In this episode, Joanne delves into how MySpace—like reality TV—became a vehicle for celebrity in the aughts, and gave way to the culture of influencers. She catches up with people who built a fan base on the platform.
Special thanks to our guests Bridget Todd (host of There Are No Girls on the Internet); Taylor Lorenz (technology columnist for The Washington Post); and Hanna Beth (one of the first people to become MySpace Famous).
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03/29/23 • 30 min
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Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace - 3. MySpace Famous
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This is an I heeart original. If the beginning of Tila Tequila being on my radar as this, like, you know, my Space influencer for being a queer woman of color, if that was like the promise of the Internet. The day that I saw that image of her in my hometown in DC doing a Nazi salute at a restaurant with a bunch of alt right dirtbags, that was the nail in the coffin. And so I feel like that moment for me really crystallized where we started and un
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