Everything Is Tumblr Now
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher start with a couple of High Speed Downloads: Madison summarizes the latest online drama surrounding self-help guru Rachel Hollis (featuring Harriet Tubman), and Rachelle chronicles the Kardashian fury that was unleashed after somebody posted an untouched-up photo of Khloe. Then, an exclusive interview with Dion Beary, a writer and online community builder who founded the Tumblr blog This Is White Privilege. They talk with Beary about where that blog began, its impact on online discourse, and why he stepped away.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | If you thought you were a wolf born, a human body you were wolfkin. |
| 0:05.0 | But you could be a phycus or a money tree or a Harry Potter yourself. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see Y.I. |
| 0:18.0 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | Rachel, what are you thinking about this week? |
| 0:24.4 | Well, as per usual, I'm thinking about how everything is Tumblr now and has been since |
| 0:30.4 | at least 2013. |
| 0:32.0 | Tumblr, the blocking platform that most people know for banning porn in like 2018, but which kind of may have |
| 0:40.9 | raised me. I'm so glad we're finally doing this episode because you make this statement multiple |
| 0:46.4 | times a day. And from now on, I'm going to have like a swear jar for it, but it's going to be you |
| 0:51.5 | Venmoing me a dollar every time you say that everything is Tumblr now. |
| 0:55.4 | I don't agree to that. |
| 0:57.3 | Too late. |
| 0:58.8 | On today's episode, we're going to draw a line from the early 2010s era of Tumblr that Rachel is so obsessed with, |
| 1:05.1 | straight through to the way that people talk and behave on the modern day internet. |
| 1:09.1 | We're going to hear an exclusive interview with Zeon Barry, who's now an online community builder and writer, but for a certain era of Tumblr user, |
| 1:16.0 | again, Rachel, he's probably best known as the creator and moderator of a blog called |
| 1:20.8 | This is White Privilege. He'll talk about the blog's complicated legacy and what ultimately |
| 1:24.9 | led him to step away from it. But first, we've got a couple of high-speed downloads to catch you up on some absolute online |
| 1:32.1 | nonsense from the last few days. |
| 1:38.1 | In case you somehow missed it, high-speed download is a game we play in which we have exactly 60 seconds to explain something that happened on the internet in the past week. |
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