Why Does The Internet Keep Getting Worse? Ft. Slop Content, Brain Rot, & The Attention Economy
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Slop content - AI generated videos and images created to bait engagement on social media content - is getting more and more unavoidable. Whether you’ve been duped by bunnies on trampolines or enthralled by a AI cat fronted soap opera; we face a social media landscape that's no longer fit for purpose.
This week, Ione and Gina dive into who benefits from the enshittification of the internet, why bots have taken over the comment section and how the bleakness of our feeds mirror the state of wider culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor of Polyester. And I'm Iione, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. |
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| 0:50.2 | newest episode will be released. Thanks for keeping me entertained in this crazy world, ladies. That was by Liz Shawsy in the UK. Thank you very much, Liz. Thanks, Liz. And on Spotify, |
| 1:00.5 | about last week's episode, we have Olivia, not our Olivia, as much as I know. Could be, |
| 1:08.0 | but I don't think it is. A different Olivia. Yeah. Strongly believe many problems could be solved if we bought back more catchy 90s jingles. |
| 1:14.3 | Do discourse with the lads leading the way, clap emoji. True. Thank you. |
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