Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)

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  • Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show from Jamie Loftus that takes a closer look at the internet’s main characters – one part reported, one part interviews, and one part Jamie collapsing her permanently internet-damaged brain. Whether it’s an enduring meme or a dreaded Character of the Day distinction, it’s the kind of notoriety that often results in little money, unwarranted attention, and a confusing blurred line of consent. What do you do when you get more attention and judgement than any one person is built to handle? The Sixteenth Minute of Fame is the place where we figure that out, putting people in the context of the moment they've been frozen inside of.
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  • the smell doctor who was 'too woke': dr. ally louks

    the smell doctor who was 'too woke': dr. ally louks
    Apr 8 2025

    After eight long years of research, Dr. Ally Louks posted to Twitter about completing her Ph. D : "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose." The Elon-fueled right-wing internet freaked out. In an exclusive interview, Jamie speaks with Dr. Louks about the experience of reclaiming the narrative around a nasty online backlash to better educate anti-intellectuals on the sense we ignore the most.

    Follow Dr. Ally here: https://x.com/DrAllyLouks

    Read Dr. Ally's original thread here: https://x.com/DrAllyLouks/status/1861872149373297078?lang=en

    vote for "we the unhoused" for a webby before april 17th!: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/shows/public-service-activism

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • the horny duolingo bird lives: zaria parvez

    the horny duolingo bird lives: zaria parvez
    Apr 1 2025

    Where do you go from pivoting your brand to nihilism? Horny, my friends. WILDLY horny. In our final installment of the Sentient Horny Brand series, Jamie speaks to the mind behind Duolingo’s chaotic, wildly horny social media presence Zaria Parvez. Remember when you couldn’t get the owl giving birth to sponges off your feed? Remember when you didn’t even WANT to? That was her, and getting there was a wild ride.
    We talk about her journey from nearly taking down a Christian school to changing the way that Gen Z and Gen Alpha consumes advertising, one shitpost at a time.

    Follow Zaria here:
    https://www.instagram.com/zariaparvez

    Join us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SixteenthMinute/

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • why is my freezer steak tweeting nihilism: the steakumm saga

    why is my freezer steak tweeting nihilism: the steakumm saga
    Mar 25 2025

    Picture this: it's 2020, you're clinging to sanity, and a frozen steak your mom used to eat after school called SteakUmm is now tweeting in the hopes of turning you into a socialist. But... what? Can one be radicalized by hot dog grade meat? Is what's being sold here an idea or microwaveable meat slop? In our penultimate installment of the Sentient Brands series, Jamie gets into the weeds with the mind behind the SteakUmm account, writer and social media director Nathan Allebach. Spoiler alert: we do, indeed, live in a society.

    Follow Nathan here: https://beacons.ai/nathanallebach?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaw8UJ_ctC-xxP2HrkYDPA5-9p2LBtn_w_NQsXsZhvZeBBYwiEzyZ6LooY_aem_Dm_8G9fFWhqyK0YAyD1JzQ

    Read Nathan's history of sentient brands: https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/brand-twitter-jokes-history.html

    Follow Yedoye Travis: https://www.instagram.com/yedoye_/?hl=en

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    1 hr and 6 mins

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Thoughtful and original

This is a really great show, I like how the host does such an excellent job of homing in on the cultural issues at play in viral memes while also giving us unique follow ups on stories the news cycle forgot about.

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