ICYMI: The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As a child, Christy Carlson Romano starred in Disney Channel’s Even Stevens and voiced the character Kim Possible on the eponymous cartoon. Then she faded from the spotlight—until recently, when she reemerged as a chaotic YouTube genius. On this episode of ICYMI, Rachelle and Madison talk to Vanity Fair’s Chris Murphy about his recent profile of Romano and unpack why her candid, low-lift YouTube videos actually have quite the keen understanding of what drives clicks. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Support ICYMI and listen to the show with zero ads. Sign up to become a Slate Plus member for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm a media talk about this for a while and I'm finally ready to talk about it so here's
0:09.0	what it's like working for the Disney Channel.
0:12.0	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher and I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to ICY Mine.
0:18.4	In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:21.8	Rachel, do you ever think about a path you didn't take in life, how one decision can just
0:27.4	change your future forever?
0:28.9	I'm sorry, it's just that one poem that ends up on Instagram all the time where it's
0:33.3	to pass on a yellow wood or some shit.
0:36.1	What one poem?
0:37.1	Do you mean Robert Frost?
0:38.9	I knew his first name was Robert but I couldn't get the last name.
0:43.5	Yes, yes.
0:44.5	I am thinking about two roads that have diverged in yellow wood and I took the one less
0:48.1	traveled and that has made all the difference.
0:50.1	There we go.
0:51.1	Today, I'm thinking about how different my life would have been if I had started the
0:58.4	Princess Diaries.
0:59.4	Was that an option presented to you?
1:01.7	Am I missing some deep lore?
1:04.1	No, but that's basically argument made by one former Disney Channel legend, Kristi Carson
1:11.1	Romano, in a now viral YouTube video that I have watched like 15 times.
1:15.9	Sometimes people are like, Kristi Romano and Hathaway, they're the same person.
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