The Sleepover Club: DeuxMoi Is No Longer Anon - But Are Gossip Accounts Harmless Fun, Or Is Their Impact Far More Sinister?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

DeuxMoi has been unmasked, with the famed gossip account being run by two socialite-adjacent white New York women. In honour of her no longer anonymity, we're discussing the legacy of modern gossip accounts. Do celebrities set themselves up for this type of attention, or do gossip accounts encourage a gross surveillance state? And once these accounts aren't anonymous anymore, can they ever retain their integrity? Especially when they start monetising their content? Ione and Halima argue it out on the podcast this week!

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0:00.0	Hi, Halima.
0:01.3	Hi, Ioni. And hello to all the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls, which is out now! And I'm Halima, the community of gender-polished scene and the coach of the Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:23.7	Before it gets started, please like, rate and review and subscribe.
0:27.0	I do you have any...
0:28.2	We do, and they're coming for you, Halima.
0:30.7	Oh no!
0:32.8	Old Lady enjoys podcast five stars.
0:35.5	At the right old age of 36, I thought I'd be too old to enjoy this
0:38.6	podcast. But Iione and Halima are such great hosts. I love listening to their well-researched opinions
0:44.2	on pop culture. Love how much fun this is. Please also do an episode on why we deem over 35s to be
0:49.9	old. I still feel and act like I'm 25, despite Old Lady 36 from Apple Podcasts. Thank you. I think
0:57.7	36 is very young. So do I? It doesn't why you think I don't think that's young. I mean,
1:03.2	young. A resident Aegis Genzi in the building. Don't call me Aegis. We're already being
1:09.5	cancelled. I don't need another label another label but yes please leave us a review
1:14.0	we love them we love them it makes our week helima you're not being cancelled you're being cancelled
1:19.5	me yeah it's you you're the one who want to see the john death episodes you're the one that's so
1:25.6	passionate about it's actually very true to me.
1:30.2	I'm good.
1:31.2	Although I was surprised at how mixed the comments were.
1:35.1	Not enough, to be fair.
1:36.5	I don't think it was mixed enough.
1:38.2	So many people are so annoying.
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