The Internet Is Dead
Episodes
contrachloe on how vine changed the internet forever
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fritz (aka contrachloe, or Chloe Lmao) joins The Internet Is Dead Podcast for Episode 100 to talk about how Vine changed their life and the internet, ...
tiktok fame is fake w/ ihavecrohnsdisease
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Carroll (aka ihavecrohnsdisease) joins The Internet Is Dead Podcast for Episode 99 to talk about alt-lit writing, his viral TikTok moments, the ...
megan bitchell & ethan mead unpack their careers in comedy
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Bitchell & Ethan Mead join The Internet Is Dead Podcast for Episode 98 to discuss how they met, Megan's viral history (PSAT starter packs, t...
olivia lopes: stans are taking over the media world
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Lopes joins The Internet Is Dead Podcast for Episode 97 to discuss how stan culture is shaping the media landscape, applying pop culture knowle...
rayne fisher-quann and the evolution of substack
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rayne Fisher-Quann joins The Internet Is Dead Podcast for Episode 96 to talk about what shaped her online presence, the rise of the personal essay &am...
the 2016 nostalgia p*rn epidemic
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about everyone's 2016 posts and the psychology behind nostalgia porn, halsey's back to badlands tour, and why that era of the internet earned ...
our conceptual obsession with celebrity culture
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
we talk with our friend emma about living in new york, how she has seen the scene evolve, AI and the Sora app, trend forecasting, fascination with cel...
the stanification of the celebrity interview w/ tobias hess & grace robins-somerville
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
tobias hess & grace robins-somerville talk about tobias' viral article on substack called Why Are All Pop Star Interviews Like That which diss...
we got in a moral discussion over our soundboard
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about asking our ex boyfriends to record voice memos for the soundboard, what is okay to joke about, the loud woman trope, and why we left phi...
how danny cole hijacked the billboard charts
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
danny cole talks about how he became an artist in new york, social media as an art form, and recent online moment surrounding Everybody's Album by...
katherout’s business school to leftist pipeline
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
katherout talks about her old college videos, the psychology behind why they appealed to people, corporate content, and how she got politicized online...
hannah elise and the college youtube era
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
hannah elise talks about her recent video about checking herself into a mental health rehabilitation center, the importance of mental health discussio...
is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend?
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about zohran mamdani's mayoral win and how it was influenced by the internet, josh citarella's growing influence in the political worl...
elle mills and the power of early youtube nostalgia
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
elle mills talks about what youtube was like in 2017, the impact of her coming out video, how her editing style became the norm for content creators, ...
catie turner's childhood on stan twitter
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
catie turner talks about the fifth harmony fandom, famous viners who came out of the era, her viral american idol audition, the actual process behind ...
elsie fisher reflects on eighth grade & the summer i turned pretty
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
elsie fisher talks about the internet labelling her as nonbinary, her early days on the internet, the identity she has attached to her lead role in Ei...
how savannah brown's "what guys look for in girls" video changed the internet
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
savannah brown talks about blowing up for her video called "What Guys Look For In Girls" which was a reaction to the video that Nash Grier a...
sean thor conroe on fuccboi, literacy, and the male loneliness epidemic
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
sean thor conroe talks about his book fuccboi, whether the book is pushing men in a positive direction, if it's possible to write something like i...
broey deschanel: the evolution of the video essay
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
broey deschanel talks about the death of traditional media, going viral with her first video, the mental toll of creative jobs, how video essays have ...
joan of arca on the history of meme culture
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
joan of arca talks about the early days of instagram, a post-woke internet space, the never-ending 4chan vs. tumblr war, and meme theory on episode 81...
unpacking the wallows fandom
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
wallows talks about their fandom, the early days of the band, and how the concept of the boy band has changed on episode 80 of The Internet Is Dead (J...
life on twitter with coldhealing
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
coldhealing talks about the cultural shift to the right, the early internet community that eventually became dimes square, pockets of twitter: TPOT, r...
how ben stager, sam burns, and nathan hare became friends
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ben stager, sam burns, and nathan hare talk about the comedy scene in canada, becoming friends, and starting the 4 am hangout crew on episode 78 of Th...
jordan castro on muscle man, auto-fiction, and the internet
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
jordan castro talks about his new book Muscle Man, how he killed auto-fiction, the evils of searching for things to tweet, drug addiction, what The No...
