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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 and Marshall McLuhan – still pretty helpful guys for understanding what’s going on
• If you aren’t sold on wrestling, watch these videos
• You can find Karen’s work at Taproot Edmonton and Taproot Publishing
• Shout-out to our colleagues at the Alberta Podcast Network
• The first pages of Elizabeth’s comic project
• You might hear us some time on I Don’t Get It
• We recommend Transistor for hosting and Castria for editing

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• BGCBigs
• Virtual Open House Season from Edmonton Public Schools

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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 episode where we talked about shipping
• A look at both sides of the shipping war
  • And a look at the history of purity culture in fandom
• Twitter thread on disinterpretation
  • And a video on Ship of Theseus
• The history of the “touch grass” meme
• Tennessee school board bans Holocaust comic 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman
• A more sympathetic analysis of Why the Curtains are Blue

Fortunately, we have entered a boom period for criticism online. Here are five excellent videos expanding on what we discussed this episode.

• we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name by Lola Sebastian
• Should you let Gen Z "save us"? Youth Liberation explained by Khadija Mbowe and Saint Andrewism
• Ignorance & Censorship by Philosophy Tube
• Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century by hbomberguy
• Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism by Jacob Geller

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• BGCBigs
• Virtual Open House Season from Edmonton Public Schools

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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, an NFT marketplace
• Ethereum
• Twitter account dedicated to sniffing out art theft
• DeviantArt
• Example of the right-click movement against NFT art
• FUD
• Some more anti-NFT content for you
  • The NFT Nightmare
  • NFTs Are Getting Worse. Like WAY Worse.
  • Dan Olson’s NFT scam megathread
  • laughing at crypto bros, a deceptively educational livestream

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• Park Power

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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
• The pet-pictures-for-trees fiasco
• Some anti-Shein TikToks
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@ssiiena/video/6993034600368884997?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@milkbite/video/6997215512925097221?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@haleyivers/video/6972647481569971462?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@maddypageknitwear/video/6977324167226084613?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@cuteshitbylili/video/6952699186299047174?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380
• The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice, per Terry Pratchett
• It’s Expensive to Be Poor, by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Cora Harrington has a very balanced approach to affordability, sustainability and care
• Edmonton Repairathon
• Clothes Doctor
• Fashion Revolution

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation, partner on the Vital Signs report on Making Ends Meet in Edmonton
• Park Power

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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 this movie than Elizabeth was
• The rating debate
• Poltergeist was fine, but here’s some movies we actively recommend
  • The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920, 100% mom safe)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014, comedic gore/violence)
  • The Lighthouse (2019, gore/violence/sexual content/psychological horror)
  • House on Haunted Hill (1959, campy and delightful)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968, gory and violent, mitigated by its age and budget)
  • The Girl with all the Gifts (2016, violent and gory, but strangely uplifting)
• Music is Now or Never by Myuu, who is a fantastic royalty-free composer
• Sound clips from our special feature courtesy of:
  • Joe DeShon
  • pfranzen
  • gear_clinkz
  • owly-bee

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• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• APN itself, in particular Speaking Municipally and I Love This, You Should Too

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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 matter what autocorrect says)
  • The deeply unsettling jumpscare face a la screamers
• How the original FNAF uses sound to terrify
• Ben Drowned, the story of a haunted game cartridge
• Cassette, an early Welcome to Night Vale episode
• An important message from Omega Mart
• Makeshift Stories
• An episode of Paranormal Paranoids (complete with earwormy theme song)
• The Power of VHS by hbomberguy
• The cinematic potential of cave art
• Control, Anatomy and the Legacy of the Haunted House by Jacob Geller
• Tsukumogami and Mokumokuren
• Do not adjust your podcast feed because next month we’ll be tuning in to another piece of art with opinions about technology, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper’s PG powerhouse, Poltergeist.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation, presenting sponsor of YEGPodfest
• Alberta Association of Optometrists

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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 theirs)
• Sarah Z video on pick-me girls
• Origin of Love from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Callback to our astrology episode
• ABO (don’t Google it, says Jon)
• Time Princess and Project Makeover
• Redecor
• Episode

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• The Well Endowed Podcast from the Edmonton Community Foundation

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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?, courtesy of the Edmonton Community Foundation

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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 Willow Tree (didn’t mention it but thought of it afterwards)
• If you want to skip our discussion of suicide, it’s from 57:56 to 1:04:17

• BellLetsTalk

• Pop Culture Happy Hour on Inside
• Brave New World and soma
• The Edmonton Fringe is coming back!

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• Business Council of Alberta
• ATB Cares

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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 Gemini, but she’s actually a lunar Taurus?
• Peter Popoff debunked by James Randi
• 16Personalities
• The origins of personality typing
• Look up The Debater if you want to see a man you’ll hate
• Karen is The Advocate
• Elizabeth is The Logician
• More mesmerizing content to amaze and enrage you
  • The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers, and Mediums
  • Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Shift by Alberta Innovates
• Pod Power shout-out to Book Women, courtesy of the Edmonton Community Foundation

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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 say jk though”
• Bad waffle-iron videos
• Wrap-folding hack from TikTok
• Ann Reardon’s How To Cook That
• You Suck at Cooking
• The quote about lies on the internet was from Arthur! (We would never quote Bizaardvark.)

