ICYMI - The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 26 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.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been meeting to talk about this for a while, and I'm finally ready to talk about it, so here's what it's like working for the Disney Channel. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi, I'm Madison Malin Kircher. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I'm I'm in case you missed it. |
| 0:19.5 | 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? I'm sorry, is this that one poem that ends up on Instagram all the |
| 0:32.4 | time where it's too past on a yellow wood or some shit? That one poem. Do you mean Robert Frost? |
| 0:38.9 | I was gonna, I knew his first name was Robert, but I couldn't get the last name. |
| 0:43.6 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:44.4 | I am thinking about two roads that have diverged in yellow wood, and I took the one less traveled, |
| 0:48.5 | and that has made all the difference. |
| 0:50.4 | There we go. |
| 0:55.7 | Today I'm thinking about how different my life would have been if I had starred in the Princess Diaries. |
| 0:59.7 | Was that an option presented to you? |
| 1:01.7 | Am I missing some deep lore? |
| 1:04.9 | No. |
| 1:05.8 | But that's basically the argument made by one former Disney Channel legend, Christy Carlson Romano, in a now viral |
| 1:12.7 | YouTube video that I have watched like 15 times. |
| 1:15.8 | Sometimes people are like, Christy Romano, Anne Hathaway. |
| 1:19.3 | They're the same person. |
| 1:21.0 | I can assure you that we are not. |
| 1:22.8 | Isn't the kind of crux of that video? |
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