Social media isn't a game, but if it was, Issa Rae just yelled checkmate. Today, the Insecure creator and prototype for millennial Black creatives of the last decade shocked the world by dropping a photo dump of images from her private wedding to her longtime boyfriend Louis Diame in the South of France over the weekend.
Rae has successfully traversed the unpredictably invasive waters of social media for more than a decade by always being in on the joke, and her wedding announcement exemplified that skill of hers. Besides dropping the glamorous photo set on Instagram before most people in Los Angeles were awake, she crafted an Instagram caption that marries the everywoman relatability and self-made dynamism that defined her career. Her wedding photos came from what she described as an "impromptu photoshoot" while also featuring the blushing bride in a "custom Vera Wang dress." Her bridesmaids were simply a group of her closest friends who coincidentally, and embarrassingly, showed up in the exact outfit. And the man she had her arms lovingly interlocked with was "Somebody's Husband"— her groom.
