WIFEY MATERIAL™
“ASIAN GIRLS WHO GO TO NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL & AFRO NATION ARE NOT READY TO BE WIFED” read the social media post, in enlarged black letters against white blocks. The latest entry in what has become its own content genre: Black × Brown antagonism for clicks. The post did exactly what posts like this are designed to do. It travelled. The men behind it took to their soapboxes (aka TikTok Lives), insisting that “they said what they said,” while maintaining there was nothing racial about what...
Black News 
“ASIAN GIRLS WHO GO TO NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL & AFRO NATION ARE NOT READY TO BE WIFED” read the social media post, in enlarged black letters against white blocks. The latest entry in what has become its own content genre: Black × Brown antagonism for clicks. The post did exactly what posts like this are designed to do. It travelled. The men behind it took to their soapboxes (aka TikTok Lives), insisting that “they said what they said,” while maintaining there was nothing racial about what...
