ICYMI | Candice Lim Logs Off

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay celebrate Candice’s three years at ICYMI, and send her off onto her next chapter. They talk Dan and Phil’s hard launch, Connor Franta and Troye Sivan’s Instagram beef, and the major predictions Candice has for the internet in 2026. Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, 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 Lem.
0:15.4	And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see Y.
0:18.5	In case you've missed it.
0:20.9	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:24.3	Oh, man.
0:27.0	I mean, sorry, I'm thinking about Dan and Phil.
0:30.3	No.
0:30.8	I know, I know.
0:32.1	No, no.
0:33.3	Candice, I don't know which of these is bigger news this week that today is your last episode of I-C-Y-M-I,
0:40.6	or, of course, YouTubers Dan and Phil have been secretly dating for the past 15 years.
0:50.8	Yeah, I mean, I think we, we know the answer, but let me just give Dan and Phil some of that publicity they obviously need.
0:57.7	Right.
0:57.9	I mean, look, we're talking about Dan Howell, Phil Lester.
1:00.5	These are two YouTubers who were kind of in the Brit crew, but like tangential to it, right?
1:05.9	Like they would always hang out with Zoella and Alfie.
1:09.7	Now, the lore is that they thought they were just roommates, okay?
1:14.3	And they were giving, we're just friends.
1:16.8	But obviously people didn't think that.
1:19.4	And then they come out with this video, vindicating the people, saying,
1:24.7	ha ha, we're in love.
1:26.8	Now, the first question I asked Kate, though, was like, hold on a second.
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