After a couple of weeks worth of speculation, the music world has finally received the anticipated collaboration between Skylar Grey, Eminem, Polo G, and Mozzy. “Last One Standing” is a victorious track that finds the four artists celebrating their ability to overcome life’s obstacles. It was teased for multiple weeks with some believing that it would be Eminem’s return to music and even a sign that he had a new album on the way. However, that’s not the case as the new song finds Grey in the driver seat with the three rappers providing support for her message. The track will also appear on the upcoming soundtrack for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, a film that debuts in theaters on Friday, October 1.
Anticipation behind the track first began when Mozzy’s manager teased a collaboration with Eminem. Later on, in a pair of now-deleted tweets, Polo G informed his fans to stay tuned for something arriving on October 1. Skylar Grey tied it all together with a tease of her own on Twitter. “This month has been hellish,” she wrote. “But I see the light at the end… can’t wait for October 1st… mark your calendar.” Luckily for their fans, “Last One Standing” arrived a couple of days early.
This month has been hellish… but I see the light at the end… can’t wait for October 1st… mark your calendar. pic.twitter.com/gfH8AdzKvt
While “Last One Standing” marks Grey’s first collaboration with Mozzy and Polo G, the track appears on the lengthy list of songs she and Eminem have done together. It includes “Black Magic,” “C’mon Let Me Ride,” “Kill For You,” “Asshole,” “Leaving Heaven,” and more.
You can press play on “Last One Standing” in the video above.
The rollout for Coldplay’s ninth studio album, Music Of The Spheres, has made it clear that this is a decidedly pop sound for the British band. With Max Martin on board helming production, the early singles like the sparkling “Higher Power” and the ten-and-a-half-minute closer “Coloratura,” but when they teamed up with one of the biggest K-Pop groups on the planet (the universe?), it became clear that they’re really in the pop game for real.
Debuting the massive collab, fittingly called “My Universe” last week, the two massive groups have now joined forces to create an accompanying video for the collaboration as well. According to a press release, the video is “set in the distant galaxy of The Spheres where music is forbidden, but BTS, Coldplay and an alien supergroup called Supernova 7 unite via hologram to defy the ban.” The hologram aspect probably made things a lot easier on everyone when it comes to filming during COVID-19, especially because BTS are often all the way across the planet in their native Korea. Anyone who loves Gorillaz-style virtual bands will be into the imagery here, all of which was helmed by director Dave Meyers. Check out the clip above and stay tuned for Music Of The Spheres dropping on October 15.
In the age of cord-cutting and ad-free subscription services, the mass culture experience of sitting through television ads, those once-universal generational touchstones (WAZZAAA! Less filling! Where’s the beef?!), have mostly gone the way of the Zune player. For me and probably many of us, it’s only during football season that the inescapable, unfast-forwardable television commercial resurfaces as a cultural phenomenon. It is kind of nice when so many demographics can come together and be annoyed by the same things.
Thus, it’s partly with a sense of nostalgia that I write that the “fancy like Applebee’s ad” absolutely has to go. I mean just look at this thing:
This must be the worst television commercial produced in a generation. It’s probably the worst ad since the Geico mandolin guys. Almost everything about it seems designed to make me grind my teeth into dust, and I hope I’m not alone when I say that everyone who made it should be in prison.
The 30-second spot consists of a series of real “heartland America” types — nurses! newlyweds! wakeboarders …an old man fashioning a kayak out of a log! — dancing to a song in which a blandly handsome white man rap-sings the Applebee’s menu. The lyrics go something like this:
Yeah, we fancy like Applebee’s… on a date night Got that Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake Get some whipped cream… on the top too Two straws, one check, girl, I got you Bougie like Natty… in the styrofoam Squeak-squeakin’ in the truck bed all the way home Some Alabama-jamma, she my Dixieland delight Ayy, that’s how we do, how we do, fancy like, oh
Those lyrics were an especially easy pull, because believe it or not, this song actually once existed independent of the Applebee’s ad. Written and performed by stereotypical country man Walker Hayes, “Fancy Like” spent eight weeks (and counting) at number one on the Billboard Country Music charts. It racked up 50 million plays on Spotify, and that was all before Applebee’s decided to turn it into an annoyingly ubiquitous ad. You read that correctly: this motherfucker wrote an ode to Oreo shakes on spec!
And then there’s the ad itself, which consists of a food montage intercut with a series of people dancing to the Applebee’s song. If I had to choose a worst moment, I’d probably go with the triptych boomerang of the cowboy man butt shaking to the infectious Applebee’s music:
Applebee
It’s honestly difficult to put my finger on what it is that’s so infuriating about being danced at by a man in a cowboy hat, I just know that I hate it. Am I being detained?? Please stop dancing at me! I should probably discuss this with a therapist.
The song also has first verse that you don’t hear in the commercial, which is arguably even more puke inducing:
Ayy My girl is bangin’ She’s so low maintenance Don’t need no champagne poppin’ entertainment Take her to Wendy’s Can’t keep her off me She wanna dip me like them fries in her Frosty
She wanna “dip” you? Like… fries into ice cream? I’m not being deliberately obtuse here but I don’t even get it. “Dipping” sounds courtly, yet fries dunked in a milkshake is undeniably sexual imagery (are the fries your wiener? what body part does the dairy product represent?). PG porn is always the grossest porn. Of course, in terms of things that make this song and commercial so insufferable, that line wouldn’t even make the top 10.
Once upon a time, our corniest hip hop acts would name drop luxury brands in songs, presumably in the hopes of freebies or sponsorship deals. The Black Eyed Peas come to mind. I think Will.i.am is a professional techno futurist now so it seems to have worked out for him. This phenomenon has apparently come to country; only now it’s not Bentleys and Gucci they’re name dropping, it’s Oreo shakes and Frosties. It’s one thing to sell out for a $200,000 car, it’s another to do it for a fast casual milkshake.
And yet, a guy writing an ode to the Applebee’s menu on spec and immediately being rewarded with an Applebee’s ad deal is basically the beau ideal of a modern country song. The song is like a layer cake of corniness, which is perfect, because, I would argue, the only real defining characteristic of modern country is being corny. Hayes’ collaborator, a professional hitmaker named Shane McAnally, essentially admits as much.
“Those first two lines of the chorus — the perfection of ‘steak’ and ‘shake’ rhyming — it literally gave me chills,” McAnally says with a laugh. “Because I know how hard it is to make something sound dumb.”
There you have it: sounding dumb is a feature, not a bug.
Musically, there’s nothing even really “country” about this song. No fiddles or lap steel guitars, no shuffling beat or harmonies, etc. It’s basically a hip hop song with an 808 beat and scatty, rap-like rhymes, performed in a hybrid blaccent and redneck drawl, both delivered with equal fraudulence. (Is it redundant to point out that a guy singing about Applebee’s probably grew up in the suburbs? According to this profile his father owned a real estate business). And yet “Fancy Like” is undeniably a country song, based solely on the sentiment being expressed. A sentiment which goes, roughly, “don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine.”
But, of course, only in a very personal way. As Walker Hayes, tells it, Applebee’s had a very special place in his childhood memories, as the “splurge” restaurant.
“My dad could get fajitas, but none of us kids could,” Hayes told the LA Times earlier this month. “We had to get, like, a quesadilla. So if you saw a couple of Bourbon Street Steaks sizzle by, you were like, ‘Ooh, what’s that table celebrating tonight?’”
Aw yeah. Remember that? Quesadillas at the Applebee’s? Those were the days, huh? Hoo boy, that was a good one. Who else has some stories?
Country has long been a genre that prized paeans to half-remembered mass media myths — wide open spaces and lonesome cowboys and all of that. I don’t know if it’s infuriating or just sad that we so effectively killed the small town in America that country musicians are now writing love songs to the chain restaurants that replaced them. Great work, man, now do a song about the freeway system! Whom among us doesn’t remember that old saying, “it’s as American as a Skittles strawberry blast extreme apple pie sundae, new from DQ!”
DANCE ALONG, CHILDREN, AS WE SING THE HYMN OF OUR HOMOGENIZATION!
This commercial is delivered like a party anthem when everything about it is sad as hell. It makes me feel depressed, queasy, and old, in a way that has nothing to do with Applebee’s food. I grew up in the country eating at mediocre chain restaurants (to be fair, “Applebee’s” certainly has better rhyming potential than “Golden Corral”), I promise I’m not above it. In fact, Applebee’s, I will make you a deal. I will eat at your restaurants every day for a month if you stop playing this commercial forever. Please?
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Denzel Washington is more than simply one of America’s most beloved actors. He’s also a sometime director. Every now and then he uses his clout to get a personal project made. Think Antwone Fisher, The Great Debaters, and Fences, the latter which brought the legendary playwright August Wilson to the big screen. He has one other directing credit, though: a 2016 episode of Grey’s Anatomy. And at one point star Ellen Pompeo and he did not get along.
On the latest episode of her podcast Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo, the longtime Meredith Grey remembered a time when she went off-script, ad-libbing a line during an emotional scene she shared with Patrick Dempsey.
“I was like, ‘Look at me when you apologize. Look at me,’” Pompeo recalled yelling. But her director didn’t like that she improvised. And her director was Denzel Washington. “And Denzel went ham on my ass. He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t you tell him what to do.’”
But Pompeo responded in kind. “I was like, ‘Listen, motherf*cker, this is my show,’” she recalled. “This is my set. Who are you telling?”
Pompeo clarified that it was a one-time spat and that she has the “utmost respect for him as an actor and director.” Besides, it happens. “So, we didn’t get through it without a fight, but that’s actors for you,” Pompeo added. “Passionate and fiery and that’s where you get the magic, and that’s where you get the good stuff. So, it was an amazing experience, it really was.”
In other news, Denzel Washington has directed a single episode of television, and it was for Grey’s Anatomy. How about that.
Megan Thee Stallion has given the world a few guest verses in recent months, and the latest finds the Houston native joining up with Spanish singer Maluma and Rock Mafia for the vibrant track “Crazy Family.” The song will appear in the upcoming film The Addams Family 2, which arrives in theaters on October 1 and features Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon Walton, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and more.
“Crazy Family” comes after Megan joined Lil Nas X for “Dolla Sign Slime,” which the latter said he hoped would also include an appearance from Drake. Prior to that, Megan went international with BTS thanks to a remix of the band’s hit song “Butter.” She has also shined on the solo side of things with songs like “Thot Sh*t” and freestyles that include “Out Of Town” and “Tuned In.”
As for what’s next, fans can catch Megan at Post Malone‘s curated festival, Posty Fest, during the weekend of October 30-31. She will also join Dua Lipa for a trio of shows during the singer’s Future Nostalgia Tour in 2022.
You can listen to “Crazy Family” in the video above.
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Bourbon feels intrinsically connected to Kentucky. 95 percent of the juice on the market is made there. But bourbon does not have to come from Kentucky. When it comes to rules about location, the only one that matters is that it’s made in the U.S. And with bourbon booming, barriers to entry decreasing, and craft distillers thriving, that “95 percent” number is starting to drop, as bourbon distillers pop up nationwide.
Since bourbon can technically be made anywhere in the U.S., we think bourbon produced from Seattle to St. Petersburg deserves a place in the broader spirits conversation. And thanks to the folks at Drizly, we know what that place is… at least sales-wise. We asked the online alcohol delivery service for the 10 most purchased bourbons that aren’t from Kentucky, then we tasted them and ranked them.
Recently, Hudson Whiskey rebranded itself with new expression names and bottle designs. But the product remains the same high-quality whiskey as before. Its award-winning Bright Lights, Big Bourbon is made with a mash bill of 95 percent New York-grown corn and five percent malted barley. It’s aged in new, charred American oak barrels resulting in a mellow, very sweet, corn-centric bourbon whiskey.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is fairly straightforward and simple. There is sweet corn, vanilla beans, and wood char. The palate is a little more complex with notes of caramel corn, dried cherries, sweet corn, caramel, and a gentle, nutty sweetness throughout. It all ends with a warming, sweet finish.
Bottom Line:
This isn’t the most exciting whiskey in the world. But if you love almost 100 percent corn-based bourbon, you’ll love this sweet, mellow, easy-sipping whiskey.
When drinkers think of whiskey, few imagine Utah. But High West has been continuously cranking out award-winning whiskey since its inception in 2007. Its flagship whiskey is its High West Prairie Bourbon (sourced mainly from MGP in Indiana). Named for the American Prairie Reserve, it’s a blend of straight bourbons that have been aged for a minimum of two years.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of butterscotch, slight cinnamon sugar, vanilla beans, and a nice dose of wood char. On the palate this dram reveals caramel corn, candy apples, clover honey, toffee, and slight peppery rye paired with dried cherries at the very end.
Bottom Line:
This is a blend of whiskeys. The first is from Indiana’s MGP and the other isn’t disclosed. One is high-rye and the other isn’t. The result is a masterfully blended bourbon.
Balcones is one of the leaders in the Texas whiskey revolution. Its award-winning Texas Pot Still Bourbon is made using (you guessed it) pot still distillation before aging in new, charred American oak casks for at least two years. Even at a young age, it’s nuanced, rich, and memorable.
Tasting Notes:
Complex aromas of rich oaky wood char, caramel corn, toasted marshmallows, and candy apples greet you first. This is followed by flavors of fresh leather, toasted vanilla beans, manuka honey, and a nice nutty, slightly spicy finish.
Bottom Line:
When it comes to price to value ratio, it’s pretty difficult to beat Balcones Texas Pot Still Bourbon. It’s surprisingly complex for such a young whiskey.
Many drinkers know all about Redemption Rye as well as the brand’s High-Rye Bourbon. But both of these whiskeys might be a little too spicy for some. For these folks, Redemption also makes a straight bourbon that still has a rye content of 21 percent, but is much more mellow and, I believe, well-rounded than the others.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find aromas of butterscotch candy, woody oak, vanilla beans, and a nice, slight peppery spice throughout. The sip delivers hints of buttery caramel, holiday spices, slight cinnamon, sweet cream, and more, gentle cracked black pepper to round everything out nicely.
Bottom Line:
While this is definitely a spicier bourbon than most, it’s a welcome respite from the sweet heat of some of Redemption’s other expressions.
Breckenridge, Colorado is well-known for its ski resort, and you might assume a distillery (and brewery) carrying the holiday-centric town would be more flash than substance. But you’d be wrong. Breckenridge Bourbon is one of the most popular non-Kentucky bourbons on the market. This award-winning high-rye bourbon is matured for at least three years in new, charred American oak barrels before being blended to create a sweet sipper to enjoy on a mountain or in your backyard.
Tasting Notes:
Aromas of freshly brewed coffee, butterscotch candy, wood spice, caramel corn, and a nice kick of peppery rye greet you on the nose. The palate is loaded with flavors like candy apples, dried cherries, raisins, vanilla beans, and more cracked black pepper. The finish is medium in length, filled with warming heat, and ends with a nice combination of caramel and spice.
Bottom Line:
This is the type of whiskey you blindly give a friend who believes good bourbon only comes from Kentucky. One sip of this complex bourbon and they’ll change their mind.
Belle Meade is one of the brands that’s destroying the stigma around sourced whiskey. Its flagship expression was sourced from Indiana’s MGP. It has a mash bill of 64 percent corn, 30 percent rye, and six percent malted barley. It’s a hand-selected blend of high-rye bourbons, using only four barrels per batch. Each is matured between six to eight years.
Tasting Notes:
Scents of dried cherries, raisins, toffee, vanilla, and slight spicy rye greet the drinker. This is followed by a mouth full of buttery caramel, candied orange peels, fresh leather, clover honey, and just a hint of spice at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is a multi-dimensional whiskey. It’s mellow, sweet, and highly sippable, but has a great spicy kick that only adds to the memorable flavor profile.
If you’ve never tried Widow Jane, what are you waiting for? Its flagship ten-year-old expression is a blend of straight bourbons (from Kentucky and New York), blended in five-barrel batches. It’s non-chill-filtered and proofed with locally-sourced mineral water. The result is a highly complex sipping whiskey you won’t soon forget.
Tasting Notes:
This whiskey’s nose ticks all the bourbon boxes. There are notes of sweet corn, cinnamon, vanilla beans, and rich oak. The palate swirls with maple candy, dried orange peels, raisins, butterscotch, and candied pecans. The end is warm, sweet, and slightly spicy.
Bottom Line:
People don’t usually think of New York when they think of high-quality bourbon. But brands like Widow Jane and Hudson are leading the charge.
While there are now a few well-known distilleries in Texas, none are as well-known as Balcones and Garrison Brothers. The latter’s flagship whiskey is its Small Batch. This small-batch bourbon is made from beginning to end in Hye, Texas. It’s made with a mash bill of locally sourced corn, red winter wheat, and two-row barley.
Tasting Notes:
You’ll be greeted with hints of caramel apples, treacle, charred oak, and vanilla beans on the nose. On the palate, you’ll find flavors of clover honey, sweet corn, dried orange peels, holiday spices, and almond cookies. The finish is a nice combination of cinnamon sugar and dried fruits.
Bottom Line:
While we have no problem with sourced whiskeys, we do have a lot of respect for those distillers who make their whiskey using only local ingredients.
Smoke Wagon (sourced from MGP Indiana) might be unknown to novice bourbon drinkers, but it’s gaining a cult following in the whiskey aficionado world. Its signature expression is its Small Batch. Made from hand-picked high-rye bourbons, this non-chill filtered whiskey is a mixture of young and old whiskeys.
The result is a complex, exciting, mellow sipping bourbon.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find the usual suspects of vanilla beans, wood char, caramel, and slight baking spices. This is definitely not a bad thing. The flavor is highlighted by more wood, toffee, buttercream frosting, and a crescendo of spicy rye.
Bottom Line:
This is a spicy, peppery bourbon that should appeal just as much to rye whiskey fans as bourbon drinkers who prefer an extra spicy kick.
Whiskey drinkers shouldn’t be surprised that the top-ranked whiskey on our list is from nearby whiskey-drenched Tennessee. The Tennessee sourced juice is double-distilled in column stills, non-chill-filtered, and matured for a minimum of six years in new, charred American oak casks. The result is a whiskey known for its smooth, velvety texture and sweet, toasty flavor.
Tasting Notes:
Prior to sipping, you’ll find aromas of tobacco leaves, vanilla beans, wood char, and slight spices. The palate is driven by dried cherries, raisins, vanilla cream, caramelized sugar, sweet corn, and subtle peppery rye. The finish is nutty, sweet, and warming.
Bottom Line:
This is the kind of whiskey that makes a drinker realize there’s more than one great whiskey coming out of the state that gave us Jack Daniel’s. (In fact, there are many.)
Drizly Rank: 10
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On Wednesday, folks in the fashion industry gathered to watch Balmin’s spring/summer 2022 show in Paris. The showcase was also used to celebrate the tenth anniversary of creative director Olivier Rousteing’s time with the Parisian house. Beyonce narrated the night’s opening walk with a lengthy speech that showed love and appreciation to Rousteing while reflecting on the early days of their relationship.
“[You] brought a new mindset to help persuade fashion to finally begin to reflect the real true beauty of today’s streets, the beauty that you and your team see a daily on the diverse impressive boulevards and avenues of your beloved Paris,” Beyonce said in her message. “And from day one, you did the right thing. You knew from the start that actions speak so much louder than words. So you’ve taken a stand, made the commitments and followed through at every step of the way.”
“Does anyone have any idea how many times I’ve worn a special Olivier x Balmain creation? There have been so many events and so many beautiful moments,” she added. “You helped me make my musical statement. You helped me amplify my message, your designs have made me feel powerful. Thank you.” She concluded, “Balmain is your amazing tool for both beauty and change. Your outlook, your convictions and your talent have affected and moved all of us. I’m so proud to call you friend. Happy anniversary. We’re all looking forward to the next ten years.”
You can listen to Beyonce’s message in the video above.
Lil Nas X likes to mix genres. Country, hip-hop, and pop have all intermingled in his hit songs. So his recent cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” shouldn’t come as a surprise. He delivered the cover of Parton’s 1973 song during an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge last week, where he also performed “That’s What I Want,” “Dead Right Now,” and “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” off his new album, Montero.
After finally getting a chance to watch the performance, Parton had nothing but praise. “I was so excited when someone told me that Lil Nas X had done my song #Jolene,” she wrote. ” I had to find it and listen to it immediately…and it’s really good. Of course, I love him anyway. I was surprised and I’m honored and flattered. I hope he does good for both of us. Thank you @LilNasX.”
Lil Nas caught wind of her comments and had a short yet excited reaction to it, writing, simply, “HOLY SH*T.” What’s more, Lil Nas currently has three songs simultaneously in the top 10 on the Billboard singles chart: “Industry Baby” at No. 2, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” at No. 9, and “That’s What I Want” at No. 10.
It’s been a bit of a bumpy season for Ted Lasso. The feel-good (but not that good) show about an upbeat (but anguished) soccer coach amassed a ton of Emmys, including star/co-creator Jason Sudeikis. But the new season, which is still rolling out, has been hotly contested, and there’s been talk of a backlash, then a backlash to the backlash, then a backlash to the backlash to backlash, etc. But there’s one person who seems very pro-Ted Lasso: Dolly Parton.
That’s funny, when it comes to small talk I often ask myself what would Dolly Parton do? Start with the 9 to 5 and end with God Only Knows https://t.co/n2eFMTAGaP
It all started when a fan, dealing with the headache that is air travel, tried to overcome his frustrations by asking, “what would @TedLasso do?” The show’s Twitter account — which sometimes trades in motivational sloganeering — responded by asking a similar question of a real-life public figure.
“That’s funny, when it comes to small talk I often ask myself what would Dolly Parton do?” the account posted. “Start with the 9 to 5 and end with God Only Knows.”
The post didn’t tag the legendary country singer-songwriter and actress. But she found it anyway and responded.
You’re too sweet, @TedLasso!” Parton wrote, adding, “I heard you left some @AFCRichmond tickets at will call under my name?” (That’s a reference to the team Lasso coaches.)
Twitter can be a hellscape of fury and paranoia, but sometimes you get a beloved musician trading jokes with a fictitious character. And people ate it up.
Can you imagine a #tedlasso episode with the Queens of country music @DollyParton and @reba both showing up at @AFCRichmond claiming their tickets? That would be amazing!
TikTok videos and viral tweets have become the new “face on the milk carton.” Perhaps one good thing to come of the Gabby Petito murder case is that social media has put power back into the community, leading to more advocacy for missing persons of color.
The disappearance, and now killing, of Gabby Petito has been the subject of nationwide fascination, as well as scrutiny and debate. As more BIPOC missing persons were revealed who received little to no media coverage, including geologist Daniel Robinson, and the 700+ missing indigenous women of Wyoming, many began calling the huge disparity another example of gross racial injustice.
But maybe there’s more here than just another case of “Missing White Woman Syndrome” than the headlines would have us believe. It’s now becoming clear that—for better or worse—what really drew attention to Petito was a cocktail of two major factors. One, America’s true crime obsession (the moral ambiguity of treating this real-life murder like an interactive Dateline episode is another conversation entirely). And two, Petito’s pre-existing social media presence.
And though there is much to be said about what’s wrong with this, there is also something positive about how online communities are now rallying together to use the same formula in order to raise awareness of previously ignored cases.
Take Layla Jama, TTDrama on Tiktok, and her audience of 757,000. They asked her to post about 25-year-old Black man Jelani Day, who had been missing in Illinois for more than a month. Layla listened to her followers’ request and posted two emotionally charged videos with the hashtag #FindJelaniDayToday. In one of her videos, she challenges her followers to “go do your detective work and find him.”
#duet with @ttdramanews boosting to help her get her son back. #findjelaniday
Jama’s posts resulted in more than a million views, 80,000 shares and a repost from Lizzo. Finally on September 23, a full 19 days after being discovered, Jelani’s body was identified.
Another viral tweet went out for Lauren Cho, who disappeared from Yucca Valley, California on June 28. A Twitter user wrote, “I don’t know much about her case, but let’s get the same energy going to help locate #LaurenCho as we did for #GabbyPetito.” That tweet now has 67.5K views.
I don’t know much about her case, but let’s get the same energy going to help locate #LaurenCho as we did for… https://t.co/ktbntEXzx9
And then there’s the family of Daniel Robinson, who have taken the search for Daniel into their own hands with a series of TikTok videos documenting updates of their search. They received more interaction online than they had with the Buckeye, Arizona authorities.
Reply to @mel_hudson1 Gabby Betito’s case got the support and help that we now are praying for! #fyp #helpfinddanielrobinson #viral
Social media is taking on the roles of detective and journalist, covering more ground than both the FBI, which continues to take a nonchalant stance, and traditional media, which leans toward sensationalism over substance. When neither public service entity offers satisfactory public service, where can people turn to actually create change? The answer, it seems, is that they must turn to themselves.
The internet is a vast and often dark frontier, but it’s a small comfort to know that many are using its power for good. It is certainly far from ideal in terms of missing men and women of color getting the media attention they deserve, but turning toward each other in this way might be the next step in changing that.
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