The Internet Is Dead

alex kazemi talks about his manuscript going viral on tumblr at 17, reworking neural pathways in terms of social media usage, manifesting and spirituality through the internet, new millenium boyz and teenage boys, and everything that has led us to where we are now in terms of how online we are on episode 67 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ....

tao lin talks how reincarnation relates to autism, the soul and spirituality causing relief in the human collective, alternative diets and which one is Right, the early social media days on episode 66 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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 of gender identity on episode 65 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

brock colyar talks about their writing career, queer identity as a commody, misunderstandings surrounding their article It Must Be Nice To Be A West Village Girl, and the future of NY culture on episode 64 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

peter vack talks about his account of the downtown scene becoming what it is today, www.rachelormont.com, performance anxiety, and parasocial relationships on episode 63 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

jake johnston talks about trolling in high school, the vine era and playlist live, his modeling career and related eating disorder journey, how stan twitter has informed the internet world, creating the Flashback Mary meme, and the creator universe he existed in during his youth on episode 62 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾...

we talk about the era of web3, crypto meme coins, shit posting and internet acceleration, counter-culturing counter culture of counter culture, and remelia on episode 61 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

jessica defino talks about her substack, originally called The Unpublishable, and now titled The Review of Beauty, and everything that led her to writing it-- from her experience working under the Kardashians to the language we use around beauty, and the book deal she landed with Harper Collins on episode 60 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ...

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 on episode 59 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk about the recent controversy surrounding emergency intercom and explore how to work beyond cancel culture while still holding people accountable on episode 57 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

lucia zambetti talks about studying philosophy at georgetown, spirituality, her music career, marketing on tiktok & the evolution of influencing since the time of covid, and how talking to men about music sucks on episode 56 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

tara taylor talks about learning how to decipher between intuition vs. ego, how she started reading people, fate, our purposes on earth, personal readings, and the online sphere for connectivity on episode 55 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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 social scene, controversy surrounding Actors and www.rachelormont.com from transphobia to Mike Crumplar's writing world, the role that journalism should play in film distribution, and discourse surrounding Anora's Oscars sweep on episode 54 of The Interne...

vivi hayes talks about her internship at perfectly imperfect, downtown and post-internet writing, implications of gatekeeping, leaning into tropes of ourselves, and managing a lit press, on episode 53 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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 consciousness could improve our world on episode 52 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

hotline tnt talks about their diy background, becoming friends, the shoegaze genre evolving, social media's impact on bands' success, and what the solution is for streaming platforms like spotify on episode 51 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

eugene kotlyarenko talks about directing Spree and The Code, why he became interested internet movies and creating them, Peter Vack's movie www.rachelormont.com, post-internet artists, Spree's marketing, and the future of the online landscape on episode 50 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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, and the world ending on episode 49 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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, rooster teeth's sexual assault scandal, and how to be happy on episode 48 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

horse jumper of love (dimitri giannopoulos) talks about boston diy, financial stability in art, how social media makes everyone into a celebrity, working in the basement of brandy melville, having to play the PR game and future album, on episode 47 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk about the potential tiktok ban, brittany's current breakup, relationship dyanmics, 2025 predictions, and issues we've been having with basing our memory through what we post/record on episode 46 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

matthew gasda talks about growing up in bethlehem, pa, his play which inserted him into the dimes square scene, how the scene and discource surrounding it is viewed from an online perspective, michael crumplar aka crumpstacks, future projects, politics in the age of trump, the decline in literacy due to the internet, and how to fix the education system on episode 45 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh O...

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 due to the ongoing genocide is efficient, and what we can do as individuals on episode 44 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

nico page talks about their old tiktok dancing videos, their non-binary identity, deleting social media, pedastolizing people from short videos, being stalked, and how we are forced to interface with the online world on episode 43 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