RCTA

plural RCTAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableautomotiveInitialism of rear cross traffic alert.
2. InternetabbreviationattributiveinitialismoftenuncountableInitialism of race change to another: the act of transitioning into a different race from the one one was born into.

   what in the actual goofy ahh is this rcta bs....

   2022 October 8, @hoshisangels, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 25 May 2026

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   Practitioners of “race change to another,” or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to truly become a different race.

   2023 July 30, Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, “Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race”, in NBC News

   I am not Asian, but I do my makeup inspired by Asian and dolly trends just cuz I think it looks neat and think it works well with my features. But recently with the rcta fiasco I started wondering if doing it this way is Asian fishing esp cuz it makes my eyes look pretty different imo.

   2023 September 2, SAi-DOL, “Is my makeup considered Asian fishing?”, in r/MakeupAddiction (Reddit post), archived from the original on 17 Sep 2023

   […] I just get this nagging feeling in the back of my head that doing this just makes me another face in the crowd of white Koreaboos. […] I'm also extremely, painfully aware of the RCTA crowd and other similar weird fetishy racist bullshit that ESPECIALLY revolves around fetishising Korean people and culture.

   2023 December 17, u/Mechaniized, “I'm mixed Korean and mid-identity crisis, and social media has been making it so much worse.”, in r/mixedrace (Reddit post), archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025

   I don’t think he [Subaru Kimura] hates black people I think he just kinda wants to be black. Kinda like those RCTA ppl that were on TikTok. Still very racist tho

   2025 December 15, @Kazui_is_inno, X (post), archived from the original on 25 May 2026

   1. InternetattributivecountableoftenA person who has made such a change: a transracial person.

      RCTAs seek to change their race. I'm telling my mom I'm an RCTA.

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      Before I came back to a job that I quit 2 years ago, my co-worker decided to jokingly tell my other co-workers that I'm an RCTA and that I've been trying to be asian my entire life (there is 0 point in time where I've done that) and I had to tell all of them that it wasn't true when I got there.

      2025 April 30, u/Fantastic_Iron_3627, “Does anybody else go through something similar to this?”, in r/namenerds (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025

      It definetely can be annoying when people think you are an RCTA just because you kin a character from a different race.

      2025 December 6, u/Same_Set6599, “Got Called RCTA”, in r/fictionkin (Reddit post), archived from the original on 25 May 2026

1. InternetuncommonTransracial; having changed one's race.

   It's really confusing, I don't believe anyone seriously identifies as bun/bunself, it's really goofy. […] But it sounds so wrong saying your pronouns are objects, places, etc. It's like the people who are RCTA (race change to another). It's like ya'll don't want to identify with human pronouns.

   2023 September 28, u/The_Meeper106657, r/ExplainBothSides (Reddit post), archived from the original on 25 May 2026