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EPISODE · Mar 1, 2021 · 1H 30M

We love you (but not like that)

from That's a Thing?! · host Karen Unland and Elizabeth Spencer

Here are the things we mentioned in the episode:Triple H: The counterculture-to-corporate pipelineSome influencers use their power for good — e.g. Linda HoangKaren doesn’t fangirl about podcasts, but she does recommend them on CBC Radio Active on the first Monday of the month, or on Fridays in The PulseParasocial interactionBreadTubeKat Blaque, Princess Weekes, and Tee Noir  — left-wing YouTubers of colour, among manyDream, Wilbur Soot, TommyInnit, Tubbo — gaming YouTubers who’ve exploded in popularityCallback to our episode on PewDiePie, jacksepticeye, and MarkiplierCallMeCarson (and cancelled)ARGs, and the Wiki for Wilbur Soot’s gameCallback to our Among Us episodeCorpse has amassed a massive, active fanbaseCorpse’s Spotify pageThe polls exploit in the YouTube AlgorithmRaid: Shadow Legends and the controversy around itWhang! is entertaining, not scrupulous Everything goes back to Harold InnisCALMCallback (way back) to our Tide Pods episodeMany thanks to our sponsors: NAIT’s Career Essentials podcastSearching for Izena That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network — Locally grown. Community supported.You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet at us: @thatsathingyeg.Do you want a That’s a Thing?! button? Send us your address by Twitter DM or email and we will send you one.  Join our commune here!Many thanks to Transistor for hosting our show. Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, from Free Music Archive.

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In this feature-length epic, Elizabeth and Karen dive deep into the puzzle of parasocial relationships. How bad can they really be? How do we fix them? And most importantly, won’t somebody think of the children?!

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