Hey there. Before we start the show, we wanted to ask for you the listeners to help us out.

We are working on an episode about queer friendship and the internet for Pride Month.

If you found community or queer friendship online, we want to know that can come in many shapes and form.

So if you've made a best friend, a bestie or a frenemy at any time in your life on the internet,

it can be through fandom, a dating app, or even on BBS.

Shout out, if you know what that is.

Please do us a favor.

Record a short voice memo telling us how you met your bestie online, and you can email that

to us at I-C-Y-M-I-A--CYMI at Slate.com.

Once again, here's what you're going to do.

You're going to record a voice memo about how you met your bestie online.

Then you're going to email that to ICYMI at slate.com.

We're hoping the episode will go up at the end of June and celebration of Pride Month.

So the sooner, the better.

Thank you. of Pride Month, so the sooner, the better. Hey, I'm Candace Lim.

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Rachel, as we count down the clock to TikTok's official demise and deletion from our American lives, can I admit something? I'm liking it more nowadays.

Ooh, I get it. I get it. It's very, it's going down. I'm yelling timber. It's giving beginning of the apocalypse.

Yes, you better move, you better dance.

Mm-hmm. And what I mean by this is that I've recently had some TikTok sounds that just have absolutely hit the pleasure center in my brain.

They are in my head and I need to get them out.

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