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<ul class="summary-list"><li>TikTok videos joking about being arrested using the song "Locked Up" by Akon have gone viral.</li><li>They include a filter that makes it appear the user is in the back of a police car.</li></ul>TikTokers and celebrities are going viral with videos that joke about being arrested for doing something that isn't currently illegal as part of a trend set to the song "Locked Up" by Akon.The videos follow the same format, with creators using a filter known as <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/sticker/POlice-by-JPhant-2900382?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESPgo82Q3Fu9moDSNkW0bXeWPPwRsTf6qYLkK30RNuSmMTqjaHWe6GWT8o11cvWnMwYsMgnKMiXNzFGE0KTueKGgA%3D&amp;_r=1&amp;checksum=8c257fe40c2cbefbdf8eb2a09932536c53dc887490a1be6d2bdfab18043eb4c3&amp;sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAZboaJY3dZqfZCis2GKE7m8kRFGDED5rwgpZAIYkfv3aTomeOsVOkes44Ns2B9HKo&amp;share_app_id=1233&amp;share_link_id=9B97ABA8-DE26-4AC2-AE46-8EB925245377&amp;share_sticker_id=2900382&amp;source=h5_m&amp;timestamp=1661260531&amp;tt_from=copy&amp;u_code=d8216fkj0fm4gf&amp;ug_btm=b2878%2Cb1030&amp;user_id=6729748799151686662&amp;utm_campaign=client_share&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_source=copy">"POlice by Jphant,"</a> which makes it look like they are in the back of a police car, and <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/locked-up-7088289015299984133">an a capella version of "Locked Up" playing in the background</a>.They typically include text overlayed to describe something the user has done in the past or that they currently love doing, joking that if it were "made illegal," the user would end up arrested. The lyrics featured say, "I'm steady tryna find the motive/Why I do what I do?"Over <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/locked-up-7088289015299984133">200,000 videos on TikTok have used the sound so far</a>, with most in the style of the trend.Singer <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@joejonas?lang=en">Joe Jonas</a> posted a version of the trend on August 22 writing, "If forgetting lyrics was illegal." In 2019, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCB1YOjCEdk">Jonas Brothers appeared on "The Late Late Show with James Corden"</a> and Joe's brothers said he always forgets lyrics to his songs and has to use a teleprompter on stage. His <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@joejonas/video/7134368939701734702?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">video has received over 800,000 views</a>. Singer and actor <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hayleykiyoko?lang=en">Hayley Kiyoko</a> posted a similar video on August 21 <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hayleykiyoko/video/7134102767735459114?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">with the text reading, "If drinking lemonade ever becomes illegal."</a>In the caption, Kiyoko tagged it with <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lemonademouth?lang=en">#LemonadeMouth.</a> The hashtag refers to the 2011 Disney Channel Original movie of the same name that Kiyoko starred in, in which a group of outcasts bond over drinking lemonade and form a band. Her <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hayleykiyoko/video/7134102767735459114?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7134102767735459114&amp;lang=en">video received nearly 8 million views</a>, and fans praised it as well as the movie in the comments.<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@vinnyguadagnino?lang=en">Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino</a> also made a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@vinnyguadagnino/video/7133607234247904554?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">"Locked Up" video, with his receiving over 11 million views</a>. The text states, "If being the one who just reads the group chat but doesn't respond becomes illegal." Other popular videos in the trend include, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@ethen_lombardino/video/7132940288280055082?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">"If being the funniest sibling becomes illegal,"</a> "<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@flossers.are.superior/video/7133444888644865286?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">If having bad taste in men became illegal,"</a> or <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zozoroe/video/7133470089696808234?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7127642013554361862">"If being a bad bitch ever becomes illegal."</a> Many receive over 1 million views. The sound used in the videos was <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@coinyes/video/7088289025890602245?