ICYMI: How Kate Middleton’s Disappearance Redefined Monoculture

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 52 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. 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.
1:22.8	But before we get into the magic we have made together, let's welcome Mike to the show. Mike, hello.
1:29.6	Hello. It's very, very nice to be here. Oh, we're so excited to have you here, Mike. And we do have to ask you the question we ask all of our first time guess, which is, what's your first internet memory?
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