Blackfishing: The New Trend Of White People Trying To Look Black Blackfishingexplained Various European and American social media influencers have been accused of practising a new-age form of blackface. Swedish teen Emma Hallberg is among the many Instagram users who have been accused of starting and unashamedly taking part in a new phenomenon that has been dubbed “blackfishing” or “n****rfishing.” Swedish teen Emma Hallberg has been accused of presenting herself as a racially ambiguous women to win more social media followers. What is blackfishing? Blackfishing refers to the practice of a white person presenting themselves as mixed race or racially ambiguous on social media to pander to a particular aesthetic, and therefore gaining more followers. It has been viewed as a modern incarnation of blackface – the theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person. It is and has been considered a racially insensitive repre...
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