Stay ConnectedRehash: The podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten – but we think are due for a revisiting.
Hosted by Maia (Broey Deschanel) and Hannah Raine
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Once upon a time, there was a place you could go on the internet to buy all the strangest fruits that fashion’s best and brightest had to offer. Now, you’re more likely to hit it when you decide to become the billionth person in the world to own a pair of sambas. That place is SSENSE - the luxury e-commerce mega retailer based out of Montreal, which houses every fashion brand from Canada Goose to Issey Miyake, and employs just about the entire 20-something anglo population of Montreal. SSENSE has become an undeniable powerhouse in the world of luxury e-commerce, carving a name for itself with an unorthodox business model that fuses fashion and technology. But can a company which has been called “the Amazon of high fashion” really be the bastion of the arts that it proclaims to be? In this extra special Patreon bonus episode, Maia and Hannah, with the help of a series of interviews from former SSENSE employees and small business owners, discuss SSENSE’S impact on fashion as an art form. As SSENSE gobbles up all the fish in the e-commerce pond, is it actually supporting emerging artists, or snuffing them out?
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When “selfie” was deemed the word of the year in 2013, people freaked it. How had society become so vapid? Were we all narcissists? Did this mean young people would spend all the precious time they COULD be building a Forbes empire… taking pictures of themselves? But did selfies really make Narcissuses of us all, or have human beings always been fascinated by their own self-image? The selfie as we know it today may have been invented by a clumsy Australian man. But from its origins in the days of Renaissance courtships, to 19th century “cartes-de-visite”, to the self-portraits of Cindy Sherman, it may be that the selfie has been with us all along. Moreover, can selfies be… art? In this bonus episode, Hannah and Maia breakdown the history, and question its future. Tangents include: Maia and Hannah moving countries, the importance of the word “gullet”, and why we’re so afraid of Victorian ghosts.
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If you’ve ever vacantly nodded along while someone rants to you about NFTs, then this finale episode is for you. Welcome to Blockchain for Bimbos. From a genuine effort to put agency over the sale of their work back into the hands of artists was born a Frankenstein’s monster: the NFT. It’s the internet version of owning a star… if you could resell that star for millions of dollars to a crypto millionaire. Even stranger, the successful marriage of NFTs and legacy art institutions made strange bed fellows out of affluent old art collectors and dweeby tech bros. And while the era of 2021-2022 was a gold rush for those who could wrap their heads around this intentionally confounding technology, it also exposed something we always knew about the world of art, but never wanted to admit…
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SOURCES
Kevin Roose, “What are NFTs?” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/technology/nft-guide.html
Valentina Di Liscia, “Artists Say Plagiarized NFTs are Plaguing Their Community” Hyperallergic (2021) https://hyperallergic.com/702309/artists-say-plagiarized-nfts-are-plaguing-their-community/
“10 things to know about CryptoPunks, the original NFTs” Christie’s (2021) https://www.christies.com/en/stories/10-things-to-know-about-cryptopunks-94347afeea234209a7739c240149f769#FID-11569
Scott Reyburn, “Will Cryptocurrencies Be the Art Market’s Next Big Thing?” The New York Times (2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/arts/cryptocurrency-art-market.html/
“Art Term: Readymade” Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/r/readymade
Cynthia Goodman, “The Digital Revolution: Art in the Computer Age” Art Journal (1990) https://www.jstor.org/stable/777115
David Joselit, “NFTs, or The Readymade Reversed” October Magazine (2021) https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00419
Josie Thaddeus-Johns “Beeple Bring Crypto to Christie’s” The New York Times (2021) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/arts/design/christies-beeple-nft.html
Anthony Cuthbertson, “NFT millionaire Beeple says crypto art is bubble and will ‘absolutely go to zero’ The Independent (2021) https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nft-beeple-cryptocurrency-art-b1821314.html
Zachary Small, “The Night That Sotheby’s Was Crypto Punked” The New York Times (2024) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/business/sothebys-crypto-nfts-auction.html
Adam Maida, “What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs” The Atlantic (2021) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-show-value-owning-unownable/618525/
Anil Dash, “NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This” The Atlantic (2021) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/
Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT has changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?” The New York Times (2022) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/arts/design/nft-art-beeple.html
Nathaniel Popper, “What is the Blockchain? Explaining the Tech behind Cryptocurrencies” The New York Times (2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/business/dealbook/blockchains-guide-information.html
Considering every broad and her mother owns a pair of ballet flats these days, it’s safe to say ballet has successfully re-infiltrated popular culture. But that might not be a good thing. In this episode, Hannah and Maia, along with movement artist Susanna Haight, trace the evolution of dance in the Western zeitgeist - from the days of George Balanchine, to the introduction of camera phones into the training space. If we’re living in a time of girlhood, and girlhood is all about ballet, and ballet is all about hyper femininity, and femininity is all about self-regulation, and self-regulation is the prevailing force of our social media surveillance society… then we may just be trapped in a dance panopticon. But what does this mean for dancers? Tangents include: Maia being hit on by her pre-recorded, virtual Peloton instructor.
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Sources:
Sarah Crompton, “‘Ballet has the same appeal as Princess culture’: Alice Robb on how would-be ballerinas are taught to be thin, silent and submissive” Independent (2023).
Elizabeth Kiem, “George Balanchine: the Human Cost of an Artistic Legacy” Huffington Post (2014).
Cecily Parks, “The arts are slowly diversifying but ballet needs to catch up” New School Free Press (2023).
Irene E. Schultz, “What is a Ballet Body?” Medium (2020).
Frances Sola-Santiago, “Balletcore Is Still Huge In 2023 — Here’s Why It’s More Exciting Than Ever Before” Refinery 29 (2023).
Avery Trufelman, “On Pointe” Articles of Interest (2023).
If you're enjoying the Parker Posey-aissance, then Party Girl is the film for you. This little freak of a movie, about a Manhattan club-goer who experiences an existential crisis after reading the Myth of Sisyphus (yes, that's the plot) was, believe it or not, the first feature film to premiere both in theatres and online. And thus it occupies a very odd space in popular culture. Predicting many things to come: the streaming era, Brat, downtown edgelords. And remaining an artifact of a time where weirdo, shoestring budget flicks still had an audience. In this episode, Hannah and Maia chat about the history of Party Girl and what it says about our world today. Tangents include: Trump getting shot, Hannah becoming Shakespeare, and the tyranny of niche meme accounts that come for literally everyone… even those who read Camus and drink black coffee.
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SOURCES
Taylor Ghrist, “The secret history of Party Girl” Dazed (2015) https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24991/1/the-secret-history-of-party-girl
Soraya Roberts, “How 1995’s ‘Party Girl’ Became The First Movie To Premiere Online” Defector (2023) https://defector.com/how-1995s-party-girl-became-the-first-movie-to-premier-online
The Deuce Film Series, “The Deuce Notebook: ‘Party Girl’ Is Back in Town!” Mubi Notebook (2023) https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-deuce-notebook-party-girl-is-back-in-town
Ari Saperstein, “How the First Popular Movie Ever to Stream Online Was Made” WSJ Magazine (2020) https://archive.ph/20200608135245/https://www.wsj.com/articles/party-girl-oral-history-parker-posey-11591621366
Gemma Gracewood, “Reading is Sexy: Party Girl’s filmmakers share production memories while reading Letterboxd reviews.” Letterboxd (2023) https://letterboxd.com/journal/party-girl-letterboxd-reviews-Daisy-von-Scherler-Mayer/
Rich Juzwiak, “The Everlasting Appeal of ‘Party Girl’” Jezebel (2023) https://www.jezebel.com/party-girl-rerelease-1850382585
Victoria Wiet, “The Library is Open: On Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work” Literary Hub (2023) https://lithub.com/the-library-is-open-on-party-girl-budget-cuts-and-the-future-of-womens-work/
“Party Girl: Groove is in the Heart” The Frida Cinema (2023) https://thefridacinema.org/film-criticism/party-girl-groove-is-in-the-heart
Peter Rainer, “This ‘Party Girl’ Knows How to Have Fun” The LA Times (1995) https://web.archive.org/web/20160306062736/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-09/entertainment/ca-11122_1_party-girl
Judy Berman, “The Streaming Void” The Baffler, no. 38 (March 2018) https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-streaming-void-berman
Alissa Wilkinson, “Netflix vs. Cannes: why they’re fighting, what it means for cinema, and who really loses” Vox (2018) https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/13/17229476/netflix-versus-cannes-ted-sarandos-thierry-fremaux-okja-meyerowitz-orson-welles-streaming-theater
Meaghan Garvey, “Brat” Pitchfork (2024) https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/charli-xcx-brat/
Hamilton: the musical that launched a thousand lip-biting memes. Almost a decade ago, Lin Manuel Miranda’s race-bending rap-sical took broadway by storm and rose to unprecedented levels of success, amassing a dedicated, almost fanatical global fanbase. Yet with ticket prices starting at $400 a pop, the vast majority of these fans had never actually seen the show. Even stranger, in 2016 you could throw a rock and hit about three Hamilton fans, but today it seems like a title no one wants to claim. In this episode, Hannah, Maia, and their friend and long-time collaborator Sara Harvey, go mask-off to discuss Hamilton as it relates to their love of theatre. Is Hamilton a transgressive emulation or veneration of the founding fathers? How much of the show’s backlash is about its real historical flaws, and how much is a symptom of our irony-poisoning? And how much does theatre lose when it’s spliced up and broadcasted on the internet? Tangents include: the “boys and girls can’t share a room law”, Hannah playing the lottery, and a never-before-seen look at the inception of The Crucible: The Musical.
