ICYMI - How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, ICYMI and the Never Post podcast are collaborating on two episodes surrounding 2024’s biggest internet monocultural moment: Kate Middleton’s disappearance. It’s been more than a month since Kate announced she’d started preventative chemotherapy treatments following a cancer diagnosis. Which means it’s also been just over a month since conspiracy theories about the princess ran rampant across the internet. As an increasingly algorithmic internet silos us further into our own little content niches, all-consuming events like Kate Middleton’s disappearance are fewer and far between. So what does it take, in 2024, to capture the internet’s attention and create these rare monocultural moments?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
This episode was made in collaboration with the Never Post team, which includes Hans Buetow, Mike Rugnetta, Jason Oberholtzer and Wil Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Elisa. |
| 0:04.6 | Can I go over to Josie's house to play? |
| 0:06.3 | She met a new friend and puff. |
| 0:07.8 | She's gone. |
| 0:08.9 | An ordinary play date. |
| 0:10.4 | The missing child is Lucia Blix nine years old. |
| 0:13.3 | Is about to become every parent's nightmare. |
| 0:16.3 | The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously. |
| 0:19.9 | She's hiding something on her way. |
| 0:21.8 | The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus. |
| 0:27.5 | 18 plus subscription required. |
| 0:29.0 | Teas and Cs apply. Hey, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:44.5 | And I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:47.6 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:49.0 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:51.1 | And this week, we've got something super fun cooked up for y'all. Today, we've got |
| 0:57.1 | Mike Rugneta in the studio with us. Mike is an audio extraordinaire. He created the sound studies |
| 1:03.1 | podcast reasonably sound. He's consulted, produced, and executive produced on a number of podcasts, |
| 1:09.5 | including the Long Reads podcast. And he's the co-host of NeverPost, an incredible new podcast about the internet that launched this year. |
| 1:17.4 | We are collaborating with Mike and the NeverPost team to bring you this week's episodes. |
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