ICYMI: Rebecca Jennings on NYT Connections and Selling Out

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On today’s Internet Diary, Rachelle is joined by Rebecca Jennings, Vox’s senior correspondent covering social platforms and the creator economy. The two discuss Jennings’ recent pieces on why everyone loves NYT Connections and how self-promotion became the internet’s lingua franca. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. 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. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I-C-Y-I-M-I.
0:46.5	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.0	And today we have a super special guest in the studio, Rebecca Jennings,
0:55.0	a senior correspondent at Vox covering the internet, fame and money,
0:59.0	aka one of my favorite writers in the internet culture space.
1:07.0	If you care at all about the internet and you're not reading Rebecca, I don't know what you're doing.
1:16.4	Rebecca, welcome back to the show.
1:18.7	Thank you so much for having me again.
1:21.4	I'm so excited you're here.
1:23.4	Like, you're pretty consistently one of the people whose coverage I use to kind of figure out how I feel about things.
1:29.2	Like, I find you to be a very clarifying writer.
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