The Sleepover Club: Society Of The Spectacle And How Filming Strangers For Content Became Common Practise
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Open TikTok and your for you page is likely filled with a slew of content capitalising on the lives of strangers without their consent. From random acts of kindness, to asking what someone walking past is listening to or simply starting to record when watching someone behave strangely in public; we're constantly seeking new spectacle to record on our phones in the hope of going viral. On this week's episode, Ione and Eden are discussing the moral ambiguity of building an online following using the unsuspecting public.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. Hi, Ione. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm Iioni and I'm the |
| 0:07.0 | founder of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. And I'm Eden and the managing editor |
| 0:12.9 | of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast. This is the same paper club, a feminist pop culture podcast |
| 0:18.7 | we put apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:22.4 | Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe. |
| 0:25.8 | Ioni, do we have any reviews? |
| 0:27.5 | We do, we do indeed. |
| 0:29.1 | So this review is by K-W-N-I-I. |
| 0:35.5 | I don't know how to pronounce that. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh, Kev, they put their name at the end. Kev, in the USA, |
| 0:40.3 | five stars with like all the hearts and the flames emojis. Halima, no, not playing favour, |
| 0:45.7 | it's obsessed with Ionie and Eden's perspective, of course, but you will be missed. In my quite |
| 0:51.0 | fucking honest opinion, I think that's what that means. |
| 0:56.3 | This show is absolutely it. |
| 0:59.9 | It's literally the only show for which I've notifications turned on, baby. |
| 1:03.6 | Love seeing what insidious patriarchal toxicity you tackle next. |
| 1:08.4 | Spoiler, it's always impeccably timed and always takes my hot takes to an even hotter place. |
| 1:12.4 | Thanks for all your thorough work, pithy deliveries and gorgeous socials. |
| 1:14.9 | Insert whatever polyester stands call ourselves. |
| 1:17.1 | Polys, Girlie Wurlies, kiss, kiss, kev. |
| 1:19.5 | I think you should call yourselves Gurly Wurly's. |
| 1:21.9 | Girlie Wurlies is my favourite thing I've ever heard. |
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