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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, itâs important to consider if their advice is hypocritical, or just confused. Tangents include: Nara Smith and the TikTok trad wives, the âWho said I canât wear my purity era with my converseâ era of Disney, and the political theatre of Republican Christianity and its weaponization of Sydney Sweeneyâs boobs. Oh - and MANY â69â jokes.
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If you thought womenâs 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 womenâs oldest profession obsolete. Youâd think weâd have flying cars by this point, but instead weâre jerking off to the face of Minnie Mouse algorithmically stitched onto Lana Rhoades. Perhaps humanity is more simple that we thought. Tangents include: Maiaâs âreply guyâ 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, âPornhub Is Banning AI-Generated Fake Porn Videos, Says They're Nonconsensualâ Vice (2018).
Brit Dawson, âInside the booming AI-generated porn industryâ Dazed (2023).
Falon Fatemi, âLook What You Made Me Do: Why Deepfake Taylor Swift Mattersâ Forbes (2024).
Carl Ăhman, âIntroducing the pervertâs dilemma: a contribution to the critique of Deepfake Pornographyâ Ethics and Information Technology (2020).
Emine Saner, âInside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: âItâs men telling a powerful woman to get back in her boxââ The Guardian (2024).
Kat Tenbarge, âFound through Google, bought with Visa and Mastercard: Inside the deepfake porn economyâ NBC (2023).
Jess Weatherbed, âTrolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakesâ The Verge (2024).
James Vincent, âStable Diffusion made copying artists and generating porn harder and users are madâ The Verge (2022).
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âŠWeâre 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, itâs safe to say these companies arenât as altruistic as they seem. Yes, in this episode, Hannah and Maia talk about everyoneâs least favourite drug: dating apps. It comes down to one question: if dating apps could really find us our soulmate, why is it that weâre less horny, and less committal than ever before? Rather than being happily partnered, its appears weâve all become rizzless, attention deficit, scaredy-cat sex nerds. Are we in crisis? Tangents include: Vanessa Hudgens' monopoly on the âDisney R&Bâ market, the âbottle nightâ guy, and Hannah putting yet another nickel in the Donât 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, âOverwhelmed and Creeped Outâ 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, âLiquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacyâ Journal of Sociology (2017).
Tom Roach, âBecoming Fungible: Queer Intimacies in Social Mediaâ Qui Parle, vol.23 (2) (2015).
Christine Rosen, âElectronic Intimacyâ The Wilson Quarterly, vol. 36 (2) (2012).
Alexandra Sims, âSex, love and swiping: How 10 years of Tinder changed us foreverâ Cosmopolitan (2022).
Amy Wallace, âLove 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?â LA Times (1994).
Emily Witt, âA Hookup App for the Emotionally Matureâ The New Yorker (2022).
Jamie Woo, Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect, Jamie Woo (2013).
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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: Twitchâs great grandfather, Justin.tv; the high culture-ification of fast food; and Maia using the term â-ificationâ till she gets womanâd right off the internet.
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SOURCES:
Feona Attwood, âThrough the Looking Glass? Sexual Agency and Subjectification Onlineâ in New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism, and Subjectivity (2011).
Steve Baldwin, âForgotten Web Celebrities: Jennicam.org's Jennifer Ringleyâ Ghost Sites of the Web (2004).
Marta Biino and Madeline Berg, âThe secret of OnlyFans: It's much more than pornâ Business Insider (2024).
Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: A History, Workman Publishing Company (2022).
Charlotte Colombo, âThe history of OnlyFans: how the controversial platform found success and changed online sex workâ Business Insider (2021).
Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith, âOnlyfans as Gig-Economy Work: A nexus of precarity and stigmaâ Porn Studies, Taylor & Francis (2023).
Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, Megan Speciale and Richard S. Balkin, âSexual Attitudes and Characteristics of OnlyFans Usersâ Archives of Sexual Behavior (2022).
Sophie Sanchez, âThe Worldâs Oldest Profession Gets a Makeover: Sex Work, OnlyFans, and Celebrity Participationâ, Women Leading Change, vol 6 (1) (2022).
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If youâve ever wondered why there are so many annoying people on Twitter, youâve got Tumblr to thank for that. Tumblr, the microblogging site that reigned supreme in the 2010s, was like Facebookâs 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. Tumblrâs 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 âfree nipples for saleâ movement, Hannahâs Addison Rae addiction, and Maiaâs misanthropic middle school blog: âWho the Poo Caresâ.
