She is incredibly important in today's world. Love her.

That one with Rhianna (Rihanna?) is the besssttttttt

If Mariah is the shade queen, Whitney was definitely the reading queen. She gave no f-cks about how you felt. Lol

I'm DYING to know what that was all about with Riri and Katy Perry.

I think the Olsens are doing better than fine, they just aren't acting anymore. They're well received in fashion, though. And by much older millionaires.

"To be honest officer, it could have been the one on the far left or the right. It all happened so fast and I didn't really get a good look at her."

In the Channel 4 TV show Spaced, everything Twist Morgan says is shade. For example:

Thank you!

The Case: Rich Juzwiak's January, 2013 article about the origins of shade.

She Who Stays Woke, Kara Brown, Our Lady Of Killing It. Teller of Truths and Dispeller of Lies, Ruth Shader Ginsburg, Presider of Shade Court. (h/t to Bears for that last one).

My grandma is a master shade-thrower. She is unfailingly polite in a way that leaves you plagued with insecurity and self-doubt. I think she perfected the art by being married to my grandpa for 60 years. (They had a traditional marriage, in that he was really shitty to her and took her for granted and she never…

Technical question: is shade in some way dependent upon the original throwers? Like, of course some indie band full of a bunch of sensitive white boys won't be throwing shade. And by default, everything out of NeNe's mouth is shade until proven otherwise.

So as the top dog on the Shade court, does that make you Ruth Shader Ginsburg?

I have a cat named Felix. He's a bit of an asshole.

I swear at my cat all the time. She actually woke up when that audio played and wandered over for snuggles.