Is Online Superiority & The Irony Epidemic Rotting Our Brains?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How many times a day do you - publicly or privately - berate someone online for being worse than you? From Halsey calling out critics to Pitchfork doing the aforementioned critiquing and Ethel Cain telling us to cut the irony - this week Ione and Gina are discussing how social media has made us all into holier than thou nightmares.

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0:00.0	Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of
0:07.3	Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis.
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0:40.6	Keep an eye out next week as we are sharing two posts.
0:43.8	Do we have any reviews, I or knew?
0:47.5	That what are all over you?
0:48.3	I was just really stupid.
0:49.4	She was sad.
0:51.5	It's toned down.
0:53.3	No, we don't. You know, that's very upsetting to me personally. No, we don't.
0:54.4	You know, that's very upsetting to me personally.
0:57.4	No, I don't like it.
0:58.6	But I have seen you can now leave comments on episodes on Spotify, so...
1:02.8	Read them out.
1:03.9	If you leave a comment, we will read it out starting from next week, so that I've one up right now.
1:09.2	Make one up.
1:10.1	No.
1:11.3	I will.
1:12.2	Wow, these two are so charming, lovely and beautiful.
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