TikTok’s Couch Guy Is Not Your Friend

ICYMI

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Entertainment News, News, Tech News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It can feel nice to form bonds with people we don’t know by following their lives online! It can also be invasive. On today’s episode, Rachelle and Madison look at an instance of parasocial relationships gone wrong as one long-distance college couple’s reunion turned TikTok users into amateur investigators looking for signs of infidelity. Why did TikTok give these teens the true-crime treatment? Did they invite the scrutiny for even posting in the first place? To read more about parasocial relationships online, check out Madison’s piece, “John Mulaney Doesn’t Owe You Squat.” 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	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.1	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
0:03.8	I'm Elisa.
0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.4	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.9	She's gone.
0:09.0	An ordinary play date.
0:10.5	The missing child is Lucia Blix.
0:12.4	Nine years old.
0:13.4	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something, I know it.
0:21.6	The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.6	18 plus subscription required. T's and C's apply.
0:30.6	So why I think that he was either cheating or something very sus is going on?
0:35.6	Okay, sorry, is this a friend of yours?
0:39.9	No, I literally don't know these people I've never met in a while.
0:40.9	Okay.
0:44.7	Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.
0:48.2	And I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why I am I.
0:49.6	In case you missed it.
0:51.8	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
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