Ever notice how comment sections reveal more than the headlines?
Lisa Williams and Sarah Illingworth dive into the internet’s most revealing threads, from the biggest celebrity scandals to niche online subcultures, exploring what our online reactions say about the culture we are living in right now.
Each episode, they decode the psychological motivations and deeper media narratives of online comment culture, all with a good dose of 90s nostalgia and Gen X British humour.
Shortlisted for Best Arts & Culture Podcast by the Independent Podcast Awards and an International Women’s Podcast Award.
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Ever notice how comment sections reveal more than the headlines?
Lisa Williams and Sarah Illingworth dive into the internet’s most revealing threads, from the biggest celebrity scandals to niche online subcultures, exploring what our online reactions say about the culture we are living in right now.
Each episode, they decode the psychological motivations and deeper media narratives of online comment culture, all with a good dose of 90s nostalgia and Gen X British humour.
Shortlisted for Best Arts & Culture Podcast by the Independent Podcast Awards and an International Women’s Podcast Award.
True Blood, Twilight, Buffy… so many of us can’t get enough of vampires and werewolves. But lately, our feeds have been flooded with full-on “Alpha” werewolf erotica — a darker, hungrier kind of fantasy.
In this episode, we dig into how paranormal romance has shifted from seductive Draculas to dominant werewolves. Why is it everywhere now? Who’s creating it? And is this just Beauty and the Beast on steroids or something more unsettling?
Join us as we indulge our love of all things supernatural, just in time for Halloween month.
Clips featured in this episode:
Gary Oldman in “Bram Stoker's Dracula” (1992 film)
Matt Bourne in “Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice, & 150 Years of Gay Vampires”
Craig Thomson in the TED-Ed video “The dark history of werewolves”
Frans de Waal in his TED talk “The surprising science of alpha males”
“Claimed By The Mega Size Alpha King No She-Wolf Dared To Mate” by Wattpad Dark Romance Fantasy Stories
Reference to ContaPoints YouTube video on Twilight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqloPw5wp48
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Straight to the Comments
Ever notice how comment sections reveal more than the headlines?
Lisa Williams and Sarah Illingworth dive into the internet’s most revealing threads, from the biggest celebrity scandals to niche online subcultures, exploring what our online reactions say about the culture we are living in right now.
Each episode, they decode the psychological motivations and deeper media narratives of online comment culture, all with a good dose of 90s nostalgia and Gen X British humour.
Shortlisted for Best Arts & Culture Podcast by the Independent Podcast Awards and an International Women’s Podcast Award.
