Issa Rae

I wasn't really familiar with Kerry Barker or his work because I don't really watch a lot of... scripted series on YouTube anymore.

I stopped doing that after like Awkward Black Girl, like with Issa Rae and Derek Comedy and The Only Island.

So I'm not opposed to it, but I just haven't done it.

I haven't heard them names in years bitch I haven't done it in a while like and I'm I you know I haven't just done it in a long time um but it was cool and honestly I've watched a lot of horror movies by youtubers like we watched bring her back and I watched um talk to me and I've also watched Markiplier's movie which is not good I watched Shelby Oaks which is also not good um And I watched Backrooms, which I am not a fan of.

One was Drewski will be the first creator to host SNL, which I thought was kind of a big deal.

I know some people say, wait, Issa Rae, she hosted.

And yes, she kind of was a creator, but I still think she was famous for the show.

And to me, that makes her more of an actress, like a celebrity than a creator.

Someone's trying to find you.

Issa Rae is in there and Issa Rae has done a lot of investments in sport and various different new media things and interesting things but Steph Curry is in there like all sorts of Billie Jean King like famous people And I think it's interesting because it's doing a couple of things that I think are interesting.

One, it's deliberately trying to create an off-season.

So typically basketball players also go into Europe at the end of their career or during the summer and they play in different, not just Europe, but different markets like Asia, Russia, various places.

Right.

When you were talking about maybe, you know, your come up and also like the things you're doing now, reminds me of kind of Issa Rae's

trajectory.

Started on the

He's going to make himself

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people he named Are not Issa Rae and Donald Glover

Yeah You're thinking about Donald Glover is amazing Don't get it twisted I studied him too Cause he came from YouTube Derek Comedy Then he did What about Jared Carmichael Jared Carmichael Nah He's not a He's funny He's not a star though He's not a star.

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Issa Rae, ma'am, first of all, I'm so glad that you are here.

I'm happy to be here.

You're here promoting Seen and Heard.

We continue to associate them with these stereotypes that have... have not become part of our social norm and understandings of Black women.

This idea of the Jezebel, this idea of the lying Black woman, that's all been seeping in, is emerging right now.

And for all the progress that we thought might happen from 2016 onwards, when things like Insecure were getting greenlit, when things like Rap Shit was coming out, when Issa Rae was building her empire, when Shonda Rhimes was the name on everybody's lips.

We've made some progress, but there are some huge obstacles that we are still needing to address amongst each other.

And most of them won't give me anything.

You know, if it's public, like on TikTok, like obviously Screen Time, which is the show I directed for Issa Rae's company, you know, that's on TikTok.

I can see the view counts.

I can see maybe what fans are responding to the comment section.

So the numbers were mind boggling and they were pushed out a lot.

Although it's not quite apples to apples because it's a frictionless TikTok, right? Like you're not, there's no pin wall.

So, and then- Was that an ad? Like, was Issa Rae splitting ad sales with TikTok? Is it like YouTube where you get a certain amount of money per eyeball? Or how does that work?

You know, this is actually black box for me.

Youngsters, they were best for like young.

We saw the TV show that Issa Rae did about them on HBO.

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so i forget the name of it but like yeah yeah so i just hope they can figure it out anderson park and core day dc zone made an album together i haven't heard it yet but the single was fire uh sir