Hello, beautiful people and welcome to fan time, the podcast for all of those complex and complicated conversations about the great areas in our lives.

I am a journalist, writer, producer, Jared Hill.

Oh, we threw in producer this week.

Wow, keep your ass on your toes.

Yeah, okay.

And I am journalist and editor of Felt Anderson coming up on the show today.

We're getting into part two of our award show, you know, experience.

Okay, with a very special guest talking about the Oscars and film and television award shows.

But first, we're going to get into a past the popcorn.

This is our segment to talk about some of the stuff that y'all talking about on the social medias, all right?

And this week, we wanted to touch on the whole team vote situation.

So for those who don't know, Alexi McCammon, a political reporter, formally of Axios was announced as the new editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue a few weeks back.

Days later, I believe days later, old tweets of hers in which she used anti-Asian language were resurfaced.

Now, she had already apologized for those tweets a couple years ago, but this set off a lot of discontent among some members of the Teen Vogue staff and the broader public,

especially amid this moment of increased anti-Asian violence, which obviously came to a head last week with the Atlanta shootings.

Though Alexi, you know, would issue a number of other statements apologizing and taking responsibility for thoughts she says she no longer holds,

including some homophobic tweets that were drawn up and a photo of her in a, you know, indigenous American costume for Halloween.

Yikes. A la Kenya more from the most recent episode of Housewives.

Okay.

But she and Teen Vogue ultimately decided to part ways.

They had a conscious on coupling, if you will.

Last week, way before her, what would be her first official, you know, first day.

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