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Hey, oh, Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And here with me today is another Kate in many ways Laura Kate

Dale hello Laura how are you I am good and I'm also just realizing Laura is my mom's

name so there's like a lot of name connection happening here a small world isn't it

but Laura you a small world, isn't it?

But, Laura, you are a writer. You're a gamer. You're also a streamer yourself, correct?

Yes, I am. I've been a weekly, multiple times a week streamer for, gosh, nearly a decade now, which makes me feel old.

Oh, my God. I mean, I could have guessed because you have, like, that amazing background that streamers have, which is like, I mean, perfectly in like a soft focus.

I believe like those are bunny ears on the chair.

Yeah, they are. You know, it's, it comes with the package of streaming.

At some point you've got to have a notable chair behind you.

Yeah. And just for context, I am under a blanket. So different energies, but all of this,

the gaming, the writing, the streaming, it makes you perfect for today's episode. But before we

get into why, Laura, I have to ask you the question that we ask all first timers on the show, which is,

what is your first internet memory? So, I know I must have used the internet, like, earlier than

this memory, but this is the first one that's, like, an actual solid memory I have. It would

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