Unfortunately, no cap. She's literally dead right now.

So she's laughing?

That's good news.

No, I mean she's literally dead. Like, dead, dead.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.

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Slate's podcast about internet culture.

Rachel, this past weekend was perhaps one of the most delightful and also terrible days to be on social media.

You know what I'm talking about?

Of course I do.

Every year, Mother's Day, where I find out how many of my friends have hot moms and how many of them

are willing to post a photo where clearly the mental calculus was, I look good in this photo.

Does my mom, I don't really care.

Brief pause to say, hello, moms of I see, Y, am I?

We love you lots.

We love you.

We're so glad you listen to this podcast to

keep up with your children. It is a notoriously a rough day on the internet. For a lot of people,

I think, if you don't have a great relationship with your mother or a relationship at all or trying to be

there's just, you know. Every year I kind of just try to hype up my friends who don't necessarily have the best relationship with their moms.

Because the thing is, I feel like daddy issues are kind of overplayed. Mommy issues, like hot, nuanced, complicated.

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