Using A Black Gif Is Now ‘Digital Blackface,’ According To

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>Many of these black reaction GIFS refers to feature black people in various stages of emotions: happy, angry, sad etc. Though these gifs express a wide range of human emotions, it’s problematic for non black people to use them because it only further reinforces cultural stereotypes about excessive emotions in black people

>After all, our culture frequently associates black people with excessive behaviors, regardless of the behavior at hand. Black women will often be accused of yelling when we haven’t so much as raised our voice.It’s an implication that points toward a strange way of thinking: When we do nothing, we’re doing something, and when we do anything, our behavior is considered extreme.

>Having to represent the source of people’s emotions online can be exhausting,
The weight of reaction GIFing, period, rests on our shoulders. Intertwine this proliferation of our images with the other ones we’re as likely to see — death, looped over and over — and the Internet becomes an exhausting experience
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
Every time you post a nigger on 4chan you're now doing blackface