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. Today on the show,

we are joined by Tatum Hunter, internet culture reporter at the Washington Post. Welcome, Tatum.

Thanks for having me. So, Tatum, you've not been on ICYMI before, but I've waited until now to say,

you have been on my brother-in-law's podcast, which is no such thing. How are you related to the show? My sister is married to Noah, who is one of the hosts. Okay, I've met your sister. Oh, my God, yeah. Because she was telling me I went to Manny's baby shower and got to hear about her wedding. Oh, yes, I was there. Which sounded beautiful. Yeah, I was there.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, yeah, and so what I was saying is, you know, no one doesn't actually know this, but we are in competition in terms of who was the better podcast, even though it's not about the same things.

And so you will have to tell me at the end, which one you had more fun on?

There is a right answer.

So just I'll leave up to you for what that is.

But until we get to that, you're a first time guest.

We get to ask our favorite question.

What is your earliest internet memory?

This was an easy one for me because it's definitely Neopets. Neopets was an online world where you would create or adopt an animal

and then you would take care of it. You'd play games to earn money, to buy it things. But it also was,

you know, this kind of role-playing world where it was online and you could connect with other players.

Whenever people say neopets, it's that, it is like my one internet blind spot.

I didn't, I never did neopets.

I was like later on in my childhood, like a Webkins girlie.

And I feel like they're close-ish.

I mean, I feel that way about Tumblr, that, like, it's, like, a huge hole in my, in my

context and expertise that I was not a Tumblr girly at any point.

Yeah, no, because I feel like, NeoPet is, like, the thing that everyone references when

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