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ICYMI - How a 9-Year-Old Took Over TikTok

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined again by Slate’s Nitish Pahwa, this time to open up the mailbag. They answer questions about a child named Topher whose loud presence has swept across TikTok, Twitter’s bad bot decisions, and recent drama surrounding TikTok food reviewer Keith Lee.


This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.


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0:00.0

Y'all already know who I am. My name is Tofer Anne. I thank Olivia.

0:12.0

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.

0:15.0

I'm Natish Paoa. You're listening to ICYMINE.

0:19.0

Incassion misted.

0:20.0

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:23.0

And today we are welcoming back Natish, a Slate staff writer who you probably just heard

0:29.0

from this past side of this episode, where he explained some drama rocking the online

0:35.6

chess world over the past few months. It involved shockingly anal beads.

0:42.0

So, if you haven't listened yet, I can't recommend the episode more highly.

0:52.0

Hello, Natish. Thank you for joining me again to not talk about anal beads this time.

0:58.0

Hello. Yeah, so I'm glad we're doing something else focused less on potential sex toy cheating sports scandals.

1:08.0

Yeah, people should be using sex toys for enjoyment, not for not for cheating scandals.

1:13.0

Exactly. No kingshaming, except if you're cheating.

1:16.0

No, exactly. What we are here for though is to talk about the biggest injustice in Grammy's history

1:24.0

since the last biggest injustice that probably happened last year.

1:29.0

Because I don't keep up with the Grammys unless they do something egregious.

1:33.0

Like robbing renaissance of album of the year.

1:39.0

Anybody who listens to the show or knows me knows that I'm a Harry Styles fan and have been since the one direction days.

1:45.0

So I can say and will be completely objectively right in saying this album did not deserve to win over renaissance

1:53.0

or even bad bunny's album. Like what the fuck is happening here?

1:58.0

What is going on?

2:00.0

While I wish I could say I'm shocked and surprised by what they've done again to Beyoncé,

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