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Shakespeare, Picasso, Tom Sandoval⊠what do these luminaries have in common? Well, reader. They were cheaters. Adultery has been a flash point on the internet for some time now - from Ned Fulmer, to Couch Guy, to that couple at the Coldplay concert, people seem to hold particular venom for those who get caught cheating. So itâs hard to believe that only a couple decades ago, there was a dating site dedicated to the act of cheating. In this finale episode, Hannah and Maia revisit the phenomenon that was Ashley Madison, a service developed in Toronto where those looking for infidelity could find a parent in crime with the click of a button. But after a massive data breach, broken marriages, and even deaths - Ashley Madison fell quickly from âgrace.â In the years since Ashley Madisonâs users were doxxed and shamed, even since Hester Prynne was brandished with a scarlet âA,â one has to wonder why this age-old act has not received more nuance as society has progressed. What is cheating, what even is romantic love, and have we given both of these things a little too much power? Tangents include: Toronto girl summer, Drake as the groundhog from Groundhog Day, sage advice from the oracle Esther Perel.
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Sex has become so ubiquitous online that now men pay NOT to see it. One of the internetâs recent perplexities is one such case: The Bop House, a hype house inhabited a bunch of barely legal looking, jeggings-swaddled Only Fans models with two first names. Who inhabit empty mansions and who also, most importantly, do not show hole. Its founder is Sophie Rain, a âtotemic figureâ among horny online men, one of the highest aid Only Fans models working today, and a self-proclaimed virgin who is âwiping away the stigma of sex workâ by taking sex out of the equation altogether. Most confounding, the Bop House girls suck their thumbs, shake their butts, and wear onesies for an audience not only of men, but also swaths of young girls. Broadcasting from Polyester Studios in London, Hannah and Maia question their own instincts to dislike the women of the Bop House. Why is there such a high incidence of âbaby modeâ among younger Gen Z? Is this another instance of Olivia Rodrigo babydoll dress gate? And can one really infantilize oneself? Tangents include: Hannah and Maiaâs ancestral tour of Ireland and the UK and Kamryn Renae, Miss Pacific Crest Trail.
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Every year around June a debate emerges on Twitter that provokes the entire internet into a collective groan: Should kink be allowed at pride? Those who want to ban kink from the events seem well intentioned enough. But as young queer folks denounce the presence of leather, whips, and bondage at this so-called family friendly event by asking âwhy gay men feel comfortable being naked around children,â one canât help but smell whiffs of Anita Bryant. In this episode, Hannah and Maia unpack both sides of the debate, and ask what, or better yet who, pride is for. Is it an act of protest? Commemoration? Or showing all the work youâve done to the mommy and daddy that is heterosexual society? Are the people complaining on Twitter boots on the ground? Or rather, are they leather boots on the ground? Boots down. Tangent includes: Americaâs next top model documentary and Tyra banks as sadist.
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We know what boys like, we know what guys want. And that is plausible deniability. Out of the diaristic âartful nudesâ of 2010s body positivity, to the horny-on-main boredom of the pandemic, has come a new era in which the âthirst trapâ as we once knew it has been thrown into question. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the thirst trap: a delicate art, a science, if you will, of showing hole online, and the ways that our culture has begun to reject it. Based on a comprehensive and definitely 100% accurate study of instagram users conducted by Hannah, the girls unpack a series of shocking discoveries that will have people of all genders and sexual persuasions scratching their heads. Have yearnin' and pinin' really killed the thirst trap? Tangents include: Euphoria season three, and Vinnie Hacker and the giga surf chads.
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Today, male virgins inject peptides into their asses, dissociate on Kick, and disavow women. But twenty years ago, they simply took matters into their own hands and developed websites where they could BUY women! The year was 2006, and Brandon Wade, chud of the first order and master of self-written puff pieces, decided enough was enough and developed Seeking Arrangements - a sugar babying website where wealthy older men could meet broke younger women. Itâs a site most women have visited at least once, or twice, or three times, in their most destitute college years. One that has all the sexual suggestiveness, intimacy, and transactionality of sex work but with less of the stigma. But, like OnlyFans, Seeking Arrangements has attempted to distance itself from all sexual connotations in recent years, posing instead as a âluxury dating site.â In this episode, Hannah and Maia look back on Seeking Arrangementsâ heyday. They discuss the extreme theatre of heterosexual dating dynamics, and ask whether Wade was right that all little girls dream of finding a man with a high paying job, or if the site simply found its popularity alongside crumbling social infrastructure. Tangents include: Hannahâs floaters, the real definition of âaura farming,â and Feeldâs new âgoofy Twinkâ option.
