Introducing Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
There Are No Girls on the Internet
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Hi There Are No Girls On The Internet Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
About the show: Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show from Jamie Loftus that takes a closer look at the internet’s main characters – one part reported, one part interviews, and one part Jamie collapsing her permanently internet-damaged brain. Whether it’s an enduring meme or a dreaded Character of the Day distinction, it’s the kind of notoriety that often results in little money, unwarranted attention, and a confusing blurred line of consent. What do you do when you get more attention and judgement than any one person is built to handle? The Sixteenth Minute of Fame is the place where we figure that out, putting people in the context of the moment they've been frozen inside of.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Jamie Loftus, and this is my new weekly show, 16th Minute of Fame, the podcast |
| 0:06.7 | where every episode I take a closer look at an internet character of the day. Who were they? |
| 0:12.6 | What made them so notorious? How did the internet, or sometimes the algorithm, choose them? |
| 0:18.5 | And what does a person do when they're suddenly confronted with |
| 0:21.0 | more attention than the human psyche can handle? If you've listened to solo podcasts of mine |
| 0:25.6 | before, think Mayurin Mensa, Lolita podcast, Actcast, Ghost Church. You can expect the same kind |
| 0:32.1 | of freaky hyper-focus in research, and yes, air horns, not apologizing for it, as well as a lot of interviews with |
| 0:39.0 | experts. Things will get serious sometimes, but I'm mainly here to have fun and try to bottle |
| 0:44.2 | these little bits of internet history that feel like they're slipping away from us. |
| 0:48.5 | And I can almost guarantee that you've heard of a lot of these stories already, but probably |
| 0:53.3 | not after the day they were |
| 0:54.6 | considered relevant online. Take the dress, a story that went uber viral in early 2015 in spite of |
| 1:01.6 | being, well, kind of a boring optical illusion. A mother of the bride in Scotland took a picture |
| 1:07.7 | of a dress she was thinking about wearing to her daughter's wedding. |
| 1:17.7 | But she saw the dress as blue with black lace and her daughter saw it as white with gold lace. |
| 1:23.6 | One Buzzfeed post later, every single person on the internet was talking about the dress and getting into arguments about why their friends' eyeballs were broken. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a weird little story. |
| 1:30.4 | It's not every day that you find yourself weighing in on the same boring topic of the day as |
| 1:34.4 | Taylor Swift. |
| 1:35.6 | But there's a lot more to this story than meets the eye. |
| 1:39.5 | Sorry, this is not a pun show. |
| 1:41.4 | I am not that person except for right now in the trailer, but never again. |
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