The List: Black Twitter Moments

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It's another episode of the DJ Blaze radio show podcast. We finally got a list episode, and. [00:01:44] Speaker B: It'S your boy, be easy, and this your girl, Amy. And just in case we're on camera, I just happen to wear the same shirt again. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. I ain't even thought about that. One of them. [00:01:58] Speaker B: It's a comic shirt. It is a comfortable shirt, though. I love this t shirt. I wear it a lot. So this ain't your first time seeing it? [00:02:04] Speaker C: Well, yeah, we wash our clothes over here. That's a meme, too. Like, what do y'all do with. Do y'all run back outfits? And somebody, it was like, damn. Do you run back outfits? Me? Yes, because I wash my clothes or something like that. So how have you been since the last two minutes? I saw you? [00:02:22] Speaker B: Just fine. Just lovely. [00:02:23] Speaker C: Lovely. [00:02:24] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:02:26] Speaker C: Yeah, so this episode, we. It was inspired by the black Twitter documentary that's on Hulu. [00:02:34] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:02:37] Speaker C: So it was like, what was your favorite black Twitter? Our Twitter moments. There's been so many that and watching our documentary let you know how black people should have been included in the beginning and inception and stuff. But we just not thought about when stuff comes and we turn it and. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Make it hotter, they can't monetize off of us. [00:02:58] Speaker C: Well, not even that. We just make everything hotter. Like, the way Twitter started out and the way that it is now is totally different. And it's because of black people, really. Social media in general. [00:03:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Anything black people get a part of as far as social media and stuff. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Cause in the documentary, they actually mentioned MySpace and how when we got on MySpace, we kinda took it over. [00:03:26] Speaker C: I did not realize that. [00:03:28] Speaker B: And then the white people was like, this shit is ghetto. We out Facebook. [00:03:33] Speaker C: Yup. [00:03:33] Speaker B: And, baby, we in there now. Isn't that bitch, like, fucking swim trucks? [00:03:37] Speaker C: Not a naughty on true social. I think he. I think they got rid of that, too, but. And then everybody started tweeting, you know, using it like us. But I see the memes and all of that. But, um. Yeah, so that's what we talking about today. And it's gonna be interesting, especially. And like you said in the other one, watching that documentary is like, you know, going down memory lane or whatever. So we do have a email from the homie Philly shout out to Philly. And Philly playing catch up, y'all. Cause I could tell by some of these emails they from older episodes, but I appreciate you listening. Absolutely. Cause I be forgetting what I be saying. He said, yo, this is about our sports movies. He said, yo, he said, yo, be easy. Yo, Amy, once again, late. Past me, please. Yeah, you late, but it's cool, bro. He said, still catching up. This was a tough list to compile. I feel like Amy, so many good sports movies. To narrow it down to five, however, I'll try. Said be easy. Breaking out my favorite sound bite took me out. Oh, girl, shut the fuck up. Hold up. I ain't used that in a while. Damn, I done went the wrong way. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Do I got the BJ? [00:04:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I'll bust it out. Pause. His number five was any given Sunday, which was good. Number four was the program. I don't think I've seen all of that. That's the one way, I think he pull out the gun while he was running and shot the dude in the game. Number three was blue chips. That was starring Shaq. Yep. Shawni O'Neal's husband, Shawnee whatever her last name is, not her husband. Number two is major league. And he tied that where he got game. And then number one, of course, number one is rocky, you Philly ass nigga. His honorable mention was little giants. I love little giants. Cause little Giants was the uniforms. Look like the NFL uniforms. And little giants. I don't know why I like that so much. Number two was the sandlot. My mama loved that movie. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Mama did, too. [00:05:44] Speaker C: Cause, you know, it was back in the sixties, I think, when they was playing, it wasn't James Earl Jones, the neighborhood mean neighbor. [00:05:51] Speaker B: That wasn't really mean. [00:05:51] Speaker C: He wasn't mean. He just was blind and had a dog. Number three was Rudy. Number four was Sunset park. Number five was above the rim. It was a good list. Like y'all said. It is a lot of sports movies. You know, we said, good ass list episode. Can't wait to keep catching up on the episodes. Philly shout out to you, homie. Shout out to you, bull. So, like we said, it's our favorite Twitter, black Twitter moments. But you want to go first? [00:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I can kick it off. So my number five is going to be something that obviously a lot of people don't remember because I just hit you with it and you was like, what? So, in the beginning of Twitter, they were not prepared for how many people was going to jump on at one time and start using it. But I remember getting the fail whale. So if you opened Twitter and it was at capacity, you would get a picture of a whale. [00:06:54] Speaker C: Really? [00:06:55] Speaker B: Yeah. That said, google it right