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In the Heights Sparks Gender Euphoria on TikTok

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How did a clip from In the Heights lead to a new TikTok face filter that has helped some of the app’s users express their gender identity? On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle trace the timeline of this trend, and how it ended up causing a number of trans and nonbinary users to experience gender euphoria. Even though this is a wholesome trend, In the Heights isn’t free from criticism. As we mentioned on the show, you can read more about that in the New York Times and Slate. And we discussed the Wall Street Journal investigation into TikTok's algorithm. 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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0:33.0

So apparently this filter is about to give me gender euphoria, so let's go ahead and try it out.

0:38.3

If I get triggered, I start crying. I'm so sorry.

0:43.0

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.

0:44.6

And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You were listening to I-C-Y-M-I.

0:47.9

In case you missed it.

0:49.0

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

0:52.7

Vanessa.

0:53.6

Oh, my God. Not yet, Madison. It is in my head.

0:55.0

I wanted to be in all of our listeners' heads.

0:59.0

I mean, that's pretty much the point of this podcast is to get the earworms that are stuck in our heads into our listeners' heads.

1:07.0

This is actually just a shared trauma experience.

1:09.0

Thank you for listening to I-Cy-Y-M-I.

1:11.6

But before we get into the TikTok sound that has not left me or Madison or our colleagues' heads because we're annoying,

1:18.6

we're going to talk about the Wall Street Journal's recent investigation inside TikTok's highly secretive algorithm, which...

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