Hannah's Tumblr: https://acidrain-e.tumblr.com/
Maia's Tumblr: https://takemybadge.tumblr.com/
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Leah Collins, âHow Tumblr went from a $1 billion Yahoo payday to a $3 million fire sale.â 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 âDavid Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realizing his dreamâ 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 âYahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion.â 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 âYou Must Be New Here: An Introductionâ a tumblr book: platform and culture, Chapter 1, (2020).
Chris Isidore, âYahoo buys Tumblr, promises to not âscrew it upââ, (20/05/13), CNN Buisness. https://money.cnn.com/2013/05/20/technology/yahoo-buys-tumblr/?iid=EL
Sarah Perez, âTumblrâs Adult Fare Accounts for 11.4% Of Siteâs Top 200K Domains, Adult Sites Are Leading Category of Referralsâ (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, âTumblr will ban all adult content on December 17thâ (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, âTumblrâs adult content ban means the death of unique blogs that explore sexualityâ (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, âApple Sucked Tumblr Into Its Walled Garden, Where Sex Is Badâ (03/12/2018), Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mjxg/apple-tumblr-porn-nsfw-adult-content-banned
Kyle Chayka, âHow Tumblr became popular for being obsoleteâ The New Yorker (2022). https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete
Ned Hepburn, âIâll Tumblr For Yaâ Vice (2009) https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeem3a/tumblr-david-karp-interview
Allison McCracken, âTumblr Youth Subcultures and Media Engagementâ Cinema Journal, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Fall 2017) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44867867
Danah Boyd, âAm I a Blogger?â Biography, Vol. 38, No. 2, ONLINE LIVES 2.0 (Spring 2015) https://www.jstor.org/stable/24570362
Photomatt (tumblrâs CEO), âWhy âGo Nuts, Show Nutsâ Doesnât Work in 2022â, Tumblr (2022) https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-nuts-show-nuts-doesnt-work-in-2022
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Why is it that whenever someone âthinks of the childrenâ, 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: TimothĂ©e Chalametâs 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, âSex Workers Pioneered The Early Internet - Now Itâs Screwing Them Overâ (03/10/2018), Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvazy7/sex-workers-pioneered-the-early-internet
Samantha Cole, âTrump Just Signed SESTA/FOSTA, a Law Sex Workers Say Will Literally Kill Themâ (11/04/2018), Vice https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvxeyq/trump-signed-fosta-sesta-into-law-sex-work
Daniel Oberhaus, âThe FBI Just Seized Backage.comâ (06/05/2018), Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5avp3/fbi-seized-backpage-sex-trafficking
Samantha Cole, ââSex Traffickingâ Bill Will take Away Online Spaces Sex Workers Need to Surviveâ Vice (2018)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/neqxaw/sex-trafficking-bill-sesta-fosta-vote
Margaret Renkl, âThe Alt-Weekly Crisis Hits Nashville. And Democracy.â The New York Times (2018). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/opinion/nashville-scene-weekly-democracy.html
Ryan Singel, ââAdult Servicesâ Shutdown Is Permanent, Craigslist Tells Congressâ Wired (2010)
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/adult-services-shutdown-is-permanent-craigslist-tells-congress/
Christine Biederman, âInside Backpage.comâs Vicious Battle With The Fedsâ Wired (2019) https://web.archive.org/web/20190618114540/https://www.wired.com/story/inside-backpage-vicious-battle-feds/
Megan McKnelly, âUntangling SESTA/FOSTA: How The Internetâs âKnowledgeâ Threatens Anti-sex Traffivking Lawâ Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2019) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26954413Maia Hibbett, âWho Keeps Us Safe?: Mainstream feminismâs long alliance with the punitive stateâ The Baffler, No. 53 (SEPT-OCT 2020) https://www.jstor.org/stable/26975643
Andrew O'Hehir âThe Backpage.com sex-trafficking scandal, the death of the âalt-weeklyâ and meâ 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, âSection 230, the internet law thatâs under threat, explainedâ Vox (2023) https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/28/21273241/section-230-explained-supreme-court-social-media
Danielle Blunt and Ariel Wolk, âErased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workersâ, Anti Trafficking Review (2020)https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/448/363
Cunningham et al âDid Craigslistâs Erotic Services Reduce Female Homicide and Rapes?â Journal of Human Resources. (2017)Liara Roux, âPost-SESTA/FOSTA Self-Censoring for Twitter, Reddit, and other Social Mediaâ Tits and Sass (2018) http://titsandsass.com/post-sesta-fosta-self-censoring-for-twitter-reddit-and-other-social-media/
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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 womenâs 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 âthe most hated man on the internetâ. Tangent includes: Kyle MacLachlanâs feet.
