Today in the lives of your intrepid hosts: Isabel gets really good life advice from Wil Wheaton, Amanda investigates TikTok’s “industry plant punk band,” and also, what do you do with 2.5 pounds of rainbow sprinkles? We also talk about The Circle, the millennial vs. gen z debate (again), and rank people’s Dungeons and Dragons character names, like Kyle the Warlock.

Show Notes

The Tramp Stamps drama: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tramp-stamps-dr-luke-tiktok-backlash-1156440/

Wil Wheaton is on tumblr? https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/

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Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our production is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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When Steve Ibsen was in high school, he made the Kitty Cat Dance, which went viral – but, this was 2004, when YouTube didn’t even exist, and the internet was even wilder than it is now, so he lost control of the Kitty Cat Dance! His meme was used without his permission by Hot Topic and Roblox, and finally, 17 years later, Steve turned the video into an NFT to regain some control. What the #*$*(@ is an NFT? Why are meme creators using them? Listen to find out!

Show Notes

The Kitty Cat Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM& Why Steve Auctioned Kitty Cat Dance as an NFT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez_oIh3ot_s Steve’s TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@steve.ibsen Steve’s website: https://www.steveibsen.com/Mouse Night: https://www.mousenight.com/ Chug Jug With You - Goofy Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikOuUa3hFjA More explanation of NFTs: https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq

Just dropping this here: https://aux.avclub.com/a-tail-of-two-kitties-wronged-internet-creators-are-ta-1846602349?

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Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our production is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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It’s just us this week! We talk about Lil Nas X’s blood shoes, old tweets about Sandstorm by Darude, the legality of URL hoarding, Omegle adventures, Fuck Yeah blogs on Tumblr, Wizard SATs, Nyan Cat, and more.

Show Notes

Montero (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6swmTBVI83k

Lil Nas X Apologizes for the Satan Shoe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESf8Un3g9zM

Shameless plug that Amanda wrote about Nyan Cat: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/nyan-cat-meme-gif-nft-10th-birthday-chris-torres-history

Friendship bracelets are in progress: https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod/status/1378141665270104067

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our production is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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A dating app for people stuck in the Suez Canal, sweaters for your drone, venture capitalist trading cards, real life blue checks, a recruiting agency for quitting your job – Danielle Baskin makes a living off of internet jokes gone too far, and we’re so here for it. We talk about turning memes into businesses, karaoke on the Suez Canal, putting your drone on Tinder, and more.

Show Notes

Forever Given, the Suez Canal Dating App: www.forevergiven.app

Tweet announcing the dating app: https://twitter.com/djbaskin/status/1375576304590888961

“I Like That The Boat Is Stuck”: https://stone-soup.ghost.io/archive/i-like-that-the-boat-is-stuck/

Danielle’s website: https://daniellebaskin.com/

Amanda wrote about Danielle once: https://observer.com/2021/02/danielle-baskin-entrepreneurial-performance-artist/

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our production is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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Mike Schubert joins us to talk about reevaluating your “personal brand” after making it big on the internet, being in a parasocial relationship with thousands of people, and launching his new show Modern Muckraker! We ask Mike our burning questions: is it ethical to keep making fandom content when the creator of the source material turns out to be… uh… a TERF? What was it like when Vine collapsed? Do tomatoes belong in guac?

Show Notes

Help fund Mike's show Modern Muckraker! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schubes/modern-muckraker-a-comedic-investigative-journalism-podcastm 

Mike’s website/other projects: https://www.schub.es/

Hugh Brandity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPHK494AUxE&t=2s

Amanda’s still trying to make the lettuce bracket happen: https://twitter.com/asilbwrites/status/1374400743273164802

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our web design/audio editing is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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It’s just another episode of Wow If True in which Isabel finds a way to mention Supernatural, a television show which is extremely no longer on air. But it’s also not just another episode, because journalist John Loeppky joins us to talk about the relationship between disability and memes! Yes, memes intersect with all aspects of culture. Other conversation topics include Isabel’s sword collection, John’s illustrious wheelchair basketball career, how to use alt text, lettuce, and – for some reason – bronies.

Show Notes

John Loeppky!:https://linktr.ee/johnloeppky

Journalism D&D alignment meme: https://twitter.com/intothemelwoods/status/1316482655215468544

Alt text Twitter bot: https://twitter.com/get_altText

Twitter’s alt text guide: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/picture-descriptions

Amanda’s lettuce bracket: https://twitter.com/asilbwrites/status/1251714049324331010

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our web design/audio editing is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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The Garages write music about the Blaseball, a web-browser horror/comedy game taking the internet by reverb. It’s a fanband! Like fanfiction, but music, but also extremely punk rock. Today we’re here with Robin Yu, one of the Garages’ over 100 members, to talk about going collectively viral—but also to talk about the Bee Movie, Twilight, Supernatural, Pokemon Go, and a bunch of other similar malarkey! It’s fine! Play blall!

