That's a Thing?!

Here are some of the things we mentioned:

• We launched in December 2017, when Elizabeth was 15
• Y2K fashion is back?
• Zine culture
• Lilly Singh went from relatable YouTuber to out of touch late show host
• The painful “Gen Z slang” SNL skit
• David Foot and Douglas Coupland contributed to a hyper-awareness of generation
• StyleLikeU interview with an elder gay couple to start you off
  • Content notice: mentions of sex, homophobia, addiction and violence
  • But it’s really sweet we promise <3
• Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan – still pretty helpful guys for understanding what’s going on
• If you aren’t sold on wrestling, watch these videos
• You can find Karen’s work at Taproot Edmonton and Taproot Publishing
• Shout-out to our colleagues at the Alberta Podcast Network
• The first pages of Elizabeth’s comic project
• You might hear us some time on I Don’t Get It
• We recommend Transistor for hosting and Castria for editing

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• BGCBigs
• Virtual Open House Season from Edmonton Public Schools

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network. Locally grown. Community supported.

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Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode: 

•  Susan Sontag’s Notes On “Camp”
  • Or a six-minute explainer if you don’t have the time
• The shortcomings of CinemaSins
• The even-shorter-comings of Nostalgia Critic
• About KiwiFarms, one of the most unpleasant sites on the surface web
• Interview with the creator of Leave Britney Alone
• A case study for toxic anti-fandom behaviour: gamergate
• Callback to a long-ago episode where we talked about shipping
• A look at both sides of the shipping war
  • And a look at the history of purity culture in fandom
• Twitter thread on disinterpretation 
  • And a video on Ship of Theseus 
• The history of the “touch grass” meme
• Tennessee school board bans Holocaust comic 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman
• A more sympathetic analysis of Why the Curtains are Blue

Fortunately, we have entered a boom period for criticism online. Here are five excellent videos expanding on what we discussed this episode.

• we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name by Lola Sebastian
• Should you let Gen Z "save us"? Youth Liberation explained by Khadija Mbowe and Saint Andrewism
• Ignorance & Censorship by Philosophy Tube
• Outsiders: How To Adapt H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st Century by hbomberguy
• Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism by Jacob Geller

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• BGCBigs
• Virtual Open House Season from Edmonton Public Schools

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• We are not actually an NFT 
• Roblox
• Watch these videos from PeopleMakeGames on Roblox:
  • Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
  • Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
• Gig economy
• Callback to our MLM episode: Have I got a deal for you?
• Company scrip 
• Roblox on the stock market 
• Wattpad’s deal with Paramount+
• Archive of Our Own (AO3)
• Callback to our fan fiction episode: Episode 5: Fanfictionary
• OpenSea, an NFT marketplace
• Ethereum
• Twitter account dedicated to sniffing out art theft
• DeviantArt
• Example of the right-click movement against NFT art
• FUD
• Some more anti-NFT content for you
  • The NFT Nightmare
  • NFTs Are Getting Worse. Like WAY Worse.
  • Dan Olson’s NFT scam megathread
  • laughing at crypto bros, a deceptively educational livestream

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• Park Power

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we talk about or at least gesture at in this episode:

• How Bad Can I Be from The Lorax (2012) (in case you forget what a thneed is)
• Shein’s about us page
• Shein’s social responsibility page
• Reuters article about Shein’s lack of disclosure
• Vox article on Shein
• Callback to our MLM episode (though Shein’s not an MLM)
• Articles of Interest episode on knockoffs
• A TikTok featuring the strawberry dress
• Callback to our cottagecore episode
• The Bangladesh garment factory collapse
• The pet-pictures-for-trees fiasco
• Some anti-Shein TikToks
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@ssiiena/video/6993034600368884997?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380 
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@milkbite/video/6997215512925097221?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380 
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@haleyivers/video/6972647481569971462?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380 
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@maddypageknitwear/video/6977324167226084613?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380 
  • https://www.tiktok.com/@cuteshitbylili/video/6952699186299047174?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&q=thrift%20shein&t=1638234869380 
• The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice, per Terry Pratchett
• It’s Expensive to Be Poor, by Barbara Ehrenreich
• Cora Harrington has a very balanced approach to affordability, sustainability and care
• Edmonton Repairathon
• Clothes Doctor
• Fashion Revolution

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation, partner on the Vital Signs report on Making Ends Meet in Edmonton
• Park Power

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community-supported. 

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

For more fears and jeers, consider the following:

• Callback to our episode on Inside
• Callback to our episode on analog horror
• A needlessly thorough Wikipedia synopsis 
• A list of other Bechdel Test passing movies
• Bathtubs Over Broadway and the consequences of comedy damage
• Check out Nyx Fears if you want to be upset/fascinated by scary movies 
• A thread on the pitfalls of smarty pants protagonists
• If you didn’t watch Contingency after last episode, go watch it now!
• Pauline Kael was even harsher to this movie than Elizabeth was
• The rating debate
• Poltergeist was fine, but here’s some movies we actively recommend
  • The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920, 100% mom safe)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014, comedic gore/violence)
  • The Lighthouse (2019, gore/violence/sexual content/psychological horror)
  • House on Haunted Hill (1959, campy and delightful)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968, gory and violent, mitigated by its age and budget)
  • The Girl with all the Gifts (2016, violent and gory, but strangely uplifting)
• Music is Now or Never by Myuu, who is a fantastic royalty-free composer
• Sound clips from our special feature courtesy of:
  • Joe DeShon
  • pfranzen 
  • gear_clinkz
  • owly-bee

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• APN itself, in particular Speaking Municipally and I Love This, You Should Too

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network: Locally grown. Community supported. 

