No one saw this one coming. According to and interview with Paper Magazine, a popular Internet personality, who was commonly believed to be a Black woman, revealed their true identity in a recent cover story. And as expected, Black Twitter is in an uproar.......
@EmoBlackThot is actually a bi-sexual 23-year-old black man named Isaiah Hickland. Hickland has been the voice behind Emoblackthot for four years and decided to finally reveal his identity after rising to fame in anonymity.
“This is a big step for me,” Hickland told Paper Magazine.
He goes on to say:
“I’m so nervous, probably because this will be the first and last time I’ll ever be this honest and open about myself to anybody.”
The unmasked social media personality offered skincare and self-care tips to his 170,000 plus followers every day. The account, which seemed to be founded on honesty and transparency between Black women, was actually built on lies.
“I lied to people. I could’ve been honest,” Hickland said in his interview. “But the account got so big at some point, it almost turned into a nightmare.”
After Hickland’s cover image dropped, longtime fans and followers of EmoBlackThot took to Twitter to express anger at the social media fraud for co-opting the struggles and story of Black womanhood for profit. EmoBlackThot reportedly spoke about periods, cramps, his zodiac sign, and even accepted donations from his fans under the guise of being a Black woman.
This story is very very interesting. Stay tuned for updates.