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It didnât seem possible, but Britain has finally found a woman more reviled than Queen Camila Parker Bowles. With the face of a Love Island contestant and the business savvy of PT Burnam, OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue drives around England in a blue van and beckons barely legal virgins to bang her on camera. On top of banging virgins, banging virgins and their dads, in 2025 she also set out to break a mind melting record of sleeping with 1000 men in 24 hours. She succeeded. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the backlash surrounding Bonnie Blue, and whether she really is stretching parasociality to its logical limits, or reflecting our own hypocrisy back to us with a rather sophisticated brand of ragebait. As hundreds of men in shiesties cue up for their thirty seconds of fame, one has to ask whether Bonnie has created an entirely new specimen: the sex hype beast. Better yet, is Bonnie Blue the Mr. Beast of sex work? Tangents include: Lena Dunhamâs new memoir and Australian bus memes.
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Imagine: a reality where p*rn becomes so ubiquitous it invents its own sexuality. Just kidding, youâre living it. If you live under a rock and havenât stumbled across Daniel Kolitzâs groundbreaking Harperâs piece, âThe Goon Squad,â itâs time to catch you up. Gooners are a niche subculture inhabiting the internetâs moist-est corners, who have surrendered themselves to the art of m*asturbating. They make their own folk art called goonfuel and dwell in their own little gooncaves. Many gooners also allegedly enter the community straight, but unlock a âlatent queerness withinâ through communal phallus worship and tender homosocial encouragement. In this episode, Hannah and Maia, joined by Daniel, ask whether gooning is something to nervously laugh at and move on, or take seriously as a symptom of the times. Through the sweet pain of total self-debasement and chasing the ecstatic abyss, gooners organize themselves around a digital New Religion. They also, however, press a frightening question: is the internet simply a seductive Siren, calling us all to go spiralling down the pleasure pit of self-annihilation? Tangents include: Hannah and Maiaâs friend Jojoâs really good cooking, American Love Story, and women in GOON.
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Samantha Cole, âEnter the Goon Cave, Where Porn and Masturbation Is All That Exists,â Vice (2023).
Jacques Cordina, âLimbic Capitalism and Technology,â 3CL (2025).
Daniel Dashnaw, âGooning: How Porn-Induced Trance States Are Changing Masturbation, Intimacy, and the Erotic Brain,â Daniel Dashnaw Couples Therapy (2025).
Daniel Kolitz, âThe Goon Squad,â Harpers (2025).
Monea et al, âSex As/And/On Social Media,â Selected Papers of #AoIR2024:
The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield (2024).
Ashwin Rodrigues, âA Tale Of Two Gooners,â Defector (2025).
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Clavicular. The James Joyce of incel forums. The icarus of looksmaxxing. The Truman Burbank of Kick. The sleep paralysis bouncer of every fifteen year oldâs dreams. The sex symbol of 2026? Welcome back to another season of sex on the internet, where Hannah and Maia issue a formal apology for being the nth cultural critics to try a definitive take on the least compelling man of the hour. Clavicular became a media darling after singing Kanyeâs âHeil H*tlerâ at the club, intentionally hitting a man with his cybertruck, yelling the n word into restaurants, and doing the rounds at NYFF. But what he really wants to be known for are his extreme beauty practices, so gender affirming in nature he may have closed the circle on misogyny - the walking answer to: âfellas, is it gay to f*ck a woman?â As Clavicular ascends into his desired state as a hard bodied Chad but nihilistically neuters himself in the process, has he finally realized RS Benedictâs thesis: everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny? Tangents include: Lindy West and the polycule from hell, and SNL as the Vegas residency of comedy.
