Blackout Tuesday
Millions of black squares that buried the information the hashtags were carrying.
You might remember it as the black squares
It happened on television
This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
On 2 June 2020 people posted a plain black square to Instagram in protest at the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Many tagged it #blacklivesmatter, and organisers who had been using that tag to move information about protests found it filled with black images instead. A gesture of support worked as a denial of service against the thing it supported.
It first appeared in 2020, during short-form and streams.
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- On 2 June 2020 people posted a plain black square to Instagram in protest at the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Many tagged it #blacklivesmatter, and organisers who had been using that tag to move information about protests found it filled with black images instead. A gesture of support worked as a denial of service against the thing it supported.