An online article recently sparked a debate around the usage of memes and GIFs featuring Black people.
about the use of a"digital blackface" by posting a GIF of a man saying"Just stop." The man in the meme is Black—flaunting the same behavior the news channel was describing in its article.
CNN recently published an online piece describing white people's use of memes or popular GIFs featuring Black people as"digital blackface." Digital blackface, a term that has been around for a few years now, is defined as a practice where white people use reaction GIFs and memes with the images and voices of Black people to express often exaggerated emotions.
Most of such multimedia content, according to experts and commentators, shows racialized reactions and"exaggerated displays of Blackness," author and cultural critic Lauren Michele Jackson wrote in an essay forwhich described digital blackface. Not every GIF or meme showing a Black person can be considered digital blackface: but a line is drawn when these images show Black people as loud, dumb, violent, or hypersexual, fostering racialized, racist views of Black people.
U.S. Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, from Georgia, waves as former US President Donald Trump mentions her during a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. Greene has intervened in the debate sparked by CNN about the use of a"digital blackface" by posting a GIF of a man saying"Just stop.
Cutting through the debate on the deeper reasons why white people may be enamored with memes and reaction GIFs which often portray Black people as caricatures, according to critics, Greene doubled down on the concept of"digital blackface" using a GIF of a Black man.
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