What’s the ‘Chicken Shop Date’ Creator’s Secret? Creative Control
Uncanny Valley | WIRED
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Amelia Dimoldenberg, host of the megapopular Chicken Shop Date, joins Katie to talk about control. Who has it, who doesn’t and why it matters so much for success in our influence-focused internet economy. They also talk red carpets and the surprising joy of editing.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wired, this is the Big Interview, where we'll get to know the people beyond the headlines |
| 0:08.6 | in conversations that explore the intersection of technology, power, and culture. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Katie Drummond, Wired's global editorial director. |
| 0:15.6 | You may have seen our next guest, Amelia D'Moldenberg, on the red carpet at the Oscars in March. |
| 0:19.9 | Here at the Oscars red carpet, what does it smell like? |
| 0:22.6 | Sweat. |
| 0:23.6 | And success. |
| 0:24.6 | And success. |
| 0:25.6 | What's the vibe? What's the energy like in the room? |
| 0:27.6 | There's like sizzling energy. |
| 0:28.6 | It's so real. It's hot right now. |
| 0:29.6 | I feel like we should not have done that because it's already so hot in here. |
| 0:32.6 | I could start to feel the sweat dripping from my butt cheek down my leg. Thank God I'm wearing pants because otherwise people would be like, is she? Is she peeing us up right now? I'm like, yeah. That clip is from the Academy Awards and Amelia's creative studio, Dim's Inc. It was her third time on the Oscars red carpet. And that star turn comes on top of her wildly successful interview series that I first saw, admittedly, as very short clips on |
| 0:54.7 | TikTok, Chicken Shop Date. If you haven't seen them yet, I don't know why, but you're in for a treat. |
| 1:00.3 | Amelia sat down for dates with Conan O'Brien, Sabrina Carpenter, Andrew Garfield. The list goes on, |
| 1:05.0 | and each episode takes place in, yes, a chicken shop. Amelia now has more than 3.3 million |
| 1:10.0 | subscribers on YouTube. And she joins me now. |
| 1:12.9 | Amelia, welcome to the big interview. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. Sorry, |
| 1:17.7 | that clip you played. I was like, wow, that is real boots on the ground journalism right there. |
| 1:23.1 | How did it feel to hear yourself back talking about butt sweat and pee? Well, it's interesting because that is definitely part of the genre of my interviews. However, there's so much more to them than that. There is. There is. So that's obviously just like one slice of it that's, I guess, a bit more playful. And I mean, they're all kind of, it's all playful in a way but yeah I guess I was |
| 1:45.7 | cringing about I'm sorry I didn't pick that clip so I'm gonna blame the producers |
| 1:50.3 | always always blame the producers when you have the opportunity but how do you |
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