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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56 Inside the terrifying rabbit hole of messed-...
From the Finger Family to Elsa peeing on Spider-man.
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55 Composer Kevin MacLeod Somehow Makes a Livin...
Creative Commons and the weird world of digital music rights.
58 min
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54 How Tay Zonday survived being 'Patient Zero'...
Some stay dry and others feel the pain.
74 min
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53 Botnik's Algorithms Create TV Shows and Harr...
Beware the Singularity.
67 min
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52 Bad Dragon: The Marriage of High Fantasy Art...
What would a dragon dick actually look like?
67 min
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51 The Birth of Online Dating
The '90s. An Email. And a dream.
68 min
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50 Re-inventing porn for women is more complica...
What women really want from the erotic Internet.
53 min
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49 This guy ate 100,000 calories in 4 days and ...
The rise of competitive eating.
70 min
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48 Where Do Emoji Come From?
And how can we make them more inclusive?
61 min
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47 YouTube's Survivalist Community Is Prepping ...
It's never too late to be prepared.
52 min
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46 The Women Editing Thousands of Wikipedia Art...
There's still a long way to go.
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45 Twitter Is the Last Social Network Left for ...
Twitter lets it all hang out.
67 min
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44 The Grandma Guildmaster of Ultima Online
Journalist by day. Sky Wolfbane by night.
75 min
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43 Rise of the Airbnb Superhost
♫ What a way to make a living. ♫
79 min
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42 Bronies: Combating toxic masculinity, one Li...
Internet friendship is magic.
75 min
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41 Bug Facebook: The Unlikely Social Media Home...
Super cute or super gross?
61 min
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40 Ecosexuality: Because Mother Earth is the ho...
Beware the bark burn.
64 min
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39 Who is Chuck Tingle? Meet the charming king ...
Pounded in the butt by our own podcast.
68 min
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38 The psychological price we pay for social media
And the importance of separation.
66 min
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37 Jediism: A Star Wars religion for your real ...
Meditation. Training. And The Force.
76 min
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36 Ten facts about internet history you probabl...
It's time for a trivia showdown.
74 min
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35 This AI-hosted podcast is here to kill us all
Can algorithms tell compelling human stories?
71 min
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34 Who snopes Snopes?
Keeping up in the era of fake news overload.
53 min
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33 Reviewing airport carpets is the highest for...
Do you have what it takes to become a Carpeteer?
66 min
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32 The hidden cost of the exploding "Gig Economy"
A flexible future or tragic dystopia?
72 min