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Sources:
Claire Bond Potter, “Safe in the Nation We’ve Made” Staging Hamilton on Social Media” in Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past, Rutgers (2018).
H. W. Brands, “Founders Chic” The Atlantic (2003).
EJ Dickson, “Why Gen Z Turned on Lin-Manuel Miranda” Rolling Stone (2020).
Elissa Harbert, “Hamilton and History Musicals” American Music, Vol. 36 (4) Hamilton (2018).
Andy Lavender, “The Internet, Theatre and Time: transmediating the theatron” Contemporary Theatre Review (2017).
Marvin McAllister, “Toward a More Perfect Hamilton” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 3 (2) (2017).
Erika Milvy, “Hamilton's teenage superfans: 'This is, like, crazy cool'” The Guardian (2016).
Aja Romano, “Hamilton is fanfic, and its historical critics are totally missing the point” Vox (2016).
When The Beatles came out with Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it seemed like music had changed forever. Out with the days of 78s and random singles compiled into LPs. Now the act of listening to music was an art in itself! Until it wasn’t. In this episode, Hannah and Maia look past their musical differences to take you on a journey through music history as it collides with technology. As major innovations in music - disco, punk, MTV, pirating, the predetermination of music streaming - slowly erode the art of the concept album, it’s hard not to wonder what, if anything, has been lost. Technology pushes music forward, but can music push back? Tangents include: hating on Shoppers Drug Mart; The Beatles originating the “rodent boyfriend” trend; and Maia putting a nickel into the “Don’t Talk About Youtube” jar.
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It’s hard to tell what killed photography… whether it was the advent of the camera phone, the “pocket gallery” that is social media, or the thousands of men taking softcore images of hot women in lingerie and calling it art. These horsemen of the photography apocalypse were all put to trial when Emily Ratajkowski went up against acclaimed artist and professional troll, Richard Prince, after he featured one of her Instagram photos in an art exhibition in New York. An image she went on to purchase for $80,000. While Prince’s “Instagram Paintings” series seems at best lazy and at worst sleazy, it raises fascinating questions about the state of photography as an art form. Photography has always had problems with authorship, but social media has thrown that into crisis. Once a photograph reaches the internet, is it yours any longer? Is it even a photograph at all? Hannah and Maia are joined by photographer and friend Stefan Johnson to discuss all this and more in this episode, embarking on tangents such as: what comprises a “Brat summer”, and Maia being too optimistic about Love Island UK.
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SOURCES:
Walter Benjamin, “'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” (1935).
Liz Linden, “Reframing Pictures: Reading the Art of Appropriation” Art Journal, vol. 75, No. 4 (2016).
W. J. T. Mitchell, “The Pictorial Turn” Artforum (1992).
Sabine Niederer, “Networked Images: Visual methodologies for the digital age”, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2018).
Lizzie Plaugic, “The story of Richard Prince and his $100,000 Instagram art” The Verge (2015).
Emily Ratajkowski, “Buying Myself Back: When does a model own her own image?” Vulture (2020).
David Robbins, “Richard Prince: An Interview by David Robbins” Aperture , FALL 1985, No. 100, The Edge of Illusion (FALL 1985).
Peter Schjeldahl, “Richard Prince’s Instagrams” The New Yorker (2014).
Giulia Turbiglio, “A Brief History of Richard Prince’s Instagram” Artuner.
Wattpad: a literary oasis of the Web 2.0, or a cash cow monopolizing on the infernal musings of a thousand Club Chalamets? In this episode, Hannah and Maia are joined by Youtube superstar Princess Weekes, to ponder the eponymous literary platform; from its gaming origins, to its heyday as a fertile space for burgeoning writers, to what it is now which is… bizarre. Is Wattpad f-cking up our relationship to literature, or should we just be happy that we’re literate at all? How do we critique an institution like Wattpad without punching down at its readers? And how much has the internet affected the kinds of books that are sold to us? These questions and more answered here. Tangents include: Hannah and Maia buying each other “sad broad” snacks, and an extra special shoutout to Regina, Saskatchewan.
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SOURCES
“Wattpad: Building the world’s biggest reader and writer community” The Literary Platform (2012) https://theliteraryplatform.com/news/2012/10/wattpad-building-the-worlds-biggest-reader-and-writer-community/
Margaret Atwood “Why Wattpad Works” The Guardian (2012)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jul/06/margaret-atwood-wattpad-online-writing
Andrew Liptak “Wattpad is launching a publishing imprint called Wattpad Books” The Verge (2019) https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/18195753/wattpad-books-launching-publishing-imprint-self
Bianca Bosker, “The One Direction Fan-Fiction Novel That Became a Literary Sensation” The Atlantic (2018) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/crowdsourcing-the-novel/573907/
“The Master Plan” Wattpad https://company.wattpad.com/blog/2016/11/30/the-master-plan
Chelsea Humphries, “Is an Algorithm the Answer? Wattpad Books’s Challenge to Publishing Infastructure” The iJournal (2019) https://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/article/view/33469/25726
David Steitfeld, “Web Fiction, Serialized and Social” The New York Times (2014) https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/technology/web-fiction-serialized-and-social.html
Hazal Kirci, “The tales teens tell: what Wattpad did for girls” The Guardian (2014) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/16/teen-writing-reading-wattpad-young-adults
Abigail De Kosnik, “Should Fan Fiction Be Free?” Cinema Journal (2009) https://www.jstor.org/stable/25619734
Oscar Wilde once said, “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.” But if that's the case, how do we explain Rupi Kaur? Ever since she came on the scene a decade ago, Rupi has seen equal measures of praise and scrutiny. And, youth and gender considered, it’s hard not to feel that the backlash to her work is yet another instance of people hating anything that’s popular. However, in this episode, Hannah and Maia are joined by special guest, poet Phoebe VanDusen, to peer behind the veil of Rupi's persona and ask some pressing questions. What exactly irks people about her work? Does all art need to be democratized? What is the line between anti-elitism and anti-intellectualism? And perhaps the most puzzling of all: is poetry something anyone can do? Tangent includes: Maia’s shameless love of Nickelback.
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Poets mentioned by Phoebe:
Tommy Pico
Kim Hyesoon
Etel Adnan
Timmy Straw
Frank O'Hara
Alice Notley
Ocean Vuong - "Aubade with Burning City":
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56769/aubade-with-burning-city
SOURCES:
Javon Johnson, Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities, Rutgers (2017).
Maria Manning, “Crafting Authenticity: Reality, Storytelling, and Female Self-Representation through Instapoetry” Storytelling, Self, Society, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2020).
Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1985).
Miski Omar, “Whether voice of a generation or queen of cringe, Rupi Kaur was a gateway to the world of poetry” The Guardian (2024).
Soraya Roberts, “No Filter” The Baffler (2018).
Rebecca Watts, “The Cult of the Noble Amateur” PN Review, vol.44 (3) (2018).
Nobody wants to be a stick waving old man, but what happens when it’s that stick waving old man who’s telling young people to loosen up? After a series of studies from 2021 reported that teenagers are having less sex than the generations before them, a strange phenomenon has unfolded on the internet. Younger people are being morally conservative, older people are responding by calling younger people “puriteens” (puritanical teens), and then other older people are calling those older people “stick waving old men”. In this Patreon bonus episode, Hannah and Maia wade through the muddy waters of this discourse, and attempt to find nuance in what has become a full on panic from all sides. What the hell happened here? Tangents include: Hannah travelling 5 hours to see DJ James Kennedy in Ottawa, and Maia telling everyone in middle school she had an “orgasm” at the New Moon premiere.
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Full episode available on Patreon: Kristen and Bethany Baird make Christian life advice content on Youtube for their modest audience of 100k followers. But when Cody Ko reacted to one of their videos on his channel, spawning an entire industry of Girl Defined commentary, they became overnight sensations… for all the wrong reasons. Girl Defined certainly spreads harmful fundamentalist views to impressionable young women but, in this bonus episode, Hannah and Maia question whether Kristen and Bethany are always deserving of vitriol. For women coming into their sexualities alongside their audience, it’s important to consider if their advice is hypocritical, or just confused. Tangents include: Nara Smith and the TikTok trad wives, the “Who said I can’t wear my purity era with my converse” era of Disney, and the political theatre of Republican Christianity and its weaponization of Sydney Sweeney’s boobs. Oh - and MANY “69” jokes.
