ICYMI - Moo Deng Is The New Grumpy Cat
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Candice Lim is joined by WUNC’s Anisa Khalifa (The Broadside) and Dr. Jess Maddox (The Internet Is for Cats) to discuss the biggest animal phenomenon of the year: Moo Deng. For the past few months, our timelines have been flooded with memes of a pygmy hippo in Thailand whose TikTok fame has created international fame, a 24/7 livestream, and increased visitor numbers for her zoo. But what does the internet’s fascination with Moo Deng say about the fate of viral animal celebrities and the sociological consequences of animal fame?
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| 0:26.2 | Pees and sees apply. Hey, I'm Candice Lim, and you're listening to Icy Why Am I, in case you missed it, |
| 0:48.0 | Slates Podcasts about Internet Culture. |
| 0:50.6 | And joining me on the show today is a podcast producer and the host of the broadside at W-U-N-C. |
| 0:56.6 | It's a weekly show featuring stories from North Carolina. |
| 0:59.5 | She also makes indie podcasts drama over flowers and Muslim in Plain Sight. |
| 1:03.7 | It's Anisa Kalifa. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, Anisa. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey Candas, so excited to be back. |
| 1:08.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:10.0 | Of course. |
| 1:11.2 | Also joining us, for the very first time is Dr. Jess Maddox, a journalism and creative |
| 1:17.5 | media professor at the University of Alabama. She's also the author. |
| 1:21.6 | Of the Internet is for cats. |
| 1:23.0 | How Animal Images shape our digital lives. |
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