It’s that time of year again when the post-Oscar buzz either has you on a big high, or it has you highly pissed off. Sadly, when it comes to representation for Black people, the latter usually happens more than the former.

At this year’s Oscars, however, there were some notable wins for Black people. Black Panther swept some important technical awards with Ruth E. Carter winning for Best Costume Design and Hannah Beachler winning for Best Production Design, making them the first Black women to win in either category.

Regina King also won Best Supporting Actress for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk while Mahershala Ali snagged the gold statue for his supporting role in Green Book.

Add a Best Adapted Screenplay win for Spike Lee, and Black people are winning, right?!

Meh.

When time came around for the Best Picture announcement, many people were surprised or just plain outraged when Green Book took home the gold. A lot of folks took their pain out on Twitter in the most hilarious way.

But before we get to that, if you haven’t seen or heard of Green Book, the movie based on real characters has developed quite a notorious reputation.

Although Mahershala’s performance in the movie was praised, the flick centers around Bronx-bred racist Tony Lip (played by Viggo Mortensen), who serves as the tour driver for acclaimed musician Dr. Don Shirley (played by Ali).

The movie explores race relations on a very shallow level, with Lip being portrayed as a White savior who defends Shirley from Southern White racists and introduces him to things like fried chicken and Little Richard…as if Shirley, a Black musician, couldn’t have possibly had fried chicken or heard of Little Richard.

Regardless if certain scenes were true or not, the movie painted Lip as a regular working-class White man who just happened to have some prejudices. More importantly, we should sympathize with him because he’s supposedly less racist than the Southern racist caricatures that we’re all-too familiar with in movies.

Many people slammed this one-note approach to race relations with shows like Late Night with Seth Meyers and Desus & Mero making parodies of the movie.

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The family members of the real-life Dr. Shirley also dragged the film with Shirley’s younger brother Maurice Shirley labeling the movie a “symphony of lies,” according to Shadow and Act.

The title of the movie wasn’t even appropriate. The real-life Green Book, “The Negro Motorist Green Book” published by postal worker Victor Hugo Green in 1938, listed priceless info of safe eating establishments and lodging for Black people in the Jim Crow South. The Green Book movie barely covered this important info aside from a scene when Lip was handed a copy of the Green Book by a recording label executive.

All of these issues made Green Book‘s Best Picture win feel like another smack in the face to Black stories. When competing with Black-led films like Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman, the white-washed, White savior narrative won again.

Even creatives like Spike Lee couldn’t contain their frustration, considering the BlacKkKlansman director reportedly stormed out his seat when Green Book was announced as Best Picture.

Of course, many frustrations were let out on Twitter with White and Black users alike clowning the movie’s shallow take on race.

Because the Internet has no chill, many people also hilariously made fun of Green Book by comparing it to that one White person who tries waaay too hard to prove they’re not racist.

Hit the next pages for more spot-on tweets of how Green Book strikingly resembles your allegedly “non-racist” White friend.

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It seems like every time Tyga wins, he manages to take an L shortly after. On Saturday, the “Taste” rapper got into an argument with someone at Floyd Mayweather‘s 42nd birthday and wound up getting dragged out club by security. But the real “wtf” moment was when Tyga got outside of the Hollywood hotspot, he reached in his security’s pocket to grab for his gun.

Luckily, the guard was much more cool headed and aware than Tyga was, and managed to keep his pistol. No word on what went down to cause T to want to grab the draco, but he and his crew fled the scene shortly after being escorted out the club.

LOL.

R. Kelly Surrenders To Chicago Police

It’s been a long time coming, but cruddy crooner R. Kelly has finally surrendered. On Friday, the controversial singer turned himself in to Chicago Police after being indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

Kelly’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, tweeted early Friday that the 52-year old would turn himself into police between 11 p.m ET — and by 8:15 pm ET, he was at the Chicago precinct in handcuffs. According to reports, if Kelly is taken into police custody, he’s expected to be held overnight and appear Saturday in bond court.

As we previously reported, the Grammy winner has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse in Cook County, Illinois after four women accused him of sexually abusing them between September 1998 and January 2010. Three of the four victims were between the ages 13 and 17 when the alleged abuse occurred.

It seems like he’s ready — for a jail cell.

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Cleo TV’s ‘Just Eats with Chef JJ’

Things are heating up at Chef JJ’s New York City loft! On the latest episode of his ‘Just Eats With Chef JJ‘, ESPN Commentator Stephen Jackson and Lifestyle Influencer Courtney Larissa stopped by the kitchen to help prepare some good ol’ southern comfort foods — including BBQ Braised Brisket with Cast Iron Skillet, Cornbread and Coleslaw.

But the Brisket isn’t the only thing heating up Chef JJ’s kitchen. Stephen and Larissa get their flirt on throughout the entire episode, and it’s so juicy to watch. Catch an all new episode of the hit Cleo TV show when it airs this Saturday, February 23 at 12pm.

Check out the clip above.

Cinema’s big night is only a few days away and already anticipation is building. The Oscars on Sunday is sure to be full of surprises and letdowns, and it’s only right we put our own spin on the ceremony to avoid a boring evening.

Hit the next pages for some Oscar predictions, snubs and swap-able nominees that could keep things interesting.

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29-year old Sean Milliken, who starred on TLC’s ‘My 600 Lb Life, has died due to complications of an infection. Sean’s father, Matt, took to Facebook to announce the sad news writing:

“Sunday he was having problems with his breathing, they were able to resuscitate him and a short time later his heart stopped.”

TLC also released a statement expressing their condolences to the Milliken family:

“TLC is saddened to share that Sean Milliken has passed away. Viewers first met Sean in 2016 on ‘My 600-lb Life’ when he weighed over 900-lbs. Over the course of his weight loss journey, he victoriously lost over 400-lbs.”

Sean’s health reportedly declined after his mom died of kidney disease in 2017.  TLC released an old clip of Sean from last summer when they caught up with him after his mother’s death.

Prayers up for rest of the Milliken family.