i’m just really lonely. i’m just really lonely

utterly endeared to and devastated by this. loved the e-girl investigation, the use of internet meme as emotional shorthand, the communal witchy atmosphere. loved the ideas this puts forth about black girls searching for meaning and belonging, but simultaneously pained to watch that belonging get denied at every turn. bittersweet that a form of that rejection comes from another black woman, one who’s already been stripped of her autonomy and spent decades trying to reclaim it, who doesn’t want to be perceived or recognized, even by the people who might genuinely cherish her. this really encapsulates what it is to be a black girl in internet purgatory. so fascinating, so gutting