Interviewing Prentice Penny about Black Twitter on Hulu

Photographed: Joy Ofodu and Prentice Penny, on set at Meta.

In May 2024, I had the pleasure of interviewing Prentice Penny about Black Twitter and the new Hulu documentary on the digital cultural experience, “Black Twitter: A People’s History.”

As a Black television and social media clapback legend, Prentice was influential to my entertainment writer and development journey, so the opportunity to test his knowledge of Black Twitter, acronyms, and more in a quick game of Culture Tags was beyond joyful. You know his showrunning, writing and directing work on Girlfriends, Uncorked, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Insecure, and now Black Twitter: A People’s History.

Hearing Prentice’s perspective on iconic moments was both enlightening and nostalgic — a reminder of the power and unity within our digital spaces. Thank you to Meta and We the Culture for organizing this must-see duo moment! I joined Twitter in 2009 and loved re-living the early days with Prentice! We gotta preserve our presences.

Watch “Black Twitter” on Hulu for an exploration of one of the most influential corners of the internet. It brings out our fave moments on the timeline as well as memes in the flesh, in a way that only Prentice could curate.

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As a celebrated voice actor and Creative Executive, Joy Ofodu has drawn over 30M views to her original digital comedy content and countless more to inclusion-centered, global marketing campaigns at Instagram. Under her self-titled media company, she has grown a highly-engaged community of more than 200,000 online daters and meditators in just two years. Joy is the host of Dating Unsettled, an audio show designed to validate women daters, available now on all podcast platforms. Joy’s voice can be heard in her partnerships with HBO Max, Adult Swim, The Daily Shine, Skybound Entertainment, Meta, Credit Karma, Netflix, DIRECTV, Upenndo! and more

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