Episode 111: Let's Talk About How People Are Talking About Libs of TikTok
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
After Jesse tells a crazy story about his new life as a Brooklyn socialite, the hosts talk Jason Stanley’s SAT scores, PJ Vogt’s return to podcasting, and Taylor Lorenz’s article about the woman behind Libs of Tik Tok. To discuss this post with premium subscribers, click here.
Show notes/Links:
Stanleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey:
Crypto Island:
Review in Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/crypto-island-podcast-pj-vogt.html
Reported pieces on the controversy:
https://www.vulture.com/article/gimlet-reply-all-controversy-spotify-test-kitchen.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/style/reply-all-test-kitchen.html
Jesse’s paywalled newsletter piece:
Libs of Tik Tok:
If we can’t trust Libs of TikTok to bring us accurate news, all is lost:
Curtis Yarvin on murdering kids: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/07/right-wing-terrorism-as-folk-activism/
On the guy who figured out who Libs of TikTok was: “Travis Brown meticulously tracks all my public posts, likes, and shares across all social media platforms (Github, Twitter, etc.), archives them permanently (without my consent, and against the terms of service of these organizations, and against data protection laws in some countries), and then posts them online with his own grotesque and twisted interpretations.”
Taylor Lorenz’s article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/
Image of the Libs of TikTok logo is from Wikipedia.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it. |
| 0:07.0 | Jesse, how's it going? |
| 0:10.0 | Good, Katie. |
| 0:11.0 | I've been expanding my social horizons a little bit. |
| 0:13.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:14.0 | Well, my girlfriend, as hard as this might be to believe, is cooler than I am. |
| 0:18.0 | So I have access. |
| 0:19.0 | Of course it's generally there. |
| 0:21.0 | I thought we were retiring the horse jokes. |
| 0:23.0 | Do you remember like a ceremony? |
| 0:24.0 | You were retiring again. |
| 0:26.0 | My actual girlfriend is cooler than me and has access to stuff I don't have access to. |
| 0:32.0 | Through her roommate, we went to this weird, like, imagined a brownstone in a gentrifying |
| 0:39.0 | part of Brooklyn that throws like an all-house party, like four floors. |
| 0:43.0 | This was Roman and Greek themed and just like the most over-the-top crazy thing you have to buy tickets online. |
| 0:49.0 | It was insane. |
| 0:50.0 | Online? |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, that's crazy. |
| 0:52.0 | They sold tickets online in all places. |
| 0:53.0 | Can you believe that? |
| 0:55.0 | That's crazy. |
| 0:56.0 | That's the whole story. |
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