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7088289025890602245">first posted in April by a TikTok user known @coinyes,</a> who posts videos of popular songs that feature only vocals. The video showed Akon singing the chorus, but the audio didn't include any instruments. The earliest video in the trend's format appeared to be <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@montyjlopez/video/7129748360600309035?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7129748360600309035">posted on August 9 by @montyjlopez</a>, the father of influencer and actor Addison Rae, which received over six million views. Lopez has recently been <a href="https://www.insider.com/addison-raes-dad-monty-lopez-controversy-cheating-rumors-2022-8">embroiled in controversy</a> over accusations he had a relationship with a woman who wasn't his wife. This led to a <a href="https://www.insider.com/addison-raes-dad-monty-lopez-controversy-cheating-rumors-2022-8#lopez-also-began-feuding-with-influencer-tana-mongeau-in-the-midst-of-his-battle-with-yung-gravy-5">feud with influencer Tana Mongeau</a>, who commented under one of his videos, "I'm calling the police."His video did not feature on-screen captions, but showed Lopez lip-syncing to the song in the back of a police car using the filter and captioned with "Got me!" The <a href="https://genius.com/Akon-locked-up-lyrics">song</a> "Locked Up" was released in 2004. It's written from the perspective of a person who has been incarcerated and doesn't know when they'll be released. <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/akon-12-1335456#:~:text=Akon%20was%20convicted%20of%20just,So%20there%20was%20no%20conviction.">According to NME</a>, Akon previously stated he wrote the song while in prison.Though the trend appears popular among TikTok users, there are some detractors. <a href="https://www.hercampus.com/culture/locked-up-tiktok-trend-explained/">Zoë Hecht wrote for the online publication HerCampus</a> that it "makes light of an important conversation in today's climate regarding police interactions," and advised that TikTokers "be mindful of the real-world impact" of the trend.Other TikTok trends that have been similarly criticized include the <a href="https://www.insider.com/mugshot-trend-tiktok-james-charles-instagram-corinna-kopf-domestic-violence-2020-4">"Mugshot Challenge" in 2020</a>, which involved using makeup to appear battered and bruised and then taking mugshot-style photos and videos. Many influencers who joined the challenge were later accused of glamorizing violence. A trend in 2021 which saw <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-trend-pretend-arrest-police-viral-1626754">people pretending to be arrested and taken away by police</a> also received <a href="https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/tiktok/arrested-challenge-trend-police-videos/">backlash for glamorizing police brutality</a>.Akon, Joe Jonas, Hayley Kiyoko, and Vinny Guadagnino did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.<a href="https://www.insider.com/culture">For more stories like this, check out coverage from Insider's Digital Culture team here.</a>

Celebrities from Joe Jonas to Hayley Kiyoko are posting TikTok videos joking about being arrested as part of a new 'Locked Up' trend

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Selena Gomez's Alex on "Wizards of Waverly Place" was meant to be LGBTQ, according to a producer.</li><li>Peter Murrieta explained that the character nearly had a romantic subplot with Stevie (Hayley Kiyoko).</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/selena-gomez-hailey-bieber-death-threats-fans-2023-3">Selena Gomez's</a> character on <a href="https://www.insider.com/wizards-of-waverly-place-cast-then-and-now-photos-2018-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Wizards of Waverly Place"</a> was meant to be <a href="https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-tv-characters-played-by-gay-trans-queer-actors-2020-6">LGBTQ</a> and almost had a same-sex relationship on the hit Disney Channel sitcom, according to one of the show's writers and producers.The actor and singer played protagonist <a href="https://www.insider.com/selena-gomez-wizards-of-waverly-place-happiest-ashamed-podcast-2023-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Russo</a> on the show, which lasted for four seasons between 2007 and 2012 (and was followed by two spinoff TV movies in 2009 and 2013). The series followed a family of wizards who owned a sandwich stop in New York City and launched the "<a href="https://www.insider.com/only-murders-in-the-building-selena-gomez-cara-delevingne-kiss-2022-6">Only Murders in the Building</a>" star's career.During the show's five-year run, audiences saw Gomez's character have several male love interests, including werewolf Mason (Gregg Sulkin) and bad boy Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas).However, according