If you thought women’s beauty standards were unrealistic before, just wait until you find out about AI porn. Not only do these girlies have cartoonish curves, the faces of young teens, and impossibly long hair… they also have eight fingers on each hand! In this finale episode, Hannah and Maia discuss AI porn, the ways it infringes on bodily autonomy, and its commitment to rendering women’s oldest profession obsolete. You’d think we’d have flying cars by this point, but instead we’re jerking off to the face of Minnie Mouse algorithmically stitched onto Lana Rhoades. Perhaps humanity is more simple that we thought. Tangents include: Maia’s “reply guy” voice, r/doppelbangher, and Hannah fumbling about 15 different analogies.
CORRECTION: Text-to-image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney do not use GANS.
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SOURCES:
Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: A History, Workman Publishing Company (2022).
Samantha Cole, “Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos, Says They're Nonconsensual” Vice (2018).
Brit Dawson, “Inside the booming AI-generated porn industry” Dazed (2023).
Falon Fatemi, “Look What You Made Me Do: Why Deepfake Taylor Swift Matters” Forbes (2024).
Carl Öhman, “Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: a contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornography” Ethics and Information Technology (2020).
Emine Saner, “Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’” The Guardian (2024).
Kat Tenbarge, “Found through Google, bought with Visa and Mastercard: Inside the deepfake porn economy” NBC (2023).
Jess Weatherbed, “Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes” The Verge (2024).
James Vincent, “Stable Diffusion made copying artists and generating porn harder and users are mad” The Verge (2022).
…We’re about to go off. Since what feels like the beginning of time (the 60s) dating companies have promised us that our soulmates are out there waiting for us, and they know just who it is. But in this current late stage hellscape, it’s safe to say these companies aren’t as altruistic as they seem. Yes, in this episode, Hannah and Maia talk about everyone’s least favourite drug: dating apps. It comes down to one question: if dating apps could really find us our soulmate, why is it that we’re less horny, and less committal than ever before? Rather than being happily partnered, its appears we’ve all become rizzless, attention deficit, scaredy-cat sex nerds. Are we in crisis? Tangents include: Vanessa Hudgens' monopoly on the “Disney R&B” market, the “bottle night” guy, and Hannah putting yet another nickel in the Don’t Talk About Taylor Swift jar.
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SOURCES:
Samatha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex, Workman Publishing Company (2022).
Ann Friedman, “Overwhelmed and Creeped Out” The New Yorker (2013).
Dakota Hanson, Swipe, F*ck, Ghost, Repeat: How Dating Apps Changed the Way We Form Relationships and View Intimacy, Debating Communities and Networks XIII (2022).
Hobbes et al, “Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy” Journal of Sociology (2017).
Tom Roach, “Becoming Fungible: Queer Intimacies in Social Media” Qui Parle, vol.23 (2) (2015).
Christine Rosen, “Electronic Intimacy” The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 36 (2) (2012).
Alexandra Sims, “Sex, love and swiping: How 10 years of Tinder changed us forever” Cosmopolitan (2022).
Amy Wallace, “Love God From Hell : The Man Who Brought You Videodating Hates to Date, Loves to Taunt and Has Himself Been Unlucky in Love. Would You Buy a Relationship From Jeffrey Ullman?” LA Times (1994).
Emily Witt, “A Hookup App for the Emotionally Mature” The New Yorker (2022).
Jamie Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect, Jamie Woo (2013).
What do Uber and OnlyFans have in common? Did camgirilng really originate from a 24 hour live stream of a Trojan coffee pot? And fellas, is it cheating to have an OnlyFans subscription AND a wife? These burning questions (and more) will be answered in this episode, where Hannah and Maia discuss the multivalent world of OnlyFans and the ways it transformed sex work, for better or for worse. It may have been a saving grace for out-of-work people during the pandemic, but is OF a hero of the gig economy, or an agent of it? Tangents include: Twitch’s great grandfather, Justin.tv; the high culture-ification of fast food; and Maia using the term “-ification” till she gets woman’d right off the internet.
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SOURCES:
Feona Attwood, “Through the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Online” in New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity (2011).
Steve Baldwin, “Forgotten Web Celebrities: Jennicam.org's Jennifer Ringley” Ghost Sites of the Web (2004).
Marta Biino and Madeline Berg, “The secret of OnlyFans: It's much more than porn” Business Insider (2024).
Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: A History, Workman Publishing Company (2022).
Charlotte Colombo, “The history of OnlyFans: how the controversial platform found success and changed online sex work” Business Insider (2021).
Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith, “Onlyfans as Gig-Economy Work: A nexus of precarity and stigma” Porn Studies, Taylor & Francis (2023).
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, Megan Speciale and Richard S. Balkin, “Sexual Attitudes and Characteristics of OnlyFans Users” Archives of Sexual Behavior (2022).
Sophie Sanchez, “The World’s Oldest Profession Gets a Makeover: Sex Work, OnlyFans, and Celebrity Participation”, Women Leading Change, vol 6 (1) (2022).
If you’ve ever wondered why there are so many annoying people on Twitter, you’ve got Tumblr to thank for that. Tumblr, the microblogging site that reigned supreme in the 2010s, was like Facebook’s cool cousin who has blue hair and goes to art school. It was the cradle of identity formation for lonely teens and adults, and it was also a happy home to lots and lots of porn. Tumblr’s NSFW content made it a search-engine-friendly way to consume porn without your mom finding out. But its alternative edge made it an easy victim to much more powerful companies - which is why, in this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the Tumblr porn ban and its consequences on society. Tangents including but not limited to: the “free nipples for sale” movement, Hannah’s Addison Rae addiction, and Maia’s misanthropic middle school blog: “Who the Poo Cares”.
Hannah's Tumblr: https://acidrain-e.tumblr.com/
Maia's Tumblr: https://takemybadge.tumblr.com/
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Leah Collins, “How Tumblr went from a $1 billion Yahoo payday to a $3 million fire sale.” CNBC (2022). https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/how-tumblr-went-from-1-billion-yahoo-payday-to-3-million-fire-sale.html
Josh Holiday “David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realizing his dream” The Guardian (2012). https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/29/tumblr-david-karp-interview
Michael J. de la Merced, Nick Bilton and Nicole Perlroth “Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion.” The New York Times (2013) .https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/technology/yahoo-to-buy-tumblr-for-1-1-billion.html
Allison McCrcken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch “You Must Be New Here: An Introduction” a tumblr book: platform and culture, Chapter 1, (2020).
Chris Isidore, “Yahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not ‘screw it up’”, (20/05/13), CNN Buisness. https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/20/technology/yahoo-buys-tumblr/?iid=EL
Sarah Perez, “Tumblr’s Adult Fare Accounts for 11.4% Of Site’s Top 200K Domains, Adult Sites Are Leading Category of Referrals” (20/05/2013), Tech Crunch https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/tumblrs-adult-fare-accounts-for-11-4-of-sites-top-200k-domains-tumblrs-adult-fare-accounts-for-11-4-of-sites-top-200k-domains-adults-sites-are-leading-category-of-referrals/
Shannon Liao, “Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th” (03/12/2018), The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode
Shannon Liao, “Tumblr’s adult content ban means the death of unique blogs that explore sexuality” (06/12/2018), The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18124260/tumblr-porn-ban-sexuality-blogs-unique
Community Guidelines, Tumblr. https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community
Jason Koelber and Samantha Cole, “Apple Sucked Tumblr Into Its Walled Garden, Where Sex Is Bad” (03/12/2018), Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mjxg/apple-tumblr-porn-nsfw-adult-content-banned
Kyle Chayka, “How Tumblr became popular for being obsolete” The New Yorker (2022). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete
Ned Hepburn, “I’ll Tumblr For Ya” Vice (2009) https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeem3a/tumblr-david-karp-interview
Allison McCracken, “Tumblr Youth Subcultures and Media Engagement” Cinema Journal, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Fall 2017) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44867867
Danah Boyd, “Am I a Blogger?” Biography, Vol. 38, No. 2, ONLINE LIVES 2.0 (Spring 2015) https://www.jstor.org/stable/24570362
Photomatt (tumblr’s CEO), “Why ‘Go Nuts, Show Nuts’ Doesn’t Work in 2022”, Tumblr (2022) https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-nuts-show-nuts-doesnt-work-in-2022
Why is it that whenever someone “thinks of the children”, a sex worker is harmed in the process? In this episode, Hannah and Maia tell the story of Backpage - the classifieds website that came crashing down when instances of child sex trafficking was discovered in its seedy underbelly. But while the crusade against the site and its free-wheeling founders seemed well intentioned, the act that was used to take them down (FOSTA-SESTA) has had massive consequences for the freedom of the web, and most importantly, for sex workers. You can never be too altruistic if John McCain is in your corner. Listen for targets such as: Timothée Chalamet’s galaxy print leggings and Hannah being a wittle baby, and Taken (2008)'s continued gorilla grip on our culture.
