An Instagram post gets an unexpected boost. A TikTok catches in the algorithm.

Sometimes that's all it takes to launch someone into internet fame. But then what?

This blue up is a new podcast documentary that reveals how social media

start and is made. It's a different kind of fame. That's not always as glamorous as it looks.

From Spotify and the Ring or Podcast Network, I'm Alyssa Bereznek.

You can listen to this blue up on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

All right, everybody. Welcome back. This is Larry Wilmore. You're listening to Black on the Air.

So much stuff going on in the world right now. The thing that has been, you know,

right in the forefront has been this tragedy of the people in the submersible that went down to the Titanic.

We've all been, you know, it's a horrible pun, but you know, holding our breath, you know,

trying to, you know, see what's going on. And, you know, we find out that they all,

it seems like they all kind of perish pretty quickly, I guess, maybe as it was descending.

It's really just a sad situation. There's a lot of like people chatting about it and talking about it.

Some of the jokes out there I found to be really distasteful.

And I'm all for gallows humor, but you know, we didn't know what was going on with the people.

There was an 19 year old kid, you know, some of that I found in bad taste.

But, you know, as someone who engages in a lot of gallows humor, I get where it's coming from.

But other than the jokes, there's also been, and this is what it surprised me to spend a lot of,

like, attacks on the people that have gone down, which I don't get it all.

I've always been, maybe it's me, I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid.

I've always been an admirer of adventurous type of people and that type of thing.

And I don't know if we're in a cultural class war these days, who knows?

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