Hey, I'm Candace Lem.

And I'm Kate Lindsay.

And you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.

In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Kate, can I ask you like a controversial question?

I don't think anything good starts with that statement, but yes, you may.

Okay, okay.

How do you feel about voice notes?

Not the Charlie Puth album, but voice notes like voice memos that you send to people.

Don't worry, Charlie Puth's album did not enter my mind once. Wow, wow, wow. Okay.

But in terms of voice notes, so yeah, these can be, or I guess the existence of voice notes and people using them,

I guess is polarizing, which I didn't know because I love getting a little voice note. What about

you? I'm pro voice note. I find them really cute and fun. I know people make fun of them on

TikTok when they're like, when your friend sends you a nine minute podcast. And I'm like, okay,

well, this podcast, I guess,

is a really long voice note. But I'm into them. They're efficient and sometimes I want to hear,

especially if it's tea, I want to hear the inflection. I want to hear the tone. I actually want

some folly, folly artists in the back hitting the slap, things like that, you know?

Well, I feel like when I when i if someone sending me a voice

note instead of text i interpret it that as they want whatever they're saying to disappear like for

the need to not be in writing okay and so i'm the moment i see that my heart rate jumps i'm like

i'm about to get some tea and it's actually really disappointing when sometimes I'm like, all right, time to settle

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