Her attention was caught by “some anonymous user claiming to be a black woman in NYC posting some extremely anti-black sentiments and fighting with some of the other posters, for days”. Shafiqah Hudson, a Philadelphia-based writer and academic, first noticed the phenomenon back in the mid-00s in a comment thread on an article about police brutality.
Photograph: YouTube/Killa Kev ProductionsĪctually, black women have been calling out certain online behaviours as digital-age blackface for some time now. Are gifs being used to disseminate racist stereotypes in cyberspace? Was the “black marching band dances to Fleetwood Mac” meme an example of “digital blackface”, as suggested in a recent high-traffic Twitter thread? Is there something problematic about white people using brown-skinned emojis? And what about the Black Lives Matter Facebook fundraising page that was revealed to be run by two unaffiliated white men in Australia? Was this the latest iteration of digital blackface in action? Or just a run-of-the-mill money-making scam?Īlcorn State University Marching Band. Racist caricature and impersonation are widely accepted tools of white supremacy, but it’s when minstrelsy’s 19th-century traditional tools of boot polish and a wig are replaced with 21st-century equivalents that the confusion begins. The online popularity of images of black people – particularly women and femme gay men – is a fact of internet life and, in recent months, an increasingly controversial one. Because, as Beyoncé’s “Beychella” performance proved, you can never have too many gifs of a sassy, confident Beyoncé, right?
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Imgur is no longer an accepting community, but a haven for rude and insensitive people looking to tear down whatever it is you believe in.A mid the fanfare surrounding the release of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s surprise joint album and their video for APES**T, one group were paying particularly close attention: the professional gif creators employed by companies such as GIPHY, Tenor and Imgur.
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If you join imgur I suggest staying off the front page as it is full of anger, hatred and vitriol, if you disagree with someone they will make sure others attack you for what you believe in. These days imgur is strictly about politics and making sure you’re on their side and you agree with their policies more so than about connecting people and sharing content. The community has essentially destroyed what imgur once was. Eventually though, it strayed away from being an exciting, open and accepting community to one of a single purpose, “you’re either with us or against us, you either agree with us, or we’re going to erase you from the platform.” I’m not talking about the developers and creators, I’m talking about the community.
The point based system was addicting and trying to share new and funny things to connect with the community was exciting. Imgur was in its prime, constant newly shared content, memes, etc. I joined imgur in 2014 after a year or so of lurking. Let’s just start off by saying it’s no longer what it used to be. Cause you have to be very arrogant or completely disturbed to think that no one should disagree with you on everything you think or believe. The whole traffic in the app feels like bots who trying to persuade the political or religious belief and the feeling i get it’s all fake and computer generated posts in the front page and all the comments upvotes are given by bots if you agree with the message the post wants to promote and downvote if try to discuss or start to question it and make it look like you are against it. And this what is been lacking and been replaced by the boring political stuff. What people wants sometimes is see fun memes, Gifs, pictures or videos. you guys need to understand people watch social media to try scape the daily routine and the problems this world has, just to come here and get more constipated with more political stuff, wars and other problems around the world.
And I get it but it’s nothing but thoughts and prayers intentions. This all started with the trump and i get it the guy is an ahole and now it’s the russian vs ukraine war propaganda post. This social media platform was my favorite by far but the only post I see lately are political post that I don’t give a crap about it.