"#BlackChyna was not sucking my dick, that video was shot with an iPhone 6 my dick only fits on the 8plus," he wrote, insinuating that his male member is too large for an iPhone 6.
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He wrote: "Now ya can stop calling her a hoe because hoes know how to suck a dick. She’s just a good girl that got caught up in some hoe shit. It’s Black History month, Black panther is out, so leave Black Chyna alone."
Michael Blackson publicly denied being the man in the leaked video, using the iPhone-size joke, and later posted a message defending Blac Chyna from the “hoe” label. Separately, Chyna said the video was leaked without her consent, while her former boyfriend Mechie identified himself as the man in that video.
Why did his joke work? What was he actually doing with the joke?
Blackson wasn't simply denying an allegation.
He turned an awkward celebrity-sex scandal into comedy, while simultaneously trying to pull attention away from the humiliation being directed at Chyna.
That's the interesting contradiction.
His joke makes himself the punchline, but then his second post changes direction:
“leave Black Chyna alone.”
He used comedy to take some of the heat out of a woman being publicly shamed.
And that gives you your interpretation.
When a celebrity scandal becomes public entertainment, can humour sometimes become a way of taking the shame out of the story?
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