ICYMI - Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…or Do They?
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle gets into the world of cooking videos. She speaks with Eater’s Bettina Makalintal about how online food content has changed over the years, taking something that we all do for ourselves and turning into a consumable performance. They discuss how this has changed our own approach to food offline and online, the expectations these videos engender in their viewers, and why everything is content.
This podcast is produced by Daniel Schroeder, Rachelle Hampton, and Daisy Rosario.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to start by making a cut in the middle of our chicken breast, and then we're going to fill it with some tin foil. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:16.7 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:20.6 | And this week is a momentous one. |
| 0:23.4 | No, I am not talking about the queen, finally kicking the bucket. |
| 0:27.5 | Today, I see why am I. |
| 0:29.9 | It's finally getting its long-deserved recognition |
| 0:32.9 | on an international stage in none other than the dictionary. |
| 0:38.4 | On Wednesday, Miriam Webster announced that it was inducting more than 350 new words and terms |
| 0:44.2 | into its hallowed halls of lexiconical names. |
| 0:52.5 | Including yeat, great choice, pumpkin spice, meh, |
| 0:58.0 | McGiver, and Luke spelled L-E-W-K, pronounced Luke, not look. |
| 1:05.3 | But the thing is, I don't give a shit about any of these, because the most important addition is I C Y M motherfucking I. Some of you might be |
| 1:16.3 | sitting at home thinking, Rachel, that's just an abbreviation. You named your show after an |
| 1:21.3 | abbreviation and they're adding to the dictionary. And to you, I would say, quit being a |
| 1:25.7 | motherfucking hater. You're just trying to keep a bad bitch down because I know deep in my soul that when you look up, I see why I'm in the dictionary now, you'll see a little cartoon head of my face. |
| 1:37.1 | And that is powerful. |
| 1:39.7 | Mama, I made it. |
| 1:43.1 | On today's show, we are going to be talking about food, specifically the wild and constantly |
| 1:49.0 | changing world of the internet food content economy, despite how much I love food and I love |
| 1:55.2 | food to the point that I will not eat if the food is not good. |
| 1:59.1 | We actually don't discuss it that often here on the show unless |
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