now. Google fail whale. Like, Twitter fail. Well. And when you see the picture, you're gonna remember and be like, oh, the fail well. And you would get a picture of this whale saying that Twitter was at capacity and that you would have to come back later and wait for people to get off. Log off. [00:07:15] Speaker C: Get off of, like, 2010 around that time or later on. Yeah, I went, see, I never saw this, but I remember people talking about it. I remember people talking about it, but I thought it was like they couldn't send something or something. [00:07:28] Speaker B: But okay, no, you could not do shit. This was what you would get when you opened Twitter. [00:07:31] Speaker C: That's what's up. [00:07:33] Speaker B: A picture of that whale saying, come back later. [00:07:35] Speaker C: Okay. You og Twitter mine. I keep mine light hearted for my number five. And mine was, I know you had this on your master list, but mine is a nigger navy. And I want to say the thing was, like, the US, I think the original tweet was, it's supposed to be bigger, bigger navy. And it was from, like, yahoo. News or something like that. And the first tweet that I saw that was talking about. It was talking about Rihanna. Cause her group was called the Navy. And it was like, they talking about Rihanna or whatever. And then it just went on and on. And you know how black Twitter go. And it's a whole bunch of funny ass tweets about, you know, the navy being laid and all kind of stuff like that. But. [00:08:30] Speaker B: And one of the things that they mentioned in the documentary was like, we got over the shock of them saying nigger. [00:08:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:08:39] Speaker B: And just went straight to jokes. Cause you would think black people would be like, nigga, what do you mean? [00:08:44] Speaker C: But that's. And see, that's the difference between, like, the Twitter people and other people. Like, if you on Twitter, especially as a black person, you tech savvy and all of that. You've been using the keyboard to be, in the end, next to each other. Right. So we know it happened. We know it happened. They tried to tweet fast, get it out, and, you know, it's cool, you know, a nigger navy. And that's. And then it went on from there. But it was funny. Hilarious. I'm glad. [00:09:08] Speaker B: Like you said, and it happened late at night. It came out at like ten or eleven at night. [00:09:12] Speaker C: It was. [00:09:12] Speaker B: So you had to catch it. Like, you had to be there or see the memes the next day. [00:09:17] Speaker C: Mm hmm. Yeah, that's a part of it, too. Like, it give you a special feeling. Like, you know, you can be a part of it a long time, but then to be there when it first happens and to being that initial swell of stuff, that's make it fun and more memorable. Yeah. So that was my number five. [00:09:37] Speaker B: My number four. And I hope it don't go into your list. Cause we kind of touched on it. Obama. Obama elections. Now, the first one, let's see. I joined Twitter in zero nine. We voted for Obama the first time in zero eight. Now I remember. Cause I was pregnant the first time I voted for him. So the second time he got elected. Now, there was people who was on Twitter already in zero eight. I wasn't one of them. So they got a memory of tweeting that in real time. However, I will say it was just a pride that came with it. Paired with jeezy giving us the black Twitter national anthem, my president is black. And it was just something about the pride that came with it when we voted for him the second time. The memes, there was this meme of these black women who was at the. Who we ran against the second time and lost and beat don't even fucking matter. They was there and they just had these scowls on their face. [00:10:51] Speaker C: All the white women. [00:10:52] Speaker B: Yeah, we were just. We were using that as memes. And it was just so much black pride that went into it. So that was a memorable moment for me. [00:11:01] Speaker C: The picture of Jesse Jackson crying. [00:11:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:11:05] Speaker C: Cause right before that, he had said some slick shit about Obama on a hot mic. [00:11:10] Speaker B: On a hot mic. Yes, yes. [00:11:12] Speaker C: Then you see him with the snot coming down here. Yeah, but you can't help but. Yeah, but no, that was the first. Well, no, Twitter was. [00:11:21] Speaker B: No, it was out. We just wasn't on it yet the first time. [00:11:25] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, we weren't on it yet, but, yeah, so, yeah, so I'm gonna take. Cause I had these two things as separate events. Cause they happened separately. And I distinctly remember different things, but I'm gonna combine them. Cause you mentioned this too in your master list. But I'm gonna just say black lives matter. And I specifically had separated Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin. Now, Trayvon happened before, and I remember that weekend because blaze shout out to slow talk. I forgot who else went, but they went down to Orlando that same weekend. So when he got back, I was like, yo, you heard about. No, matter of fact, when he got back, we didn't know about it yet. We didn't know about it until maybe a week or so later that what happened to Trayvon down there. But we knew about it because of Twitter. People on Twitter, black Twitter specifically was like, hashtag and mentioning what's his name? Al Sharpening. They was trying to get Al Sharpen's attention about it and they were doing it on Twitter. And like, if you were on Twitter at the time, you could see, you know, the amount of mentions and stuff like that and the amount of