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How do YouTube influencers neg their audiences into taking lifestyle advice?Internet culture writer Steffi Cao joins Jamie to discuss how influencers undermine audiences with video titles that are not what they seem. The two discuss authenticit
What is the true potential of AI text-to-video generation?Director of Curiouser Institute and award-winning AI games designer Reed Berkowitz discusses OpenAI's Sora, an AI text-to-image model that will soon be made available to the public. As H
How will creators and tech companies grapple with the decline of journalism?On this week's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the relationship between creators, platforms, and journalists, the ongoing shift from legacy news sources to platforms li
How can we separate hype from hallucination in AI games?Award-winning games designer and Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz discusses why it's so difficult for mid-to-large studios to create AI NPCs, the brand safety risks associate
Where can creators turn after they’ve been cancelled? Internet culture writer Steffi Cao discusses why cancelled creators turn to right-wing values to grow their businesses, the difficulty audiences have determining authenticity, and why it all
How did Palantir develop a meme-obsessed fanbase of retail traders — and what does it mean?Business Insider senior correspondent Katie Notopoulos discusses the livestreaming, meme-making community behind Palantir's stock and the company's CEO A
How can we explore visions for a better internet as it undergoes a monumental evolution?Media literacy influencer Kelsey Russell, award-winning journalist Kat Tenbarge, digital culture journalist Steffi Cao, and moderator Rachel E. Greenspan ex
How do reboots and IP fueled universes prevent us from ever feeling nostalgia?Author of Foreverism Grafton Tanner discusses how the practice of keeping things alive prevents us from ever feeling nostalgia.📚 You can order Foreverism by Grafton
How does creative misuse of social media platforms inform the future of social media at large?Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz highlights five popular ways people are engaging, interacting, and using social platforms - ranging fro
Washington Post tech columnist and author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet Taylor Lorenz explores the social history of the internet. How did Mommy Bloggers shape the creator economy? What is V
Cores are everywhere. From the film-inspired Barbiecore to Cottagecore – but how does a new core threaten to surveil everyday people?On today’s episode, Jamie provides us with a dispatch about the differences between Cores and aesthetics, the w
How did an early YouTube vlog style return to popularity after a generation of TikTok and YouTube creators including Emma Chamberlain and Charli D'amelio went mainstream? On today's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss how early YouTube creators lik
How will AI, algorithms, creators, and data transparency shape the future of Hollywood?On today's episode, Jamie and Josh dive into the key issues behind the SAG-AFTRA strike. How do major studios plan to use AI – and how can they come to an ag
How did Barbie and Oppenheimer become a highly anticipated double feature audiences have named Barbenheimer? This week, Josh and Jamie explore the history behind one of the summer's most anticipated box office weekends. How did a falling out b
Meta’s primary Twitter competitor Threads earned more than 100 million downloads in its first five days - but what are the three key components required for the platform’s long-term success?On today’s episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the factors
How can we be critical of fear-based AI hype cycles? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently made headlines when he issued a 22-word statement warning of extinction due to the threats posed by AI - but what is Altman referring to, and what did he omit f
What does it mean to be a rebel in a digital age? PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz provides us with three strategies to move forward. Recorded live at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival in New York City on Wednesday, October 26,
How did one of Broadway’s newest shows become a cringeworthy TikTok trend that earned tens of millions of views?Rolling Stone internet culture reporter CT Jones discusses how Bad Cinderella became an ironic trend for audiences. How did the show
How can creators avoid being creatively trapped by the audiences they worked to build? Where is there space for creators to take risks?Zine writer Matt Klein discusses his first-ever printed edition: Audience Capture. Klein explains the social
How has a Type 2 diabetes drug become a go-to for celebrities and influencers looking to lose weight — and what are the damaging effects of its popularity?This week, we invited Buzzfeed reporter Kelsey Weekman to discusses her article, The Osca
Show Summary:Why do black TikTok creators struggle to earn credit for their original work?This week, TIME staff writer Moises Mendez II explains how TikTok creator Jordyn Williams is fighting for credit after her #NoLove dance went viral. How i
How can we learn more about AI's design and development to better understand its emergence? Director of Curiouser Institute and AI games designer Reed Berkowitz explains what really happened when New York Times columnist Kevin Roose talked to B
How does an activist Instagram account help bring attention - and change - to New Orleans’ streets? On this week’s episode, we welcome Digital Void collaborator, PhD student, and researcher Alex Turvy to discuss Look at This Fuckin’ Street: an
How will Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter reshape the landscape of social media?Creator and host of the award-winning podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet Bridget Todd explains where people can go to find alternatives to mainstream social
On this week's episode, Jamie takes a deep dive into why civil rights groups are pushing back against Amazon’s new television show, Ring Nation.You can read a written version of this week's episode, Why Civil Rights Groups Are Pushing Back Agai
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