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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Rachelle and Candice are joined by Slate staff writer Luke Winkie. The three go back in time to 2010 when a lucky few creators of Tumblr blogs like Hipster Puppies, This is Why You’re Fat and Garfield Minus Garfield were able to leverage their popularity into book deals. They discuss the blog to Urban Outfitters pipeline and the optimism that colored the memes created in that era, an optimism that starkly contrasts against the layered irony of today’s memes. And at the top of the show, Rachelle and Candice revive an age-old debate: Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:44.3	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:48.2	In case you missed it.
0:50.3	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:53.0	And Candace, I have an important question for you.
0:56.8	We're still in our getting to know each other phase,
0:59.4	so I'm just going to be peppering you with questions for the next foreseeable future.
1:03.6	And I think the question I'm about to ask you is maybe one of the most important I've asked so far.
1:21.2	So you mentioned in your introduction interview that you were a Twilight Girlie, specifically that you answered, Yahoo answers questions about why the Cullen family in Twilight plays
1:26.6	baseball during thunderstorms,
1:28.3	which means that I have to ask, are you team Edward or team Jacob?
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