Hey, I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.

In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And joining me on today's episode is the co-host of the podcast and YouTube channel just between us.

She's also the writer of the Emotional Support Lady Subsaf, and she's coming out with a new book about Gen Z and millennial modern marriage.

It's called I Do, I Think.

And it's out October 15th.

Please welcome to the show, Alison Raskin. Hello, Allison.

Hello. I had to fight an instinct to woo for myself. I don't know where that came from.

No, you should woo. You should woo. We keep it in.

Today is going to be a fun episode because we are going through your internet diary to see what your favorite memes are, what advice you have for fighting your haters online.

But I have to say, you have played a quite formative part of my internet history, but also maybe journalism career a little bit,

because I absolutely remember watching your BuzzFeed videos, your Just Between Us videos back in 2014 when I was about to enter college. And I was like a J school person being like, I must do the

BuzzFeed editorial fellowship or else I will

never get a job. And obviously, neither of us stayed there. But I have so many questions to ask

you about how the internet has changed since then. But let's start with a little check-in.

A little table-setting question of sorts. Allison, what is something that has made you

laugh online recently? This could be a meme. This could be a song. This could be a tweet. What made

you laugh, smile, giggle, gaggle. So this was on theme with the book, but it was a tweet with

the clapping emoji, you know, between each word. And it says, don't call it traditional marriage if it doesn't even secure alliances between rival fiefdoms.

Wow.

Okay, let's talk about this.

So that might be very niche for what's going on in my life right now and what I write about, but I killed me.

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