to showrunner Peter Murrieta, things could have potentially turned romantic with another female wizard Stevie Nichols, played by <a href="https://www.insider.com/joe-jonas-hayley-kiyoko-tiktok-locked-up-trend-akon-2022-8">Hayley Kiyoko</a>. Speaking on Monday's episode of rewatch podcast "<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wizards-of-waverly-pod/id1669319899" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wizards of Waverly Pod</a>," Murrieta, who served as head writer and executive producer during the first three seasons, was asked by hosts and former "WoWP" stars Jennifer Stone and David DeLuise if there was a storyline he wanted to explore but never got the chance to."Easy, easy, easy," he replied. "I wished we could have played more with what was quite obvious to a lot of us was the relationship between Stevie and Alex."<div type="image" title="Hayley Kiyoko and Selena Gomez in &quot;Wizards of Waverly Place.&quot;" height="2000" width="2666" msid="99063620" hostid="261" sizebytes="464704"></div>Alex met the rebellious Stevie in detention during season three, and the two immediately clicked after realizing they had lots in common. However, Kiyoko — who told her parents she was lesbian when she was <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-hayley-kiyoko-became-lesbian-jesus-695667/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in the sixth grade</a> — only appeared in four episodes of the show before her character was written off.Murrieta went on to explain that while "it was pretty clear to all of us what that relationship was," the writers "weren't able to in that time" make it explicit to audiences that their relationship was more than platonic.Murrieta said it "would have been fun" to have written a romantic storyline for Alex and Stevie."If we were just a few years down the line, we maybe could have played with that," Stone, who played Alex's best friend Harper Finkle, said.DeLuise, who portrayed Russo family patriarch Jerry Russo, asked, "Nowadays that could happen, right?""I mean, they did it. Disney Channel has had characters, and they did it," Murrieta said, possibly referencing the animated series "The Owl House," which debuted in 2020 and featured<a href="https://www.insider.com/lgbtq-cartoon-characters-kids-database-2021-06"> the network's first lesbian leads.</a>In 2017, meanwhile, "Andi Mack" character Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) became the first character to utter the phrase, "I'm gay," on Disney Channel following an emotional coming-out story arc in the show's second season.However, as Murrieta said, "at the time it wasn't a thing. But, we got as close as we could."He laughed and continued: "I mean it was pretty close. It was pretty much right there."In a recent episode of the podcast, Gomez said Alex was the character she felt "most comfortable" portraying across her career and said that working on the show as a teenager was <a href="https://www.insider.com/selena-gomez-wizards-of-waverly-place-happiest-ashamed-podcast-2023-2">the "happiest" she's ever been.</a>

'Wizards of Waverly Place' producer says Selena Gomez's character was meant to be LGBTQ, but they couldn't be explicit about it: 'We got as close as we could'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="1041057" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mindy-Kaling">Mindy Kaling</keyword>, 42, appeared on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" on Thursday. </li><li>Kaling pushed back at criticism over a "Scooby-Doo" spinoff that will depict Velma as South Asian.</li><li>She questioned why some people couldn't imagine the character Velma as an Indian woman.</li></ul>Mindy Kaling said she "couldn't understand" criticism around the <a href="https://www.insider.com/real-life-versions-of-animal-cartoons-2018-11">"Scooby-Doo" character</a> Velma, who has often been depicted as white, being reimagined as South Asian for an animated spinoff series of the TV show.Kaling discussed fans' reactions to the upcoming <keyword id="7849400" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="HBO-Max">HBO Max</keyword> series during an appearance on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIgkzBkkGc8">"Late Night With Seth Meyers"</a> that aired Thursday. According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/mindy-kaling-responds-to-hbo-max-velma-race-backlash-1234987592/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the adult animated show will focus on the origin story of Velma Dinkley, and Kaling will voice the beloved Mystery Inc. sleuth. Although the character has previously been portrayed as white, as <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/velma-scooby-doo-history-pushing-identity-boundaries-not-everyone-happ-rcna1193">Sakshi Venkatraman wrote for NBC News</a>, Velma hasn't always been played by white actors. Puerto Rican actress Gina Rodriguez voiced Velma in the 2020 <keyword id="16667" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="animated-movie">animated movie</keyword> <a href="https://www.insider.com/scooby-doo-teaser-trailer-zac-efron-2019-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Scoob."