Gracie Kanin
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382 appearances
18 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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And in the five years or so since, which takes us right up to when I think we started working on this, it had exploded to the point where
the numbers were just astonishing.
Like I don't remember where they were exactly then, but now we're talking about more than 400 million people on there as subscribers and 4.5 million I believe as creators.
These are just,
unfathomable numbers because it suggests that this is this thing that, you know, one might be tempted to think is a, you know, fringe activity that is like happening on the margins is in fact, utterly mainstream.
Um,
And I just had no idea what was going on on there.
As I said before, I was sort of confused about why someone would want this.
I'm not trying to be Pollyanna-ish.
I understand how people look at pornography.
But this thing where you're engaging in a fantasy relationship
It didn't speak to my needs.
And so I think I wanted to understand what was making this thing so popular and what were people getting out of it on either side of the equation.
Yeah.
I would have expected that any other social media platform in the year 2026, whether it's TikTok or Instagram or Twitter, you log on and you're bombarded with recommendations.
Maybe you'll like this person.
Maybe you'll like this person.
Scroll, scroll, scroll until you find someone you want to
pay.
Um, and instead it's like a very web 1.0 structure, uh, where you sort of have to know that someone is on there whom you want to look at in order to even know where to look.
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