The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Leave Britney Alone? Because TikTok Correspondents Are Turning Us All Into Monstrous Tabloid Journalists
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Britney Spears is once again the focus point of internet gossip. The conspiracy theories grow more outlandish by the minute; from the pop star having a body double, to her husband placing her in a new conservatorship and pushing the star in front of a green screen to create Instagram content. But unlike in the early 00s, we now all have the ability to comment, dissect, and tear apart celebrities behaviour. No longer is the worst person online Perez Hilton, because millions of us on TikTok are elongating his legacy; using celebrities pain to generate engagement and boost our own profiles. Are we sleepwalking into another nightmare, in which marginalised celebrities are treated with no regard for their wellbeing? Ione and Eden discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Eden. |
| 0:01.1 | Hi, Ione. |
| 0:02.0 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to the polyester podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of polyester zine and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls. |
| 0:10.1 | And my cat is also sitting here who can't see, but he's staring right in their face. |
| 0:13.8 | He's really staring deep into your soul, but he's like, okay, tell me more about the part. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm sorry, and I'm distracted now. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Eden, I'm the managing editor of polyester and the co-host of this podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | This is the Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all. |
| 0:35.7 | Before we get started, please like, great review and subscribe. Do we have any reviews? We do, and it's a long one today. Um, so five |
| 0:43.7 | stars fan girl. Love this podcast. I work from home three days a week and I've been stuck in a |
| 0:48.3 | mindless true crime rut, listening to podcasts about murderers and scam artists, the constant |
| 0:53.5 | barrage of violence and scandal |
| 0:55.0 | becoming a strange dulcet lullaby, which I'm barely even paying attention to. It's my weird white |
| 1:00.5 | noise. I loved listening to the episode The Death of Nuance and feel this podcast has given me |
| 1:04.9 | inspiration to change my listening habits for the better and seek out some more stimulating |
| 1:08.8 | conversation, which is thought-provoking without |
| 1:11.3 | being stuffy or pretentious. This particular episode got me thinking about which media I'm consuming |
| 1:16.6 | at a surface level and which media is causing me to think more critically, and the difference |
| 1:20.7 | between the two. Which films are constructed from click data and feeding my Just Let People |
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