The Fools Have Entered The Chat

Send us Fan MailWe look back at how growing up across the MySpace-to-TikTok timeline shapes our confidence, our taste, and the way we show up in the world. We get honest about community, masking, and learning to trust ourselves when the internet keeps trying to define us. • framing coming of age through social media eras • picking up slang, confidence, and ballroom culture online • questioning why viral fame rewards embarrassment and rage bait • remembering first platforms, MySpace customization, and early internet chat • tracing how music discovery shifts from TV to YouTube to streaming • weighing online friends versus family on our feeds • noticing how posts get buried and people disappear anyway • talking Black queer spaces, fetishization, colorism, and body comments • navigating safety, code switching, people pleasing, and “the face” • sharing advice for younger listeners on identity and content choices like, comment, and subscribe, and let us know in the comments like what's one piece of advice that you would give yourself trying growing up, trying to navigate through this digital area.Support the show