Why Are So Many Celebrities Joining Substack?
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by I <3 Mess writer Emily Kirkpatrick to discuss the influx of celebrities joining Substack. As two long-time Substack newsletter writers themselves, the pair dive into all of these new celebrity publications…including the parts they may not know readers can see. What does it say about the state of celebrity that so many are becoming writers—and do they even have anything to say?
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 1:19.7 | Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:22.1 | And with me today, I have writer Emily Kirkpatrick, you might know her as the voice behind |
| 1:27.2 | the substack I heart mess voice behind the substack I Heart |
| 1:28.4 | Mess. And the substack of it all is crucial to today's episode. But as we all know, before |
| 1:33.8 | we can get to that, Emily is a first time guest on I-CyMIMI, and therefore she must answer |
| 1:38.9 | the first-time guest question, which is, what is your first internet memory? Hello? Oh my god. My first internet |
| 1:46.4 | memory was probably being like, I don't know, it's a tie, I guess, between like playing |
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