The Myth of Caroline Calloway and Scammer Celebrities With Taylor Lorenz | Ringer Dish
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The Ringer
4.2 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? It's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. We hope you |
| 0:05.6 | enjoyed listening to Break Stuff The Story of Woodstock 99 on Loominary. |
| 0:09.2 | Now continuing with our 99 theme, I wanted to let you guys know we've got all new episodes |
| 0:14.7 | of the rewatchable's 1999 starting back up right now. |
| 0:18.7 | Since we've returned, we have re-watched Eyes Wide Shut and election, and up next is Never Been Kissed and many more 1999 classics. |
| 0:26.0 | So make sure to check out the on the Ringer Podcast network. I'm |
| 0:43.8 | Alyssa Bresnick and I am here today to talk about scammers. To do that I am |
| 0:47.8 | joined by the New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz who covers social |
| 0:52.0 | media and influencers and you know occasionally a scammer in there. |
| 0:56.0 | Thanks for having me. Of course the thing that is on everyone's mind and is on Twitter |
| 1:02.0 | New York Media Twitter's mind in particular is Caroline |
| 1:06.0 | Calloway and I'm sure a lot of people don't even know who that is so we should start |
| 1:10.9 | with that question. Who is Caroline Calloway? |
| 1:13.0 | Well that's the thing. Not a lot of people even know who she is. She's kind of a |
| 1:17.2 | creation of the media. She is a 27 year old blonde Instagram star. |
| 1:25.1 | She's most well known for her really long captions. |
| 1:28.8 | She kind of was one of the first people |
| 1:30.7 | to really pioneer Instagram as a blogging platform. She went viral initially |
| 1:36.0 | back in 2015 for her like really long in-depth posts about life as an American at Cambridge |
| 1:42.4 | University and then she kind of went dark |
| 1:44.8 | until earlier this year when she got embroiled in kind of a scandal. |
| 1:48.8 | Right right and the scandal was like she was holding a workshop for creativity? |
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