JTG MINI: The Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint
5/5/202659 min
In 2018, a Twitter user called @buzzkillary posted a 30-page PowerPoint titled 'Lorde and Jack Antonoff: An Emotionally Broken Journey', presenting their case that Jack had been cheating on his then-girlfriend Lena Dunham with Lorde while recording Melodrama. ‘The PowerPoint’, as it became known, has long been considered a cult classic internet text by the chronically online, but mostly forgotten by everyone else.
UNTIL TWO WEEKS AGO, when Lena published her new memoir Famesick, in which she wrote about her break-up with Jack, and a suspiciously affectionate 'young pop star'. The internet is now declaring ‘The PowerPoint’ vindicated. This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint.
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The original Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint by @Buzzkillery (Twitter, 2018)
Lena Dunham's Famesick Memoir and the Lorde/Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (The Cut, 2026)
Someone Update The Lena Dunham/Jack Antonoff/Lorde PowerPoint (Good Soup Substack, 2026)
Throwback To The Lorde and Jack Antonoff PowerPoint (r/Fauxmoi Reddit, 2026)
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First 90 secondsRosie Waterland· Host0:00
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Sammy Peterson· Guest0:01
A Just A Network production.
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Sammy Peterson· Guest0:17
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Rosie Waterland· Host0:21
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Sammy Peterson· Guest0:23
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Rosie Waterland· Host0:25
In 2018, a Twitter user called Buzzkillery- [laughs] ... posted a link to a 30-page PowerPoint presentation she had made that immediately became one of the defining works of 20-teen's pop cultural discourse.
Sammy Peterson· Guest0:42
Of course it did.
Rosie Waterland· Host0:43
The presentation was titled Lorde and Jack Antonoff: An Emotionally Broken Journey or Lorde and Jack Antonoff 100% Were and Are Being Shady and Def Boning If Nothing Else. Lena Sucks Too, But This is Bullshit and the People Deserve the Truth.
Sammy Peterson· Guest1:00
Could use a trim.
Rosie Waterland· Host1:02
The cap- Could use a trim. Could use a trim. [laughs] The PowerPoint presented Buzzkillery's theory in chaotic yet convincing detail that while producing Lorde's 2017 album, Melodrama- Mm ... 30-year-old Jack Antonoff had cheated on his girlfriend, Lena Dunham- [gasps] ... to have an affair with 19-year-old Lorde.
Sammy Peterson· Guest1:19
Oh my God.
Rosie Waterland· Host1:20
Reaction to the PowerPoint at the time was split in two.
Sammy Peterson· Guest1:23
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Rosie Waterland· Host1:23
People saying that it deserved the Nobel Prize and should be treated as an important ancient text.