How Are Those Gross Birthday Countdowns Still a Thing?
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🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Millie Bobby Brown turned 18 last week, so of course those creepy “legal age” countdown clocks popped up as that day approached. On the show today, Madison is joined by Nichole Perkins to talk about the phenomenon of counting down to a celebrity’s 18th birthday, the history of their online and offline ickiness, and why girls of color always seem to be left out of this discussion.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder.
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| 0:00.0 | I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:14.9 | And I'm Nicole Perkins, filling in for Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:20.2 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. Nicole, hello, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm thrilled to have you here and just to give you a little bit of introduction to the ICYMIMI guys, that is what I have named our fandom. Rachel doesn't like it. I love it. |
| 0:39.4 | Nicole is the host of the podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | This is good for you. |
| 0:41.6 | She's the author of the memoir. |
| 0:44.1 | Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be. |
| 0:46.5 | And if you're a Slate regular, |
| 0:48.3 | you'll probably recognize her. |
| 0:51.6 | She was formerly host of Slate's own Thursday kit. |
| 0:52.6 | Yay. |
| 0:54.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:00.7 | Now down to business. |
| 1:01.7 | The queen is dead. |
| 1:02.7 | The queen is dead? |
| 1:04.7 | Are we sure about that? |
| 1:06.9 | We really are not. |
| 1:11.2 | And I do love that we're talking about this while Rachel is gone because this is such a Rachel Hampton bread and butter topic. Oh, really? Oh, okay. How I'm going to lure her to never leave me |
| 1:17.7 | ever again for an elaborate Parisian vacation. Well, I'm sure she is enjoying herself and probably |
| 1:24.9 | getting like even better news on this topic than we are |
| 1:28.4 | right now right boots on the ground so the question in hand is earlier this week jason lee of the |
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