ICYMI - How a Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Took Over TikTok
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🗓️ 20 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice answer listener questions about the rapid rise of Donghua Jinlong, a Chinese company that manufactures glycine. Over the past few weeks, paradoxically deadpan and impassioned videos about the high quality of Donghua Jinlong’s products have taken over TikTok. Are teens actually consuming industrial grade chemicals? Or is something even weirder happening?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Candice Lim and you're listening to icy |
| 0:17.0 | why am I in case you missed it |
| 0:18.8 | Sleeats Podcast about Internet Culture and happy for 20 Rachel how would you like to celebrate this year? |
| 0:27.0 | I think we all have an idea of how I might be celebrating this year. |
| 0:34.1 | Let's just say that I'm gonna be really in touch with nature. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm gonna touch some grass, you know? |
| 0:42.8 | But while that's going on, |
| 0:49.9 | what have you been celebrating? |
| 0:51.0 | Actually, can I guess? |
| 0:51.8 | I feel like I have some thoughts. We haven't |
| 0:53.5 | helped yet. Okay, yeah. Is it Charlie XZX going on tour with Troy Savon? |
| 0:59.5 | Okay, how did you know? I signed it for the pre-sale. I said it for the pre-sale? |
| 1:03.2 | I signed it for the pre-sale. |
| 1:04.8 | Everyone wished me so much luck, but no, guess again. |
| 1:08.8 | Is it NARA Smith revealing her latest child is named whimsy Lou Smith. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh, jeez. |
| 1:17.0 | It's not. |
| 1:18.0 | How do you feel about that name, by the way? |
| 1:20.0 | It's about what I expected. |
| 1:22.0 | It's about what I expected. It's kind of giving a who and whoville, but I don't hate it. |
| 1:27.6 | Yeah, okay. Well, that is not the thing I'm celebrating, but what I'm actually celebrating is a third thing. |
| 1:34.5 | A third space, and his name is Kyle McLaughlin. |
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