I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you've found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QA podcast, episode 285, studying the Black Pill.

As always, we are your host, Julian Field, and Travis View.

Joining us for this very special episode is Ellie Reeve,

correspondent for CNN and author of the new book, Black Pill,

How I Witness the Darkest Corners of the Internet

come to life, poison society, and capture American politics.

The hardback is available now on Amazon or from independent booksellers, of course,

and you can pre-order the audiobook and the paperback.

Go do it.

I recommend it.

Welcome back on the show, Ellie.

Thank you for having me.

I love this show.

Your book does a great job tracking a pretty grand narrative that we've contended with a lot on this podcast.

How disaffected young men anonymously posting memes online led to real life violence including multiple mass

murders the forming of what came to be known as the alt-right movement a seismic shift

in the Republican Party and of course the January 6 2021 storming of the capital.

So before we jump into all of that I wanted to briefly mention how surreal it feels

that the last time we spoke to you on this podcast was episode 125

which was published soon after the

January 6 riots and that was more than three years ago and a hundred and 61

episodes yeah feel strange I feel like I've aged I mean how have the last hundred years felt for you well it's like I don't know if you've gone through the same journey but at first you're obsessed with this stuff and no one will pay attention and you're thinking this is crazy this is crazy why want someone pay attention then it all

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