I have no idea what their deal is. I tried to listen once but they were too quiet.
I listened to one episode and decided I didn't need a 'Mean Girls: the Podcast' in my rotation.
Then about a year later there was a link to their subreddit, and I discovered I was absolutely right about my first instincts.
They ironically promote eating disorders is one part of their deal. One of them said something like "I'm not glamorizing eating disorders- I'm just glamorous and have an eating disorder." It's really incredibly cruel stuff honestly. Eating disorders are competitive- to project that kind of stuff onto your audience is insane. I just googled to confirm my facts and also found out they called Lena Dunham a "human beanbag" which is just so mean I don't know where to start. Everyone in their vapid media circle ignores their actions tho so nothing ever comes of any of the shocking stuff they do.
In my one and only episode of listening to them, in the first three minutes they said "Taylor Swift announced she's battling an eating disorder", and the other host chimed in with "yeah, I thought she'd been looking fatter".
That set the tone, for sure.
I mean I think their audience is just idpol idiots who are sick of being "tone-policed" or believe the world is too PC now. Nonsense of course but if you want to hear someone see how offensive they can be while calling it social commentary this is the podcast for you. That genre of "being mean is actually just being honest" comedy is so grating to me. Any harm they do is erased by them claiming to be ironic or not political or whatever the fuck. The eating disorder stuff is the most personally offensive to me honestly because you can pretend nothing matters and everything is fake but why weaponize that to scar the psyche of young woman who listen to your podcast. IDK it's bullshit.
I'm with you. It's unnecessary cruelty in a world that isn't exactly kind to begin with. And the edgy "I'm gonna say the gamer word" humor is deeply uncreative.
Totally. Also literally everyone else either developed empathy and never had that phase of humor or got over it by HS. It's incredible how delayed the mean = funny is in these people.
"ironic" body shaming is just as daring and counter-cultural as "ironic" racism. fucking tiresome
She (bizarrely? hilariously? sadly?) does yeah. Not sure if it was after or before they insulted her. It's a bit pathetic either way.
Thinking of podcasts as modern conservative talk radio in terms of how it melts your brain helps me understand Patreon more - I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would break 7 figures on there, there's always a market for appealing to losers who want to feel smart. (And yes, the irony of posting that here.)
I'm from fuckin rural Ireland and the witten is squatting in my neurons until I die. The whole event was so online that it spread across the entire Internet like a grease stain.
Oh that's funny, last time I fucked her she said she was going to do that.
Their subreddit is really terrible and aggressive, most of the people there seem to be toxic stupidpollers or something like that.
yeah redscare is stupidpol with somehow hotter, worse takes.
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/redscarepod
r/indieheads cancelled smdh
Also the crossover with r/samharris is incredibly unsurprising
Do you like vocal fry and inane rambling about the movie set you were on while doing coke?
One the one hand, it did make me chuckle when I first saw it, but on the other... What about Nazi t shirts? I saw quite a few middle eastern ppl I follow get really pissed at that, cause of the whole genocide thing. It's weird how cultural/temporal distance makes these things either edgily funny or not at all funny
In a similar way, when I lived in China I would see Hitler and Osama Bin Laden iconography show up in very weird ironic ways. I had a Han Chinese student who gave himself the "English"/foreign language name Osama. The strange thing was that he was actually very sweet and would always enthusiastically greet me whenever our paths crossed outside the classroom!
Needless to say, I've never come across a Chinese person making ironic jokes about Hirohito.
Mhmm! There's the famous Hitler Ice Cream Cones picture in India
also i love how they misuse literally every trendy word. not everything is neoliberal, bpd, narcissistic, these arent even big words....
Academics saying "neoliberal" without elaboration of any kind is my personal Godwin's law.
Brooklyn hipsters that people get disproportionately mad at Bc they have a mean spirited pod.
They're ok, a lot of their audience seems waaaay too focused on stupidpol type stuff, and that sub has a lot of overlap with them. They're probably the worst of the Big 3 "Dirtbag Left" podcasts (Chapo, TrueAnon, and Red Scare). a few of their episodes are ok, like this one they released after the George Floyd protests were surprisingly pretty good. Ultimately the pod itself is meh (at least from what I have listened to), definitely doesn't have the same... energy? as Chapo and TA, mainly because of their insistence of le vocal fry, but their biggest issue definitely seem to be some of their audience.
Yeah, i mean dirtbag cuz like they all kinda talk and hang out with each other. Red Scare, TrueAnon, Chapo, CumTown, and a couple others seem pretty close irl to each other.
And yeah, if we are going by the textbook definition of "dirtbag left," TrueAnon definitely falls there (edgy humor and such)
I went from TrueAnon to Chapo to TrueAnon, and I realized behind the veneer of dirtbagness and the humor, TrueAnon is so much more structured. More serious in a way? I’m not sure what it is.
Brace is why. He's a cheeky chappy but doesn't wander too far off point
I mean Liz from TA has bigtime vocal fry but at least she doesn’t sound like she’s consistently half-awake the morning after a coke binge
all i remember is dasha cheating on one of the cumtown hosts. podcast lore is deep ig
