K.J. Yossman Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken out about the negative effects of social media at the Edinburgh TV Festival.“[The voices] can be loud in your head, good and bad,” the “Hamilton” writer and actor said. “And when you’re an artist who puts things into the world, you know, you’re always having to balance how much you let in in terms of feedback and how you let it affect you.
And you know, one loud negative voice can be a day-ruiner. And that’s anybody who interacts on social media, ever. I think that’s not unique to me.” In June, Miranda was heavily criticized on social media for what many users saw as a lack of diversity in his latest musical, “In the Heights,” in terms of Afro-Latino representation.
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