Instagram blogger Angie Nwandu, who runs the popular Shaderoom news aggregate Instagram blog, is among Time magazine’s 30 Most Influential people on the Internet.
Nwandu joins such bold name notables as Donald Trump, Kanye West — whose Twitter.com rants continue to entertain the masses, and cross-dresser Bruce Jenner, who goes by “Caitlyn Jenner” now.
Black Lives Matter activists Johnetta Elzie and DeRay Mckesson also made the list.
TIME — As more and more of our own daily interactions happen online, so, too, does celebrity drama. And Nwandu, 25, has made it her business to capture it. Two years ago, she started The Shade Room, an Instagram account and blog that aims to be like Page Six for celebrities on social media: a chronicle of who likes whose posts, who comments on whose photos, and who starts following (or better yet, unfollowing) each other. Since then, TSR has become a burgeoning media empire, replete with its own tipsters, staff (there are now four full-time employees), and advertisers—all of whom serve an audience of 3.9 million. And counting.—Nolan Feeney
She do be having some exclusive stories though, but she doesn’t update enough…and ‘influential’ is a stretch..
I love Deray. Hope he becomes mayor of Baltimore.
The African folks know how to run a juicy blog lol. Look at Fred over at that other blog.
kudos..never heard of her, never went to her blog, and probably never will…but whatever.
She ain’t influence me, I don’t know who she is!!
She has some very interesting eyebrows and eye makeup.
I just don’t know how you guys run gossip blogs, it gives me a headache and runs up my pressure, I’m just NOT that interested in what celebs are doing, tweeting, posting every second of the day but whatever pays the bills lol. Congrats to her though.
Her staff stole my pic off of my ig acct one time and folks went in on me calling me names and saying who was I lol. She snatched my selfie pic of me and Puffy’s sons at Toya’s daughter Sweet 16 party last year. I was not amused and she didn’t even ask me! So I don’t really have that much respect for her. Atleast ask or give me some type of heads up…damn!
I’ve never been to her site.
Good for her, I guess. NAH, lemme take that byke! She’s probably just ‘influencing’ nonsense to the masses
I guess hits equals influence.
OH! That was VERY LAME of her(staff)….
FOH with MY picture
Hm… This blog business is good business, huh? Hmmm
But ‘she made it’
Well dayum!! Damn Heifah!!
They snatched your pic, huh? lol
Her site is lackluster and trying to figure out how she makes money with NO ads on there but ok…LOL! But I see she puts random stuff in between her posts on ig, maybe thats how she makes money from folks who like to advertise with her about waist trainers, weaves and such, who knows! Lawd!
Ok the ShadeRoom!
Okay, you are scaring me now, Calm down WOMAN!!
WHALE WATTever thee fugg
She doesn’t need to be taking your pics and using them
Passed over again, huh?
People started texting me saying I was on the shaderoom, I was like what the hell is that, then I went and looked and there I was with 1,000’s of comments about me being Puffy’s son’s baby mama etc knowing good and damn well I don’t look nothing like Kim Porter!
I was cracking up at first then I got irritated real fast! I was pissed! If she was any kind of blogger, she would have known and had common courtesy to have asked me if she could put my pic up but nawl! Her readers are shady, young and mostly ignorant too Smh!
Yep
But Sandra don’t ask President O……..never mind- I likes my login a lot.
Lmaoooo! Sandra don’t ask nobody for permission..
I don’t got the time though!
Can you set up auto posts?
Can I do it from my mobile? ,,lol
You was like “my pic?!?! Yall shatting me! Nuh uhhh”
Then when you saw–>
then 
then 
Oh my goodness
We better stop before she puts up another pic of you 
She sure don’t!! Perhaps I better take down mine!! Naw, she don’t hate me….I think!! LOL
DeRay McKesson think he’s Steve Jobs with that one outfit on. I haven’t seen him without that Patagonia vest on…
Oh I LOVE TSR on IG. Never went to the site. Congrats to her.
