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ICYMI: And The Oscar Goes To…Club Chalamet

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the end of awards season, Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay pay tribute to the true heroes behind Hollywood’s most talented stars: their fan accounts. While Club Chalamet’s lore is deep enough to deserve its own biopic, a number of internet moments and figures were responsible for the success—and downfall—of this year’s nominees. The pair explain it all, and the creator behind fuckyeahdanielradcliffe.tumblr.com is finally unmasked… This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.7

And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I.

0:49.2

In case you missed it.

0:50.6

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:53.4

And Candice, as of today, we are in the final weekend

0:59.3

of award season, which I know for you is basically like a marathon that you've been running

1:07.0

for months straight now. It is coming to an end because you are sort of a volunteer

1:12.3

award show pundit. If you had a subreddit, that would be the subreddit to moderate.

1:17.7

Yeah. What are your kind of favorite moments from award season this year, 2024 slash 2025?

1:24.7

Well, first off, thank you so much for the karma. I appreciate it.

1:27.7

I think some of my favorite moments this award season were things like the wicked holding space meme.

1:36.0

I mean, this is when Ariana Grande, Cynthia Arrivo, they were in a press-trug and interview.

1:41.3

The interviewer was a woman named Tracy Il Gilchrist.

1:43.8

She says to Cynthia and Ariana that, quote, people are taking the lyrics of defying gravity and really holding space for that.

1:50.6

Yeah.

1:51.1

Yeah.

1:51.4

And I think that's representative of our collective delusion at that time because it's not like a super remarkable sentence.

1:58.5

But everyone's reactions in the room and then like where we were all mentally when

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