The Internet Is Dead

lots of hands talks about making friends through soundcloud and facebook as a kid, listening to twenty one pilots, inherent spirituality in music, building community in leeds and newcastle, british people as a passing trend, cool parents showing you music but not being ready for it, and creative directors and labels manufacturing music blowups on episode 17 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Pl...

bianca (bianca8198) talks about her first breakup being earth shattering, tumblr couples and how we perceived them, how there will be a documentary about family channels one day on how they traumatized their children, youtube turning into people's careers, getting excited to see people's lives on instagram, our fascination with claudia sulewski, reading fanfiction at 14 and one direction k...

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 we used to idolize things as young people on the internet, the bits he did a while back, playing the villian, the inspiration he created in the media landscape, and seeing the online world as more than it is on episode 15 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh...

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 dynanmic through youtube on episode 14 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

@ 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 Are You There God, It's Me @?, internet theories, and the interaction between spirituality and creative forces on episode 13 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

we talk about our friendship, trauma bonding over relationship experiences, anxiety around going on dates, ex-boyfriends, how we got involved in stan culture, and the early days of one direction, ariana grande, and other fandoms that haven't been reproduced since on episode 12 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

carley thorne (uncarley) talks about how one direction fanfiction villanizes women, fans scaring celebrities in gay relationships, shawn mendez used to drive around listening to his own music in his home town, seeing him at a hotel talking about authenticity then walking through shrubs, experiencing the comedy space as a woman, and generally geeking about different fan cultures we grew up within o...

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 posting, starting the chronically online girl series, struggling with mental health in college and lonliness, and temple university on episode 10 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

summer mckeen talks about her traumatic version of the kardashians show (endless summer, the snapchat reality series), being a dote girl, public breakups and relationships, being held accountable for instances of privilege online, and her lifetime supply of free brandy melville on episode 9 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)...

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 an opportunity for other creative fields, living in france, moving to new york, and how things look from a fan's perspective when they're actually pretty simple on episode 8 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podca...

we talk with zoe mevorah about youtube stan twitter, specifically, the james charles and tana mongeau universes, the weird things we used to expect out of our idols on twitter, and if you can truly become friends with someone who you watch online. zoe tells a story about a predatory, well-known minecraft youtuber who tried to have a threesome with her and a friend on episode 7 of The Internet Is D...

we talk with maddy about internet friendship, learning from one another, playing on minecraft servers to try to befriend sims youtubers, energy shifts, psychic readings, lifesimmer, how fan-idol dynanmics are becoming more distanced, pretty privilege online, influencer culture, & conversations creating culture through tiktok on episode 6 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest...

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 downvote on reddit, & the scary pipeline to easily becoming apart of incel communities online (with experiments pulled from Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates) on episode 5 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podca...

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 discuss standards, cancel culture, and getting bullied in school by ‘IRLS’ for our stan accounts while unpacking the psychology behind all of it on episode 4 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(...

william craver of old weston koury/sinjin drowning videos joins us to talk about our internet friendship, tiktok edits of him, watching each other grow up, communities we've grown out of, weston's old discord server, fanfiction, exes, relationships, & star signs on episode 3 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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 industry, online communities, and content oversaturation on episode 2 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

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 the projection that stems from stan culture on episode 1 of The Internet Is Dead (Josh Ovalle, Please Be A Guest On My Podcast) Podcast ଘ(ᵕ˵ ૩ᵕ)━☆ﾟ.*･｡(◕‿◕)♡ᕙ(‾̀◡‾́)ᕗ

The first episode of The Internet Is Dead Podcast with Nick Rattigan will premiere on March 21st. To follow, episodes with Olive of Lowertown/Olivia O. and William Craver of Weston Koury's old YouTube videos. And more friends to come.