SOURCES:
Russell Brandom, Apple just added another layer of iCloud security, a day before iPhone 6 eventâ The Verge (2014).
Danielle Keats Citron and Mary Anne Franks, âCriminalizing Revenge Pornâ 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, ââGary Jonesâ Wants Your Nudesâ The Village Voice (2012).
Erin Durkin, âHacker sentenced to prison for role in Jennifer Lawrence nude photo theftâ The Guardian (2018).
Kashmir Hill, âRevenge porn (Or: Another reason not to take nude photos)â Forbes (2009).
Kimberly Lawson, One in 25 Americans Say Theyâve Been a Victim of Revenge Pornâ Vice (2016).
Amanda Marcotte, ââThe Fappeningâ and Revenge Porn Culture: Jennifer Lawrence and the Creepshot Epidemicâ The Daily best (2014).
âLove, Relationships, and #SextRegret: Itâs Time to Take Back the Webâ McAfee (2013).
Sam Kashner, âBoth Huntress and Preyâ Vanity Fair (2014).
Roni Rosenberg and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, âRevenge Porn in the Shadow of the First Amendmentâ (2022).
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Before âco-authored, interactive eroticaâ (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, âmeat puppetsâ, Richard Nixonâs brief stint on IMVU, and Maia repeatedly confusing AOL for AIM.
SOURCES
Rachel Seifert, âStriptease and cyber sex: my stay at Habbo Hotelâ Channel 4 News, (2012)
https://www.channel4.com/news/striptease-and-cyber-sex-my-stay-at-habbo-hotel
Paraic OâBrien, âShould you let your child play in Habbo Hotel?â Channel 4 News, (2012)https://www.channel4.com/news/should-you-let-your-child-play-in-habbo-hotelWilliam J. Shefski, Interactive Internet: the insiderâs guide to MUDs, MOOs and IRC, (1995)
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559587488/page/n16/mode/1up
Habbo, Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo
Sara Morais dos Santo Bruss, âCHAPTER 1: The Internet Imaginary and Digital Modernityâ Feminist Solidarities after Modulation (2023)https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10782316.4
Steve Downey, âHistory of the (Virtual) Worldsâ, The Journal of Technology Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2014) https://www.jstor.org/stable/43604309Sherry Turkle, âTinysex and Gender Troubleâ Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology (1998)
Dennis Waskul, Mark Douglass, Charles Edgley, âCybersex: Outercourse and the Enselfment of the Bodyâ 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, âA Rape in Cyberspace (or TINYSOCIETY and How to Make One)â My tiny life: crime and passion in a virtual world, Henry Holt (1998)
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If you were a teenage boy in 2008 and you didnât have a âGod Bless Sasha Grey t-shirtâ, 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, âI watch this.â 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 Pornâą, or can we find a Sasha grey area? Listen for tangents such as: the Tina Fey-aissance, and Stanley Kubrickâs lost film: âSquirt Gangb@ngâ.
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SOURCES:
Dave Gardetta, âThe Teenager & the Porn Starâ Los Angeles Magazine (2006).
Stephen Heymen, âGrey Matterâ New York Times (2011).
PopMatters Staff, âThe New Breed: Sasha Grey, Atelecine, and the New Moralityâ PopMatters (2010).
Rebecca Saunders, âGrey, gonzo and the grotesque: the legacy of porn star Sasha Greyâ, Porn Studies, vol. 5 (4) (2018).
Karley Sciortino, âGoing Deep with Sasha Greyâ Slutever (2014).
Eran Shor & Kimberly Seida, ââHarder and Harderâ? Is Mainstream Pornography Becoming Increasingly Violent and Do Viewers Prefer Violent Content?â The Journal of Sex Research (2018).
Brandon Stosuy, âSasha Grey: Dawn of the Porn Starâ The Fanzine (2006).
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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 âvoyeuristic dive into the guileless intimacy of two tabloid darlingsâ 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 âp*rno chicâ days, to its low culture era on VHS, and the way Pamelaâs 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 âBob Marley: One Loveâ.
