Caroline Calloway: The Art of Scamming Yourself
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4.5 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to be both scammer and scammed? Hannah and Maia take a stab at the Rube Goldberg Machine that is Caroline Calloway's brilliant, chaotic mind. Is she actually staying one step ahead of the haters, or is she really just two steps behind? Let's talk about it.
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Sources:
Kayleigh Donaldson, "The Curious Case of Caroline Calloway", Pajba, 2019 https://www.pajiba.com/web_culture/the-case-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-creativity-workshop-tour.php
Natalie Beach, "I Was Caroline Calloway", The Cut (2019) https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html
Bianca London, “American student's fairytale life in Cambridge enchants Instagram: 300,000 people following student's photos of carefree days of dreaming spires, black-tie balls and Champagne on the river” The Daily Mail (2015) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3010757/US-student-s-enchanting-Instagram-photos-reveal-fairytale-life-Cambridge.htm
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Maya. Just wanted to announce that we've launched a Patreon for this podcast. It's got two tiers, both of which are pretty low cost and feature monthly bonus episodes, plus early access to all other episodes. The higher tier also has access to mini-pods where we talk about other internet stuff in a bit more of a casual format, plus access to Q&As if you really want to get intimate with it. If you like Rehash |
| 0:22.4 | and want some more from us, then support us on Patreon. It'll help us a lot. Thanks. |
| 0:29.1 | Hey, I'm Maya. I am a YouTuber and occasional bitch. And I'm Hannah and I'm a scammer. |
| 0:37.4 | And this is Rehash, a podcast about the social media phenomena |
| 0:41.9 | that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten. |
| 0:46.0 | But we think are due for our revisiting. |
| 0:48.8 | This season is on public theater, which is all about our collective fascination with a good public villain. In the world of influencers, the crafting of an online persona is not unlike performance art, |
| 1:31.5 | and nobody exemplifies, or at least claims to, better than today's subject. |
| 1:36.7 | It's hard to attribute a title to Caroline Callaway. |
| 1:39.7 | According to her, she's an artist, art historian, and most importantly, a memoirist. |
| 1:45.0 | According to the press, she's an internet celebrity, a scammer, a one-woman fire fest. |
| 1:51.4 | I like to think the real Caroline Calloway exists somewhere between these two definitions. |
| 1:56.6 | Self-aware yet self-contradictory, creative yet destructive, insufferable yet insufferably |
| 2:03.8 | easy to empathize with. Caroline exhibits all of these traits. She's a self-prophosized |
| 2:10.1 | enigma and today we're going to try and figure her out. Ooh. And so, Maya, can you give our listeners a elevator pitch on who Caroline Calloway is? |
| 2:24.2 | Okay, let's see. |
| 2:25.6 | It's a big, yeah. |
| 2:27.4 | That's a lot to define. |
| 2:29.0 | Caroline Calloway, as I understand her, is an online influencer and self-proclaimed scammer. |
| 2:36.1 | She has kind of had a bit of a crazy role in the public eye, mostly just for niche people |
| 2:42.6 | or niche audiences who are interested in whatever cooky antics she's up to today. |
| 2:48.5 | But she blew up in the mainstream public for one after a massive article of her was |
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