Race Change to Another (RCTA)

Race Change to Another, abbreviated as RCTAand sometimes misspelled RTCA, is aslangterm referencing people who were born as one race but now identify as another race. The term was popularized on Tik Tokin late 2022 as users posted videos claiming they're RCTA and describing their race change. The most common RCTA videos document people changing to Korean and Japanese. While some of the videos appear to be genuine, many others aretrollsandbait, leading to debate over the legitimacy of the RCTA community. The rise in RCTA videos in late 2022 resulted in videos criticizing the participants as racist. As RCTA spread, another term, ECTA (Ethnicity Change to Another) also spread alongside it, referencing a change in ethnicity (for example, Japanese to Korean).