Asian Parent Emotional Damage Hats

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE started with Steven He's video "When 'Asian' Is a Difficulty Mode", uploaded on 21 September 2021. About a minute in, his character is called fat by the aunty boss and he yells the phrase. The video drew 17.3 million views in four months, and the catchphrase became a reaction tag everywhere. HAIYAA and FUIYOH come from a different creator, the Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng, better known as Uncle Roger. The rest of this collection is the household the kid grew up in, told by the kid. WHY NOT 100? is the reply to a 94 on a report card, one of the best-known Asian-parent memes. The plastic bag saved inside another plastic bag is a thrift habit that National Geographic traced through Asian American communities in 2019. A plate of peeled fruit stands in for an apology, as the Stanford Daily put it when it called cut fruit an Asian mom's love language. And the question of whether you want to be a doctor when you grow up arrives early enough that the hat has to answer it. The parent is loved here, never mocked from outside. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for the kid who now owns a bag of bags of their own.