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• Natural Light Edmonton
• The Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast

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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 bids YA farewell
• A collection of final Yahoos
• Callback to Flash games episode
• r/thetipofmytongue
• Callback to walled gardens episode
• The Soul of a Library - Jacob Geller
• Jason Scott and Archive Team

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Rümi
• Pod Power shout-out for Overdue Finds, courtesy of Edmonton Community Foundation

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We’ve been on some APN shows recently — check them out!

• The Breakfast Dish
• Bollywood is For Lovers
• Speaking Municipally

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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
• Picrew
• Cuphead
• Team Fortress 2
• Speed Dating for Ghosts is available on Steam and Switch
• Find dubious ads for apps here
• And now, a list of every app we mentioned in this episode!
  • Plants Vs Zombies
  • Temple Run 2
  • Minecraft
  • Clash of Clans
  • Raid: Shadow Legends
  • Candy Crush
  • Fishdom
  • Homescapes & Gardenscapes
  • Terrarium
  • Clusterduck
  • Doodle Jump 2
  • Just Mowing
  • Monster Girl Maker
  • Streaks
  • NYT Crosswords
  • Fruit Ninja

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• NAIT’s Career Essentials podcast
• Pod Power shout-out for YourForest, courtesy of Edmonton Community Foundation

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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 exploded in popularity
• Callback to our episode on PewDiePie, jacksepticeye, and Markiplier
• CallMeCarson (and cancelled)
• ARGs, and the Wiki for Wilbur Soot’s game
• Callback to our Among Us episode
• Corpse has amassed a massive, active fanbase
• Corpse’s Spotify page
• The polls exploit in the YouTube Algorithm
• Raid: Shadow Legends and the controversy around it
• Whang! is entertaining, not scrupulous
• Everything goes back to Harold Innis
• CALM
• Callback (way back) to our Tide Pods episode

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• NAIT’s Career Essentials podcast
• Searching for Izena

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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 guy?
• Dream
• Minecraft speed running
• Mod team declares cheating
• Dream tweets about being blamed for fans’ misbehaviour
• Parasocial relationships

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• BGCBigs
• Searching for Izena

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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 with the beabadobee hook
• Lil Nas X, who is not a one-hit wonder, loves Fenty, and designs fashion
• Megan Thee Stallion #bodychallenge
• The Karens episode, where we talked about internet shorthand
• Example of TikTok outfit transitions
• List of TikTok music trends
• If the world was ending, you’d come over, right? No.
• Hayloft on TikTok
• Space Girl by Frances Forever
• Our feelings on TikTok are more nuanced than before

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well-Endowed Podcast
• Edmonton Heritage Council and the call for E-CAMP contributors (deadline to apply is Jan. 8, 2021)

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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

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• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well-Endowed Podcast
• The Shared Mic

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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, fan art, and cosplay
• AOC’s Among Us stream highlights
• Call of Duty: Conscientious Objector from The Debutantes
• Taproot Edmonton Presents: Igniting Innovation

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• Unbelts
• Alberta Forest Products Association

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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 creator controversy
• Oppa Homeless Style
• If you’re wondering what Jon is shouting at the end, it’s this.

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• The Shared Mic: Conversations for the Ages
• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast, especially Episode 79

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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 Twitter meme account run by a person
  • Am I the A**hole? — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a mod
  • me_irl — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a bot (also a good example of reposting and cross-posting)
  • Moldy Memes — a subreddit Jon wanted us to share
• The Lincoln Project is accused of stealing memes
• Beverley Theresa’s post about being on Twitter just to screenshot for Insta
• @_citizen_dane’s super-long Instagram captions about heritage buildings in Edmonton
• Definition of desire path
• Elizabeth has two poems in the Edmonton Youth Anthology, Volume 1, from Ink Movement. Here’s the book launch video (Elizabeth reads her poem at 12:18).
• Salute to Mack Male, my business partner at Taproot Publishing and a blogger since 2003!

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Unbelts — Use the offer code APN to get a free mini laundry bag with your cloth masks.
• Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta

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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 21
• Episode 46 of Let’s Find Out: Marriage and Murder at the Mirama
• The deep web
• Internet Archive
• Wayback Machine
• Adobe Flash Player is dying
• The Ragtag Squad That Saved 38,000 Flash Games from Oblivion
• BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
• Heritage Posts on Tumblr
• Sarah Z on Onceler x Onceler, we’re so, so sorry.
• Fallen Titans
• Sarah Z on Dashcon
• Internet Historian and Whang!
• Down the Rabbit Hole

Stay tuned for Part 2, coming out Sept. 7-ish.

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• Unbelts, maker of the best stretch belts around and our favourite cloth masks
• Edmonton Community Foundation, maker of The Well Endowed Podcast and presenting sponsor of YEGPodfest

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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 Mr. Chi Pig
• Mal Blum
• On Nostalgia by David Berry
• Goths by the Mountain Goats
• Worst Year Ever podcast on furries fighting the alt-right
• YouTube documentary on furries
• “Fly Me to the Moon” parody
• Our lost media episode
• That dark academia quiz
• Fun dark academia activities to do
• Article with the Alison Bechdel quote and the picture
• That moth meme.
• Cottagecore TikToks!
  • Dead Girl’s Guide to Surviving Cottagecore
  • Sapphic Waffle House (Cottagecore)
  • Sapphic Waffle House (Dark Academia)
  • WLW Jamba Juice
  • And here’s some masc lesbian content!
  • Is she... you know?
• WitchTok on gatekeeping
• WitchTok on appropriation
• Kat Blaque on YouTube
• Reply All on appropriated ball culture (starts at about 17:55)

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Straight from the CPA’s Mouth from the CPA Education Foundation and the Hesje CPA Knowledge Centre
• Putting It Together, which had Karen on to talk about Who’s That Woman? from Follies.

