#evelynfromtheinternets

[ketallpot]

I laughed out loud several times while watching this.

[vitaminzzz]

[ebonyzerscrooge]

***WARNING*** I CANNOT milly rock........I REPEAT.....I CANNOT MILLY ROCK 😂😂😂😂😂 well anyway, link in bio and whatnot for a new HAIR VIDEO! . . . . #naturalhair #naturalhairstyles #darkskingirls #darkskin #4chair #blackgirlmagic #youtuber #youtube #naturalhaircare #naturalhaircommunity #natural #blackgirls #blackgirlswhoblog #blackyoutubers #comedy #comedyvideos #silly #fun #evelynfromtheinternets #jouelzy #naptural85

[weirdingone]

"Don't let anybody shame you for making new year's resolutions, okay? No you're not gonna fulfil them all. That's not the point! The point is relentless belief in oneself despite evidence to the contrary!"

- Evelyn from the Internets

Whew she said THAT

[cococurenat]

. Oreo C R U M B L E🍪 . Hey guys! Although my mind is wandering along some shoreline in the Caribbean💭, my appetite and love of cooking/baking has and will always bring me back to focus. 👏😊 Tonight I felt like treating myself to a strawberry cheesecake with an Oreo based crust. I also topped this treat off with crushed Oreos and drizzled chocolate. "Whereeee do we go from HERE?!" *Haitian accent* 😩😩👐👐I am LITERALLY inhaling my dinner just so I can get to this situation!😂 . . Hope the week is treating you well guys! Good night! 😊 . . #vegan #vegantreat #veganlife #vegancooking #vegancake #rawcake #berrycake #cheesecake #strawberry #oreo #crumble #sliceofheaven #vegandessert #organic #natural #plantbased #cashews #sweetvegan #blackvegan #blavityfoodie #blavity #afrovegan #melanin #haitianvegan #caribbeanvegan #evelynfromtheinternets #qouted

[noctomania]

As Someone Who Didn’t Vote For 10 Years: Your Vote Matters.

Hey. So, let’s chat. Or rather, hear me out.

I turned 18 in 2006. I did not vote until 2016. Bc even I saw through my apathy & prioritized trying to combat potential fascism. You can get an idea of how many elections one sits out of over a 10yr span here. It’s a lot & I should have done my part much sooner. Though I could say “well I was in college from 2007-2012 & &&” no. Not an excuse. I had time no doubt. I was just apathetic. I have reflections for those who continue to abstain from their right & duty to vote.

I remember my parents encouraging me to register to vote. I think it was part of applying for my license or something. I can’t remember if I ever registered with a party, but I think in TX in order to vote you have to be registered with a party. In any case, since I’ve been registered in the north I haven’t been part of a party bc I too felt the whole thing was a sham. I was still remembering the robbery that was Bush’s terms. TWO WHOLE TERMS. I remember seeing my mom cry when he won his first term. I remember hearing about all the awful shit he was doing as president from my dad & stepmom.

But I also remember thinking: “Why isn’t anyone doing anything?”

It can be incredibly disheartening & frustrating & downright angering to hear about atrocities without hearing about the forces fighting back. Death & Drama sells.

I wasn’t eligible to vote when bush was running. Then Obama came along & I was like “Great, surely my blue state I live in now is all for him & I don’t gotta bother - y'all got my order.”

Your. Vote. Matters.

Obama was an incredible victory. I will never allude to him ever being perfect bc he, just like every other president, has had to make tough decisions that do not always work out, or they make decisions you outright disagree with. He’s just part of the spectrum of what we’ve known, but he was the first Black president of a nation that was built & raised on destroying Native communities & enslaving Black people. That was & will remain significant. As you can imagine, during that time of not voting I also was not entirely involved in racial matters as much as I should have been despite what I was actively learning about in college. I sunk into apathy.

Apathy is a comfort not afforded to everyone. It is not an option for everyone as a means of survival. Were Black communities & of color to sink entirely into apathy they would be completely wiped out bc there are organized white supremacists who spend every waking hour trying to find new ways to attack in covert & not-so-covert ways - voter suppression, intimidation, manipulation, propaganda. Apathy is a privilege. A white privilege that even a kid raised on free lunches at school & hand-me-downs from neighbors could afford.

Your. Vote. Matters.

Let’s talk symbolism. “My refusal to vote is symbolic of my disgust with how this nation is run, how our elections are corrupt, to show my hatred of the electoral college, my vote doesn’t matter anyway bc ...”

