Dayna Carney

"content is kind, distribution will be everywhere."

Black teenage girls are the invisible tastemakers creating and popularizing some of the biggest trends simply by being their authentic selves. It’s the everyday Black girl, without a platform or the machine of capitalism behind her, who exudes cool without having to try.

Due to climate change, some scents—and the stories attached to them—are at risk of being lost.

Because that’s what it was like before the Internet. You made your own fun.

Even so, I was also a teenager, making decisions based on the visibility that our culture teaches us to desire. I knew that my audience wanted to feel authenticity from me. To give that to them, I revealed pieces of myself that I might have been wiser to keep private.

I was entering adulthood and trying to live my childhood dream, but now, to be “authentic,” I had to be the product I had long been posting online, as opposed to the person I was growing up to be.

Before the Internet, if you were in need of some facts you might actually decide to consult an old person, like the one living in your finished basement.