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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, who have been stationed at some Edmonton schools since 1979. Lots has happened on this file, and the story is evolving. Some background:
  • CBC: School board to reconsider school resource officer motion following trustee resignation
  • Edmonton Journal: Edmonton Public School Board chair pushing for re-vote on suspending the SRO program
  • Bashir Mohamed’s SRO research and commentary is compiled in his Edmonton Anti-Black Racism Toolkit.
  • Speaking Municipally discussed the issue in Episode 90.
• Recommended reading and watching for Pride Month:
  • Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
  • Punderworld by Linda Sejic
  • The Sea in You by Jessi Sheron
  • Peritale/Life of Melody by Mari Costa
  • Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu
  • Jessica Kellgren-Fozard on YouTube

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• World on Fire from CBC Edmonton
• Straight from the CPA’s Mouth from the CPA Education Foundation and the Hesje CPA Knowledge Centre

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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 Apathy and Democracy
• Bite 3 (22:35): Social media as… media
  • Coverage of George Floyd’s death in police custody, the ensuing protests and the police reaction (WaPo)
  • Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers covers many of the tips shared by Elizabeth, and more
  • Things To Do Instead Of Calling The Cops, Part 1 and Part 2, from @tapioca_starch
  • Anti-racism resources shared by Brittany Packett
  • Shareable Anti-racism Resource Guide compiled by Tasha K. Ryals
  • Unicorn Riot live video from Minneapolis
• Bite 4 (44:05): Language coding and internet prestige
  • Hank Green on reaction images
  • Rare Pepe
  • Rawr XD
  • r/woooosh (the subreddit for people who miss the joke)
  • Thanks for the Gold Kind Stranger!
  • Mocking SpongeBob
  • It Is Wednesday My Dudes

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Storylines (particularly Episode 8) from Women in Film and Television - Alberta
• Inventures Unbound, happening online on June 3 and 4, 2020.

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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, says Elizabeth
• The Greatest American Hero
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine > Big Bang Theory
• Decoder Ring episode on the laugh track
• Why MAS*H had a laugh track
• Peter Brown shares thoughts about communal laughter on I Don’t Get It
• Punching up and punching sideways, as seen in various lgbt tiktoks
• That Amy Schumer skit on women and compliments
• The Underdogs of Comedy by Sally Poulsen and Jeff Samsonow
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic
• TikToks that use gay/bisexual coding
• Left at London’s “relatable” Vine
• Lindsay Ellis on reactions to accusations of cultural appropriation
• “It’s just a joke” is a bad defence, says Thought Slime
• For more on standup, listen to Lars Callieou on Don’t Call Me a Guru
• RuPaul’s Drag Race and Bianca Del Rio
• Bo Burnham’s Left Brain, Right Brain and Country Song
• John Mulaney’s There’s a Horse in the Hospital and Street Smarts
• Inside Shelley Berman
• Nestor Pistor (we warned you)
• Bill Cosby - Himself (sorry)
• Kids in the Hall, who are reuniting
• Four on the Floor (but Karen was actually thinking of The Frantics)
• SCTV (recently memorialized in Edmonton)
• Random moustaches
• YouTube Poop
• Michael Rosen in his nice, unadulterated form
• Foo Fighters vs The Foo

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Well Endowed Podcast (particularly Episode 69) from the Edmonton Community Foundation
• Pod Power, courtesy of ATB, to the Alberta Queer Calendar Project

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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 resources
  • University of Alberta MOOCs that cover K-12 curriculum
• Go for a walk if you’re not sick.
• Support local business.
• Spin Linda Hoang’s wheel of local.
• The kids made a Mii with an elaborate backstory.
• Animal Crossing
• Speed Dating for Ghosts
• Cribbage
• Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel
• How to help artists
• Kanopy — it’s free with your library card!
• Unraveled
  • Elizabeth recommends We made all 78 Breath of the Wild recipes in one day.
• Monster Factory
• Todd in the Shadows
  • In particular, Trainwreckords and One Hit Wonderland
• Chris Fleming, a modern-day Weird Al
  • Karen recommends (?) Polyamorous
• Jon Bois on SBNation
  • Elizabeth looks forward to The History of the Seattle Mariners.
• Ask a Mortician
  • Elizabeth recommends The Lake That Never Gives Up Her Dead.
• hbomberguy
  • Elizabeth recommends Pathologic is Genius, and Here’s Why and Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century.
• BuzzFeed Unsolved
  • Elizabeth recommends The Unbelievable Horrors of the Old City Jail.
• Record a podcast! Transistor tells you how.
  • Or don’t. That’s OK, too.
• Do you want a That’s a Thing?! button? Send us your address by Twitter DM or email and we will send you one (sanitized, we promise).

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Loop from CBC Edmonton
• Taproot Edmonton
  • COVID-19 site

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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. Percy Page from March 4 to 7
• Six
  • Karen talking about Six on I Don’t Get It
• High School Musical
• Encore! — the show about going back to high school to re-stage a musical
• Dear Evan Hansen
• Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton
  • The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • Vigilante
• Neil Patrick Harris’s It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore
• The Prom
• Falsettos
• Fun Home, Changing My Major to Joan
• The Louder We Get at Theatre Calgary
• Kyle Marshall of Putting It Together
  • Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  • Into the Woods
  • Citadel Theatre Students Club
  • The Producers
  • Wicked
• Our appearance on Putting It Together
• Legally Blonde at Ross Sheppard High School (May 6-9, 2020 — save the date!)