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Black Mirror, a crowning jewel of “phones bad” cinema
• VCR versus VHS, a distinction that was lost on Elizabeth
• Land of the Giants episode on the iPhone
• The TV Tropes page on Analog Horror
• Aidan’s analog horror video
• An analysis of Lovecraft’s Eldritch Horror
  • And some more analysis 
• The SCP foundation 
• Local 58
• Mothman, the best boy
• Remember Professor Kitzel?
• Public/Community access TV
• The Walten Files Episode 1
  • (NOT “The Waltons”, no matter what autocorrect says)
  • The deeply unsettling jumpscare face a la screamers 
• How the original FNAF uses sound to terrify
• Ben Drowned, the story of a haunted game cartridge
• Cassette, an early Welcome to Night Vale episode
• An important message from Omega Mart
• Makeshift Stories
• An episode of Paranormal Paranoids (complete with earwormy theme song)
• The Power of VHS by hbomberguy
• The cinematic potential of cave art
• Control, Anatomy and the Legacy of the Haunted House by Jacob Geller
• Tsukumogami and Mokumokuren
• Do not adjust your podcast feed because next month we’ll be tuning in to another piece of art with opinions about technology, Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper’s PG powerhouse, Poltergeist. 

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Edmonton Community Foundation, presenting sponsor of YEGPodfest 
• Alberta Association of Optometrists

Also, if you live in Edmonton and are listening to this before Oct. 18, 2021, fill out the Taproot Survey.

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported. (Shout-out to fellow member I Love This, You Should Too!) 

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Elizabeth’s choose-your-own-adventure flowchart
• Lip-sync style
  • @noahjaywood
  • @saramariecarstens
  • @arxcelix
• One- or two-part cliffhanger
  • @jezellecatherine
  • @baileyspinn
  • @joe_masini
  • @devincaherly
• One-shot or character pieces
  • @ianboggz
  • @hannah.montoya
• Longform or fully acted
  • @eliana_ghen
  • @thechrisbarnett
• Callback to our fanfic episode
• Night is the show we watched at a drive-in performance (the bird poop on the windshield was our fault, not theirs)
• Sarah Z video on pick-me girls
• Origin of Love from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Callback to our astrology episode 
• ABO (don’t Google it, says Jon) 
• Time Princess and Project Makeover
• Redecor 
• Episode

Many thanks to our sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• The Well Endowed Podcast from the Edmonton Community Foundation 

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things we mentioned in this episode:

• Flare on TikTok and Instagram
• Mom Friend on TikTok
• The best slash proof bags can cost $169, and still might not meet your standards
• SafetyDrip on TikTok
• The Sarah Everard story
• The quest to de-hair the female body continues

This episode is not brought to you by Creep-B-Gone, because we would never (and it doesn’t exist… yet).

Many thanks to our actual sponsors:

• Alberta Association of Optometrists
• Pod Power shout-out to What’s the Tsismis?, courtesy of the Edmonton Community Foundation 

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are some of the things that came up in our discussion:

• Content warnings: Adult themes, mature language, suicide, “content”
• Bo Burnham: Inside
  • On Netflix
  • On Spotify
• Who is Bo Burnham: 
  • Wikipedia entry 
  • YouTube channel
  • Left Brain Right Brain animatic
• Lola Sebastian
• Lolita Podcast (not for kids but very good)
• What Karen means by “Simon Sinek energy”
• Jeffrey Bezos in almost-space
• Trunk tunes
• Callback to parasocial relationships episode
• Look Who’s Inside Again reminds Karen of Ben Spencer’s Willow Tree (didn’t mention it but thought of it afterwards)
• If you want to skip our discussion of suicide, it’s from 57:56 to 1:04:17 
• #BellLetsTalk
• Pop Culture Happy Hour on Inside
• Brave New World and soma
• The Edmonton Fringe is coming back!

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Business Council of Alberta
• ATB Cares

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community-supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

Here are links to some of the things we mention in the show:

• Lore episode featuring Moll Pitcher (timestamp 25:15)
• Couldn’t find a working version of a Buzzfeedesque Journal quiz, but it was like this
• Go Out To Brunch To See Which Sex And The City Character You Are
• JK Rowling, famously an unproblematic fave
• Elizabeth is theoretically a Pisces, but not really
• Karen is supposedly an Aquarius
• (Many) gay people love astrology
• Cold reading and how to seem psychic
• Elizabeth sounds like a lunar Gemini, but she’s actually a lunar Taurus?
• Peter Popoff debunked by James Randi
• 16Personalities
• The origins of personality typing
• Look up The Debater if you want to see a man you’ll hate
• Karen is The Advocate
• Elizabeth is The Logician
• More mesmerizing content to amaze and enrage you
  • The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers, and Mediums
  • Psychics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Shift by Alberta Innovates
• Pod Power shout-out to Book Women, courtesy of the Edmonton Community Foundation 

That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community-supported.

You can follow us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.

Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.