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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by writer and senior editor at Playboy Magazine, Magdalene Taylor, to talk about Tea. The app for women to crowdsource any “red flags” about the men they’re dating was hacked shortly after it hit #1 on the Apple Lifestyle app chart. Now, the private information of thousands of women has been shared across 4Chan and Twitter, all thanks to a platform that was supposed to keep them safe. But was Tea even a good idea in the first place? Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hey, I'm Candace Lem.
1:15.3	And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
1:18.6	In case you've missed it.
1:20.3	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
1:23.1	And Candice, astronomer affair over in the past.
1:26.7	That is old news because the new thing I keep seeing on my timeline is about Candice, Astronomer Affair, over. In the past. Over.
1:27.8	That is old news because the new thing I keep seeing on my timeline is about something called the T app.
1:34.3	Mm. Yeah, I'm hearing that it like beat ChatGBT
1:52.6	as the most downloaded app on the app store, which I take as a victory.
1:56.6	A victory.
1:57.1	Yeah, you know what?
1:57.8	Yeah, you got to take what you can get.
1:59.4	For a while, this T app, it was a hot new app. It was this kind of dating safety advice app for women, but what it really was was a place for you to go and either share red flags about men you know or go on and ask if this man you're seeing or thinking about seeing has any red flags. It was basically
2:18.4	those are we dating the same guy groups in app form. It looks like Pinterest is just a grid of men
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