Reaction GIFs of Black People Are More Problematic Than You Think

‘Digital blackface’ dehumanizes Black people by flattening our stories

Naomi Day
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJan 3, 2020

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TThe internet is a portal to intercultural awareness. When discussing ramen versus pho, for example, all I have to do is pull out my phone and a quick Google search lets me know the noodle’s country of origin, the differences in their…

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Naomi Day
OneZero
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Speculative fiction and Afrofuturist writer. Software engineer. US-based; globally oriented. I think and write about building new worlds.