I'm researching the "Glass Closet" as a concept and looking for content related to it so I watched a tiktok where someone claimed that it was invented by Riley Snorton and is only applicable to the black community as it refers to their hyper visibility, but Snorton didn't publish his book Nobody's Supposed To Know which discusses the Glass Closet as it applies to the black community until 2014 and the term appears at least as early as Eve Sedgewick's Epistemology of the Closet, published in 1990, which Snorton references.
This person was responding to another tiktoker who used the correct definition of the glass closet, shaming them for not doing their research and not knowing that the term only applies to the black community and should never be used for white people. Shaming them for not knowing something objectively false which can be debunked with five minutes of googling. Several people had commented thanking this person for educating them.
Queer people, what are we doing? What is happening on queer tiktok? Every time I go there I come across something like this.