Celebrity Culture Is Dead and Fandom Killed It
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last week The Last Dinner Party caught major heat from fans after security at their show screened cis male attendees. Meanwhile across the pond, Billie Eilish stans are overstepping boundaries by hurling abuse at her team over the Birds Of A Feather music video. And as usual, Chappell Roan devotees are being little bastards.
This week, Ione and Gina are delving into the death knell surrounding celebrity culture and asking what has caused stans to wade into unhinged - and unsafe - territory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Aoni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Aione, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Before we start, if you're a fan of this podcast, please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you really love us, you can sign up for a podcast membership |
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| 0:37.2 | Do we have any reviews, Ione? |
| 0:38.9 | We do. Five Stars, Faith Podcast. I look forward to listening to Ioni and Gina every Monday. |
| 0:44.0 | They consistently cover the latest social topics, pop culture, and even more serious current issues, |
| 0:48.7 | particularly feminist ones. Every episode is well researched and provides insightful perspectives. |
| 0:54.0 | I love that they fully discuss |
| 0:55.1 | the topics and aren't afraid to disagree with each other their dialogue is both insightful and funny |
| 0:59.8 | making it very accessible it's like listening to your mates have a chat by daniel campbell |
| 1:04.5 | in the UK but she's your mate so that's why it just made me laugh yeah we are you mean |
| 1:10.2 | you don't like to say that it is like this That's why it just made me laugh. Yeah. We are you mean? |
| 1:13.9 | You don't know how to say that. |
| 1:16.4 | It is like listening to you're making a chat. |
| 1:17.0 | That's true. |
| 1:18.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:21.8 | I think like sometimes I chat like well, blah. |
| 1:22.5 | Okay. |
| 1:25.5 | Try not to do that today, I guess. |
| 1:28.2 | And not smartly like we do on this podcast so what we're talking about today |
| 1:30.3 | today we're talking about how the fans are not okay |
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