I Scream, You Meme Ben and JD
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- Society & Culture
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A monthly podcast on the horrors of the internet. From creepypastas to moral panics, each episode Ben and JD bring a topic to the potluck and share what's really going on.
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Flash Drive / Analog Horror - Finding photos and footage
Ben and JD get nostalgic, again. It's almost like we've all be robbed of our futures by a neoliberal nightmare and the only refuge is in our pasts. This time JD talks about creepypasta involving a flash drive containing family photos and the unintended consequences of messing around with a random flash drive. Ben gives an overview of analog horror, an aesthetic and storytelling mode that's become the dominant form of online horror.
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SCP-101-3 - Mad Men
It's another SCP episode, this time Ben goes straight to the source of all his woes. SCP-4844 is straight up just Tim Allen. JD gets into SCP-3512, which includes pickup artists, the Sagrada Familia Cathedral, and a healthy dose of body horror.
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The Caretaker / Lost Media - Lost Memories
JD discusses how songs, shows and media become lost in attribution, but not in our hearts. They tell us about efforts to search for lost media, but also the ways that media gets lost, or access is taken away. Ben does the Caretaker challenge, which involves listening to a 6 hour concept album exploring dementia, and in his case, writing an essay after.
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NPCs / Time Traveler Stories - Fake People are Eternal
In this episode JD talks Non-Player Characters (NPCs), who are they? Do they live in our midst? Why is their taste so mid? Ben gets into the concept of time-travel, but couldn't really understand the physics and just talks about people who said they've done it instead.
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Slenderman? Or Slender Man?
Tentacle tall man gets got by the ISYM team. We talk Slenderman history, lore, legal battles, the images that made them, and how you can make your very own images featuring the tall, slim, scary man.
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Clouds on the Ground (and what is cloud) / Cloud Bursting (psychic cloud powers) - Airheads
Ben and JD decide to look up at the sky. Well, JD looks up and tries to demonstrate the powers of Cloud Bursting. Ben remains in the gutter and tries to explain what we're actually seeing when we observe clouds floating around on the ground.
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