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SOURCES
Sofia Barrett-Ibarria, “Sex Workers Pioneered The Early Internet - Now It’s Screwing Them Over” (03/10/2018), Vice.https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvazy7/sex-workers-pioneered-the-early-internet
Samantha Cole, “Trump Just Signed SESTA/FOSTA, a Law Sex Workers Say Will Literally Kill Them” (11/04/2018), Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvxeyq/trump-signed-fosta-sesta-into-law-sex-work
Daniel Oberhaus, “The FBI Just Seized Backage.com” (06/05/2018), Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5avp3/fbi-seized-backpage-sex-trafficking
Samantha Cole, “‘Sex Trafficking’ Bill Will take Away Online Spaces Sex Workers Need to Survive” Vice (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/neqxaw/sex-trafficking-bill-sesta-fosta-vote
Margaret Renkl, “The Alt-Weekly Crisis Hits Nashville. And Democracy.” The New York Times (2018). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/opinion/nashville-scene-weekly-democracy.html
Ryan Singel, “‘Adult Services’ Shutdown Is Permanent, Craigslist Tells Congress” Wired (2010)
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/adult-services-shutdown-is-permanent-craigslist-tells-congress/
Christine Biederman, “Inside Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle With The Feds” Wired (2019) https://web.archive.org/web/20190618114540/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-backpage-vicious-battle-feds/
Megan McKnelly, “Untangling SESTA/FOSTA: How The Internet’s ‘Knowledge’ Threatens Anti-sex Traffivking Law” Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26954413
Maia Hibbett, “Who Keeps Us Safe?: Mainstream feminism’s long alliance with the punitive state” The Baffler, No. 53 (SEPT-OCT 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26975643
Andrew O'Hehir “The Backpage.com sex-trafficking scandal, the death of the ‘alt-weekly’ and me” Salon (2018) https://www.salon.com/2018/04/14/the-backpage-com-sex-trafficking-scandal-the-death-of-the-alt-weekly-and-me/
Sara Morrison, “Section 230, the internet law that’s under threat, explained” Vox (2023) https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/28/21273241/section-230-explained-supreme-court-social-media
Danielle Blunt and Ariel Wolk, “Erased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workers”, Anti Trafficking Review (2020)
https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/448/363
Cunningham et al “Did Craigslist’s Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rapes?” Journal of Human Resources. (2017)
Liara Roux, “Post-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Media” Tits and Sass (2018) http://titsandsass.com/post-sesta-fosta-self-censoring-for-twitter-reddit-and-other-social-media/
Sure, the computer gave us war. But sex gave us the iCloud email alert. Ever since Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of Playboy, men have been profiting off of women’s bodies without their consent. Yet if revenge porn has been around since God was a small child, why did it seem to peak in the 2010s? In this episode, Hannah and Maia go back to a time when Hunter Moore, the Gavin McInnes of cybersex terrorism, reigned supreme on the internet with his wildly popular revenge porn website, Is Anyone Up? A website which changed our understanding of revenge porn forever. Join along on this odyssey of legal loopholes, internet vigilantes, and a man named Gary Jones asking for your nudes - to uncover the rise and fall of “the most hated man on the internet”. Tangent includes: Kyle MacLachlan’s feet.
SOURCES:
Russell Brandom, Apple just added another layer of iCloud security, a day before iPhone 6 event” The Verge (2014).
Danielle Keats Citron and Mary Anne Franks, “Criminalizing Revenge Porn” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 24 (2014).
Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex, Workman Publishing Group (2022).
Camille Dodero, ““Gary Jones” Wants Your Nudes” The Village Voice (2012).
Erin Durkin, “Hacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theft” The Guardian (2018).
Kashmir Hill, “Revenge porn (Or: Another reason not to take nude photos)” Forbes (2009).
Kimberly Lawson, One in 25 Americans Say They’ve Been a Victim of Revenge Porn” Vice (2016).
Amanda Marcotte, “‘The Fappening’ and Revenge Porn Culture: Jennifer Lawrence and the Creepshot Epidemic” The Daily best (2014).
“Love, Relationships, and #SextRegret: It’s Time to Take Back the Web” McAfee (2013).
Sam Kashner, “Both Huntress and Prey” Vanity Fair (2014).
Roni Rosenberg and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, “Revenge Porn in the Shadow of the First Amendment” (2022).
Before “co-authored, interactive erotica” (otherwise known as sexting), we had chatrooms. Virtual spaces where anyone of any race, gender, class, or creed could come together to fornicate with their words. The MUD and MOO chatrooms of yore belonged to a time when Dungeons and Dragons nerds governed the internet - a utopia of beautiful, unadulterated cybersex. But one fateful day in 1993, this would all change. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the origins of online chatrooms, their dark corners, and eventual evolution into child-oriented platforms (like Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin). Digressions include: beautiful house theory, “meat puppets”, Richard Nixon’s brief stint on IMVU, and Maia repeatedly confusing AOL for AIM.
SOURCES
Rachel Seifert, “Striptease and cyber sex: my stay at Habbo Hotel” Channel 4 News, (2012)
https://www.channel4.com/news/striptease-and-cyber-sex-my-stay-at-habbo-hotel
Paraic O’Brien, “Should you let your child play in Habbo Hotel?” Channel 4 News, (2012)https://www.channel4.com/news/should-you-let-your-child-play-in-habbo-hotel
William J. Shefski, Interactive Internet: the insider’s guide to MUDs, MOOs and IRC, (1995)
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559587488/page/n16/mode/1up
Habbo, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo
Sara Morais dos Santo Bruss, “CHAPTER 1: The Internet Imaginary and Digital Modernity” Feminist Solidarities after Modulation (2023)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10782316.4
Steve Downey, “History of the (Virtual) Worlds”, The Journal of Technology Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/43604309
Sherry Turkle, “Tinysex and Gender Trouble” Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (1998)
Dennis Waskul, Mark Douglass, Charles Edgley, “Cybersex: Outercourse and the Enselfment of the Body” Symbolic Interactions, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2000)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.2000.23.4.375
Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex, Workman Publishing (2022)
Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace (or TINYSOCIETY and How to Make One)” My tiny life: crime and passion in a virtual world, Henry Holt (1998)
If you were a teenage boy in 2008 and you didn’t have a “God Bless Sasha Grey t-shirt”, did you even exist? Ever since indie sleaze darling, Sasha Grey, burst onto the porn scene in the mid aughts, its become a bit cooler to say hey, “I watch this.” But while Sasha represented a feminist shift in the industry, her fringe sexuality may have played into a dangerous trend in internet porn. In this episode, Hannah and Maia ask the important question: should Sasha be The Pied Piper of Porn™, or can we find a Sasha grey area? Listen for tangents such as: the Tina Fey-aissance, and Stanley Kubrick’s lost film: “Squirt Gangb@ng”.
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SOURCES:
Dave Gardetta, “The Teenager & the Porn Star” Los Angeles Magazine (2006).
Stephen Heymen, “Grey Matter” New York Times (2011).
PopMatters Staff, “The New Breed: Sasha Grey, Atelecine, and the New Morality” PopMatters (2010).
Rebecca Saunders, “Grey, gonzo and the grotesque: the legacy of porn star Sasha Grey”, Porn Studies, vol. 5 (4) (2018).
Karley Sciortino, “Going Deep with Sasha Grey” Slutever (2014).
Eran Shor & Kimberly Seida, ““Harder and Harder”? Is Mainstream Pornography Becoming Increasingly Violent and Do Viewers Prefer Violent Content?” The Journal of Sex Research (2018).
Brandon Stosuy, “Sasha Grey: Dawn of the Porn Star” The Fanzine (2006).
Before Paris or Kim, there was Pamela. Original martyrs of the sex tape leak, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are only now receiving their apology (via Hulu miniseries). But who knew that this “voyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy of two tabloid darlings” would change the way we consume p*rn forever? In this episode, Hannah and Maia track the decline of p*rn, from its high culture “p*rno chic” days, to its low culture era on VHS, and the way Pamela’s sex tape kicked off two decades of peeping Tom culture on the internet. With the rise of vlogging today, the question arises: can a life be p*rnographic? Or better yet, without Pamela, would we have Emma Chamberlain? Special tangent includes: Maia getting excited about “Bob Marley: One Love”.
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SOURCES:
Pamela, a love story (2023), Netflix
Amanda Chicago Lewis, “Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Sex Tape” (2014), Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/pam-and-tommy-the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-most-infamous-sex-tape-194776/
Hillyer, Minette “Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored.” (2004), Porn Studies
Chuck Kleinhans, “Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope” (2001), The End of Cinema As We Know It .
Mark Gimen, “Sex Sells, Doesn’t It?”, Salon (1999)
https://www.salon.com/1999/12/01/ieg/
Frank Rose, “Sex Sells”, Wired (1997)
https://www.wired.com/1997/12/sex-3/
Susie Bright, “Pammy and Tommy’s Honeymoon Video”, Salon (1997)
https://www.salon.com/1997/12/05/pamela_2/
Erica Gonzales, “Pamela Anderson Writes a Plea Against Porn”, Harper's Bazaar (2016)
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/news/a17495/pamela-anderson-porn-op-ed/
When Vine died, the angels cried. No but seriously, in this era of late-stage internet, when it feels like politics, groupthink, and all around bad vibes are all exploding at once, it makes sense that we’re yearning for a simpler time. Who wouldn’t miss the innocence of silly, 6 second videos made for no reason other than to make us laugh? But was Vine as awesome as we remember, or are our memories a bit rose-tinted? In this season 3 finale, Hannah and Maia are joined by Izzy from Be Kind Rewind (otherwise known as Bestie™) to reminisce about Vine’s cultural impact, and Izzy’s experience working for the company. Digressions include: a debate about whether Vine is the Quebec of social media giants, Maia trying to explain jokes to listeners, and Hannah’s “continual brain farts”.
