ICYMI: The Trial That Ruined TikTok

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🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

While TikTok’s “For You” page is designed to get inside users’ heads—and only show them videos about their niche interests—certain trends and sounds on the app can become too big to avoid. On this week’s episode, Madison and guest host Moises Mendes II break down the disturbing ubiquity of TikToks making fun of the Depp v. Heard defamation trial. Then, they offer insight into the app’s newest dance craze and our strongest contender for 2022 song of the summer, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time.” Finally, they trace the origins of TikTok’s strangest earworm, the “Jiggle Jiggle” rap. Podcast production by Madeline Ducharme 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	Try to get across that slice it just wider the post.
0:05.0	Have they done enough?
0:07.0	Can they pull it out the back?
0:09.0	Does the ref have a clue?
0:11.0	When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle!
0:16.0	There's no feeling like live TV.
0:19.0	However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels
0:25.0	and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence.
0:31.0	In a minute, I'm gonna need my handsome boyfriend
0:35.0	to come over and wipe me up.
0:37.0	Feeling fussy, living without a hubby hubby.
0:40.0	So come on babe, let's get this done.
0:43.0	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:45.0	And I'm Moises Mendez II, sitting in for Rachel Hampton.
0:49.0	You're listening to ICYMI.
0:51.0	In case you missed it.
0:52.0	Slates podcast about internet culture.
0:54.0	Hello ICYMI guys, and please give Moises the warmest welcome.
0:58.0	I am absolutely thrilled that he is here to host the show with me today.
1:02.0	Moises is a very talented freelance internet culture journalist
1:06.0	whose stories often make me jealous that I haven't written them.
1:09.0	Which I think is possibly the highest form of praise in this business.
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