LITTLE TREAT: What We Wish We'd Never Written On The Internet
6/7/202635 min
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Remember when oversharing on the internet was a thing?
The era of the ‘personal essay’ was a time when people poured their messy insides out for the world to read. Except now those stories are frozen in time. Forever. And the oversharing hangover is real.
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Mia, Holly and Em are unpacking the sometimes brutal backlash of ‘going viral’ over a deeply personal moment and the slightly awkward nightmare of your family and friends reading about your business online.
So, is the personal essay dead – or have we all just moved to Substack? And, should some of those literal journal entries actually just stay in the drafts? Mia has thoughts.
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First 90 secondsEmily Vernem· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to a Mamamia podcast.
Holly Wainwright· Host0:03
Hello, Out Louders. Now, many of you, not all of you, I know, but many of you are celebrating the King's birthday this long weekend, and I'm afraid we are too. But we have something that we prepared earlier to keep you entertained and distracted on this possible long weekend. If you feel like listening to a little bit of Out Loud, we're dropping you one of our subscriber-only episodes. We want you to see what we put in our subscriber episodes. Now, sometimes it's a bit of scurrilous gossip that's maybe just a bit too risky for the main show, [laughs] or sometimes it's something personal that we kind of feel like we wanna give to a bit more of a protected crowd. So today, for example, this is a conversation that Mia, Emily Vernam, and me had about personal essays, and it's kind of about how they're, they're a bit dead on the internet. But we have all been writing online for a long time, and we have a really honest discussion about things that we regret telling the world. So if you've ever wondered, "Do those guys really tell everybody everything?" This is the episode for you. Anyway, please enjoy, and remember, if you wanna subscribe to Mamamia, you will never miss an episode of Out Loud. See you later.
Mia Freedman· Host1:15
I had a fur ball made of cat hair in my vagina.
Emily Vernem· Host1:21
What?
Holly Wainwright· Host1:21
[laughs] Well, I didn't.
Emily Vernem· Host1:22
Oh.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:23
Oh my God.
Mia Freedman· Host1:24
But tell me- Tell me about that ... if you recognize that sentence.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:26
Yeah.
Emily Vernem· Host1:27
I don't recognize that sentence.
Holly Wainwright· Host1:28
Yeah.
Emily Vernem· Host1:28
I'm, in fact, a bit scared.