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The biggest stories on the internet from August 29th, 2024.

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Timestamps:

1:12 FaZe Banks weights in on Alissa Violet standing up for herself against Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield

5:18 Jools Lebron secures "very demure" trademark after days of drama

6:13 MrBeast hires $2000-an-hour lawyer to fight on-going claims

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 28th, 2024.

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Timestamps:

00:47 Hailey & Justin Bieber welcome baby boy 

2:55 Sabrina Carpenter & Barry Keoghan have allegedly split

6:00 Bobbi Althoff tells haters to keep their criticism of her in the group chat

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 27th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:27 Jools Lebron, creator of the demure trend, is struggling to monetise the viral trend after a random man trademarked the saying before she could 

5:32 BookTok comes for commentary creator Mina Le over her review of My Brilliant Friend

9:53 Alix Earle makes statement about racist Ask.fm posts

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 26th, 2024.

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Timestamps:

1:23 Chappell Roan addresses backlash over calling out fans for invasive beahviour

8:00 Aspyn Ovard confirms divorce months after secretly filing 

9:30 Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama

11:50 Sophia La Corte responds to online hate

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In this episode, I explore how 'Bye Sister' unknowingly kicked off five years of drama for Tati Westbrook, resulting in legal battles, the closure of her businesses, and damaged reputations.

Timestamps:

4:37 Tati Westbrook & James Charles’ friendship

7:45 Tati’s Brands: The formation of Halo Beauty and Tati Beauty

10:50 Bye Sister

17:02 Sue-nami: Tati vs. Clark Swanson

22:00 Tati vs. drama channel Without a Crystal Ball

23:05 Tati responds to Clark Swanson

25:23 Tati Beauty closes

26:52 Tati settles lawsuits

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 22nd, 2024.

Timestamps:

00:53 Sophia La Corte responds to backlash over Halley Kate storytime

5:23 Yung Gravy shuts down claims he asked Hawk Tuah girl out in her DMs

9:06 Jaclyn Hill talks addiction on the Taylor Lautners podcast

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 21st, 2024.

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Timestamps:

5:54 Chappell Roan opens up about fans crossing her boundaries in new TikTok videos

13:28 Alex Cooper inks $125 million podcast deal with SiriusXM

15:24 iPad kids are taking over Twitter (AKA X) according to new research

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 20th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:24 Alissa Violet finally addresses Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield back-and-forth

9:30 Sophia La Corte low key comes for Halley Kate in new TikTok series

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 19th, 2024.

Timestamps:

00:42 Emma Chamberlain named co-CEO of Chamberlain Coffee

2:25 Lancôme’s latest influencer campaign is making waves on TikTok for its meta approach

6:21 Sedona and Liv breakup: Who did I take to Mexico?

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In this week's episode, I explore the internet's love of "traumaporn" content and how this is changing the ways in which we engage with tragedy in the modern day, aiming to answer the question: Is there any ethical way to create and consume traumatic content online?

Timestamps:

4:09 Defining “traumaporn”

9:27 Online discourse around traumatic content

14:06 Why do we like traumaporn?

19:58 Commodification of traumaporn

21:50 Soft White Underbelly

26:03 MrBeast

28:50 Is there an ethical way to create and consume traumatic content online?

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Sources:

https://themighty.com/topic/mental-health/trauma-porn/ 

https://www.vox.com/technology/2024/3/21/24107166/poverty-porn-youtube-explained 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trauma%20porn 

https://bybrittanyjohnson.substack.com/p/lets-dig-deeper-what-trauma-porn 

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23596969/bad-news-negativity-bias-media 

https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a32802688/stop-sharing-trauma-porn-black-deaths/ 

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/08/9994208/trauma-porn-black-lives-matter 

https://medium.com/mindmapper-collective/am-i-addicted-to-trauma-porn-4fc1c20fce26 

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/trauma-porn-black-death-and-pain 

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JME-11-2021-0205/full/html?skipTracking=true 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtsteinhorst/2024/02/06/lost-in-the-scroll-the-hidden-impact-of-the-attention-economy/ 

https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/attention_economy_feb.pdf 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140728-why-is-all-the-news-bad 

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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/801570/summary  

https://centennialworld.com/morbid-curiosity-why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-each-others-suffering/ 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jeffrey-dahmer-netflix-serial-killer-thirst-1234596780/