ICYMI - The Price of Fan Fiction
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle answer a couple of listener questions in a new segment we’re calling Read Receipts. First, they explore the origins of the “this shit bussin’—sheesh” meme that’s all over TikTok and why teens are getting their parents to do it. Then Rachelle digs into the drama currently embroiling the fan-fiction website Archive of Our Own, explaining whether the nonprofit’s latest fundraising drive is a scam (it’s not), and why the site both is and isn’t a safe haven for marginalized fans. If you'd like to read more about Sexy Times With Wangxian you can do that here.
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| 0:00.0 | My tastes are very singular. |
| 0:05.0 | You wouldn't understand. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:19.0 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.4 | How are you doing today, Madison? |
| 0:23.8 | Honestly, I'm doing better than T-Pain. |
| 0:26.6 | Oh, God. |
| 0:27.7 | I think we all are. |
| 0:30.0 | That's true. |
| 0:31.2 | But specifically, I'm doing better than T-Pain because I have not been ignoring DMs, |
| 0:36.8 | direct messages from other celebrities for like years. |
| 0:40.2 | Just the tragedy of the weekend. |
| 0:42.5 | T. Payne posted this video last week that he discovered that he just had been ignoring messages from like very famous people. |
| 0:53.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | I was today years old when I found out about the request folder on Instagram. |
| 1:01.0 | That's full of celebs trying to reach me. |
| 1:05.0 | Dude, is that Fergie? |
| 1:08.0 | SMH. |
| 1:09.0 | In the video, it's T. Payne's DMs just scrolling, name after name after name, Diplo, Fergie. |
| 1:18.4 | Viola Davis? |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah. |
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