ICYMI - The Day AO3 Went Down
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🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice meet in person for the first time! They recap the July 10 attack on fanfiction site AO3 — Archive of Our Own — which caused a site outage and a state of panic for many writers, readers and their fandoms. The site was created in 2008 as an online fanfiction archive that soon became a safe haven for women and the queer community. So what happens when that safe haven is threatened by malicious hackers?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lim. |
| 0:14.5 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:17.7 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.3 | Slates podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | And today is a big day for the ICYMI universe. |
| 0:27.7 | The ICYMI cinematic universe, the ICU, is finally meeting for the first time today |
| 0:35.4 | in person. |
| 0:36.4 | In person! |
| 0:37.4 | Oh my god, yeah, we are both here holding hands in the studio. |
| 0:43.0 | ICYMI producer Sierra is here, Daisy is here, it's a summit of the minds. |
| 0:54.4 | And I have to say, one of the biggest controversies surrounding working from home, I think, is |
| 1:01.8 | the reveal. |
| 1:03.2 | The reveal? |
| 1:04.2 | The reveal about your co-workers height, because I need to say it like this whole time, Rachel, |
| 1:11.1 | I thought you were like five nine. |
| 1:14.7 | You're not the first to say that as a thing. |
| 1:17.2 | I give tall girl energy. |
| 1:19.1 | I have the vibe of someone who is much taller than they are. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm five four. |
| 1:25.1 | It's a crime to me personally, that I am not the height that I am in my head. |
| 1:29.6 | It's funny because I'm also around five four, but we met and then we hugged, and I still |
| 1:35.0 | was like, you seem five nine, like you said, it's that tall person energy. |
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