What Do We Lose if We Lose Black Twitter?

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jason Parham, senior writer at WIRED, walks Jon through the evolution and legacy of Black Twitter. Parham’s three-part series, “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” follows the online community from its early days of late night takes, through an era of platform dominance, and into an uncertain future. He joins Offline to discuss how Black Twitter has shaped the last ten years of discourse and activism, how the internet complicates cultural appropriation, and what will happen if Twitter fades away.

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0:30.3	I'm curious how you think about the appropriation of black culture on the internet,
0:34.3	which was mentioned by a lot of the people you interviewed since black Twitter.
0:37.9	Again, it has been the source of a lot of that appropriation.
0:40.6	Do you see this as a symptom of appropriation of black culture in America at large?
0:47.0	Or do you think there's something unique about black Twitter that has made appropriation easier or more common?
0:54.1	We would need a whole other podcast just for this.
0:58.2	I'm John Favreau, welcome to Othlin.
1:03.6	Hey everyone, my guest today is Jason Parme, senior writer at Wired.
1:10.9	We've spent a ton of time on this show talking about Twitter, the good, but mostly the bad
1:14.9	and the ugly.
1:15.9	I talk about Twitter a lot because I'm addicted, but also because I think it has an
1:19.7	outsized impact on our media, politics, and culture.
1:23.6	And there's arguably no part of Twitter that's had a bigger impact than black Twitter, about
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