Why the Internet Thinks Lea Michele Can’t Read

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🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Lea Michele is in the news again because of some rather personal details she reveals about her relationship with her Spring Awakening co-star, Jonathan Groff, in a new documentary about the musical. At the same time, the internet conspiracy theory that the former Glee star is illiterate has resurfaced. On the show today, Rachelle and Allegra enumerate the reasons Lea’s trending once again, the details about her ability to read, and why the internet loves to hate her. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So we were like, oh, maybe Leah can't read jokingly.
0:05.0	And we were like, ha ha.
0:07.0	And then we were like, maybe we can't read?
0:11.0	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton.
0:14.0	And I'm Allegra Frank, and you're listening to I see why am I.
0:18.0	In case you missed it.
0:20.0	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:22.8	And Alekra is here with us to talk about the most important website on the internet
0:27.2	because, yes, Tumblr is up to something again.
0:32.1	Something good, question mark?
0:34.4	It seems like it.
0:36.5	I don't know.
0:37.1	I mean, we'll see.
0:38.8	We'll talk about it and we'll figure out because I have some mixed feelings.
0:42.3	But earlier this month on April 20th, 420, baby, Tumblr blazed it.
0:52.5	They launched Tumblr Blaze, which is this new sponsored post service.
0:58.3	So the way that works, it's like any Tumblr user can pay to have a post of their choice shared across different people's dashes.
1:06.5	Because like the way that Tumblr works is that it's really just who you follow and their content of choice that you see.
1:15.6	So it's not really just random people, right?
1:18.3	Yeah.
1:18.7	So they've kind of toyed with an algorithmized feed.
1:22.2	There's a for you tab on the mobile app that you can look at that is purely just content from people that you
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