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Whiteness is a considered a default for everything, for existence, for online existence, for how we think about the world existing.

Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Nadeera Gough and you're listening to ICOMI.

In case you missed it, site's podcast about internet culture.

Welcome back Nadeera.

I am always thrilled to have you here especially after an extremely thirsty episode on Wednesday.

It was a highlight of my week.

It was the highlight of my entire existence. I lived with her.

Oh wow, I would just like to thank the Academy.

You should be so lucky.

Well I am lucky because you're here and you're also here to talk about something that I think we're both really excited to talk about.

Black spaces online.

I feel like a running theme of this show is that a lot of the trends and topics and vernacular that we're discussing start in black communities and then make their way over to the general populace.

But we rarely talk about primarily black spaces and so that's what we're going to talk about today.

And so to get us started, I want to ask, what is the first space you remember participating online that was mostly black?

I think the answer is black Twitter and I feel like that might be a little late than what most people would expect.

But I feel like I never sought black community online because my sense of it in real life was so strong.

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