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Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode: 

•  Susan Sontag’s Notes On “Camp”
  • Or a six-minute explainer if you don’t have the time
• The shortcomings of CinemaSins
• The even-shorter-comings of Nostalgia Critic
• About KiwiFarms, one of the most unpleasant sites on the surface web
• Interview with the creator of Leave Britney Alone
• A case study for toxic anti-fandom behaviour: gamergate
• Callback to a long-ago epi...

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• We are not actually an NFT 
• Roblox
• Watch these videos from PeopleMakeGames on Roblox:
  • Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
  • Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
• Gig economy
• Callback to our MLM episode: Have I got a deal for you?
• Company scrip 
• Roblox on the stock market 
• Wattpad’s deal with Paramount+
• Archive of Our Ow...

Here are some of the things we talk about or at least gesture at in this episode:

• How Bad Can I Be from The Lorax (2012) (in case you forget what a thneed is)
• Shein’s about us page
• Shein’s social responsibility page
• Reuters article about Shein’s lack of disclosure
• Vox article on Shein
• Callback to our MLM episode (though Shein’s not an MLM)
• Articles of Interest episode on knockoffs
• A TikTok featuring the strawberry dress
• Callbac...

For more fears and jeers, consider the following:

• Callback to our episode on Inside
• Callback to our episode on analog horror
• A needlessly thorough Wikipedia synopsis 
• A list of other Bechdel Test passing movies
• Bathtubs Over Broadway and the consequences of comedy damage
• Check out Nyx Fears if you want to be upset/fascinated by scary movies 
• A thread on the pitfalls of smarty pants protagonists
• If you didn’t watch Contingency ...

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Black Mirror, a crowning jewel of “phones bad” cinema
• VCR versus VHS, a distinction that was lost on Elizabeth
• Land of the Giants episode on the iPhone
• The TV Tropes page on Analog Horror
• Aidan’s analog horror video
• An analysis of Lovecraft’s Eldritch Horror
  • And some more analysis 
• The SCP foundation 
• Local 58
• Mothman, the best boy
• Remember Professor Kitzel?
• Public...

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Elizabeth’s choose-your-own-adventure flowchart
• Lip-sync style
  • @noahjaywood
  • @saramariecarstens
  • @arxcelix
• One- or two-part cliffhanger
  • @jezellecatherine
  • @baileyspinn
  • @joe_masini
  • @devincaherly
• One-shot or character pieces
  • @ianboggz
  • @hannah.montoya
• Longform or fully acted
  • @eliana_ghen
  • @thechrisbarnett
• Callback to our fanfic episode
• Night is the sh...

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Flare on TikTok and Instagram
• Mom Friend on TikTok
• The best slash proof bags can cost $169, and still might not meet your standards
• SafetyDrip on TikTok
• The Sarah Everard story
• The quest to de-hair the female body continues

This episode is not brought to you by Creep-B-Gone, because we would never (and it doesn’t exist… yet).

Many thanks to our actual sponsors:

Here are some of the things that came up in our discussion:

• Content warnings: Adult themes, mature language, suicide, “content”
• Bo Burnham: Inside
  • On Netflix
  • On Spotify
• Who is Bo Burnham: 
  • Wikipedia entry 
  • YouTube channel
  • Left Brain Right Brain animatic
• Lola Sebastian
• Lolita Podcast (not for kids but very good)
• What Karen means by “Simon Sinek energy”
• Jeffrey Bezos in almost-space
• Trunk tunes
• Callback to parasocial...

Here are links to some of the things we mention in the show:

• Lore episode featuring Moll Pitcher (timestamp 25:15)
• Couldn’t find a working version of a Buzzfeedesque Journal quiz, but it was like this
• Go Out To Brunch To See Which Sex And The City Character You Are
• JK Rowling, famously an unproblematic fave
• Elizabeth is theoretically a Pisces, but not really
• Karen is supposedly an Aquarius
• (Many) gay people love astrology
• Cold...

Here are some of the things we mentioned:

• Eric Carle and The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
• Eric Carle didn’t say that
• The Paris Review for Young Readers
• Rage-bait cooking videos - eg no-melt nachos, spaghetti in cold sauce
• Bronies 
• We were going to link to a problematic image about 4chan sharing things in bad faith, but then decided against it, because why spread it more?
• Content-farm video channels like Blossom, So Yummy, 5-Minut...

