ICYMI - The TikTokification of Sports
ICYMI
Slate Podcasts
3.9 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are not the world’s biggest sports fans, but are now more tuned in than ever thanks to TikTok. In today’s episode, the pair talk about how everything from fancams to fashion is giving audiences new entry points to a typically masculine space. But what happens when trends start to outway tackles? When followers start coming before free throws?
This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candice Lem. |
| 0:15.7 | And I'm Kate Lindsay. |
| 0:16.9 | And you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.8 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:20.4 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.5 | And Kate, are you doing anything for the Super Bowl? |
| 0:26.6 | Super Bowl? |
| 0:27.3 | Superv Owl? |
| 0:28.4 | I have plans for neither. |
| 0:30.2 | It's kind of a sore subject in my house because my husband is a Bills fan. |
| 0:35.4 | So sorry to him. |
| 0:36.7 | I know. |
| 0:37.4 | And the Bills, they were almost, it was so close to Super Bowl this year, but then they |
| 0:41.1 | lost to the Chiefs. And his conspiracy theory is that the NFL rigged it for the Chiefs |
| 0:46.4 | because if the Chiefs go to the Super Bowl, which they are, so does. |
| 0:50.4 | Taylor Swift. |
| 0:52.2 | Exactly. And that probably means more views. But what about you? I guess I'm joining you guys. I keep making plans for Sunday. And my friends will be like, but Candace, the bull. And I'm like, what bull? And they're like the super bowl. And I'm like, wow, I'm so sorry, guys. I have other things to think about. Like, oh, I don't know. Luca Donchurch getting traded to my hometown team, The Lakers. |
| 1:18.8 | So I, one, saw that too, but two, it is crazy that this conversation about sports has gone on for as long as it has because I don't watch sports at all. |
| 1:21.7 | It's like I feel like a fraud even participating, but everything I told you just now, |
| 1:26.7 | you know, about the bills, |
| 1:28.0 | about knowing about the trade is because of social media. Oh, yeah. Like, I don't know why, |
| 1:32.8 | but why am I getting notice, you know, graphic, breaking from Shams to Rania. I always get those. |
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