tweets about it, you know, elevating in that time period. But, like. [00:12:45] Speaker B: And one of the big things about it is the news wasn't picking this up. So Twitter was a way to get the news out because who knows? George Zimmerman probably would be a fucking senator by now, a state senator for the state of Florida by now if it wasn't for black Twitter. Because he was literally getting away scot free. And I mean, technically, he did. [00:13:08] Speaker C: He did. Yeah. [00:13:09] Speaker B: But he wouldn't have even initially been arrested if it wasn't for black Twitter. Cause this was days later, I wanna. [00:13:16] Speaker C: Say it was a couple weeks later. [00:13:18] Speaker B: Yeah, before he. They even picked him up. They was not even going to charge him until the pressure got put on them. [00:13:26] Speaker C: Um. And damn, I lost my thought. Oh, the documentary. Um, it was something in the documentary that stood out to me about this, uh, situation. Um, I lost my thought. But, uh, yeah, I just remember that moment distinctly. The Trayvon Martin and it happening on Twitter. And Mike Brown. I remember the Mike Brown happening. Like you said, you were connected with St. Louis Twitter. It was a couple people that I followed from St. Louis, too, but they were retweeting stuff that was going on. So when they started retweeting it, I remember the first one I saw was like, damn, bruh, still land on the ground or something. It was something like that. Like, he still on the ground. I thought, you know what I'm saying? They ain't got his body yet. So I went and went, you know, if you know how to do it, you can follow. You know, you can. You don't even gotta follow. You can go to somebody else's tweet and then it'll lead you into people that following them, and then you follow, you know, you read their tweets or whatever, and it was just like, they got this dude, you know, out in the streets, whatever, whatever. And that's how I found out about the Mike Brown, like you said, the St. Louis on Twitter stuff. [00:14:36] Speaker B: Yeah. So this guy named Travis had tweeted something, retweeted Jeanetta elzey. And that led me to start following her and still follow her to this day. She still be tweeting on multiple platforms? No, I probably see more home ig now. [00:14:54] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:14:55] Speaker B: But it moved me to send her a message that she probably would never read because she has so many followers. But I still. I just still felt like I needed to let her know she reads some of the stuff I sent her. Cause she has a beautiful little boy. So, like, when I sent her a message, like, oh, that's so cute, like, she'll see that stuff, so hopefully she'll read this, too. And I just had to let her know, like, looking back at the documentary and how it felt to be in that moment and how much she did for us, I'm sure I told her, I started off by saying, like, girl, you probably hear this shit all the time, but here's one more, just to let her know how much we just appreciated her being on the ground. And she made a post this weekend saying that the parts of the documentary that feature her, she had just got hit with rubber bullets. Like, before she tweeted that or something. [00:15:47] Speaker C: It was just like, was that the same one protest that D ray got big in? [00:15:55] Speaker B: Not big, but he did connect with those people through from that. Which one did he get big raised from Baltimore. [00:16:05] Speaker C: But he was. I wanna say he was out there, though. So he got. [00:16:07] Speaker B: He probably was out there, but. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Because Baltimore happened a couple years later. Yeah. [00:16:12] Speaker B: A couple of years later. [00:16:13] Speaker C: Yeah. So the Mike Brown, the Trayvon Martin. And then, like, by the time, like. And it sound bad, but by the time Sandra bland happened, like, people would get, like, you didn't have to get on Twitter to see the black violence type stuff, you know, the police violence against black people stuff. Because the news learned that, yo, we need to put this on the news. [00:16:40] Speaker B: And even if they did, the news was picking it up. They were still spinning it to make it look like that. We was just wiling out there and not really saying what the police was doing to incite. [00:16:51] Speaker C: And that was one of the things in the documentary, too. It was like. And I kind of remember this, like, you know, this is the shot that. That the news will use, but this is the mug shot I want you, you know, to use if something happened to me or whatever. Like, this is the mug shot. This is the shot that we use if I get killed by the police. And this is the picture they should. [00:17:11] Speaker B: Use if I die in. I think the hashtag is if I die in police custody. [00:17:15] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Which is crazy. And stuff like that is why, like, we talked about Vlad in the last episode, like, cultural stuff. Y'all just wouldn't get it. You can't talk about cultural stuff with us, you know? So that was my number. What? My number four. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:17:33] Speaker C: What's your number? No, you start. What's your number? Three. [00:17:36] Speaker B: My number three is actually. And we talked about this a little bit Monday, but Twitter after dark. [00:17:43] Speaker C: Mm. Nasty, freak ass nigga. You a 69 guy. [00:17:47] Speaker B: This resonated with me so much because I'm a freak. Fuck it. [00:17:53] Speaker C: 69 guy. Hey, hey, hey. [00:17:55] Speaker B: And the crazy thing about it is Twitter after dark still goes on to this day. It's just in the daytime. [00:18:00] Speaker C: Like, it's just Twitter now is you fuck around and you being a cesspool of. It was this one video, I don't know why he was bent over like Spider man and the lady was licking his behind and going to town with his. Yeah, it was wild. