Here are some of the things we mentioned: We launched in December 2017 , when Elizabeth was 15 Y2K fashion is back ? Zine culture Lilly Singh went from relatable YouTuber to out of touch late show host The painful “Gen Z slang” SNL skit David Foot and Douglas Coupland contributed to a hyper-awareness of generation StyleLikeU interview with an elder gay couple to start you off Content notice: mentions of sex, homophobia, addiction and violence But it’s really sweet we promise <3 Harold Innis a...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 51
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 episode where we talked about shipping A look at both sides of the shipping war And...
Feb 01, 2022•57 min•Ep. 50
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 Own (AO3) Callback to our fan fiction episode: Episode 5: Fanfictionary OpenSea ,...
Jan 01, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 49
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 Callback to our cottagecore episode The Bangladesh garment factory collapse ...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 48
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 after last episode, go watch it now! Pauline Kael was even harsher to th...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 47
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/Community access TV The Walten Files Episode 1 (NOT “ The Waltons ”, no ...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 46
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 show we watched at a drive-in performance (the bird poop on the windshield was our fault, not thei...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 45
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: Alberta Association of Optometrists Pod Power shout-out to What’s the Tsismis...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 44
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 relationships episode Look Who’s Inside Again reminds Karen of Ben Spencer’s Will...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 43
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 reading and how to seem psychic Elizabeth sounds like a lunar Gemi...
Jun 30, 2021•58 min•Ep. 42
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-Minute Crafts Making a purse out of a pizza box Kimora Blac: “ you didn’t s...
Jun 02, 2021•39 min•Ep. 41
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 r/askreddit The episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me which bi...
May 04, 2021•52 min•Ep. 40
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 On loot boxes On “live service” and subscriptions The NFT controversy...
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 39
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 Dream , Wilbur Soot , TommyInnit , Tubbo — gaming YouTubers who’ve exp...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 38
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 ” guy? Remember Ken Bone ? How about cranberry juice skateboarder gu...
Jan 30, 2021•49 min•Ep. 37
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 Like The Atlantic Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic, Pt. 2 The Powfu hit wi...
Dec 31, 2020•57 min•Ep. 36
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 of Legends Seraphine’s marketing campaign Many thanks to our spon...
Dec 01, 2020•50 min•Ep. 35
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 Among Us On The Media segment MrBeast Among Us gameplay clip...
Oct 28, 2020•49 min•Ep. 34
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 back to our episode mentioning the Onceler fandom Cringetober Inktober crea...
Oct 12, 2020•52 min•Ep. 33
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 meme account on Instagram Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens — a T...
Sep 08, 2020•42 min•Ep. 32
Here are links to the things we mentioned: Tom Eastman’s tweet that perfectly encapsulates what this episode is about How the blogosphere used to work This new rating thing YouTube seems to be trying out Video on Worlds Online, an early chat room with avatars What we mean by walled garden Anil Dash: The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost That Jurassic Park quote Harold Innis on the “ bias of communications ” GeoCities If you like hearing us talk about lost media, there’s more in Episode ...
Sep 01, 2020•49 min•Ep. 31
Here are links to the things we mentioned, plus some extras that were in our heart: Article about the moon incident Wikipedia, a reliable resource for research The Twitter thread in question Urban dictionary entries for speedcore , nightcore and hardcore Don’t forget mumblecore (Karen didn’t) The kidcore aesthetic The cottagecore aesthetic The witchcore aesthetic Urban dictionary discusses goth , punk , scene , emo and hipster The Articles of Interest episode on punk style Jana Pruden’s obit for...
Jul 28, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 30
Here are links to the things we mentioned: The kids were not into celebrity grad ceremonies . Elizabeth got Jon to read American Gods . We read Frankenstein out loud after reading Welcome to Night Vale . Alberta Ballet’s Frankenstein was really good. There is a movement afoot to rename the Oliver neighbourhood due to Frank Oliver’s racist harm. Find more at #UncoverOliver . Let’s Find Out did an episode on the KKK in Edmonton and an update . We talked about school resource officers , or SROs, wh...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 29
Here are links to the things we mentioned: Bite 1 : Quibi Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start (NYT) Some More News on Quibi Peter Kafka’s interview with Katzenberg on Recode Media Bite 2 (9:46): Some Good News Equals 3 (we said Less Than 3), Cute Win Fail , Philip DeFranco John Krasinski explains why he sold ‘Some Good News’ after receiving backlash (Global News) Facebook’s Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive (WSJ) Sarah Z’s OK Doomer Mia Mulder’s A...
Jun 01, 2020•54 min•Ep. 28
Here are links to the things we mentioned: Sour Grapes (the wine fraud movie Elizabeth mentions) For a refresher on praxis, see Episode 20 John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight David Letterman and Johnny Carson Elizabeth’s Letterman knowledge has not grown Some More News Big Joel’s tweet about John Oliver minus an audience Garfield minus Garfield Saturday Night Live At Home Paul Matwychuk’s tweet about telephone jokes in vaudeville Brad Pitt as Fauci > Kate McKinnon as Hilary singing Hallelujah , s...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 27
Here are links to the things we mentioned: Remember when we were going to see Hamilton in San Francisco ? Yeah, about that… Elizabeth’s intro is a homage to Sawbones . School was not cancelled , then it was cancelled , and now it’s going to be from home. If you’re in Edmonton Public Schools, get your SchoolZone login. More resources for supporting learning at home: Student learning during the COVID-19 from the Alberta government Edmonton Public Schools resources Calgary Board of Education resour...
Mar 29, 2020•58 min•Ep. 26
Here are links to the things we mentioned: We won the 2020 Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Kids & Family Series Other Alberta Podcast Network winners Sports: Tight Ends Technology: Press Start to Join News and Current Affairs: The Daveberta Podcast Television and Film: Emily Missed Out Music: Putting It Together Full list of winners Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda at the White House The fandom on Tumblr Fan-fiction on Wattpad Show Boat The Color Purple at the Citadel Heathers Playing at J...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 25
Here are links to the things we mentioned: Putting It Together — he’s now in the middle of Company , and it’s so good! Canadian Podcast Awards Putting It Together is nominated in Arts and Music That’s a Thing?! is nominated in Kids & Family Find all of the Alberta Podcast Network nominees Our recent appearance on I Don’t Get It Winter Shakespeare Festival Kyle’s show notes from our episode Episode 23 , in which we talked about this copyright mess More info from Access Copyright Many thanks t...
Feb 01, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 24
Here's what you can expect from our sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20.
Jan 02, 2020•1 min
Here are links to the things we mentioned: YouTube usage and revenue stats Unraveled , especially The Perfect PokéRap Hank Green science videos You Suck at Cooking , who was nice on Instagram Copyright suit hits Canadian schools Audacity tutorials are the best KSI vs Logan Paul December’s YouTube walkout Jon listens to CBC, resulting in a callback to our CanCon episode Children’s Online Protection of Privacy Act YouTube Rewind playlist Shoutout to Claire, giver of cookies, maker of Unbelts Jimmy...
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 23
