Lindsay Ellis and the Wrath of Twitter
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4.5 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It's time to talk about what happened to Lindsay Ellis. In this episode we do a deep dive into Twitter psychology, confirmation bias, and the sad sad phenomenon that is "getting woman'd".
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Rayne Fisher-Quann, "What does it mean to get 'woman'd'?" i-D (2022).
https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3pv5k/what-does-it-mean-to-get-womand
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Aya. I'm a YouTube video maker, but I like to think of myself more as a modern-day philosopher. |
| 0:10.0 | Bish. |
| 0:11.8 | Hi, I'm Hannah. I'm Mayer's co-host, and I took a philosophy class a couple times. |
| 0:21.1 | A couple times. A couple times. |
| 0:23.8 | This is Rehash, a podcast about the social media phenomenons that strike a nerve in our culture, only to be quickly forgotten. |
| 0:30.8 | But we think are due for a revisiting. |
| 0:33.3 | This season is on the public theater, which is all about our collective fascination with a good public villain. |
| 0:38.3 | Today's episode is on... |
| 0:39.7 | Lindsay Ellis. |
| 0:41.9 | Lindsay Ellis. |
| 0:42.5 | Lindsay Ellis. For those of you who aren't chronically online like we are, or unfamiliar with my particular niche of YouTube, |
| 1:19.6 | Lindsay Ellis is a veteran YouTube video essayist. She started making videos for Channel Awesome, |
| 1:25.1 | which is probably the most famous relic of man yelling at screen, film, YouTube. |
| 1:29.3 | At this point, she was operating under the name Nostalgia Chick and would mostly make retrospectives on old films and shows. |
| 1:35.3 | She left Channel Awesome in 2014 for problems which I honestly can't get into here for the sake of time. |
| 1:40.3 | But let's just say it was bad. |
| 1:42.3 | She then started her own channel under her actual name |
| 1:44.5 | and pivoted to longer form videos, which took on a more analytical lens. She focuses a lot on the |
| 1:49.3 | Disney canon and also did a prolific series on the Transformers franchise. So Lindsay is no stranger to |
| 1:55.2 | controversy and criticism. She has been the subject of many harassment campaigns by right wing |
| 2:00.6 | and MRA groups who disagree with her leftist views, but she's always managed to recover from it. |
| 2:06.4 | Then, in March 2021, she posted this take on her Twitter. |
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