Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it is there?

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Delicious.

Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I or in case you missed it Slate's podcast about internet culture and we are here with Carmen Vicente.

Carmen is a social media manager who also makes videos on TikTok analyzing and predicting the future of social media and how we interact with it.

Welcome Carmen. We've met before. We yapped for so long that I was like, we need to take this to a professional yapping place.

Yeah, I'm really happy and honored to be yapping with you today.

Yeah. Yeah, so we brought you on to talk actually about a specific video that you posted, which kind of touched on some conversations we had been having as a team.

But first, we have to ask you the inaugural question that we ask all first time guests, which is what was your first internet memory? Yeah, that's interesting. I, my dad is a teacher. He was a teacher. And I remember

teachers, like I'm from Vancouver and I don't know, teachers in Vancouver got access to

some kind of early internet product.

And I remember that he brought home, he would bring home like his Mac computer, like the whole thing every weekend for us to use.

Wait, like the whole thing. The whole thing. I can remember this all throughout my childhood. Yeah, the whole thing. And we'd put it on a desk and mostly we used it to play Tetris. But I remember he was like, he was like, this is the internet. And I, there was a browser. I don't remember what browser. And I remember the very first thing that I typed in was shoes.

That was the whole thing. This would have been pre-oh-my-God shoes on YouTube, right? Oh, like I was like... That like initial viral video. Like, I'm born in 1987 and this, I was in elementary school. So like, I don't even think that there was like, internet shopping wasn't even a thing. Yeah. I don't think YouTube wasn't invented. Like I was just like, hmm, what does the world hold for me? What, do you know what it showed you? Like at that point, it was probably just like the definition of the word shoe. No, it was, yeah, I was like literally like, do you want to know what a shoe is? No, I don't remember anything more. I just remember thinking like, of all the limitless possibilities out there, I chose to type shoes. So maybe that tells you. No, it's, I, that's a funny. I almost feel like that's like a necessary follow-up question because I feel like often people will come on with some sort of similar thing. And their first search is always so interesting like it's usually like basketball

shoe like truly like it's the most the smallest smallest thing um and it kind of reminds me of the

joke about how like the first thing we all did when we got like Google Earth was just find our own

house like we there's some things, we're actually very simple creatures.

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