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BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer
by BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed editors Ryan Broderick and Katie Notopoulos explore the weirdest corners of the internet, so you don't have to.
Episodes
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I Feel Personally Attacked By This Relatable Content
In the grand randomly timed tradition of Internet Explorer, we're back! This time, Katie and Ryan discuss how not even Facebook understands how it works anymore, what's wrong with Gushers, and Ryan maybe turns GamerGate. Then the inimitable Cates Holderness brings us 5 things that are actually...
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2018 Predictions: We Subsist Only on Tide Pods
Ok, Katie and Ryan didn't actually eat the Tide pods, but they discuss predictions for 2018 with their best friend and yours, Cates Holderness. There's some reflecting, a bunch of predictions, but mostly a lot of marveling on the delicious wonder of Tide Pods. Learn more about your ad choices....
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Grabbing A Cold One With The Boys
Your two favorite trolls, Katie and Ryan, are back to discuss what the heck happened to the internet in the year since Internet Explorer last aired. There's Nazis, furries, YouTube Stars, and things that are bad, and (a very limited few) things that are good. Learn more about your ad choices.…
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The Worst Things On The Internet in 2016
Ryan and Katie are back! Surprise! In this one-off holiday spectacular, you can listen to all the disgusting things people did on the internet this year without having to look at it. Long-time friend of the show Cates Holderness stops by to discuss the worst things on the internet from 2016. And…
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Werner Herzog Loves Cat Videos Too
Holy frick! Fancy-pants genius filmmaker Werner Herzog talks to Katie this week about harambe, robots, the internet, teens and so much more. Also, we'll have an update from Ryan, who's in Rio covering the Olympics. Werner's latest film, "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World" is both…
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Is Beyonce Holding Sia Captive?
...uh, probably not, but Brazilians are pretty psyched about the conspiracy theory behind it. And Ryan should know! He's in Brazil where things going the way of the This Is Fine dog. Meanwhile, Katie is looking at how Pokémon Go is being regulated when it comes to sex offenders in New York State....
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Politics Is Out-Weirding The Internet
This week's a big one! Katie and Ryan get together IRL to talk political conspiracy theories and to remember Harambe once again, of course. Katie debunks the conspiracy about Trump's alleged speech writer Meredith McIver and the two gargoyles themselves perform live onstage in Philly at the...
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Dicks Out For Harambe
The world is still shit, but Katie and Ryan are reunited and they're out of their gourds on #content. This week (and everywhere) Katie and Ryan revel in the true joy that is Pokémon Go, and they do a quiz to determine whether or not Ryan's encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon detracted from his book...
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Everything Is Terrible Except For Pokémon Go (Maybe)
Hold still there's a Charmander behind you Yes, Pokémon Go is very much happening. Katie is off this week, but Ryan has awesome guest co-host Gena-mour Barrett on the show to talk about all that is awful and all that is weird this week. The UK left the EU and has a new PM, and Australia is…
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How A Teen Uncovered The Internet's Weirdest Catfish *RERUN*
Meet Lucia Cole. She's a new pop star with music on Spotify, Tidal, and iTunes. She has a Twitter and Instagram and she's even been interviewed. The only problem? She's a catfish. This week, Katie and Ryan bring you one of their favorite stories from the archive, with some updates. Read Katie's...
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Are Emojis Actually A Language?
This week we're asking one of the fundamental questions of our time. Ryan is away, but Katie sits down with future emoji-Pulitzer winner and Senior Tech Writer Charlie Warzel to mine the shadowy depths of the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Consortium is the organization that decides which emojis...
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What Happens When A Stan Retires?
A stan is a superfan who defends a celeb at all costs. Myleeza Mingo has been obsessed with Kim Kardashian for over a decade, but she's about to retire. What happens when a person whose identity is intertwined with their celebrity has to collect their gold (Apple) watch and give up the life of...
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Why Hoaxes Will Never Die
Congrats! You've been fooled into the biggest hoax of all time: this podcast. On week's episode, we find out why fake news is irresistible with help from Craig Silverman, founding editor of BuzzFeed Canada. Test your own skills at identifying fake news here:...
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How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech
Katie and Ryan talk to Cooper Fleishman and Anthony Smith about the punctuation mark that antisemites are using on Twitter and other platforms to target their harassment. It's weird, but that goes without saying as far as the internet is concerned. Read Cooper and Anthony's pieces for Mic.com…
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Who The Hell is Jacob Sartorius?
He's a 13-year-old kid who is forging his path to stardom by using a lip-syncing app called musical.ly. Welcome to the Teen Industrial Complex in 2016. Katie and Ryan talk through teen topics, then switch gears to call Tamia Thompson, a mod/curator of the very popular Facebook page Post…
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Slack To The Future
Slack bills itself as a messaging app for teams, but Katie and Ryan aspire to live in a world where it's a messaging app for... memes. This week we tried an experiment where we made a Slack that anyone can join. That's right, you too can now scream the lyrics to All Star with like-minded weirdos....
