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Digital rapper FN Meka and the new era of digital Blackface

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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Do You Need to Be a Human to Be an Influencer?

Last week, capital records announced that they signed a record deal with a digital wrapper called f in mecca. He became the first ever digital artist to sign with a major recording label. The deal also came with accusations of digital blackface and cultural appropriation. So just 11 short days later, theLabel said it was cutting ties with the wrapper because pretty much everybody's reaction was like, weight no, this is bad. That just did not sit right with people because he's not black. I mean, he's not anything. He's not a human at all. While he may not be real, he does still have a very real, big digital footprint,. with ten point three million followers

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