If you do it right and strategic yes ask Sandra lol
If you get big like Sandy, you can get a little minion to post for ya!!
LOL! I don’t know, but I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while, but not just on celebs… I’ll have a section called “Slab of Barks” for all the white tears..LOL
Yeah, almost like if she was to take ALL OF THAT MAKEUP OFF, she would look like a completely different person
Sandra doesn’t have to ask Obama because she has a few accts to actually buy images from Getty etc, its a difference lol, She pays big bucks for her images. Once you buy them you can post and say what you want, thats how it works!
That is their look, not being funny or anything, but this is exactly how the ones in my area do their makeup and whatnot.
READ my response!
That’s what probably helping her to stay afloat. I hate reading the same stories and shade on different blogs.. I wonder what other blogs were ever named in such, if any…. most share the same stories
I have…Not much to see, allegedly? Well, compared to other skinny menzes…Speaking of which, how much you weigh?
Yep… Errbody needs An Intern
WE have accts to access images when you are a professional blogger you don’t have to get permission because we buy our images from wire services, get it? LOL
It was a joke, Darn it!! Calm down!! LOL
Word is NB had to come off five figures because she used a pic of Beyonce without permission.
Errbody needs A MINION!! there fixed that for you!!
I know. I know.
Same here.
Down Boy!!
Well damn!!!
I’m about Steve Jobs size.
Congrats my daughter is always sending me their posts.
Mmmmhmmm…you can see it here as well…
Idk…Shaderoom is messy, the fact that they’re on the list is telling…I appreciate when they take the time to spread the word to their 3mil followers, but, idk…A bunch of messy queen like behavior at the end of the day?? I see so much crap about Fetty and his women for example….Soooooo glad I’m too old n too cute to bother researching to understand what’s going on with that??
I get it. I used to work at the paper and that was part of my job. Keeping the licenses current for the wire services. Getty, Assoc. Press, etc.
That was so very nice how you worded that.
That is true, she told me that in person, I remember that too! I was standing there feeling so sorry for her!
Wow
So you like poking the bear, huhn?! LOL
Her makeup is cute but why the hat?? ..hmmm
And exactly what does that mean in inches? Asking for my friend @Dtts??
That’s ALL I would have to say too… I just don’t get womenz that wear fitted caps, and then BACKWARDS?? What ya’ll tryna prove? Do tell….
She missing some tracks out the top
That baby weight is making her soft!! CTHU
Too bad, so sad.
Yes mam!
Fitted cap is thee very least of her problems in that photo!!
lol for when your face is beat but you didn’t have time to swing by the salon?
True true! But I just don’t….NVM
This is sooo funny to me!!!
Didn’t I say Down Boy!!
@djangothegod:disqus – STOP POKING THE DAMN BEAR!! Unless you like to.
I thought Fendi was your BFF. DTTS likes Mandingos.
And Trump is saying there will be riots if he isn’t the nominee
This is gonna get worse, before it gets better
You on your own, BRUH!!
He always stirs up trouble and sits back and watches things implode.
That chit was rough bc once McClatchy copped all those extra newspapers, I had to do ours and theirs too. For print and online. So Charlotte Observer, The State in Columbia, SC, Myrtle Beach Sun News, and The Herald in Rock Hill, SC. Sometimes photo editors wouldnt eem say it was time to renew or check or anything. Just slap a pic up. I would be like gatdamn yall are KILLING me tryna keep this crap together. THAT is WHY and HOW I came here to start with. When Sandy was a photographer.
So…why the hell aren’t Sandra Rose & the garden gnomes on this list? Certain other sites steal comments out of the garden to write their stories. THIS BLOG IS INFLUENTIAL!
*jacked (Well, at least this sounds better)
msnbc
Senator Mitch McConnell responds to President Barack Obama’s SCOTUS nomination of Merrick Garland and states that he wants to give the American people a voice on who the nominee should be.
Staaaaaawp, you gone scare him off? I’m trynna get cuffed before Easter?
