Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why Imi, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today on the show, I am joined by writer Jenna Rue, welcome Jenna.

Thank you for having me.

Jenna, I've been saving all my talk about this until we were recording

because I don't think we've ever moved as quickly between seeing the headline of a piece

and then booking the guest to talk about the pieces we did with this.

It's just so funny.

And so I'm very excited to talk about it.

But that is the tease I'm going to leave listeners with

because as they know right now, we must ask you

the question that we ask all first time guests.

What is your earliest internet memory?

Okay, I thought about this and I was trying to give an answer where, like,

Webkins is my first one, but I feel like I hear that all the time.

No, okay.

This is beautiful because you don't even realize what you've, like, done by saying that, which

is that so many people say Neopets and we just had Verge writer Mia Sato on, who was the first person to say Webkins. I'm a Webkins girlie. And so I love that 26 we're now getting so much more. Like in all 2025, no one said Webkins. That is crazy. I mean, I feel like in my school, Neopets was never a thing. So Webkins was the huge one. But my other answer prepared for you, because I didn't want to give a repeat, was, do you know what OVU is? It's like Skype, but the logo's orange. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So was it like, because I'm looking at what Google shows me. I'm getting kind of chat roulette vibes, but is it just a different type of Skype?

It's much safe.

Well, it felt much safer than chat roulette.

You're like, correct.

It's basically like Skype.

It's just I felt like at the time it was a more cool version of it.

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