Baby's First Simulacra
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
The girlies return to the world of family vloggers to answer the important questions — how did the momfluencer come to be and why are we so obsessed with her? Can children ever meaningfully consent to being shared online? Did Jean Baudrillard predict our real life Truman Show with Simulacra and Simulation in 1981? Digressions include your newest NY Times covergirls, the Binchtopia Boy Draft, and one listener’s experience as an assistant momager. Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/binchtopia
Binchtopia is created, produced, and hosted by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb. This episode was edited by Allison Hagan.
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Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
Child-produced content and the simulation of childhood
New law entitles child social media influencers to a percentage of earnings
Why did Mark Zuckerberg cover his kids’ faces on Instagram?
Their lives were documented online from birth. Now, they’re coming of age
The YouTube Parents Who are Turning Family Moments into Big Bucks
Kidfluencers Are Today’s Version of Chimney Sweeps
Research Brief: “Sharenting” and Child Influencers
Sharenting: parent blogging and the boundaries of the digital self
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binge Topia. |
| 0:07.0 | We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchtopia. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome back. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Julia Hava. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Eliza McClam. |
| 0:21.0 | If you would like to help keep these episodes ad free you can join our |
| 0:25.3 | Patreon at patreon.com slash binch topia where you can get access to our bonus |
| 0:29.8 | episodes, our monthly zooms, and our media sots. |
| 0:33.3 | Recently we've been doing a bad book club series, |
| 0:36.6 | which has been really fun. |
| 0:38.2 | We did a Colin Hoover book, and then most recently we did after, |
| 0:41.8 | which is the Harry Styles fan fiction that became published for some reason. |
| 0:46.6 | And we actually had so much to say about it that it's split into two episodes. |
| 0:50.6 | So actually if you join our patron this month you'll be getting three bonus |
| 0:53.2 | episodes because we had so much to say about this Harry Styles fanfig. |
| 0:57.0 | So true and then we'll have an additional bonus episode for you anyway so it's a lot of |
| 1:02.1 | good treats on the patron and we just |
| 1:03.8 | posted it like two hours ago as of recording this people are loving it they're |
| 1:08.2 | loving it if you are here from our New York Times |
| 1:11.8 | please hello from our New York Times. Hey! |
| 1:14.4 | Hello and welcome to you. |
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