Taylor Swift Knows the Internet All Too Well
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🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Swift just released her version of the 2012 album Red, but if you’d asked her fandom what was coming the answers would’ve included all sorts of red-string conspiracy theories. On today’s episode, resident Swiftie Madison takes Rachelle down Taylor’s rabbit hole, explaining her origins as a MySpace teen, the easter eggs she has and hasn’t hidden, and how her savvy engagement with fans demonstrates just how much she’s mastered the online medium.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Taylor and my new version of Red, including the 10-minute version of All Too Well, is out now and all of the songs are available on TikTok, so I can't wait to see what you make. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:18.3 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.6 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:21.9 | Before we do quite literally anything else, yes, we will answer the question we have |
| 0:26.9 | gotten approximately 27,000 times. |
| 0:32.4 | It's true. |
| 0:33.4 | Every single ICYMI guy did in fact ask ask us where the hell that viral uh Instagram for every |
| 0:42.2 | picture of a pet posted we will plant a tree thing came from spoiler alert ain't no trees being planted |
| 0:48.0 | the oh no our ozone it's broken's the deal. Instagram has this new sticker feature called |
| 0:59.4 | Ad Yours, where somebody can start by posting a prompt to their Instagram story, like |
| 1:04.2 | last pick in your camera roll and then share the sticker with the last pick in their camera |
| 1:09.7 | roll. Then their followers can tap the sticker to create their own, |
| 1:12.3 | thus creating a giant chain of photos all based on a single prompt. |
| 1:16.7 | Important to note, Instagram does not display which account starts any given add yours sticker. |
| 1:23.0 | So this week, someone posted, we'll plant one tree for Every Pet Picture, which combines the Internet's favorite things. |
| 1:32.6 | Pets and slacktivism. |
| 1:35.1 | And narcissism. |
| 1:37.0 | It took off like, Wildfire is probably a bad simile here. |
| 1:40.6 | But you get the idea. |
| 1:41.9 | There were so many frickin' pet pictures. Eventually, though, |
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