Why Black Twitter Isn’t Fleeing Elon Musk’s X
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
From ‘Scandal’ to social justice, Black Twitter has dominated digital discourse, a phenomenon Prentice Penny explores in his new Hulu docuseries, “Black Twitter: A People's History,” based on Jason Parham's 2021 feature for Wired. Penny and Parham, along with J Wortham of the New York Times Magazine, join host Brian Stelter to discuss Black Twitter's cultural impact, and its future.
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| 0:34.0 | Prentiss, when I say Black Twitter, what do you think of? |
| 0:42.0 | What do you picture?? What do you picture? |
| 0:43.0 | It's funny you say that I was thinking about this the other day. The one thing I was trying to tell |
| 0:46.6 | somebody remind me of those two old men Muppets that sit at the top of the balcony |
| 0:51.0 | and have lots of opinions about what's happening below. |
| 0:54.5 | That's what I think on like 20 like funny, smart, nasty. |
| 0:58.4 | The new Statler and Waldorf? |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:01.3 | It's not what their names are. |
| 1:02.0 | I never knew what their names were, but that's how I see them. |
| 1:05.0 | That's Prentiss Penny, director of a new docuaries on Hulu titled Black Twitter, a People's History. |
| 1:12.0 | And I'm Brian Stelter. black Twitter, a people's history. |
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