Show Notes

Post-interview, Robin asked us to clarify that the fourth strike server is open only to those currently working on existing projects, not people totally new to the collective, so this is us clarifying! 

Robin’s soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/biiiiiird

The Garages’ bandcamp: https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/

Discipline double LP: https://www.iam8bit.com/products/blaseball-vinyl-soundtrack

Amanda wrote about Blaseball: https://www.inputmag.com/gaming/drop-everything-youre-doing-play-some-blaseball

Play Blaseball! blaseball.com

Songs We Mentioned

UR TOO SLOW by 100 Crabs: https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/track/ur-too-slow-explicit

froggy chair song by poop wizard: https://soundcloud.com/poop-wizard/froggy-chair-song

Godspeed by The Garages: https://thegarages.bandcamp.com/track/godspeed

Dial Tone from Blaseball the Musical: https://blaseballmusical.bandcamp.com/track/dial-tone

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Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our web design/audio editing is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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Ten episodes in, and finally, Amanda went viral! Unfortunately, it was for a dick joke. Meanwhile, Isabel is getting paid on Tumblr to psychoanalyze people. We also discuss Amanda’s long lost Hollywood relative, why people are selling ocean galaxy lights on Twitter, cryptoart, and a life-changing truth about none pizza with left beef. As our lives slowly spin out of control, we also take time to reflect on how the podcast is going – let us know your thoughts!

Show Notes

Amanda’s viral dick joke: https://twitter.com/asilbwrites/status/1365687972268544000

Why are these projectors all over Twitter: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg83n3/why-viral-tweets-are-trying-to-sell-you-these-galaxy-light-projectors

You need to know this wild fact about None Pizza with Left Beef: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/none-pizza-with-left-beefs-creator-steve-molaro-interview.html

Isabel published a story this week and we’re putting it in the show notes because you should read it: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_03_21/

Actually this was just an elaborate excuse so that Amanda doesn’t feel bad about linking her Blaseball feature, but we’re doing a Blaseball episode next week so it makes sense: https://www.inputmag.com/gaming/drop-everything-youre-doing-play-some-blaseball

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our web design/audio editing is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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We can’t seem to stop talking about the value of workers unions on our meme podcast. This week, we dig into the role of Twitter in the Reply All/Gimlet/Bon Appetit drama that’s unfolding. Also, Amanda tells the story about how recently, she accidentally became a dog’s press secretary. She also shares how not-so-recently, she participated in a Lincoln-Douglass debate about the Cullen family at Borders. Plus, apparently dads are on Clubhouse? Who knew! 

Show Notes

Gimlet thread from Eric Eddings: https://twitter.com/eeddings/status/1361789128006897668

Levi Fetterman’s dog breed announcement: https://twitter.com/asilbwrites/status/1359176839827234823

Dogs as campaign surrogates: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/democratic-candidates-dogs-bloomberg.html

Dick cake: https://twitter.com/isabeljkim/status/1360439095902818307

Amanda’s dad is on Clubhouse: https://twitter.com/KenSilberling/status/1363520694584287234

Ashton vs. Anderson: https://www.cnet.com/news/ashton-outmaneuvers-cnn-to-1-million-on-twitter/

Blaseball returns (and we’ll have an episode about it in a few weeks): blaseball.com

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About Us 

Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling. Our music is by Sam Rizer, our cover art is by Isabel J. Kim, and our web design/audio editing is by Amanda Silberling. We like memes. 

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If you think shitposting can’t get you anywhere, think again. Meet Organizer Memes, the Hannah Montana of progressive political Twitter: by day, they’re just another organizer, knocking door-to-door in the rain. By night, they’re an anonymous Internet personality rubbing virtual elbows with Senators like Jon Ossoff, who they got to tweet “Memes” once. But memes aren’t all fun and games – the account’s anonymity allows organizers to submit stories of their hardships in campaign work in a protected way. Now, Organizer Memes has over 12,000 followers, and their tweets often amass millions of views – but as our anonymous friend says, “It doesn’t matter how many followers I have. I need this for my sanity.”

Show Notes

Organizer Memes: https://twitter.com/OrganizerMemes Jon Ossoff woke up and chose memes: https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1346164079371628548?lang=en

Campaign Abuse thread: https://twitter.com/OrganizerMemes/status/1331024205706633216

Amanda dunks on the Lincoln Project: https://twitter.com/asilbwrites/status/1358452021238640643

Learn more about the impact of youth organizers: https://medium.com/@emma.h.friend/dont-agonize-organize-the-ed-markey-organizing-model-cf6364ab167e

Organizer Memes merch store: https://www.solidaritysuperstore.com/organizermemes

Organizer Moms: https://twitter.com/organizermoms

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