Black and Nuanced Podcast

This week is a special release and celebration of my podcast releasing 50 episodes. I wanted to lighten but spice things up while trying to understand the allure of OnlyFans before it became associated with Demon Time (#IYKYK) and adult entertainment.

OnlyFans is a subscription based website for creators to privately share their content for a fee. Patreon does the same thing. I'm on Patreon but my guest Wize Grazette, founder of the Indie Creative Network, took his content to OnlyFans, "tik tok when I dance." He and I had an interesting conversation dissecting the difference between the two since he's used both, whether the stigma of OnlyFans hurts or helps his business, him being in a three year polyamorous relationship (felt like this became Insecure's show within a show), and the difference in having boundaries versus rules in relationships.

I also have new video content on the way that will drop on Patreon first so subscribe at the link below.

SHOW NOTES

You can find Wize Grazette on Twitter and Instagram.

You can follow his Indie Creative Network (ICN) here. My podcast is also apart of his network.

You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram. You can follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.

Subscribe/follow me on Apple Podcasts, Anchor, iHeartradio, Google Podcasts, and Spotify at Black + Nuanced Podcast. Email me at [email protected] for your questions, comments, feedback.

BLM resources

BLM and ways to effect change https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/

Master Thread of Where to Donate

Donate to Black Lives Matter

Donate to Campaign Zero

Black Owned Businesses to Support (still do your research before spending)

Petitions We Can Sign (still do your research before signing)

Thread of Meaningful Legislation addressing Police Violence

Your Phone Is a Goldmine of Hidden Data for Cops. Here's How to Fight Back https://gizmodo.com/your-phone-is-a-goldmine-of-hidden-data-for-cops-heres-1843817740

How to Protect Phone Privacy and Security During a Protest https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/protect-phone-privacy-security-during-a-protest/

When Twitter and Instagram were created in 2006 and 2010 respectively, no one fathomed [at the time] that a person would be able to make millions off of said platforms. At least I didn’t. Fast forward, now we have people getting to the money in a real way. But what about creating during the time of #rona as an influencer? For some of us, it has been a struggle for our own personal projects especially for me BUT not for those who depend on content creation as part of their livelihood.

Enter Stephen Williams, known by his YouTube subscribers as American Boy, and natural hair influencer, Alana Simone, better known as ina90skindofworld on Instagram. *Hey Google, cue Living Single’s theme song.* Both of them have cultivated their brand into a business on their respective platforms for at least two years and counting.

This week’s episode explores the misperceptions of being an influencer, their holy sh*t moment of social media becoming a business for them, and how they handle the criticism of their own work. We also unpack the criticism of black art in white spaces as it related to Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s #Verzuz series rematch with Teddy Riley and Babyface that went down on Instagram Live earlier this week. Just in case you missed it, they had half a million people on the gram reminiscing before it stopped working. Talk about breaking the internet. We did that.

SHOW NOTES:

You can follow Stephen Williams on Twitter http://twitter.com/americanboy and Instagram http://www.instagram.com/americanboy. You can subscribe to his YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/americanboy90.

You can follow Alana Simone on Instagram http://instagram.com/ina90skindofworld and Tik Tok as ina90skindofworld. You can subscribe to her YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSGFF95LtrSYFL61thiyTMA.

You can follow me on Twitter www.twitter.com/georgette and Instagram at www.instagram.com/georgettepierre.

You can follow the show on Twitter www.twitter.com/blacknuancedpod and Instagram at www.instagram.com/blacknuancedpod.

Subscribe/follow me on Apple Podcasts, Anchor, iHeartradio, Google Podcasts, and Spotify at Black + Nuanced Podcast. Email me at [email protected] for your questions, comments, feedback.