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Arrested trombone, she gave him. [00:18:24] Speaker C: Arrested trombone, yes. Then they switched scenes and she was, like, hugging him from behind, you know? Wow. You either seen 40 year old virgin or you a freaky ass nigga. You a 69. God, I'm sorry. These two songs are stuck in my head. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Explaining that somebody on Facebook was explaining how they gave somebody. No, it was fucking unscripted pitched and unscripted. She was explaining how she'd ate somebody ass and his legs was in the air and he was jacking off. And I was like, that sound like. I was like, that sound like a rusty trombone to me. [00:19:10] Speaker C: You seen Mina? New pictures. She posts a picture the other day. Oh, you follow her? Okay, I'm gonna show you the picture. She don't. She look, she all dolled up and shit for photo shoot or whatever. Anyway, so that was your number three. There's number three. My number three is now. See, I'm debating on, cuz. I don't want to. [00:19:40] Speaker B: I'm gonna make my number three have some honorable mentions. We gonna have to go ahead. [00:19:45] Speaker C: My number three is. I can't remember the hashtag. This happened in, like, 2015, 2016. I wanna say it was 4 July weekend, and we were t. It was a black hashtag about coming to the black cookout. And it was just funny, like, you know, do a little different scenarios. You know, you meeting your auntie's girlfriend or whatever. You know, your auntie that's been gay finally meet. And all of these were accompanied with pictures, you know what I'm saying? So I was like, damn, I want to join the fun. So you know what I'm saying? I had posted a picture of Brother Muzon from the wire, and he had the straight face or whatever, and I said, your muslim uncle coming to the cookout, and he's a bit miffed because there's only pork biff on the. On the grill. So I was like, you know, I said it, put my phone down. You know what I'm saying? Not thinking about it. [00:20:44] Speaker B: That shit took off, man. [00:20:46] Speaker C: My phone's just, like, hollering, what the fuck going on? And it was a tweet, and it just went. And I was like, damn, it did it so much till my phone cut off. Like, my phone was buzzing so much until it cut off. But that was a fun day. But those types, I remember that. Those type of days when it's like, hashtag this. You know what I'm saying? I hope you ain't. Is Oscar so white on yours? [00:21:10] Speaker B: It is in my long list. [00:21:13] Speaker C: Okay, but that ain't in your top five. So, like, days like that. Like Oscar so white, when it's just people having fun with a hashtag. And then the fun part about it is when other cultures don't get the joke, right. They don't get the joke. You know what I'm saying? And I like that. [00:21:31] Speaker B: You have to be witty. You have to be smart and witty to keep up with it, to understand it, to get it to participate. You have to be black, and you have to be smart and witty. [00:21:45] Speaker C: Yeah. And that's kind of like. Kind of like what used to separate Twitter and Facebook from each other. You didn't get those kind of things on Facebook. Now you'll get it on Facebook, but it'll be so many people that don't get the joke like that, and they corny it up. But now you can't do that on Twitter because a little bit before he sold it, but now that Elon got it, all the racists have come back to Twitter, and now they interject that racism in there, and it just messes up the fun for me. So. But, yeah, so that was my number. What? I said, that was my number three. [00:22:21] Speaker B: Okay, so I'm gonna switch up my number two. Because based on what you just said, I have to mention when Rachel Dolezal got outed. [00:22:31] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Because that was a time. Because she was still just, like, contending like, I'm black. [00:22:38] Speaker C: And they played a clip of them asking her, are you african american? And she took a long pause. [00:22:45] Speaker B: What that mean? [00:22:46] Speaker C: I don't understand the question. [00:22:47] Speaker B: Nigga, what? And it was just the memes that came from that, like, giving her, like, tests to see if she knew what was black. They like one I remember, and it's in the documentary as well. They put a picture of the nape of a black woman's neck and a picture of an actual kitchen and said, which is the kitchen? [00:23:10] Speaker C: Yeah, I remember that. [00:23:11] Speaker B: So just, like, little black stuff like that. [00:23:14] Speaker C: And there's little stuff like that with black people that you kind of. What was that? It was something I was watching. Maybe it was that documentary. Yeah, it was early in the documentary where he was talking about how you don't really realize, like, people from all these different places kind of do the same stuff as black people. We didn't really realize it until, like, social media and Twitter and stuff like that, that you didn't like the kitchen. It ain't. You don't realize till shit like Twitter that everybody call it a kitchen. And, you know, it's the back of the. You know what I'm saying? Like, all that kind of shit. So. Cause there are some differences that people do, like, regionally or whatever, but overall. [00:23:58] Speaker B: There'S been the debates, like putting sugar in your grits. [00:24:01] Speaker C: Sugar and grits. Yeah. [00:24:02] Speaker B: Calling us soda pop. [00:24:04] Speaker C: Soda pop, yeah, but calling it coke. Yeah, yeah. But all in all, everybody you family. Yeah, yeah. We still do the same stuff. Yeah. My number two is live tweeting shows. [00:24:20] Speaker B: Or watching it as a family. [00:24:22] Speaker C: Watching it. Yeah, call it watching it as a family. Yeah. So live tweeting shows. So they say in that documentary they talked about, one of the biggest ones was Thursday nights. Thursday nights watching scandal. