ICYMI: The Fashion Expert Twitter Loves to Hate

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Candice Lim is joined by Slate’s business and tech writer Nitish Pahwa, to discuss the internet history of Derek Guy, better known as @DieWorkwear on Twitter. Back in 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter, leading to major consequences for everyone’s timelines. One of those consequences was the unexpected boosting of Derek Guy, which led to his Twitter account reaching more than 1 million followers. Pahwa interviewed Guy back in 2023, and he returns to ICYMI to talk about Guy’s persona on the phone vs. online, and how the menswear pundit capitalized on becoming the Twitter guy we love to hate. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti and Kat Hong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.0	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:08.0	You'll get to know the difference.
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0:13.0	Until 9th of September, from 11 a.m.,
0:18.0	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:35.8	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:39.7	And I'm Natish Powah, and you're listening to I see YMI. In case you missed it.
0:41.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:44.0	And Natish, welcome back to the show.
0:46.4	The last time you were here was back in July when we talked about that bagu controversy,
0:52.4	where they like huge artificial intelligence to make a horse bag, remember that?
0:57.0	Oh man, I remember it well.
0:59.9	As a reminder, you know, I'm the business and tech writer, so obviously all I do is write and talk about fashion now.
1:09.4	And with that, I want to ask a question that I actually have never, ever asked you, or probably
1:14.6	any guest on this show. All right. Hit me. Natish. Today's episode is about Derek Guy, aka at
1:22.1	die workwear, who was probably one of the few people to benefit from Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter,
1:28.4	nowex.com, back in 2022. We're going to talk about who Derek Guy is and why he became the forefront
1:34.5	of menswear criticism online, but I actually wanted to ask about you and your relationship to
1:41.4	menswear, starting with who is in your Bermuda shorts triangle?
1:47.8	Let me explain.
1:49.6	I have this theory.
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