SOURCES
John Herrman, “Vine Changed the Internet Forever. How Much Does the Internet Miss It?” The New York Times, (2020)
Janko Roettgers, “Twitter is Shutting Down Vine” Variety (2016)
Julia Alexander, “The golden age of Youtube is over” The Verge (2019)
Brian Patrick Eha, “Why Vine Was a Bad Match for Twitter” The New Yorker (2016)
Mike Isaac, “Twitter’s 4-Year Odyssey With the 6-Second Video App Vine” New York Times (2016)
Hua Hsu, “Vine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expression” The New Yorker (2016)
Katie Rogers, “5 Vine Stars Share Why They Loved, and Outgrew, Platform” The New York Times (2016)
Romano Santos, “In Memory of Vine, Which Crawled so Tiktok Could Fly” Vice (2022)
Mat Honan, “Why Vine Just Won’t Die”, Wired (2013)
Lizzie Plaugic, “Vine was an underrated source of joy on the internet. Is it me, or does the internet feel less happy today.” The Verge (2016)
Taylor Lorenz, “A Vine Reunion? Video Apps Clash and Byte Join Forces.” The New York Times (2021)
Aja Romano, “You may not have understood Vine, but its demise is a huge cultural loss.” Vox (2016)
Brian Feldnman, “The Untold Story of What Happened After ‘Back at it Again at Krispy Kreme,’ The Best Vine of All Time”, Intelligencer (2016)
When you think of “hard news”, a company that once published an article called “13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatum” probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yes, in this episode Hannah and Maia are tackling Buzzfeed - the millennial fluff aggregator that managed to be on the cutting edge of digital journalism for a bit there. And in the process, changed the way we consume news, and maybe even the societal flow of information altogether. Journalism is in crisis… and is Buzzfeed to blame? Listen for riveting discussions such as: the digital media gold rush and its inevitable demise; is Trump the attention economy personified? Is Justin Bieber one of the four horsemen of the news apocalypse? And… does Anna Wintour really have a f*ck ass bob?
SOURCES:
Jill Abramson, “Why BuzzFeed and Vice Couldn’t Make News Work” Vanity Fair (2023).
Domagoj Bebić, “Viral journalism: The rise of a new form” Medij. Istraž, vol. 22, (2016).
David Elliot Berman, “The Spaces of Sensationalism: A Comparative Case Study of the New York Journal and BuzzFeed” International Journal of Communication, vol. 15 (2021).
Ken Bensinger and Miriam Elder, “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia” Buzzfeed News (2017).
Kathryn Bowd, “Social media and news media: Building new publics or fragmenting audiences?” in Making Publics, Making Places, ed. Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour, University of Adelaide Press (2016).
Bob Franklin, “The Future of Journalism in an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertainty” Journalism Studies, vol. 15 (2014).
Josh Gerstein, “BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser” Politico (2021).
David A. Graham, The Trouble With Publishing the Trump Dossier” The Atlantic (2017).
John Herrman, “The News Went Viral: The media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?” New York Mag (2023).
Nathan J. Robinson, “The Collapse of BuzzFeed News Shows Why For-Profit Journalism is a Disaster” Current Affairs (2023).
Rachel Sanders, “BuzzFeed Doesn’t Deserve Its Newsroom” The Nation (2022).
Mia Sato, “The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed” The Verge (2022).
Alyson Shontell, “Inside Buzzfeed: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand” Buzzfeed Insider (2012).
Ravi Somaiya, “BuzzFeed Restores 2 Posts Its Editor Deleted” The New York Times (2015).
J.K Trotter, “BuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiser” Gawker (2015).
For one brief, beautiful moment in history, the social media sleuths were right. When Britney Spears’ fans began to decode strange messaging in her quirky Instagram posts, it became clear that the formerly maligned popstar was living under the control of her abusive father by way of a particularly oppressive conservatorship. This resulted in a nation-wide movement to liberate Britney from her family and, by extension, the predatory industry that has exploited her for over two decades. But, well-intentioned as #FreeBritney was, did the movement have unintended consequences? Discussions include: the 2000s as the dark ages for popular culture, Vegas residencies as the death rattle for celebrity music careers, and the ongoing question of “agency” that seems to follows Britney Spears throughout her lifetime. Digressions include: Maia’s irrational fear of Babe the pig and a chat about the emojis that define us.
(NOTE: We refer in this episode to Cara Cunningham as Chris Crocker, which is her dead name.)
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SOURCES:
“Britney Spears conservatorship dispute”, Wikipedia.
Natalie Finn, “Jamie Spears Squashes Britney Fansite” ENews (2009).
The Associated Press, “Who is Sam Lutfi?” Los Angeles Times (2008).
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino, “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare” The New Yorker (2021).
"Framing Britney Spears" documentary
"Controlling Britney Spears" documentary
Julia Jacobs, “‘Sorry Britney’: Media Is Criticized for Past Coverage, and Some Own Up” The New York Times (2021).
Toyin Owoseje, “Britney says she ‘cried for two weeks’ after ‘Framing Britney Spears’ documentary” CNN (2021).
Sandra Song, “Inside #FreeBritney: A Stan Movement to Help Their Pop Savior” Paper Magazine (2021).
Jeevan Ravindran, “‘You guys saved my life,’ Britney Spears tells #FreeBritney movement” CNN (2021).
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino, “How Britney Spears Got Free, and What Comes Next” The New Yorker (2021).
Rebecca Jennings, “‘Where Is Britney Spears?’ After her conservatorship ended, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all?” Vulture (2023).
Caity Weaver, “When Britney Spears Posts on Instagram, a Thousand Conspiracies Flower” The New York Times (2019).
EJ Dickson, “Matt Gaetz, QAnon Followers, and the GOP are Exploiting the #FreeBritney Movement” Rolling Stone (2021).
Morgan Sungm “On Tiktok, #FreeBritney conspiracy theories run deep.” Mashable (2021).
Britney's Gram podcast.
Cover this podcast in prayers, because in this highly-requested episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the most political event on the internet to date: Tati Westbrook’s public disowning of James Charles. In this clashing of beauty guru titans, 38-year-old Tati Westbrook disavowed her 19-year old friend and mentee, James Charles… over a bunch of hair vitamins. But hindsight reveals that Tati may not have been working alone, and that Bye Sister may never have been about vitamins all along. Tea and squabbles abound, this event may have brought an end to the beauty guru regime… for good! Digressions include: a reopening of the case on “grooming”, Hannah and Maia’s “would you, an alt man, date Kylie Jenner” poll, the horror of naming a fanbase, and Rehash’s declaration of war against another… very famous… podcast.
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SOURCES:
Valeriya Safronova, “James Charles, From ‘CoverBoy’ to Canceled” The New York Times (2019).
Jean Kelso Sandlin and Monica L. Gracyalny, “Fandom, forgiveness and future support: YouTube apologies as crisis communication” Journal of Communication Management Vol. 24 (1) (2020).
Rachel Strugatz, "The Morphe Beauty Saga Isn’t Pretty” The New York Times (2022).
Elizabeth Whitehead, “An Awkward Look at the Excessive Makeup Trend of the 2010s” Punkee (2022).
Has the sun set on the Me Too era? If you were following along with the Depp v. Heard defamation trial last April, it seems like it did. When Johnny Depp took Amber Heard to court for three vague quotes suggesting she had been abused by him, the world was in a frenzy. Has this hot, blonde, bisexual woman really been abused… or was it the easier answer? That she was an evil psychopath who pulled a Gone Girl on everyone’s favourite fictional pirate. In this episode, Hannah and Maia are finally ready to talk about this blight on cultural history. Discussions include: the popcorn consumption of televised celebrity court cases, TikTok’s true crime cottage industry, Johnny Depp’s hideous hats, and the societal Basic Instinct-ification of hot women. Will Amber Heard be redeemed as a maligned women when the fog clears in a few years, or did Depp v. Heard reverse Me Too for good?
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Simmone Shah, “What to Know About Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s Defamation Trial” (05/05/22), Time,
Anya Zoledziowski “Did Social MEdia Sway the Johnny Depp Jury?” (03/06/22), Vice,
Anya Zolediowski, “Why Does It Seem Like the Entire Internet is Team Johnny Depp?” (25/04/22)
“Jury Sequestration”, US Legal.
