Summary
Subtweeting, or “the audible sigh of the internet,” if you will, was Twitter’s answer to WASPish passive aggression. Now, people had a platform in which they could not-so-covertly vent about those who had wronged them in as succinct a manner as possible. It was a practice exercised by the likes of Rihanna and Demi Lovato, and managed to garner its very own critics, who derided subtweeting for turning us all into indirect assholes. But was this really the case? In this episode, Hannah and Maia revisit subtweeting, as well as its spiritual ancestor, “vague booking,” to ask whether we were really as annoying as they say we were back on the internet of yore. Are publicly shading someone without naming them, or being cryptic and vague on a Wall post really just signs of society’s increasing inability to communicate, or are they an artistic release for those in need of catharsis? Tangents include, Justin Trudeau being a fame whore, Maia’s childhood obsession with Michael Jackson, and singing “Criminal” by Fiona Apple at karaoke when no one wants you to.
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| 0:00.0 | I guess we have to talk about Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry. I guess. It kind of just makes sense. Oh, wait, is there a really recent update? I haven't heard. They hard launched. They hard launched. Oh, on Insta? Yeah, and for once we're going to be like somewhat on time with this because we're so delayed. We were so delayed in recording our early access Patreon episode. I didn't actually see this. |
| 0:21.8 | You know, it's just a photo of them kind of blankly smiling at us. He's behaving as if he's someone |
| 0:27.3 | who's sort of just famous for being famous. Like he almost has the vibe of like a former |
| 0:31.5 | bachelor contestant rather than the former prime minister of the United States. |
| 0:37.8 | Canada. |
| 0:39.3 | Wait, I was just about to be like Hannah, you know, have some pride and instead I called you Canada. |
| 0:45.0 | And that's just me. |
| 0:46.0 | Like Canada, she's oozing through my veins. |
| 0:47.6 | Always top of the mind. |
| 0:49.3 | Always top of mind. |
| 0:51.3 | Crazy though. |
| 0:52.3 | Crazy energy. |
| 0:58.7 | It kind of fatigues me. It does. I find her really tedious. I find her extremely tiring. I just, I can't. I think very few things will speak to the celebrity aspect |
| 1:05.8 | of politics more than, you know, the hot prime minister dating a kind of now, passe, pop star. |
| 1:15.0 | The fact that he would sort of even be in the running for that kind of a tabloid relationship. |
| 1:21.3 | I mean, his dad did it. |
| 1:23.0 | Less we forget Pierre Trudeau and Kim Cottrell. |
| 1:26.2 | I think the weir part of post-Prime Minister vibes Pierre Trudeau and Kim Cottrell. I think the weirder part of post-Pri-Minster vibes, Trudeau, for me, is him, like, really promoting his son's SoundCloud musician career? |
| 1:40.1 | Okay, he's a supportive father. No, I know, but it's the way he's posting it. |
| 1:44.3 | It's, again, like he's a content creator and not a former politician. No, it really is how everyone bemoans reality stars. You're so right when everyone's like, oh, now all they can ever do is just be an influencer. And it's like, I guess that's the fate of prime ministers and presidents now, too. He's also just quite young, right? Most world leaders when |
| 2:01.3 | they retire are fucking geriatric, but Justin Trudeau's little baby, and he resigned prematurely. |
| 2:06.7 | So, yeah, early retirement. I kind of feel like he, in a sense, is on the trajectory to be giving |
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