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Our Complicated Feelings About Thirsty Male Allies
There's no thirst quite like that of a male ally looking for a cookie, and this week we go deep into the world of performative male feminism. Michael Blackmon, a BuzzFeed writer whose post about Matt McGorry unleashed a storm of woke & bae onto the internet comes on to talk about how weird it is…
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Where Do Memes Go To Die?
It's time to talk memes. Friend of the show Brian Feldman, of the NY Magazine blog Select All, stops in to share his talents as memeologist with Katie and Ryan. We learn what loss.jpg is, how apologetic Daily Dot writer Miles Klee is to have killed dat boi and why exactly people take memes so...
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Blackness and The Meme Cycle
Katie and Ryan are joined by Doreen St. Felix and Niela Orr to talk about how race and cultural appropriation play out as memes spread. And our favorite scammer, Joanne, aka Branden Miller was scammed himself and Katie has an update. Read up on Doreen and Niela's great pieces: Doreen St. Felix…
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Grace Helbig Smells New York
Queen of Youtube Grace Helbig stops in to chat with Katie and Ryan about her latest project, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl this week guyssss!! Ryan also tells the world about an insane conspiracy theory about Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto....
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Joanne The Scammer Is A Messy Bitch Who Lives For Drama
This promposal season, we talk to Joanne the Scammer aka Branden Miller, whose character Joanne the scammer has inspired robber *and* fraud. Then, Katie and Ryan make sure you are all up to date on the latest memes with Meme Update. Please feel free to consider this podcast a scam and make sure…
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The Official Another Round Drunken Summit
It's a crossover episode! To celebrate a year of BuzzFeed podcasts, Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu of Another Round talk to Ryan (who is in NY!) and Katie about the toughest questions the internet can pose. Is Louis Tomlinson's baby fake? Is the internet good or evil? Is Macklemore forgivable in...
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1999: The Years That Changed The Internet
To close out our 3 part series, we go back to 1999 and talk to the internet's greatest monster: the man who invented Microsoft's Clippy (jk he's a really nice guy named Kevan Atteberry). We hear from the folks of Open Diary, one of the first social media/blogging sites and talk to Olia Lialina…
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2005: The Years That Changed The Internet
For part 2 of our series, we go back to 2005 and talk to some pretty big personalities. Tila Tequila and Perez Hilton join us, along with BuzzFeed’s Anne Helen Petersen and the internet's foremost Tila Tequila historian Nicole Milfie. Plus: the dulcet tones of Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain." 2005…
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2010: The Years That Changed The Internet
In part 1 in our special series, Katie and Ryan look at what 2010 meant to the internet at large and conjure up a few ghosts of internet past. Damien Leonhardt talks to Katie and Ryan about what it was like to survive the 4chan madness of Jessi Slaughter and even Boxxy gives some advice. Oh, and...
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"I Sent Porn to the Entire Company" & Other Horrors
We've all hit send too quickly. That massive embarrassment is part of the human experience! Katie and Ryan tell their worst workplace email/chat disaster stories and we hear some of yours, too. FYI: Katie tweeted a photo of a micropenis several times and Ryan once sent porn to the entire office....
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Japan's Most Viral Teen is Blazing A Path for Young Girls
Reika Oozeki's silly antics on Vine just may be upending the constricting structure of fame in Japan. And the furry community is very into Disney's Zootopia and Katie is on it. BONUS: you, dear listener, can remember the glory of the movie FernGully along with Ryan and Katie. Learn more about…
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Who Is Making Trap Remixes of the Whitest Songs?
Katie and Ryan discuss their theories on Ted Cruz being the zodiac killer. Then, BuzzFeed writer Grace Spelman plays a very important fart game. And then Certified Digital Millennial™ Nathan Zed plays his trap remixes of classic White People songs like "Hey Jude" and "Bohemian Rhapsody." Learn…
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Fandom Culture is a Superpower
Damnnnn Daniel, Katie and Ryan are back at it again. They talk to BuzzFeed Geeky editor Krutika Mallikarjuna and Sam Maggs, author of the Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy about how fandoms are taking things into their own hands. WARNING: this episode contains a dramatic reading of My Immortal. Learn...
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Meet the Paypigs Who Get Off on Being Hacked
Katie and Ryan introduce listeners to the world of financial domination, where men pay just to have money taken from them. Ryan and Katie talk to a submissive who spends a lot of his money on his dominatrix, and Katie talks to veteran findom Jasmine Mendez. Learn more at:...
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When Teens Strike Back
Katie and Ryan follow a tip about a fake Twitter account and it leads them to a group of angry pop music superfans. Plus, BuzzFeed Russia's Victor Stepanov helps Ryan track down the Russian couple whose photos were used on the fake account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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The Internet's Weirdest Catfish is Back
Remember the tale of the Internet's most bizarre musical catfish? Well, she's back and Katie is looking into all FIVE of the accounts this catfisher used and speaks to one of her very real victims. Catch up on the previous episode here:...
