ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates up-and-coming Asian American YouTubers as a way of expanding our understanding of how digital Asian America is progressing, particularly focusing on the shape of dialogues that are being fostered as a result of the increased potential for new voices to participate. It illuminates the complexities of the digital arena as a space for recording and transforming Asian American histories. The genealogy of an Asian American YouTube channel from "the next generation" of Asian American YouTubers reveals the challenges and discontinuities that must be negotiated in understanding the digital archive. Moreover, the genealogy reveals the way that the temporality of SuperBadFilm's digital history can be reversed—memes and memetic videos can be seen to more productively issue a call to the future for future participation, and for unique voices to continue to challenge the ideologies that had previously rendered their identities invisible.
