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Today, Explained

Everything is clips now

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

An army of people posting clips of podcasts, songs, and movies has taken over your algorithm, which means everything you see could be a psyop. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Scrolling through X on a phone. Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The first post when I opened Instagram was a Slate post, and it is a clip of the Slate

0:07.7

podcast, What Next TBD, but the guest is my boss, Nilai Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge.

0:13.2

The products themselves aren't any good.

0:15.4

What's after it?

0:16.4

The next post is from an account called ProfG Markets. I believe that's a marketing podcast. I've never listened to it. Just like, look at this. This is crazy. This is my normal feed. So there's Nelai. There's Taylor Lorenz clip. Here's, I don't know who that is. Here's another clip. Remember when Instagram was like pictures of our friends sandwiches? That era is long gone.

0:39.3

They killed it.

0:40.3

That it's been replaced by clips of podcasts?

0:42.3

Yeah. Clips of podcasts, clips of shows, clips of movies, clips of sports, clips, clips, clips.

0:51.3

We're going to talk to me about that more on today, explained.

0:55.4

From Vox!

0:57.5

I'm supposed to say from Vox at the end.

1:02.2

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