how mackenzie thomas found herself through the internet
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
mackenzie thomas talks about capturing a diary of her life through the internet, sexual expression, fanfiction, getting featured in The New York Times...
the power of the teenage girl with annie dirusso
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
annie dirusso talks about the power of the teenage girl, low grade tiktok virality, and her debut album on episode 75 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ov...
the full history of joy again
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
sachi diserafino of joy again talks about roots in philly, the diy basement show, how joy again brought a teenage crowd into an adult scene and change...
reading my lohanthony fanfiction to boys
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
brittany reads her old lohanthony fanfiction to our friends gavin oswald and bernard cohen. her mom also joins the reading and we all talk about how k...
the evolution of podcast about list with patrick doran
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
patrick doran talks about how twitter has changed since he was young, moving to new york, and how his friendships with caleb and cameron shaped his co...
tina hand unpacks the impact of tiktok on queer culture
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
tina hand talks about posting on tiktok as a teenager, transitioning in the public eye, and working on music full time on episode 71 of The Internet I...
our stan history
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about our stan history, beginning to end with old meet and greet photos, viral twitter moments, poetry account samples, and other old artifact...
the L.A. writing scene with car crash collective
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
car crash collective talks about starting their reading series, their internet background, the New Millenium Boyz movie adaption and how Britt ended u...
online mirrors with molly soda
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
molly soda talks about entering the internet, rating communities, blending into a sea of content with youtube era content, the girl online, and how we...
why alex kazemi has no social media
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
alex kazemi talks about his manuscript going viral on tumblr at 17, reworking neural pathways in terms of social media usage, manifesting and spiritua...
discussing the soul with tao lin
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
tao lin talks how reincarnation relates to autism, the soul and spirituality causing relief in the human collective, alternative diets and which one i...
where scene culture starts to go wrong
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about on the philly diy scene and how communities turn toxic, in terms of becoming the thing they set out to go against, & some questions ...
brock colyar explains why the west village girl went viral
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
brock colyar talks about their writing career, queer identity as a commody, misunderstandings surrounding their article It Must Be Nice To Be A West V...
peter vack's account of downtown scene-life
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
peter vack talks about his account of the downtown scene becoming what it is today, www.rachelormont.com, performance anxiety, and parasocial relation...
jake johnston on the impact of stan twitter
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
jake johnston talks about trolling in high school, the vine era and playlist live, his modeling career and related eating disorder journey, how stan t...
the new-internet era
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the era of web3, crypto meme coins, shit posting and internet acceleration, counter-culturing counter culture of counter culture, and re...
jessica defino on what she considers "beauty"
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
jessica defino talks about her substack, originally called The Unpublishable, and now titled The Review of Beauty, and everything that led her to writ...
james francis explains why people give up on fame after 25
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
james francis talks about her upbringing in LA, walking the line of writing parasocially about someone, how she's seen substack change since 2021, and...
the evils of meme culture with rafastinks
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
rafastinks talks about how to succeed on create mode on episode 58 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(...
should enya & drew be cancelled?
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the recent controversy surrounding emergency intercom and explore how to work beyond cancel culture while still holding people accountab...
why beautiful music is hard to talk about with lucia zambetti
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
lucia zambetti talks about studying philosophy at georgetown, spirituality, her music career, marketing on tiktok & the evolution of influencing s...
your purpose on earth with intuitive counselor tara taylor
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
tara taylor talks about learning how to decipher between intuition vs. ego, how she started reading people, fate, our purposes on earth, personal read...
sex & sexuality in acting with betsey brown
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
betsey brown talks about her experience as a woman in acting, her first SXSW with peter vack for Assholes, feeling removed from the Dimes Square socia...
the rise of perfectly imperfect with associate editor vivi hayes
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
vivi hayes talks about her internship at perfectly imperfect, downtown and post-internet writing, implications of gatekeeping, leaning into tropes of ...
we read mood machine by liz pelly so you don't have to (unpacking the lies behind spotify)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about mood machine by liz pelly, a solution for spotify, acid communism by mark fisher, and how a general acceptance for people / rise in cons...
the solution for spotify with hotline tnt
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
hotline tnt talks about their diy background, becoming friends, the shoegaze genre evolving, social media's impact on bands' success, and what the sol...
