ICYMI - An Influencer Hates To See This Subreddit Coming
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by media scholars Dr. Jess Maddox and Dr. Jess Rauchberg to discuss the subreddit r/NYCInfluencerSnark: In the early 2020s, influencer snark pages began as a way to contain a growing, unregulated economy where sponcon and diet teas began to thrive. With more money flowing into influencer marketing, a backlash started to emerge on Reddit as followers became anti-fans, then haters. On today’s episode, the doctors discuss their paper (“She’s my bitch eating crackers”) and how r/NYCInfluencerSnark contributes to feminist media scholarship.
This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Vic Whitley-Berry and Kat Hong.
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| 0:59.0 | Hey! Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I-M-I. |
| 1:17.8 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:21.5 | And today, class is in session because joining me on the show are two pop culture academics. |
| 1:26.6 | First up, we have a journalism and creative |
| 1:28.9 | media professor at the University of Alabama, and the author of the internet is for cats, |
| 1:33.7 | how animal images shape our digital lives. It's Dr. Jess Maddox. Hello, Jess. Hello, thank you |
| 1:39.6 | for having me. Of course. Also joining the show for the very first time is Dr. Jess Rauschberg, a digital media |
| 1:46.8 | expert and a professor of communication technologies at Seton Hall University. Welcome to the show, Jess. |
| 1:52.1 | Thanks, Candace. So excited to be here with y'all. Oh, so excited. And we should probably start by |
| 1:57.4 | clarifying some nicknames because we do have two doctors and we do have two Jesses. |
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