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Five Things Your Lame Ass Better Not Do If Kicking Game On The Internet
Despite the fact that my ethnically ambiguous looks make me appear as if my name could actually be “Don Juan,” I am no Don Juan. I’m just Leon. I am, however, a guy who wants to use the wisdom gained from years of being a sexy internet geek for good. Today, that goodwill manifests as…
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World's Biggest Artist Kanye West Is Gonna Make This Paul McCartney Guy A Star.
Kanye West has reached an odd place in his career. While anything he does becomes immediate blog fodder and is afforded the requisite social media swirlywoo, I can’t say that I’m amped for a Kanye project at this point. Sure I miss his music. But I actually only miss the Kanye that showed up for…
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Explaining White People, Part 2: Waiting For A “More Informed” Opinion About Race Issues
It’s no secret to anyone with a Facebook feed that White people take issues of health, wellness, and rights very seriously. Watching my feed over the last month, I’ve seen no less than four different articles about how deadly microbeads are. Seriously. You know—those little exfoliating beads in your soap. That shit’ll kill ya. Or…
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Facebook Testing "Satire" Tag, And It's All Because Of Your Cousins
One of the many micro-aggressions that regularly occur for Black folks on Facebook is having to witness several shock-inducing status updates with “exclusive” news on their timelines, linking to shady websites and claiming it as truth. George Zimmerman selling a Trayvon Martin painting. Some “hidden” video of a rich Asian man exposing Black folks and…
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How Not To Be An Asshole On The Internet When Everyone's Upset
This has been one of the most depressing weeks of news I can remember. Mike Brown. The fallout in Ferguson. #Iftheygunnedmedown and every other reminder that, as Deadspin’s Greg Howard put it, America is Not For Black People. The news of Robin Williams’ death. Learning that he committed suicide. The dozens of powerful, heartbreaking stories…
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True Life: My "Twitter Friends" Are My Real Friends Too
One night while scrolling my TL, I came across a meme with the caption “Facebook is for all the people you know but never talk to, and Twitter is where you hang out with the real friends you’ve never met.” Immediately, I focused all my energies into retweeting the shit out of that post. Truer…
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VSB Roundtable: Is It Okay To Like Your Own Pictures?
It’s time for another VSB roundtable. This time we turned our attention towards social media and the question that possibly only Sway can answer: Is it ever okay to like your own pictures on IG or Facebook? Heeeeeeeeere we go. Social media is a narcissists playground. We post pictures of ourselves doing shit that everybody…
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