Straight Culture Gabfest: Madonna, The Comeback, and is Geese a psyop?
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Today we're going Patreon Mode on main with an all-new Straight Culture Gabfest, wherein we talk about three juicy things happening in pop culture. On the docket this week: Madonna's comeback single "I Feel So Free," season 3 of HBO's The Comeback, and two articles about the online clipping economy: "The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Was Actually a Psyop" by John Semley in WIRED and "Clipping on Social Media Makes Me Wonder What's Real and What Isn't" by Katie Notopoulos in Business Insider.
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