'Your Brain Is Broken!': Trailer For 'Zola,” A Movie Based On A Famed Twitter Saga, Prompts New …

A viral 2015 Twitter thread filled with plenty of juicy details, shocking crimes and revelations about sex trafficking has found new life on the social media platform after the trailer for the Sundance hit “Zola” was released last week. A’Ziah “Zola” King posted a 148-tweet thread in 2015 explaining how she was roped into a series of misadventures, and misdemeanors, in Florida after befriending a fellow stripper at a Detroit Hooters, where she worked. Hours after meeting, they took what King called a “ho trip.” “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this b-tch here fell out?! It’s kinda long but full of suspense,” was how King kicked off the social media platform retelling of her adventure. The thread features photos of her and the friend turned non-friend in question. The Twitter thread was adapted into a movie by director Janicza Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris and will be distributed by A24 when it’s released at the end of June. Over this past weekend, the trailer and release date announcement prompted viral recreations of the famous Twitter thread. Users, in particular, are using the thread intro to reference famous falling-outs. For example, one user took the same opening line to accompany images of Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield…
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