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Join Kate Lindsay twice a week as we gaze deep into the online abyss—and tell you what’s gazing back.Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31 mins; July 22, 2022

Frog Eggs, Pheromones, and Yassified Ed Sheeran, Oh My!

28 mins; July 20, 2022

Our CEO Tried to Scam Me

28 mins; July 16, 2022

Doja Cat and Cardi B Are Fighting, But Not With Each Other

30 mins; July 13, 2022

The Rise of the Gentleminions

29 mins; July 09, 2022

How a Social Justice Instagram Weaponized Cancel Culture

24 mins; July 06, 2022

Daily Harvest Is Crumbling

27 mins; July 02, 2022

This Episode Will Not Bum You Out

26 mins; June 29, 2022

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27 mins; June 25, 2022

Why Can’t Lesbians Escape Men on Dating Apps?

30 mins; June 22, 2022

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28 mins; June 18, 2022

Did One Direction Create the Internet?

27 mins; June 15, 2022

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29 mins; June 11, 2022

The Musician TikTok Hostage Crisis

24 mins; June 08, 2022

Are the Mormon TikTok Moms Really Swingers?

24 mins; June 04, 2022

How Depp v. Heard Broke the Internet

27 mins; June 01, 2022

The Real Story Behind The Viral Makeup All Over TikTok

26 mins; May 28, 2022

The Real Story Behind The Viral Makeup All Over TikTok

29 mins; May 28, 2022

Oh No, Not Another Couch Guy

26 mins; May 25, 2022

The Trial That Ruined TikTok

27 mins; May 21, 2022

The Trial That Ruined TikTok

30 mins; May 21, 2022

Encore: Tumblr’s “This Is White Privilege” Stays Ahead of Its Time

22 mins; May 18, 2022

The TikTokkers Taking Down the Troubled Teen Industry

26 mins; May 14, 2022

The TikTokkers Taking Down the Troubled Teen Industry

29 mins; May 14, 2022

The “Am I the A**Hole” Economy Is Thriving

25 mins; May 11, 2022

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29 mins; May 07, 2022

The Online Theory That Wes Anderson Is Fascist

25 mins; May 04, 2022

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28 mins; April 30, 2022

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24 mins; April 27, 2022

The Girlboss-ification of Casual Sex

28 mins; April 23, 2022

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26 mins; April 20, 2022

We Talked to BYU’s Black Menaces

25 mins; April 16, 2022

The “Stop Creating Online Challenges” Challenge

26 mins; April 13, 2022

Why Etsy Sellers Are Going on Strike

26 mins; April 09, 2022

How Is TikTok’s Grammy-Winning Bridgerton Musical Legal?

26 mins; April 06, 2022

How April Fool’s Day Keeps the Internet Conspiracy Machine Alive

27 mins; April 02, 2022

“The Slap” Is a Trap

24 mins; March 30, 2022

The Instagram Feed We Thought We Wanted

25 mins; March 26, 2022

The Instagram Feed We Thought We Wanted

28 mins; March 26, 2022

The Star Disney Didn’t Want at the Oscars

26 mins; March 23, 2022

One Meme to Rule Them All

27 mins; March 19, 2022

Live From South by Southwest

27 mins; March 16, 2022

Where Are the Womblands?

25 mins; March 12, 2022

All Hail the Liver King

30 mins; March 09, 2022

All Hail the Liver King

35 mins; March 09, 2022

Who Isn’t a Nepotism Baby?

24 mins; March 05, 2022

Who Isn’t a Nepotism Baby?

28 mins; March 05, 2022

We Bought Weed in the Metaverse

26 mins; March 02, 2022

How Are Those Gross Birthday Countdowns Still a Thing?

23 mins; February 26, 2022

What Is Horse Plinko? Who Is Vanessa?

24 mins; February 23, 2022

Kanye West Needs to Log Off

26 mins; February 19, 2022

We’re All Trapped in the Scam-Industrial Complex

25 mins; February 16, 2022

TikTok Is Not Your Doctor

26 mins; February 12, 2022

Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley’s Big Little Lies

25 mins; February 09, 2022

What Barbra Streisand Has to Do With Banning 'Maus'

26 mins; February 05, 2022

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26 mins; February 02, 2022

Rihanna Is Releasing a New … Baby

29 mins; February 02, 2022

What’s Behind Britney’s Beef With Her Sister

25 mins; January 29, 2022

We TikTok About Bruno

25 mins; January 26, 2022

The Real Story of “West Elm Caleb”

28 mins; January 22, 2022

How AIM Changed the Internet 4ever

25 mins; January 19, 2022

How AIM Changed the Internet 4ever

28 mins; January 19, 2022

Why the Internet Is Abuzz About Yellowjackets

25 mins; January 15, 2022

Since When Is Everyone an Empath?

25 mins; January 12, 2022

Why Everyone’s Talking About Elmo

25 mins; January 08, 2022

Vax Daddy Is Feeling 2022

21 mins; January 05, 2022

Vax Daddy Is Feeling 2022

24 mins; January 05, 2022

Encore: You’re Using “Woke” Wrong

27 mins; January 01, 2022

Goodbye to All That 2021 Internet

25 mins; December 29, 2021

Is Martha Stewart an Instagram Scammer?

26 mins; December 25, 2021

The Fall of Neopets

26 mins; December 22, 2021

Nancy Reagan, Blow Job Queen?

25 mins; December 18, 2021

One Year: The Spot

59 mins; December 15, 2021

The Toothpaste Mystery Taking Over TikTok

24 mins; December 11, 2021

Unwrapping TikTok's Advent Calendar Drama

23 mins; December 08, 2021

Anthony Ramos and the Curse of the Wife Guy

25 mins; December 04, 2021

The Subreddits That Ruined the Internet

25 mins; December 01, 2021

The End of the Dislike Button

24 mins; November 27, 2021

An ICYMI Friendsgiving Spectacular

24 mins; November 24, 2021

How a Harry Potter Fanfic Took Over the Internet

26 mins; November 20, 2021

The Yassification of the Internet

23 mins; November 17, 2021

Taylor Swift Knows the Internet All Too Well

27 mins; November 13, 2021

The Life Hacks They Don’t Want You to Know About

23 mins; November 10, 2021

The Spon-Con Video That Accidentally Captures the State of Tech

24 mins; November 06, 2021

The Real Housewives of Social Media

28 mins; November 03, 2021

The Untold Story of "Spooky Scary Skeletons"

26 mins; October 30, 2021

Is This YouTuber Eating Himself to Death?

28 mins; October 27, 2021

Is TikTok Giving Teen Girls Tics?

25 mins; October 23, 2021

We Interviewed the Pug With No Bones

25 mins; October 20, 2021

The TikTok Salmon Bowl Can’t Save Us

29 mins; October 16, 2021

The TikTok Salmon Bowl Can’t Save Us

31 mins; October 16, 2021

The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm

25 mins; October 13, 2021

The Disney Channel Star Who Mastered the YouTube Algorithm

27 mins; October 13, 2021

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25 mins; October 09, 2021

We Are All the Bad Art Friend

27 mins; October 09, 2021

TikTok’s Couch Guy Is Not Your Friend

22 mins; October 06, 2021

TikTok’s Couch Guy Is Not Your Friend

24 mins; October 06, 2021

Scam Goddess on the Worst Fraud She Ever Fell For

29 mins; October 02, 2021

Scam Goddess on the Worst Fraud She Ever Fell For

31 mins; October 02, 2021

Is “Soaking” a Real Mormon Sex Thing?

26 mins; September 29, 2021

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