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Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

'Tis the season to show some skin! Perhaps some tattoo-adorned skin?

In this week's episode, Ben tells Amory about the r/tattoos community's reaction to a man whose friends made him self-conscious about his flowery tattoo. Amory tells Ben about the science behind why tattoos stay put on our bodies, which has only recently come to be understood.

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0:38.3	Why are executives paid so much?
0:41.0	Do they deserve it?
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1:00.4	Do you know the meme, fellas, is it gay?
1:02.2	No.
1:09.3	Well, as we approach June, which as you know is Pride Month,
1:15.5	I bring you the story of the fellas is it gay to meme.
1:21.0	And a story that kind of fits into that story.
1:23.6	I'm Ben Brock Johnson.
1:25.2	I'm Anne-Marie Sievertson.
1:27.1	And you're listening to Endless Thread. We're coming to you from WBUR, Boston's NPR.
1:56.2	So look, like so many primordial internet things, the exact origin of fellas is it gay amounts to a know-your-meem entry regarding a tweet from 2009.
2:03.4	But that might just be the searchability of the internet playing tricks with our minds since this really kicked off years later.
2:06.3	In other words, you know, a meme comes into existence.
2:14.3	You search for the origin of that meme on the internet and you can probably find someone saying the same words or something similar at some point.
2:18.8	But that doesn't mean that it's the actual start of the meme, right?
2:24.5	Anyway, this tweet from 2009, whether it was the beginning of the meme or not, was about men who go into bathrooms and stand next to other men at the urinals when there is plenty of urinal space.
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