Why are guys calling me lightbrite?

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I just kept getting hit on by guys for no reason. 6 guys tried to flirt with me or ask for my number. Today, guys I don't even know keep calling me lightbrite? Whenever I ask them about it they say that's what their friends told them to call me. I think they're calling me that cause I'm light skinned, but where did all this come from?

[Zendrya]

I dunno but lightbrites are toys for like older kids. It was the thing that you could put a black stencil on and it had dots on it with the letter of a colour. You would stick the correct colour lightbulb into the dots and then you turned on "aisle" and it would turn the light bulbs on and it would make a picture.

[Littlett25]

Lite-Brite
A light-skinned black person. Derived from the children's toy using colorful pegs to create images on a black board of holes.
-Urban Dictionary

[Asker]

I'm aware of what the toy is. I'm just confused about why people keep calling me that. I don't even know these people. Usually I'm in the background and nobody knows me, but today everyone kept calling me that.

[Littlett25]

Well are you a light-skinned black person? Some popular guy probably called you it & now everyone thinks it's the cool thing to do.

[HexagonalZebra]

If they're calling you lightbrite because of your light skin then they clearly don't know what lightbrite is lol. Anyway they just sound like teen boys being teen boys, very immature and stupid lol.

[Asker]

I'm pretty sure it's that toy with the pegs that light up, right? But it's weird. I'm a loner and people usually ignore me, but now suddenly everyone acknowledges me and calls me lightbrite.

[HexagonalZebra]

Lightbrite is a bunch of colors, not just white. Anyway like i said, just dumb immature boys being dumb immature boys, aka teenagers.

[Asker]

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Theyre probably like a message cuz they said their friend said to call u tht so the guy who told his friend to call u lightbrite he might be tryong to get ur attent

[Old_School]

Do you have a light skin complexion?

[Asker]

Yea. But no one has ever called me that before.

[Old_School]

That's it

[Asker]

But it's weird, cause I don't even know these people.

[Old_School]

Urban slang is urban slang. While they don't know you, they're using it right. It could be worse they could have called you sweet cheeks.

[Shyoutgoing]

Just ignore them, they sound like complete idiots.

[Anonymous]

they got mad at you.

[Asker]

For what? I was just minding my own business.