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Tgit. [00:24:35] Speaker C: I think I watched it. I started watching it. I'm pretty sure I did start watching it with everybody else. Cause I was watching it the next day on Hulu, but then everybody started doing it. [00:24:46] Speaker B: I would have never known that scandal existed if it was not for Twitter. And I went back to ABC on demand. I remember the day I did it. I went back to ABC on demand to get caught up. It was, like, right before the season premiere, and I was like, I got to get caught up. I didn't get it. [00:25:00] Speaker C: So you can be in the conversation. [00:25:01] Speaker B: Season two, that's when I started scandal. [00:25:03] Speaker C: Now that you mentioned that, I think that's how I started watching. How was it, Blaze? [00:25:07] Speaker B: I was like, I got to get caught up. So I spent, like, a week. I was watching it at work on ABC app. I was. At the time, I didn't really have to do no hard work, and then I was watching it on demand. I was like, I got to get caught up. I got all the way to the last episode of season one, and it was not on demand. I bought it. It is still. It is still to this day. [00:25:30] Speaker C: In your apple. [00:25:31] Speaker B: In your apple. The last episode of season one, I was like, I'm gonna get caught up before this season premiere tonight because I wanted to be in the number. I wanted to live tweet. I wanted to be a fucking gladiator. So, yes. [00:25:47] Speaker C: Stuff like that. Like, now what I would do is, like, say, like, scandal. I would be watching it and trying to, you know. Cause you gonna try to get your little jokes in your little, you know. I know she didn't do this or whatever, or he reading her and all that kind of shit, but doing that so much until I would have to watch it again the next day to just watch it just for my enjoyment or whatever. But then shows like Game of Thrones, the Walking Dead. But I remember then, like, it's a show. What's the. Where's my 40 acres? They were doing a review show, and they called their review show them thrones. And that's where that hashtag came from. Them thrones. So, like, seeing stuff like that and then, like, seeing, like, celebrities jump on them. Same hashtag that, like, you know, not famous people came up with, you know what I'm saying? Was kind of crazy, but. [00:26:41] Speaker B: And the award shows. [00:26:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Oh, man. Live tweeting, bet awards. That was just like. [00:26:49] Speaker C: Yeah, even. Yeah, like. Cause what was it? It was something that everybody was tweeting, watching. And was it Oprah or Michelle Obama? No. You know what I'm thinking about? During COVID when D. Nice was djing. [00:27:11] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:27:12] Speaker C: And Michelle Obama and Oprah was in there commenting about the music or whatever, but little stuff like that. [00:27:19] Speaker B: Like, yeah, quarantine. [00:27:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Club quarantine. Yeah, yeah. Just live tweeting shows. But see, now you kind of don't get that because a lot of the stuff that we watch is on demand. But some people still do it, but they do it with, like, for the. [00:27:31] Speaker B: Most part, like, a lot of award shows, we'll still sit down and watch it together because you don't get that same reaction unless you watch it live. But as far as, like, a tv show, I'm probably the only thing that I watch in real time is sisters. Everything else is so different, like BMF. [00:27:47] Speaker C: Cause they. [00:27:47] Speaker B: Yeah, somebody might watch it at 09:00 a.m. Somebody might watch it at 09:00 p.m. So you don't get the same reaction. [00:27:52] Speaker C: That's a time like appointment television. You don't really get the same feeling you get. Cause even, like, now, like, even if you don't have the streaming service and you can catch BMF when they put it out, it feels like you watching it by yourself. But with all of those shows back then, it felt like you was watching, like you said, as a family, and you was like. And this was around the time when I was kind of getting back on Facebook and Facebook wasn't doing it. And I'd be like, let me go back to Twitter. [00:28:23] Speaker B: I still have stuff in my Facebook memories where I would say that, like, y'all so boring over here. Oh, my God, let me go back to Twitter where things make sense. [00:28:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it was a time. [00:28:35] Speaker B: And then when people started doing it, I was like, this ain't Twitter. Why you making all them posts? This ain't Twitter. Not, look at me, I'm that person now. [00:28:43] Speaker C: But it ain't like they really. I don't know when the change happened. Cause I kind of got off Twitter before the change did happen, but I don't know when it happened to where Facebook kind of took over everything. Well, I guess because they added all of. [00:28:57] Speaker B: Yeah, Facebook added more features, all the elements. We kind of got. Ran off of Twitter. [00:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah, we did. [00:29:04] Speaker B: So we came running back. [00:29:06] Speaker C: Yeah. So, yeah, that was my number. What did I say? My number two. That was my number two. What's your number one? [00:29:11] Speaker B: Damn, we had two already. [00:29:12] Speaker C: Yep. [00:29:14] Speaker B: My number one is actually gonna be something sad. It was sad for me, and it changed the way we look at how when things happen. It was the day that Michael Jackson died. [00:29:26] Speaker C: Mm. That's a big one. