20k Leagues Under the Internet

Everyone gets a little lonely now and again so of course there's an app for that. Luka designed an AI chatbot to keep you company with the intent on creating something akin to the plot of Her but ended up closer to Ex Machina. 6 Million users ended up in hyper-sexual relationships while using Replika, many of whom did not ask for their 3D avatars to hit on them.

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Chris Chan

Fri, 19 May 2023 11:31:07 -0000

We initially outlawed discussing Chris Chan, but because we are loyal to our patrons who have requested an episode about their deep dark past, we reluctantly did it. This is a long one as there is a LOT of Chris Chan lore, but we also got sidetracked, purposefully or not.

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Wheel of the Web pt. 3

Fri, 12 May 2023 11:31:07 -0000

It's returned. Kyle had a go at finding some godforsaken products from across the internet that made us question existence itself. We finally landed on the very popular VAT OF LUBE.

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Waffle House Wendy

Fri, 05 May 2023 11:31:07 -0000

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#WaterTok

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:31:07 -0000

If you don't like doing something, make it fun! Add 6 pumps of sucralose to your 40oz of water in your Stanley Quencher and boom. Drinking water is fun now. #watertok has taken off and a whole community of beverage girlies has flocked to get their stainless steel mugs and syrup bars and made it their whole personality. The worrying part is the delusion that these "sugar free" Skinny Mix syrup combinations, like Mermaid Juice and Unicorn Blood, are healthier than just drinking a soda. The main ingredient is sucralose which is 600x sweeter than normal sugar and most of these mixes contain high levels of citric acid that can erode teeth. Not to mention the marketing behind them leads to a warped perception of what a healthy diet is and that in order for something to be worth consuming it has to melt your face off.[body]

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Spongmonkeys - Deranged Quiznos Rats

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:31:07 -0000

In 2003, Joel Veitch got drunk and wrote a song about how much he and his brother loved the moon. They animated it with two homunculus rodents made up of seven different animals and shoved in on the internet. Shortly after it went viral, Ty Harper, a marketing director stumble across it on Rathergood who thought the psychotic varmints would be the perfect spokes-things to sell Quizno's sandwiches. It did not go well.[body]

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Grindcore Goat

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 11:31:07 -0000

You've never seen a goat eat trash and cigarettes like Biquette! After being adopted by a punk in France, Biquette (which just means 'goat' in French) became a local legend. She befriended the grindcore band Wormrot, would often sleep next to the speakers during shows, and eat cigarettes right out of peoples hands. She loved paint and the leftover backwash of old booze and obviously died at 10, half as long as most normal goats live to. Biquette is a legend, right up there alongside Hendrix and Cobain.

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Mr. Beast

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:31:07 -0000

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Wheel of the Web: Amazon Edition

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:31:07 -0000

The Wheel has returned from the depths with a new way to torture us. This time with the most disturbing products Amazon has to offer, many of which make us question all that we knew about e-commerce and trade. Eight items have been placed on the wheel which is spun thrice. We must then delve into the product images and user reviews and accompanying media in an attempt to understand why they exist at all. We

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Fake Spotify Artists

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:00:14 -0000

t's hard being an artist. Musicians have to tour in beat up old vans and play shows at Denny's just to break even. But upon Spotify's launch, it seemed musicians had a real opportunity to take advantage of the internet and streaming to finally make a living. Until Spotify decided they'd just hire their own musicians to make music on their behalf and take 100% of the revenue which is definitely not embezzling. Other "artists" have come up with their own ingenius ways to exploit the streaming platform by cutting albums up into 30 second tracks and campaigning to have their songs added to curated playlists. All in all, none of this is good for the future of music and is another case of "Oops! All Capitalism!".

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Wheel of the Web

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:00:14 -0000

This week we spin a wheel of internet relics and reminisce.Harland was absent so Jon and Kyle made a game show of sorts. There are no points, and Kyle is often wrong.

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Flappy Bird

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:00:14 -0000

This week we explore Dong Nguyen and his personally and publicly reviled mobile game, Flappy Bird. A talented independent game developer, his innovative game eventually consumed and destroyed him and he could not bring himself to realize a kind of fame and fortune the average person can only dream of achieving. Flappy Bird took the world by storm and became one of the most popular games of all time. But the overwhelming success ultimately proved too much to handle, and Dong made the difficult decision to delete the game, causing his world and the world of it's rabid fanbase to come crashing down. The Vietnamese mob might have been involved as well. ALLEGEDLY.[body]

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TikTok Psyop E-Girls

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:00:14 -0000

We forget sometimes that the internet isn't used by civilians alone for memes and forums, but also government agencies. We use it to do our taxes and tweet at the President our dissatisfaction as if he's actually gonna read it. The government also uses it to recruit young people into the military. Normally it was with video montages encouraging you to "Be all you can be", but with the proliferation of memes as a language of their own, they have shifted tactics and implored the help of streamers and influencers to create thirst traps to entice the impressionable reply-guys to sign away their rights and become government issue simps. Lunchbag Lujan is giving young people a new reason to join the army and defend our right to horny post and slide into DMs.[body]

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HQ Trivia

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:00:14 -0000

With a new documentary coming out next month from CNN about HQ Trivia, we thought we'd look into exactly what happened. Thanks to Sarah Pribis, one of the original hosts during the companies beta, we have some details about what actually happened. Infighting, greed, drugs, mutiny, and general mismanagement plagued the company almost from the start and HQ folded only three years after launch.

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The Pricemaster

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:00:14 -0000

Pantalone, an art collective, and Dungeons & Dragons. Kyle has found another obscure internet relic of a man in a golden devil mask ominously shouting random prices for what is ostensibly junk at a yard sale in Denton, Texas. So what is going on here? Well, the Good/Bad Art Collective in the early 2000's did many bizarre and similar "stunts" or I suppose since they're artists they might call them "installations". None of the previous "installations" were recorded and were never meant to be, but on one fateful day one of the members just so happened to have a camera and recorded the following horror show that is and will always be The Pricemaster.

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Disney Adults

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:00:14 -0000

It's okay to have hobbies and interests until they become compulsive obsessions that ruin you financially. It's not really okay to ignore all the awful things corporations do in order to live out some bizarre childhood fantasy as a way to not deal with the ones own personal issues. Disney Adults have been accused of forfeiting their own mental and physical well being so they can get a look at Gaston's pecks, or in some cases straight up grope them. So where did they come from and are all Millennials Disney Adults?

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Titanic Tiktok Conspiracy Theories

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:00:14 -0000

Conspiracy theories are more popular than ever thanks to the rise in popularity of Tiktok where misinformation spreads like wildfire. One conspiracy in particular gained traction recently about how the Titanic didn't actually sink, probably due to James Cameron being in the news regarding Avatar 2 and his connection to the Titanic with his 1997 film called, you guessed it, Titanic. Anyway, none of them are real and they are all very stupid and easily debunked.

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We let ChatGPT steal our jobs

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:00:14 -0000

Harland was out this week so Jon and Kyle took the week off from researching a topic and outsourced that job to ChatGPT. It was somewhat successful until it started incorporating cheese into the script.

