Warner paid a reported $US85 million ($A116 million) for IMGN Media, which operates several brands across social media, e-sports and entertainment. Its most well-known property is the meme-sharing Instagram account Daquan, which has 15.5 million followers. OWNER RESPONDS TO ‘DIGITAL BLACKFACE’ ACCUSATIONSIf you’ve watched enough Australian television over the years you’re probably familiar with blackface as a concept and the racist connotations it tries to exploit for cheap laughs, but now there’s emerging criticism of a new concept – “digital blackface”. Mr Parham wrote that on Facebook and Twitter, “instances of digital blackface are either text-based (abusing black vernacular) or image-based (trotting out memes or GIFs of black celebrities)”. With the alleged digital blackface scandal aside, you might be wondering how an Instagram account could make tens of millions of dollars.

Source: Ethiopian News September 08, 2020 02:00 UTC