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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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Shodo Is a Black Fashion Model

Lo mahala released a video where she described being assaulted by a man in a ride chair. Her creator's dreaming up a sexual assault for her to go through just feels kind of gross. Or take the black fashion model shodo graham. She has a deep, dark complexion, and her instagram posts are always hash taggd with things like hash tag melon and hash tag blackerel magic. And that's probably because she's not real. We humans did not just decide to try on our blackness. But the people who make these digital avatars did get to create them in this way without necessarily having to understand with, or grapple with, or even really engage with

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