A Dispatch From the Actual Internet
Angie (who insisted on using her first name only), just 24, already employs a handful of writers and a brand manager. Over dinner, she sketched out a brief bio for me. Her family is from Nigeria, and she settled in Los Angeles. After college, she took a job in an accountant’s office in L.A. but was fired for playing hooky to attend a screenwriting workshop at Sundance. Still, her time in Utah paid off. She won a grant to pursue filmmaking. Rather than return to pencil-pushing, she started an entertainment site in her spare time. It was to be a blog in the vein of MediaTakeOut or TMZ, but with one crucial difference: The Shade Room would be published entirely on Instagram.