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And I'm Luke Winky, and you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And Luke, welcome to the show. How are you feeling? Do you have like any

New Year's resolutions you want to share on the pod today? Anyways, we can help keep you accountable.

You know, Candace, every year, honestly, for last like five years, I've said I want to read more books,

but here I am in early January to talk about TikTok with you.

I mean, what is TikTok but not a video book?

Now, listeners, as you can tell, Rachel is not here today because she is flying into Scotland

to make a surprise appearance on this week's episode

of The Trayters.

Yes, that is allegedly true.

But today, Slate writer Luke, is going to help me parse through the mailbag because so much

internet has happened over the past few weeks.

Luke, we haven't talked in a while, actually, so I just wanted to ask, is there like a tweet

or a video you saw online that you, like, really like really loved and like maybe wanted to share with me today?

Yeah. So I'm going to cheat a little bit. I'm going to highlight a meme I made a week ago that went semi-viral on Twitter. The format is the anxiety-ridden couple in bed, that that stock image of that man and the woman in bed.

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