Anti-fans, online hate, and Caroline Calloway

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, we investigate the rise and fall of online influencer Caroline Calloway and the bigger question: Why do some people love to hate?

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Grace Tatter. Mixing and sound design by Emily Jankowski. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

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1:19.0	Our story starts today with some viral pictures of a very dirty apartment.
1:28.0	It's not mine, I swear. It's not mine.
1:31.0	The first picture that I'm looking at, it just looks like a trash.
1:35.0	Really like an abandoned house.
1:37.0	One of our producers, Grace Tatter, sent us these photos when they were making the rounds on Twitter and Reddit earlier this year.
1:44.0	It is just filthy, there are papers all around, there are dirty garbage bags.
1:49.0	These pictures were attached to a lawsuit, filed by property management company in New York City.
1:56.0	And they were suing the tenant of the apartment, a woman named Caroline Callaway.
2:02.0	According to the lawsuit, Caroline owed her landlords more than $40,000.
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