ICYMI - The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim talks to Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts), a Bay Area librarian by day and beloved TikTok creator by night. In December 2023, Threets was the target of a negative tweet that called his TikToks weird. But in a shocking twist, the internet ran to Threet’s defense, praising his work and platform as a librarian. Threets joins the conversation to talk about his reaction to that moment, his new rules for navigating the comment section and his surprisingly millennial-core music taste.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lib, and you're listening to Icy Y-M-I, in case you missed it, |
| 0:18.4 | Sleyts Podcast about Internet Culture. |
| 0:21.2 | And wow, the Oscar nominations came out this week and Charles Milton Hive |
| 0:26.3 | let me talk to you okay the campaign unfortunately has ended our boy was |
| 0:31.3 | snub and we will be having a Zoom meeting later today but let us find solace |
| 0:36.4 | because look no acting knoms for his peers Leonardo DiCaprio and Marco Robbie instead Becky G. Song from the movie Flamin Hot |
| 0:46.1 | is nominated for Best Original Song and I should have known that the Academy |
| 0:52.3 | will always choose Diane Warren over Dua Leipa. |
| 0:56.9 | So on today's show, I am talking to a Tik-Toc creator who has kind of had this like amazing heroes arc over the past few weeks. |
| 1:06.7 | And it all started on December 29th when Michael Threats, a librarian in the Bay Area, |
| 1:12.2 | posted this, |
| 1:13.2 | Tic-Tock. |
| 1:14.4 | You have your library card tattooed on you, right? |
| 1:17.2 | No? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, you must at least have a library card, yes? |
| 1:20.6 | Still, no? |
| 1:21.6 | What? You know what? That's okay, because that just means you probably don't know that having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card. |
| 1:29.0 | This is Michael giving his viewers a pretty good PSA about what you can do with a library card. |
| 1:34.3 | He even calls himself a book pusher and a library card pusher and I love this. |
| 1:40.3 | Others however were not as charmed. |
| 1:43.1 | Because that same day, someone took Michael's Tik-Tock |
| 1:46.5 | and posted it on Twitter, where they wrote the caption, |
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