the cringe to cool pipeline

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week Ben rants about the phenomenon of everything that used to be considered cringe now becoming cool. He takes us through several case studies looking at fandoms from K-Pop Stans to Furries and theorizes why TikTok is responsible for this shift. Get started with EveryPlate for just $1.49 per meal on your first box by going to EveryPlate.com and entering code “drama149” at checkout! Tweet with the #DramaMamaPodcast to be featured on an episode! Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaYouTube Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/DramaMamaBENOFTHEWEEK Follow Ben on YouTube Follow Ben on Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, mamas.
0:05.0	I want you to imagine that you are a Minecraft fan or you listen to K-pop or you watch
0:15.6	TikToks, okay?
0:18.6	Seems pretty normal, right?
0:20.4	Seems like pretty common, pretty cool, you know, something everyone does.
0:25.0	Now I want you to imagine you're a Minecraft fan four years ago or you're a K-pop fan
0:32.9	four years ago or you even have the audacity to scroll on TikTok four years ago.
0:40.5	Feels a little different, huh?
0:45.2	I want to talk today, I want to rant and I want to scream into a pillow about how things
0:50.6	that are once cringe become cool and vice versa and how things that are cool right now
0:58.6	can actually be cringe and how things that are cringe right now will be cool eventually
1:03.0	giving time.
1:05.0	It is something that is pissing me off as a member of like, as a fan of things that once
1:12.4	are like grounds for being bullied and then now become in the public domain and popular
1:19.2	in mainstream.
1:20.2	It is annoying, it is obnoxious and we'll get into it right after this quick break.
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2:00.1	So literally four years ago if you had TikTok and you watched TikToks you were looked at
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