During a story on “digital blackface,” CNN’s credibility was severely damaged amid charges that it was the “Clown News Network.” Even the most forgiving viewers were left perplexed by the dubious piece and pondering whether CNN had really “lost it.”
“If you’re White and you’ve posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing ‘digital blackface’,” CNN claimed.
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“Sorry white people, CNN says u can’t post GIFs of black people anymore,” the Hodgetwins laughed as they stated.
According to CNN’s stupid report by Lauren Michele Jackson, digital blackface may be identified when it “includes displays of emotion stereotyped as excessive: so happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud… our dial is on 10 all the time — rarely are black characters afforded subtle traits or feelings.”
“We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance, your diva, your shade, your ‘yaas’ moments,” Jackson writes. “The weight of reaction GIFing, period, rests on our shoulders.”
“But while these examples are particularly noteworthy for their malicious intent, digital blackface has softer counterparts, just like offline blackface,” she claimed.
“Digital blackface does not describe intent, but an act — the act of inhabiting a black persona,” she added. “Employing digital technology to co-opt a perceived cache or black cool, too, involves playacting blackness in a minstrel-like tradition.”
“No matter how brief the performance or playful the intent, summoning black images to play types means pirouetting on over 150 years of American blackface tradition,” she argued.
“jesus fu**ing chri*t shut the f**k up,” Shibetoshi Nakamoto, a supporter of Musk, said.
“100,” Musk agreed.
That ratioed CNN. BADLY.
A surprise development saw CNN become the most recent target of trolling. It was an extraordinary effort of inventiveness and comedy on the part of Twitter users to saturate CNN’s comment box with an abundance of animated gif emojis representing well-known Black personalities. The surprising prank gained attention from pleased passersby and perplexed news anchors alike, going viral.
We can all agree on one thing despite the instability in the world: funny gifs. Through these digital gems, we join together to share a laugh and spread joy despite our differences. When it comes to the impact of laughing, “digital segregation” has no place. Let’s celebrate our differences and keep finding humor in everyday life.
