Everyone Online Is Going Analog
Slate Debates
Slate Podcasts
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by creator and social media manager Carmen Vicente to chat about the rise of offline hobbies, and how crafts, DVDs, and something called an “analog bag” are being used as acts of rebellion against an overly plugged-in society. But does this really mean the beginning of the end of social media? Probably not. Instead, Carmen shares how apps as we know them are about to change.
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, |
| 0:19.6 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.2 | And we are here with Carmen Vicente. Carmen is a social media manager who also makes videos on TikTok analyzing and predicting the future of social media and how we interact with it. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome Carmen. We've met before. We yapped for so long that I was like, we need to take this to a professional yapping place. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, I'm really happy and honored to be yapping with you today. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, so we brought you on to talk actually about a specific video that you posted, which kind of touched on some conversations we had been having as a team. |
| 1:08.6 | But first, we have to ask you the inaugural question that we ask all first time guests, which is what was your first internet memory? |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, that's interesting. My dad is a teacher. |
| 1:14.5 | He was a teacher. |
| 1:15.5 | And I remember teachers, like I'm from Vancouver and I don't know, teachers in Vancouver got access to some kind of early internet product. |
| 1:26.5 | And I remember that he brought home, he would bring |
| 1:31.1 | home, like his Mac computer, like the whole thing every weekend for us to use. Wait, like the whole |
| 1:37.5 | thing. The whole thing. The whole thing. I can remember this all throughout my childhood. Yeah, |
| 1:41.0 | the whole thing. And we'd put it on a desk and mostly we used it to play Tetris. |
| 1:45.4 | But I remember he was like, he was like, this is the internet. |
| 1:49.5 | And there was a browser. |
| 1:51.7 | I don't remember what browser. |
| 1:52.8 | And I remember the very first thing that I typed in was shoes. |
| 1:58.8 | That was the whole thing. |
| 2:00.4 | This would have been pre, oh my God, shoes on YouTube, right? Oh, like I was like- Initial Vile video. Like I'm born in 1987 and this, I was in elementary school. So like I don't even think that there was like, internet shopping wasn't even a thing. Yeah, I don't think YouTube was invented. Like I was just like, hmm, what does the world hold for me? What, do you know what it showed you? Like, at that point, it was probably just like the definition of the word shoe. No, it was, yeah, I was like literally like, do you want to know what a shoe is? No, I don't remember anything more. I just remember thinking, like, of all the limitless possibilities out there, I chose to type shoes. |
| 2:35.4 | So maybe that tells you... No, it's... |
| 2:36.1 | That's a funny... |
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