</a> Also, Hayley Kiyoko, an actress and singer of Japanese descent, voiced the character from 2009 to 2019 in "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" and "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster." "When it was announced that I was going to do the voice of Velma, people were very supportive and happy on Twitter," Kaling, 42, told Meyers. "So I felt great because these are really intense fans - cartoon, comic book fans." <div type="image" title="Wide preview of Mindy Kaling and &quot;Scooby-Doo&quot; character Velma Dinkley." height="1632" width="3264" msid="84710716" hostid="261"></div>Kaling continued, telling Meyers that some people didn't agree that the character Velma should be reimagined as South Asian."There was a lot of, 'So, not Velma?' Those kinds of tweets," Kaling told Meyers. "'Not the classic Velma that I'm always thinking about?'" She continued: "First of all, I didn't know that she elicited such strong reactions in either direction. She's such a great character, she's so smart, and I just couldn't understand how people couldn't imagine a really smart, nerdy girl with terrible eyesight who loved to solve mysteries, could not be Indian. There are Indian nerds." "It shouldn't be a surprise to people, but people are like, 'No, no, no," Kaling added. Kaling acknowledged that the criticism came from a "small percentage of people," but told Meyers that the negative response made her consider the importance of the character."It made me think, 'OK, we've got to be really careful with this character,' which we will be, because we love her and she's going to have great adventures," Kaling said.Kaling is not the first star to address criticism surrounding casting decisions that reimagine characters previously depicted as white as another race. Singer and "Grown-ish" actress Halle Bailey, who faced backlash after being cast as Ariel in an upcoming live-action remake of Disney's "The Little Mermaid," <a href="https://www.insider.com/halle-bailey-responds-to-little-mermaid-backlash-2019-8">said in 2019 that she ignores the "negativity" from people who criticized the casting decision.</a>Freeform, which is owned by Disney, shared a statement at the time on Instagram and Twitter, defending Bailey's role as Ariel."Yes, the original author of 'The Little Mermaid' was Danish. Ariel... is a mermaid," Freeform <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeformTV/status/1147647797732106240?s=20">wrote in a post shared in 2019</a>. "Danish mermaids can be black because Danish people can be black."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In 2014, Nickelodeon's "The Legend of Korra" gave its two heroines, Korra and Asami, a romantic resolution. Both creators of the series later confirmed that the characters were bisexual. </li><li>When the series' groundbreaking queer finale aired in 2014, it deeply resonated with me, a closeted teen who had never seen any bisexual characters on television before.</li><li>"Korra" served a crucial role in my queer coming of age, and it also helped set the tone for an increase in LGBTQ cartoon characters in the latter half of the 2010s.</li><li>As of August 14, "The Legend of Korra" is available on Netflix in its entirety.</li></ul>On December 19, 2014, "The Legend of Korra" made history. As I like to joke, it also made me bisexual.The final shot of the "Avatar: The Last Airbender" sequel showed the series' heroines, Korra and Asami, facing each other, holding hands as they gazed into each other's eyes. Even without a kiss, the sequence felt decidedly non-platonic, and seemed to clearly parallel <a href="https://youtu.be/6LI8_cN_FK0?t=73">"Avatar's" romantic conclusion</a>. Days later, the series' creators <a href="https://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace">confirmed that "Korrasami," as fans dubbed the relationship, was canon</a>, and that both characters were bisexual. As a fan, I was thrilled to see my two favorite characters end up with each other — a possibility I hadn't even dared to entertain given the dearth of LGBTQ characters in <keyword id="19966" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="cartoons">cartoons</keyword> at that point. I was a 17-year-old queer woman who had barely come to terms with her sexuality, and "Korra's" finale struck me deep to my core."