No one has written a story, it’s just a thing they all started doing in the past yr so that people know they didn’t say the N word. If they’re doing 🤫 when it plays it makes it clear they aren’t saying it and people can’t zoom in on their mouth and try to frame it as if they did https://t.co/DFEzRh63XZ
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 6, 2020
More recently there’s a whole thing of tea/hate accts catching ppl “almost” saying it. They’ll slow down and zoom in on a creator’s mouth right before, and any tongue or lip movement can be seen by kids online as evidence that they totally “wanted to say it” or “almost said it”
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 6, 2020
My favorite variation is when they choose to disappear completely when the word comes up in a song! pic.twitter.com/2gehbD1NnR
— Aiyana N. Ishmael (@aiyanaish) November 6, 2020
Some people say that white influencers shouldn’t dance to songs that include the N word at all or they should stop dancing when it comes on. Most influencers choose songs based off what’s trending on the app and the 15 second snippet of the song is predetermined audio https://t.co/PhxzgALNRM
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 6, 2020