![]() ![]() She noticed something strange was going on when Megamind, an animated movie from 2010, was the most popular film on the platform the week of March 16. “We’re seeing posts literally float to the surface from 10 years ago,” says Cortney Kerans, the head of communications at Tumblr. “If you were on Tumblr in 2013-2014 you should qualify for a senior discount,” reads one self-deprecating video from the genre, as though the era were several generations ago and not less than a decade. Others are digging back into their angst-ridden social media posts from their adolescent and teen years. Girls are recreating outfits inspired by hyper-stylized image macros of flower crowns and band T-shirts they loved in middle school. “Bop or flop?” posits a TikTok trend asking users to rate “coming-of-age indie pop bangers” from those years. Reliving a very specific subculture from the period that roughly spans from 2009 to 2014 - the era of indie pop, ironically oversize eyeglasses, and late-wave finger mustaches - is what countless millennials and Gen Z kids are doing right now, online and in their bedrooms. But wouldn’t it be fun to pretend it was? This is, statistically, probably not what you were doing in 2013. Bing! Your friend just texted you a hilarious Harlem Shake Vine. You’re listening to a Purity Ring song on your iPhone 4S, wearing an American Apparel tennis skirt while reblogging a Tumblr post shipping Santana and Brittany from Glee. So they are taking it personal … this is a hoax for her, but all the families that we are dealing with, this is their reality.POV: It’s 2013. “They are still hurting, still searching, asking for support and community engagement for their missing loved ones. “These families are already fighting an uphill battle,” Wilson said. That reality is fueling the concern that Russell’s hoax could mean that law enforcement may treat future missing-persons reports involving Black women with skepticism. Wilson said there was no unified national policy on how law enforcement should handle these cases, leaving it up to individual police departments to determine how much they invest in investigations. Now, disheartened by how Russell’s case broke down, missing-persons advocates and experts worry that the woman’s fabrication could undermine the pursuit of the thousands of legitimate cases involving Black women and girls. ![]() Wilson told me that the media’s expansive coverage of Russell’s case made the families of missing Black women “hopeful … because they’re seeing someone that looks like their missing loved one”. And finally, on Monday, her attorney gave a full statement: Russell had lied and no kidnapping had taken place. The police eventually released evidence that cast doubt on the kidnapping story Russell told police when she eventually resurfaced. ![]() And the local Hoover police dedicated substantial time and resources to finding her. Her family appeared on the Today Show, saying that their daughter had been abducted and that the perpetrator remained at large. A deluge of national and international news coverage focused on the woman’s disappearance. These cases almost never reach anything even vaguely resembling media virality.īut Russell’s case proved different. By the end of 2022, of the more than half million people reported missing, roughly 98,000 were Black women and girls. In 2022, Black women accounted for 18% of all missing people, even as they account for just 7% of the US population, according to the National Crime Information Center and US Census Bureau. ![]()
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