we talk about our friendship, trauma bonding over relationship experiences, anxiety around going on dates, ex-boyfriends, how we got involved in stan culture, and the early days of one direction, ariana grande, and other fandoms that haven't been reproduced since on episode 12 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

carley thorne (uncarley) talks about how one direction fanfiction villanizes women, fans scaring celebrities in gay relationships, shawn mendez used to drive around listening to his own music in his home town, seeing him at a hotel talking about authenticity then walking through shrubs, experiencing the comedy space as a woman, and generally geeking about different fan cultures we grew up within on episode 11 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

nicole rafiee talks about on bringing the guys answering questions that girls are too afraid to ask trend to youtube, blowing up after years of posting, starting the chronically online girl series, struggling with mental health in college and lonliness, and temple university on episode 10 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

summer mckeen talks about her traumatic version of the kardashians show (endless summer, the snapchat reality series), being a dote girl, public breakups and relationships, being held accountable for instances of privilege online, and her lifetime supply of free brandy melville on episode 9 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

lauren brodauf talks with us about how she started on youtube, old one direction vlogs, growing up on drew & enya and sinjin drowning, youtube as an opportunity for other creative fields, living in france, moving to new york, and how things look from a fan's perspective when they're actually pretty simple on episode 8 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk with zoe mevorah about youtube stan twitter, specifically, the james charles and tana mongeau universes, the weird things we used to expect out of our idols on twitter, and if you can truly become friends with someone who you watch online. zoe tells a story about a predatory, well-known minecraft youtuber who tried to have a threesome with her and a friend on episode 7 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk with maddy about internet friendship, learning from one another, playing on minecraft servers to try to befriend sims youtubers, energy shifts, psychic readings, lifesimmer, how fan-idol dynanmics are becoming more distanced, pretty privilege online, influencer culture, & conversations creating culture through tiktok on episode 6 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk about how we met, if we'd let our daughters online, breakups are earth shattering, catering to men/male validation, sameera's first downvote on reddit, & the scary pipeline to easily becoming apart of incel communities online (with experiments pulled from Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates) on episode 5 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we have our college friends reece and olivia on, and discuss how our views on celebrities and idealizing people have evolved through the years. we discuss standards, cancel culture, and getting bullied in school by ‘IRLS’ for our stan accounts while unpacking the psychology behind all of it on episode 4 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

william craver of old weston koury/sinjin drowning videos joins us to talk about our internet friendship, tiktok edits of him, watching each other grow up, communities we've grown out of, weston's old discord server, fanfiction, exes, relationships, & star signs on episode 3 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