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The biggest stories on the internet from August 15th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:16 Connor Franta seemingly confirms he was dating Troye Sivan back in the day

3:16 TikTok questions if Alex Cooper is "going broke" as she looks for 30th birthday party sponsors

7:26 Molly Mae reveals she split from Tommy Fury

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 14th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:09 Reddit may soon paywall subreddits in renvenue-boosting plan

3:40 JoJo Siwa speaks out against Trisha Paytas allegedly using her as a child star

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 13th, 2024.

00:47 Breaking down the It Ends With Us drama

9:14 Maddy Spidell speaks out against MrBeast amid controversy

12:00 Addison Rae's new single Diet Pepsi has the internet obsessed 

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 12th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:09 Tana Mongeau & Noel Miller address their co-hosts recent backlash

4:38 Brat Summer is out & Demure Fall is in

5:51 Chris Olsen opens up about struggling with being a content creator as his revenge porn is leaked

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In this week's episode, I explore how the changing media landscape has impacted how celebrities tell us their stories alongside comedians and pop culture experts, Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton from the Celebrity Memoir Book Club podcast!

Find CMBC here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6K0OjUbw9BVGyWN5BWAXmq 

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Timestamps:

3:41 Claire & Ashley bios

4:57 Interview

5:04 Claire & Ashley’s friendship & CMBC podcast origin story

7:47 How they navigate the biases in celebrity memoirs

10:58 The shift away from traditional mediums of celebrity storytelling— from talk shows to TikTok

13:31 How social media has commodified every element of the celebrity experience

16:00 How has the celebrity memoir— a traditional from of storytelling— remained relevant?

19:11 “Chronically online” celebrities and how online fame impacts their storytelling

21:58 How online cancel culture impacts celebrity storytelling

24:14 Difference between how an online creator reports on their story vs. traditional celebrity

25:21 Future of celebrity landscape

28:08 Claire & Ashley’s favourite memoirs

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 8th, 2024.

Timestamps:

00:34 MrBeast situation gets worse at NYT invesgitation exposes reality behind Beast Games Amazon Prime show

6:56 Sabrina Carpenter addresses Skims campaign & how bestie Taylor Swift felt about it

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The biggest stories on the internet from August 7th, 2024.

Timestamps:

1:27 Brooke Schofield racist tweets exposed & her responses

9:05 Rhegan777's "flop" birthday party drama

15:07 Tati Westbrook has settles Halo Beauty lawsuit and exits the brand

16:39 The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives reality TV show announced

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This episode explores the history, origins, and mainstream-ification of ASMR– a genre that was underground and misunderstood for years, rising to become one of the popular forms of content on YouTube today. 

Timestamps:

3:30 Origins of ASMR content & community

7:45 The whisper community & early ASMR creators

11:53 ASMR goes mainstream

20:46 How TikTok has changed ASMR

22:37 What happens to ASMRtists when they enter the digital mainstream?

28:12 ASMR in 2024

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/magazine/how-asmr-videos-became-a-sensation-youtube.html 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gqww3j/asmr-the-good-feeling-no-one-can-explain 

https://www.smh.com.au/national/asmr-the-youtube-sensation-all-in-the-brain-20140301-33sop.html 

https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/p298m9/when_discussing_about_the_history_of_asmr_which/ 

https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/1y0f4j/meta_what_is_the_very_first_intentional_asmr/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-whisper-then-tingles-then-87-million-youtube-views-meet-the-star-of-asmr/2014/12/12/0c85d54a-7b33-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html 

https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/p298m9/comment/h8jwx7w/  

https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/qdtt7/liliumcandidum27_is_leaving_youtube/   

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/15/8965393/asmr-video-youtube-autonomous-sensory-meridian-response 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90135533/asmr-the-internet-subculture-of-sounds-that-feels-good-is-going-mainstream 

https://asmruniversity.com/history-of-asmr/comment-page-2/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48026974 

https://www.wired.com/story/oddly-satisfying-videos-explained-psychology-youtube/ 

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/01/552422040/the-rise-of-the-slime-economy 

https://asmruniversity.com/2022/04/26/how-many-asmr-channels-asmrtists-are-on-youtube/ 

https://theconversation.com/love-or-hate-tiktoks-viral-bottle-smashing-trend-a-neuroscientist-explains-what-that-says-about-your-brain-211963 

https://centennialworld.com/angelica-asmr-onlyfans-transformation-communist-to-catholic-christian/ 

https://centennialworld.com/gwen-the-milkmaid-tiktok-asmr-youtuber-gwengwiz-tradwife-influencer-onlyfans-gwen-swinarton/ 

The biggest stories on the internet from August 1st, 2024.

Timestamps:

2:00 Simone Biles & Mykayla Skinner breakdown

4:46 MrBeast addresses past “inappropriate language” amid all his controversy

8:20 Cody Ko has been seemingly removed from TMG podcast

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The biggest stories on the internet from July 31st, 2024.

Timestamps:

00:54 Underconsumption core

5:03 MrBeast video goes viral alleging he's a "fraud" 

Article mentioned: https://zeefeed.com.au/underconsumption-core-trend/

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