There’s No Easy Way to Log Off

ICYMI

Slate Podcasts

Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison are joined by Buzzfeed’s Scaachi Koul to discuss her recent piece, “Why Bo Burnham, Jenna Marbles, and Shane Dawson All Logged Off.” They talk about the cesspool that is YouTube fandom, how precisely Bo Burnham articulates the problems of constant internet consumption, and the three ways logging off may be possible: deleting your content, apologizing a lot, and getting a Netflix special. Plus, a short explanation of the online phrase touch some grass. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Support ICYMI and listen to the show with zero ads. Sign up to become a Slate Plus member for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it necessary that every single person expresses every single opinion on every single thing that occurs all at the same time?
0:13.3	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:15.7	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:19.2	In case you missed it.
0:23.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture. Where are we starting today?
0:25.5	We are starting someplace that we rarely start,
0:28.4	which is outside, specifically in the grass,
0:31.8	specifically grass that we should be touching.
0:34.9	My allergy is they've already flared.
0:36.9	Yeah, just spray some flones and let's get going. We had a question. that we should be touching. My allergy is they've already flared.
0:40.1	Yeah, just spray some flones and let's get going.
0:47.5	We had a question from listener, Nat, on Sunday night, asking why Touch Some Grass is trending.
0:53.5	Specifically, Nat said, I don't have time to play Internet Detective today at ICYMI underscore Pod.
0:54.1	Why is Touch Some Grass Trending?
0:56.1	A, I love that you came to us for this.
0:58.8	B, who has time to play internet detective?
1:01.7	We do.
1:04.6	I love a little bit of Twitter reverse engineering.
1:07.9	So as soon as we got this question in, I was just like, all right, time to put all the tools
1:12.3	I have in my toolkit to use, aka a time sensitive search on Twitter, to figure out why
1:19.1	Touch Some Grass is trending.
1:20.7	Before we start, we should probably define what this means.
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