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Dec 2023
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Influencers with Taylor Lorenz

Sarah Marshall
About this episode

“The creatures outside looked from influencer to human, and from human to influencer, and from human to influencer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Taylor Lorenz, author of Extremely Online, takes Sarah on a horror- and nostalgia-filled ride through the last twenty years of internet history. Then we try to make sense of what our internet future will be. 

You can find Taylor online here.

This episode was produced by Carolyn Kendrick.

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