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Here are some of the things we mentioned:

• Eric Carle and The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
• Eric Carle didn’t say that
• The Paris Review for Young Readers
• Rage-bait cooking videos - eg no-melt nachos, spaghetti in cold sauce
• Bronies 
• We were going to link to a problematic image about 4chan sharing things in bad faith, but then decided against it, because why spread it more?
• Content-farm video channels like Blossom, So Yummy, 5-Minute Crafts
• Making a purse out of a pizza box
• Kimora Blac: “you didn’t say jk though”
• Bad waffle-iron videos
• Wrap-folding hack from TikTok
• Ann Reardon’s How To Cook That
• You Suck at Cooking
• The quote about lies on the internet was from Arthur! (We would never quote Bizaardvark.)

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• Natural Light Edmonton
• The Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast

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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:

• More information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown
• Pregnancy questions video (NSFW)
• ICYMI episode on end of Yahoo Answers
• Quora
• There’s a subreddit for every question you could possibly have
• r/relationships
• Sarah Z video about where fake stories fit into internet culture
• Dear Abby/Ann Landers
• Ken M
• Amelia Bedelia
• One of many Yahoo Answers listicles
• Example of automated YouTube video reading r/askreddit
• The episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me which bids YA farewell
• A collection of final Yahoos 
• Callback to Flash games episode
• r/thetipofmytongue
• Callback to walled gardens episode
• The Soul of a Library - Jacob Geller
• Jason Scott and Archive Team

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Rümi
• Pod Power shout-out for Overdue Finds, courtesy of Edmonton Community Foundation

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We’ve been on some APN shows recently — check them out!

• The Breakfast Dish
• Bollywood is For Lovers
• Speaking Municipally

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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:

• We got to try out at home VR thanks to Laser City
• Flash games were part of the browser game genre
• Here’s a snapshot from Elizabeth’s earliest gaming days
• Super Mario World
• Lunar Magic, a Super Mario World level editor
• Find out what stuff Karen likes on Tumblr
• Idle/Clicker/Tycoon games
• The sunk cost fallacy
• Loot boxes & the controversy around them 
• The work of Jim Stephanie Sterling
  • On loot boxes
  • On “live service” and subscriptions
• The NFT controversy
• Picrew
• Cuphead
• Team Fortress 2
• Speed Dating for Ghosts is available on Steam and Switch
• Find dubious ads for apps here 
• And now, a list of every app we mentioned in this episode!
  • Plants Vs Zombies
  • Temple Run 2
  • Minecraft
  • Clash of Clans
  • Raid: Shadow Legends
  • Candy Crush
  • Fishdom
  • Homescapes & Gardenscapes
  • Terrarium
  • Clusterduck
  • Doodle Jump 2
  • Just Mowing
  • Monster Girl Maker
  • Streaks
  • NYT Crosswords
  • Fruit Ninja

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• NAIT’s Career Essentials podcast
• Pod Power shout-out for YourForest, courtesy of Edmonton Community Foundation

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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 the things we mentioned in the episode:

• Triple H: The counterculture-to-corporate pipeline
• Some influencers use their power for good — e.g. Linda Hoang
• Karen doesn’t fangirl about podcasts, but she does recommend them on CBC Radio Active on the first Monday of the month, or on Fridays in The Pulse
• Parasocial interaction
• BreadTube
• Kat Blaque, Princess Weekes, and Tee Noir  — left-wing YouTubers of colour, among many
• Dream, Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit, Tubbo — gaming YouTubers who’ve exploded in popularity
• Callback to our episode on PewDiePie, jacksepticeye, and Markiplier
• CallMeCarson (and cancelled)
• ARGs, and the Wiki for Wilbur Soot’s game
• Callback to our Among Us episode
• Corpse has amassed a massive, active fanbase
• Corpse’s Spotify page
• The polls exploit in the YouTube Algorithm
• Raid: Shadow Legends and the controversy around it
• Whang! is entertaining, not scrupulous 
• Everything goes back to Harold Innis
• CALM
• Callback (way back) to our Tide Pods episode

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• NAIT’s Career Essentials podcast
• Searching for Izena 

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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 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

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• BGCBigs
• Searching for Izena

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

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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 the things we mentioned:

