ICYMI: Encore: Is BYU Virginity Club Real? An ICYMI Investigation.

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🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Instagram has seen a recent influx of college “virginity club” accounts featuring sharp, funny memes about remaining chaste. On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle put these accounts under the microscope. Is anything about these accounts real, or are they just a grift for merchandise and music promotion? After some internet sleuthing, they track down the creator of the most popular account, for “Brigham Young Virginity Club,” and put him on the spot. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. This episode originally aired on July 21, 2021. Subscribe to Slate Plus at slate.com/icymiplus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMIMI in case you missed it, Slate's
0:48.4	podcast about internet culture. I hope y'all are getting ready to enjoy Labor Day. The ICYMI
0:53.9	team is still in the midst of our two-week break.
0:57.7	We're planning some really exciting step for y'all down the road,
1:00.9	and of course, still seeking a replacement for Madison Malone Kircher.
1:05.3	While we're busy doing that, we wanted to share some of my mine Madison's favorite episodes.
1:21.9	Today, we're returning to a subject that somehow became one of our standards on the show.
1:27.4	That's right, we're talking all about Mormons. More specifically, we're talking about the BYU Virginity Club, which is a viral
1:29.9	Instagram account that to this day still claims to be a club encouraging abstinence on
1:36.0	BYU's campus. But those posts didn't exactly strike us as the most genuine, so we got the
1:43.9	alleged head of the club on the phone to tell us what's up.
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