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• SkirtsAfire Festival, happening until March 8
  • Use the offer code panelfive to get $5 off the regular ticket price for The Blue Hour.
  • Listen to Unpacking The Blue Hour on I Don’t Get It
• Taproot Edmonton
  • Subscribe to the Arts and Music Roundups for free
  • Become a Taproot Member for as many roundups as you like

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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 to Matt Bowes of Bollywood is For Lovers

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• SkirtsAfire Festival, happening Feb. 27 to March 8
  • Use the offer code panelfive to get $5 off the regular ticket price for The Blue Hour.
  • Attend Unpacking The Blue Hour on March 1
• Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes at Telus World of Science Edmonton until Feb. 17

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Here's what you can expect from our sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20.

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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 Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel — not the same guy
• jacksfilms lampoons the Pauls’ Rewind appearance
• WatchMojo ranking of Rewind
• Forget who PewDiePie is? If only, but here’s when we talked about him before

We meant to go short — we ended up going long. Thanks for sticking with us, through this and two years’ worth of That’s a Thing?!!

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Well Endowed Podcast from the Edmonton Community Foundation, especially Episode 61, featuring Let’s Find Out’s Chris Chang-Yen Phillips
• Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes at Telus World of Science Edmonton

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Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• The Taylor Lorenz article that started it all
• The triple meme Instagram post
• You Know I Had to Do It to Em meme
• Some highlights of the backlash
• Definition of boomer (Thanks DankMemeOS)
• Generation X, as defined by Douglas Coupland
• Buzzfeed article full of Karen defamation
• YouTube video tangentially related to Italian puppet theatre
• Ok zoomer (not the Moses Znaimer kind)
• Definition of VSCO girl
• Eboys, Egirls, soft boys, soft girls
• And, of course, the frickboy (definition not censored)
• Video essay on NLOGs
• More proof that Karen is hip with the kids yo on This is Adulting

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Taproot Edmonton and Speaking Artistically
• Unit B Coworking

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Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Usually Jon talks about memes
• Lost Media Wiki
• r/lostmedia on Reddit
• Three reasons lost media is scary
  • Existential dread — stuff can just disappear, and not even be findable on Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
  • Haunting nostalgia — goodbye weird games on DVD extras
  • The Zeigarnik effect
• When the screensaver hit the corner on The Office
• Two case studies:
  • The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet
    • Sleuthing on Reddit
    • Stay tuned to the end of the episode for the whole song, if you dare....
  • Geedis
    • r/UnresolvedMysteries
    • r/Geedis
    • Geedis: An Internet Mystery For The Ages... Gets Solved! on Endless Thread
• Elizabeth’s Inktober project on Instagram and Twitter
• Two lost media jack-o’-lanterns

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes at Telus World of Science Edmonton
• Rural Routes to Climate Solutions

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Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Storm Area 51 on Know Your Meme
• Naruto runner video
• What is a Kyle?
• What is a Karen?
• The Lies Behind Area 51

• ThingsIFoundInArea51

• What is praxis?
• Alice Isn’t Dead
• Our episode on shady recruitment to MLMs and the like
• Exposing Instagram Scams
• Greta Thunberg
• 11 Young Climate Justice Activists You Need To Pay Attention To
• Edmonton Global Strike for Climate Action
• Young Alberta activists join global climate strikes
• Should we lower the voting age?
• YouTube video about “climate grief”
• Bothsidesism, aka false balance
• Michael Liebreich
• Elizabeth’s favourite protest signs

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• AuthorPods and LitFest — Come see Karen interview Jana Pruden and Justin Ling on Oct. 5 at Metro Cinema at the True Crime Showdown (use APNROCKS19 to get $5 off)
• ATB — Learn more about ATB X and Taproot Edmonton’s participation

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Here are links to some of the things we mentioned:

• Defining MLM — multilevel marketing
• Defining pyramid scheme
• Notwithstanding Elizabeth’s joke, Girl Guides of Canada is good! Buy cookies.
• Vector Marketing, seller of Cutco products
• The history of Vector and Cutco
• The copy-paste recruitment text message
• Stephen Notley’s 1992 piece on Kirby vacuum sales
• Hope! The antiMLM subreddit
• Mulan gets ready to defeat the huns
• Sasha Frere-Jones called Twitter “a self-cleaning oven” — he may have been a bit too optimistic
• Those weirdly specific Facebook shirts

Special thanks to Jon Spencer for editing this episode.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation, which makes The Well Endowed Podcast. Episode 51 features contributions from Chris Chang-Yen Phillips and Hunter Cardinal.
• Taproot Edmonton, home of the Arts Roundup curated by Fawnda Mithrush and the Business Roundup curated by Paul Cashman, among other things.

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As Jon points out in the episode, memes are a visual medium, so here are some references in case our descriptions leave something to be desired. (Also, we had some sound difficulties, which get a bit better after the seventh minute or so.)