eugene kotlyarenko on internet cinema & directing Spree, The Code, and more
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
eugene kotlyarenko talks about directing Spree and The Code, why he became interested internet movies and creating them, Peter Vack's movie www.rachel...
the #MeToo movement is over
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about dasha nekrasova's hate online, how the me too movement is over, the internet's turn to conservatism, josh citarella's book Politigram, a...
how sugar pine 7 changed youtube film-making & comedy
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
james deangelis and clay james of sugar pine 7 talk about why sugar pine 7 ended, the landscape of youtube comedy back when they were in their prime, ...
horse jumper of love is giving music one last try
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
horse jumper of love (dimitri giannopoulos) talks about boston diy, financial stability in art, how social media makes everyone into a celebrity, work...
media consumption dread & 2025 predictions
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the potential tiktok ban, brittany's current breakup, relationship dyanmics, 2025 predictions, and issues we've been having with basing ...
unpacking dimes square with matthew gasda
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
matthew gasda talks about growing up in bethlehem, pa, his play which inserted him into the dimes square scene, how the scene and discource surroundin...
the post-election leftist divide & importance of peer voices
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the election results and explore the ideas which our peers were debating after kamala's loss of the polls, whether boycotting the vote d...
getting off tiktok with nico
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
nico page talks about their old tiktok dancing videos, their non-binary identity, deleting social media, pedastolizing people from short videos, being...
how crushes grow & develop through social media
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about how relationships and crushes have grown to be parasocial through the means of the internet and compare it to what older generations hav...
the future of spirituality with sighswoon (gabi abrão)
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
sighswoon (gabi abrão) talks about the future of spirituality through spiritual engineering and online spaces which have become psychic in the past f...
luigi mangione wouldn't be a martyr without the internet
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about how luigi mangione would have never been able to garner the same energy around him without the internet sleuthing that has become standa...
imnotsavana on being depressed online through vine and one direction
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
savana spring (imnotsavana) talks about how her online persona felt seperate from her, the early days of vine, escaping hard times through the one dir...
understanding online tethers & darkness surrounding wicked
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about forming online tethers with people online (citing gabi abrão), attending to peers in a parasocial way, as if they are celebrities, the ...
how ky newman became a part of emergency intercom
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ky talks about what led up to ky joining emergency intercom, watching drew and enya before meeting them at a party in LA, getting sexualized by the in...
exploring pro ana tumblr (eating disorder & self-harm culture)
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about pro ana forums on tumblr and what was normal back then, as well as how eating disorders have been perpetuated using online discourse and...
HOMESHAKE on the development of indie fans & streaming music
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
peter sagar of HOMESHAKE talks about being associated with mac demarco, his transition from diy to professional, an audience developing around his mus...
kamala harris on call her daddy was reflective of our political state
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about what a call her daddy episode with kamala harris meant about our current political climate, how our current social climate divides on wo...
madelyn layer's shift to gender affirming fashion & tiktok beauty standards
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
madelyn layer talks about growing up in a conservative environment and finding solace in fashion and online communities, meeting her girlfriend online...
the online response to liam payne's passing & our interview with maya henry
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about everything that has followed liam payne's death online and what it means about the way we use social media, then address what is necessa...
maya henry on liam payne's abuse & the one direction fandom
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
maya henry talks about the recent upheaval from the tiktok she posted about zayn pushing liam up against a wall, the one direction fandom and why thes...
greg mendez went into credit card debt to put out self-titled
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
greg mendez talks about starting from diy and playing music on the streets for money to the recent traction his music has gained, playing music as a c...
how kids would roleplay on twitter, club penguin, etc
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about how it was normalized online to speak like a person of color, ariana grande meet and greets, the hate that she recieves online, and kids...
marcus maddox: from the new york scene to the whitney museum
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
marcus maddox talks about the nostalgia behind photography and storing photos as memory blockers in an age of documentation, how his art ended up in t...
the first cry of the podcast
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the way your view of an ex shifts, breakups and feeling like yourself when you talk about the past or a person you were connected to, ex...
chappell roan discourse as a full circle moment in pop culture
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about seeing phoebe bridgers in a bar, overhearing someone talking about alex g's housewarming party, discussing chappell roan's rise to fame ...
analyzing the attempted attack on taylor swift's vienna show
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about brooke schofield's racist tweets and trying to come to a collective conclusion about it, things online being permanent and online unders...