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SOURCES:
Pamela, a love story (2023), Netflix
Amanda Chicago Lewis, âPam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the Worldâs Most Infamous Sex Tapeâ (2014), Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/pam-and-tommy-the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-most-infamous-sex-tape-194776/
Hillyer, Minette âSex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored.â (2004), Porn Studies
Chuck Kleinhans, âPamela Anderson on the Slippery Slopeâ (2001), The End of Cinema As We Know It .
Mark Gimen, âSex Sells, Doesnât It?â, Salon (1999)
https://www.salon.com/1999/12/01/ieg/
Frank Rose, âSex Sellsâ, Wired (1997)
https://www.wired.com/1997/12/sex-3/
Susie Bright, âPammy and Tommyâs Honeymoon Videoâ, Salon (1997)
https://www.salon.com/1997/12/05/pamela_2/
Erica Gonzales, âPamela Anderson Writes a Plea Against Pornâ, Harper's Bazaar (2016)
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/news/a17495/pamela-anderson-porn-op-ed/
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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 weâre yearning for a simpler time. Who wouldnât 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 Bestieâą) to reminisce about Vineâs cultural impact, and Izzyâs 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 Hannahâs âcontinual brain fartsâ.
SOURCES
John Herrman, âVine Changed the Internet Forever. How Much Does the Internet Miss It?â The New York Times, (2020)
Janko Roettgers, âTwitter is Shutting Down Vineâ Variety (2016)
Julia Alexander, âThe golden age of Youtube is overâ The Verge (2019)
Brian Patrick Eha, âWhy Vine Was a Bad Match for Twitterâ The New Yorker (2016)
Mike Isaac, âTwitterâs 4-Year Odyssey With the 6-Second Video App Vineâ New York Times (2016)
Hua Hsu, âVine and the New Gatekeepers of Self-Expressionâ The New Yorker (2016)
Katie Rogers, â5 Vine Stars Share Why They Loved, and Outgrew, Platformâ The New York Times (2016)
Romano Santos, âIn Memory of Vine, Which Crawled so Tiktok Could Flyâ Vice (2022)
Mat Honan, âWhy Vine Just Wonât Dieâ, Wired (2013)
Lizzie Plaugic, âVine was an underrated source of joy on the internet. Is it me, or does the internet feel less happy today.â The Verge (2016)
Taylor Lorenz, âA Vine Reunion? Video Apps Clash and Byte Join Forces.â The New York Times (2021)
Aja Romano, âYou may not have understood Vine, but its demise is a huge cultural loss.â Vox (2016)
Brian Feldnman, âThe Untold Story of What Happened After âBack at it Again at Krispy Kreme,â The Best Vine of All Timeâ, Intelligencer (2016)
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When you think of âhard newsâ, a company that once published an article called â13 Potatoes That Look Like Channing Tatumâ probably isnât 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, âWhy BuzzFeed and Vice Couldnât Make News Workâ Vanity Fair (2023).
Domagoj BebiÄ, âViral journalism: The rise of a new formâ Medij. IstraĆŸ, vol. 22, (2016).
David Elliot Berman, âThe Spaces of Sensationalism: A Comparative Case Study of the New York Journal and BuzzFeedâ International Journal of Communication, vol. 15 (2021).
Ken Bensinger and Miriam Elder, âThese Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russiaâ Buzzfeed News (2017).
Kathryn Bowd, âSocial media and news media: Building new publics or fragmenting audiences?â in Making Publics, Making Places, ed. Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour, University of Adelaide Press (2016).
Bob Franklin, âThe Future of Journalism in an Age of Digital Media and Economic Uncertaintyâ Journalism Studies, vol. 15 (2014).
Josh Gerstein, âBuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiserâ Politico (2021).
David A. Graham, The Trouble With Publishing the Trump Dossierâ The Atlantic (2017).
John Herrman, âThe News Went Viral: The media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?â New York Mag (2023).
Nathan J. Robinson, âThe Collapse of BuzzFeed News Shows Why For-Profit Journalism is a Disasterâ Current Affairs (2023).
Rachel Sanders, âBuzzFeed Doesnât Deserve Its Newsroomâ The Nation (2022).
Mia Sato, âThe unbearable lightness of BuzzFeedâ The Verge (2022).
Alyson Shontell, âInside Buzzfeed: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brandâ Buzzfeed Insider (2012).
Ravi Somaiya, âBuzzFeed Restores 2 Posts Its Editor Deletedâ The New York Times (2015).
J.K Trotter, âBuzzFeed Deletes Post Critical of Dove, a BuzzFeed Advertiserâ Gawker (2015).
