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The Afro in the Algorithm
The world didn't end in 2012; it just got weirder. More expensive. Noisier. I’m sitting here looking at a screen that glows like a radioactive slab of meat, melting my eyes as I type this, wondering about Huey and what he’d think of this weird online world we find ourselves in.
What does a ten-year-old revolutionary do with a TikTok account? Does he organize a digital sit-in against the Terms of Service, or does he just stare at the 15-second dances and realize the revolution won’t be televised because nobody has the attention span for a commercial break, let alone a riot?
I wonder what he’d say about "The Culture" now that it’s just a line item in a PE firm’s portfolio. Does he see the “activist” infographics as a movement, or just a really well-designed tombstone? Would he give up?