ICYMI - Halloween Used to Be Fun Online
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Jonquilyn Hill, host of Vox’s Explain It To Me podcast. The pair chat about how the internet used to celebrate Halloween, from spooky Twitter display names to Snapchat filters, and why no one wants to be earnest online anymore. However, today’s internet is still filled with plenty of scary stuff, with r/nosleep still going strong, ghost sightings going viral on TikTok, and LinkedIn. That’s it. Just LinkedIn.
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| 0:00.0 | Ever wondered what power is. |
| 0:02.0 | Power is transforming the sun into your own energy source. |
| 0:06.0 | Power is getting energy companies to pay you. |
| 0:10.0 | Power is enjoying your morning coffee, knowing you created the energy to make it. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, you and the colossal ball of fire in the sky. |
| 0:19.0 | Because with solar panels from Hive, the sun works for you. Hive, know your power. May not cover all electricity usage roof and weather dependent. Paid for surplus requires eligible SEC tariff. I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's |
| 0:49.4 | podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:51.9 | And with me for today's episode is Jonclan Hill, host of Vox's Explain |
| 0:55.6 | It to Me podcast. Hello, JQ. Hello. I am so happy to be here. Gosh, and we are going to get |
| 1:02.3 | spooky today. I hope you're ready to get spooky. I love to get spooky. But first, the great thing about spooky season is that you can palette cleanse with fall fun activities. |
| 1:20.7 | They are happening at the same time. |
| 1:22.4 | And so for this weekend, I went all the way to Virginia because also my parents are. |
| 1:27.0 | I live in Brooklyn because they have a stoop that I can decorate with pumpkins. |
| 1:31.3 | And I've now done it two years in a row. |
| 1:33.6 | And so I went there. |
| 1:34.4 | I decorated the stoop with pumpkins. |
| 1:36.7 | I went to the Froyo place that they have because it's like still 2014 there. |
| 1:42.4 | And I put candy corn on my fro yo like I had a very |
| 1:45.4 | wholesome festive weekend but I saw that you jQ you were at Howard homecoming how was that oh yeah |
| 1:52.3 | it was great and can I also say I respect you because you partake in candy corn and I do too and I think |
| 1:58.6 | okay yes we are so disrespected in this world but candy corn is |
| 2:02.3 | tasty as a community yes I mean listen I will say that in the instances of this fro you I didn't |
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