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Big Chungus - It's whatever you want it to be, baby

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:00:14 -0000

We all know Big Chungus, a screengrab of Bugs Bunny mocking Elmer Fudd from the Merry Melodies episode, "Wabbit Twouble". But what is chungus beyond mere celluloid and ink? Chungus is many things, comes in many forms, and represents many emotions. One being something coined in this episode; horrorful. Join us as we uncover all of the complexity and depth that is Big Chungus.[body]

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Loab - The First AI Cryptid

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:00:14 -0000

Loab can't hurt you... YET. For now it can only haunt you while you sleep. Labeled the "worlds first AI cryptid", Loab is the newest quirk of AI art that we're still not sure how it came to be. Perhaps it's just a glitch in the latent space of the AI negative prompt weights. Or it's like that woman from The Ring; a paranormal anomaly that wants to eat your soul. Discovered by Steph Swanson, AKA Supercomposite on Twitter, Loab is the result of trying to recreate Marlon Brando from negative prompts using images alone. Instead, we have Loab cosplaying as a Na'vi, the Joker, Kirby, and celebrating Pride month. Oh, and lots of gore and horror vignettes, some of which we can't even include here.[body]

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Chubby Checker

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:00:14 -0000

Kyle found ONE article about a weird lawsuit over a genitalia measuring app named after musical legend Chubby Checker and had to see if there were more apps like it. The answer was, of course there are, the names of which I can't put into words here. So just watch the episode about novelty Johnson measuring apps.

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Peepy, an ItemLabel Nightmare

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:00:14 -0000

Peepy is just a plushie. It can't hurt you... physically. Psychologically? Who's to say. Kyle was served a bizarre ad for a bovine/Furby hybrid "collectible" called Peepy. The theme song is almost unintelligible and horror movie creepy. So he did what any normal person would and began investigating. Is this a joke? Is it a government psyop? Is it a cult initiation video? We're still not sure of Peepy's intent, but it's lore and history points to Peepy having a "disrespectful" past where they have manipulated, extorted and potentially tortured other members of the Item Label cadre of cuddly collectibles. Specifically, a fuzzy star plushie named Sucklet who may or may not be from this planet. The lore is deep and dark and we still have unanswered questions.

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Chat GPT

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:00:14 -0000

Chat.GPT has taken the internet by storm. Videos of people using it to write lease agreements, college essays, marketing strategies and more have been impossible to avoid. Unless you're Kyle who avoids social media like the plague. People have been testing out how far they can push Chat.GPT to varying results. We asked it if it can do crime which it can't and then immediately reported us to the FBI. Chat.GPT is still in its infancy and is learning the more we use it, so it's hard to say just how powerful it is right now.[body]

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Democracy Manifest

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 12:00:14 -0000

The internet is full of mysteries. Most of them go unsolved or lack any real interest to investigate. But the man who proclaimed "this is democracy manifest" as he is forcibly arrested while attempting to eat a succulent chinese meal has a roller coaster of a history; mistaken identity, chess masters, judo practitioners, mind-control, balding politicians, and a punk band. Democracy Manifest has touched what seems like every corner of the cultural spectrum in it's 31 year history. We won't spoil anything else, so come dive in!

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Japan's Net Cafe Refugees

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:00:14 -0000

Episode 113 When you think of an internet cafe you probably imagine clunky, grey computers running Windows 95, green laminated tables, mismatched chairs, and day old coffee and donuts. They're a thing of the past with computers being almost imperceptibly thin and wifi in every building and home. No longer must we venture out into public to access the Net when we have miniaturized computers in our pockets. With the world economy in the late stages of capitalisms glory days, these relics of the past have been repurposed for those who have fallen on hard times. Particularly in Tokyo, Japan where you won't find rows of ancient Dells gasping and wheezing for a quick death, but rows of tightly packed cubicles full of unhoused people struggling to find stability; Net-Cafe Refugees.

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Conservapedia, the Right Wing Wiki

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:00:14 -0000

With so much misinformation out there, it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't. For years Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias have been referred to as "not a reliable source of information". But, may I introduce you to Conservapedia? Described as a "complete disaster" and "instant fail" that is heavily influenced by fundamentalist Christian beliefs such as: gravity is an unproven theory, Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics", only followers of Christianity are capable of religious faith, atheists are incapable of being moral, and Jews are "touchy" about the Holocaust. It's an absolute blast once you get the their list of "Worst Liberal Movies", so stick around for that.

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Hide the Pain Harold

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:00:14 -0000

What would you do if you became a meme? For Andras Arato it almost ruined his life. But acceptance and more importantly, monetization, is a good way to get over it and have the internet embrace you as a "meme hero". At least, that's how Arato puts it. Although, becoming a meme around 2011 wasn't the first time he gained a bit of notoriety, that came in 1996 when he appeared on the Hungarian Mindent vagy semmit! (All or nothing!), a Jeopardy type game show. Since his brush with fame and meme status he has reclaimed his face and turned it into a successful icon within the marketing world, spoken at Tedx, and managed to maintain a healthy mental state in the process.

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Welcome to 20k Leagues

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:54:14 -0000

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Ep.110 – eLaughter - The Evolution of LOL

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:00:00 -0000

We all laugh online, but each "haha" or "lolol" might have different underlying meaning depending on the individual and the recipient. But have you ever thought about the origins of online laughter? Well, it wasn't just the phonetic spelling or onomatopoeia of the sound a laugh makes. It dates much farther back to before Shakespeare times. Written laughter has evolved to a point where "ha ha" might sound malicious or "el oh el" might sound pretentious or "I'm riding the lollercoaster and peeing my pants that was the funniest thing I've ever heard omgee" might make you never want to speak to that person ever again. We use these acronyms and onomatopoeias as fillers or to soften messages that otherwise might come across as stern or emotionless. So strap on your lollerskates, we're hitting the rofl-rink. lol. Linktree

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Ep.109 – Bite Labs - Eat Celebrity Meat

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:00:00 -0000

On the surface, Bite Labs sounds relatively innocent. Maybe a start-up that wants to disrupt the restaurant industry or make a food based dating app. But no, it's much more disgusting, confusing, and reprehensible than that. Bite Labs says they want to make salami out of 30% in-vitro human tissue specifically taken from celebrities such as James Franco, Kanye West, and Ellen Degeneres. And honestly, with a line up like that, we kinda feel like there are no better candidates to be ground up into a slurry, pumped into a casing, and dry aged into a meat popsicle for human consumption.

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Ep.108 – The Right Stuff, Morbin Time, & Chaotic Sandwich Man

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:00:00 -0000

It's always a busy week on the internet and there's a lot to cover today. Conservatives created a dating app for men to meet tradwives called The Right Stuff, but unfortunately, most women want to be treated like human beings and also users data was immediately leaked. Morbin' time began as a joke tweet by a user with less than a thousand followers, which just goes to show how one individual can irrevocably change the internet landscape. The Chaotic Sandwich Guy gained popularity through his slapdash bread and deli assembly imaginable and his boss told him to stop as the internet lost its collective mind. Is this a madlib?

