#### When Lilly Chin knew she couldn’t lose during Final Jeopardy, she decided to give a joke answer: “Who is the Spiciest Memelord?” But that joke became a meme itself—turning Lilly into not just the College Jeopardy champion, but an internet sensation.

Today, we chat with the MIT grad student about what it was like to be on the show, how the internet treats women in the public eye, and how her brush with fame changed the way she looks at online visibility. We also talk about Lilly’s research on soft robots, mentorship, Twitch streaming, and doing it all for the stories.

> We’re so used to thinking about women in terms of their outward appearance that even when it’s on a very academic game like _Jeopardy_, people are still defaulting to thinking of, like, an object of attraction.

> —Lilly Chin, MIT PhD student and _College Jeopardy_ champ

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### Links from the interview:

- [Lilly’s website](http://lillych.in/)

- The infamous [“Who is the spiciest memelord?” clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pLl0zID6UM)

- The [Jeopardy subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/)

- Talia Levin’s article about appearing on Jeopardy, [“Big Tits for $600”](https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/4xkz7g/big-tits-for-600-the-ugly-sexist-aftermath-of-appearing-on-jeopardy)

- [Justine Sacco’s tweet about AIDS in Africa](https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/this-is-how-a-womans-offensive-tweet-became-the-worlds-top-s?utm_term=.kqZV9aLbY#.gdeGbNd3O)

- [_So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed_](https://www.npr.org/2015/04/01/396384141/jon-ronson-has-nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-but-what-about-the-rest-of-us) by Jon Ronson

- The [“right to be forgotten”](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/right-to-be-forgotten) concept

- The field of [soft robotics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_robotics)

### Also in this episode:

- Creating intimate spaces online, from [our newsletter](http://www.noyougoshow.com/newsletter/) to Tiny Letters to private Slack accounts

- Shopping feminist, ethical, local, and just plain good companies

- Why Katel has the [best sweatshirt ever](http://www.noyougoshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/katel-headshot-1-660x480.jpeg)

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