Side-Eyeing at H Mart
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by comedian and writer Youngmi Mayer to talk about a controversy that’s divided TikTok: How should Asian people feel about white people in Asian grocery stores? That’s the question creator Madeline Qi didn’t even mean to ask when she posted her now-viral video, which resulted in call-outs, doxxing, and, ultimately, a conversation too nuanced for TikTok. Youngmi’s attempts to make sense of the discourse on her Substack ended up going viral on Instagram, so she came on the show to share what people misunderstand about the controversy, and how her own experience being mixed white and Asian contributes to her perspective.
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay, with help from AC Valdez.
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| 0:00.0 | Come in, shoes off. |
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| 0:57.8 | Okay, slash Spotify. |
| 1:19.5 | Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:22.0 | And today on the episode, we have writer and comedian, Young Me, Mare. |
| 1:26.4 | Welcome, Young Me. I'm so glad you're here. I'm so sorry you're sick. |
| 1:29.3 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.3 | This will be all your energy for the day. |
| 1:33.3 | You can kind of store it all for this and then hopefully you can just sleep. |
| 1:37.3 | Yeah, whether I like it or not, I feel like that's the truth. |
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