The docuseries’ director, Prentice Penny, explains the throughlines between a platform, its Black users, and the way that confluence forever changed politics and culture.
After Penny’s job as an executive producer on Insecure, Issa Rae’s beloved HBO show, came to an end in 2021, he began looking for another project to sink his teeth into. That’s when he came upon Wired writer Jason Parham’s epic reconstruction of the history of Black users’ hold on the platform.
What was the positive takeaway from this? What was the way Black Twitter was stepping into its strength post-Trayvon with Black Lives Matter? Ferguson was citizen journalism, and us deciding what the narratives were going to be for the news, not the news dictating the narrative back to us. As long as we knew we were steering the boat to that point, then let’s make sure we’re going there. If things get in the story that are uncomfortable, that’s cool, but they can’t start to dictate the story.
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