{"id":14373,"date":"2024-05-08T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/that-open-tweet-is-the-canvas-behind-the-highs-lows-and-memes-of-black-twitter\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:37:53","slug":"that-open-tweet-is-the-canvas-behind-the-highs-lows-and-memes-of-black-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/that-open-tweet-is-the-canvas-behind-the-highs-lows-and-memes-of-black-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That open tweet is the canvas\u2019: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community<\/p>\n

How to explain Black Twitter? It\u2019s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag per se. Yet when cops kill<\/a>, Kendrick Lamar drops<\/a> or Harlem shakes<\/a>, we know Black Twitter when we see it.<\/p>\n

In the almost 20 years that Twitter (or X now, if we must) has been a thing, Black Twitter has been the mystical life force that has kept it real, riveting and rich. But where does one even start, much less catalog a seemingly endless stream of killer punchlines? \u201cI remember when the Alabama brawl <\/a>stuff came out and there were a lot of jokes about Terrance Howard and the way he says mayne<\/em> <\/strong>in Hustle and Flow,\u201d says comedy guru Prentice Penny. \u201cAnd then somebody calls the [teen who dived off a riverboat to join the fight] Aquamayne<\/a>. \u201cJust using the kid coming out of the water as a setup to call back to mayne<\/a> <\/strong>is hilarious. <\/strong>Like, I just wanna keep being this funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nA new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community
\nHow to explain Black Twitter? It\u2019s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag per se. Yet when cops kill, Kendrick Lamar drops or Harlem shakes, we know Black Twitter when we see it.
\nIn the almost 20 years that Twitter (or X now, if we must) has been a thing, Black Twitter has been the mystical life force that has kept it real, riveting and rich. But where does one even start, much less catalog a seemingly endless stream of killer punchlines? \u201cI remember when the Alabama brawl stuff came out and there were a lot of jokes about Terrance Howard and the way he says mayne in Hustle and Flow,\u201d says comedy guru Prentice Penny. \u201cAnd then somebody calls the [teen who dived off a riverboat to join the fight] Aquamayne. \u201cJust using the kid coming out of the water as a setup to call back to mayne is hilarious. Like, I just wanna keep being this funny.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It\u2019s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag …<\/p>\n

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