Mel Mitchell is going to make it Black!
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You might have discovered Mel Mitchell on Instagram or TikTok because of her infamous Black teacher at Hogwarts, but her journey in virality started way before that. It was in the twitter world that she captured the attention of everyone, especially the blogs. Twitter is where she took her comedic genius and turned her twitter page into her own standup set made of black cultural tweets.
“I always go to the example of the tweet I made about Morris Chestnut that went super viral two years ago.”
Mel’s tweets have continuously gone viral for the past several years. From Morris Chestnut replying to her tweet about him to blogs stealing her comedy and claiming it as their own. “ The blogs would steal my tweets and take my name out of it and use it as their own,” said Mitchell. It became a snowball effect for her because the more she shared the more things would go viral and the more everyone would reshare her content as their own.
She didn’t just have to face her content being plagiarized but things being taken out of proportion. “It was a joke, and they were tripping on that song,” said Mitchell when told me about the time her tweet on how absurd parts of Cater 2 U by Destiny’s Child were.
“I’ve been able to find my niche this year which you can’t take away from me. You can’t steal my material and crop my name out of it. This is my face, my voice, and I’ve written these jokes.”
The last several years Mel had been working tirelessly to find her niche on the internet, something that would make her stand out. As she was scrolling through Instagram and saw a woman do a skit as a teacher on Europhia and she heard a voice in her head saying do it but make her black. “ It’s going to be funny and change your life. I was like okay Jesus and I set up my tripod,” said Mitchell. Trusting her gut, intention and faith paid off for her because more than fifty videos later, celebrity reshares, and likes it’s only the beginning.
“I make these skits for Black people.”
Mel keeps it very black with her comedy skits and we love her for it. From Best Man to Player’s Club she will take us down memory lane with every post. “Because me watching it with my 28-year-old eyes is not the same as me watching it when I was younger,” said Mitchell. After analyzing these classics over, she makes references and points that make sense once you really look at some things such as Big Mama’s cooking didn’t look that good or the women in Two Can Play that game being well established in their careers at 28.
“My name is in a lot of rooms which I do not know about, which is amazing to me.”
As she continues to grow in popularity on all social media platforms the opportunities and blessings keep coming her way. She would never have imagined that it would have gone this far where people are reaching out to her and talking to her about business opportunities for her because of her videos alone. Her advice to those who are looking for that break on social media is to trust your own instincts, keep working at it and try to find your THING. “You won’t know what the formula for success is, but once everything clicks you will know,” said Mitchell.
