Black Twitter: A People's History

Loved this summary of the way accountability online (and the global ripples of movements in the hashtag era) are honed in the last decade or so. Black Twitter, Instagram lives, and Tiktok have changed so much so fast, I think it benefits us to take a moment and focus on the forest AND the trees.

As a mayo-sapian I have been on the outskirts of this whole phenomenon but learning every day how to show up as someone who wants to keep moving forward, and feel like the alchemy of processing grief and humor and feeling connected have been such a significant part of history and culture in my lifetime. Also no surprise that twitter and tiktok are being systemically squashed because of how important these community-building tools have become! Yet the end was hopeful and reassuring! The guests/interviews were top notch. I'm excited to do more digging after watching it.

I enjoyed this so much I wish they made it a longer series. To relive the funny moments of Twitter on a tv show was amazing. And the arc of the story was so well put together. I don't know how I would be able to create a piece like this and Prentice Penny, as he does, did an amazing job. I made an IMDb account just so I could say this.

This is an anthology we ALL needed. The Onyx Collective I learned is an enterprise catered towards maintaining representation in television for all people of color. And I learned about the new app called Spill which I'm assuming is supposed to be an alternative to X in protest of Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter.