Organizers, activists, and artists alike are urging followers to not further silence the spread of critical, real time information, resources, and communication.
Blackout Tuesday, a movement that was meant to mourn and highlight the loss of the innumerable Black lives including George Floyd, Tony McDade, and Breonna Taylor, has spread across social media in the past few hours. Instagram users are posting images of a stark black square in observance of the day, and while well-intended, it’s quickly becoming a cause for confusion.
Here’s the problem. Those sharing the image are doing so under the #BlackLivesMatter and other BLM hashtags, which is an important tool to monitor and observe information about the protests, curfews and what’s really happening on the ground with the police. Instead, all that crucial information is now lost under a sea black backgrounds, which is obviously counterproductive to the cause.
Along with the black squares, the initiative calls for people to disconnect from their social media accounts for the day and refrain from posting anything in observance. This brings on another problem in and of itself, because assuming social media silence, even for a day, can be ultimately damaging to the protestors relying on the information online.
Others on Twitter reflected on the unhelpful and “perfomative” nature of the posts. “Posting a black box on instagram has the same energy as tagging 10 friends on your story,”. “My IG feed is full of black boxes but I’ve not seen about 70 % of those accounts post a single helpful image or useful resource on their stories, purely performative.” Meanwhile, Sharine Taylor, a music and culture writer, talked about the glaring need to address issues in digital organizing.
. “Whatever this is, ain’t it. sorry but we need to demand more from ourselves and from allies. This literally reverses all of the digital activism done to date. It’s lazy.”to not be a part of the black out movement. “We know that it’s not intended to harm but to be frank, this essentially does harm the message,” she explained. “We use hashtags to keep people updated.
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