Is it necessary that every single person expresses every single opinion on every

single thing that occurs all at the same time?

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kerture and I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to

ICYMI. In case you missed it, Slade's podcast about internet culture. Where we start

today. We are starting some place that we rarely start, which is outside, specifically

in the grass, specifically grass that we should be touching. My allergy is they've already

flared. Yeah, just spray some thones and let's get going. We had a question from listener

Nat on Sunday night asking why touch some grass is trending. Specifically, Nat said,

I don't have time to play internet detective today at ICYMI underscore pod. Why is touch

some grass trending? A, I love that you came to us for this. B, who has time to play

internet detective? We do. I love a little bit of Twitter reverse engineering. So as soon

as we got this question in, I was just like, all right, time to put all the tools I have

my toolkit to use a K, a time sensitive search on Twitter to figure out why touch some

grass is trending. Before we start, we should probably define what this means. It's fairly

intuitive. Like I, you understand what it means. Of course, touch some grass is a internet

come back for a person who perhaps has been online too long, who has rotted their brain

of the internet and they really need to get outside, get some air. They need to touch

some grass. Exactly. Exactly. It is a kind of wild phrase to just be trending. And so when

I was doing my little Twitter reverse engineering, I'm sorry, an advanced Nat, but there does

not seem to be any specific reason that it was trending. It is fully just that a bunch

of people in very disparate circles on the internet really needed to go the fuck outside.

For example, one of the most popular tweets from this weekend, if you Twitter search, touch

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