• Karen is not a Boomer (but she did get the intro wrong)
• Meme 1: Me and the boys
  • Avengers variation
  • Lego variation
• ‘60s Spider-Man as a source of memes
• Spider-Man theme song
• Episode 17: Can CanCon continue?
• The Can Can
• Meme 2: Skyrim Skill Tree
• Meme 3: Drake reaction
  • Luigi variation
  • SpongeBob variations
• SpongeBob Super Bowl letdown
• Meme 4: GamerGirl Bath Water
  • Squidward variation
  • Me-flavored water
  • The hoax tweet

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• ATB, particularly the Entrepreneur Centres
• Know Your Options from Alberta Health Services

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Here’s more on what we mentioned during this Canada Day nostalgia-fest (most of these are Canadian but some are American things we mentioned in passing):

• What is Canadian content?
• One-hit wonders, like Snow
• CJYR Radio in Edson (which appears to have died in 2005)
• Anne Murray
• Shania Twain
• Loverboy
• Burton Cummings
• The Poppy Family and Terry Jacks’s Seasons in the Sun
• Taproot article about the downtown market returning to 104th Street
• Bryan Adams
• Corey Hart
• Glass Tiger
• Drake
• Stan Rogers
• Gordon Lightfoot
• Leonard Cohen
• Video Hits
• Good Rockin’ Tonight
• Four O’Clock Rock
• MuchMusic
• Platinum Blonde
• Honeymoon Suite
• We might do a playlist. We’ll link it here if we do.
• Eugene Lee Yang’s music video
• Earth by Lil Dicky
• Night Vale Weather
• The Littlest Hobo
• Wayne and Shuster / Bathtubs Over Broadway
• The Beachcombers
• SCTV
• Schitt’s Creek
• Great White North / Bob and Doug Mackenzie
• Mr. Dressup
• Under the Influence
• The Friendly Giant
• My Brother, My Brother and Me TV show
• Your Movie Sucks
• Murdoch Mysteries
• Invader Zim
• Danny Phantom
• Anne with an E
• Cadence Weapon
• Brook Lynn Hytes

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast
• Park Power

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Here are some things we mentioned or drew from:

• Please fill out the Alberta Podcast Network listener survey
• We missed last month because of The Drowsy Chaperone
• That time when Arby’s tweeted about its waifu
• Fast food Twitter accounts sassing each other over and over
• Todd in the Shadows disapproves
• Technically, a corporation is like a person under the law, but they don’t need to act like it
• The whole Gritty thing
• Did the Oilers Win?
• The Starbucks influencer campaign with drag queens and beauty YouTubers
• That Fyre Festival doc
• We always end up talking about Jake Paul (Episode 2) and Logan Paul (Episode 3)
• Linda Hoang, a good influencer who adds a lot to the conversation on Don’t Call Me A Guru
• The James Charles situation
• Kermit sipping tea meme
• hbomberguy on woke brands
• Nike did well with Colin Kaepernick ad but also faces backlash to policy for pregnant employees
• Pride Skittles
• Not-very-old things that Elizabeth sees nostalgia for:
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Plants vs Zombies
  • Minecraft
  • Shrek
  • LazyTown
• The campaign to get Avengers: Endgame to beat Avatar at the box office
• The Evil Duolingo Owl meme
• The Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones
• The Blair Witch Project’s viral marketing
• Noted memester Elon Musk
• Philosophy Tube explains how Elon Musk appropriates counter-culture
• Sorry for the McDonald’s ear worm

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Edmonton Public Library, provider of the Overdue Finds podcast and Kanopy
• Unit B Coworking, home base of the Alberta Podcast Network and Taproot Edmonton (which makes Speaking Municipally)

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Remember to fill out the listener survey before June 17, 2019.

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Here’s more information on some of the things we mention:

• N.B. The excerpt from Poly Queer Love Ballad (18:05 to 22:15) is amazing, but also quite explicit, so be forewarned. Special thanks to Sara Vickruck and Anais West for performing the song and letting us include it in this recording.
• SkirtsAfire Festival — fill out the survey if you were there!
• GSA = gay-straight alliance. QSA = queer-straight alliance.
  • Definition
  • Alberta’s law supporting gay-straight alliances in schools
• The ridiculous “I identify as an attack helicopter” meme
• Gender neutral third-person pronouns
• Some better examples of healthy relationship and world-building that include queerness:
  • Monster Pop by Maya Kern
  • The Young Protectors by Alex Woolfson
  • Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques
• Definition of cancel culture
• The current GSA discussion in Alberta’s provincial election
  • Edmonton Journal: UCP would roll back school protections for LGBTQ students, add new provincial exams
  • Edmonton Journal: Explainer: What the School Act and the Education Act say about LGBTQ student and employee rights
• CBC: St. Paul school principal refused to let students form GSA, report says
• A picture of our panel (thanks to Kate)
• Our panelists (from left to right in this picture, on either side of Elizabeth and Karen):
  • Sara Vickruck
  • Anais West
  • Marni Panas
  • Harley Morison
• Things mentioned by our panelists:
  • Nexopia
  • Yahoo! Groups
  • Is This Bi Culture?
  • The Fosters
• Our panelists’ projects:
  • Harley: Alberta Queer Calendar Project
  • Anais: Diaspora from the Frank Theatre Company, Killjoy Play Series at rEvolver Festival
  • Sara: Sound design for The Candidate/The Party at the Citadel, Bard on the Beach
  • Marni: #marniandkate2019
  • Elizabeth: The Drowsy Chaperone at Ross Sheppard from May 1 to 4
• Also, this episode is being published on International Transgender Day of Visibility. Much love to Marni for all of her work, and salute to SkirtsAfire for naming her this year's Honorary Skirt.

