MySpace amplified the ongoing moral panic around teenagers on the internet. For young MySpace users, many of the trials of teenhood were transposed from the locker rooms, lunchrooms, and high school corridors to the realm of testimonials and Top 8. But was it really worse than any reality that teenagers throughout history have known?
Joanne is joined by Alexis Nedd (author of Don't Hate the Player) and Noor Al-Sibai (author of the forthcoming MySpace Scene Queens) to talk about growing up on MySpace.
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04/07/23 • 32 min
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Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace - 4. Scene Kids
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This is an I heeart original. I don't want to make it seem like the overwhelming whiteness of the scene necessarily stopped me or stopped other seeing kids of color, like seeing because of color, often banded together and boosted each other up when you know the elite kids didn't. There were trains that were just for seeing kids of color, which, of course the white kids was super racist. And I'm like, how many black people are running your train?
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