The Sleepover Club: How Social Media Aestheticised Loneliness
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Independence is sold to us as a necessity, as YouTubers and TikTok stars emphasise the need for being an individualist and having your own space. But can promoting isolation ever be dangerous? Are we allowed to say we feel lonely when alone? Hosts Ione Gamble and Halima Jibril explore loneliness as a self preservation tool in order to avoid vulnerability, the online aspiration to thrive on your own and how any of us can afford being alone in the first place.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.1 | Hello, Ioni. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:03.3 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Ayoni and I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester. I'm Halima, the community editor of Polyester Zene and the co-s 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. Before we get started, please ever to like, review, subscribe. |
| 0:23.7 | Leave a comment for the podcast because it helps us out so, so much. |
| 0:27.0 | And we can read them out on the episode if you leave one, so why don't you do it and talk to us? |
| 0:32.9 | Yes, please. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:34.3 | We're so lonely. |
| 0:35.5 | And we are like, oh. |
| 0:37.1 | Ooh, you see what I'm in there, baby? |
| 0:40.6 | What are we talking about today? |
| 0:42.5 | We're talking about the aesthetics of loneliness. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, explain. |
| 0:46.3 | So I was thinking about this topic because I saw YouTube video by this video essay commentaries called Alice. |
| 0:54.0 | We'll link her video and the bio for |
| 0:57.4 | new ones to watch and she made a video about loneliness on social media and while I was watching |
| 1:01.9 | it she's just talking about like the way lonely list is depicted online or the way that we |
| 1:07.9 | engage with I don't know the content of loneliness and I was thinking about, because when she's talking about her video, I was thinking about all these different things that I'm like, oh, but what about this? But what about this? What about this? And I told Dianey, and now we're talking about it today because I think it connects to a lot of the things that we've been speaking about on the podcast before. So what was the thesis of this person's video? So I guess the thesis of the video |
| 1:29.3 | was the fact that like they're specifically talking about vlogging and the kind of living |
| 1:35.8 | alone vlogs why like people like Emma Chamberlain, there's another popular YouTuber called |
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