ICYMI: TikTok’s Couch Guy Is Not Your Friend

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It can feel nice to form bonds with people we don’t know by following their lives online! It can also be invasive. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison look at an instance of parasocial relationships gone wrong as one long-distance college couple’s reunion turned TikTok users into amateur investigators looking for signs of infidelity. Why did TikTok give these teens the true-crime treatment? Did they invite the scrutiny for even posting in the first place? To read more about parasocial relationships online, check out Madison’s piece, “John Mulaney Doesn’t Owe You Squat.” Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder 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	Isn't it amazing, Sergei?
0:01.4	Oh, come.
0:01.9	Shh.
0:02.4	We get to come to the cinema together every Tuesday or Wednesday.
0:05.4	It's amazing, but shh.
0:06.5	Every week, every month, people are looking in cross-cold.
0:09.6	Oh, yeah, long.
0:12.0	Yes, Col, it's amazing.
0:13.6	Two for one tickets every week.
0:15.4	I get it.
0:16.2	Bro, you might want to lower your voice.
0:18.0	There's a movie on.
0:19.0	Miracat, you're a mover with two for one cinema tickets
0:21.4	every Tuesday or Wednesday.
0:22.7	When you switch your car or home insurance,
0:24.7	so compare the market.
0:26.0	One membership per year,
0:26.9	participating cinemas, two standard tickets only cheapest free.
0:29.2	Season C's apply.
0:30.2	So I think that he was either trading or something
0:34.5	if the airy stuff is going on.
0:36.1	OK, sorry.
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