• It’s been a long time since we talked about pop music
• RIP CJYR, radio station of Karen’s youth
• Also RIP Video Hits and Good Rockin’ Tonite
• Billboard Hot 100
• Hit Parade on one-hit wonders
• One Hit Wonderland by Todd in the Shadows
• Mothica
• Mothica’s duck kettle 
• Laxed [SIREN BEAT] by Jawsh 685
• Jason Derulo’s Savage Love, which made Todd in the Shadows’s worst hit songs of 2020
• Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic
• Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic, Pt. 2
• The Powfu hit with the beabadobee hook 
• Lil Nas X, who is not a one-hit wonder, loves Fenty, and designs fashion
• Megan Thee Stallion #bodychallenge
• The Karens episode, where we talked about internet shorthand 
• Example of TikTok outfit transitions 
• List of TikTok music trends
• If the world was ending, you’d come over, right? No.
• Hayloft on TikTok
• Space Girl by Frances Forever
• Our feelings on TikTok are more nuanced than before

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well-Endowed Podcast
• Edmonton Heritage Council and the call for E-CAMP contributors (deadline to apply is Jan. 8, 2021)

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

You can subscribe to 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 links to the things we mentioned:

• Clone High on YouTube’s Retro Rerun (it’s a cartoon, but not for little kids)
• JFK compilation
• Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys 
• Episode 9: Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in 3 Acts
• Vincent Van Gogh TikToks
• Definitions:  Bitmoji and Memoji
• VTuber, or Virtual YouTuber
• Hatsune Miku
• Kizuna AI
• Barbie has a vlog
• Shout-out to Podcast Brunch Club
• Remember Max Headroom
• Seraphine from League of Legends
• Seraphine’s marketing campaign

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well-Endowed Podcast
• The Shared Mic

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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 the things we mentioned:

• Defining creepypasta
• The costumes we saw will be on Karen’s Instagram
• Jeff the Killer
• Zalgo
• What’s a screamer?
• What’s an Eboy?
• Laughing Jack
• Callback to when Elizabeth said stealing was OK
• Elizabeth’s Drawtober project
• Slender Man
• Slender Man’s copyright
• Channel Zero
• LOCAL58TV
• Among Us
• An Among Us joke that Karen got thanks to this episode 
• Corpse Husband on YouTube and Instagram
• @britl plays Among Us
• On The Media segment
• MrBeast
• Among Us gameplay clip, fan art, and cosplay
• AOC’s Among Us stream highlights
• Call of Duty: Conscientious Objector from The Debutantes 
• Taproot Edmonton Presents: Igniting Innovation 

Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, and our special spooky outro music is Among Us by Myuu. Check out the full song here.

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Unbelts
• Alberta Forest Products Association 

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Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show

Here are links to things we mentioned:

• DashCon
• Call back to our Quibi episode
• Chan boards
• Rage Comics
• Wojak Comics 
• Call back to our cottagecore episode
• NPC and its politicization
• Reply All episode on the origins of QAnon
• Call back to our Karens episode
• Call back to our memes episode with Steamed Hams
• Tumblr heritage posts 
  • Bohemian Rhapsody in rage comics from 2011
  • Tumblr vs Facebook from 2012
  • Map of Tumblr from 2012
• Call back to our episode mentioning the Onceler fandom
• Cringetober
• Inktober creator controversy 
• Oppa Homeless Style
• If you’re wondering what Jon is shouting at the end, it’s this.

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• The Shared Mic: Conversations for the Ages
• Edmonton Community Foundation and The Well Endowed Podcast, especially Episode 79

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You can subscribe to 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.

This episode will sort of make sense on its own, but it will be even more satisfying if you first listen to Part 1.

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Steal Like an Artist
• For a refresher on praxis, listen to Episode 20
• Examples of meme accounts and bots bringing one platform to another:
  • @luigi_atthedisco — pretty personality-heavy and advertises infrequently or never
  • @textpostgiant — a very commercial-seeming meme account on Instagram
  • Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens — a Twitter meme account run by a person
  • Am I the A**hole? — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a mod
  • me_irl — a Twitter Reddit-post account run by a bot (also a good example of reposting and cross-posting) 
  • Moldy Memes — a subreddit Jon wanted us to share
• The Lincoln Project is accused of stealing memes 
• Beverley Theresa’s post about being on Twitter just to screenshot for Insta
• @_citizen_dane’s super-long Instagram captions about heritage buildings in Edmonton
• Definition of desire path 
• Elizabeth has two poems in the Edmonton Youth Anthology, Volume 1, from Ink Movement. Here’s the book launch video (Elizabeth reads her poem at 12:18).
• Salute to Mack Male, my business partner at Taproot Publishing and a blogger since 2003!

Many thanks to our sponsors: 

• Unbelts — Use the offer code APN to get a free mini laundry bag with your cloth masks.
• Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta

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

You can subscribe to 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.