And the bs begins!!
Really?! He iz a murried manz!!
Dtts like whatever her fat ass can get? She like ass to, how iz you in the backyard urrrea?
It’s so sickening. Really.
Why put that in folks minds?! Because that’s what he wants. He’s a bully. The worst kind IMB…
Lmao!
I tried…because…yeah, I tried.
And with that I am out. Good Luck @djangothegod:disqus
There are folks that is all they do. Go around to different websites to threaten folks who use their material without proper permissions. We used to call them the Copyright Cops.
The klan is ready, you hear me. He knows exactly what he is doing. Forcing their hand.
#theydontcallhimtheeturnoutqueenfornathan
When has America EVER had a voice. Them fools want to be wayward just to be wayward.
Bish whet?!?!?!???? not that that’s ever stopped me before?? Tiz news to me tho?
Edit this! NOW! Take that ho name outta my mentions!!! NOW!!! Do it
:crying1:
I think we’re the minority here bc I love it too.
Didn’t I say Down Boy!!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
YEP!
Agreed!
Sigh…Mitch you are exactly what your name rhymes with b.
People think I’m an MMA fighter somtimes. It’s probably the beard though.
It’s usually white people, as they are the main ones who watch UFC.
I’m not in shape right now though. Haven’t been hitting the gym.
BECAUSE SR probably didn’t fill out the Form and Pay the $ to be on this list….
Ain’t no extra money…You see we’en even get any Christmas gifts. OH
As I stated earlier, the GOP debate is cancelled bc HE doesn’t want to participate. Like, FOOL, you can’t call out when (if) you’re the president!
Bc our comments aint copyrighted. *sads*
WE IS an influence tho *bangs desk*
Dead @ cuffed
OH please, White people tell me I look like everybody from Bill Cosby to the Black kid from Blackish…They just? Whatever…I’ve heard Obama, Denzel…They just? So um, you a lil flabby right now? Do yo booty jiggle when you walk?
Well hell hope I get to miss a few days of work then…
I thought you was smitten with @Pointhimout/Lorenzo? Now you like Django?
Kona to a corner RATT NOW!!! Lol
I dont feel like going to this State Dinner tonight. Its cancelled. Nevermind the folks from Japan is downstairs. Like REALLY?
Wars and Rumors or Wars… SPEAK BIBLE!!!
Shiddd if she aint Sandra she aint nobody
Lol who “Junior” or Anthony Anderson? You know they call everbody they think are under 40 kid.
New Post! BTW: Hi Everyone #waveshand
He likes Yt boys, I wish him well?? And yes, Django is my new bew, so tread lightly lessen you wanna get cut? Only person gone toss dat dere salad is me???
WE DIDNT get Christmas gifts. Other valued Roses did tho.
Oh.
I knew she was African just by looking at them eyebrows ? All them in the hair braiding spot I go to have the same arch whether it’s drawn in or not it looks like this
Good question…I just smile and nod…Could care less what they think I look like, my meat has to be well done or its being sent back??
WHALE NAH if that ain’t the truth!!!
Lol what… SMH.
Chile,,,I knows you like you knows me?
She looks like Ashanti to me!!! #fixesmyglasses
SR GOTS TO BE COURTING THEM THEN
HOW SWAY can anyone get something, IF they hardly ever post?
HOW? By meeting up at the house
#theybanging 
Congrats! I follow TSR on facebook.
Yes it is sadly…
My industry has a similar pay-to-use thing and part of my job sends the info to the people who pay and they are super strict about getting info in time. We’ve all gotten cussed out about fines and late fees for not paying for use in time.
her IG account theshaderoominc be ON!!!
