The Twitterverse Objectifying...Children Too???
The picture on the right displays that this specific Twitter post has been mentioned over 20,000 separate times and has had over 20,000 users look and disseminate its content. It is quite clear that the ubiquitous and user-friendly nature of something like Twitter makes this sort of phenomenon much easier and more accessible to different kinds of people, showing the social media platform's exacerbating nature in this context.
Once again, the twitter posts found above were picked because they were amongst the top five search results when the key word Latinx was typed into the twitter search bar, which ties back to the original purpose of the this project: accurately portraying the way in which real-time media most commonly portrays Latinx individuals and ends up both creating and enforcing subjectively imposed sexualized beauty standards and false narratives.
Another incriminating post showing Twitter acting as a medium for the derogatory disrespect of Latinx women is displayed above. This time around, the user attempts to be humorous via listing a bevy of utterly offensive, racist, and disgustingly patriarchal reasons as to why "every Spanish women" should be with a White man, with one of the reasons once again being to create mixed children. The more disturbing characteristic of this particular Twitter post however is that it actually went viral, being categorized under the hashtag "#spicylatinas." Not much has to be said to indicate just how much easier it is to create a false, misrepresentative, and dehumanizing image of an entire group of people and spread it to millions of other people just with the tap of a phone screen or the clicking of an enter on a keyboard. This is in part because of the advent of 21st century interfaces like Twitter, a troubling phenomenon not set to disappear for a while.