ICYMI: Did One Direction Create the Internet?

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the 2010s, the One Direction fandom was inescapable online. On today’s show, Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany is here to discuss her new book all about that subject, Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It. Rachelle and Madison talk to Kaitlyn about why she chose One Direction, how fan theories get out of hand, and why neither she nor Rachelle would ever want to meet Harry Styles. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Madison Malone Kircher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On WhatsApp, your personal messages stay private, between you and whoever you sent them to.
0:05.8	So, things like your passport number for your honeymoon stay between you and your fiancé.
0:10.3	And those hour-long calls with mum stay between the two of you.
0:13.9	Even your streaming service password stays between you and your flatmates, who still ask for it every week in your group chat.
0:24.6	Because on WhatsApp, your personal messages are yours. No one else can see or hear them. Not even us.
0:27.6	WhatsApp. Message privately.
0:33.6	So do you think like we're still going to be met?
0:36.6	I think so, yeah. I think so, yeah.
0:37.9	I think so, yeah.
0:38.8	You want my email now?
0:40.4	I'll still be a later.
0:43.2	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:45.0	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I feel I'm not.
0:48.0	In case you missed it.
0:49.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:51.7	And today in internet culture, Rachel, someone is pretending to be me on Instagram.
0:57.0	Oh my god.
1:00.0	I have to say, I think this is a compliment, but please tell me what's going on.
1:03.0	I made it. I finally arrived.
1:06.0	So it all begins when I get a DM from a person who does not follow me, so suspect, but he appears to be a good
1:13.4	actor and says, hey, this account is using all of your photos to impersonate you. Hopefully,
1:20.1	your friends can report it and get it taken down. Being impersonated isn't fun. Have a great day.
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