SCOUT· 61%1h 08m·2026-10-20·Arts CulturePart One: How Nuisance Streamers and Rage-Baiting Ate the Internet
How did nuisance streaming and rage-baiting rise to dominate the internet? Robert traces the unsettling devolution and its consequences for guest Jason Pargin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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“30:30 Maybe it's because I'm also old as an elder millennial, but I cannot wrap my head around WANTING to be an influencer. I'm perfectly content to clock out at the end of my shift at work and be myself instead of the person I have to pret…”
“Good episode, but it doesn't really get into the cross-polination that began before streaming took off. I think a lot of this began with prank videos from the late 2000s, or the early-to-mid '10s. They started simply enough; people would se…”
“One thing that Snowcrash didn't predict was the attention economy, or much of the entertainment economy. The Gargoyles make money by selling their panoptic surveillance to the CIA, who then sell it to corporations. Whereas in reality being…”
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