ICYMI - Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An ICYMI Investigation.
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Instagram has seen a recent influx of college “virginity club” accounts featuring sharp, funny memes about remaining chaste. On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle put these accounts under the microscope. Is anything about these accounts real, or are they just a grift for merchandise and music promotion? After some internet sleuthing, they track down the creator of the most popular account, for “Brigham Young Virginity Club,” and put him on the spot.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
This episode originally aired on July 21, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:17.0 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:20.6 | I hope you all are getting ready to enjoy Labor Day. |
| 0:23.5 | The ICYMI team is still in the midst of our two week break. |
| 0:28.1 | We're planning some really exciting stuff for y'all down the road, and of course, still seeking a replacement for Madison Malone Culture. |
| 0:35.6 | While we're busy doing now, we wanted to share some of my Madison's favorite episodes. |
| 0:45.9 | Today, we're returning to a subject that somehow became one of our standards on the show. |
| 0:52.2 | That's right, we are talking all about Mormons. |
| 0:55.4 | More specifically, we're talking about the BYU Virginia Club, which is a viral Instagram account that, to this day, |
| 1:03.0 | still claims to be a club encouraging abstinence on BYU's campus. |
| 1:08.2 | But those posts didn't exactly strike us as the most genuine, so we got the alleged head of the club on the phone to tell us what's up. |
| 1:17.9 | And yes, he disguised his own voice on the call. |
| 1:21.7 | We have done nothing to it. |
| 1:24.0 | But before we go into that interview, we talked about the internet marketing genius that is Little Nas X, and how he promoted his single industry baby. |
| 1:33.0 | This episode originally aired on July 21st, 2021, which means that yes, you will get to hear Madison's voice from beyond the ICYMI grave. |
| 1:42.5 | Without further ado, is BYU Virginia Club Reel, a slate investigation. |
| 1:48.0 | So for the past couple of weeks, Little Nas X has been teasing his quote-unquote upcoming legal battle with Nike over the Satan shoes, which you might remember from many episodes back. |
| 2:04.4 | Little Nas X produced a limited drop of Nike's allegedly with a single drop of blood in them. |
| 2:13.4 | Yes, these Satan shoes went viral, conservatives hated them, everyone else loved them, everyone except for Nike because these were not officially released with Nike's permission. |
| 2:26.0 | And so for the past week or so, Little Nas X has been teasing that he's going to be appearing in court with Nike to fight over these shoes. |
| 2:38.0 | When you have court on Monday over Satan shoes, and might go to jail, but your label tells you to keep making tic-tocs. |
| 2:44.6 | Baby, baby, hey, Cobrax ain't. |
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