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The biggest stories on the internet from May 19th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:25 Kayla Malec & Bee Better respond to James Charles

7:04 Celebrity MUA Mary Phillips quotes bride $100K for wedding glam

16:35 Chappell Roan's comment section helps indie perfume go viral

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This episode is an exploration into the rise and fall of the 2010s lifestyle vlogger niche — diving into the friendship groups, content styles, and downfall of this side of YouTube.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

4:32 Popular lifestyle content

5:52 Alisha Marie

7:26 LaurDIY

8:19 What made lifestyle vloggers successful

9:26 BeautyCon

10:46 StyleHaul Network

11:55 Friendship groups & Girls Night In

15:43 Savage Squad drama

19:47 Azn Girl Squad

21:23 Big Bear trips

24:30 The downfall of lifestyle content

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZmjlhe_5w 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYRyJXZujCE 

https://www.voguebusiness.com/beauty/reinventing-beautycon-the-super-bowl-of-beauty 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-stylehaul-the-largest-fashion-network-on-youtube-youve-never-heard-of/ 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-269B-1989 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/stylehaul-ceo-confirms-youtube-networks-745663/ 

https://ew.com/article/2015/07/28/youtube-girls-night-in-tour-eva-gutowski-meredith-foster/ 

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/eva-gutowski-meredith-foster-explains 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gkCws_OwyoQ  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7349939/YouTube-star-eating-disorder-losing-27-pounds.html 

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The biggest stories on the internet from May 15th, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:38 Bella Hadid denies facelift/fox eye surgery

5:43 PlzDontBuyThat vs. Odd Muse TikTok drama

13:05 Chat Franke opens up in longform interview about his mother and 8Passengers

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The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from May 14th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:20 Sam Altman's new launch Orb Mini faces mockery

7:48 Spotify releases 'plays' podcast metrics feature

12:37 Hinge launches on Substack with mini series

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The biggest stories on the internet from May 13th, 2025.

Timestamps:

2:53 Phoebe Gates called out by fashion stylist for asking for influencer promo for her new app

8:42 Austin McBroom addresses Catherine Paiz cheating allegations

13:58 Nylon launches invite-only members club for tastemakers

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The biggest stories on the internet from May 12th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:18 Unf*ck America Tour scandal explained

12:33 Madeleine White bachelorette backlash over passport loss

16:32 Catherine Paiz book revelations

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Thank you to Bumble for supporting this episode. Bumble's new safety features aimed at improving dating culture in Australia are now available.

This episode is a deep dive into the origins and rise of the online mansophere and its impact on Gen Z dating culture alongside activist and Bumble's safety advocate Tarang Chawla.

Timestamps:

1:49 Intro

5:51 Defining the manosphere

11:45 Theorising the manosphere: Why men are drawn to this space

21:51 Subcultures within the manosphere

35:02 The mainstream-ification of the manosphere 

39:50 Gamergate

41:21 The Trump effect & the rise of alpha male influencers

48:38 Manopshere, alpha male influencers & dating culture

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Barnes, M. J., & Karim, S. M. (2025). The Manosphere and Politics. Comparative Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241312095

Kennedy-Kollar, D. (2024). Extremism and radicalization in the manosphere : beta uprising. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032631080

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Marwick, A. E., & Caplan, R. (2018). Drinking male tears: language, the manosphere, and networked harassment. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 543–559. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1450568

Bratich, J., & Banet-Weiser, S. (2019). From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism. International Journal of Communication, 13(0), 25

Horta, M., Blackburn, J., Bradlyn, B., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., Greenberg, S., & Zannettou, S. (n.d.). From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere.

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https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-far-right-supporters-violent-memes/

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emboldened-by-a-trump-win-misogyny-is-exploding-online 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdyRkX4044

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/  

https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly

Solea, A. I., & Sugiura, L. (2023). Mainstreaming the Blackpill: Understanding the Incel Community on TikTok. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 29(3), 311–336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-023-09559-5

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/ashton-hall-influencer-a-benign-perfectly-sculpted-picture-of-health-or-the-palatable-face-of-toxic-masculinity 

The biggest stories on the internet from May 8th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:35 James Charles & Kayla Malec speak out on Evan Johnson situation

6:12 PopeCrave brings conclave updates to social media

8:11 AI job interviews are taking over TikTok

16:01 Mormon Madoff is latest series inspired by "who tf did I marry?"

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The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from May 7th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:42 SAG-AFTRA has introduced an influencer committee

6:26 OpenAI rolls back recent update

11:22 The manosphere websites going offline

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Sources:

https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-national-board-overwhelmingly-approves-commercials-contracts-deal 

https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-creates-influencer-committee-creator-economy-1236202280/ 

https://www.sagaftra.org/contracts-industry-resources/influencer-resources/influencer-agreement-101 

https://time.com/6301824/influencers-sag-strike/ 

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/13/the-creator-economy-is-ready-for-a-workers-movement/ 

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/11/20688929/internet-creators-guild-shutting-down-hank-green-youtube-copyright-claims-monetization 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91327213/sag-aftras-new-influencer-committee-aims-to-strengthen-support-for-digital-creators  

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ 

https://www.tiktok.com/@zauey/video/7499612827959840043 

https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ 

https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/ 

 https://www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-what-chatgpt-is-actually-for 

https://www.theverge.com/news/658315/openai-chatgpt-gpt-4o-roll-back-glaze-update 

https://www.theverge.com/openai/661303/openai-stays-nonprofit-sam-altman-employee-memo 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/notorious-image-board-4chan-hacked-and-internal-data-leaked/ 

https://blog.4chan.org/post/781845918774394880/still-standing 

https://www.404media.co/mr-deepfakes-the-biggest-deepfake-porn-site-on-the-internet-says-its-shutting-down-for-good/ 

https://www.theverge.com/news/648908/4chan-hacked-down-outage-leak 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/27/4chan-is-back-online-says-its-been-starved-of-money/ 

The biggest stories on the internet from May 6th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:50 Met Gala 2025 recap

5:53' A Million Lives' BookTok Fyre Festival

8:26 Canadian bridal MUA drama

10:17 Hawk Tuah in Vanity Fair

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