[The] Legend of Korra has ruined me," I <a href="https://twitter.com/haasch_palmer/status/545825349666611201?s=20">tweeted</a> on the night of the finale. Now, as the series arrives on Netflix on Friday, it's worth remembering just how groundbreaking the moment was. "Korra" was one of the earliest dominos to fall in a wave of queer characters making their way into cartoons like "Steven Universe" and "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power." It had a major impact on me as a closeted teen, and in many ways, my own queer coming of age paralled the significant increase in LGBTQ representation in cartoons across the latter half of the 2010s.<h2>As a teenager, I had a hard time wrapping my head around bisexuality — "Korra" helped change that</h2><div type="image" title="korrasami hug" height="1595" width="2127" msid="77552836" hostid="261"></div>If you watch "The Legend of Korra" now, with knowledge of its finale, you'd be hard-pressed to miss Korra and Asami's love story, even if you didn't notice the signs the first time around. That kind of obliviousness is familiar to me. While it was easy to write off any instance of queer sentiment at the time, my crushes on female classmates or habit of searching out "am I gay?" quizzes online made things pretty obvious. My attraction to multiple genders wasn't something I knew how to grapple with. I knew precious few bisexual people in real life, and much of what I had heard about bisexuality suggested that it was little more than a pit stop before coming out as gay (<a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/vbepea/the-real-life-impact-of-calling-bisexuality-a-phase">a harmful and false stereotype</a>). As a result, I felt like my attraction to different genders was contradictory, rather than complementary, and that being bisexual meant that I'd be faced with scrutiny at every turn. Suspicious of my own feelings, I didn't think I'd be able to weather the pressure. "Korra" was the first piece of media to change that for me by virtue of simple validation. Up until that point, I had never seen a bisexual character on television before, and <a href="https://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/105916338157/korrasami-is-canon-you-can-celebrate-it-embrace">showrunner Bryan Konietzko's note after the finale</a> — "Despite what you might have heard, bisexual people are real!" — struck a chord with me. <div type="image" title="korra and asami laughing" height="1607" width="2143" msid="77552845" hostid="261"></div>Crucial to my connection was the fact that the two women had fallen in love after each had her own relationship with Mako, the series' initial leading man. While Korra and Asami didn't get the on-screen kiss that each woman got with Mako earlier in the series, it still felt like the series weighed all of these partnerships equally."Korra" was far from the end all be all when it came to fully embracing my bisexual identity, but it planted an essential seed in my head. If two characters that I loved so dearly could fall in love even after meaningful relationships with men, maybe my attraction to men, women, and nonbinary people wasn't wholly incompatible at all.<h2>Both cartoon representation and I made big progress in the years after the "Korra" finale, but I still had some anxieties about how people perceived me</h2>It took a full year of college — and another full rewatch of "Korra" alongside my roommate, to boot — for me to come to terms with the fact that I wasn't straight. My coming out happened in staggered waves over the course of the following year, as I came out to friends with <a href="https://twitter.com/haasch_palmer/status/1120159395952910337?s=20">embarrassing PowerPoints</a> and my family with <a href="https://twitter.com/haasch_palmer/status/1120129204597796865?s=20">an even more embarrassing cake</a>. It felt euphoric.It also mirrored a larger transformation. Shows like "Steven Universe," which premiered in 2013, pushed major advancements in LGBTQ representation through earnest, empathetic storytelling. It centered characters like Garnet, the literal embodiment of the love between Ruby and Sapphire — two female-coded characters who <a href="https://www.them.us/story/steven-universe-is-the-queerest-cartoon-on-television">get married in one of the series' most notable episodes</a> — and Stevonnie, who is <a href="https://twitter.com/interACT_adv/status/1143558877767540736?s=20">both nonbinary and intersex</a>. Other shows, like <a href="https://www.them.us/story/bubbline-is-canon-adventure-time">Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time,"</a> made it clear that members of its main cast were queer. While finally coming out to those close to me was the biggest step, I was still terrified that people wouldn't see me as queer enough. Outwardly, I enthusiastically embraced my queer identity, trying to fulfill every possible stereotype I was aware of by chopping most of my hair off, keeping my nails short, wearing more flannel, and<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-hayley-kiyoko-became-lesbian-jesus-695667/"> talking a lot about how much I loved Hayley Kiyoko. </a>As I threw myself into LGBTQ media advocacy, <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/legend-korra-turf-wars-and-importance-all-ages-lgbtq-inclusive-programming">"The Legend of Korra" was my rallying cry</a> as I continuously preached, and joked, about the impact that it had on me.