ICYMI - Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by ICYMI producer (and resident linguist) Alexandra Botti, who shares her experience attending the American Dialect Society’s words-of-the-year vote. Then, Candice and Kate break down 2024’s winners (the WOTYs), and predict what internet words we’ll be seeing in 2025.
This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:00.0 | What kind of weekend are you in the mood for? |
| 0:03.0 | Well, with Disney Plus, anything is possible. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether that be two days of twists and turns with only murders in the building, |
| 0:11.0 | drama and fine dining with The Bear, |
| 0:13.0 | or a journey back to feudal Japan with Shogun. |
| 0:17.0 | January weekends just got better with Disney Plus. |
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| 0:21.6 | 18 plus subscription required. |
| 0:23.6 | Learn more at Disneyplus.com. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey! Hey, I'm Candace Lim. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:45.9 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:47.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:49.6 | And I am so excited because joining us on the pod today is a name you've heard in the credits, the producer of this very show, and a wonderful person to be around. |
| 1:00.1 | It's Alexander Boetie. Hello, Alex. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello. What a joy to be on this side for a moment. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's also weird for me to have someone who is even less familiar with being on the show than I am. |
| 1:15.1 | So I'm kind of in this position of superiority right now. |
| 1:18.3 | But as it is your first time, we have to ask the question that is asked of all first time guests, which is, what is your first internet memory? |
| 1:26.6 | Okay, so the very first one is similar to a lot of |
| 1:29.5 | people's, I think, who are elder millennials like myself, which is sneaking in and trying to dial up to |
| 1:36.7 | AOL to see if I had mail in my new account. And of course, not ever being able to sneak because |
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