Alex Peters, “Milani Cosmetics faces backlash after wading into Depp V Heard trial”, (2022), Dazed,
Remember when everyone freaked the f*** out about that French movie on Netflix? No? Well everybody, let us introduce you to: Cuties. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss Maïmouna Doucouré’s quaint 2020 coming-of-age film and the all out moral panic that it spawned on the internet - which culminated in a real life obscenity lawsuit against Netflix. Discussions include: the thin line between depiction and endorsement, America’s many moral triggers and paradoxical attitude towards sex, the weaponizing of children as a political tool, the cultural consequences of Jeffrey Epstein, and Netflix… actually... defending… art?
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Sources:
Caira Conner, “Watching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of P*dophilia” The Atlantic (2020).
Maria Cramer, “Netflix Is Charged in Texas With Promoting Lewdness in ‘Cuties’” The New York Times (2020).
Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 20 (1994).
Zack Sharf, “‘Cuties’ Director Speaks Out Amid Backlash Film Sexualizes Children, Netflix Stands by It” Indie Wire (2020).
Alissa Wilkinson and Aja Romano, How Cuties, a French movie on Netflix, became part of America’s culture war” Vox (2020).
Remember when Kim Kardashian invented butts? Paper Magazine sure would like us to. When they released their scintillating cover issue of Kim K in a sequinned dress, balancing a champagne glass on her formidable silicone buttocks, Paper Mag declared: “Break the Internet Kim Kardashian” And break it she did. In this episode, Hannah and Maia trace Kim Kardashian’s transformation from trashy reality star to fashionista de jour. Since the Paper cover, and with the help of Kanye West, Kim’s body has become the subject of a twisted performance art. But it’s also generated controversy - creating unhealthy trends, grifting from the natural features of Black women, and now disappearing into what we everyone has deemed a “skinny renaissance”. Digression includes: Maia getting riled up about Timothée and Kylie’s fabled romantic union.
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Joe Zee, “In Defense of Kim Kardashian and the Editors of Paper Magazine and Why This Cover Makes Sense” (12/11/14), Yahoo
Jake Hall, “exploring the complicated relationship between jean-paul goude and grace jones”, (21/04/16) i-D
David Hershkovits, “How Kim KArdashian broke the Internet with her butt” (17/12/14), The Guardian
Blue Telusma “Kim Kardashian doesn’t realize she’s the butt of an old racial joke” (12/11/14), the grio
Justin Parkinson, “The Significance of Sarah Baartman” (07/01/16), BBC
Janell Hobson, “Remnants of Venus: Signifying Black Beauty and Sexuality” (2018), Women’s studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press
Nolan Feeney, “Anna Wintour Implies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not ‘Deeply Tasteful’”. (19/11/14)
Cleo Gould, “From silicone implants and fat transfers to bubble butts and a high mortality rate, we investigate whether the BBL is the most dangerous cosmetic surgery of all” (2019), Dazed
Rachel Tashjian, “How Jennifer Lopez’s Versace Dress Created Google Images” (2019), GQ.
John Ortved, “Paper Magazine, The Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open’ (2023), The New York Times
Eric Wilson, “Kim Kardashian Inc.” (17/11/2010), The New York Times.
Natasha Singer, “The democratization of plastic surgery” (2007), The New York Times,
Harper Franklin “1810-1819” (18/08/2020) Fashion History Timeline, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Grace O’Neill, “How Kimye Changed Fashion Forever”, Grazia Magazine.
Rebecca Jennings, “The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt”, 2021, Vox.
Cady Lang, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians Is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Women’s Aesthetics Continues”, (10/06/21), Time.
Kylie Gilbert, “Backing Away from BBLs” (11/08/22), InStyle
Men used to go to war. Today they are keyboard militias, defending the sanctity of video games and the Gamer™ identity from hysterical women and their evil feminine wiles. ... If you didn't know about Gamergate before today, we're jealous. In this episode, Hannah and Maia provide an excruciatingly detailed breakdown of the 2014 mass harassment campaign which led to the abuse, threatening, and doxxing of countless figures in the game development, journalism, and academic industries. Was there really a feminist conspiracy against video games? Was it just a bunch of men feeling threatened by the fact that, surprise, games are fun for everyone? Or was it just faceless trolls throwing stink bombs all over social media? Listen for an illuminating interview with special guest Fūnk-é Joseph, who offers some much needed insights into just what the hell happened with Gamergate, and what the hell it did to ~the culture~.
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Shira Chess and Adrienne Shaw, “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (2015).
Caitlin Dewey, “The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read” The Washington Post (2014).
Zackary Jason, “Game of Fear” Boston Magazine (2015).
Torill Elvira Mortensen, “Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate” Games and Culture, vol. 13 (8) (2016).
Stephen Totilo, “A brief note about the continued discussion about Kotaku's approach to reporting.” (August 26, 2014).
Exciting, but not surprising. Caroline Calloway, self-proclaimed “scammer” and queen of name-searching, reached out to promote her book on the pod. In this special interview, Hannah and Maia discuss the long-awaited memoir, Scammer, with the author herself (who characteristically conducted the interview from her luxurious Floridian bed). Discussions include: the ethics of writing about other people’s traumas, undervaluing art made on social media, and the Dimes Square Image Rehabilitation Centre™. Digressions include: Tile Tequila and the nightmare that was being bi in the 2000s, coining the term “trad book”, and Caroline’s official inauguration as “schemer, not scammer.”
Do androids dream of writing Succession? In the second part of this two-part special, Hannah and Maia discuss the 2023 Writers Strike - a hotly debated labour dispute between the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) and The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Robots may not want to turn you into a paperclip (yet), but they do want to turn you into a gig worker. Creative industries were the last place we thought this would happen... until generative AI came about. Although, is generative AI really to blame, or is it the greedy f*ckers in too-big suits dictating the future of art? Listen for a comprehensive breakdown of the strike, a chat about the precedent it will set for our job market, and lastly a theatrical reading of an AI-generated screenplay about three people who are bored. We must ask - does it compute?
What the hell is ChatGPT, and why are these pasty nerds telling us it's going to save the world? Hannah and Maia bring you a special, pre-season episode with a discussion of this new AI technology and what it means for the future of our world. The democratization of this smooth-talking chatbot means even YOU can bully a robot into doing your homework. But does democracy really mean that everyone has a grubby finger in the proverbial tech pie, or has humanity begun to miss the point a bit? What is the point anyways? Well Hannah and Maia are here to tell you, so put on your tin hats, sound the Luddite alarm, and get in your bunkers for a very spicy episode.
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Ted Chiang, “ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web” The New Yorker (2023).
--- “Will A.I Become the New McKinsey?” The New Yorker (2023).
Amitai and Oren Etzioni, “Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?” Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2017).
Mehmet Firat, “How Chat GPT Can Transform Autodidactic Experiences and Open Education?” University of Anadolou (2023).
Erin Griffith, “Reid Hoffman Is on a Mission: To Show A.I. Can Improve Humanity” The New York Times (2023).
David McCabe, “White House Pushes Tech C.E.O.s to Limit Risks of A.I.” The New York Times (2023).
Cade Metz, “OpenAI Plans to Up the Ante in Tech’s A.I. Race” The New York Times (2023).
--- “‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead” The New York Times (2023).
--- “With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain” The New York Times (2019).
Tobias Res, “Non-Human Words” Daedalus (2022).
Welcome to the season 2 finale! This season has been all about words entering a dark tunnel and coming out on the other end looking completely different. And nothing better encapsulates that than "groomer". As a word that defines a process rather than an outcome, this one is notoriously hard to pin down. It occupies a legal and colloquial grey area which leaves it dangerously vulnerable to misuse. "Groomer" was invented to protect children from abuse but, as so often the case with misused terminology, marginalized people have been harmed as a result (and even children themselves). This episode covers delicate subject matter - please listen at your own discretion.
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EJ Dickson, “The Problem With How We Talk About Grooming” Rolling Stone (2021).
“Grooming: Know the Warning Signs” RAINN (2020).
https://www.rainn.org/news/grooming-know-warning-signs
Genyue Fu and Kang Lee, “Social grooming in the kindergarten: the emergence of flattery behavior” Developmental Science, Vol. 10 (2) (2007).
David J. Ley, “Misuse and Abuse of the Term Grooming Hurts Victims” Psychology Today (2022).
“Understanding Sexual Grooming in Child Abuse Cases”, American Bar Association (ABA).
Ann Wolbert Burgess and Carol R. Hartman, “On the Origin of Grooming” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 33(1) (2018).
https://calio.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/on-the-origin-of-grooming.pdf
2001. Coercion and Enticement (18 U.S.C. 2422). The United States Department of Justice Archives.
She's rude. She's got a bad haircut. And she will, indeed, be speaking to your manager. We've finally arrived at everyone's favourite pejorative, "Karen". The most contemptible lady in America today, Karen has had a bit of a reverse trajectory in popular culture. Hannah and Maia discuss the dual role that Karen occupies on our feeds, from the "can I speak to your manager" meme to her more insidious form as a 'Miss Ann', and the throughline of entitlement that runs between them. To what degree can we critique elements of ageism/misogyny embedded in the Karen meme, while unpacking the very devastating consequences that "white women tears" have had, both historically and imminently, on BIPOC living in the United States? It's time to rehash.
