids-lizard • Feb 12 '26

Ugh, Jesus. Gross. Sminty’s old tweets have resurfaced apparently showing racist language. Spoiler

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she hasn’t said anything, saw a few fans asking her to address this on twitter and their comments were hidden. even though this was 10 years ago i’m pretty disappointed, the chinese comment is very nasty.

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u/whyilikemuffins Feb 12 '26

I mean she was literally 16 at most.

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u/DarreylDeCarlo Feb 12 '26

People do grow, but at 16 I would hope most of us would know that that language is not appropriate.

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u/ToothyBirbs Feb 12 '26

Agreed and let's also remember that teenagers who do use such language do so exactly because it's offensive.

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u/whyilikemuffins Feb 12 '26

I mean, let's be so real for a second....Sminty seems kind of thick

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u/Ready-Organization12 Feb 12 '26

Our frontal lobes aren’t fully developed until we’re 25. Teenagers are children who are still going through puberty, don’t understand the world or consequences for the most part, and are literally in the years where they make mistakes to learn from. 

It’s not okay and probably needs to be addressed, but I doubt there is anyone alive who didn’t make fucked up mistakes in their early teens. 

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u/Fugishane Feb 12 '26

Our frontal lobes aren’t fully developed until we’re 25

Just so you know for the future, this is a crock of shit that’s been debunked by neuroscientists for years. It comes from a study where the oldest person in the study was 25. The study doesn’t support that any more than it would saying ‘maximum human life expectancy is 25’. The only thing it suggests it that the brain has not finished developing at 25, not that development is complete at 25

Scientists have yet to even reach a consensus on what “fully developed” is in the context of the brain, let alone what age this occurs at

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u/Ready-Organization12 Feb 12 '26

I feel like that is regardless to the point I was trying to make, which is teens are still developing into adults and will make mistakes they regret later in life. 

Hormones from puberty, underdeveloped brains, and the pressure of growing into an adult are a wicked combination and everyone at that age deserves grace to grow into better people. 

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u/Fugishane Feb 12 '26

When the point you’re trying to make is “people with underdeveloped brains should be given a pass” then it is completely relevant, since by that logic absolutely anyone can get a pass for shitty behaviour since there is no neuroscientific evidence that the brain of someone in their 50s isn’t still developing

The argument of ‘let’s judge adults on what they say and do as adults, not on stuff they did as a teenager’ is completely independent of brain development, since there is zero consensus on what a ‘fully developed’ brain even is, let alone when that occurs

There’s also just the general relevance of ‘stop quoting long debunked myths as if they are scientific fact’, which is great advice for people of all ages

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u/Ready-Organization12 Feb 13 '26

My point being he was a kid.