Garlic, garlic, celery, balsamic vinegar.

That's a big word for Elmo.

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMIMI.

In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today we're bringing back an

annual I-C-Y-M-I tradition. And can I just say it's kind of wild to me that this show has been

going on long enough to have annual traditions that have been done more than once.

I want to thank y'all. I'm going to be a little sappy for a moment. I want to thank y'all.

I'm gonna be a little savvy for a moment.

I wanna thank y'all for sticking around

for the past year and a half.

I know that without Madison,

the show has been a little all over the place

and I too miss having a regular co-host,

but we are still working on finding the best person

for the job and I appreciate y'all's patience.

Now that my sappy moment is over, back to tradition.

So much of covering internet culture is talking about, like, the bad and dumb stuff online in a given week,

the Elon and the depth you heard and the lesbian

emu influencers of the world. So today we're going to do the complete opposite and talk about

some of the things on the internet that we are thankful for this year. Last year, we had a Friends

Giving special that featured Christina Grace Tucker and Elamine Abd al-Mamad,

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