ICYMI - How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 54 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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| 0:59.2 | Slates podcast about internet culture and this week we've got something super fun |
| 1:04.5 | cooked up for y'all today we've got Mike Rugnetta in the studio with us. Mike is |
| 1:10.3 | an audio extraordinary he created the Sound Studies Podcast with reasonably sound. |
| 1:15.9 | He's consulted, produced, and executive produced, |
| 1:18.3 | on a number of podcasts, including the Longreads Podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | And he's the co-host of Never Post, an incredible new podcast about the internet |
| 1:26.1 | that launched this year. We are collaborating with Mike and the Never Post team to bring you |
| 1:30.6 | this week's episodes. But before we get into the magic we have made together, |
| 1:36.4 | let's welcome Mike to the show. Mike, hello! Hello! It's very, very nice to be here. |
| 1:43.8 | Oh, we're so excited to have you here, Mike, and we do have to ask you the question we ask |
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