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• The Edmonton Public Library’s Overdue Finds podcast
• The Let’s Do Coffee podcast from NAIT’s Mawji Centre for New Venture and Student Entrepreneurship

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Here are some of the things we talk about:

• Ahrefs top YouTube searches
• What is a Let’s Play?
• Our indie video games episode
• Our Fortnite episode
• How Minecraft broke YouTube
• The trinity: Markiplier, Jacksepticeye and PewDiePie
• Our memes episode, which mentions Markiplier E
• SocialBlade’s YouTube stats
• Catalyst Theatre’s Vigilante
• On the Media: The Global Culture War for YouTube Supremacy
• Game Theory by Matpat
• Freaky Friday: the original and the remake
• Riley J. Dennis

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• ATB’s The Branch for Arts and Culture, where you can find Ben Spencer (listen to his new album, Bungalows!)
• The Edmonton Community Foundation, home of The Well Endowed Podcast, including Episode 38 with friend of the show Paula Simons.

We’re doing a live show! Join us March 17 for That’s a Thing?! Live: The Internet is My GSA at SkirtsAfire, a festival featuring women in theatre and multidisciplinary arts. We’ll start with a discussion of the internet as a place for LGTBQ+ youth to find themselves and each other, and then we’ll have a panel discussion with Sara Vickruck and Anais West of Poly Queer Love Ballad, Harley Morison of Cardiac Theatre, and the festival’s 2019 Honorary Skirt, Marni Panas.

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Here are some of the things we talk about:

(N.B. We recorded part of this in 2018, part of it in 2019, so there are a few references to “this year” that may be slightly confusing. What is time, anyway?)

• TikTok
• What I’m already Tracer means
• What Hit or Miss means
• History of Musical.ly
• History of Vine
• Find some funny Tik Toks on Ironic Tik Toks Twitter account
• Find some cringe-y Tik Toks on Dankius on YouTube
• The Great Furry War
• How TikTok makes money, sort of
• What Sprite Cranberry means
• Tumblr banned adult content on Dec. 17, 2018

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Park Power, your local-loving provider of electricity and natural gas
• The Edmonton Community Foundation, home of The Well Endowed Podcast

Elizabeth’s brother Jon, who you may remember from Episode 8, returns talk about some memes of 2018, most of which are over by now, but still...

• T-Pose
• Somebody Toucha My Spaghet
• People Who Thank the Bus Driver
• Surprised Pikachu
• Steamed Hams

We’re finalists in the Canadian Podcast Awards in the Kids and Family category. Thanks to whoever nominated us. If you are a Canadian podcaster, you can vote until Feb. 18. Congrats to all of the nominees, especially our fellow APN members who were also nominated. 

Here's a special offer for you from SeatGIANT, the Canadian ticket resale marketplace: Use the offer code “apn” at checkout to get 5% off your purchase. You’ll be helping yourself while helping the network.

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.  

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at thatsathingyeg@gmail.com or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

Many thanks to Unit B Coworking for the recording space and to our podcast host, Transistor.

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Here are some of the things we talk about:

• Part 1 - The cons and cons of YouTube
• Timeline:
  • 2002: Elizabeth is born.
  • 2005: YouTube is born.
  • 2006: Google buys YouTube.
• Flaw 1 - Copyright confusion
  • YouTube copyright strikes
  • Somehow, Leprechaun 4: In Space is still available
• Flaw 2 - Demonetization
  • PewDiePie and anti-Semitic stunts
  • Boring-to-teens but safe channels like Jimmy Kimmel
  • Demonetization of LGBTQ content
• Flaw 3 - The algorithm
  • Values longer videos, which hurts animators
  • Elizabeth was mysteriously unsubscribed to The Bible Reloaded (now called Hugo and Jake)
  • She does not want to receive meme compilations on YouTube (but we did do a whole episode about memes)
  • How to end up in an right-wing echo chamber via autoplay
  • What we mean by “Spider-Man and Elsa” (NSFW, not safe for kids)
• Lindsay Ellis’s channel
• Hank Green’s tweets about YouTube and authenticity
• Our Team 10 episode, to remind you of Jake Paul (sorry)
• Shane Dawson’s business is to restore authenticity
• Just like reality TV and wrestling, YouTube thrives on breaking kayfabe
• The fall of Onision

This episode is brought to you by two new podcasts that you should check out: Back To School Again, presented by NorQuest College, and Let's Do Coffee, from NAIT's Mawji Centre.

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. Shoutout to our friends at 2 and Out and Let’s Find Out, and to Auntie Kate for helping out at 2 and Out Live.

You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Here are links to the things we referred to.

• Elizabeth’s spooky inspiration
• Karen’s spooky inspiration
• Episode 1: Creepypasta
• The SCP Foundation
• Creepy art on Twitter: 41Strange, Toilets with Threatening Auras
• The Sun Vanished on Twitter
• Crypt TV
• The Little Mermaid on Crypt TV
• Salad Fingers
• Don’t Hug Me .I’m Scared
• That story about disturbing animation aimed at children

Many thanks to our sponsors this episode:

• OtherWise is an affiliated podcast of the Alberta Podcast Network, created under the auspices of the Ribbon Rouge Foundation. It features the lived experiences of people of colour living on Treaty 6 territory. Episode 2 is out now.
• Let’s Do Coffee is an APN-affiliated podcast created by the Mawji Centre for New Venture and Student Entrepreneurship at NAIT. It features great interviews with alumni and student entrepreneurs. Episode 2 is out now.