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For one brief, beautiful moment in history, the social media sleuths were right. When Britney Spearsâ 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 âagencyâ that seems to follows Britney Spears throughout her lifetime. Digressions include: Maiaâs 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:
âBritney Spears conservatorship disputeâ, Wikipedia.
Natalie Finn, âJamie Spears Squashes Britney Fansiteâ ENews (2009).
The Associated Press, âWho is Sam Lutfi?â Los Angeles Times (2008).
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino, âBritney Spearsâs Conservatorship Nightmareâ The New Yorker (2021).
"Framing Britney Spears" documentary
"Controlling Britney Spears" documentary
Julia Jacobs, ââSorry Britneyâ: Media Is Criticized for Past Coverage, and Some Own Upâ The New York Times (2021).
Toyin Owoseje, âBritney says she âcried for two weeksâ after âFraming Britney Spearsâ documentaryâ CNN (2021).
Sandra Song, âInside #FreeBritney: A Stan Movement to Help Their Pop Saviorâ Paper Magazine (2021).
Jeevan Ravindran, ââYou guys saved my life,â Britney Spears tells #FreeBritney movementâ CNN (2021).
Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino, âHow Britney Spears Got Free, and What Comes Nextâ The New Yorker (2021).
Rebecca Jennings, ââWhere Is Britney Spears?â After her conservatorship ended, some of her fandom latched on to a new theory: What if she had never been freed at all?â Vulture (2023).
Caity Weaver, âWhen Britney Spears Posts on Instagram, a Thousand Conspiracies Flowerâ The New York Times (2019).
EJ Dickson, âMatt Gaetz, QAnon Followers, and the GOP are Exploiting the #FreeBritney Movementâ Rolling Stone (2021).
Morgan Sungm âOn Tiktok, #FreeBritney conspiracy theories run deep.â Mashable (2021).
Britney's Gram podcast.
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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 Westbrookâs 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 âgroomingâ, Hannah and Maiaâs âwould you, an alt man, date Kylie Jennerâ poll, the horror of naming a fanbase, and Rehashâs declaration of war against another⊠very famous⊠podcast.
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SOURCES:
Valeriya Safronova, âJames Charles, From âCoverBoyâ to Canceledâ The New York Times (2019).
Jean Kelso Sandlin and Monica L. Gracyalny, âFandom, forgiveness and future support: YouTube apologies as crisis communicationâ Journal of Communication Management Vol. 24 (1) (2020).
Rachel Strugatz, "The Morphe Beauty Saga Isnât Prettyâ The New York Times (2022).
Elizabeth Whitehead, âAn Awkward Look at the Excessive Makeup Trend of the 2010sâ Punkee (2022).
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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 everyoneâs 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, TikTokâs true crime cottage industry, Johnny Deppâs 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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Amber Heard, âI spoke up against sexual violence - and faced our cultureâs wrath. That has to change.â (18/12/18), The Washington Post
Simmone Shah, âWhat to Know About Johnny Depp and Amber Heardâs Defamation Trialâ (05/05/22), Time,
Rajeev Syal, âWhy did the Depp-Heard libel outcomes differ in the US and UK?â (02/06/22), The Guardian
Anya Zoledziowski âDid Social MEdia Sway the Johnny Depp Jury?â (03/06/22), Vice,
Nathan Buck, âThe use of juries in defamation proceedings in America and Australiaâ (27/10/22), Kennedys Law
Constance Grady, âJohnny Depp, Amber Heard, and their $50 million defamation suit, explainedâ (03/11/22) Vox
Anya Zolediowski, âWhy Does It Seem Like the Entire Internet is Team Johnny Depp?â (25/04/22)
Antoinette Bueno âAmber Heard Alleges Johnny Depp Abused Her Throughout Relationship: âI Live in Fear That Johnny Will Returnâ, ET Online (27/05/16)
Gene Maddaus, âWhy Was Depp-Heard Trial Televised? Critics Call It âSingle Worst Decisionâ for Sexual Violence Victimsâ, (2022), Variety.
âJury Sequestrationâ, US Legal.
Lillian Gissen â 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 trialâ, (2022), The Daily Mail
Alex Peters, âMilani Cosmetics faces backlash after wading into Depp V Heard trialâ, (2022), Dazed,
Alice McCool, Manasa Narayanan âThe Daily Wire Spent Thousands of Dollars Promoting Anti-Amber Heard Propagandaâ (2022), Vice
David Mack, âA Juror Said They Didn't Believe Amber Heard's "Crocodile Tears" And That She Made Them Uncomfortableâ (2022), Buzzfeed News.
