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Guardian Australia’s culture and lifestyle team chat through the infinite scroll, bringing you the biggest – and weirdest – bits of the internet

  1. 15/06/2022

    Is the internet secretly dead? Plus: bots and bye-byes on our final episode

    On the last episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture (RIP), Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman discuss dead internet theory, a conspiracy that posits the social web has been replaced by AI. Friends of Saved for Later also come on to say goodbye and eulogise their favourite online ephemera

    22 min

  2. 08/06/2022

    Pinkwashing’s peak and the best of the backlash. Plus: who stole our focus?

    Does the B in LGBTQ+ stand for brand? In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman chat about brand Twitter’s latest attempt at inclusivity and the online response. Plus: Alyx sits down with Johann Hari to discuss how technology has stolen our focus, and how we can get it back

    35 min

  3. 01/06/2022

    From Hackers to Unfriended: the evolution of the internet on film. Plus: is Elvis the new Cats?

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun is joined by film history nerd – and Total Reboot host – Alexei Toliopoulos, for an extremely fun deep dive into the history of the world wide web on screen. Later, they chat about the main character energy of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis: a film that everyone loves to hate – despite not having seen it yet.

    43 min

  4. 25/05/2022

    Why is synaesthesia suddenly going viral? Plus: the poetry of the second mention – Saved for Later podcast

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun is joined by former colleague Naaman Zhou – now of the New Yorker – to discuss the linguistic gymnastics involved in journalism, and a Twitter account documenting the best and worst of it. Plus – producer Miles Herbert joins the pod to talk about TikTok’s latest obsession

    29 min

  5. 18/05/2022

    What is the Y2K aesthetic and why won’t it go away? Plus: extreme iPod nostalgia

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman are joined by Evan Collins and Froyo Tam – the internet archivists cataloguing every trend you’ve ever loved – to discuss the return of the Y2K aesthetic, and how new platforms like TikTok are causing a fad churn. Plus – unos, dos, tres, catorce, turn it up loud – Alyx and Michael share their iPod eulogies.

    34 min

  6. 11/05/2022

    Depp v Heard: A trial by TikTok. Plus: Why is fashion week so boring?

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman are joined by Luke Winkie to discuss the QAnonification of the Depp/Heard court case and how the trial is playing out on TikTok. Plus stick around for a more cheerful topic as Alyx provides dispatches from Australian Fashion Week

    33 min

  7. 04/05/2022

    Harry Styles and the internet’s foot fetish – with Benjamin Law and Beverley Wang

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun and Alyx Gorman are joined by Benjamin Law and Beverley Wang from the ABC’s Stop Everything! podcast to discuss the unlikely star of a Better Homes and Gardens shoot: a hole in Harry Styles’s sock. For Law, whose feet have also been known to attract unwanted attention online, it’s personal

    25 min

  8. 27/04/2022

    Why are Australian politicians so bad at memes? Plus: are you the a*****e?

    In the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast about internet culture, Michael Sun is joined by Matilda Boseley to dive deep on this election campaign’s best and worst #auspol posts. But first, an experiment with a new AI bot that answers Reddit’s favourite question – in which Michael reveals his most controversial opinion, which could actually get him fired

    35 min
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Guardian Australia’s culture and lifestyle team chat through the infinite scroll, bringing you the biggest – and weirdest – bits of the internet

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    The Guardian
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  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    31
  • Rating
    Explicit
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