By the way, Part 2 of our double-header on Tanacon is in the works. Watch for that in November. (Here's Part 1.)

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Here are links to things we referred to:

• VidCon, the YouTube conference
• Our guest Kyle Marshall’s YouTube channel
• Kyle also owns Media Lab YYC, and has three podcasts in the Alberta Podcast Network: Assumptions, Putting It Together and Creative Block
• Hank Green’s vlogbrothers, Crash Course and SciShow
• Tana Mongeau’s YouTube channel
• “Why I Won’t Be Attending VidCon 2018: A Rant”
• The only thing you see if you visit tanacon.com
• Shane Dawson’s The Truth about Tanacon
• Tana’s apology video: Tanacon: The good, the bad, and the ugly
• New York Magazine: A Mouth to Hell Opened This Weekend at Tanacon, a Fyre Festival for the YouTube Set
• In case you forgot about Fyre Festival
• PodCon, a much better convention that we were lucky enough to attend last year.

Stick around beyond the end for more baritone goodness from Kyle.

This episode was brought to you by LitFest, Canada’s original nonfiction festival, which runs in Edmonton from Oct. 11 to 21. Use the offer code APNROCKS to get $5 off your ticket purchase.

This episode is also brought to you by Back to School Again, a new affiliated podcast of the Alberta Podcast Network, featuring stories of people returning to post-secondary studies in midlife.

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Here are links to things we mentioned and other things that seem relevant in hindsight:

• The meaning of “meme”
• The inciting tweet from Jason of The Young Gaffers
• The Markiplier E meme
• The Hey Beter meme
• The original Hey Peter video
• Suicide Mouse video
• Despacito, the original
• The Despacito 2 meme
• The This is So Sad Alexa Play Despacito meme
• The This is So Sad meme
• The Slaps Roof of Car meme
• The Repost Fish meme
• A deep dive into the Loss meme
• Know Your Meme is helpful. Urban Dictionary? Use at your own risk.

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Elizabeth made a Spotify playlist of songs we refer to, for your listening/cringing pleasure.

Here are links to some of the other things we talked about:

• Not this kind of flossing
• This kind of flossing
• We keep talking about Fortnite
• Edmonton Podcasting Meetup, where Mack Male of Taproot Edmonton asked Elizabeth to explain flossing
• Swish Swish
• Backpack Kid
• Flossing Song
• Forget fidget spinners, now the craze is The Floss dance
• Victory animation in Fortnite: Flossing, Electro Shuffle, Dab
• We keep talking about Tide Pods
• Ironic dabbing
• Iconic dabbing
• Dabbing at a funeral
• Harlem Shake
• We find a way to talk about K-Pop
• Michelle Obama doing Evolution of Mom Dancing with Jimmy Fallon, i.e. how Karen knows what The Dougie is
• Drake gif memes: Tennis, Pizza, Star Wars
• Don't sit like a horse (not clean)
• That time we went on I Don’t Get It to talk about Batboy: The Musical
• Hat tip to Karen’s Facebook friends for reminding her of all the dances she forgot
• The Moonwalk
• Rock Lobster on Just Dance (Even more about Rock Lobster and the B-52s from Slate’s Hit Parade)
• Walk Like an Egyptian
• The Macarena
• Debbie Harry explains the Pogo
• The Electric Slide
• Country line-dancing to Cadillac Ranch
• The Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Here are the links to a bunch of things we mentioned:

• K-Poparazzi on Radiolab
• The Monkees
• H.O.T.
• Our episode on fan fiction, which mentions K-Pop a lot
• Gangnam Style (as if you haven't seen it)
• BTS
• BTS at the Pyeongchang Olympics
• BTS at Billboard Music Awards
• BTS on The Ellen Show in 2017 and 2018
• BTS with Taylor Swift
• BTS on Twitter
• Urban Dictionary definitions of ARMY, no true scotsman and bias

• mermay on Twitter

• Examples of #mermay shipping BTS members from @cosmicpens and @Capramare
• Rantasmo on queerbaiting in Sherlock
• Moonlighting's "finally" episode
• The X-Files tension
• Riverdale's trailer
• Supernatural, still going on
• BTS skin care routines
• Hope you'll join us at Make Music Edmonton and/or Podcasts Connect
• Hear us on I Don't Get It talking about Bat Boy: The Musical

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• Fortnite on Twitch
• Brace for Impact, the upcoming season of Fortnite
• Fortnite Battle Royale
• Game Theory: WARNING - Pokemon May Cause DEATH!
• What is ‘Strip Fortnite’ and Why Are Women Signing Up? (Cosmopolitan)
• The Real History of Twitter (Business Insider) — another example of a happy (?) accident
• ‘Fortnite’ Now Asks Students to Not Play in Class (Rolling Stone)
• Overklocked Gaming in Edmonton has a Battle Royale Night every Tuesday, if you want to watch it with people.

We'd love it if you'd rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. You can also find us on Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.

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We're proud to be a member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. We mentioned a few fellow members — Ed: Conversations about the Teaching Life, Press Start to Join and Assumptions.

Join the Alberta Podcast Network at NorthwestFest on May 8 to watch Sickboy and Picture This, two documentaries with a podcast connection. Use the offer code APNBOGO18 to get two-for-one tickets.

