A writer and “communications expert” named Natasha Tynes has now apparently deleted her Twitter account after her Friday morning act to call out a black employee of Washington, DC’s transit authority over eating on a train backfired — and lost Tynes a LOT of clout, including possibly a book deal!!!
It all started on Friday morning, when Tynes (pictured, above) snapped a picture of the woman eating on the subway, and sent the pic in a tweet to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), along with a complaint about how the black, female employee was eating on the train despite not being allowed to do so.
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Here’s Tynes’ initial interaction with the WMATA Twitter account, calling out the black employee by name and then responding with more information to get the woman in trouble with her employer for eating food on the train (below):
Oh boy.
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First, WMATA responded, and Tynes gleefully tattled away (below):
Hmm… There couldn’t possibly be ANY consequences to that, could there be?! Oh, wait, yes, there ABSOLUTELY were!!
It turns out Tynes is an author with a book about to come out — and when Twitter erupted at her for calling out the poor woman involved, the book publisher’s and distributors were quickly alerted to the controversy and hubbub, completely pulling back their support for Tynes and canceling the book’s distribution!
First, the distributor saying they would NOT work with Tynes (below):
A word from us on what happened this morning with Natasha Tynes in DC. pic.twitter.com/gJY4lZLFUQ
— Rare Bird (@rarebirdlit) May 11, 2019
WOW!!!
And then, the publisher revealing that they are now considering completely dropping her, too (below):
— California Coldblood (@CalifColdblood) May 11, 2019
Crazy!!!
It was far from just them, though — EVERYBODY had an opinion on Tynes’ bad behavior on Friday — as you can see with this whole series of tweets sharing reactions about her choices (below);
https://twitter.com/moeshamitchel/status/1127065938292019200
This is @NatashaTynes. Natasha talks alot about the challanges of writing as a minority woman, but took it upon herself to report a BW for *checks notes* eating. In uniform.
Sis told her “worry about yourself,” and the “I need to speak to a manager” jumped out. pic.twitter.com/VTwN6IwbTR— Naima Cochrane’s Burner Acct (@stillnaima) May 10, 2019
The IRONY is that if Natasha Tynes had listened to the worker and minded her business, none of this would've happened. She technically warned her. pic.twitter.com/UYv3buSanK
— AKANA is SCREAMING!!!✨✨✨ (@AkanaPhenix) May 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/trexandthecity/status/1127044656267710464
It's all fun and games until it's YOUR livelihood that's in jeopardy huh?
— Intergalactic Hussy (@msprettymonster) May 10, 2019
Life came at Natasha Tynes fast. Deservedly so.
I’m still worried about Sis she harassed, her job and retaliation of all kinds. We know what white and white aligned folks can do when they feel Black women are getting more empathy and justice than they believe we deserve.
— Candice Marie Benbow (@CandiceBenbow) May 11, 2019
Going to goodreads now to give you zero stars for a book I haven’t even read. I’m just being petty like you 🙂
— Sumeya Abdi Ali (@sumeyawrites) May 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/thetrudz/status/1126936582064431109
So I guess now you will know what it feels like when someone fucks with your job and your money. You fucked with that innocent black woman and fumbled your own bag in the process of @NatashaTynes pic.twitter.com/8QOaYsTJk3
— first of all, bitch, … (@thejournalista) May 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/GoshDarnMyLife/status/1127215918684299264
Wow!!!
Tynes got dragged SO hard, she at first started blocking people left and right… then, she made her account private… and finally, she actually deleted her account! Crazy!
She deserves to be called out though — don’t you think, Perezcious readers?! But does she deserve losing more than a couple ego notches? Does the punishment fit the crime? How did U react when you heard about this story and read through the tweets??
Sound off on all of this and more in the comments (below)!!!
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