This week, Black Twitter has been having a heated conversation about a phenomenon that’s been hiding in plain sight on the internet for a while now: blackface thots. What are blackface thots? They do not necessarily claim to be black women ― they just like looking like them, a distinction that makes this phenomenon all the more thorny. How do you even begin to approach someone in blackface who believes what they’re doing is not blackface? Altogether, they create a bizarre and transparent attempt to synthesize the black aesthetic, perfected by black Insta-baddies and stolen by the patron saint of blackface thots, Kylie Jenner.

Source: Huffington Post November 08, 2018 17:05 UTC