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American Fever Dream

Wrangling The Extremely Online: Ft. Taylor Lorenz

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In today’s mini-sode V chats with author and journalist, Taylor Lorenz. They detail Taylor’s interview with Chaya Raichik during which she revealed herself as the creator of LibsofTikTok. FULL INTERVIEW Taylor’s Book: Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Topics: How Taylor came to discover LibsofTikTok creator, Chaya Raichik. The severity of Raichik’s content and the concern of copy cats. The timeliness of Taylor’s book Extremely Online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, Taylor Lorenz, the author of Extremely Online and a journalist at the Washington Post released an interview with the creator of Libs of Tik-Tok.

0:47.0

Libs of Tik-Tok is a Twitter account that scrapes Tik-Tok for left-leaning creators, mostly queer teachers and librarians, and then

0:55.2

posts it to Twitter adding hostile, mocking, or derogatory commentary to it.

1:00.4

Libs of TikTok's tweets have been followed by bomb threats at children's hospitals and schools and death threats to educators.

1:07.0

Chia Raichik, the woman behind the account, has bragged, quote,

1:11.0

they, the media, made up the term stochastic terrorist for us. So honestly, like, that makes me feel really important.

1:20.0

Stocastic terrorism is defined as political or media figures publicly demonizing a person or group in such a way that it inspires supporters of that public figure to commit a violent act against the target of their speech.

1:34.0

Here with us now is Taylor Lorenz, the journalist who first unmasked Chaya as the creator of Lives of Tic-Toc.

1:40.0

Taylor, welcome to American Fever Dream.

1:42.8

Thank you for having me.

1:44.8

So this week you conducted one of the most unusual, painful, and dare I say, unhinged interviews

1:50.1

of our generation, in which Chaya Raichich espoused replacement theory rhetoric, said

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