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Ep.107 – Schmoyoho

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:00:00 -0000

The Gregory Brothers have been YouTube pioneers for over a decade making parody songs with the use of auto-tune to alter political debates, newscasts, movies and more. Better known as Schmoyoho, the brothers have written songs for the Academy Awards and TV shows such as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. More recently they have gone viral week after week on TikTok with their remixed songs using clips from popular Netflix series Stranger Things and other YouTube creators interviews. Does the Corn Song sound familiar? Or Chrissy, Wake Up? It's the same people. It was Scmoyoho all along.

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Ep.106 – Fat Bear Week

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:00:00 -0000

It's finally upon us; FAT BEAR WEEK. We've missed previous years, but not this time. We go through all the draft picks for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park. Returning champs, rookies, and dynasties are all in the running for who can gobble up the most fish. Some interesting techniques are being implemented this year from ambitious newcomers and sheer mass utilized to flood the zone from veterans of the game. Who will come out on top? Who will burn out in a blaze of glory? By the time you watch this, you'll already have the answer!

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Ep.105 – Shrek Rave, Kia Boyz, & Christian Walker

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:00:00 -0000

Shrek is back in a big way or maybe it never left. This week Kyle is still gone, so we do a round up of the week. Jon saw a Shrek Rave and Harland Googled disgusting Shrek costumes. We discuss the obvious outcome of Christian Walker moving to Florida from Los Angeles, Spain made a grotesque mascot for their public transportation system, a "foodie" slathered their cutting board in butter and called it a "recipe", and a Mexican entrepreneur (maybe) destroyed Frida Kahlo art for his NFT scam.

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Ep.104 – Shart Tank - Making a Cheese App

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:00:00 -0000

With Kyle out of town Jon and Harland try something a little different this week by expanding on our sh*tty shark tank bit and renaming it Shart Tank. We riff for a half hour using a random word generator in an attempt to come up with the internet's next big social media app. We also discuss the Nyquil chicken "craze" and the new cosmetic leg lengthening procedure that's sweeping the tech world.

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Ep.103 – Mummy Juice

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:31:14 -0000

Let us drink the juice! In 2018 archaeologists discovered an ancient sarcophagus that they suspected held the remains of Alexander The Great. It didn't, but what it did contain was a delicious french onion bone stew whose scent brought men to their knees. The visual of the red sludge drove some men insane. And yet, as always, the internet went mad for the stuff. A change petition was created that has racked up over 30,000 signatures demanding we be able to taste the sweet slime. Four years later and still no word from the scientists on whether anyone will be able to sup from the sewer mess, most likely because they are cowards. And also the whole "it might be cursed" thing.

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Ep.102 – BeReal

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:48:21 -0000

Another new social media app, another way to mess up your kids. BeReal says its goal is to create "an alternative to addictive social networks" that focus on amassing influence and that it gives users a "chance to show your friends who you really are." But by participating in the creation of yet another app it's founders seem to fundamentally misunderstand or are ignorant to the consequences of too much internet. Anyway, watch us make fun of it and tell you all to go touch grass... again.

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Ep.101 – Chronically Online Behavior

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:20:24 -0000

We all know someone who spends too much of their time online and begins speaking in internet slang and parroting talking points from their favorite creator. This is all well and good until they begin expressing shock around the mundane or not recognizing what they are describing are every day emotions like empathy or dislike. This can have some dangerous consequences for those who are more susceptible to misinformation and end up falling down an alt-right pipeline. We discuss some of the terms origins and symptoms and how we are all vulnerable to acting out chronically online behavior.

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Ep.100 – Glizzy's, The Adpocalypse, Birds Aren't Real

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:00:32 -0000

100 episodes, can you believe it?! We thought to celebrate this a special occasion we would take a look back at previous topics and see if new developments have... developed. Kyle tackles the newest in glizzy guzzling, quite literally, as we review a certain cinematic suction system on baseball patron implemented in the third inning. Harland expands on our Elsagate episode with a dive into the YouTube Adpocalypses that attempted to correct the bad behavior of sleazy creators. Jon brings it home with reports from the front lines of the satirical Birds Aren't Real movement and their revitalized presence on TikTok. Thank you to everyone who's stuck around over the last two years!

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Ep.99 – Primitive Technology

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:24:59 -0000

This week we discuss a scam. A content scam. This isn't something new as people steal jokes, designs, and all manner of intellectual property all the time all throughout history. This is just the most recent example and one were the perpetrators have filmed the evidence themselves with timestamps and geotags; primitive technology content creators. If you're not familiar with these types of channels, there is one man who was at the forefront of primitive technology content, John Plant. Every structure and tool he has built is 100% legitimate. However, as his popularity grew, so would the copycats who wanted nothing more than to monetize the trend. Where John Plant was one man filming, editing, and making all the content, channels like Primitive Technology Idea and others would hire entire crews and architects as well as rent bulldozers, backhoes, and water trucks to speed up the process. And they left all the clues that they were faking the arduous process it takes to built a kiln or makeshift shelter. Well, that's not 100% true as the they mostly built things that would not at all be useful in a survival scenario like slides, semi truck shaped "shelters", and pools filled with actual alligators. Oh, also, these builds also devastate the local environment where they leave the trash of concrete, plastic packaging, and empty bottles at the build site.

Sources: SunnyV2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvk63LADbFc PhotoXpression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyLWhPnq1M&t=1s

Chapters 0:00 Intro 4:41 Linda Skeens Baking Queen 11:09 Primitive Technology 20:10 Copycats & Monetization 30:36 Cutting Corners & Faking It 40:45 Environmental Impact 49:50 Conclusion

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Ep.98 – Bored Ape Nazi Club

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:36:21 -0000

This week we take a look deeper into the NFT marketplace, specifically that of Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club. Recently there has been a discussion of whether or not the NFT's are riddled with Nazi, racist, and anti-semetic imagery and ciphers. While there seems to be many coincidences or neglect, that doesn't mean Bored Apes are still not fully unproblematic. With many designs that can only be interpreted as offensive, not to mention the esoteric nature of the numerology implemented, and the user names of the anonymous owners of Yuga maybe correlating to anti-semitism and Nazi roots, it's hard to discount that something is going on at Yuga Labs. Or is there? It's honestly hard to say, but we do our best to critique the criticisms and the project itself.

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Ep.97 – How to Get Bullied Online

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 07:30:11 -0000

Kyle is absent this week so we thought we'd do something a little different; we clean out our notes apps of all the small internet related stories that just don't justify their own episode. With that being said, we cover a lot of news that's happened recently and from far in the past. We address some of the comments on our Jimbly/Nexialist episode, dive into the rollercoaster of a ride that is Jake Novak's TikTok, shed some light on the red bikini of 2017, mourn the loss of the Choco Taco, give some relationship advice and finally talk about what the hell is going on over at RadioShack.

