Based mostly on the three-part article sequence written by Wired‘s Jason Parham and directed by Prentice Penny (Insecure), Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past chronicles the rise of one of the vital influential, essential areas on the web, by means of the main moments, key voices, and naturally, the memes. And you’ll watch the brand new trailer above.

“Black Twitter is the beating coronary heart of Twitter total,” wrote Mashable’s Probability Townsend and Tim Marcin. “You probably have a favourite meme, joke, and even manner to make use of Twitter, it most certainly began on Black Twitter. There isn’t any Twitter — no less than not the model we all know — with out Black Twitter.”

The three-part Hulu sequence incorporates a colossal quantity of interviews, that includes Roxane Homosexual, W. Kamau Bell, Ira Madison III, Jemele Hill, Child Fury, Dr. André Brock, Rembert Browne, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Raquel Willis, Dr. Meredith Clark, Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins, TJ Adeshola, Shamika Klassen, Amanda Seales, Denver Sean, Wesley Lowery, April Reign, Sam Jay, Brad Jenkins, God-is Rivera, Ashley Weatherspoon, Van Lathan, Jamilah Lemieux, Baratunde Thurston, J Wortham, Judnick Mayard, and Parham.

Notably, the response to Hulu’s first trailer was blended on Black Twitter itself.

watch: Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past premieres Might 9 on Hulu.