Ryan Broderick

Lastly, here's my advice for you.

Chill out and touch grass while you still can.

Bean Dad, Justine Sacco, that woman who had fun sitting in the backyard with her husband once on Twitter.

These are people we would call the main characters of the Internet.

Everyone wants to know what their deal is.

Everyone gets really mad about it.

Their whole lives typically get ruined.

Today, we're going to be talking about how that keeps happening and why it's a little different now than it used to be.

This is Panic World, a show about how the internet warps our minds, our culture, and eventually reality.

With me is my personal bean dad, Grant Irving, my producer, and our fantastic guest returning to the show today is Taylor Lorenz.

Taylor, how are you?

You've been the main character of the internet a few times, I feel like.

What does that feel like when it's happening?

I have dabbled in that world myself, but I feel like you have a bit more experience than I do when the internet comes calling.

I feel like a lot of the panic around it when it would happen was like society hadn't really caught up to how silly a lot of this stuff is.

So like the first time it ever happened to me, I had a boss say they were going to fire me over it.

but it was because my family had been doxxed by 4chan and my editor basically didn't like the fact that we were getting that attention and was like, I'll fire you if you tweet about this or if you say anything about it.

And like now that seems ridiculous, but this was 2012 probably.

What'd you do to make 4chan mad?

I wrote about a fake campaign they put together called Cutting for Bieber.