ICYMI - Encore: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or Exploit Her?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
While authorities searched for missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito, she was everywhere to be found on TikTok, Reddit, and Instagram. Content creators, some well-intentioned and others simply chasing clout and clicks, turned the story of Gabby’s apparent death into the latest in true crime drama. On today’s show, Madison and Rachelle talk about the murkiness of the true crime internet and the ethics of using tragedy for clicks. They’re joined later in the show by Haley Toumaian, a TikTok creator and novice true crime podcast host who says the rapid pace of the news genre means sometimes getting things wrong in front of an audience of millions and willfully sharing misinformation.*
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
This episode originally aired on September 22, 2021.
Subscribe to Slate Plus at slate.com/icymiplus
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:02.1 | I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Elisa. |
| 0:04.6 | Can I go over to Josie's house to play? |
| 0:06.4 | She met a new friend and puff. |
| 0:07.9 | She's gone. |
| 0:09.0 | An ordinary play date. |
| 0:10.5 | The missing child is Lucia Blix. |
| 0:12.4 | Nine years old. |
| 0:13.4 | Is about to become every parent's nightmare. |
| 0:16.3 | The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously. |
| 0:19.9 | She's hiding something, I know it. |
| 0:21.8 | The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:27.5 | 18 plus subscription required. |
| 0:29.0 | Teas and Cs apply. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMIMI. |
| 0:46.3 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:50.3 | And I hope you all are having an amazing week. |
| 0:53.3 | As we said on Wednesday, the ICY and my team is taking two whole weeks off to plan some bigger stuff down the road. |
| 0:59.8 | And to try and find a replacement for Madison Malone Kircher, it's a hard task. |
| 1:05.5 | So while we're doing that, we wanted to share some of my mine Madison's absolute favorite episodes. |
| 1:19.8 | Today we're bringing one of our more serious episodes. It's all about how true crime TikTok profiteered off the disappearance and eventual death of Gabby Petito, a woman traveling |
| 1:25.0 | across the country with her boyfriend in a van. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.