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The Mystery of Michael Jackson & Sonic Has Been Solved
Katie talks to writer Todd Van Lulling, who finally solved the mystery of whether or not Michael Jackson wrote the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Ryan is probably crying really hard about missing this episode, but he also met Hatsune Miku this week so he'll be fine. Learn more about your ad...
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Can A Dickpic Ever Be Good?
Katie is joined by guest host Summer Anne Burton and two experts in the field of dickpics: penis photographer Soraya Doolbaz and Madeleine Holden of "Critique My Dickpic". Julia talks to folks around the office about their feelings on dickpics, and everybody agrees that unsolicited ones are not...
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Ghost Sex and Chill
This week, our two enlightened guests, Katie Heaney and Arianna Rebolini try very hard to fuck some ghosts and ask a time-honored question: is ghost sex cheating? Then, all three ladies talk to ghost sex expert Patti Negri to get some answers about how it went. Ryan is still in Japan, but there…
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Making a GRATATA: The Bryan Silva Story
Ryan and Katie tell the tale of viner/gay porn star/rapper/bodybuilderpreneur Bryan Silva, who was arrested in the only way you could imagine: with his pants around his ankles. Ryan introduces his new life as a Neko Atsume cat collector and Katie presents the best insult ever invented: "peasant."...
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We Took A Gourmet Chef To Try McDonald's New Burger Robot
Sarah Sanneh is the head chef at New York City's Pies And Thighs and has previously worked at places like Magnolia Bakery, The Biltmore Room, Diner, Marlow & Sons, and Momofuku Milk Bar. So we took her to McDonald's and made her try their new build-your-own-burger robot. Learn more about your ad...
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Are The Siblings In That Folgers Ad Doing It?
You know that Folgers ad where the brother comes home from "West Africa" and it definitely seems like he and his sister are doing it? Yeah, that. Also, what happened Soulja Boy tweets your phone number and tells his fans to call you? Our tech reporter Joe Bernstein found out when he pissed off…
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The Worst Things on the Internet of 2015
Katie and Ryan reveal the weirdest things the internet has produced in the year of our lord Kevin the Minion 2015 alongside friend of the podcast Cates Holderness. You can't unsee the worst things on the internet, but you don't have to look at this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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Meet the Shero Who Buttchugged Cough Medicine
It's that time of year, when Katie and Ryan celebrate the worst things on the internet of 2015. With help from guests Freakmommy the virgin recluse deflowerer and Teridax the turkey fucker, our darling hosts have never been more in their element. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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"We are pretty certain that Drake is alive."
Katie and Ryan get to the bottom of the latest celebrity death hoax, play a Brazilian language quiz and give thanks for incest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Blogfather of Iran is Here to Save Us
Hossein Derakhshan hard-coded the Iranian internet in Persian as one of Iran's first bloggers. But after he was jailed for 6 years, the web he loved looks a lot different. Read his piece! https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426#.rjb75j64i Also, Katie and Ryan initiate Julia...
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Meet The Woman Who Free-Bled In Front Of Parliament
This week Internet Explorer sits down with Charlie Edge, the woman who recently made headlines for freebleeding in front of parliament. Also, this week, we feature the music of Astro Kid and DJ George Costanza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Another Round's Tracy Clayton Talks About Black Planet
Tracy Clayon, the host of BuzzFeed's much better and more interesting podcast, Another Round, stops by this week to talk about her first social network: Black Planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Would You Have Sex With A Robot?
As is inevitable with all tech podcasts, this week we're finally talking about bots! We're delving into old chats bots like Smarterchild, new helper bots like Facebook's M, and the weird and sort of frightening future of sexbots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We Found The Dancing Pumpkin Man
This week we interview two very important Halloween figures: The man behind the dancing pumpkin GIF (you know the one) and the dude who makes all those "Sexy" Halloween costumes. Spo0o0o0o0o0o0o0okkkyyyyyy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We Asked People To Defend Their Most Played YouTube Videos
Did you know YouTube has a running list of your most watched to videos? For most people it's sort of embarrassing. So we made people explain their. Also, Katie interviewed Neil Strauss, the guy who literally wrote the book on being a pick-up artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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We Made Someone With 125,000 Unread Emails Clear Her Inbox
Meet Akilah Hughes. She has over 125,000 unread emails and we made her go through all of them with us. WARNING: This episode is incredibly stressful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How A Brazilian Avril Lavigne Death Hoax Went Viral In America
This week BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer takes a trip to Brazil to learn about Brazilian memes! We also talk about the weird fake but not really fake but definitely sorta ironic Brazilian conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne secretly died in 2003 and was replaced with a body double. Learn more…
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Cosplaying While Black
Ryan and Katie talk with Nikolas Draper-Ivey, who cosplays as Miles Morales (the new Spider-Man who is black and latino), and Shaquille Dent, who goes by "Black Goku" because of his hairstyle that earned him viral fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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BuzzFeed editors Ryan Broderick and Katie Notopoulos explore the weirdest corners of the internet, so you don't have to.
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