ICYMI: The Spon-Con Video That Accidentally Captures the State of Tech

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🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was rebranding to become Meta, shifting the company’s focus away from the single social media platform to some sort of amorphous, “embodied internet” concept. Khabane Lame, TikTok’s second biggest star right now, got tapped to do some spon-con for the rebrand, appearing in a video alongside Zuckerberg on Instagram. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison discuss who Lame’s rise to TikTok fame, why Facebook grabbed him for their publicity campaign, and how this might all just be a distraction from some rather unsavory news inside the Facebook Papers. If you would like to learn more about the Facebook Papers, check out: ”The Nationalism of Facebook,” by Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate The What Next TBD episode, “Will the Facebook Whistleblower Make a Difference?” The What Next episode, “How Long Can Mark Zuckerberg Be King?” 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	Why are you listening to his podcast when there are puddles to be jumped in?
0:04.8	Come on, let's get outside and take on autumn.
0:09.4	All we need is a pair of wales in a pot of patty for loo.
0:13.9	It's made with calcium and put them in D for immune support.
0:18.4	My mum says healthy mischief needs healthy bones and she knows best most of the time.
0:27.3	Take on autumn with patty for loo.
0:35.5	Today we're going to talk about the metaverse.
0:38.8	I want to share what we imagine is possible.
0:43.3	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:46.1	You're listening to ICYMI, Inc. and Mr. Slates Podcast about internet culture.
0:51.5	How are you feeling over there?
0:53.0	I have felt better. I'm like the larger formal complaint.
0:56.2	If I may, with me, with God.
1:00.2	No, yeah, evolution.
1:02.7	Okay, Darwin, I guess it's complete bullshit to me that we put a man on the moon.
1:09.1	But you're telling me that my body is up two degrees.
1:12.7	Your internal temperature goes up two degrees and suddenly I feel like I want to just collapse
1:16.5	into a heap and die.
1:17.9	Well, I have two things to that, which is, did we put a man on the moon and be homeostasis?
1:28.3	Is the only thing I remember from middle school biology.
1:31.1	So, yeah, it does make sense to me that two degrees difference throws everything out of whack.
1:35.8	Come on, you remember at least one more thing from biology.
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