The Try Guys
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Hannah and Maia discuss the end of nuance, and feeling betrayed by Wife Guys™.  Intro and Outro song by our talented friend Ian Mills: https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic Sources: Seth Abramovitch, “Why Are the Try Guys So Angry? Try Jeopardizing $6M a Year in Clicks” Hollywood Reporter (2022). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/try-guys-scandal-ned-fulmer-eugene-lee-yang-6-million-1235233823/ Nunn and Biressi, “‘A trust betrayed’: celebrity and the work of emotion”, Celebrity Studies, vol.1, (2010). Shannon Keating, “Why Are We Still So Scandalized by Cheating? What our recent obsession with infidelity reveals about us” The Cut, (2022). https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/why-are-we-still-so-scandalized-by-cheating.html Further Reading: Willy Staley, “The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame” The New York Times (2022). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/magazine/try-guys-internet-fame.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap
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