The Toothpaste Mystery Taking Over TikTok
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🗓️ 11 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The ICYMI mailbag has started to get full so it’s time for another round of Read Receipts. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison answer some listener questions about why people are emptying out tubes of toothpaste on TikTok, whether there’s any similarity between Taylor Swift’s clue dropping and QAnon, and why there are so many possum memes on Instagram.
Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John.
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| 0:00.0 | Colgate, you have black magic. |
| 0:05.0 | We need answers. |
| 0:08.0 | The fucking voodoo magic. |
| 0:10.0 | The fuck! |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
| 0:18.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:19.0 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. And today we're |
| 0:23.2 | taking it analog? That's right. We're talking about holiday cards, the ones you, you know, |
| 0:29.0 | write down on paper, put in an envelope, put a stamp on, lick the envelope. It's an envelope twice. |
| 0:34.0 | You get the point. We're talking about holiday cards because the Washington Post |
| 0:38.6 | has claimed that apparently millennials are sending more holiday cards. And I got to say, |
| 0:45.1 | I thought the genre article was over. I thought we had collectively stopped. |
| 0:56.6 | Well, this doesn't fall into the genre. |
| 0:59.2 | The genre you're talking about is millennials killing things. |
| 1:01.7 | Oh, oh, sorry. |
| 1:02.5 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:08.0 | I do need to say I read that article just before we sat down to record this episode and there's now a correction appended to the top |
| 1:10.2 | that the study |
| 1:10.9 | they were using wasn't solid enough to actually form the thesis that millennials are bringing back |
| 1:17.4 | the holiday cards. This is what happens when you publish pre-prints, like or non-peerviewed studies. |
| 1:23.1 | This happened all the time with COVID. People would jump on whatever study that came out. |
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