The surface of the moon is lit by the face of the earth.

Our little town is lit too by lights just above that we cannot explain.

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.

And I'm Will Williams, and you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it.

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today I am joined by Will Williams, podcasting journalist and CEO of Podcasting

Production Collective, Huck House Productions.

Phenomenal names.

Thank you.

I'm so excited that you're here to join us, not least, because you wrote what might have been the best email we have ever received to the ICYMI inbox.

So welcome to the show, Will you're a legend here.

Thank you. I am honored. I put my whole heart and soul into that email, and I'm glad it came across.

So as a listener of the show, I'm sure you can probably guess my first question is going to be.

We are retiring the Jesus Christ question, unfortunately.

So I will be asking, what is your first internet memory? A lot comes to mind,

but I think that the earliest is the original, original hamster dance. I'm talking the song on loop.

And an endless scroll of dancing hamster gifts. I was enraptured. I was in love. That is a great one. And I think really

it just encapsulates the best internet memories, which is just the endless loop in your head.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. In your pitch letter, you mentioned that you were an active Tumblr user,

which obviously same, obviously part of the kindredness. And I have found

through so much, you know, deep scientific research that most Tumblr users have just one

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