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Review of Black Planet by Euftis Emery · Euftis Emery Audiobooks

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  OK, let's unpack this. Have you ever thought about
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  those really hidden parts of human connection?
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  The stuff about identity that pops up online?
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  Maybe. Well, today we're doing a deep
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  dive. We're looking at some really
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  compelling bits from youth to Summary's 2025 novella Black
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  Planet. He actually calls it raw,
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  unpolished, and real. A story about figuring out
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  identity, desire, self worth, all kicked off by this one
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  encounter that leads him into, well, a whole virtual world.
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  Yeah. And what's fascinating here, I
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  think is how the story just illuminates that very human
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  search for connection, you know, even in these maybe
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  unconventional digital spaces. So our mission for you listening
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  is really to pull out the key insights.
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  How do people handle love, lust, validation?
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  Especially now in the digital age?
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  We get to see how these digital masks and that emotional hunger
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  really play on this specific story.
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  Exactly. And this deep dive, it's really
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  tailored for you. It's kind of a shortcut to
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  getting informed about all the complex layers in this very
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  unique narrative. OK, so let's set the scene.
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  We're in Cincinnati. It's fall 2003, a Saturday
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  morning, and we meet Youthis Emery.
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  He's recently separated and he's just trying to manage a shopping
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  trip to Comp USA with his three young daughters, Syed, Elise,
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  and Nikki. You can picture the chaos, right
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  as old as Nikki is being totally antisocial, trying to escape to
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  the car even, and you've just gives her the daddy look.
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  You know the one, the silent don't test me look.
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  It really sets this relatable kind of chaotic family tone
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  right off the bat. So right in the middle of all
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  this kid related chaos, you've just spots me up.
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  He uses this specific term, calls her a cute Redbone, notes
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  her Erykah Badu look are really intriguing.
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  Describes her as one of those white collar sistas that are in
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  the MIS industry or fluent with computers and software.
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  And his interest, Well, it's not subtle.
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  It's very clearly sexual. And boom, right away you see it,
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  this immediate tension right between his ill desires and his
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  role is dad. Because his daughters, they are
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  fiercely loyal to their mom, and they make their disapproval of
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  me a very clear. It's actually kind of funny, but
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  also poignant. Like the socket just blurts out
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  he's ugly about you've just to me and then almost calls me a
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  stanko, which, yeah, you've just shuts down immediately.
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  But that moment really establishes the world he's in,
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  how his public role as the father clashes constantly with
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  his private desires, even just buying computer stuff.
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  Right, so from that Compusa scene, we shift gears a bit.
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  We jump to Youthdis's professional life.
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  He's visiting Maxim's office. He's clearly a big deal there,
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  the consultant with the highest bill rate, the top dog.
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  He walks in and even the receptionist and doesn't
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  recognize him at first. He's wearing these
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  thugaliciously delicious jeans and boots, not his usual white
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  boy business casual, a real contrast.
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  He interacts with the sales reps, Jim and Matt, and then he
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  asks Matt about Mia, kind of casually, but another Rep, Tom,
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  gives him this real funny look. You've just immediately thinks,
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  oh shit, he's hit it or wants to.
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  You see how personal interest is already like weaving into the.
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  Oh, absolutely. And that blurring, it's such a
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  key insight into, well, the information age, isn't it?
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  It just shows how easily personal pursuits can get
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  tangled up with professional networks.
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  All those unspoken things, the subtext driving connections when
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  digital and real world lives overlap so much.
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  OK, so then comes the lunch date.
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  You've to send Mia at Copeland's of New Orleans, and Mia starts
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  opening up. She lives with her parents,
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  saving for LA. She's VP of the Black MBA
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  Association into African Art. Yuftus mentally takes back a
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  Gold Star when he hears she lives with her parents.
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  He's quite direct in his judgement sometimes, and he asks
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  her point blank, who are you? Mia's response is playful but
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  maybe revealing. I'm a recruiter by day and a
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  call girl by night. Just kidding.
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  Then the conversation gets pretty provocative.
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  They talk favorite things. Mia asks his favorite sexual
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  position and Yuftus just answers straight up doggy style dear, no
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  hesitation. Yeah, but then something
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  interesting happens. You've just mentioned his spider
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  sense tingling. He starts noticing little
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  things. Mia starts acting a bit like
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  wifey poo. He calls it like they're already
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  a couple and this makes him suspicious.
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  So he confronts her. Something's up.
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  If I'm right, will you tell me what it is?
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  It shows this deeper level of intuition, right?
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  Judging character means looking past the surface, especially
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  when words and actions feel off and the something that's up.
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  It's pretty unexpected, Mia tells him.
