I'm feeling 22, funny. Clever. They've seen the TikToks. This is good.

But you know what's really specific about this merch? It's a confetti.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher, and I'm a Liger Frank sitting in for Rachel Hampton.

And you're listening to ICYMI. In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

Welcome to the new year ICYMI guys. I'm so glad you're here with us as we enter the second...

I'm gonna cheat a little. The second calendar year of our show.

And welcome back, Allegra.

Hi, Madison. Glad to be back for year two. Almost.

Yeah, it's a very official, totally not fudged number.

I don't know about you, but my TikTok feed has unsurprisingly begun filling up with

hashtag new year, new you, wellness, fitspo, de-that girl content.

I think to encourage me to improve myself somehow in the new year, but I'm not into it.

No. Yeah, thankfully I don't get any kind of encouraging content on any of my feeds.

I've worked my algorithm properly to know that I do not need or respond to encouragement.

Okay, well, I'm impressed with you, but for those of you listening who are perhaps more like me,

than Allegra and are beginning to be tormented by the ghosts of the alleged better version of yourself,

we hair here with a little reminder, and it's that one, you can and should skip it entirely.

And that too, the best way to teach your for you page that you don't like something is to swipe as quickly as humanly possible.

It's kind of like with Tinder, right? You gotta just, you don't even want to look.

Yes, but more importantly, because if you watch too much of a given video,

TikTok will interpret that as interest, whereas the Tinder day may never find you.

That sounded so ominous, threatening.

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