the dress
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05/21/24 • 65 min
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In 2015, the world was gripped by one question: is this dress black and blue, or white and gold? No, no, I refuse to argue with you about it — but the story of The Dress is the dying breath of a pre-algorithm driven social media, the peak of Buzzfeed, and contains some dark truths about the internet.
Featuring interviews with Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz), author of Extremely Online and Max Fisher (@maxfisher22), author of The Chaos Machine.
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In 2015, the world was gripped by one question: is this dress black and blue, or white and gold? No, no, I refuse to argue with you about it — but the story of The Dress is the dying breath of a pre-algorithm driven social media, the peak of Buzzfeed, and contains some dark truths about the internet.
Featuring interviews with Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz), author of Extremely Online and Max Fisher (@maxfisher22), author of The Chaos Machine.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 2Clickbait. If I had to define it, clickbait is a combination of fake news and a freak show. It was a sign of the declining state of reliable journalism in the Western world and an early symptom of where American journalism finds itself. As I record this, major newsrooms are shuddering or vastly reduced during an election year, and most major newspapers are owned by billionaire
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