I usually don’t make these kinda posts, but I felt like it today.
DO NOT SUPPORT THE COMMON [ADJECTIVE] [NOUN] accounts (and others likewise) ON TWITTER. There are several issues with these accounts, so I guess I should start with the obvious:
They do not own much of any of the content they post. These people (which is just a small handful that control many accounts) earn a profit - yes, they make money - from the content of other people. Besides making some nice funds, they also bury the visibility of whoever actually made that post.
These people do not care about your issues, they are just a business model.
Now I guess I should address accounts like Common Black Girl, Common Gay Boy, et cetera, because they also have issues.
This is a minor issue more than anything, but these accounts impede the trek towards equality. These accounts are subconsciously supporting the notion that, aside from cultural values, these minorities think and act a certain way, that they are inherently different from the rest of society. I understand that some groups act differently because of cultural values, but to blanket one group with your ideologies is simply wrong.
Maybe I’m overanalyzing this, but that’s how I interpreted those specific accounts.
That, however, doesn’t mean these accounts care about the minorities, as much as one would believe at a first glance. As I said before, they are a business. They have thematic accounts to fit with the issues, to take advantage of people’s empathy to generate traffic.
Do NOT support these accounts. By doing so, you’re allowing a small group of people to have a monopoly over Twitter and other outlets. It’s almost like a corporation owning a market, huh?
There are more issues than this, but I thought I’d point out the obvious ones.
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