Here are some of the things we mentioned:

• More information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown
• Pregnancy questions video (NSFW)
• ICYMI episode on end of Yahoo Answers
• Quora
• There’s a subreddit for every question you could possibly have
• r/relationships
• Sarah Z video about where fake stories fit into internet culture
• Dear Abby/Ann Landers
• Ken M
• Amelia Bedelia
• One of many Yahoo Answers listicles
• Example of automated YouTube video reading...

Here are some of the things we mentioned:

• We got to try out at home VR thanks to Laser City
• Flash games were part of the browser game genre
• Here’s a snapshot from Elizabeth’s earliest gaming days
• Super Mario World
• Lunar Magic, a Super Mario World level editor
• Find out what stuff Karen likes on Tumblr
• Idle/Clicker/Tycoon games
• The sunk cost fallacy
• Loot boxes & the controversy around them 
• The work of Jim Stephanie Sterling

Here are the things we mentioned in the episode:

• Triple H: The counterculture-to-corporate pipeline
• Some influencers use their power for good — e.g. Linda Hoang
• Karen doesn’t fangirl about podcasts, but she does recommend them on CBC Radio Active on the first Monday of the month, or on Fridays in The Pulse
• Parasocial interaction
• BreadTube
• Kat Blaque, Princess Weekes, and Tee Noir  — left-wing YouTubers of colour, among many
• D...

Here are some of the things we mentioned in the episode:

• We talked about music last time, but then drivers license by Olivia Rodrigo happened
• Bizaardvark 
• High School Musical: The Musical - The Series 
• “Real life” drama among Disney kids
• drivers license “fan” videos on TikTok
• Pogs
• Poggers
• The Pogchamp meme
• Unlike lots of Internet slang, pogchamp is not AAVE (African American Vernacular English)
• What about “It’s free real estate”...

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• It’s been a long time since we talked about pop music
• RIP CJYR, radio station of Karen’s youth
• Also RIP Video Hits and Good Rockin’ Tonite
• Billboard Hot 100
• Hit Parade on one-hit wonders
• One Hit Wonderland by Todd in the Shadows
• Mothica
• Mothica’s duck kettle 
• Laxed [SIREN BEAT] by Jawsh 685
• Jason Derulo’s Savage Love, which made Todd in the Shadows’s worst hit songs of 2020
• Eyes Blue Lik...

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Clone High on YouTube’s Retro Rerun (it’s a cartoon, but not for little kids)
• JFK compilation
• Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys 
• Episode 9: Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in 3 Acts
• Vincent Van Gogh TikToks
• Definitions:  Bitmoji and Memoji
• VTuber, or Virtual YouTuber
• Hatsune Miku
• Kizuna AI
• Barbie has a vlog
• Shout-out to Podcast Brunch Club
• Remember Max Headroom
• Seraphine from League...

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Defining creepypasta
• The costumes we saw will be on Karen’s Instagram
• Jeff the Killer
• Zalgo
• What’s a screamer?
• What’s an Eboy?
• Laughing Jack
• Callback to when Elizabeth said stealing was OK
• Elizabeth’s Drawtober project
• Slender Man
• Slender Man’s copyright
• Channel Zero
• LOCAL58TV
• Among Us
• An Among Us joke that Karen got thanks to this episode 
• Corpse Husband on YouTube and Instagram
• @britl plays ...

Here are links to things we mentioned:

• DashCon
• Call back to our Quibi episode
• Chan boards
• Rage Comics
• Wojak Comics 
• Call back to our cottagecore episode
• NPC and its politicization
• Reply All episode on the origins of QAnon
• Call back to our Karens episode
• Call back to our memes episode with Steamed Hams
• Tumblr heritage posts 
  • Bohemian Rhapsody in rage comics from 2011
  • Tumblr vs Facebook from 2012
  • Map of Tumblr from 2012
• Call b...

This episode will sort of make sense on its own, but it will be even more satisfying if you first listen to Part 1.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Steal Like an Artist
• For a refresher on praxis, listen to Episode 20
• Examples of meme accounts and bots bringing one platform to another:
  • @luigi_atthedisco — pretty personality-heavy and advertises infrequently or never
  • @textpostgiant — a very commercial-seeming me...