Deplatforming A Trend Is Harder Than Deplatforming An Idiot
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Aug 25, 2022 • 51M
Deplatforming A Trend Is Harder Than Deplatforming An Idiot
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Ryan Broderick
We talk about content. How it's made. Why it's good. Why it's very bad. Sorry in advance for the British bits.
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We’re back from vacation and all fired up about content! This episode is a big catch-up. We’re talking about the John Fetterman campaign, Dark Brandon, British Four Loko, why millennials love to write serious news stories about fun memes, and, unfortunately, also Andrew Tate, the kickboxer and former Big Brother contestant who was just summarily deplatformed from the internet. We’re asking the question: Will it matter if his fans can still post content about him? If you’re looking for our previous episode about Tate, you can check it out here.
Deplatforming A Trend Is Harder Than Deplatforming An Idiot
nice to have you guys back, there really was a lot of insane internet stuff going down this month. I just have a quick correction for Luke: Dragon Soop has been on the market for at least a decade (so I guess just after the cultural heyday of Four Loko in the US), although I think it’s always been easiest to find in Scotland (of course) and progressively harder to find the further you are from the border. I know this and felt the need to leave a comment about it because it played a vital role in many of the best nights of my student days in, coincidentally, Manchester and therefore also my adult identity formation. I last partook on New Years’ Eve when everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that the red kola flavour does not have a perceptible aftertaste of paint thinner and is genuinely pretty nice. Although I guess the fact that the UK has been under the influence of British Four Loko for the last ten years could go some way to explain how deranged a lot of that time has been.