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ICYMI: The TikTokkers Taking Down the Troubled Teen Industry

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The “troubled teen” industry, which refers to a network of private wilderness youth programs, therapeutic boarding schools, and residential treatment centers has recently come under scrutiny thanks to TikTok. Survivors of this industry have taken to the app to post stories of their traumatic experiences. On today’s show, Madison and Rachelle talk to Kendee and Daniel, two TikTokkers who’ve become voices of the “troubled teen” industry survivor movement. They take us through what they refer to as “legal kidnapping”, the harsh conditions and manual labor they were subjected to, what life’s been like since they got out, and how TikTok has helped them heal. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.4

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0:30.4

Please, I can't go back to these places, give you no idea. There was no convincing them,

0:35.4

no matter what I said, so I just didn't trust them. They may not trust anyone, not even my own family.

0:42.4

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. And I'm Madison Malone-Curture. You're listening to ICYMI.

0:49.4

Slates podcast about internet culture. And today we're giving you a eulogy. Time to play a

0:54.4

dirge. And you know where you can play it? Not on the iPod, cause it's dead!

1:00.4

Alright, pod. Oh my god. Unto's day. Apple announced that it would officially, after so many years,

1:10.4

discontinue the iPod touch, which is the final iPod model to be sold. Meaning, officially,

1:16.4

other than resales, iPod is officially dead.

1:25.4

For the low low price of $199 while supplies last, you can purchase that one final iPod.

1:31.4

Honestly, I still remember and I feel like I'm dating myself. I still remember around like the year

1:38.4

that iPod's got external speakers for the first time when you could play music out loud

1:43.4

without headphones and how revolutionary that felt.

1:47.4

My first friend to get an iPod had the U21, which had the signatures of the band inscribed

1:53.4

on the back of the case. Oh my god. I just remember wanting one so badly in middle school

1:59.4

and my parents being like, absolutely not. Those cost of $1,000,000.

2:04.4

And for Valentine's Day, my family always did this cute thing where we would draw names

2:09.4

each make of Valentine for whoever you got. And so that year, my sister made me an iPod out of Styrofoam

2:14.4

but did the like really brutal thing where she tracked down an Apple box.

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