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Hulu Docuseries ‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: Teaser Released and Premiere Date Announced

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Hulu Docuseries ‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: Teaser Released and Premiere Date Announced

Twitter, now ‘X,’ would not be what it is without the culture self-proclaimed itself on the platform as Black Twitter. This is more than a hashtag or simply an online group; it is a digital culture shifter and now a Hulu docuseries.

After the premiere of Black Twitter: A People’s History at SXSW this weekend, Onyx Collective, a Disney production company, announced that the Prentice Penny-directed project will be a three-part docuseries that will premiere on Hulu on May 9. 

The docuseries is based on Jason Parham’s WIRED cover story “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” and officially, the docuseries will follow “the rise, movements, voices, and memes that made Black Twitter an influential and dominant force in nearly every aspect of American political and cultural life.”

The project will feature a slew of notable talking heads important to profiling an “oral history of a cultural phenomenon.” From Shadow and Act, “the full list of subjects includes some of the biggest names on Black Twitter, podcasting and online comedy.”

Executive producers are Penny under A Penny For Your Thoughts, and A Penny For Your Thoughts’ Chris Pollack and Alex Soler. WIRED Studios’ Alex Soler, Sarah Amos, Helen Estabrook, Agnes Chu, and Andrew Whitney also executive produce with Culture House Media’s Raeshem Nijhon, Carri Twigg, Nicole Galovski, Joie Jacoby, and Shawna Carroll. Jacoby serves as showrunner with Parham producing.

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The New Variant Of COVID Has Been Redubbed The ‘Omarion Variant’ By Cheeky Fans

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R&B fans might have been surprised to wake up to find singer Omarion’s name trending on Twitter this morning, as he hasn’t announced a new album and isn’t the type to get himself into the sort of legal trouble that usually prompts widespread discussion of a legacy artist. Instead, curious Twitter users would have found that there’s a new variant of COVID-19 roaming the streets, after “Black Twitter” noticed the similarities between “omicron” and “Omarion” and have apparently decided the latter is not only much catchier but also riper for making memes.

And so, we’ve gotten a slew of clips from Omarion’s 2005 “Touch” video with cheeky captions like, “Not the Omarion variant and the booster having a lil tussle” and “The Omarion Variant chasing me down like.” There are also other jokey captions roasting the singer’s recent performance in Chicago that has apparently gone (ahem) viral on TikTok, with one user quipping, “They say in order to keep the Omarion Variant away, you have to do this routine 3 times in the mirror.”

Of course, in the face of a scary new mutation of the COVID-19 virus, using a little humor to lighten the mood serves an important purpose even as it highlights the need for these scientists to come up with better names for things (I’m no Greek expert, but it seems like they skipped a bunch of letters between delta and omicron, no?). Still, though, get your vaccine, if you’re vaccinated, get your booster, and continue to practice safety measures like distancing and wearing a mask in public — we’re not out of the woods yet. Check out more “Omarion variant” jokes below.