ICYMI | Are Influencers Too Normalized To Be Mocked?

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim recap their weekends which include Waymo cars and accidentally bumping into content creators, which brings them to the recent kerfuffle between Glacier Express and Influencers in the Wild. Earlier this month, Influencers in the Wild — an Instagram account that crowdsources and posts footage of content creators in public spaces — was asked to remove a video that featured one of Glacier Express’ employees being filmed and posted without their consent. The train company cited Article 28 of the Swiss Civil code, which dictates that individuals have the right to their own image. But this incident begs the question: do accounts like Influencers in the Wild contribute to a troubling self-surveillance culture, and what rights do any of us have if we accidentally end up in someone’s vlog or Instagram post? This podcast is produced by Olivia Briley, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:15.0	And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:19.0	In case you missed it.
0:20.0	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:22.8	And Candice, it is so great to have you back on the other side of my Zoom screen.
0:27.7	How was your week off?
0:29.9	It's good to be back.
0:31.1	It was really good to also be off.
0:32.6	I traveled to the faraway mystical land of San Francisco.
0:35.5	Heard of it.
0:37.8	I've heard. I think that's where the cyber trucks are.
0:41.1	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:42.1	Had amazing tacos, brought some home on the plane.
0:45.4	Overall, relaxing time.
0:47.8	I will say, though, I have come back a changed person.
0:51.3	He goes, Kate, I'm a Waymo influencer now. Which is, I guess I can just be
0:57.6	thankful you haven't become a cyber truck person or a Tesla person, but Waymo, it feels like right below it.
1:03.6	It is. It is. So I know Waymo because I've seen like so many TikToks of these self-driving cars.
1:10.6	They're like white and they have huge cameras on the front left and center.
1:14.3	It's a little bit skibbitty toilet-esque.
1:16.5	But they're basically Uber without the Uber driver.
1:19.4	Have you like seen them out in your life?
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