Ten Thousand Posts

Something Awful This Way Comes ft. Nate Bethea

This week, Nate (@inthesedeserts) comes back on the Posts Pod to tell us about some internet history, and this little forum you might have heard of called "Something Awful". Following the death of Something Awful's founder, "Lowtax", Nate tells us how the forums shaped much of contemporary internet culture, ranging from terms like 'doxxing' and the ubiquity of trolls, to Lolcats, gifs, and uh, a lot of racism and Nazi insignia. But, it did also give us Dril, so who's to say if it was good or bad???

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If you want to hear more Nate, listen to his podcast, "A Hell Of A Way To Die" here: https://t.co/u0OcRMkTd1?amp=1
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It is hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). For weekly bonus episodes, subscribe to us on Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

[PREVIEW] Critical Poster‘s Theory ft. Sam Hoadley Brill

This is a preview of a bonus episode. You can listen to the full episode on Patreon at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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This week, we're joined by academic researcher Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), who has been diligently following the most influential posters in America, who have successfully weaponised 'critical race theory' through relentless posting. Sam talks to us about how posting strategies created a lexicon in which CRT ended up becoming a meme, loaded with connotations of western civilisational collapse, and how Christopher Rufo, once an obscure right wing think-tank wonk in the 2000s, was able to utilise social media platforms to reframe the post-Trump culture wars, with effects not just in America, but throughout the rest of the Western world too.
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We also talk about Paul Joseph Watson's lamentation over No Nut November, in which he believes that the woke soyboy left have corrupted the true meaning of 'no nut' and its reactionary origins of banning all internet porn. You can read the original tweet here: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1455100786313211912

99 British Problems ft. Juliet Jacques

A quick note from us: There were some technical difficulties at the end of this episode, so the closing section of this show was not recorded, sadly. We will revisit the section when Juliet comes back!
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This week, we're joined by writer and broadcaster Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) to talk about the "Very British Problems" twitter account. Set up in 2012, the extremely popular account posts mundane observations of British life (milky tea, not being able to stop saying please), but, like everything in 2012, it is largely a fantasy. We talk about how VBP and the media empire it spawned, became the ideological backdrop for the FBPE movement, and that in 2021, it exists as a strange place in which its supporters and followers lament what Britain either was, or what it should have been, had it not been for Brexit. We also talk about Spoonerisation (changing initials of names) and the shorter half lives of insults and funny put-downs on the internet, making the case that perhaps spoonerising....might not be funny any more?

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You can follow Juliet's work by following her at @zinovievletter, or through her website: www.julietjacques.com. 

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein @HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). For weekly bonus episodes, follow us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

[PREVEW] 10k Posts Film Club - THE NET (1995) ft. Podcasting is Praxis - Part 2

This is a bonus episode, that you can listen to in full on our Patreon for the low price of $5 a month!. Subscribe for more great bonus content / reviews of bad 90s movies at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.
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Welcome to the 10kposts Film Club, a series where we watch movies that tried to predict what internet culture would be like, and how much they got right or wrong.

Joining us this week are Rob and Jamie from @PodcastingisPraxis. This is the second part of our review of THE NET,  a 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam, in which the world's most incurious hacker is chased by Britain's worst assassin, in an extremely long film about viruses, floppy disks and, of course "the mainframe".  In this part, we talk about the second part of the film, where Angela discovers more about a shady surveillance tech company's sinister plot to control the world's utilities through a Trojan Horse anti-virus software - thanks to the help of an extremely creepy therapist, overfamiliar friends in AOL chatrooms, and a unique understanding of how to hide in office cubicles. It's bizarre, stupid and we were all very thankful when the movie finished!

You can listen to Part 1 of the review here: https://tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/10k-posts-film-club-the-net-1995-ftpodcasting-is-praxis-part-1/

You can listen and subscribe to Podcasting is Praxis here: https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast

 

Influencer Defence Force ft. Abigail Thorn

A Note from us!  We are now producing WEEKLY bonus episodes. That means you get 2 episodes of the podcast a week, one for free, and the other, for subscribers only. At the end of this month, subscribers above $10 tier will also get access to the discord channel, which will have a bunch of cool stuff on there. You can subscribe to us for as little as $5 a month at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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This week, we're joined by actress, Youtuber and podcast host Abigail Thorn (@philosophytube) all the way from the spooky mountains of Transylvania where she's shooting an upcoming film. While she's incredibly busy with a hectic shooting schedule, Abigail still found time to challenge us in The Battle of Ideas - specifically, how we on the show have talked about influencers and content creators. Abigail suggests that the breadth of multimedia content on the internet - alongside the rapid bleeding out of 'online content' into 'mainstream' entertainment, means that terms such as 'content creator' may be obsolete, not least because so many people are involved in it. Moreover, Abigail suggests that in 'mainstream' entertainment, including in areas such as Theatre and Opera, established artists actually *want* to be content creators and influencers - and in some cases, see it as more 'real' than other aspects of the entertainment industry. 