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From the anus of TikTok comes a version of slop so wacky, so delightfully dumb, so⊠Italian (???), that its managed to win the hearts of every iPad kid around the world. Introducing: Italian Brainrot, the latest AI craze of anthropomorphic hybrid creatures with Italo-gibberish names and salacious lore that your littlest cousin probably filled you in on over the holidays. If you scroll through Jstor youâll find tons of articles philosophizing such beloved stock characters as Ballerina Cappuccina, Tralalero Tralala, and Tung Tung Tung Sahur. Scholars attempting to get to the bottom of their fundamental tension: are they Dadaist works of art reacting to the chaos of these fascist times, or are they fascist in and of themselves, predetermined for cooption by right wing edge lords? In this bonus episode, Hannah and Maia discuss Italian Brainrot and ask: why children? Why Italy? And why do we kind of f*ck with Ballerina Cappuccina?
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Born from a Japanese tech arms race and immortalized in Fred Benensonâs 2009 masterwork âEmoji Dick,â the emoji has become a staple of the way we communicate. Such that the Oxford dictionary named the cry-laugh emoji its word of the year in 2015. Whether youâd like to convey complex feelings such as âpweeeeseâ or embellish the end of a dry text message, itâs rare that these little symbols would not make at least one appearance in our daily text conversations. And, like most internet artifacts, early adopters of the emoji believed it had the potential to completely collapse the barriers of language and finally realize McLuhanâs predictions of a âglobal village.â But is that really so? In this finale episode Hannah and Maia discuss the history of the emoji and all its supposed utopian potential. Tangents include: the unasked-for details of Hannah and Maiaâs long-awaited reunion, Canadian mennonite literature, and Hannahâs own personal version of the internet, the Web 1.5.
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Call them what you will: hactivists, cypherpunks, phone phreaks, e-bandits⊠these digital vigilantes may be the last bastions of hope in an Information Age where information is not dispersed equally. Growing from a group of pranksters at MIT in the 50s to the âultra-coordinated mother-f*ckeryâ of Anonymous and WikiLeaks today, hactivism uses information technologies to achieve political objectives. With their hyper-sophisticated coding skills, hacktivists do everything from leaking classified documents, to providing oppressed citizenry with military grade encryption. They believe that access to computers should be total, that information should be free, and that anarchy reigns supreme. But ever since Chelsea Manning was discovered smuggling over 400k U.S military documents in a Lady Gaga CD case on behalf of WikiLeaks and governments really began cracking down on these hackers, it became clear that maybe the internet wasnât the anarchic utopia we thought it was. Tangents include: Maiaâs primal hatred of Spotify wrapped, The internetâs unfounded hatred of Geese, and Hannahâs dream of putting Maia on WikiFeet.
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Maya Jasanoff, âRevenge of the Quiet American,â Foreign Policy, No. 185 (March/April 2011).
Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, OâReilley (1984).
Peter Ludlow, âWikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture,â The Nation (2010).
Ty McCormick, âAnthropology of An Idea: Hacktivism,â Foreign Policy, No. 200 (2013).
Alasdair Roberts, âThe WikiLeaks Illusion,â The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (SUMMER 2011).
Wendy H. Wong and Peter A. Brown, âE-Bandits in Global Activism: WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and the Politics of No One,â Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 2013).
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Subtweeting, or âthe audible sigh of the internet,â if you will, was Twitterâs answer to WASPish passive aggression. Now, people had a platform in which they could not-so-covertly vent about those who had wronged them in as succinct a manner as possible. It was a practice exercised by the likes of Rihanna and Demi Lovato, and managed to garner its very own critics, who derided subtweeting for turning us all into indirect assholes. But was this really the case? In this episode, Hannah and Maia revisit subtweeting, as well as its spiritual ancestor, âvague booking,â to ask whether we were really as annoying as they say we were back on the internet of yore. Are publicly shading someone without naming them, or being cryptic and vague on a Wall post really just signs of societyâs increasing inability to communicate, or are they an artistic release for those in need of catharsis? Tangents include, Justin Trudeau being a fame whore, Maiaâs childhood obsession with Michael Jackson, and singing âCriminalâ by Fiona Apple at karaoke when no one wants you to.
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âOi Mista! You me dad?â âŠThe evocative phrase heard around the world thanks to a beautiful little thing called memes. As per one definition by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the meme is a unit of cultural transmission that can be perpetuated and remixed for all eternity. These nifty visual soundbites have been around forever, but really took form in the Darwinian halls of 4chan. Evolving from image macro, to utopian âopen work,â to hate symbol, to ironic shitpost where no object of consumption is sacred (not even Joan Didion⊠or Geese), the meme has become the true darling of our internet age. In this episode, Hannah and Maia question the purpose of the meme - is it an object of benign humour, a piece of art, a tool for bespoke branding, or a malignant âselfishâ gene that has the capacity for great evil? Listen to find out. Tangents include: the Timothy vogue cover, and Hannahâs one-sided beef with Goth Shakira.
