Mysteries of the modern age
Is a Disney kid’s hit the work of TikTok astroturfing? PogChamp is canceled — should we feel bad? If Dream doped his e-sports, what’s left to believe in? Elizabeth interprets for Karen.
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
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