We also talk about film studios continuing to mine ideas from Twitter, and whether this is not only influencing how high-budget cinema is being made, but also, what viewers and audiences actually expect from the entertainment they consume.

You can subscribe to Abigail's Youtube channel, PhilosophyTube, here: https://www.youtube.com/user/thephilosophytube
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). For weekly bonus episodes, subscribe at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

[PREVIEW] Reported To Prevent For Quote Tweeting ft. Aisha Gani

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We're joined by journalist and tech writer Aisha Gani (@aishagani) to talk about proposals to 'ban anonymity' on social media as part of the British government's Online Safety Bill, and to discuss how much of this - in practice - would be extending the British government's expansive and secretive counter-extremism strategy, much of which has been designed to tackle the nebulous threat of "Islamist" radicalism. We discuss how expanding surveillance tech to social media platforms not only represents a gross expansion of the programme, ensuring that Peter Theil and other tech cops get richer, but also how this would be entirely counter-intuitive - not least because most people who spread hate online already use their real names and are very easily traceable. Does this mean that more far-right threats will be reported to Prevent? Not particularly! Especially when, based on the British government's own definitions of radical, exclude them entirely. Seems good!

We also discuss Germanic Food Supremacy, in relation to a tweet lamenting that Muslims were unlucky because they couldn't eat boiled salty ham and mashed potatoes, in a liquid pan sauce. Sucks to be us I guess!
(https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1451921866222878729)

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10k Posts Film Club: The Net (1995) ft.Podcasting is Praxis - Part 1

Welcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club!
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This week, we're joined by Rob (@CountRthe) and Jamie (@anxietycowboy) to talk about the 1995 film "The Net", starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The film - which oscillates from mundane to truly chaotic - centres around a computer hacker and video game tester (Bullock), an original e-girl, who has one computer for hacking and another entirely dedicated to ordering pizza. After finding out one of her colleagues died in a 'mysterious' plane crash after sending her a weird disk, she completely brushes it off, goes on holiday and meets a weird british guy with a yacht. Of course, being the most incurious hacker in the world, she joins him, despite his very obvious statements that he is gaslighting her. 
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). 

Joyce Carol Posts ft. Miles Klee

This week, we're once again joined by Miles Klee (@Milesklee) to talk about author posting, and namely, Joyce Carol Oates. From the disgusting Keyboard tweet and the posts of her unwashed toes, to lamenting the Halloween decorations of her neighbours, we ask - what *is* Oates Posting? How is Joyce Carol Oates so good at it, and how is she one of the only authors that actually has the right approach to being a poster? 

We also talk about how leftist gamers are challenging the word of God by speed running games and making sexy Marios, and how, once again, this all comes down to Jordan Peterson fans not actually understanding what Peterson argues, or his outright contempt for video games (https://twitter.com/bronzeswords/status/1449345260207828995)

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[PREVIEW] No Context Ten Thousand Posts ft. Rajiv Karia

This is a preview of a bonus episode of Ten Thousand Posts. You can listen to the full episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

This week, we're joined by comedian Rajiv Karia  (@RajivAKaria) as we talk about whether we actually enjoy TV shows anymore, or whether we just get mad at people who don't like them. We talk about how we are all part of fandoms, whether we like it or not, and how posting about shows influences how they are written, produced and marketed - something that is most clearly evident in "no context" twitter accounts.

We also see the return of patron of the show Jordan Peterson, who, post-coma, now seems to just be posting Jungian movie reviews of Marvel films, and discuss how his new genre of posting may be a reflection of being overshadowed by younger, more savvy conservative posters. 

The No Platform Economy ft.Chris Stokel-Walker

This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer and journalist Chris Stokel Walker (@stokel), the author of Youtubers : How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars and TikTok Boom:  China, the US and the Superpower Race for Social Media.


We talk about what a "Platform" actually is, at a time when Facebook is under heavy criticism for its scale-chasing practices, and whether rival platforms like TikTok are being forced to pursue the same growth model, as well as whether Platforms can ever be meaningfully regulated or treated like a public-service utility. We also talk about Facebook's PR Guy, Andy Stone, whose strategy largely seems to amount to: Get mad online but actually emphasise that you are, indeed, laughing. Does this indicate Facebook going off the rails? Or do they just realise that they can do this now and get away with it? Anyway, we conclude, as always, that this is Nick Clegg's fault.

Purchase Chris' books here: https://www.canburypress.com/products/tik-tok-china-and-the-superpower-race-for-social-media-pre-order
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how Everything is Posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). For more episodes and bonus content, sign up to our patreon for $5 a month at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.