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Some links to things we talked about:

• Definition of fan fiction
• Hamilton shipping, like Lams
• Sherlock shipping
• Sarah Marshall’s piece in The Baffler: The Afterlife of Newsies
• Original Character Do Not Steal meme
• Urban Dictionary definition of Mary Sue
• Places to find fan fiction:
  • Tumblr: #fanfiction and #fanfic
  • Quotev
  • fanfiction.net
  • Wattpad
  • Tap by Wattpad
• Business Insider on Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight

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This episode is brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation, creator of The Well Endowed Podcast.

We're proud to be a member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. We mentioned a couple of fellow members — Let's Find Out and Don't Call Me A Guru.

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Elizabeth dives into the world of indie video games, introducing some that her mother would really rather not know about (hi, FNAF), and some that she's kind of looking forward to trying. Plus, #PaulWatch and the meaning of THOT.

Some links to things we talked about:

• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
• Hello Neighbor
• Cuphead
• Super Meat Boy
• Slender (You thought we'd talk about Slenderman in the Creepypasta episode, but nope.)
• Undertale
• Why the Game Theory guy gave Undertale to the Pope (and yes, he actually met the Pope.)
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• What Remains of Edith Finch (suggested by our pals and fellow Alberta Podcast Network members Press Start to Join)
• Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
• Doki Doki Literature Club
• Speed Dating for Ghosts

Also, we're now a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

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Elizabeth explains how eating Tide Pods became a thing, and analyzes media coverage of the phenomenon. This leads to a discussion of challenges past and present, and the ensuing freakouts.

Links to some of the things we referred to:

• Tide Pods official webpage
• Washington Post article on eating Tide Pods
• Onion article from 2015
• College Humor video
• Know your Meme, tide pods
• Know your Meme, drinking bleach
• Tide Pod Chan and Cosplay (Safe for work, if you’re cool with your coworkers watching you stare at anime chicks)
• Gronk Twitter video
• The Tight Ends podcast episode with Gronk's video
• Michelle Obama mannequin challenge
• Paul McCartney mannequin challenge
• ALS research related to the ice bucket challenge
• The failure of Bald for Bieber
• The fire challenge
• Jackass (which was on MTV, not network TV)

We also revisit Logan Paul (shudder), who also invaded the grownups' part of the internet this month. Here’s a timeline of the scandal.

• Dec. 31, 2017: Logan Paul uploads a video of him and his friends finding a dead body in the Aokigahara forest in Japan.
• Jan. 1, 2018: After amassing millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes, the video is taken down. The internet is outraged. Logan Paul releases his first apology via Twitter.
• Jan. 1: Mainstream media picks up the story.
• Jan. 2: Logan Paul releases an apology video. His social media then goes silent.
• Jan. 3: The internet community continues to lampoon him, releasing parody videos and demanding that YouTube takes action.
• Jan. 9: YouTube releases a string of tweets condemning Logan Paul’s actions.
• Jan. 10: YouTube announces that Logan Paul has lost the advertising privileges granted to him by the platform. The sequel to Logan’s movie, The Thinning, is put on hold indefinitely.

And that’s enough of that. We talked about the Paul brothers in Episode 2 of That’s a Thing?!, if you want to go back to simpler time.

Finally, we fielded a question from Tammy, who wanted to know what teens mean by “mood.” Elizabeth explains.

If you have a question about what the youngs are on about, you can ask them on our Twitter account, @thatsathingyeg. You can also email questions to thatsathingyeg@gmail.com.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of That’s A Thing?!, “a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20.” Elizabeth, a real live teenager, explains things to her mom. And this time around, she tells the story of Team 10.

Team 10 is a collective of YouTube channels whose hosts boost each other’s follower counts by harnessing the same techniques that made oldtime Hollywood, soap operas, wrestling and reality TV capture our attention. The tropes are familiar, but Team 10 had completely escaped Karen’s attention, until now.

Here are the show notes:

• Official website of Team 10
• Team 10 YouTube channel
• Jake Paul’s YouTube channel (home of Everyday Bro, Everyday Bro Remix, and Litmas)
• Bizaardvark theme song
• Bizaardvark Wikipedia page
• Logan Paul’s Channel
• Jake Paul’s Social Blade

If you are an old who wants to understand something the youngs are talking about, or if you are a teenager who would like us to explain something to your elders so you don’t have to, email us at karen@unlandmedia.com or tweet your suggestion to Karen @karenunland.

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Show notes:

Where to find creepypasta stories, memes and such:

• Creepypasta Wiki
• creepypasta.com
• Trollpasta Wiki
• Creepypasta on Quotev and Wattpad
• Creepypasta memes
• Creepypasta narrators MrCreepyPasta and CreepsMcPasta
• The Creepypasta Collection

Some of the characters we discuss:

• Jeff the Killer (and the picture we describe)
• Smile Dog (and the picture)
• The Rake (and the picture)
• Sonic.exe (and the picture)

Old-school stuff from the mom:

• Flowers in the Attic
• Freddy Krueger
• Jason from Friday the 13th
• Michael Myers from Halloween
• Quora: Why do so many girls like horror movies?

Have you encountered something that kids seem to know all about but is a mystery to you? Are you a teen tired of explaining something to your elders? Drop us a line at karen@unlandmedia.com or tweet me at @karenunland and we’ll see what we can do.

The music for That’s A Thing?! is Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Dance from the Free Music Archive.

Many thanks to Castria for editing all of this together.