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Henry Goldblatt, “A Brief History of ‘Karen’” (2020), The New York Times
Evan Nicole Brown, “Will It Take a Clever Acronym to Stop Racially Motivated 911 Calls?” (2020), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/briefing/caren-act-911-san-francisco.html
Robin Queen, “How ‘Karen’ went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement” (2020), The Conversation https://theconversation.com/how-karen-went-from-a-popular-baby-name-to-a-stand-in-for-white-entitlement-139644
Hadley Freeman, “The ‘Karen’ meme is everywhere - and it has become mired in sexism” (2020), The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/apr/13/the-karen-meme-is-everywhere-and-it-has-become-mired-in-sexism
Aja Romano, “Karen: The anti-vaxxer soccer mom with speak-to-the-manager hair, explained”, (2020), Vox https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21079162/karen-name-insult-meme-manager
“What’s In A ‘Karen’?, (2020) Code Switch https://www.npr.org/transcripts/891177904
Aja Romano “How ‘Karen’ became a symbol of racism”, (2020) Vox https://www.vox.com/21317728/karen-meaning-meme-racist-coronavirus
“The Murder of Emmett Till”, PBS https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/till-timeline/
Not quite an incel, not yet a Chad. The gymcel is a little-known, but hugely polarizing figure. Rather than swallowing the black pill and turning away from society (one where evil feminists govern man's ability to get laid), the gymcel takes matters into his own hands and get gains in pursuit of the ultimate Chad-bod. After all, everyone struggles with body image from time to time. So why do women hate him? Or, better yet, why do incels hate him? Hannah and Maia discuss the gymcel and his peculiar role in the ever-expanding Manosphere, giving you a thorough breakdown of all the incel terminology we're sure you've been dying to learn ("looksmaxxing"... "manlets"... "fapstinence"...). Is a figure associated with the worst subsects of the internet worthy of our sympathy? Could the gymcel be more benign than he seems?
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Sara Brzuszkiewicz, “Incel Radical Milieu and External Locus of Control” International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (2020).
Maddalena Cannito and Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, “The Rules of Attraction: An Empirical Critique of Pseudoscientific Theories about Sex in the Manosphere” Sexes Vol. 3 (4).
Hussein Kesvani, ““The Latest Manosphere Subculture is the ‘Gymcel’” Mel Magazine (2019).
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-latest-manosphere-subculture-is-the-gymcel
Brian Van Brunt and Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels: Case Studies, Guidance, and Treatment of Violence Risk in the Involuntary Celibate Community, Routledge (2020).
He's hot. He's dumb. He's also a feminist ally. Househusband. Beef pillow. White knight. Clinically depressed golden retriever. And climate activist. Truly, what the f*** is a himbo? Is he a person who pops up in our everyday lives? Or is he just a misguided coping mechanism because women are (1) h*rny, and (2) feel let down by the real men around them? Hannah and Maia discuss the Himbo, his evolution from Himbo-Erectus™ to Himbo-Sapien™, and whether or not, like Maia's imaginary middle school boyfriend Derek, we'll grow out of him one day.
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Lauren Bans “Bimbo with Balls! The Rise of the Himbo” (2012), GQ https://www.gq.com/story/himbos-dumb-muscle-movie-characters-actors-magic-mike
Rita Kempley “THE HIMBO ALL POWERFUL AND ALL BEEF! IT’S THE REEL MEN!!!”, (1988) The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/06/17/the-himbo-all-powerful-and-all-beef-its-the-reel-men/5171832b-d84e-4fd2-b15b-00e32d5603b6/
“GEORGE, GEORGE, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE A TREE-SWINGING BRENDAN FRASER ENJOYED PUN AND GAMES OF MAKING NEW DISNEY FILM” (1997), The Morning Call, https://www.mcall.com/1997/07/18/george-george-george-of-the-jungle-a-tree-swinging-brendan-fraser-enjoyed-pun-and-games-of-making-new-disney-film/
Chris Heath “The Quiet Man: The Riddle of Keanu Reeves” (2000), Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/the-quiet-man-the-riddle-of-keanu-reeves-97442/
Nathan Ma, “Let’s be real, who doesn’t love a himbo?” (2020), i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/8895az/himbo-and-modern-masculinity
Patrick Schuckmann “Masculinity, the Male Spectator and the Homoerotic Gaze” (1998) Amerikastudien/American Studies
Marlowe Granados, “The Bimbo’s Laugh: An Old Hollywood stereotype makes a comeback.” (2021) The Baffler https://www.jstor.org/stable/27087342?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Justin Myers “Being a himbo is no bad thing. Here’s why” (2020) GQ https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/himbo-meaning
Drew Ayers “Bodies, Bullets, and Bad Guys: Elements of the Hardbody Film” (2008), Film criticism
“Himbos” Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/himbo
No offence but... women are too much drama. No but seriously, we're living in a time of 'pick me' inception. Pick me's are calling other women pick me's, in response those women become pick me's and call the pick me's pick me's, and now nobody can decipher who the real pick me is. Hannah and Maia try and get to the bottom of this conundrum. Has the 'pick me' always been around or did early 2000s chick flicks do such a number on us that now we have no choice but to clap back? Or maybe this is just a case of good ole' psychological oppression.
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Sandra Lee Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression” Femininity and Domination (1990).
Bearman et al. “The Fabric of Internalized Sexism” Journal of Integrated Social Sciences vol. 1 (1) (2009).
Sarah Eckert, “There's a Big Issue Surrounding Those #PickMeGirl TikToks & We Need to Talk About It.” Her Campus (2021).
https://www.hercampus.com/culture/tiktok-pick-me-girl-trend-toxic/
Courtney Young, Why TikTok Is Flooded With Controversial Videos About "Pick Me Girls" Bustle (2022).
https://www.bustle.com/life/what-is-a-pick-me-girl-definition-traits
You wanna be on top? Well then girl, go do some exploitation! Hannah and Maia discuss the once revered, now maligned figure of the Girlboss™. Where did she come from? How did she get here? And why does she keep telling us to wash our face? We think sometimes you have to stop and consider, maybe becoming the #1 event planner in your state doesn't make you Malala. Join us for an unpacking of the She-EO, the world's fastest crash course on women in the workplace, Hannah's arduous journey towards building her bed, and whether or not we should put the "C" word on a t-shirt (we should).
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Isabel Sloan, “How Girlboss Became a Slur”, Early Magazine (2021) https://www.earlymagazine.com/articles/how-girlboss-became-a-slur
“Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss”, Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss
Alex Abad-Santos, “The death of the girlboss”, Vox (2021) https://www.vox.com/22466574/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-meaning
Sophia Amoruso, “#GIRLBOSS”, (2014), Penguin Publishing Group
Rachel Hollis, “Girl, Stop Apologizing” (2019), Harper Collins
Constance Grady, “Why The Author of Girl, Stop Apologizing had to Apologize Twice in One Week” (2021), Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22373865/rachel-hollis-controversy-harriet-tubman-girl-wash-your-face-stop-apologizing-unrelatable
Hannah Ewens, “The Girlboss Has Evolved into an Even More Powerful Form” (2019), Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywy7gj/girlboss-women-entrepreneurs-feminism-capitalism-class-irony
Emily Yellin, “Lining up for Wartime Weddings” (2017), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/weddings/165-years-of-wedding-announcements/world-war-two-weddings
Erin Gloria Ryan, “The Short List: Women at Work” (2014), The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/books/review/sophia-amorusos-girlboss-and-more.html
It's time to talk about the most misunderstood word in the Tiktok lexicon :( gatekeeping! Hannah and Maia dive into the history of the word, its sinister origins and the way it now bursts out of our mouths every time someone doesn't give us what we want, the moment we want it. Join us and extra special guest Rayne as we digress about the death of subcultures, the Supreme™ brick, the bouncer at Berghain, and the ever-overlooked qu∊∊f community!
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Sirena Bergman, “The internet really hates 'gatekeeping,' social media's new go-to insult. The truth is you're probably a gatekeeper, too.” Insider (2022).
Kurt Lewin, “Frontiers in Group Dynamics: Channels of Group Life; Social Planning and Action Research” Human Relations, Vol. 1 (2) (1947).
Pamela J. Shoemaker, Gatekeeping Theory, Taylor & Francis (2009).
Courtney Young, “What Does “Gatekeeping” Mean On TikTok? The Viral Term, Explained.” Bustle (2022).
In the first instalment of our poignant, hard-hitting series: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss; Hannah and Maia breakdown "gaslight" and its terrible evolution. From a 1944 psycho-thriller starring Ingrid Bergman about a woman being tormented by her greedy husband, to a catchall for anytime anyone is ever unfriendly to us - the term "gaslight" is now a spectre of what it used to be. In this little series we ask - is this a natural linguistic evolution, or is the cultural abstraction of these words more damaging than we think?