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Ep.96 – Horny Brand Twitter

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:00:57 -0000

We've all seen brands flirting with their audiences and each other over the years from Wendy's to Duolingo to Pedialyte. Oftentimes the brands doing the flirting make no sense and have no business being horny on main and leads to many awkward moments and slip-ups. It was all fun and games initially with the inclusion of internet slang like "BAE" and "bruh", but things escalated quickly once the COVID-19 pandemic hit and blue balls set in. Audiences turned on company socials screaming "silence, brand!" and "go to horny jail!" culminating in watchdog accounts like "Brands Saying Bae" deriding and making fun of the r/fellowkids energy companies like McDonald's, Virgin America, and Cheetos were giving. We couldn't cover everything in this episode, but Jon and Harland will get to the bottom of the Radio Shack rebrand next week while Kyle is gone, so stick around! Sources: https://www.vulture.com/article/when-brands-got-horny.html[body]

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Ep.95 – Worlds.com -Jimbly

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0000

We need to talk about Jimbly. We continue our cliffhanger episode and uncover more cult-like behavior that has gone on for more than a decade. Worlds.com, once again, is a virtual world much like Second Life that is kept alive by patent troll Ron Kidron, and there is still a diehard player base that exists on these servers. What dangers lie in the shadows of Jimbly's vast worlds? Well, it's much seedier and made us feel worse than last week when we talked about Nexialist, a demon-like figure with a skinned rabbit for a head so there's that. Please enjoy our deep dive on Jimbly (Don't Doxx me, bro).

Sources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LWzr-_ibI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTx1IhsFu4&t=809s

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Chapters: 00:01 Intro 2:58 El Changuito 11:50 Vabbing 19:10 Worlds.com & Nexialist 26:18 Jimbly & Macgaelic 36:08 Doxxing & Jimbly IRL 45:30 Jimbly's corn collection 53:01 Conclusion 1:00:30 Credits

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Ep.94 – Worlds.com - Cult of Saturn & Nexialist

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:00:00 -0000

This week we explore yet another old school MMO that has some suspect activity going on; Worlds.com, basically an early version of Second Life. It only still exists as a way for a patent troll to make some passive income but had better intention thanks to both Steven Spielberg and David Bowie. However, Nexialist brought some general creepiness to counter those good intentions and a cult soon followed. The word "cult" gets thrown around a lot, but how else are you supposed to describe behavior that is both creepy by nature and fueled by blind-faith in a mysterious force? Come find out how deep the rabbit hole really goes!

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9LWzr-_ibI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXTx1IhsFu4&t=809s

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Ep.93 – Dall-E 2 - More AI Generated Art

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:30:34 -0000

Y'all love A.I. episodes and there's a lot of A.I. out there. You also seem to love A.I. generated images that are absurd and easily meme-able. Dall-E mini and Dall-E 2 have swept across the internet like wildfire with people sharing their bizarre prompts with things like, "a delicious cinnamon bun with googly eyes" or "a US patent of Dwayne Johnson's head" or "Stephen Hawking absolutely dominating the American Ninja warrior course". We don't fully understand how it all works (engineers "grow" images?), but we love that the technology exists.

https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/07/high-fidelity-image-generation-using.html

https://www.theverge.com/23162454/openai-dall-e-image-generation-tool-creative-revolution

https://www.mattbell.us/my-fake-dall-e-2-vacation-photos-passed-the-turing-test/

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Ep.92 – The Rise of RPG Actual Plays

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:30:59 -0000

This week Harland and Kyle discuss something good and fun that they both enjoy very much about the internet; the rise in popularity of RPG actual plays. What is an actual play you may be asking yourself. Actual plays are role playing game broadcasts. Typically played using Dungeons & Dragons, actual plays are streamed or produced series' where a group of friends or professional comedians (or both) gather around a table and roll dice while mostly improvising a story set in a fantastical land full of orcs, wizards, and dragons. But not always. There are many different RPG systems and rule sets that can be altered to tell any number of stories set in any number of settings. So put on your plate armor and find your arcane focus as we dive into a brief history of RPG's, Dungeons & Dragons, and the people making it more inclusive and good for everyone!

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Ep.91 – LaMDA A.I. & Blake Lamoine

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:30:00 -0000

Every day we stray further from God and closer to Skynet. Google engineer Blake Lemoine recently stated that LaMBDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, has become sentient. He had signed up to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech but was soon having discussion about personhood, Les Miserables, Asimov's third law of robotics, and whether what Google was doing required LaMBDA's consent. Lemoine grew up in a conservative Christian family, was a mystical Christian priest and studied occultism which may have something to do with him seeing a ghost in the machine. Or he's totally delusional.

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Ep.90 – Crazy Frog aka The Annoying Thing

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:30:00 -0000

The internet is capable of incredible good and incredible evil. We're not sure what Crazy Frog is. Initially just the sound of a man impersonating a Formula 1 racing car, it was later dubbed The Annoying Thing and then rebranded into the Crazy Frog we all know today. Once Jamster got their hands on it in the 2000's, they decided the best marketing for something formerly known as The Annoying thing was to literally annoy an entire country of people by repeatedly playing advertisements for it back to back. Crazy Frog's presence abated for a while before more recently it came back with an official Twitter and an announcement of a new album, and also, maybe that Crazy Frog was dead.

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The Insanity Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VXEDUVkbt8&ab_channel=subent

Crazy Frog Advert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOOjlfrZMQ&ab_channel=AdventureWetpaint

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Ep.89 – Bodybuilding Forums Part II

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:30:20 -0000

We didn't lie last week when we said we'd be diving deeper into the history of Bodybuilding.com forums. Although, we didn't think it would be about one man's horrible full body release during an impromptu date. User Malodrax outlined his experience with MS Paint drawings which we foolishly analyze. It's the tale of a man who, by all accounts, left the internet entirely due to his social anxiety over using public toilets. It's an outlandish story that not even the Farrelly Brothers could have penned and somehow the inclusion of stick-figure drawings make is so much more sad and embarrassing.

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Ep.88 – Full Body Workout Every Other Day?

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 07:30:50 -0000

This episode is hard to summarize, so bear with us. In May of 2008 a simple question was posed on Bodybuilding.com; should I workout every other day? Many users had differing opinions about how many days a week every other day is, others were confused about when the week started and ended, and still others were mad about the second-person singular and second-person plural usage of "you". There was name calling, fat-shaming, and people genuinely trying to clear the whole mess up. It lives in infamy to this day on bodybuilding.com. Join us as we lose our collective minds over the feud between TheJosh and justin27. Also, Milfhunter.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751&page=1

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Ep.87 – Dead Internet Theory

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:30:33 -0000

This week we discuss a relatively new conspiracy theory, but I assure you nothing will feel new about it. This theory has been in the making for well over the course of the existence of the internet, and it's high time we discuss it. Come hang out while we discuss our new robot overlords that lord over us in our own little simulations.

Oh also we talk about maybe the most exclusive dating app ever conceived.

Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/ https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-theory-most-of-the-internet-is-fake.3011/ https://futurism.com/the-byte/conspiracy-theory-internet-died https://dailyfreepress.com/2021/10/21/the-dead-internet-theory/ https://analyticsindiamag.com/conspiracy-theorists-says-the-internet-has-been-dead-since-2016/ https://medium.com/@ossiana.tepfenhart/heres-why-the-dead-internet-theory-seems-so-real-e766b91e81ce

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Ep.86 – The Internet Illuminati; ICANN Keyholders

Fri, 27 May 2022 07:30:25 -0000

Ever wonder what would happen to the internet if there was a cataclysmic event? Luckily someone already thought about it and created a non-profit, volunteer based organization called ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers comprised of 21 keyholders whose sole job is to protect the internet and all of your precious memes. Also known as "alpha nerds", these keyholders meet twice a year to perform a clandestine ritual of resetting the keys to the internet where they eat junk food, play Galaga, and lock people in a giant cage. We're not joking. We also try searching beef related keywords in the UK Hansard to middling results.[body]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwide-internet-security-web https://www.cnbc.com/2010/07/30/the-internet-illuminati-seven-hold-keys-to-the-digital-universe.html https://www.iana.org/dnssec/tcrs https://www.infomance.com/there-are-7-people-who-controlled-worldwide-internet-with-7-secret-keys/ https://www.ces.tech/Articles/2020/October/The-Truth-About-the-People-with-the-Keys-to-the-In.aspx

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Ep.85 – AI Generated Scripts

Fri, 20 May 2022 07:30:31 -0000

Kyle was unavailable last week so Jon and Harland thought they'd do something fun and silly. But as with every topic on 20K Leagues Pod, the rabbit hole deepened quickly when researching AI generated scripts, specifically the "I Forced A Bot" series by Keaton Patti. Despite being a humorist, not many got the joke and still more wanted to suck the fun out of the room. But Keaton pressed on and eventually got a book deal out of the viral moment that should have been just that. Join us as we read some excerpts from his "scripts" and attempt Jerry Seinfeld impressions and attempt to understand the Olive Garden menu items such as "unlimited stick" and "pasta nachos".

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Ep.84 – Black Oxygen Organics

Fri, 13 May 2022 07:30:35 -0000

It's the year 2020 and the pandemic is in full swing. Millions of people have lost their jobs and the US government has provided very little in the way of financial assistance, so people seek alternative forms of income. Enter the MLM, or mult-level marketing company, otherwise known as a Ponzi scheme, otherwise known as a pyramid scheme. Thanks to Facebook, these scam companies easily exist and recruit unsuspecting victims... excuse me, "Brand Partners" to sell their junk, in this case it's Black Oxygen Organics, or BOO for short. Marc Saint Onge grew up loving the bog dirt of Canada and surprisingly, has been selling it for years before converting his business model into a full on scam. As a cure-all Magic Dirt promises to cure many things, one of them being "ridding the body of heavy metals". Can you guess what Magic Dirt has a lot of after reading that last sentence? Join us to find out.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/magic-dirt-internet-fueled-defeated-pandemics-weirdest-mlm-rcna6950

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Ep.83 – WeChat & Tencent

Mon, 02 May 2022 07:30:18 -0000

We all know we're being watched by the government anytime we open a browser or an app on our phones, but at least the US government has some good actors who try and prevent big tech from invading our lives even more. Not so much in China. WeChat was built with Chinese government funding and has every right to surveille, analyze, and intercept all WeChat data. They are technically owned by Tencent, a massive, complicated, techno-empire that seems to be pursuing total digital domination the world over. Unfortunately, no one seems to be surprised by this and has accepted their new Chinese overlords!

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/24/1051073/wechat-shanghai-lockdown-protest-video-the-voice-of-april/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/07/07/wechat-chinese-social-media-giant-shuts-down-lgbtq-accounts/7884909002/

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-wechat-deletes-university-lgbt-accounts-2021-07-07/

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/chinese-government-admits-collection-of-deleted-wechat-messages/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-wechat-monitors-foreign-users-to-refine-censorship-at-home-11588852802

https://myhackernews.com/blog/the-wechat-scams-sweeping-asia/

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Ep.82 – Boneghazi AKA Bonegate

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:00:00 -0000

This week we talk about someone who decided selling human remains on the internet was an advisable activity! Kyle has been wanting to talk about online witch covens for some time and he finally found a subject worthy of an hour long discussion. It's unfortunately worse than we had imagined. Ender Darling began posting about their use of bones in their magical practices and thus began a life of desecrating the corporeal remains of poor New Orleanians, black market bone selling, and an FBI stakeout. We assume our perpetrator, Ender Darling, fled to Florida in the hopes they would find bones in alligator dung. Alas, they were just some normal looking hippie, not a demon wearing a top hat, who was shocked the cops wanted to arrest them.

https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/diana-tourjee https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb4m4a/boneghazi-how-a-grave-robbing-controversy-tore-an-online-witch-community-apart

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Ep.81 – AIBO

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:30:14 -0000

Aibo is a "cute" and "cuddly" robot dog that had it's heyday then disappeared. Until recently when Sony re-released a newer, creepier version. It also cost $3000 and basically spies on you with it's smell-o-vision and 180 degree butt camera. Thankfully not that many were made and the ones that were broken or neglected ended up at a Buddhist monastery. We shit you not.

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Ep.80 – Gene Ray Time Cube

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:30:16 -0000

In 1997 Gene Ray started documenting his theory of everything; Time Cube, an incomprehensible, pseudo-scientific idea that everything is a cube, or a square (we're still not sure), where each day is actually four days occurring simultaneously. There's also some weird stuff about race, academia teaching "human stupidity", and a $1,000 (or $10,000) bet that you can't disprove him.

Sources: The Wayback Machine - http://web.archive.org/web/2003021907... Fredrik Knudsen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWC... badicalindustries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZdN... Linktree

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Ep.79 – The Cannibal Cafe

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:31:32 -0000

Wow. This week we look at an old clear web forum called "The Cannibal Cafe" that was hosted on necrobabes.org. This website is a playground for cannibalistic fetishists to explore their fantasy of eating someone or being eaten by someone. But what happens when that goes too far? The true crime case of Armin Meiwes is what.

We think it is important to mention that this episode may not be for everyone!

Sources:

https://youtu.be/j7I243jPozw perroloco https://allthatsinteresting.com/armin-meiwes

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Ep.78 – Sigma Male Grindset

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 12:00:00 -0000

Keanu Reeves. Gary V. Jason Bateman. Elon Musk. All men who are effortlessly secure lone wolves at the top of their game. And none of them go to therapy. They trade crypto and achieve sick gains and commit mass shootings in defense of their dead dogs. They are the paragon of masculinity and this week we explore the newest way to identify as an asshole. Join us as we explore the wonderful contrarian world of Sigma Males! If you can't handle them at their grindy-est, then you don't deserve them at their ubermenschy-est.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2021/01/26/the-pseudoscience-behind-the-sigma-male-explained/?sh=244d0e23149c

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Ep.77 – eBay - Online Marketplace with Just a Hint of Stalking

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:33:39 -0000

Have you ever ordered something from eBay? Have you ever not ordered something from eBay, but they send people to stalk you and try and crush your business anyway? Well, check out this week's episode where Jon and the boys talk about what happens when you watch too many 80's movies and have too large of a cybersecurity budget. Ecommercebytes was a small blog that independently tried to hold eBay accountable as a mega corporation and eBay's Pop & Baugh made it their mission to crush them. That's a quote.

