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Black teen girls are the curators of culture
a group of young, creative oddballs had started to use the site religiously to build cultural touchstones all on their own.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
It’s no secret: Black culture drives pop culture. It is “the original avant-garde,” as Felipe Luciano, a former TV producer, has said. But I sometimes wonder if appropriation is a prerequisite of Black culture going mainstream.
Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
Years before Instagram influencers and TikTok stars, these young creatives invented an entirely new model of fame, luring in audiences not yet trained to spend hours of their days absently flipping through the internet.