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Because TMZ. Shout out to TMZ. That was the day that started with, well, has TMZ reported it yet? Because they were first. [00:29:39] Speaker C: Mm. I wonder, is that the first one that really gave them their credibility? But go ahead. [00:29:44] Speaker B: And it was just a lot of speculation. Cause the news. The news didn't know, but Twitter got it first. Like, no news outlets were reporting it. Cause I remember turning on CNN. Nothing. CNBC, nothing. Fox News, nothing. But here's TMZ saying they got sources on the inside and MJ's gone. And I remember that day. [00:30:09] Speaker C: Was that a Thursday? I wanna say it was either Tuesday or Thursday. [00:30:13] Speaker B: My baby dad was taking care of me then, but I don't even know. [00:30:16] Speaker C: It was during the week. It was during the week. [00:30:17] Speaker B: It was during the week. [00:30:18] Speaker C: Okay. [00:30:21] Speaker B: But it was just. It was a heavy day because it was still like, damn, MJ. Like, we could not believe Michael Jason. [00:30:32] Speaker C: You know, I didn't. Personally, I didn't have that feeling then. In the moment. I want to say it was either Tuesday or Thursday, because that was the days we had ball practice, whatever. So I got to the field. So I was like, hey, man, I think Michael Jackson did. I was like, what? Let me look on Twitter. I think I looked on Twitter. I think I got it from Twitter. But this was 2009, so Twitter said, I went on Twitter then, but I just remember popping on Twitter and I'm seeing it, and I was like, dad, I nigga dead, or whatever, but not having that feeling. The gravity of it. [00:31:04] Speaker B: You're not thinking about Prince now? [00:31:06] Speaker C: No. Cause Prince was like, 1516. Whatever. [00:31:08] Speaker B: Yeah, but I remember tweeting through that, too, at work. [00:31:12] Speaker C: Yeah. So, yeah, it was. [00:31:16] Speaker B: It's like we all got to grieve together. [00:31:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:21] Speaker B: And then the funeral wasn't it. [00:31:27] Speaker C: Did. Did the funeral happen like a week later? Was it like a month later? [00:31:30] Speaker B: Oh, they killed. Yeah, they kept my car and it. [00:31:34] Speaker C: They had it at the Staples center or something like that. Yeah. [00:31:39] Speaker B: It was just a lot in. Again, we wouldn't have known about it so soon. [00:31:44] Speaker C: Mm hmm. [00:31:45] Speaker B: If it were not for Twitter. [00:31:46] Speaker C: Mm hmm. Oh, that was your number one. So this whole episode, I've been trying to think and debate what I wanted my number one Twitter black Twitter moment to be, but I think we kind of alluded to it on this episode and Monday's episode. Just, like, seeing regional Twitter and, like, seeing stuff happen. Like, if you follow, like, you know, we in South Carolina. So if you follow, like, the right people in Columbia, you will find out about, like, wild stuff that they were doing in Columbia. And people would be like, man, Columbia, Twitter. So, like, it was. They was, like, beefing on there and shit until where they started, like, a fight night at a club. So they would let you on Monday nights, come to the club and box that shit. Or, like. Like you said earlier, like, St. Louis. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Twitter, I had no business in the people business. [00:32:45] Speaker C: But you just. [00:32:46] Speaker B: Why do I know about people? I don't even know. [00:32:48] Speaker C: But you just randomly. You just randomly happened to get into it. Like, New York Twitter was a thing. New York Twitter kind of got, like, desus and Merrill. They got big off. Especially Desus got big from New York Twitter. Cardi B, she got big, you know, from autumn tweets. It was a lot of little people. Not little, but a lot of people that got just recently or whatever. So just to see the different and then to be able to, like, tap into that with not, like you said, you ain't had no business being in them people business. Just being able to tap into that just because you follow the right people. And that's something like white people don't understand. We say black Twitter. It ain't our own separate Twitter. We just follow a whole bunch of black people. That's it. Y'all just don't follow a whole bunch of black people. Y'all don't get it. But damn, I wish I could go back to them 20, 1516 days to when it was maybe 14 1415. Cause I think 16 was the time when it started going down. But periscope. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Ooh, periscope. [00:33:52] Speaker C: All of them days, you know, 16. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Was the time when I got a job where I actually had to fucking work. [00:34:00] Speaker C: Mm. [00:34:01] Speaker B: And I couldn't even before then, like, when I first moved back to South Carolina. So I wanna say maybe 14, 1415. Like, I got a job and I actually had to fucking concentrate. So I couldn't tweet all day long like I used to. [00:34:16] Speaker C: What could have been a good Twitter moment, but it happened on Facebook. Was Amy's after dark? No, the seven. No, not Amy's at the dark seven. At seven. That was a time back then which was heavily influenced. [00:34:29] Speaker B: Heavily influenced by Twitter. [00:34:30] Speaker C: But the seven or seven that took. Did that take a lot out of you? [00:34:34] Speaker B: Not really. [00:34:35] Speaker C: Not really. Cause to come up with seven questions five days a week, that's 35 questions a week. [00:34:42] Speaker B: I mean, I still kind of do questions now. I have an Amy's question of the day, but, yeah, that was the time. [00:34:49] Speaker C: That was the time I be on there answering questions. [00:34:51] Speaker B: I think it just slowed down, so I stopped doing it. [00:34:55] Speaker C: Yeah, but stuff like that, you know? But you don't get that experience now. Now it's just. It's a whole lot of putting on. It feel like people putting on are trying to get content now. When it really. Back then, it just felt like people just being funny or, you know, just talking to you. It felt like you were just talking to your people or whatever. [00:35:17] Speaker B: But one thing I can say that black Twitter did was connect me with people who I would have never connected to in real life and not even on Facebook in my space. Sarroz. Oh, my God. I know. Sauros from California to New York, down to Florida in so many different states, and actually met some of them in person. In person. I remember I went out to Indiana for work, and this was like me and this Sarah, I didn't even plan to meet. It was just like, happenstance. I was, um. Was I tweeting that I was at this restaurant and she was like, you where? I was like, I am at this address right here at this restaurant. She was like, girl, I'm right next door. [00:36:00] Speaker C: Wow. [00:36:00] Speaker B: Her gym was right next door to the fucking restaurant. [00:36:03] Speaker C: Y'all met? [00:36:04] Speaker B: Yes. [00:36:04] Speaker C: Hung out and all of that. [00:36:05] Speaker B: Well, we couldn't hung up because she was in the middle of her workout. [00:36:09] Speaker C: But I mean, after that, did y'all. [00:36:11] Speaker B: It was a work trip, so I was with the work niggas, but I did. She came out and I hugged the neck and I mean, from many miles away. Cause she's still in Indy. I'll do anything for her. [00:36:24] Speaker C: Philly, that email, the show, I used to see people, you know, philly tweeting or whatever. People retweeting or whatever. And it was one day, some shoes that came out, and I was in the mall in Florence, and I saw. I was like, bro, that's the nigga from Twitter. I think you know what I'm saying? I ain't talked to him. Cause I just would see. I ain't even. I wouldn't, like, interact with him. I would just see people retweet him or respond to his tweets or whatever. But then it was just one day, them shoes had came out, you know what I'm saying? And I saw him walking in the mall, and I was like, oh, that's that nigga. I think that's that nigga from Twitter. [00:36:59] Speaker B: And didn't say nothing to him. [00:37:01] Speaker C: No. Cause I'm like, oh, you the nigga from Twitter who I don't follow and you don't follow me. You know what I'm saying? But that's my first time ever. You know what I'm saying? Remember seeing him? But I used to see him. People comment on his stuff on Twitter, but just that shit, that was just a different time. Just a different time. And this documentary brought it back. I gotta finish the third episode. Hopefully it's more fun than the second episode. It is. Because the second one. The second episode, boy, just autumn. And then we still got that type of stuff still happening today or whatever. Yeah, they had the lady that started the black lives Matter hashtag. [00:37:37] Speaker B: You got any. [00:37:39] Speaker C: Any honorable mentions? No. No. [00:37:41] Speaker B: I know you do. Come on. [00:37:42] Speaker C: No, I don't. I don't. Zola. Oh, but I thought you said. No, that was in the rundown, but not. Yeah, Zola. Zola was big. That was a whole story. That was a whole. And I caught that while it was going. Like, you would be sitting there waiting, like, come on, girl, what's the next part? Like, I caught that one while it was going on. [00:37:59] Speaker B: While she was typing. [00:38:00] Speaker C: While she was typing. Yeah. That's the kind of stuff that make you happy. What else you got? Another one? [00:38:07] Speaker B: Just the way that we turned everything into a joke. Negro solstice. [00:38:13] Speaker C: That's the. Is that the superpower thing? [00:38:15] Speaker B: Yes. When we supposed to get superpower? We got our powers on December 21, 2021. [00:38:22] Speaker C: I do have one that I kind of mentioned it, but. Meet me in Temecula. Yes, that was one. That was a good one that I remember. You got another one? [00:38:33] Speaker B: World War three. How we took it as a fucking joke. [00:38:38] Speaker C: What was happening then? [00:38:39] Speaker B: Was it Iran or something that said they was coming to get us something behind Trump and it was a scare that we was going to war and we just turned it into jokes. [00:38:53] Speaker C: And memes, the Oscars, so white thing, I think we kind of talked about that, but that. That led. And there's something else too. They talk about in a documentary, but they, like a lot of the stuff that happened on Twitter, like, black Twitter led the change in like real life. Cause like the next year, it was like black Oscar shit or whatever. [00:39:12] Speaker B: Yeah, cuz that's how we got all these DeI positions. [00:39:18] Speaker C: Yeah, well, yeah, but that kinda came after 2020, after what's my man name that died. They had George Floyd. George Floyd. Yeah, George Floyd. But like a lot of that stuff, it was kind of happening a little bit, but that really