Instagram stays updated! I woulda thought she was there with Russell and Ciara at how quick she posted the engagement lol saw it there first
Look at Kim up there looking like somebodies 50 year old grandma who looks good for her age. I see you granny. But as far as the Shaderoom is concerned I mean congrats bish or whatver. I know yo people in the motherland screaming “WE MADE IT”.
yeah she doesn’t really update the site(from what I saw before) but the ig must be more lucrative and easier to manage lol
I didn’t like how the Shade Room used an old video of Wendy W. commenting on Rihanna’s lover from years ago and used it last month when Rihanna dropped “work” with Drake. They “TRIED” to make Wendy look back. Just for the hits of course, a lot fell for it until some actually research the video.. Even Riri’s fan saw through their game…
I hope they have good lawyers
She needs to hire great lawyer and will soon need advertisement deals. Hopefully her team will handle things better than poor Necole Bitchie..
Still don’t understand the multiple lawsuits situation that make her evaporate??
I actually spent 5 minutes on IG. Some of her posts looks eerie similar to here like the Ciara ring comparison.. Sandra posted a few days ago and Shade Rooms posted 17 hours ago……
Hummm
Maybe Sandra needs an IG??
Bruce wake up and get rewards?I guess just for being cait?
love shaderoom!!
This blog is the best, though.
Some folks say old Nicole was too busy kissing ass instead of getting the tea.
Thanks hun. I can’t do Instagram. Too many narcissists and high school kids.
She did for sponsors. She did admit getting multiple lawsuits. She started off again but very very low profile. She fell under pressure
I think she did a Dave Chappelle, went to Africa and decided to shut off her old blog page.
The Shade Room think they are TMZ.. They will get theirs too
She used to update her page like every 10 minutes with the latest stories, but she’s changed over the past week. I don’t know what happened. For a whole week she didn’t post anything and when she finally did post, it wasn’t like she used to before. Its so weird
She’s not consistent with her blogging. Sometimes, days go by before a new post is up.
That plus their tea is ice-cold a lot. They don’t provide the backstory to a random happening either.
Meh. She’s 25. She’ll learn.
I always question Time picks. I don’t visit her blog, and pleased they chose her. But, to make a gossip blog influential for black people is always suspect, no diss to this woman and her work. But, a lot is going on right now, and it’s not nice, and of course blacks and poor people are the pawns! I wonder if they ever gave it to Clutch Magazine?
Never heard of her or the Shaderoom.
I’m a TSR lover! Congratulations! ?
Dump is inciting riots on multiple outlets but let a grieving relative have a meltdown…smh
He started it and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. If he even acted as if he wanted to tell these thugs to calm down it won’t stop. They already arrested two fools breaking into churches spray painting Trump and looking for someone attacking minorities in the name of the orange giant. This is only the beginning.
All they post is The Kardashians and dlist reality stars. What’s sad is she glorifies strippers and ig models which is not helping our people just her funny looking asses pockets
Yes all Kardashian and reality and IG hoes …
But, but…nevermind.
Your spectrum…smh ???
??? I needed this for this morning. ???
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Yep ?
I’m trying not to say too much here. There have been some postings that were erroneous and some were flat out thievery of product not belonging to the one who advertised. I imagine she will be getting more legal counsel.
Interesting I thought the Shade room was some sort of Spam whenever I see it on FB. When you click on it, it takes you to a bunch of other crap. I’m good, I’ll come here and get the juice, CNN and my home girl Pookie. LMBO! Just kidding about the Pookie part.
This is what happened to Necole. The more popular your blog gets, the more lawsuits are filed by greedy lawyers. That’s why a lot of bloggers end up quitting.
I’m facing a couple of lawsuits from the same shady lawyers who are suing blogs for posting pictures of Beyonce from social media. That’s why I warn bloggers to be careful posting pics from social media. Some of those pics are intentionally used as bait to hook unsuspecting bloggers. Photos aren’t selling like they used to because magazines and newspapers went out of business. So photographers are suing blogs for big $$$ for pictures worth $10.
I follow theshaderoom on Instagram and 90% of the time they break a story before Sandra Rose!! At least they’re still active on the weekends!!
Shade room be late on most stories. Fameolus be having all the dirt and they’re not bias like shade room
Because Africans know are experts at gossip