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Caleb Madison “Are You Using Gaslight Correctly?” (2022), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/are-you-using-gaslight-correctly/629522/
Ella Feldman, “‘Gaslighting’ Is Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year”, (2022) Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gaslighting-merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-180981203/
Paige L. Sweet, “The Sociology of Gaslighting” (2019), American Sociological Review https://www.jstor.org/stable/48602118
Daniel Kurtzleben, “When Republicans Attack ‘Cancel Culture’ What Does It Mean?" (2021), NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop
Ben Zimmer (2017) https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2017-January/145910.html
Julie Beck, “The Concept Creep of Emotional Labor” (2018), The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/11/arlie-hochschild-housework-isnt-emotional-labor/576637/
"What is Gaslighting?”, National Domestic Violence Hotline https://www.thehotline.org/resources/what-is-gaslighting/
Chi Luu, “Do You Even Language, Bro? Understanding Why Nouns Become Verbs” (2016), JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/in-which-we-science-why-nouns-become-verbs-because-language/
Hannah and Maia discuss the post-woke, irony-poisoned community of Manhattan's lower east side - also known as Dimes Square. These podcasters (Red Scare, Chapo Trap House, Cum Town, and Wet Brain), filmmakers, literary ingenues, and bloggers have come together to be as provocative as possible. But is irony-poisoning just a long, slow descent into nihilism? And is nihilism just a lazy river into the bleak world of the alt-right? Listen to find out!
**Correction**: The charges against Kyle Rittenhouse of curfew violation and unlawful possession of a firearm were *dismissed by the judge prior to jury deliberation. He was acquitted by the jury on all other charges.
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Nellie Bowles, “The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left Want to Lead Everyone to Bernie Sanders” The New York Times (2020).
Mike Crumplar, “My Own Dimes Square Fascist Humiliation Ritual” Substack (2022).
Ariel Davis, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church” The New York Times (2022).
Andrew Marantz, “The Post-Dirtbag Left” The New Yorker (2021).
Sylvie McNamara, “Red Scare’s Real Offense Is Nihilism” Podcast Review (2018).
“Being pro-ana even ironically is problematic” Reddit (2019).
https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/bzu1lm/being_proana_even_ironically_is_problematic/
“I’m a girl who’s fat and ugly, can I still like red scare?” Reddit (2019).
Hannah and Maia unpack the horrors of the feminist fashion world and its posterchild, Leandra Medine (founder of Man Repeller). Was Man Repeller's demise really a death rattle for the girlboss, post-feminism era? Or was this just a blip in the timeline? Join us as we digress about Moonlight v. La La Land, whether emo and Abercrombie could ever be bedfellows, 5000 different pronunciations of Tavi Gevinson's name (and the Dhoom movies), and a fun game of spot the difference with a pair black fishnet tights.
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Claire Lampen, “Upper East Sider Realizes She’s Privileged”, The Cut (2021)
https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/leandra-medine-says-she-always-thought-she-was-poor.html
Leandra M. Cohen, “Where We Go From Here: A Message for the MR Commnunity”, Repeller (2020) https://repeller.com/man-repeller-open-letter/
“The Tanning of America pt. 1”, The Cutting Room Floor (2021)
Rebecca Jennings, “The racial reckoning in women’s media”, Vox (2020) https://www.vox.com/the-goods/21287045/refinery29-black-employees-man-repeller-cosmopolitan-who-what-wear-vogue
Leandra M. Cohen “I Owe You Better: A Commitment to the Future”, Repeller (2020)
https://repeller.com/i-owe-you-better-a-commitment-to-the-future/
Leandra M. Cohen “What I Wish I Knew When I Got Married” Repeller (2017)
https://repeller.com/getting-married-advice/
Rachel Tashjian, “What Happened to Man Repeller?, GQ (2020) https://www.gq.com/story/what-happened-to-man-repeller
Meredith Galante, “How A 22-Year-Old Blogger Wound Up On The Runway At New York Fashion Week”, Insider (2011) https://www.businessinsider.com/man-repeller-leandra-medine-blogger-fashion-2011-9
Benjamin Wallace, “What’s So Alluring About a Woman Known as Man Repeller?”, The Cut (2014) https://www.thecut.com/2014/02/man-repeller-leandra-medine-profile.html
Who watches the watchdog? Hannah and Maia discuss the weird evolution of Diet Prada, and whether or not it can (or needs to) adhere to a code of ethics in the lawless wasteland that is social media. Brief digressions include a fight that Maia got into (scrap!), the micro-celebs you'll find at Dumbo House, and a marvellous synchronized performance of the infamous "cerulean" monologue from The Devil Wears Prada.
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Randi Bergman, “Has the Time Come to Critique Diet Prada?” Elle (2021).
https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/society/has-the-time-come-to-critique-diet-prada
Maureen O’Connor, “The Trials of Diet Prada” Vanity Fair (2021).
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/09/diet-prada-roasting-the-runway
Rachel Tashjian, “In Fashion, Who Will Cancel the Cancelers?” GQ (2020).
https://www.gq.com/story/diet-prada-kanye
Ryan J. Thomas & Teri Finneman, “Who watches the watchdogs?: British newspaper metadiscourse on the Leveson Inquiry” Journalism Studies, vol 15, no. 2 (2014).
Hannah and Maia try to make sense of the Rorschach test that is "Who is the Bad Art Friend?". Is the literary beef between Dawn and Sonya actually as juicy and layered as Twitter made it out to be? Or it it simply another case of what Safy Hallan Farah calls, "the true crime-ization of low stakes interpersonal drama"? Also, would Maia give Hannah her kidney? Let's find out!
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Sources:
Robert Kolker, "Who Is the Bad Art Friend?", The New York Times (2021)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html
Robert Kolker, "How Bad Art Friend Became Twitter's Favorite Parlor Game", The New York Times (2021)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/insider/bad-art-friend-twitter.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Erin Vanderhoof, "Why Facebook May Be the True 'Bad Art Friend'", Vanity Fair (2021)
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/facebook-who-is-the-bad-art-friend
Michael Hobbes, "Identifying The Bad Art Friend is Easy", (2021)
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/identifying-the-bad-art-friend-is
Caleb was a very bad boy. But did we have to John Tucker him x 1 million? Hannah and Maia get personal about life in the trenches of online dating, and whether or not doxxing is a justified means to a feminist end.
Intro and Outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills:
https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic
Sources:
Camille Cobb and Tadayoshi Kohno, “How Public Is My Private Life? Privacy in Online Dating” Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, (2017).
Katie Notopolous, “Caleb From West Elm Is Bad At Dating But Probably Didn't Deserve Being Pushed Through The TikTok Meat Grinder” Buzzfeed News (2022).
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/caleb-from-west-elm-meme
Is it possible to be both scammer and scammed? Hannah and Maia take a stab at the Rube Goldberg Machine that is Caroline Calloway's brilliant, chaotic mind. Is she actually staying one step ahead of the haters, or is she really just two steps behind? Let's talk about it.
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Intro and Outro song created by our talented friend Ian Mills:
https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic
Sources:
Kayleigh Donaldson, "The Curious Case of Caroline Calloway", Pajba, 2019 https://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php
Natalie Beach, "I Was Caroline Calloway", The Cut (2019) https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html
Bianca London, “American student's fairytale life in Cambridge enchants Instagram: 300,000 people following student's photos of carefree days of dreaming spires, black-tie balls and Champagne on the river” The Daily Mail (2015) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3010757/US-student-s-enchanting-Instagram-photos-reveal-fairytale-life-Cambridge.htm
It's time to talk about what happened to Lindsay Ellis. In this episode we do a deep dive into Twitter psychology, confirmation bias, and the sad sad phenomenon that is "getting woman'd".
Intro and Outro Song produced by our talented friend Ian Mills:
https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic
SOURCES:
Rayne Fisher-Quann, "What does it mean to get 'woman'd'?" i-D (2022).
https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3pv5k/what-does-it-mean-to-get-womand
Has Taylor Swift orchestrated an clever conspiracy about her sexuality? Hannah and Maia discuss the fascinating war of the "Gaylors", and accusations of queerbaiting amongst the Taylor Swift fandom.
Intro and Outro Song by Ian Mills:
https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic
Sources:
Christobel Hastings, “How Lavender became a symbol of LGBTQ resistance”, CNN, (2020)
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lgbtq-lavender-symbolism-pride/index.html
Willa Paskin, “The Case of the Fractured Fandom”, Slate (2018)
J. Derrick, S. Gabriel, K. Hugenberg, “Social surrogacy: How favored television programs provide the experience of belonging” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, (2008)
Hannah and Maia discuss the end of nuance, and feeling betrayed by Wife Guys™.
Intro and Outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills:
https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic
Sources:
Seth Abramovitch, “Why Are the Try Guys So Angry? Try Jeopardizing $6M a Year in Clicks” Hollywood Reporter (2022).
Nunn and Biressi, “‘A trust betrayed’: celebrity and the work of emotion”, Celebrity Studies, vol.1, (2010).
Shannon Keating, “Why Are We Still So Scandalized by Cheating? What our recent obsession with infidelity reveals about us” The Cut, (2022).
https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/why-are-we-still-so-scandalized-by-cheating.html
Further Reading:
Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame” The New York Times (2022).
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