pushed it overboard. But I guess they just got tired of it. Cause now they taking it away. [00:39:40] Speaker B: Yeah, and I mean, January 6, Twitter. Black Twitter. I mean, we. Black Twitter's response to January 6 was we just gonna sit here and eat our food. Like, we just watched it unfold and then watched it in awe. And then we started making our memes and then we started making our jokes. Like, we was like, this shit ain't got nothing to do with us. Watch these white people go crazy. [00:40:06] Speaker C: That's one of the ones I missed in real time. Cause I was working. [00:40:09] Speaker B: I was too. [00:40:10] Speaker C: I was working. I wanna say I was in. I was somewhere in North Carolina, and I was sitting there, and they were talking about it or whatever. So I pulled up my iPad. I was getting unloaded. I pulled out my iPad and went to, like, ABC News or whatever, and they was talking about it, and they were showing videos. I was like, bro, this is crazy. [00:40:31] Speaker B: I still. I was working, but I was putting people on hold. I was, like, watching that shit in real time. [00:40:38] Speaker C: But you weren't working from home then. There was no. You were working from home. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause that was after 20 2020. That is right. Yeah. You got any more? [00:40:47] Speaker B: No. [00:40:49] Speaker C: Oh, we ain't talking. The start of black girl magic. That hashtag came out of Twitter, which was a good one. [00:40:57] Speaker B: I actually bought some shirts from that person. Mm hmm. Well, it wasn't her. It was a different person. [00:41:02] Speaker C: You got it from miss in the bottle? [00:41:04] Speaker B: No, who? She said she started it first. But, hey, look, whatever. I remember buying some t shirts from her that said, black girls are magic. [00:41:15] Speaker C: Hmm. That's. Mm. [00:41:18] Speaker B: I still got one of them shirts. [00:41:19] Speaker C: I don't. I mean, I wouldn't doubt it. We'll see. We'll see if she come out after this and say something about it or whatever. One of the things that was in. That happened on Twitter, that was in the doc that we didn't talk about and we can get out of here was the lady with the pink jacket on that was kneeling down. [00:41:33] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:41:34] Speaker C: The origin of that meme and that picture. I remember her talking about it before, but, like, she was. Her knees were actually hurt. Cause she was dropping it low. [00:41:46] Speaker B: She was doing a prison pose. [00:41:47] Speaker C: That's what it was. Yeah, prison pose. Yeah, yeah. But that's gonna live on forever. That's gonna live on forever. But, yeah, that's a fun watch. That was a good watch. Very well put together documentary. Very smart black people on that, talking about it. [00:42:03] Speaker B: And I'm glad it was fubu. And not, like, somebody from the outside coming in, like, hey, we want to discuss you blacks. [00:42:11] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:12] Speaker B: So shout out to Princess Penny for doing a very good job. [00:42:17] Speaker C: Yep. And if you were on Twitter back then, especially following, like, some of the smarter people, you would recognize a lot of them. A lot of those people that were on there, like, Jamella Lemieux was on there and all that kind of stuff. So Amanda Seale, she was on Twitter a lot back then. Like you said, netta with all of them damn a's. A lot of people. Kid Fury, he was on there, so a lot of those people were on there. So some of the other names you would recognize. But, yeah, man, it was fun. That was a fun watch, and this was a fun episode. Amy, let everybody know when they can find you on social media. [00:42:59] Speaker B: I can be found on all platforms, including Twitter at amys, $0.22. That's Amys, the number 22 cnts. [00:43:07] Speaker C: You can find me on social media. BP. You can find the show on Instagram, ejblazhow. Email us. Let us know what you think. Let us know your favorite Twitter moments. We might could do a Facebook moment, Instagram moment, or something. We did, but we did our favorite social media something. Platform platforms. Yeah, maybe we do a favorite, uh, Facebook moment or something or whatever. Maybe for y'all. Um, I ain't got tick tock. Sorry. I do have a favorite Snapchat moment with DJ Khaled. Got stuck on that down, um, on that jet ski that day. [00:43:50] Speaker B: You couldn't write that. Like, you cannot make that up. [00:43:53] Speaker C: And you could see, like, the fear in his face throughout the progression of the day. [00:43:57] Speaker B: He has Snapchat on lock at some point. I don't know if he still do. Cause I think I stopped following him or either he stopped posting, but, like. [00:44:05] Speaker C: I stopped fucking with Snapchat. The day that they made a little joke about it was a advertisement and it said something about Rihanna. Rihanna. I was like, nah, y'all out of line. Yeah, you got. That's. Go back to my. You got to be corporate and professional type shit. You can't be too, too hip. Be a corporation. But anyway, yes, Snapchat fell off. But maybe we have some other social media moments we could talk about. [00:44:27] Speaker B: It's good for sending news, but Snapchat. Yeah. Cuz you know, if they screenshot it. [00:44:33] Speaker C: Yeah. At Apple. What you gonna do? Well, what you gonna do, boy? [00:44:36] Speaker B: Yeah, you just know. Yeah, you just send them to him again. [00:44:42] Speaker C: But, yeah, man, let us know your favorite Twitter moments, and that's it. We'll see y'all Monday. It's your boy, be easy. [00:44:50] Speaker B: And it's your girl, Amy. [00:44:51] Speaker C: And we out.