I doubt they mean “Y’all” as a gender-neutral term or that they’re from the American south. They’re trying to appropriate AAVE to make themselves sound like they’re “down with the struggle.” Your brain subconsciously knows this when you see someone doing it. Digital blackface is extremely common among white liberals.
Y’all is often associated with more poor people in common American culture (at least this is how it is perceived in the southern US) so their idea might have been to “sound more working class”
I doubt they mean “Y’all” as a gender-neutral term or that they’re from the American south. They’re trying to appropriate AAVE to make themselves sound like they’re “down with the struggle.” Your brain subconsciously knows this when you see someone doing it. Digital blackface is extremely common among white liberals.
Y’all is often associated with more poor people in common American culture (at least this is how it is perceived in the southern US) so their idea might have been to “sound more working class”