ICYMI - Encore: Jubilee Is Making Debating Worse
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On today’s encore episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, Jubilee. A video of political commentator Mehdi Hasan debating 20 far-right republicans has gone viral, but as Ismail argues in his piece for Slate, it also crossed a line. When political disagreement becomes content and extremism is rewarded with clicks, everybody loses.
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| 0:26.7 | Shopify.com.ukau.ukes slash Spotify. Hey, I'm Candice Lem. |
| 0:45.1 | And I'm Kate Lindsay. |
| 0:46.4 | And you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:48.4 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:50.0 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:53.0 | And Candice, I don't think you nor I are marked safe from the plague that is Jubilee. |
| 1:00.0 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 1:01.4 | No, I mean, they are at every other TikTok on my For You page. |
| 1:06.4 | When I was on Twitter, the videos were being shared around. |
| 1:10.7 | It is like, it is the new, the new upworthy, the new dodo, the new monoculture internet, |
| 1:18.6 | rage bait. |
| 1:19.6 | It's everywhere. |
| 1:24.6 | But these past few weeks, Jubilee has been going viral, like crazy viral, even by Jubilee |
| 1:30.7 | standards for a video that they posted on July 20th. |
| 1:34.4 | And that video is titled, One Progressive versus 20 Far Right Conservatives, in parentheses, |
| 1:41.5 | featuring Medi Hassan. |
| 1:43.0 | That video has had 10 million views in two weeks. |
| 1:46.5 | And like for context, they have videos in their most popular that have been up for months that have about the same amount. |
| 1:51.7 | And so it's popping off. |
| 1:54.1 | And not only is the video crazy, but sort of the ripple effect it's had is also wild. |
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