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This show is media literacy education for the current day and age, disguised as a witty pop culture podcast.🥹 Make no mistake: the hosts of this podcast deliver the piping hot tea, but interpret everything they discuss through a socially responsible lens. Highly recommend.
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This is how I hear about cultural trends and events that are happening on the internet without having to ingest insane amounts of content and rot my brain. Thanks for summarizing and talking about this stuff in an intelligent way.
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As someone who isn’t chronically online, this podcast does a great job breaking down what has been happening in internet culture!
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What a breath of fresh air Kate Lindsay is! She is well-informed, fun, articulate and she and Candace are great together. I felt bad for Candace toiling solo for so long before Kate came along; ICYMI is not a format that rewards solo hosting with a rotating pool of guest hosts. Candace has weird vocal tics and intonations — she reminds me a lot of Matt Yglesias that way — and when she was on her own that became so heightened as to be almost unlistenable. I’m glad I stuck it out though because now that Kate is there, there is a return to normalcy; they seem to be having fun together and raise each others’ games. The recent episode on JK Rowling/Harry Potter was *chef’s kiss* — well researched, insightful, and heartfelt.
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And I’m rage quitting now after listening to the commentary on this show get progressively dumber. This show stop being cultural commentary/analysis a long time ago and is now just inane hosts reciting gossip— no analysis, no takes of any kind, much less hot ones.
I’ve just listened to the JoJo Siwa episode— in which all the (fully adult) hosts giggled like fan girls over an elementary age child talking about having to dye her hair blonde since she was a literal toddler. Instead of interrogating the ethics of child fame and YouTube, it was clear these GROWN WOMEN were watching for entertainment. It’s unsettling enough when regular people consume content that’s only made possible by the exploitation of children. When “cultural critics” do it without interrogation, I fear we are lost. This unquestioning consumption is how so many children of family vloggers end up traumatized and abused and these hosts should know better. They don’t even have the insight to question Siwa’s upbringing when they get to allegations against her— like maybe this 22 year old only knows one way to do things for a reason?
I tried giving the next episode a listen but then one of the hosts giggled over Kate Middleton’s “disappearance” last year— you know, the one during which we now know she was receiving treatment for cancer?
Yeah, I’m out.
I don’t even care about JoJo Siwa or Kate Middleton, specifically. I just care about not exploiting children for adult entertainment and treating people undergoing cancer treatment with dignity. That’s the floor of decency. I don’t need any cultural instruction from people this callous, insensitive, and unaware.
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there seriously needs to be some fact checking, more research, or experts on these episodes! for example, you talked about dan and phil and said when they both came out they also announced they were together? that certainly never happened lol. also in your latest SNL episode, you claim that Jeremy Culhane is a viral tik tok comedian, but you fail to mention that he’s been performing with UCB for years (the normal SNL route). sad because i love the topics you choose and the hosts are fun to listen to, i just wish the episodes were more well-researched.
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