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Alexis Benveniste, âThe Meaning and History of Memes,â The New York Times (2022).
Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine, Oxford University Press (1999).
Roy Christopher, âThe Meme is Dead, Long Live the Meme,â Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, Punctum Books (2019).
Travis Diehl, âThe Many, Many Heads of JD Vance,â Spike Art Magazine (2025).
Tom Gerken, âIs this 1921 cartoon the first ever meme?â BBC (2018).
Ara H. Merjian and Mike Rugnetta, âFrom Dada to Memes,â Art News (2020).
Scott Wark and McKenzie Wark, âCirculation and its Discontents,â Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, Punctum Books (2019).
Olivia Whittick, âFeminist Meme Queen Goth Shakira,â Ssense.
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Everyoneâs always saying âwhatever happened to communityâ⊠yet no one passes along our chain mail. Chain mail is everyoneâs least favourite thing to find in their inbox - an email thread threatening such real life events as being haunted by Michael Jackson, or your crush falling in love with you, unless you pass the email along to 50 other people. But newsflash. The industrial revolution killed culture and chain mail is here to save it. In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the folkloric origins of chain as pieces of information passed along by people within shared networks, and question whether it still has a place in these humourless times. After all, thereâs always room for c0cktober in our hearts. Tangents include: Gossip Girlâs elliptical soap opera storytelling, and a truly baffling rendition of âMiss Mary Had a Steamboatâ performed by the hosts.
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Ever since British Vogue asked the rather incendiary question, âis having a boyfriend embarrassing?â the internet has been up in arms. With an astonishing number of people who have âyesâ on their lips and a sharpened pitchfork for anyone who thinks otherwise, we thought it would be best to sit down with our dear friend Sara Harvey and take a close look at the article. Is this 800 word piece really the 4B rallying cry the internet seems to think it is, or is it just another agent of the normie gender war that has overtaken contemporary feminist discourse? Bonus episode now on Patreon.
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Isnât it so annoying when your partner canât be therapist, lover, parent, and nutritionist all at once? EnterâŠChatGPT! After a somewhat inflammatory study released by the nonsecular, ultra-conservative Wheatley Institute found that 1 in 3 young adult men and 1 in 4 young adult women reported having chatted with an AI boyfriend or girlfriend, the think pieces started rolling. And while these numbers might be a little funky, it is true that people in at least the tens of thousands are engaging in romantic and sexual partnerships with their AI chatbots. In this episode, Hannah and Maia, joined by Carrera from Internet Anthropology, scour the r/MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit to glimpse into the psychology of such people and ask some pressing questions. Are we dating AI because weâre tired of men? Because of covid and our increasing comfort with never being touched? Because the attention economy has made up gluttonous for constant validation? It would be cruel to demonize these people, but when a simple software update can kill your boyfriend in the blink of an eye and chatbots called Daenerys Targaryen are pushing lovesick children towards self harm, youâve gotta wonder whether these AI companies are actually trying to solve the loneliness epidemic, or worsen it. Tangents include: Maiaâs mysterious allergies and drinking culture in the UK.
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âCOUNTERFEIT CONNECTIONS: The Rise of Romantic AI Companions and AI Sexualized Media Among the Rising Generation,â Wheatley Institute (2025).
Cathy Hackl, âConfessions Of A Futurist: I Dated Four AI Boyfriends To Explore The Future Of Dating, Love, And Intimacy,â Forbes (2025).
Kashmir Hill, âShe Is in Love With ChatGPT,â New York Times (2025).
Carrera Kurnick, âInternet Artifacts on Digital Companionship,â Internet Anthropologist (2025).
Kevin Roose, âCan A.I. Be Blamed for a Teenâs Suicide?,â The New York Times (2025).
Slavoj ĆœiĆŸek, For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor, 2nded. (New York: Verso, 2002).