<h2>Queer representation in cartoons continued to improve as I became more assured in my own identity</h2>After being very publicly out for two years, I finally internalized the messages that I was preaching. Graduating college, I had a clearer grasp on who I was. My bisexuality started to feel like just another rote facet of my identity: one that I cherished, but not one that I felt like I needed to constantly defend to myself or others. At 22, I started to grow out my hair. Part of this was because I was floating from internship to contract job to freelance assignments in New York, and didn't want to spend the money to keep it short. But it also felt less intrinsically tied to my identity as a queer woman. It was a marker of how my own relationship to my queer identity had shifted — I was no longer craving the same kinds of external validation that I had as a teen.In 2020, it's clear that queer characters — particularly those whose queerness is integral to the story at hand — are starting to become more common in cartoons, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-03-25/steven-universe-rebecca-sugar-lgbtq-legacy">largely due to the efforts of showrunners</a> and <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/she-ra-reboot-netflix-queer-creator-interview-1013623/">storytellers committed to telling their stories on screen</a>. Dreamworks and Netflix's "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power," which concluded in May, told a sweeping love story between two women that was so interwoven with the fabric of the show itself that, <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/exclusive-she-ra-creator-noelle-stevenson-talks-glaad-about-final-season-queer-representation">as showrunner Noelle Stevenson told GLAAD</a>, there was no other way for the show to end. <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-owl-house-grom-lgbtq-amity-luz-lumity-representation-2020-8">Disney Channel's "The Owl House"</a> recently revealed that Amity, one of the show's main characters, was planning on on asking its protagonist, Luz, to the show's equivalent of prom. Creator Dana Terrace<a href="https://twitter.com/DanaTerrace/status/1292321440696422400?s=20"> tweeted after the episode</a>, "I'm bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit!"It's nothing short of thrilling to watch characters like "She-Ra's" Catra and Adora or "Steven Universe's" Ruby and Sapphire get their due diligence on screen and know that another young, queer person's "Legend of Korra" moment is happening in real time. While progress is fluid, and the work is never completely done, the leaps that have been made since 2014 are astounding: "Korra's" finale wouldn't be nearly as groundbreaking today as it was back then, and that's a good thing.<div type="image" title="korra and asami korra finale" height="1588" width="2117" msid="77552850" hostid="261"></div>Now 23, I'm far from the defensive woman I was at age 20, and the scared teen I was at 17. To this day, though, "The Legend of Korra" is still the most important queer story for me. It came at a time when I needed it most, with two characters who I already felt a kind of kinship with.To date, I still regularly crack tongue-in-cheek jokes that "Korra" made me bisexual, and I don't think the contact high of watching its finale for the first time will ever truly fade. I'll be spending the weekend rewatching it. I can't pass up the chance to relive my own queer awakening."The Legend of Korra" is now available on Netflix. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/the-legend-of-korra-avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-sequel-2020-5">After watching 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' on Netflix, follow it up with must-watch sequel series 'The Legend of Korra'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-legend-of-korra-debate-2020-5">The return of 'Avatar' to Netflix reignited a debate about whether its sequel series 'The Legend of Korra' stands up to the cartoon classic</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/the-shadow-of-kyoshi-book-review-avatar-f-c-yee-2020-8">The latest book in the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' universe gives us one of its most compelling relationships</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/avatar-netflix-watch-best-cartoon-tv-show-impact-last-airbender-2020-5">'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is on Netflix now, and it still stands up as on eof the best animated TV series ever</a></li></ul>

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