The Sleepover Club: Goblin Mode Captures The Mood Of The Moment
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week we're joined by Polyester socials editor and regular podcast guest Eden Young to dissect the mood of the moment, Goblin mode. Call it going feral, call it whatever you want, but we're all obsessed with exposing the very worst part of ourselves online. Ione and Eden dissect statements from Goblin Mode viral article author Kari Paul, and illustrator Esme Blegvad, to get to the bottom of why at this moment we're all obsessed with embracing our inner goblin.
But are all goblin modes made equal? Or is this just another bid for influencers and privileged women to perform relatability online? And who does goblin mode leave behind? And is the trend even hear to stay? We discuss all this and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, Ioni. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Ioni, the founding editor-in-chief of polyester online, in print and everywhere else. And I'm Eden, the socials editor of Polyester Z. We are here this week with a Sleepover Club episode in which we have all those conversations you'd usually have at Sleepover. Eden's joining us this week because Hanima is unable to be here and I am very thrilled. |
| 0:23.5 | What are we talking about today, Eden? |
| 0:26.2 | This week we are talking about goblin mode, going goblin mode, going feral and just having |
| 0:32.3 | a good old goblin time. |
| 0:33.8 | This is a topic very dear to my heart. |
| 0:36.1 | Before we begin properly, may I remind you all to please like, subscribe, rate and review the podcast. |
| 0:41.8 | It really helps us and will be much appreciated. |
| 0:44.4 | So, Eden, do you want to start with the origins of Goblin Mode? |
| 0:48.2 | So the origins might go back further than what we originally thought. |
| 0:52.4 | So according to Know Your Meme, the term was first |
| 0:55.1 | used in 2009 by Twitter user Jennifer DeJua describing someone's high octane behaviour. So urban |
| 1:00.8 | dictionary states that when you lose yourself so much, you resort to becoming a goblin. |
| 1:05.1 | I feel like Goblin mode in its like new popularity that's emerged emerged it's kind of been building for a while |
| 1:13.3 | like when that okay also i'm going to admit i didn't know the julia fox headline was |
| 1:18.6 | photoshopped until i read the research this morning neither did i that's so on brand for her |
| 1:25.6 | i wish she actually said it. |
| 1:28.5 | Same, same. |
| 1:29.8 | It's ruined some of the magic. |
| 1:31.1 | I know. |
| 1:34.2 | So was it like an onion article or like reductuous or something? |
| 1:36.8 | I feel like someone literally just photoshopped it for Twitter. |
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