My name is Poppy Hulstad.

Got one GCSE in a child development.

Didn't do very well at school.

This is a podcast where I go into chat rooms

and then me and a couple of fellas act out the conversations I've had.

That's it. Let's get on with it.

Real conversations.

Re-inacted for you. Poppy Winston has entered the chat. chat. You know, chat rooms used to be these thriving communities on the internet.

You could go in there, you could talk to people from all over the world.

But now, I'm going to be honest, they're full of absolute weirdos.

So for a year, I've been going to chat rooms, having conversations with people.

You know, when I first started this, I wanted to find some people that I could actually have like a, you know, make a real connection with.

And yeah, maybe there'd probably be a lot of smut in it.

But I also thought there'd be sweet moments like here and there.

And, you know, it'd make you laugh, but it'd make you cry as well.

And kind of think about how we connect with

people and how we're actually like all the same and everything but yeah I'm gonna be honest

of you it it didn't turn out like that at all it's been uh yeah 100% uh filth it's no sweet moments in the

slightest it's just it's just, it's grim.

I'm going to be honest of you, it's grim.

You might be thinking, how are you going to show us these conversations you've had with people from all over the internet?

We can't see words through a little earbud, can we?

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