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Latinx Twitter

Being a part of the Latinx community, I did tend to connect and be more interested in the stories involving discussion about the Latinx presence online. I really enjoyed reading Andrea Valez's article this week about whether or not Latinx Twitter actually exists. The more time that goes by, the more movements you see come to light such as the #MeToo movement and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. As we also discussed in this week's module, Black Twitter is something that is very popular and widely recognized in the online world so as Andrea's article discusses, does Latinx Twitter exist? The short answer is no, but that doesn't rule out the fact that it may. Andrea explains this in much better detail than I could and has a lot of information to back it up, but this area of the internet is definitely lacking for the Latinx community. However, Andrea mentions in the article that many people of different Latinx cultures do not normally relate to one another or tend to shy away from associating with other cultures. Being Mexican American, I know that this is much different than being Puerto Rican or Cuban. So even though many of us may identify within the Latinx community there are still, as Ricardo Varela states in Andrea's article, "...little mini subsets..." within the Latinx community and until we have a reason to unify and come together as one community, these subsets will most likely always remain.

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This is a great video which goes into detail on how and why social media has become a main factor of division in today’s world.

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This accurately displays how social media continues to fuel the Critical Race Theory conversation regardless of your stance on this topic.

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I think it’s something that people who are most like you and me miss, who are still trying to figure out, ‘How much of a Mexican am I supposed to be? How much am I allowed to be?

Shea Serrano

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“Missing white woman syndrome” is another topic that once again is contributing to the discussion of why people of color are not given as much attention in the media as a “missing white woman” was. This story specifically mentions that on Tik Tok, “the hashtag #gabbypetito had received more than 794 million views.”