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This episode is full of all the craziness that is our internet culture. We talk about the melt down at Bagel Boss. We discuss how a misogynistic rant goes viral and how that person is now trying to capitalize on their infamy by marketing shirts. We talk about how the structure of social media allows people like that to leverage sensationalism and violence into a business model and for fame. This leads us to discuss Bianca, a young social media figure who was murdered. We talk the details of the case, the man she met online, his stalking of her, and her subsequent murder. We discuss the underground culture of violence and entitlement that mingles with the illusion of familiarity to breed a toxic mix. Finally we conclude with Ice Bae, a woman who caught the internet’s for being in the now infamous image of Vice President Mike Pence overlooking asylum-seekers in concentration camps. We discuss the superficiality of social media discourse and the structural problems if poses for organizing and political change.
