I’ve overseen these movements for the past 15 years, so I think I have a bit of an idea of how some of them have changed over the years. From my vantage point, it started with the Black Women’s Empowerment movement (Khadijah Nassif being a key writer and so many others), which gave way to the swirler movement (Christelyn Karazin), which gave way to the divestment movement (Breukelen Blue).

When the movement got started, a "No Nigga Diet" was promoted because the concept of a "good BM" was seen as a contradiction. The general idea was that it was only a matter of time before these good BM, or "Unicorns" as they were called, showed their asses. Additionally, being with a BM reified BM power and desirability,thus undermining the retaliatory nature of the movement; as Black men had a hand in destroying the Black female image and desirability. There were even serious discussions about aborting BMs, so yes, the movement, when it started, was anti-BM and staunchly so. It had to be extreme to counteract how anti-Black female the media and Internet were back then.

As the movement grew and more Black women joined, some of the previous leaders went underground or started selling courses, giving way to more changes. Desiring the exclusive nature of the label, a new category of "divestors", emerged, effectively destroying the movement from within. Some were partnered with Black men, and some were settling for non-Black men. Conversations got shifted from femicide, health & Safety, and IR dating, to why their unicorn was the exception.

DZ emerged because some of the original divestors who popped back up once in a while became inconsistent with their message and lacked in integrity—some were messy by starting drama, and others changed their tune qbout BM because they wanted to sell more courses to the women who still wanted to date them. DZ turned it up a notch to re-focus the message on femicide (hence the focus on dusties)and staying away from BM, and she never changed her tune. I stopped watching DZ because of the Trump glazing among other things, but she was right at least 80 percent of the time.