The #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag Is Blowing Up Twitter Right Now

With a very white set of Oscar nominees just released, #OscarsSoWhite is blowing up on Twitter right now.

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The 2015 Academy Award nominations have only just been announced, but already people have taken notice of one particularly obvious theme: basically every nominee is white.

“Patient Zero” @ReignOfApril was the first to take action, sending out the following tweet:

Her #OscarsSoWhite hashtag has officially blown up, and now everybody is going in on the Academy. Here’s a sample of the tweets being blasted out:

[via Twitter]

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