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She puts on sunglasses to cover them up, just as Derulo says he does in the song. This video , uploaded to TikTok in July, has more than It was posted by mooptopia, who emerged from nowhere at the beginning of July and has since become an unexpected star. She now has 2. The most striking thing about this episode is how typical it is. Getting famous on TikTok can happen very quickly.

Black girls are still being discriminated against for wearing their natural hair the way it grows from their heads. Not only are they asked to change their hair to fit mainstream standards, but they often have their education threatened when they refuse to conform. From having their class sessions interrupted, to being threatened with suspension and expulsion, school officials can't seem to stop obsessing over black girls' hair. Malden Charter School served up detention slips to two students for wearing box braids, reports the Boston Globe. The year-old twins, Deanna and Mya Scot, were also pulled from their school sports teams and told they weren't allowed to go to prom. This is the statement the school made about their decision, according to CBS Boston :. The school pointing toward the hairstyle being expensive would be halfway understandable if it were accurate.

Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was Like a diary, Newman began filming herself daily, though she has since slowed down to meet the stresses of senior year. She and her mom dance at a stoplight in one early Vine ; she offers an impromptu speech on self-confidence in another.

The online popularity of images of black people — particularly women and femme gay men — is a fact of internet life and, in recent months, an increasingly controversial one. Are gifs being used to disseminate racist stereotypes in cyberspace? Is there something problematic about white people using brown-skinned emojis? And what about the Black Lives Matter Facebook fundraising page that was revealed to be run by two unaffiliated white men in Australia? Was this the latest iteration of digital blackface in action?