In my opinion, the article in Teen Vogue titled “<\/span>We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs”<\/span> is a little bit of a stretch. It is a very opinionated article, which is fine, but opinionated articles need evidence to support the opinions put forth, and there is little evidence to back up several claims Lauren Jackson makes. The author states without evidence, for example, \u201cFor while reaction GIFs can and do every feeling under the sun, white and nonblack users seem to especially prefer GIFs with black people when it comes to emitting their most exaggerated emotions\u201d (Jackson 2017). It is fine to make this claim, but Jackson should have more to support this statement than just her own supposition. To simply say that it seems like people prefer GIFs with black people is not a convincing argument because it is not an argument at all – it is merely an opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n