One of the perks of having grandparents who would be well over 100 years old is that I don’t have to worry about pulling up Hulu—to watch the docuseries about the young white chick who talked her boyfriend into killing himself—and seeing a video of my grandma topping off randos in the streets of Atlanta in 1994.
If my grandma topped off anyone in the streets of Atlanta when she was that age, acquaintance of otherwise, it wasn’t captured for posterity, except in the fond memories of the recipient. The technology had yet to be invented.
I feel for those of you who have younger mothers and grandmothers. This could be a difficult next few weeks.
It’s not clear to me, from the one and a half articles I skimmed, when the Freaknik documentary drops, but it can’t be that long from now. Hulu doesn’t usually announce its content very far in advance, nor do they seem to spend a lot of time producing it. I watched the first season of that Wu-Tang series, and they seemed to be making it up as they went along.
It’s not like they have to go down to Atlanta and film girls engaging in inappropriate behavior in public—unless they plan to use “America’s Most Wanted” style dramatic reenactments, complete with suspenseful music. I’m assuming they just bought this footage from some young guy who filmed it “for his own personal amusement” and had it in his sock drawer all this time. If the quality of the video starts to degrade at certain moments, we’ll know what he was up to.
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