That’s not the face of Black Twitter the media fawns over in articles with headlines like “ Black Twitter Flexing Muscles On and Offline.” The phrase “Black Twitter” itself is a little strange because the community has plenty of non-black participants, but we insist on calling it black. But it was Black Twitter, the active community on the platform that is most in tune with hip-hop music culture, that led the charge. One popular tweeter wrote that Tyga didn’t know the difference “ between a tranny and an woman.”Īs transgender rights activist Janet Mock explained in a video essay, Tyga is being shamed for allegedly loving an “unnatural” woman and Isabella is being shamed for existing. Tyga was a trending topic on Twitter for most of the week, and anyone following it would see a flurry of homophobic and transphobic slurs. But because the actress in question is a transgender woman, a lot of the reactions online have been pretty vile. Last week, a gossip site posted images of text messages between the two and nude pictures of Tyga, and as expected, Black Twitter has been all over it. Tyga, a rapper best known for his 2011 hit “Rack City,” is fighting allegations of an affair with a porn actress.
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