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Welcome to view my third post. Today’s post is to give an
introduction and some examples of “Black Twitter.”
What’s “Black Twitter?”
Is it a kind of Twitter post filled with hating messages?
Well, not that simple. According to Wikipedia,
Black Twitter is a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States.[2]
So, it’s actually an interesting racial phenomenon floated
on “Twitter.” Let’s take a look on some examples below. (Maybe a comparison
with “White Twitter” is going to be fine.)
As we can see, Black Twitter(right) is more vulgar
than White Twitter is, and there’s usually wrong grammar with them.
Not only like that…
Black Twitter is
not only having fun; it’s a kind of power surrounding in the social media. It will
never lose any chance to carry out its justice once the society needs it.
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
After Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed resident Michael Brown, a high school student in Houston, Texas, named Tyler Atkins tweeted an informal photo of himself in casual clothes including a T-shirt and a bandana, and a second photo of himself posing with his prized saxophone. Atkins claimed that if the police shot him down, media would broadcast the photo of him wearing a T-shirt and a bandana and not the photo of him posing with his saxophone. #IfTheyGunnedMeDown spread virally in the course of worldwide social media attention paid to the Ferguson crisis. The hashtag was posted several hundred times in the weeks following Atkins' initial use of it.[5]
African-blooded people
started to post different photos of themselves and asked ironically “If they
gunned me down, which photo would they use?” I think, if people in the world
can notice this sad story by doing so, then how came this not being kind of
power?
Summary
You’ve seen some
just-for-fun Black Twitter posts. You’ve seen an influential hashtag movement along
with a sad story. So I want to summarize today’s post with a short sentence:
Internet memes are playful,
yet powerful.
Thanks for reading,
hope you like it!
It's quite interesting, actually. Thanks for introduction!
回覆刪除But will it sometimes trigger the public who don't appreciate this kind of humor?
Interesting question too! I think some conservative white people would dislike these posts, but even so, they probably wouldn't say it out because they are afraid to be considered "racists."
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