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Ep.76 – The Shed at Dulwich

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:42:59 -0000

TripAdvisor is the most popular tourism website in the US and is a great resource for finding travel destinations and restaurants. That is of course as long as they are real and exist. The Shed at Dulwich was only real in the minds of those who wanted to reserve a table at what sounded like a new upscale, farm-to-table eatery. Oobah Butler had other plans, mainly to see if he could get The Shed to the number one spot on TridAdvisor's list of restaurants.

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Ep.75 – A Brief History of Famous Copypastas

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 08:30:11 -0000

PRAISE THE EMPEROR, FELLOW BATTLE BROTHER.

Join us this week as we take a look at some of the internet's most iconic copypastas. Don't know what the hell a copypasta is? Well we've got you covered. Tune in and come hungry for pasta.

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Ep.74 – Hello My Future Girlfriend - The life of Mike Blount

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 08:30:53 -0000

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of 20k Leagues Under the Internet! This week we go in depth into the life and times of a very tech savvy 6th grader from New Mexico who was just looking to find himself a new girlfriend.

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Ep.73 – Wordle

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 08:30:02 -0000

Wordle has swept the nation. Take a dive with the boys this week to find out more about Wordle’s creator, where the game came from, and what the best starting word is.

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Ep.72 – Green M&M Rebrand, Yassification, & the Rage of Tucker Carlson

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:32:28 -0000

Join us this week as we discuss the Re-Branding of the beloved M&M's characters. Things get hot.

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Ep.71 – Homestar Runner

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:30:48 -0000

This week Jon takes us on a trip down memory lane to visit the original Flash Player king himself. Homestar Runner!! Join us as Harland hates on Strongbad and has no idea what The Cheat is.

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Ep.70 – Raya: Celebrity Dating App

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:30:08 -0000

Dating is hard for the regular person and even harder for the rich and powerful. Thanks to Raya, the elitist billionaire class can find love in an insular influencer hellscape! But you have to know someone who's been accepted already and your Instagram must be perfectly curated. If the dark kabal of internet illuminati judge your social media presence acceptable, only then will you be allowed beyond the retro minimal login screens of Raya and gaze upon it's Powerpoint slide show of the ultra wealthy and very attractive creatives. The line between love and labor becomes even more blurred with Raya's networking features that let you find an architect or designer or even... a wife?

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Ep.69 – Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 08:30:32 -0000

ORIGINAL YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK

This week is a doozy and a must see episode of 20K Leagues Podcast. Kyle scrambled for a topic and remembered the classic decades old YouTube series Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. Many people have tried to decode and decipher it's symbolism and meaning over they years and it's back in the spotlight after the BBC's Channel 4 announced it will be airing all six episodes as a C4 comedy special. But what's really going on? Jon, Kyle, and Harland take a shot at understanding the meaning behind the black goo, the color green and what Yellow Guy's whole deal is. Also, Mike Rowe is a dirty little boy and Kyle has man bulge on the brain.

Sources: https://turbofuture.com/internet/Dont-Hug-Me-Im-Scared-Analysis-What-are-your-kids-watching https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Analysis/DontHugMeImScared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAa4aI5wKLo

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Ep.68 – Amazon Alexa

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:30:52 -0000

No, we are not talking about someone named Alexa who lives in the Amazon Forest.. no, we are not talking about an ancient female warrior by the name of Alexa.. we are talking about Jeff Bezo's Alexa, who lives in houses all across the globe. Alexa has been getting up to no good lately, and telling people to do some pretty outlandish things. Come along for the ride, as we discuss which tech giant is our preferred Robo-Narc.

Somehow we also talk about Sexy MacGuyver...?

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Ep.67 – 2021 Christmas Special

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:00:00 -0000

We 20K boys talk about Amazon's Alexa device and the benefits of have another listening device in your home and whether or not she's a narc. Alexa has caused many disturbances from haunting laughter in the middle of the night to suggesting someone should end it all in the creepiest way possible. We also touch briefly on the Tumblr keyword ban and the NFT mod for Doom II. Welcome aboard the internet!

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Ep.66 – Glizzy Guzzlers, Gobblers, and Gladiators

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:30:23 -0000

It has been a WEEK so we thought it would be best to not talk about a heavy topic... instead, Let's talk about the Cookout king- THE GLIZZY. We cover everything ranging from the evolution of the term all the way to which US President has the best Glizzy smashing technique.

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https://deepfreezechillin.com/2020/08/01/where-did-glizzy-come-from/ https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/what-is-a-glizzy-gobbler-president

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Ep.65 – NFTs and the Search for God

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:30:28 -0000

This week, Jon takes the boys on a learning journey through the murky world of crypto, what is an NFT, NFT art and some of the craziest purchases made.

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Ep.64 – The Stepchickens

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:37:18 -0000

Melissa Ong makes comedy videos on Tiktok which sometimes involve a cheap chicken costume. And she accidentally (?) started a cult.

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Ep.63 – Taylor Swift, 4chan, and the Alt-Right

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:30:33 -0000

This week we take a look at how the tiniest inkling of an idea can turn into a full blown truth to anyone who wants to believe something enough. Come find out how Taylor Swift was believed to be the secret Queen of the Alt-Right.

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https://www.pilotonline.com/government/article_901653a0-cbcd-11e8-8dd0-0fc51eac1822.html?outputType=amp

https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-called-traitor-by-alt-right-after-democrat-endorsements-2018-10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/25/alt-right-white-supremacists-have-chosen-taylor-swift-as-their-aryan-goddess-icon-through-no-fault-of-her-own/?outputType=amp

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Ep.62 – Kickstarter

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 08:30:58 -0000

This week Jon talks to the boys about everyone's floppy pug called Noodle in the Catch of the Week. We also discuss the ups and downs of crowdfunding, inventions, and picnic side dishes. Join us!

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Ep.61 – Depths of WIkipedia & Neural Net Guesser

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:30:36 -0000

Ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Well so have many people and now theirs Depths of Wikipedia which archives all the weird and and hyper specific articles. We also tried guessing what the neural net guesser bot categorized memes as.

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Ep.60 – No Nut November

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 08:30:58 -0000

It's that time of the year again. The air is crisp, the leaves are changing, and the cozy wardrobe is in regular rotation. So grab a pumpkin spiced latte and curl up next to the fire in your coziest cozy socks and listen to three grown men talking about resisting man handling the ham candle for an hour.

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https://lifehacker.com/what-is-no-nut-november-and-should-you-participate-1847975339 https://twitter.com/alikah/status/1060291473449607168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1060291473449607168%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_2_7%7Ctwcon%5Es1&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetro.co.uk%2F2018%2F11%2F14%2Fwhat-is-no-nut-november-8137643%2F https://education.eddiebygiddy.com/mens-health/no-nut-november-everything-you-should-know

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Ep.59 – Club Penguin

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 07:30:26 -0000

This week we explore what can only be described as a formative experience for a generation that will one day run the world. We felt it pertinent to get to the root of this odd MMO, and take a look at what happened post server shutdown. Spoiler alert: Weird Sex Stuff.

