ICYMI - Meet the Internet’s Princess
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🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
For the third installment of Internet Diaries, Rachelle is joined by 21-year-old cultural critic and internet essayist Rayne Fisher-Quann, who has amassed a devoted following on TikTok, Substack, Instagram and Twitter. The two discuss Fisher-Quann’s online work around leftism, feminism, mental illness, along with her ethics of posting and how she resists brandification even as her star continues to rise.
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| 0:00.0 | Similarly out of nowhere people have started viewing me as some kind of like |
| 0:03.8 | generationally definitive writer which gives me the single worst case of |
| 0:08.1 | imposter syndrome I've ever had and also makes me feel like the luckiest person in |
| 0:11.9 | the whole world. Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to ICYMI. In case |
| 0:16.9 | you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture and it is a gorgeous |
| 0:21.2 | spring day here in the ICYMI verse. The sun is shining, the flowers, they're |
| 0:27.4 | blooming, the birds chirping and both the legrin, flones are making fortunes off |
| 0:33.1 | of me because I can't breathe through my nose right now. I love it! |
| 0:44.4 | Something else I love is today's episode which is an interview with one of my |
| 0:48.8 | favorite cultural critics and internet essayists. Her name is Rain Fisher |
| 0:53.6 | Kwan. For those of you all who are unfamiliar with her I just have to say that |
| 0:58.4 | you are in for a real treat. If you are familiar with her you're also in for a |
| 1:03.5 | real treat. I think the easiest way to introduce Rain is to go back to a |
| 1:09.1 | bleak point in our collective timeline. There are a lot but the one I'm |
| 1:14.8 | talking about is West Elm Caleb. We didn't episode on the West Elm Caleb story |
| 1:20.1 | back in January of 2022 but the short version of this story is multiple women |
| 1:26.2 | on TikTok came to realize through the power of the algorithm that they had all |
| 1:30.2 | dated the same man. A West Elm furniture designer named Caleb. A whole |
| 1:35.6 | litany of shitty dating behavior was attributed to him, love bombing, ghosting, |
| 1:41.5 | sleeping with multiple women in the same day. Fascinatingly enough the thing |
| 1:46.0 | that was the most egregious which was allegedly sending non-consensual |
| 1:50.7 | moods was the thing that was least talked about. But I'm not here to |
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