Did One Direction Create the Internet?
Slate Books
Slate Podcasts
3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 27 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.
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| 0:00.0 | So do you think like we're still going to be met? |
| 0:07.1 | I think so, yeah. |
| 0:07.9 | I think so. |
| 0:09.5 | You want my email now? |
| 0:10.4 | I'll stay at you later. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I feel I'm not. |
| 0:18.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.5 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:21.7 | And today in internet culture, Rachel, someone is pretending to be me on Instagram. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:30.0 | I have to say, I think this is a compliment, but please tell me what's going on. |
| 0:33.4 | I made it. |
| 0:34.3 | I finally arrived. |
| 0:35.8 | So it all begins when I get a DM from a person who does not follow me. |
| 0:40.3 | So suspect, but he appears to be a good actor and says, hey, this account is using all of your photos to impersonate you. |
| 0:49.5 | Hopefully your friends can report it and get it taken down. |
| 0:52.4 | Being impersonated isn't fun. Have a great day. |
| 0:58.7 | I want to know more about this random person who isn't following you who found out that this random Instagram account was impersonating you. |
| 1:08.1 | Like who is he? |
| 1:09.1 | Does you just go around alerting people? |
| 1:11.1 | Is he just some like Cape Crusader of impersonating Instagram accounts? |
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