Moved to Atlanta over a decade after the last Freaknik so had only heard salacious tales of what it was at its end.  Really enjoyed learning about the origin of the event.  

Good footage in the doc…props to the people lugging around massive early-90s cameras.

Moved to Atlanta over a decade after the last Freaknik so had only heard salacious tales of what it was at its end.  Really enjoyed learning about the origin of the event.  

Good footage in the doc…props to the people lugging around massive early-90s cameras.

There’s a meta level of tension between commerce and community that the film explores and is a part of. However, that doesn’t make up for the material lack of engaging content until its last act. Overall, it might just be a pacing problem, but I think it’s also a problem of the film creators not knowing what the angle of their documentary is.

There’s a meta level of tension between commerce and community that the film explores and is a part of. However, that doesn’t make up for the material lack of engaging content until its last act. Overall, it might just be a pacing problem, but I think it’s also a problem of the film creators not knowing what the angle of their documentary is.

The south had something to say.

The south had something to say.

While this documentary does do good in recognizing Freaknik’s origins alongside its long-lasting cultural impact, the film romanticizes the uproarious event far too much and as a result does some rather haphazard editing. By no account should a documentary talk about sexual assault and have that segment sandwiched between two segments where people complain that people are too sensitive nowadays

Kinda weird that Freaknik: The Musical had more interesting things to say about Freaknik than this documentary!

While this documentary does do good in recognizing Freaknik’s origins alongside its long-lasting cultural impact, the film romanticizes the uproarious event far too much and as a result does some rather haphazard editing. By no account should a documentary talk about sexual assault and have that segment sandwiched between two segments where people complain that people are too sensitive nowadays

Kinda weird that Freaknik: The Musical had more interesting things to say about Freaknik than this documentary!

“if you have to say protect black women in the 2020s imagine what you had to say in the 1990s”
god i just love seeing black people be unapologetically black and happy! black culture is so beautiful and exciting and truly just incredible i love black people!!!

unfortunately you have a few freaky bitches that take advantage of a good thing and ruin it for everybody. i am so sorry to the victims of these awful attacks and experiences

and of course here come the yt people and cops complaining about black people being black in black spaces so they wanna make it everyone’s problem

“if you have to say protect black women in the 2020s imagine what you had to say in the 1990s”
god i just love seeing black people be unapologetically black and happy! black culture is so beautiful and exciting and truly just incredible i love black people!!!

unfortunately you have a few freaky bitches that take advantage of a good thing and ruin it for everybody. i am so sorry to the victims of these awful attacks and experiences

and of course here come the yt people and cops complaining about black people being black in black spaces so they wanna make it everyone’s problem