Fiji and Autumn check in this week with F.D Signifier’s video essays, How I Met Your Mother, free online concerts, a failed night out, and having a hard time sleeping.
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Next, we dive into this week’s topic: trauma dumping and oversharing as entertainment.
We’re talking: The gendered and internet history of “oversharing”, oversharing memes, social media as a third space, finstas, the right to tell your story, storytelling as an art form, profiting off of oversharing/ trauma dumping, Reesa Tessa, Brooke Schofield, Who tf did I marry, Hayley Baylee, truth vs fiction, creators as entrepreneurs/ artists, put a finger down tiktok, Tana Mongeau, Alex Cooper and Call Her Daddy, exploiting your life for money, watching creators grow up in real-time, the addiction loop of posting, the trauma plot, the traumaification of reality tv, Joey the Bachelor, the trauma candy salad, does trauma make you funny?, listener stories, and more!👀
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https://youtu.be/6fHrPNyd0jw?si=0VzFI8QENED37ZI5
https://youtu.be/Rclk6K9alZU?si=tiHDOPTPtiW2-uCC
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Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oq68JJ_-Vg54a29_BsvhVLsGxncw5UMlyBEFTzNqdkQ/edit
Intro 00:00:00 - 00:02:41
What’s got us s0 wet and s0 dry this week 00:02:41 - 00:08:13
The gendered and internet history of “oversharing” 00:08:13 - 00:13:15
What is oversharing online? 00:13:15 - 00:25:53
Who tf did I marry tiktok: the ethics of oversharing and trauma dumping as storytelling 00:25:53 - 00:39:50
The rise of the storytime era: Tana Mongeau and Oversharing as storytelling 00:39:50 - 00:47:51
The addiction loop of exploiting yourself online and monetizing oversharing: Call Her Daddy 00:47:51 - 01:06:47
The case against the trauma plot: personal testimony as art and the traumaification of reality tv 01:06:47 - 01:51:53
The regularization of trauma dumping on tiktok: trauma candy salads and other trends 01:51:53 - 02:13:32
The audience for trauma dumping and the intention of the creator 02:13:32 - 02:33:31
What’s got us wet, dry, and still confused about trauma dumping and oversharing as entertainment 02:33:31 - 02:49:23
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Autumn (host, editor)
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Fiji (host, editor)
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Mylao (Graphic Designer, and Artist)
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