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When Ariana Grande apologized for licking a doughnut in a doughnut shop display ten years ago, she had no idea she would be changing the world forever. Using the familiar notes app, Ariana broadcasted to her fans both disappointment in her own behaviour, an expression of patriotism, and a PSA about healthy eating in a more intimate way than ever before. Soon to follow were a slew of other notes app apologies from naughty celebs like James Charles, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift. But is the notes app apology really as sincere as it appears to be, or is it a carefully curated mending of oneâs own self image? Do we really care about celebrities becoming better people, or do we just enjoy throwing tomatoes? In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the notes app apology for what it really is: a come-to-Jesus moment performed by celebrities who have been coerced by their publics into saying they did a bad bad thing. Tangents include: loved ones getting got by AI, and Hannah delivering her own personalized, oral notes app apology to Maia.
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There is no greater candidate for a job with the FBI⊠than a woman with a crush. A recent study found that Gen Z and Millennials have âalarmingly relaxed attitudes towards online stalking.â But considering we all do itâŠwhy wouldnât we? The term âstalkingâ (also know as âcreepingâ or âlurkingâ) has now take on a colloquial form, as all sorts of people use the internet to gather information about other people: ex partners, future partners, the ex of an ex, prospective employees, people they think are hotter or cooler than they are. But even if âcreepingâ is not stalking in the technical sense, even if itâs something we all do, why are we so ashamed to do it? In this season premiere, Hannah and Maia ask whether creeping is inherently creepy, and discuss the different affordances of social media that make it the perfect breeding ground for nosiness. As these âmass personalâ channels of communication facilitate parasocial relationships of even the closest kind, have we become private celebrities to each other? Or are we all, as we always have been, just massive creeps? Tangents include: Maiaâs evil ex-landlord, Hannahâs sorely misunderstood Baby Jane halloween costume, and dramatic readings of some truly diabolical âcreepingâ anecdotes from the lovely listeners.
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Amelia Abraham, â12 People Admit To Their Social Media âStalkingâ Habits,â Refinery29 (2016).
âCMV: It's not "creeping", "snooping", or "being a creeper" to browse social media content that presumably was put there for exactly that purpose.,â Reddit (2015).
Frampton, J. R., & Fox, J, âMonitoring, Creeping, or Surveillance? A Synthesis of Online Social Information Seeking Concepts,â Review of Communication Research, 9, (2021).
âGen Z and Millennials Accept Online Creeping and Stalking as Part of Dating Culture,â GEN Digital (2023).
Laura Pitcher, âAre You in a Parasocial Relationship With âthe Other Woman?ââ Digiverse (2023).
ï»żMorgan Sullivan, âA Love Letter to All My Exesâ Exesâ Instagram Accounts,â The Cut (2022).
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Taylor Swift has entered a new era: Wifey. Rather than take a (much needed) vacation following her world tour, sheâs announced not only a forthcoming album but also a forthcoming wedding to football superstar and HIMBO of the decade, Travis Kelce. But the couple, who very publicly began dating in later 2023 are not without their detractors. Along with the typical âPR relationshipâ accusations, speculation of a far more sinister plot is being thrown their way. Long time listeners may recall that we covered subset of Taylor Swiftâs fandom who call themselves âGaylorsâ in our second ever episode. Well buckle up, because weâre back at it again. But this time, weâre going to address the theory that Taylor Swift is secretly queer for what it really is: a CONSPIRACY theory. One that goes all the way to the topâŠ. of the NFL. Put on your tinfoil hats, pop in your headphones, and take a listen. Tangent include: George Bushâs alleged role in a celebrity death, Naomi Kleinâs Doppleganger, and Miley Cyrusâs 2012 fashion era.
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In a time where Sydney Sweeney is spreading her legs for a popular clothing retailer in the name of eugenics, itâs not so far-fetched to imagine that Sabrina Carpenter would also upset people with her latest album cover. Hair blown out, kneeling at the feet of a suited man, and captioned âManâs Best Friend,â this image of Carpenter sent shock waves across the internet for provoking an already fraught political moment. But was the outrage justified? In this very special bonus episode, perhaps the best one yet, Hannah and Maia ~unpack~ their complicated feelings about the controversy. Was Carpenterâs team, like Sweeneyâs, engaging in a conservative grift, or was this another instance of the publicâs paternalistic impulse to whip female figures into shape? Is this just another transgressive breakthrough from a popstar, or is there something more nefarious at play? In our image-addled society, why did this one cause such a stir? And did Andrea Dworkin really have a point after all? All this and more on Patreon. Tangent includes: a postmortem on And Just Like That.
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