Daniela Avila, âJudge Strikes Down Marilyn Manson's Defamation Claims in Evan Rachel Wood Caseâ (2023), People Magazine
Jennifer Peltz, âKesha and producer Dr. Luke settle legal battle over rape, defamation claimsâ (2023), Global News.
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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 MaĂŻmouna DoucourĂ©âs 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, Americaâs 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, âWatching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of P*dophiliaâ The Atlantic (2020).
Maria Cramer, âNetflix Is Charged in Texas With Promoting Lewdness in âCutiesââ The New York Times (2020).
Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Constructionâ Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 20 (1994).
Zack Sharf, ââCutiesâ Director Speaks Out Amid Backlash Film Sexualizes Children, Netflix Stands by Itâ Indie Wire (2020).
Alissa Wilkinson and Aja Romano, How Cuties, a French movie on Netflix, became part of Americaâs culture warâ Vox (2020).
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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: âBreak the Internet Kim Kardashianâ And break it she did. In this episode, Hannah and Maia trace Kim Kardashianâs transformation from trashy reality star to fashionista de jour. Since the Paper cover, and with the help of Kanye West, Kimâs body has become the subject of a twisted performance art. But itâs also generated controversy - creating unhealthy trends, grifting from the natural features of Black women, and now disappearing into what we everyone has deemed a âskinny renaissanceâ. Digression includes: Maia getting riled up about TimothĂ©e and Kylieâs fabled romantic union.
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Joe Zee, âIn Defense of Kim Kardashian and the Editors of Paper Magazine and Why This Cover Makes Senseâ (12/11/14), Yahoo
Jake Hall, âexploring the complicated relationship between jean-paul goude and grace jonesâ, (21/04/16) i-D
David Hershkovits, âHow Kim KArdashian broke the Internet with her buttâ (17/12/14), The Guardian
Blue Telusma âKim Kardashian doesnât realize sheâs the butt of an old racial jokeâ (12/11/14), the grio
Justin Parkinson, âThe Significance of Sarah Baartmanâ (07/01/16), BBC
Janell Hobson, âRemnants of Venus: Signifying Black Beauty and Sexualityâ (2018), Womenâs studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press
Nolan Feeney, âAnna Wintour Implies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not âDeeply Tastefulââ. (19/11/14)
Cleo Gould, âFrom 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 allâ (2019), Dazed
Rachel Tashjian, âHow Jennifer Lopezâs Versace Dress Created Google Imagesâ (2019), GQ.
John Ortved, âPaper Magazine, The Oral History: âThey Were Wide Openâ (2023), The New York Times
Eric Wilson, âKim Kardashian Inc.â (17/11/2010), The New York Times.
Natasha Singer, âThe democratization of plastic surgeryâ (2007), The New York Times,
Harper Franklin â1810-1819â (18/08/2020) Fashion History Timeline, Fashion Institute of Technology.
Grace OâNeill, âHow Kimye Changed Fashion Foreverâ, Grazia Magazine.
Rebecca Jennings, âThe $5,000 quest for the perfect buttâ, 2021, Vox.
Cady Lang, âKeeping Up with the Kardashians Is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Womenâs Aesthetics Continuesâ, (10/06/21), Time.
Kylie Gilbert, âBacking Away from BBLsâ (11/08/22), InStyle
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Men used to go to war. Today they are keyboard militias, defending the sanctity of video games and the Gamerâą 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 FĆ«nk-Ă© 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, âA Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinityâ Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (2015).
Caitlin Dewey, âThe only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to readâ The Washington Post (2014).
Zackary Jason, âGame of Fearâ Boston Magazine (2015).
Torill Elvira Mortensen, âAnger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGateâ Games and Culture, vol. 13 (8) (2016).
Stephen Totilo, âA brief note about the continued discussion about Kotaku's approach to reporting.â (August 26, 2014).
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Exciting, but not surprising. Caroline Calloway, self-proclaimed âscammerâ 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 peopleâs traumas, undervaluing art made on social media, and the Dimes Square Image Rehabilitation Centreâą. Digressions include: Tile Tequila and the nightmare that was being bi in the 2000s, coining the term âtrad bookâ, and Carolineâs official inauguration as âschemer, not scammer.â
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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?
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