You’re right. Your vote is symbolic. But not for what you think.

When you don’t vote, that is like not replying to a message. The nation poses a question to all voters: Who do you want to represent you? If you don’t reply to the email, your input isn’t counted at all. There is no footnote to say “I didn’t vote bc of such-and-such reason.” You might have been unconscious. You might have forgotten. You might have not cared. You might care very much.

But there is literally no job in the entire election process who’s responsibility is to sit in an office & contemplate why Jared in Oklahoma didn’t cast a vote.

“Gee, I sure hope Jared is ok. Is he mad at us? I guess he might want change...”

No. The way you show that you are not happy with how things are going is to vote. THAT is how you send the sentiment of “Hey so this isn’t great I’d like to try moving this way.” But we can’t really make progress without continuing to push. Even when things look like they’re going well (”Hey, we got a Black guy in office, we’re doing great with the racism stuff!”) you gotta keep pushing - which is why you need to be able to realize the ones you do vote for need to be criticized as well. Obviously, there will be myths & the ones about Obama probably hit a record tally on that with how angry a Black person as president made the racists in this country feel, but there are valid criticisms as well that should not be overlooked if we want to know how to push for a better tomorrow, or to avoid accidentally electing a new nightmare bc you aren’t getting immediate results from who you thought was going to change the world. It’s a lot to put on one president. It would take multiple terms, beyond 2, to really see a shift considering they may be combating an opposing congress or supreme court. 

The only reason your vote matters is because it is symbolic. If we all had esp we wouldn’t need to vote. Writing on a form that looks different depending on where you are yet all cumulatively results in the tallying for ONE election is entirely symbolic. That’s not an argument against voting, it’s proof as to why you should vote. Symbolism is not without consequence. Look at every book-burning that has ever happened. Our ideas are symbolic until they are put into practice. Your vote is your idea. We can’t read your mind. And the government isn’t reading your blog being like “GiantD0ngB0ng really said it best when they said ‘Fuck politicians’. That really change our perspective on how we had been running this nation. You’re right GiantD0ngB0ng, you’re right.”

If we had elected Hillary after Obama, we wouldn’t be so fucking bad with corona bc she wouldn’t have dismembered the pandemic response Obama had built due to swine flu, we wouldn’t be nearly as worried about ACA, we would still absolutely have criticisms bc no matter Woman, Black, Hispanic, Immigrant, Trans, Disabled, Homeless, or any combination of intersection of minorities, nobody is perfect. Nobody knows all the answers. Thus a decentralized government model that will only remain anywhere near as such if we stop letting fascists & bad faith actors get power by using our symbolic vote to say no.

Most everyone HATES group projects. I certainly do. If any people enjoy them, there are still likely aspects of it that rub them the wrong way like having a partner that doesn’t contribute. Guess what.

Elections are group projects.

I believe it was EvelynFromTheInternets who made me realize that, & echoes much of the same sentiment I have written in this.

And at 5:55 she says: What Are You Going To Do On November 4th bc We Are Still Fighting For Suffrage. We have to keep pushing & working towards a better tomorrow, today. None of it will amount to much if people are not voting. You can campaign & fundraising & educate all you want. But if people don’t vote it’s all for nothing. You need both.

“ As of June 2020, the United States had the highest number of incarcerated individuals worldwide, with more than 2.12 million people in prison “ This is absolutely part of the bigger problem & yet another way people have been disheartened. It’s on purpose. They don’t want disenfranchised communities to be able to vote. So we - those of us who don’t have to wait in lines for hours, those of us who don’t face racial violence, those of us who can choose apathy & laziness for a decade with little to no personal consequence - must vote symbolically for them.

If you want your vote to mean something then vote for them. Vote for the people who are still ineligible to vote even though they aren’t in prison anymore. Vote for the people who despite working more than you do, harder than you do, for less than you do, still have to pay taxes & still denied the right to vote. Vote for the people who can’t vote bc police murdered them. Vote for the people who wait 10 hours in line to vote & are turned away when they finally get to the front of the line. Vote for those who don’t have the right to relinquish in the first place. Hell you can even vote for those who do vote anyway but have been misled by propaganda. Bc if you don’t, eventually we all will sink. You may be in the upper class of the titanic but in the end the whole ship is going down & you may just have the opportunity to slowly freeze out in the dark ocean on a lifeboat with all your rich strangers with the slim chance at survival rather than swallowed immediately by the sea like those who were locked in the lower levels to keep them from access to rescue.

