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名詞

RCTA (countable and uncountable, plural RCTAs)

1. (automotive) Initialism of rear cross traffic alert.
2. (uncountable, Internet slang, often attributive) Initialism of race change to another: the act of transitioning into a different race from the one one was born into.
   • 2022 October 8, @hoshisangels, Twitter‎ (post), archived from the original on 25 May 2026:

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

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

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

     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 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 June 2025:

     […] 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.

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

     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

   1. (countable, Internet slang) A 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.

      • 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 July 2025:

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

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