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Everything is clips now

5/20/202627 min

An army of people posting clips of podcasts, songs, and movies has taken over your algorithm, which means everything you see could be a psyop. This episode was produced by Danielle Hewitt, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Scrolling through X on a phone. Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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First 90 seconds

  1. Miya Sato· Guest0:00

    [music] The first post when I opened Instagram was a Slate post, and it is a clip of the Slate podcast, What Next TBD, but the guest is my boss, Nilay Patel- [laughs] ... editor-in-chief of The Verge.

  2. Sean Rameswaram· Host0:13

    [laughs] The products themselves aren't any good. What's after it?

  3. Miya Sato· Guest0:16

    The next post is from an account called ProfG Markets. I believe that's a marketing podcast. I've never listened to it. Just, like, look at th- this is crazy. This is my normal feed. So there's Nilay. There's Taylor Lorenz's clip. Here's I don't know who that is. Here's another clip.

  4. Sean Rameswaram· Host0:33

    Remember when Instagram was, like, pictures of our friends' sandwiches?

  5. Miya Sato· Guest0:37

    That era is long gone. [laughs] They killed it.

  6. Sean Rameswaram· Host0:40

    And it's been replaced by clips of podcasts?

  7. Miya Sato· Guest0:42

    Yeah, clips of podcasts, clips of shows, clips of movies, clips of sports. Clips, clips, clips.

  8. Sean Rameswaram· Host0:50

    We're gonna talk to Miya about that more on Today Explained from Vox. I'm supposed to say from Vox at the end.

  9. Skylar Diggins0:57

    What's up, y'all? I'm Skylar Diggins, seven-time WNBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist, and mom.

  10. Cassidy Hubbarth1:06

    And I'm Cassidy Hubbart, host and reporter for nearly 20 years, covering the biggest names and stories in sports, and mom.

  11. Skylar Diggins1:13

    And this is And Mom, a community for athletes, game changers, and moms of all kinds, dropping May 14th. Tap in with us.

  12. Peter Kafka1:22

    [music] For years, if you ran a media company, you obsessed about Google, because Google could send a fire hose of traffic

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