What Whites Will Never Know:
May 6, 2012 - March 23, 2017
What’s up, folks? My name is @nukirk and for some people, y’all may think this is a murder. But for me, it’s retiring a name. It’s a fresh coat of paint. It’s nothing more than me doing what I have to do to keep the energy going. Some people change their Tumblr names once in a while or once a month. I took longer than most.
Simply because… I’m pigeonholed and I want to grow out of it.
On May 6th, 2012, after Alex gave up the name, on a whim, I grabbed the name and started doing the things that people thought the name was about; a Black person blogging about Whiteness. I turned the blog into one of those blogs on Tumblr that people get to know and appreciate. I won awards by peers, helped created awareness with news, and to top it off, launched a hashtag that is very, very popular and created a tumblr to that hashtag, which is now on it’s way to maybe winning a Shorty!
This is all great… but… my success is still limited.
W3NK isn’t without growing pains. I had missteps, sometimes I ticked off people, and made some other moves that usually spells doom for other bloggers, but for me, it was a chance at redemption over and over again.
However, the biggest problem? It’s the name. There’s a bit of irony with that.
Alex gave up the name because it attracted people who just won’t stop challenging them. I’m giving it up because of the opposite problem - no one wants to touch it! Sure, it’s mentioned an ABC News site. But beyond that, every time I tried to expand beyond Tumblr, people don’t want to deal with the blog.
There are some friends of mine who don’t even want to follow the blog based on the name alone on Facebook. There are writing assignments that I turned down because the site doesn’t want to link back to the blog. There are people who want to support me, with no direction whatsoever, only if I changed the name of the blog.
I decided that maybe if I get 5K+ people to follow Thought Remixer, then I can cultivate that audience. However, after 1 year of pushing people to that blog, I only managed to crack 1K+ followers.
On a personal note, I want to write for other people, launch new projects and innovations… I have a list full of stuff I would like to share, and even a few app ideas to make life a little easier. However, I can’t do all this under a blog name that no one wants to associate themselves with.
With that being said, I decided to finally change the name of this blog to “Thought Remixer: Xtra”. Reason being? Well, I want people to know that this is actually a Tumblr for Thought Remixer, the blog I’m relaunching.
If you’re searching from Google, chances are, you’ll be redirected to the link. I spent a week launching a site which ONLY purpose is to serve as a redirection to the 4+ year archive. If you ever linked to one of my posts, those links are intact. Eventually, search engines will update the links. So, I won’t be losing that traffic.
(And if you’re wondering HOW the hell did I managed to do that, you can ask me. And no, Tumblr staff did not assist. I did it on my own.)
With that being said, sadly, old posts that were reblogged may or may not survived. Oh well… that’s the cost of changing the name.
There’s a new domain (http://xtra.thoughtremixer.com) and the name is @thoughtremixer however, I’ve spent so much time making sure that the links work, it will be a while before I get to the looks.
And no, the subject matter is not changing. I am not going to stop talking about Pro-Blackness. I just need a change of pace.
Changes are coming, but for now, I’m just letting you know…
WhatWhitesWIllNeverKnow is no more. (However, I am holding on to the name, so no one can abuse it or take advantage of it.)