Don't Reply To My Wife! Ft. Olga Koch
Added 2021-08-10 13:24:23 +0000 UTCWe're joined this week by friend of the show Olga Koch (@Rocknrolga) to talk about all the weird reply guys she keeps having to deal with in her DMs, and crucially, why Reply Guys have become more and more unhinged. Have the parasocial boundaries simply become more vague and translucent, or have platforms - which encourage us to *constantly reply* to things, mean that the noble art of being a reply guy has been tarnished by wannabes and imitators, unappreciative of the delicate social boundaries reply guys must navigate in order to retain their posting privileges? Hussein posits a theory about Reply Guys: That, as we are now all reply (and quote tweet) guys, the originals have been forced to innovate the form in bizarre, unexpected and overtly crude ways.
We also talk about Flora Gill's "Porn for Children" post, and how it was more powerful and revealing than she knows - and what it illustrates both about hornyposting, and how we talk about sex on the internet more generally, and crucially, all the things we actively choose to be in denial about.
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I have about 300 followers but can rack up 20k likes if I do a half decent reply early to someone else's post before it goes viral. Sometimes I don't even want that level of attention I just had a dumb joke pop into my head and had to post it. Anyway, thanks guys.
Ben
2021-08-13 05:28:38 +0000 UTCI get the whole reply guy thing and defo find it hard to figure out when and if I've gone past that line myself (being neurodivergent doesn't help with this). People aren't always replying to posts to get the original poster's attention though. For someone like myself, with a low follower count, I know if I post a reply to someone with a high follower count it is way more likely to be seen than posting something to my own timeline. It's like bottom feeders (the fish), scavenging for scraps of attention left by the more successful predators.
Ben
2021-08-13 05:23:03 +0000 UTCProud 10k posts reply girl 😎
Rach
2021-08-10 22:18:04 +0000 UTC
