ICYMI - Max Read on Gawker, “Sculder” Fanfiction, and Slack Rules
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🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Read Max writer Max Read, whose Substack hit a new high this year when he coined the term “Zynternet” and its connection to “Hawk Tuah girl.” Prior to Substack, Read was the editor-in-chief of Gawker, and on today’s episode, he speaks about the stories he regrets publishing, his relationship with The X-Files fandoms, and his golden rules for engaging online.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim, with production assistance from Alexandra Botti and Kat Hong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to Icy YMIMI. In case you missed it, Slate's |
| 0:18.0 | podcast about internet culture. And joining me on today's episode is the |
| 0:22.7 | journalist and writer behind the substack, Reed Max. It's Max Reed. Hello, Max. Hi, Candice. How you |
| 0:29.4 | doing? I am so good, Max. Welcome to ICYMI. It is your first time here, so I'd love to ask, |
| 0:35.8 | what's your first internet memory? I think the honest |
| 0:39.2 | answer is probably in third or fourth grade. Our teacher had us all gather around the computer, |
| 0:44.8 | and he signed into CompuServe and showed us CompuServe. And I remember being like, why don't I have this |
| 0:52.3 | at my home? And we got AOL like a couple years later, I think, |
| 0:56.6 | but I have this really distinct memory of being in school and watching all the things you could do |
| 1:01.0 | on CompuServe. Yeah. No, it's interesting. My third grade teacher, he also was the person who kind of like |
| 1:07.4 | ushered our class into computers and internets for the first time. |
| 1:12.8 | I want to be very clear about something, though. |
| 1:16.3 | The reason he did it was because he wanted us to stream his cousin's album. |
| 1:17.3 | I'm not even kidding you. |
| 1:20.7 | Every single day we would go into school and he would be like, hi, guys, we're not going to learn how to type. |
| 1:21.4 | We're going to stream my cousin's album. |
| 1:23.3 | And I'm still really pissed about it because I didn't get any residuals from it. I learned nothing. |
| 1:28.4 | And now he's like the vice principal of a school. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm sorry, but I helped him succeed. |
| 1:32.0 | Wow. |
| 1:35.6 | Forget our third grade teachers because we've moved past that. |
| 1:38.4 | The internet has moved past that. |
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