"We've been doing that to survive": "Black Twitter" filmmaker on Black culture repurposing spaces
SalonWhy did you first join Twitter? “You get to see people's kind of the way they think.” Penny continued, “And I think that becomes much more of an interesting person to want to meet than just seeing a picture and not knowing what's happening here.” “Black Twitter" is based on Jason Parham’s Wired article “A People’s History of Black Twitter." In the series, Penny chronicles Black Twitter's rise by talking to some of the biggest users on the platform, viral hashtags that launched careers like #BlackGirlMagic and #OscarsSoWhite, and the role Twitter played in making TV shows with Black female leads like "Scandal" and "Insecure" into cult classics. Twitter was like, "Meet these strangers," which I think Black culture is always having to do with, just get out of our comfort zone to meet people. And to kind of learn they didn't really know what's happening on Black Twitter or why is “Scandal” getting all these sort of huge numbers?
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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture
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A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
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