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  Go to BP and jump to my page. My userid is sexy redhead now BP
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  is Black Planet, an online dating site for black folks.
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  Euftus being newly divorced after 12 years, he had no idea
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  it even existed, but he's intrigued.
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  He's always ready for new realms of interaction to explore.
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  OK, but before he dives head first into Black Planet, we
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  really need to understand something else about Euftus, his
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  relationship with Coco. It's intense, characterized by
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  this extreme edge play, and it really provides a stark
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  contrast, maybe even a blueprint for how we purchase things later
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  online. It sets the stage for the kind
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  of self discovery explored in the novella.
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  Right, Coco. She's his eternal lover.
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  He calls her. Their thing is these intense
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  edge play games. Lots of surprise extreme
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  experiences. And just to clarify for
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  listeners, edge Play. It's a term from the BDSM
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  community. It's about pushing boundaries of
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  what's usually considered safe, sane and consensual sexual sex.
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  So naturally it requires huge amounts of trust, really clear
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  communication, and explicit consent beforehand.
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  For Youthdis specifically, his edge play involves something
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  called consensual non consent play.
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  Basically simulating non consensual acts.
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  But it's all pre agreed and also fear play.
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  Simulated threats risks within a negotiated safe framework.
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  Yeah, and he details this really shocking scenario.
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  He calls Flip the scene that he plans for Coco.
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  He sets it all up meticulously, grooms himself, makes dinner,
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  Cornish hens, then watches a boxing match, loses $500 and he
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  decides he needs to burn off the negative energy from losing the
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  bet on Coco. So he describes this consensual
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  non consent encounter. His sister plan.
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  An alarm chirps when she comes in.
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  He uses a pillow slip over her head, uses a belt for
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  discipline, resulting in, as the text says, lovely red whelps on
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  her buttocks. And we need to be clear here.
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  This is directly from the fictional source material.
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  We're just relaying the narrative as it's written, not
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  endorsing any of it. The next morning, Coco is
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  understandably distressed. Boyfriend's been telling me she
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  looks a mess, she says. I look straight up fucked.
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  I smell like you, I'm leaking, dot you all down my legs.
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  You RIP the straps on my RIP my panties to shreds.
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  What am I going to do? Which leads to you've just
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  proposing this. The text calls it a dastardly
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  plan. He tells Coco to go straight to
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  her boyfriend Clarence's house looking exactly like she does,
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  RIP dress marks, snot bubble crying and tell him she was
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  raped. His logic.
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  The best lies always incorporate a good deal of truth.
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  Again, just stating what's in the fictional narrative
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  provided. Definitely not an endorsement,
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  but it reveals a lot about the characters willingness to
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  manipulate the extreme power dynamics in the story.
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  It's quite troubling. So Coco goes through with it.
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  Clarence is angry at first, then concerned, especially after his
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  sister gets involved. Coco describes Clarence then
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  being intimate with her even while she still smells like
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  Euphdis, and her internal thoughts lead her to scream
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  Eustis's name E as she orgasms. And then there's another layer
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  revealed, Coco's own DL or down low bisexuality, meaning she
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  discreetly engages in same sex activity.
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  You've just found an old online profile of hers that revealed
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  this. And this discovery eventually
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  leads them to agree to, in their words, start sharing these
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  bitches. Yeah, this whole sequence, it
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  really brings up huge questions, doesn't it, about transparency,
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  about consent within these very specific negotiated dynamics.
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  If you connect it to the bigger picture, it forces you to think
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  about the sheer complexity of private arrangements between
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  consenting adults. How much is ever truly known or
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  understood, even between the people involved?
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  Right, so after all that with Coco, you've just finally checks
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  out Mia's Black Planet profile. He sees she's listed as
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  bisexual, but he gets this feeling of confusion from it.
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  He feels like her words didn't match her actions.
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  Then he visits her house and his suspicions intensify.
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  He perceives her energy, her aura as just negative.
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  The blackness of the void, he calls it.
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  He decides she's a clever facade, a trap laid by a vile
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  predator. And then things get really
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  disturbing. During an interaction with Mia
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  and her young son Tyree, Mia repeatedly says shocking
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  homophobic things about her own 4 year old son, declares he is
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  going to grow up to be a faggot. Yeah, youth this is internally
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  revolted, thinks she is a fucking monster.
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  Now, the source material is very explicit here, stating his
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  revulsion comes from his own belief that single women,
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  especially gay or bi women, shouldn't raise boys.
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  So again, just report recording the character's view from the
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  source, not endorsing it in any way.
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  And that moment is so sharp, isn't it?
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  It shows how deeply held personal beliefs, even ones we
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  might find controversial or frankly biased, just profoundly
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  shape how we see and react to people.
