Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today, on the show, we are joined by none other than Matt Bernstein.

Welcome, Matt.

Thank you so much for having me.

We are huge fans of Matt on this show.

You might know him from his political and cultural commentary on Instagram.

He has, and I do not say this to everyone, iconic Instagram infographics.

I know exactly who made them when I see it being shared on Ariana Grande's Instagram story.

Oh, God.

You might also know him from his podcast, a bit fruity,

but it was a recent post of his on Instagram that actually inspired today's episode.

But before we get into that,

I must ask him the question that we ask all first-time guests.

What is your earliest internet memory? My earliest internet memory, I think, is playing like online internet games on cartoonnetwork.com.

Cartoon Network.

Because I, like, that's how old I was. I was a kid. We didn't have Disney in my house, so Disney, like, it just wasn't in our cable package, but we had Nickelodeon and we had cartoon network. And then I realized by going on to our family's desktop computer that was in

the corner of my parents' room, that those TV channels had websites. On the websites, you could

play, like, games and, like, immerse yourself in the world of the cartoons you were watching.

So that was

my earliest memory a lot of game addicting games.com as well i was going to say like i feel like this is a

genre of answers we get which is like a game website but i feel like the website you were on to play

games says a lot about you uh because you said Cartoon Network, right?

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