Holy shit, this thread is a horror show. Made me wonder who Twitter would pick as the star of Black Panther... https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528
I mean... maybe it’s a scale thing. What happens if we make Freeman smaller?
Okay, so I found the tipping point. Open the second image to see how much smaller Freeman’s face has to be for Bosesman to be selected. ‘Freeman’ indeed.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Plenty of folk pointing out that TweetDeck selects one of the many Chadwicks. And when I’m selecting the images to post from my iPad, these are the thumbnails that Photos throw up.
For all the folks using third party apps who are just seeing Boseman, this is what the rest of us are getting
Let’s try some more...
Twitter certainly seems to like Stan but maybe not just white folk. Lots of interesting replies to this. A few claim conspiracy but vast majority (me included) seeing systemic racism caused by mostly white devs testing with mostly white data.

But also, confirmation bias is real!
This thread really blew up which means I get to add the traditional “since you’re here” tweet. So if you have a vote in the U.S. election, wherever you are in the world, then please be like Dianna and USE IT NOW ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 https://twitter.com/grlpantsgr/status/1307312247690194944
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