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  It highlights those unspoken biases that color our judgments,
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  sometimes in ways that might seem hypocritical or just plain
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  wrong to someone else looking in.
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  Exactly after that, Mia's whole demeanor fliffs.
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  She becomes combative and borderline hostile.
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  Her true nature as you've just sees it comes out a bully
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  looking for a very specific type of partner, a cuckold.
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  So you've just decides he's going to mess with her head,
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  fuck with her head as he puts it.
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  He tells her in graphic detail about his edge play with Coco.
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  He even shows me a video of him and Coco having sex doggy style
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  basically to prove his sexual dominance and just shocker.
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  Then Mia hits him with her proposal.
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  The audacity you've just calls it.
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  She wants a relationship where she can sleep with three of her
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  female friends. You've just can watch.
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  But he can't touch any of them and she demands total
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  exclusivity from him while she keeps her girlfriends.
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  Wow. I mean, connecting that to the
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  bigger picture, that scenario really throws the extremes of
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  control and negotiation in some relationships into sharp relief,
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  doesn't it? And it also exposes those deep
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  seated biases some people hold about power, sexuality, what's
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  allowed. It makes you ask, well, what
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  does define a fair or healthy dynamic when desires clash so
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  dramatically, especially when one person wants such rigid
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  control? Yeah, you've just isn't having
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  any of it. His rejection is absolute.
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  He concludes Mia is gay, just looking for a professional
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  heterosexual front and a living dildo.
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  He states very clearly he did not like her as a person, says
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  he couldn't have sex with a person without finding something
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  redeeming about them as a human being.
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  And then he just leaves abruptly.
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  But Despite that really negative experience with Mia, the online
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  world still intrigues him. Black Planet still holds some
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  appeal. So he decides to create his own
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  profile, a super freak one named Get Up Enya, complete with
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  pimplicious pictures and explicit poems.
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  And this quickly leads to his next online encounter, Adia,
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  described as a gorgeous down low freak from Indianapolis.
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  Their first phone call is pretty funny actually.
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  Adia initially denies even knowing a get up Mia because the
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  username is so explicit. She's trying to keep up her down
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  low image, but eventually she admits his voice just drew her
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  in. That's why she actually picked
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  up and talked to him. Then Adia puts him through this
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  test, calls it the Are You Qualified test.
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  She challenges his oral sex skills.
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  Like, really specifically defining indicators of a woman
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  who really loves receiving oral sex.
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  Eyes rolling back like she's possessed, holding him down
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  until he finishes. Very graphic.
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  And this part really dives into that very specific, sometimes
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  almost performative side of online sexual identity, how
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  people communicate, how they vet each other.
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  It's incredibly detailed, almost like a job interview.
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  But yeah, it shows how much people might share or demand
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  upfront online to find exactly what they're looking for.
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  The vetting doesn't stop there. It moves to a webcam session.
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  Audi is naked, she tells. You've just to use a #2 pencil
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  to measure his penis, which he calls Sergio.
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  And then Audia apparently goes through this collection of about
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  20 synthetic penises dildos, trying to find one that matches
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  Sergio's size. Based on the pencil measurement,
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  she finds 1 uses it, has multiple orgasms and declares
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  youth disqualified to get this pussy.
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  And the segment ends pretty simply.
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  Audia and I soon became very good friends and I helped her
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  hit all her spots in person. Yeah.
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  What's really striking here is how that online space enabled
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  such a precise, detailed, almost technical form of vetting and
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  connection, which then LED directly to a real world
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  relationship. It poses a big question for us,
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  right? How exactly do these digital
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  interactions, these online negotiations end up shaping or
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  defining the actual physical intimacy later on?
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  What kinds of connections become possible when those traditional
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  social barriers are down? So when you look at the whole
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  picture, Black Planet isn't just, you know, a collection of
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  explicit stories. It really feels like a mirror
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  held up to how people navigate all that stuff.
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  Lust, heartbreak. Finding a new self online.
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  Maybe a digital rebirth. Finding themselves through all
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  the shifting identities, taboo temptations and unspoken truths.
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  The novella powerfully shows how that fundamental human drive,
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  that hunger for connection, validation, power and intimacy,
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  it still burns strong in all of us, whether it's playing out in
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  messy, raw real life moments or, you know, behind these carefully
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  built digital masks. It's that enduring need for
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  connection, however strange the path might seem sometimes.
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  Yeah, and you have to summary actually closes the novella with
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  a question he asks. So what's your screen name?
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  And for you listening after diving into these really
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  unfiltered stories, it does make you wonder, doesn't it?
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  What surprising parts of yourself, what hidden facets
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  might you discover when that screen lights up And maybe, just
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  maybe, the guard comes down?