Hi, 16th minute listeners, Jamie here with a formal announcement and a request from you.

Okay, I'll go first.

Starting in a few weeks, 16th minute is going to go on hiatus for a bit while we reconfigure the show into a more seasonal format.

Because I absolutely love talking with the internet's characters

of the day from week to week. But as time has gone on, I've noticed that people really seem to

enjoy when I have the time and the bandwidth to get deeper into a single topic about internet

history. And if you don't feel this way, sorry for gaslighting you, but the numbers don't lie.

And honestly, I am but one person, and I write and research and record this show and I edit the

interviews.

And with the current format, it can be difficult to go as deep as I'd like to

or interview as many people as I would like to without never sleeping.

So, we're switching things up.

After our hiatus, we're going to be back with seasons of episodes going deep on under-explored moments or trends in

internet histories, talking about main characters where there is a much larger context to look at,

and talks with those who want to make the internet a better place, not just a closer approximation

of what it was like when you were 11 years old.

I'm talking about digging into how internet culture has shaped the way that court cases go as the

new court of public opinion. I'm talking about looking into the role of the internet with

incarcerated people. I'm talking about really taking a closer look at the areas of the internet that can't be

tackled in a single week.

I'm talking about histories of niche internet communities that are misunderstood or fully

formed online.

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