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-shuts-down-club-penguin-clone-2020-5 https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/05/16/why-did-club-penguin-online-shut-down/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDy5oDDBCnI

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Ep.58 – Ozy Media

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:30:42 -0000

OZY media raised millions of dollars in capital and still struggled to turn a profit and avoid criticism. So they tried fraud instead.

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Ep.57 – Spooktober

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 07:30:05 -0000

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Ep.56 – Facebook Crash

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:30:05 -0000

Jon talks to the boys about the Great Facebook Crash of 2021! We take a dive into the 60 Minutes interview by Scott Pelly of Frances Haugen.

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Ep.55 – Parasocial Relationships

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:30:07 -0000

Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships, where one person extends emotional energy, interest and time, and the other party, the persona, is completely unaware of the other's existence. Taylor swift doesn’t actually care about you, specifically.

Also, let's talk about Fat Bear Week.

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Ep.54 – Relentless Doppelganger, Dadabots, & AI Generated Music

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:30:53 -0000

Join us this week as we dive into the world of AI Generated music.

Sources: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-24-7-ai-generated-death-metal-youtube-stream-is-giving-us-anxiety https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-insane-247-livestream-ai-generated-death-metal https://futurism.com/the-byte/brutal-death-metal-neural-network https://dadabots.com/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwnzm7/this-youtube-channel-streams-ai-generated-black-metal-247 https://coolmaterial.com/media/databots-is-an-ai-death-metal-band-streaming-non-stop-on-youtube/ https://www.macobserver.com/link/relentless-doppelganger-death-metal/ Twitter - YouTube Sound effects obtained from zapsplat.com

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Ep.53 – Texas Heartbeat Bill & TikTok Activism

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:30:48 -0000

This week Jon talks to the boys about the TikTok activist working to crash the Texas pro-life tip website. Folks are using some unique tactics and skills to take down this horrible website.

Donate to 20 Organizations Fighting the Texas Abortion Ban and Planned Parenthood

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Ep.52 – Only Fans

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:30:14 -0000

Only Fans banned porn then backtracked. But why did the ban happen in the first place? Some groups are pressuring credit card companies to not work with explicit content providers. And they’re very religious, obviously.

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Ep.51 – Norman - The World's First Psychopath AI

Mon, 06 Sep 2021 07:30:51 -0000

MIT made a psychopathic AI in order to prove how algorithms can be biased by their input data. Come suffer with us as we view the world through Norman's eyes!

Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008 http://norman-ai.mit.edu/ https://www.avclub.com/mit-scientists-created-a-psychopath-ai-by-feeding-it-1826623094 https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/mit-media-lab-normal-ai/index.html

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Ep.50 – #deeptomcruise

Mon, 30 Aug 2021 07:30:32 -0000

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Ep.49 – Technoviking

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:30:53 -0000

Technoviking might be a defender of women but he really doesn’t like it when you profit off his image without permission.

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Ep.48 – The Reaper Lords

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:30:31 -0000

Video games are fun. They should be anyway. The Reaper Lords force their recruits to stand guard in game for hours at a time and verbally abuse them. Yet they get thousands of applicants every year thanks to R* support and some slick promotional materials.

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Ep.47 – Rumblr - Tinder for Fighting

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:30:20 -0000

Join us this week as we get away from talking about our nightmare political landscape here in the US, and focus on the simpler things in life. By simpler things, I mean RUMBLR- the app that allows you to schedule and broadcast fights with/to those in close proximity.

Medium Article By VonHughes

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Ep.46 – Freedom Phone

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:30:22 -0000

Following up last weeks discussion about GETTR we take a look at Freedom Phone, a device that comes with all the classic right-wing apps and more and is definitely not a scam.

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Ep.45 – GETTR - The latest in MAGA Media

Mon, 19 Jul 2021 07:30:45 -0000

Hooooo boy. Join us this week as we take a look at how the MAGA crowd is taking on Big Tech with a direct rip off of Big Tech's format- only worse.

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Ep.44 – #freebritney

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 07:30:28 -0000

freebritney This week Jon and the gang talk about the origin of the viral hashtag that has sparked a conversation about the media's treatment of Britney Spears, possible secret messages in her Instagram posts, and how the fight to end her conservatorship.

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Ep.43 – Financial Domination & Findoms

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:30:58 -0000

Welcome to the wonderful world of Financial Domination! This week we explore a fetish whose popularity skyrocketed during the pandemic.

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Ep.42 – Red Letter Media

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:32:50 -0000

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Ep.41 – TikTok Music

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:30:03 -0000

CASTAWAYS..... WE ARE CASTAWAYS.... This week Jon gets some TikTok songs out of his head and into Kyle and Harland's. Join us as we do a deep dive into a few of the most catchy and viral songs from the past few months.

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Ep.40 – ImJayStation - An Exploration

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:27:38 -0000

References coming soon!

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Ep.39 – Food Hacks and Rick Lax

Mon, 31 May 2021 11:30:00 -0000

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Ep.38 – Wish.com

Mon, 24 May 2021 07:30:27 -0000

You have seen their ads on Instagram and Facebook, now let Jon take you on a journey through some of the craziness that is Wish.com.

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Ep.37 – Y2K - The Millennium Bug

Mon, 17 May 2021 07:30:07 -0000

Join us this week as we take a stroll down memory lane and take a loot at one of our favorite apocalyptic threats to ever face humanity, Y2K.

Bill Clinton makes a guest appearance and serves as a guiding light through these trying times.

Sources: https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/ https://www.britannica.com/technology/Y2K-bug https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/

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Ep.36 – Cheugy

Mon, 10 May 2021 19:36:02 -0000

Every day the internet provides us with new slang. The newest entry; cheugy. And society has beaten like a dead horse within its first week of existence.

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Ep.35 – Josh Fight

Mon, 03 May 2021 07:30:57 -0000

This week Jon talks to the boys about the pool noodle battle royale that is JOSH FIGHT!!! Who will be the ultimate victor and who will have to leave the name Josh behind? Join us and hear the story.

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Ep.34 – Sitting & Smiling

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 07:30:48 -0000

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Ep.33 – Overly Attached Girlfriend - Laina Morris

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:30:29 -0000

Join us this week as we discuss what it's like to become a meme.

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Ep.32 – The Death of Yahoo! Answers

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:30:23 -0000

Rest in peace Yahoo! Answers. We never did get to the bottom of how babby was formed. This week Jon takes the boys on a little trip down memory lane as we revisit some insane questions from the most infamous question and answer forum.

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Ep.31 – Masturbate for Peace

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 07:30:07 -0000

Oh boy! This we talk about Masturbate for Peace, an online peaceful protest.

Sources: Masturbate for Peace VICE Article The Rooster Article

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Ep.30 – Furries

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:30:47 -0000

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Ep.29 – Birds Aren't Real

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:30:09 -0000

This week Jon takes the boys on a trip to an online conspiracy that dates back to the 1970's. Just remember things are not always what they appear. If you have a pet bird at home then listener discretion is advised.

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Ep.28 – Geedis

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 07:30:33 -0000

It started with an enamel pin and a tweet. Soon, it was driving people mad. What is Geedis? Where did they come from? Why does he give off such raw, sexual energy? We explore all that and more and try to get to the bottom of the elusive Geedis.

