Can Memes Swing the 2024 Election? Plus, Michelle Zauner on “Crying in H Mart”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC studios and the New Yorker. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Ramnik. I've been in the news |
| 0:16.4 | business for a few years now and here's a statistic that I found interesting. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm not blind to the fact that Tik-Tok is a thing a huge thing but a third of |
| 0:26.4 | American adults under 30 regularly get their news from Tik-Tok. |
| 0:31.9 | That caught my attention to say the least. I came across that figure in a piece by my colleague |
| 0:36.9 | Claire Malone who covers media for the New Yorker and Claire writes this more and more voters are forming opinions |
| 0:44.3 | based on the funny video |
| 0:46.2 | that their cousin's husband's sister |
| 0:48.7 | shared in the group chat. |
| 0:50.2 | In other words, whether I like it or not, |
| 0:52.4 | memes matter. |
| 0:54.3 | Claire Malone joins us now. |
| 0:58.4 | Claire, one of the quotes in your piece just stays with me. A right-wing influencer says the following. The left can't |
| 1:06.1 | meme, but we can. What does that mean? It basically |
| 1:13.4 | and sanctimonious and worried about being politically correct |
| 1:16.8 | that they can't be funny, but the right wing can be funny and |
| 1:20.2 | go there. They can say the things everyone thinks but doesn't actually say |
| 1:24.5 | out loud. I think that's what he means there. I see and is he right? I think there's |
| 1:28.0 | some truth to it. Sure. Yeah. I mean I think that there's one of the reasons |
| 1:31.6 | why you know I talked to this professor |
| 1:33.2 | Ryan Milner who studies memes he's a he's a he's an academic memeologist. |
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