All you need to know about the Miley Cyrus/Robin Thicke “duet” at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards can be summed up in the horrified faces of Will Smith’s kids. (Correction: It was Lady Gaga’s performance that prompted that reaction.) Yesterday, the deep thinkers in the media went back and forth over whether the performance itself was racist or if calling the performance racist was racist. Now, two days later, ABC News is at work trying to explain the physiology at work in “twerking.”
ABC Deserves this Hashtag Takeover after reporting this BS About the scientific breakdown of Twerking #ABCreports http://t.co/LUyu53hxkX
— c h r y s t e n (@getfitwithchrys) August 27, 2013
No, really. “Twerking: A Scientific Explanation,” featured on the health section of ABC News’ website, claims that “only a Ph.D. researcher can explain how the body does what it does to make it happen.” Well? “You take a wide stance with your legs turned out at 10 and 2 so your hips are externally rotated. Then you pulse up and down as you thrust the pelvis bone forward and back.”
Fascinated follows latched on to the #ABCReports hashtag to predict the next scientific breakthrough from the ABC News team.
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"I'll Knock You Into Next Week" have black mothers invented time travel? Details at 11. #ABCReports
— Antifa Leader (@Joe_Schmucc) August 27, 2013
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"I'll slap the black off of you." How NASA is teaming up with black parents to create vaporizer technology! #ABCReports
— Jesse Veal ?? (@TheJesseVeal) August 27, 2013
.@abcnews are you looking at the #abcreports trending topic? Black Twitter's making you famous, baby!
— Tukach Shakur ?? (@its_kachi) August 27, 2013
@webinista Good thing we're not a day away from declaring war, or anything.
— Matt May (@mattmay) August 27, 2013
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with a correction.
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