At 7:24 Evelyn hits another really important part that I think drives my whole point home: as a Black woman her actual life, & those who share her experience, is on the line constantly in this country & much of this world. It is not entirely as symbolic to some people as it is to the more privileged populations.

Sure, your vote is symbolic, & sure you not voting is absolutely symbolic. But the only thing not voting is symbolic of is your apathy, your own privilege to choose that & think you’ll be fine & that it’s other people who need to “wake up”. No babe, it’s you. Wake up to the wider consequences of symbolic gestures.

Your vote matters whether it’s electoral college or popular vote. Your vote matters to getting closer to an admin that will enable popular vote as the determinant & eradicate the electoral college. Your vote matters whether you’re in a “blue” state or a “red” state or a battleground state. A state is only red or blue until it’s not. I come from TX I know about that shit. The only reason “battleground” states are a focus is bc they fluctuate more often than others, that doesn’t make others ineligible to change. Your vote matters bc you may be only a portion of the overall grade, but the overall grade affects everyone. It will impact others more harshly than you.

Your Vote Matters.

I want to add one last note: voting doesn’t happen once every 4 years, & it’s never JUST about president. If you don’t go vote at all, you are neglecting the more local stuff as well which is what affects the bigger elections. If all you do during a group project is read one line during the presentation in class, the grade will reflect you lack of effort elsewhere throughout the project. If I showed up & only voted for president & nothing else it would be for nothing. Racist & bigoted GOP will vote all red all the time up & down ballot. It’s not about age either. If your vote didn’t matter then they wouldn’t sink so much money & effort into trying to prevent people from doing it.

[kerriisms]

So, basically, what I’m trying to say is: this shirt sums up a lot of what you need to know about me. Don’t you forget it! 😉✨😉✨😉 What is your favorite saying /theme/mantra? Wishing you a productive week, crew! 📷: @jamesbartending // 👚: @evelynfromtheinternets . . . . . . . #blackgirlmagic #blackqueen #blackgirlskillingit #melaninpoppin #melaninmagic #blkcreatives #blackentrepreneur #blackbusinesswomen #blackbusiness #blackexcellence #naturalhair #naturalistas #kerriisms #torontosfavoritebrooklyngirl #digitalinfluencer #blackgirlsbelike #torontoblogger #brooklynblogger #canadianblogger #grenadianblogger #jamaicanblogger #afrocubana #blackgirlsarelit #blackgirlswhoblog #melaninonfleek #melaninbeauty #melaningoddess #melaninqueen #magicalblackgirl #evelynfromtheinternets

[chezzaouttanowhere]

Reclaiming my god damn time biiittttch! You know we bout to be lit all rest of the year 2017! Maxine just lit the fuse, black women ain't got time for shit ever never no more! Fuck outta here RECLAIMING MY TIME! . . . . . . #reclaimingmytime #muvvamaxine #blackyoutubers #jouelzy #evelynfromtheinternets #jackieaina #brittanyhughes #shanboody #arifitz #whereyallat #youtubeseries #reclaimyourtime #abiolaabrams #chezzaouttanowhere #maxinewaters #californiapolitics

[fumfumko-blog]

👻 Happy Friday 👻 Click the link in the bio to watch my very first snapchat short film: Happy Friday 🎥🎞🎥 I collaborated with snapchat on this funny comedy. Starring @evelynfromtheinternets and was produced by @kvasudevan and myself. Link in bio! #snapchat #snapchatshortfilm #shortfilm #txfilm #filmmaker #happyfriday #happyfridayfilm #austinfilm #atxfilm #texasfilm #austinfilmmaker #atxfilmaker #shortfilmtexas #blackfilmmaker #directher #womenfilmmakers #womenfilmdirectors #womendirectors #fumfumko #indiefilm #austintexas #atx #texas #evelynfromtheinternets #fumfumko (at Austin, Texas)

[thishomespunlife-blog]