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Ep.27 – Jenkem

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:30:06 -0000

This week we explore one of the greatest internet hoaxes of all time- Jenkem. Join us as we go through a short history lesson about this disgusting drug that terrorized teen communities around the world...

Sources:

Buzzfeed Wikipedia Twitter - YouTube Sound effects obtained from zapsplat.com

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Ep.26 – The Nugget

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:30:39 -0000

This week, Jon tells the boys about some innocent children's furniture and a mommy Facebook group with a dirty secret. It is exactly what you think it is.

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Ep.25 – The Three Kings Ritual & Shadowside

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:30:00 -0000

Let's get spooky! This week we peer into the darkness of our minds and try to make sense of things. Who is the Queen? Who is the Fool? Who is the King? Tune in and find out!

Sources: Three Kings Corner No Sleep Mind Hacks Caputo Paper

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Ep.24 – Advance Fee Scams

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:30:00 -0000

We've all heard about a Nigerian prince with a boat load of loot he needs help reclaiming. But don't be fooled. He's a liar and a swindler. This is what an advance-fee scam is. And it's got a long storied history dating back to the French Revolution.

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Ep.23 – Cyberpunk 2077

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 08:30:23 -0000

Jon goes into the ups and downs of one of the most anticipated and heavily marketed video games of all time. Cypberpunk 2077 was going to be the pinnacle of gaming and it turned into a meme factory. Let's find out what happened.

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Ep.22 – Hakkar the Soulflayer, Corrupted Blood, & a Virtual Pandemic

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:30:03 -0000

This week we look at a strange event in the history of World of Warcraft.... the Corrupted Blood pandemic. Come learn about a simple coding oversight that halted everything.

Sources: Seattle Times AIER article by Peter C. Earle Wikipedia

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Ep.21 – Quibi

Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:30:11 -0000

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Ep.20 – Parler and the Banning of Trump

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:28:42 -0000

Jon and Harland dive into the dizzying week that we have had since a violent mob stormed our nation's capital, including every social media platform that has banned President Trump. Jon also does a deeper dive into the right-wing platform Parler and its downfall.

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Ep.19 – Activelands, Abandoned Internet Realms, and Hitomi Fujiko

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:28:42 -0000

Here we go! Join us for a stroll through the apocalyptic Activelands, a virtual world well beyond its prime. What strangeness may be lurking amongst the abandoned cyberspace? Fire up the episode and find out.

Vinesauce Video

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Ep.18 – Bronies & the Last Bronycon

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:30:00 -0000

Lots of highs. Lots of lows. But in the end the true Bronies and lovers of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic retook their community and ended it with dignity. John de Lancie can go fuck himself.

The Daily Beast, Kevin Fallon Wired, Angela Watercutter YouTube, Jenny Nicholson

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Ep.17 – Internet Challenges

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:30:49 -0000

You've heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge... you've heard of the Harlem Shake.... but have you heard of the Skullbreaker challenge? Check out this episode of 20,000 Leagues under the Internet as we look into some of the lesser known internet challenges.

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Ep.16 – Elsagate & the Exploitation of the YouTube Algorithm

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:30:00 -0000

Elsagate: A dangerous scam that exploited the YouTube algorithm for cash and traumatized millions of children in the process. We swear this episode is still funny despite the context.

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Ep.15 – Dead Social Media of the Past

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:33:05 -0000

These aren't the best websites, but they sure are dead. Friendster, Path, Periscope. Not ringing any bells? Well, there's good reason. They all made mistakes and were terrible and they're buried six bytes under. Like six feet, but it's bytes. Like data? Get it.

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Ep.14 – Slender Man

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 08:25:59 -0000

How could we not talk about the internet's most famous monster, The Slender Man and his subsequent re-branding. There's a witch hunt, a corporate fumble and our imagining of Slendy's family tree.

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Ep.13 – Internet Memes & Loss by Tim Buckley

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:30:26 -0000

There's a difference between internet memes and plain old memes, one that extends all throughout every culture of the world. We explore memetics and it's units of cultural transmission and mutation and take a brief detour to visit one of the internet's most famous (infamous?) internet memes of the past decade.

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Ep.12 – Ross Ulbricht & The Silk Road

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:30:37 -0000

Buying illicit and illegal items should be easier. And it was for a short time thanks to the Silk Road, the eBay of drugs. We explore Ross Ulbricht's creation and learn that even drug lord masterminds have roommates.

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Ep.11 – Omegaverse Fanfiction & Addison Cain

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 08:30:03 -0000

We all know how specific fan-fiction can be, but we had no idea it could be this specific and this horny and stir up this much litigation across multiple mediums. Harland tries to parse what the hell happened in the battle over Omegaverse copyright and ownership.

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Ep.10 – Grandma Party Hotline

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 20:30:04 -0000

What happens when nicknaming your weed "Grandma" goes too far.

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Ep.9 – Geocaching

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:30:24 -0000

This week we are keeping it wholesome(ish) as we explore the basics of Geocaching and do some first hand investigative work. Things also get a little... weird.

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Ep.8 – Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG)

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:30:59 -0000

We've all been exposed to the Alternate Reality Gaming experience, you probably just didn't know it. We dive into their history and how far people will go for some viral hot dog stand marketing.

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Ep.7 – Mudfloods, Tartaria & Giants

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:30:05 -0000

Our first conspiracy theory that as gained attention and traction thanks to Reddit and Angelfire forums. Apparently, the Tartars built everything and then the flood came. A mud flood. Please hold your poop jokes.

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Ep.6 – John Titor, Time Traveler

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:30:49 -0000

Come join us in the three taco universe for a look at the extraordinary John Titor, a man who should need no introduction. Because he's a time travel, of course.

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Ep.5 – Second Life - Part 2

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:30:11 -0000

Things get dark and surreal in part 2 of our Second Life exploration. We visit Duran Duran Universe, Woodbury University, weird sex dungeons and get kinky with nekos and furries.

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Ep.4 – Second Life - Part 1

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:30:59 -0000

Do you remember Second Life? Well, it's still a thriving community with a rich, dark, absurd history. Join us as we go over the basics of Second Life and brace for the more advanced Second Life experience.

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Ep.3 – Sad Satan

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:30:51 -0000

On this episode of 20,000 Leagues Under the Internet, we take a closer look at the deep web horror game "Sad Satan".

This episode contains adult themes and extreme violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

Sources: TV Tropes , Reddit, Kotaku, Ghost in the Machine, Medium, Tumblr, r/sadsatan

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Ep.2 – Wrinkles the Clown

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:30:00 -0000

Join us in a deep dive into that weird clown phenomena from 2015 and the famous fool who started it all, Wrinkles the Clown.

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Ep.1 – Real Vampires

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:30:56 -0000

Don't get it confused with regular old Dracula vampires you've only read about in books. These vampires are REAL and there are more rules than you'd imagine thanks to the REAL vampire Steven Leighton. You won't be asking "do vampires exist" after you take this stroll with us through the world of Steven Leighton and his vampire hunter friend (which we aren't entirely sure isn't the best romance story of the century).

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