#exactlyyy

Black women also haven't been given the benefit of the doubt by the music industry a la blowing up from tt/influencer music the way you see addison rae, tate mcrae, alex warren, sombr, etc etc even olivia rodrigo/sabrina carpenter to some extent (though they were disney investments) being legitimized; whereas the few Black women that do gain *named* recognition from virality (bc so much of what Black women contribute digitally goes viral divorced from their authorship) either are considered too cult/niche [*cough* Black] for mainstream (PinkPantheress, Sexyy Red, Orion Sun) or are too "adult"/suggestive/aggressive/any typ neg trait ascribed to Black women to the point of memeification in some cases (Flo Milli, Tyla, Kaliii, Taffy). The double standards are obvious and "excuses" always boil down to anti-Blackness, seeing Black art as lesser than while biting Black culture in the same breath