Summary
Hannah and Maia try to make sense of the Rorschach test that is "Who is the Bad Art Friend?". Is the literary beef between Dawn and Sonya actually as juicy and layered as Twitter made it out to be? Or it it simply another case of what Safy Hallan Farah calls, "the true crime-ization of low stakes interpersonal drama"? Also, would Maia give Hannah her kidney? Let's find out!
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Sources:
Robert Kolker, "Who Is the Bad Art Friend?", The New York Times (2021)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.html
Robert Kolker, "How Bad Art Friend Became Twitter's Favorite Parlor Game", The New York Times (2021)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/insider/bad-art-friend-twitter.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Erin Vanderhoof, "Why Facebook May Be the True 'Bad Art Friend'", Vanity Fair (2021)
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/facebook-who-is-the-bad-art-friend
Michael Hobbes, "Identifying The Bad Art Friend is Easy", (2021)
https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/identifying-the-bad-art-friend-is
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How the heck are you? |
| 0:01.1 | Me? |
| 0:01.4 | I'm great. |
| 0:02.1 | I am about to take my nieces to a Christmas show, which you are joining us for. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes, we can't be apart for one evening. |
| 0:11.0 | No, we simply can't. |
| 0:12.3 | And I think it'll be fun. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm forcing them to wear their cute little outfits and get dressed up. |
| 0:18.7 | I think it'll be fun. |
| 0:20.7 | Yuletide. Yule Tide. |
| 0:21.7 | Yule Tide, booginess. |
| 0:23.5 | That's what Christmas is all about. |
| 0:25.5 | So who are you? |
| 0:26.9 | I'm a podcaster and all around great person. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Hannah. |
| 0:33.7 | Also a podcaster. |
| 0:35.9 | And I do okay. Nice. Our intros are enough to turn people right the fuck off. |
| 0:41.3 | I know. Literally. Sorry. Or like how annoying can we be right out of the gate. At least they know what they're in for. |
| 0:47.2 | And this is rehashed, a podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture only to be quickly forgotten. |
| 0:56.4 | But we think are due for a revisiting. This season is on the public theater, which is all about our collective fascination |
| 1:02.5 | with a good public villain. And today's episode is... Who is the bad art friend? Yes. |
| 1:48.1 | Thank you. The Bad Art Friend? |
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