Another Round’s Tracy Clayton takes us down memory lane of the weirdest medical mystery meme from early’ 00s BlackPlanet.com
We talk to BuzzFeed's Tracy Clayton, host of the Another Round podcast about the heyday of BlackPlanet.com in the early '00s.
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Tracy wrote 22 Things Only People Who Had A Black Planet Page Will Understand about what the social network was like in the early and mid '00s. BlackPlanet.com predated Friendster and Myspace by a few years, but a lot of the things from the site would go on to influence other social media. Things like signing people's page became like the Myspace wall. One feature that was significantly different was that you could see who had viewed your page – good for flirting, but terrible for creeping.
One unique meme that grew on Black Planet was calling people's guest page their "g-spot", and saying that by signing it, you were "licking their g-spot":
