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Rehash: 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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Puriteens (TEASER)

RehashMay 13, 2024

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Puriteens (TEASER)

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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May 13, 202404:37

Girl Defined (TEASER)

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.

Apr 22, 202406:11

AI Porn

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).

Apr 15, 202401:13:02

Dating Apps

…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).

Apr 08, 202401:14:27

OnlyFans

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).

Apr 01, 202401:10:32

The Tumblr Ban

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

Mar 25, 202456:01

The Demise of Backpage

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/

Mar 18, 202458:35

Is Anyone Up?

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).

Mar 11, 202453:40

Cybersex Chatrooms

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)

Mar 04, 202401:00:15

Sasha Grey: The Internet's First Porn Star

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).

Feb 26, 202401:09:27

Pam and Tommy's Sex Tape

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/

Feb 19, 202401:00:18

The End of Vine (ft. Izzy from Be Kind Rewind)

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)

Nov 20, 202301:10:42

Buzzfeed

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).

Nov 06, 202301:16:38

#FreeBritney

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.

Oct 24, 202301:17:03

Bye Sister

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).

Oct 09, 202301:08:57

Depp v. Heard

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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SOURCES

Amber Heard, “I spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” (18/12/18), The Washington Post

Simmone Shah, “What to Know About Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s Defamation Trial” (05/05/22), Time,

Rajeev Syal, “Why did the Depp-Heard libel outcomes differ in the US and UK?” (02/06/22), The Guardian

Anya Zoledziowski “Did Social MEdia Sway the Johnny Depp Jury?” (03/06/22), Vice,

Nathan Buck, “The use of juries in defamation proceedings in America and Australia” (27/10/22), Kennedys Law

Constance Grady, “Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and their $50 million defamation suit, explained” (03/11/22) Vox

Anya Zolediowski, “Why Does It Seem Like the Entire Internet is Team Johnny Depp?” (25/04/22)

Antoinette Bueno “Amber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Abused Her Throughout Relationship: ‘I Live in Fear That Johnny Will Return”, ET Online (27/05/16)

Gene Maddaus, “Why Was Depp-Heard Trial Televised? Critics Call It ‘Single Worst Decision’ for Sexual Violence Victims”, (2022), Variety.

“Jury Sequestration”, US Legal.

Lillian Gissen “ Amber Heard is accused of COPYING Johnny Depp's courtroom outfits in a sartorial 'mind game' as spectators spot multiple similarities between their ensembles - and even their hairstyles - amid $100M defamation trial”, (2022), The Daily Mail

Alex Peters, “Milani Cosmetics faces backlash after wading into Depp V Heard trial”, (2022), Dazed,

Alice McCool, Manasa Narayanan “The Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propaganda” (2022), Vice

David Mack, “A Juror Said They Didn't Believe Amber Heard's "Crocodile Tears" And That She Made Them Uncomfortable” (2022), Buzzfeed News.

Daniela Avila, “Judge Strikes Down Marilyn Manson's Defamation Claims in Evan Rachel Wood Case” (2023), People Magazine

Jennifer Peltz, “Kesha and producer Dr. Luke settle legal battle over rape, defamation claims” (2023), Global News.

Sep 25, 202301:08:40

Cuties

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).

Sep 11, 202353:32

Kim Kardashian Breaks the Internet

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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SOURCES

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

Aug 28, 202301:04:45

Gamergate ft. Fūnk-é Joseph

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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Puriteens (TEASER)

Girl Defined (TEASER)

AI Porn

Dating Apps

OnlyFans

The Tumblr Ban

The Demise of Backpage

Is Anyone Up?

Cybersex Chatrooms

Sasha Grey: The Internet's First Porn Star

Pam and Tommy's Sex Tape

The End of Vine (ft. Izzy from Be Kind Rewind)

Buzzfeed

#FreeBritney

Bye Sister

Depp v. Heard

Cuties

Kim Kardashian Breaks the Internet

Gamergate ft. Fūnk-é Joseph

A Conversation With Caroline Calloway

The Writers Strike

ChatGPT

Groomers

Karens

Gymcels

Himbos

Pick Me's

Girlbosses

Gatekeepers ft. Rayne Fisher-Quann

Gaslighters

Dirtbags

Man Repeller

Diet Prada

Bad Art Friend

West Elm Caleb

Caroline Calloway: The Art of Scamming Yourself

Lindsay Ellis and the Wrath of Twitter

Taylor Swift and the "Gaylor" Conspiracy

The Try Guys