Came off of an organizational full-country meet a couple days ago and… Boy if I’m not charged for the summer; but it’s not that I’m thinkin about right about now. Nah what I’m thinking about is smth either Jawn Louis or Foreign Man in a Foreign Land was talm bout a couple weeks ago if not a bit longer; about how it’s hella non-Black folk making youtube money off of Black drama, off of Black lives, off of Black death (I’m pretty sure that was a Trap Lore Ross callout, but I keep seeing it everywhere now), and it intersects with the fact that I still turn up at the celebrity gossip trough and the sources of which.
I’ve been trying to keep up at least a minor understanding of what the current chisme is just to have somewhere to level with other folk in community who might not be as up on the kind of radical shit we consume, digest, spread-- but here’s my issue. My issue is that for instance, the Diddy drama going down-- if it’s not an AI generated channel, it’s one of those Black dudes who can only ever seem to refer to women as "fe-males", who WILL not check their comment sections for homo/transphobia and misogynoir, who has swapped “pause/no homo” for “no diddy” like the Black gay male community claims that mf. And beyond them, it’s white folk tryna pass as Latino. Like… Is there any way to keep up with the chisme that isn’t swimming in those troughs? Actual claimable community talkin this kind of stuff?
Honestly I’m not really sure. Or I am, but it feel like the youtubers that do aren’t amplifies to the same level of the people you are describing. Just off the top of my head FD Signifier is one of the few youtubers that will do some of the chisme/celebrity talk while keeping things within a leftist perspective, especially on his second channel B sides. He’s also doing a good job of trying to amplify other voices within the POC youtube community, but it’s such an uphill battle.
I love Fiq, but Ion’t think he’s gonna touch this with a fifteen foot pole other than to stare down the camera and ruefully chuckle like ‘how y’all ain’t knew about this?’ Like… I don’t mean that as a john on him; lemme clarify, but I think he’d make that more a light work piece where he more or less presents it as "yeah, people have been talkin about sus shit regarding diddy since the early nineties but never this deep’. And because he’s got some oldhead in him, I’d suspect there’ll be a bit more focus on old rappers around Diddy, more than the current-day chisme.
Came off of an organizational full-country meet a couple days ago and… Boy if I’m not charged for the summer; but it’s not that I’m thinkin about right about now. Nah what I’m thinking about is smth either Jawn Louis or Foreign Man in a Foreign Land was talm bout a couple weeks ago if not a bit longer; about how it’s hella non-Black folk making youtube money off of Black drama, off of Black lives, off of Black death (I’m pretty sure that was a Trap Lore Ross callout, but I keep seeing it everywhere now), and it intersects with the fact that I still turn up at the celebrity gossip trough and the sources of which.
I’ve been trying to keep up at least a minor understanding of what the current chisme is just to have somewhere to level with other folk in community who might not be as up on the kind of radical shit we consume, digest, spread-- but here’s my issue. My issue is that for instance, the Diddy drama going down-- if it’s not an AI generated channel, it’s one of those Black dudes who can only ever seem to refer to women as "fe-males", who WILL not check their comment sections for homo/transphobia and misogynoir, who has swapped “pause/no homo” for “no diddy” like the Black gay male community claims that mf. And beyond them, it’s white folk tryna pass as Latino. Like… Is there any way to keep up with the chisme that isn’t swimming in those troughs? Actual claimable community talkin this kind of stuff?
Honestly I’m not really sure. Or I am, but it feel like the youtubers that do aren’t amplifies to the same level of the people you are describing. Just off the top of my head FD Signifier is one of the few youtubers that will do some of the chisme/celebrity talk while keeping things within a leftist perspective, especially on his second channel B sides. He’s also doing a good job of trying to amplify other voices within the POC youtube community, but it’s such an uphill battle.
I love Fiq, but Ion’t think he’s gonna touch this with a fifteen foot pole other than to stare down the camera and ruefully chuckle like ‘how y’all ain’t knew about this?’ Like… I don’t mean that as a john on him; lemme clarify, but I think he’d make that more a light work piece where he more or less presents it as "yeah, people have been talkin about sus shit regarding diddy since the early nineties but never this deep’. And because he’s got some oldhead in him, I’d suspect there’ll be a bit more focus on old rappers around Diddy, more than the current-day chisme.