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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ Producers on Tracking Down the Real People Behind Viral Memes and Critiques They’ve Already Gotten From Black Twitter
The director and showrunner of 'Black Twitter: A People's History' discuss how they documented more than a decade of jokes and social movements.
In some scenes, users recount their favorite big moments, like the wild road trip story told by A’Ziah “Zola” King in 148 tweets that later became an A24 film. To him, that isn’t dissimilar from the trajectory of some of Black Twitter’s biggest voices — he cites Johnetta Elzie, a prominent activist who began her work after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, and CaShawn Thompson, who calls herself the “mother” of the #BlackGirlMagic hashtag. Each interviewee sits on a different set — there’s a park bench and a bicycle in front of an autumn backdrop, a subway station posted with weekend detour signs, a school cafeteria table complete with a brown paper bag and an apple, and more.
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