INFLUENCE
What does it really take to make a living (and an impact) on the Internet today?
Join Matt Silverman (who has been covering online culture for 15+ years) in conversation with YouTubers, musicians, podcasters, streamers, journalists, TikTokers and more about turning creativity into a job, building community on ever-changing platforms, and their complex relationships with huge online audiences.
INFLUENCE is the relaunch of 2 GIRLS 1 PODCAST, a weekly comedy/interview show about fascinating online communities, which ran for 7 years and nearly 300 episodes.
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80 Feminist Memes Are a Banner of Social Change...
Humor and empowerment go hand-in-hand.
62 min
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79 How Could Anyone Really Believe the Earth is...
Less science, more social pressure.
74 min
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78 Can Instagram save independent book stores?
#Bookstagram is more than fancy covers and coffee.
44 min
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77 April Fools: 3 Chrome Extensions to Prank Yo...
How to get 20GB of free Butt storage.
70 min
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76 Musketeers: The Global Elon Musk Super Fan N...
Enter the cult of Musk.
53 min
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75 The Power of Parasocial Relationships in the...
How well do you really know your favorite online influencer?
69 min
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74 Transhumanism and the Next Phase of Human Ev...
Immortality might only be a generation or two away.
46 min
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73 Hire This Tinder Ghostwriter If You Suck at ...
Marketing yourself is hard.
59 min
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72 The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
When is a religion a "real" religion?
43 min
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71 Subtle Asian Dating
Matchmaking in the new old-fashioned way.
57 min
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70 This Couple Fell In Love on MySpace and Now ...
Happy Valentine's Day from #2G1P!
51 min
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69 How Facebook Helped a Woman With a Rare Dise...
It's not all doom and gloom on Facebook after all.
59 min
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68 Everything you'll ever say, think, and write...
Get ready to doubt your own free will.
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67 This "scientist" learned what women find att...
The data doesn't lie. Except when it does.
59 min
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66 What the '90s Web Can Teach Us About the Fut...
Fire up your Netscape Navigators!
76 min
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65 How the transgender community found a safe h...
“We view gender as a sledgehammer, but it’s actually a butterfly.”
90 min
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64 This Couple Quit the Internet for 1 Month an...
How to live your best offline life.
73 min
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63 Getting Plastic Surgery to Match Your Filter...
A healthier outlook or a worrying trend?
82 min
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62 The 'Universal Language' of Esperanto Is Thr...
Finding common ground through common words.
73 min
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61 How 3D Printing Is Transforming the Board Ga...
The rise of creative commons objects.
67 min
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60 How One Guy Tricked the Internet Into Thinki...
"Maybe we trust what we read online more than what we put in our mouths."
75 min
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59 Creepypasta and the Evolution of Internet Ho...
From urban legends to Slender Man.
68 min
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58 Meet the unlikely duo fighting Facebook's ra...
Not all heroes wear capes.
70 min
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57 Will Sex Robots Ever Replace Your Human Part...
BEEP BOOP oh yeah BOOP BEEP
69 min
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56 Inside the terrifying rabbit hole of messed-...
From the Finger Family to Elsa peeing on Spider-man.
67 min