the early spirit of the internet & pre/post alex g with TAGABOW
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
doug dulgarian of They Are Gutting a Body of Water (TAGABOW) talks about - pov you see a girl with bangs and you wanna ask her on a date but she doesn...
kahlen barry talks tana mongeau & brooke schofield's racism and the individual impact we all have
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
kahlen barry talks about how we met through stan twitter, tana's stan universe of trash and bleedycon, kahlen's experience of entering trash and meeti...
narcissism takes a new form in our current online landscape & how misinformation has shifted
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talks about narcissism taking a new form with an awareness around misogyny being more prominent online, boys tricking girls, collective awareness a...
messaging online as a form of mental telepathy & spaces unlocked through starting a podcast
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about the possibilities unlocked when all you do is send someone an email, how willing people are to be your friend, people becoming famous by...
how the formation of greer impacted seth's relationship with the internet
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
seth talks about james charles, shane dawson, stan culture on twitter, how creators interact with their fans, how online fame has warped seth's br...
josh jackson on creating paste magazine
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
josh jackson talks about the origin and making of paste magazine and how it blew up into what it is today, how journalism has evolved from print, musi...
our twitter famous tana mongeau groupchat: bleedycon
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
bleedycon talks about the formation of our groupchat, the funny drama that happened in youtube fandoms, groupchat hierarchies, going backstage at tana...
lots of hands' twenty one pilots to DIY pipeline
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
lots of hands talks about making friends through soundcloud and facebook as a kid, listening to twenty one pilots, inherent spirituality in music, bui...
why bianca8198 went offline after 2016
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
bianca (bianca8198) talks about her first breakup being earth shattering, tumblr couples and how we perceived them, how there will be a documentary ab...
unpacking josh ovalle's kicked out of high school episode
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about josh ovalle's guest podcast episode with cody ko, how it impacted us and why so many people go back to that video to this day, how w...
a fan's perspective on cody ko's sexual assault controversy
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about recent news regarding cody ko's r*** apology and statutory r*** on tana mongeau and what it was like to watch the evolution of their dyn...
the vastness of the online sphere with @
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
@ talks about growing up without the internet, getting facebook, and transitioning to the world we're in now, their LP Mind Palace Music and latest EP...
2011-2016 stan twitter will forever live on
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about our friendship, trauma bonding over relationship experiences, anxiety around going on dates, ex-boyfriends, how we got involved in stan ...
uncarley's hotel encounter with shawn mendez
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
carley thorne (uncarley) talks about how one direction fanfiction villanizes women, fans scaring celebrities in gay relationships, shawn mendez used t...
chronically online girl nicole rafiee explains accidentally pioneering 'guys answer girls questions'
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
nicole rafiee talks about on bringing the guys answering questions that girls are too afraid to ask trend to youtube, blowing up after years of postin...
understanding the dote girl with summer mckeen
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
summer mckeen talks about her traumatic version of the kardashians show (endless summer, the snapchat reality series), being a dote girl, public break...
lauren brodauf on the watching josh ovalle to hot girl pipeline
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
lauren brodauf talks with us about how she started on youtube, old one direction vlogs, growing up on drew & enya and sinjin drowning, youtube as ...
james charles fan account to intern to friend
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk with zoe mevorah about youtube stan twitter, specifically, the james charles and tana mongeau universes, the weird things we used to expect ou...
channeling star girl energy & friendship through the sims community
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk with maddy about internet friendship, learning from one another, playing on minecraft servers to try to befriend sims youtubers, energy shifts...
the algorithm wants you to end up jordan peterson pilled
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we talk about how we met, if we'd let our daughters online, breakups are earth shattering, catering to men/male validation, sameera's first do...
bullied for fan accounts & defining celebrity moral standards
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we have our college friends reece and olivia on, and discuss how our views on celebrities and idealizing people have evolved through the years. we dis...
asking william craver for his star sign & our 7 year internet friendship
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
william craver of old weston koury/sinjin drowning videos joins us to talk about our internet friendship, tiktok edits of him, watching each other gro...
social media becoming less wholesome with olivia osby
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
olive of olivia o. and lowertown talks about running a famous tumblr aesthetic blog, her music career & being talked down to as a women in the ind...
current joys on how genuine art will continue to reach the surface, emma greer, & folk LP
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
nick rattigan talks about how one of his first viral blowups was tied to vine creator emma greer's passing, what that shift in fame felt like, and...