ICYMI - The Trial That Ruined TikTok
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 27 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.
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| 0:00.0 | In a minute, I'm gonna need my handsome boyfriend to come over and wife me up, feeling fussy, living without a hubby, hubby. |
| 0:10.4 | So come on, babe. Let's get this done. |
| 0:13.8 | Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. |
| 0:15.9 | And I'm Moises Mendes II. |
| 0:18.2 | Sitting in for Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:19.7 | You're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. Hello, I-C-Y-M-I guys, and please give Moises the warmest welcome. I am absolutely thrilled that he is here to host the show with me today. Moises is a very talented freelance internet culture journalist whose stories often make me jealous that I haven't written them, |
| 0:38.9 | which I think is possibly the highest form of praise in this business. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm very excited to be here. I listen to this podcast every single week, |
| 0:48.1 | and my roommates are very familiar with both you and Rachel's voice. |
| 0:55.1 | So, Moises, today we're going to be talking all things for You page. |
| 0:59.4 | What is dominating the for literally you page right now? |
| 1:04.3 | Oh, you know, the usual suspects, servers at the Stardust Diner, living out their |
| 1:08.8 | Broadway dreams, which I don't know if you've seen, which I'm obsessed with. |
| 1:12.6 | Is that, that's the, like, kind of touristy restaurant in Times Square where all the waiters also, like, secretly could have Broadway careers and they belt songs in between, like, passing you a cheeseburger. |
| 1:21.6 | So, yeah, see you know. Literally, and I love it so you've ever seen glee. |
| 1:33.0 | Literally. |
| 1:37.8 | And I love it so much because it also made like a cameo on Glee. |
| 1:39.3 | I don't know if you've ever seen Glee. |
| 1:42.5 | That hurt. That hurt. |
| 1:43.6 | All right. |
| 1:43.8 | What else? |
| 1:44.6 | We're going to have to a great start. |
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