It's a pleasure working with you, Nikki! I know your VIP guests will just loves these adorable girls 😁. Sent via @planoly How cute are these #NaturalHair insipred keychains!!! We are absolutely in love with these #AfroPuffKeychains from #thishomespunlife. We love them so much that every VIP ticket purchase will receive one in their swag bag!!! There is still time to purchase your VIP ticket. Link in bio or below...see you August 26th!!! TICKETS: www.sipandsocialaustin2017.eventbrite.com . . . . . #Austin #ATX #AustinNaturals #ATXNaturals #ATXNaturalandCurlies #KilleenNaturals #WacoNaturals #SanAntonioNaturals #FtSamNaturals #FtHoodNaturals #MilitaryNaturals #NaturallyCurly #BlackGirlMagic #MagicalBlackGirl #EvelynFromtheInternets #90Party #SwagBags #NaturalHairCommunity #NaturalHairEvents #CollegeNaturals #NewNaturals #NaturalHairMovement

[hallease]

It's Friday so a new video is live on the channel. It's a #GUWM (Get unready with me) as I go through my night time routine while traveling and how like the rest of y'all I get influenced too. @evelynfromtheinternets influenced me with her @boldenusa review and @vicovolkov influenced me to buy a Luna Mini 2. I’ll also chat about my activities in San Francisco. Link is always in my bio! #chatvideo #sanfrancisco #iamnotabeautyguru #travelinfluencer #digitalstoryteller #videoproducer #travelstoryteller — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2NtUZBA

[ebonyzerscrooge]

LINK IN BIO. Well... I know for sure I ain't wake up like this, but you know. This tutorial is still litty. 👩🏿💆🏿💁🏿✨👏🏿 . . . FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/S9WrmJbakpM . . . #naturalhair #naturalhairstyles #darkskingirls #darkskin #4chair #blackgirlmagic #youtuber #youtube #naturalhaircare #naturalhaircommunity #natural #blackgirls #blackgirlswhoblog #blackyoutubers #comedy #comedyvideos #silly #fun #evelynfromtheinternets #jouelzy #naptural85

[maddblackgemini]

Let’s normalize “calling in Black.” Cause when I tell you I am overwhelmed at times and it affects my job performance, I know I’m doing too much! I need to sit down somewhere sometimes. Posted @withregram • @melanatedwomenshealth “@evelynfromtheinternets ...rather than physical sickness, we’re calling in because the constant exposure to trauma in the Black community, day after day is taking an emotional toll I’m not sure any of us imagined. It’s not possible for everyone, but If you’re able to “Call in Black” then do it without guilt. Take the personal day, sick day or whatever other day you can to unplug from forcing yourself to be part of spaces that don’t affirm you. For those who can’t take off work, “Calling in Black” can also look like a time out. A time out from obsessively scrolling the news, watching the videos or getting sucked into online debates. Let yourself breathe.” Source: The case for "calling in Black": why we must take time to tend to our racial trauma Correction to graphic text: Gentle #ProfessionalBlackGirl#TherapyForBlackGirls#RacialTrauma#GenerationalHealing#TraumaHealing#BlackMenTalHealthMatters https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-8Dogryd7/?igshid=uldea8uvnu3c

[freeqthamighty]

Got to reunite with my Internet cousin @evelynfromtheinternets yesterday in Nairobi. Last year she promised she'd come home and fam im so happy you did and we connected, kenya looks good on you! 🖤also fun story. I know Evelyn cuz I was doing a show in Austin a few years ago and @charli_t84 was tryna get Evelyn to be her friend and hang out with her and was like..."Ima use Mwende as bait cuz I know how much Kenyans love each other" 😂🇰🇪😂(there's no lie there lol). so she invited her to the show, and it worked and they began a beautiful friendship and I gained an Internet cousin 🤷🏿‍♀️although after taking these photos yesterday and posing exactly the same in almost all of them without trying I think there's a small chance we're blood related 🤔

[rememberebonyjanice]

Hi. Today is full of #BlackJoy over here at #TheFreePeopleProject 3pm CST I’m live with Jennifer Arnise @blackmotherwound 5pm CST I’m live with Christine Platt @afrominimalist & 6pm CST I’m LIVE with all of our cousin Evelyn From The Internets @evelynfromtheinternets ........ It’s a day full of. A week full of. A year full of BLACK JOY! #AYearOfBlackJoy —- All of this to celebrate the work of @emmaslegacyfoundation Consider visiting bit.ly/EmmasLegacyFoundation to support the work of #EmmasLegacy which provides scholarships to #DreamYourelfFree, supports the stipends for the facilitators first DYF and the 12 month spiritual mentoring programs and makes #BlackGirlMixtape possible! We can change the world. And so we shall. #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/CLCx2Y0F_Ob/?igshid=1isy6zha7sza