Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Sixteenth Minute exclusive! We’ve got the first in depth interview with Bryan Gaw, aka the Left Shark himself. 

This week, Jamie revisits the 2015 Super Bowl saga that was Left Shark — the costumed cartilaginous fish that went rogue in 2015 beside Katy Perry during a chorus of ‘Teenage Dream,’ capturing the world’s heart. The person inside is just as lovable, and Jamie takes the bus to West Hollywood to meet dancer-turned-celebrity-stylist Bryan Gaw to revisit one of the internet’s few wholesome moments. 

Plus… ELLLLLVIS PRESTOOOO

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And here: https://www.instagram.com/bryangaw

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This week, the curvy wife saga concludes. Jamie talks to Cate Navarrete of the Body Positivity Alliance and Tigress Osborn of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance about where this moment falls in the decades-long history of fat activism, and how mainstream media narratives tend to depoliticize civil rights issues. Also, Jamie mumbles the lyrics to "Hot Wife" by curvy wife guy to herself. Also, Jamie learns what "hotwife" means. *airhorn*

Learn about NAAFA here: https://naafa.org/

Follow Tigress here: https://www.instagram.com/iofthetigress/?hl=en

Learn about the Body Positivity Alliance here: https://bodypositivealliance.org/

Learn about Cate here: https://bodypositivealliance.org/team-and-board/cate-navarrete

Read Tigress's original essay here: https://naafa.org/blog-archive/black-history-always

For more on the history of fat activism and body positivity, start here (curated by the amazing Aubrey Gordon of Maintenance Phase!): https://www.yourfatfriend.com/fat-reading-list

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In the summer of 2021, hundreds of Black TikTokers went on strike and demanded proper credit and compensation for dances they made famous. Why? Because, the most famous TikTokers of the pandemic, white teens Charli D'Amelio and Addison Rae, had become extremely famous off of Black choreographers Jalaiah Harmon, Keara Wilson, and others' work -- a continuation of age-old appropriation and theft. Jamie talks with Savage dance creator Keara Wilson, commentator Amanda Bennett, and algorithmic scientist Meredith Broussard to take a closer look at the impact of this moment, and how social media is designed to amplify racism.

Follow Keara Wilson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@keke.janajah?lang=en

Follow Amanda Bennett here: https://defineandempower.com/our-team

Buy Meredith's book here: https://meredithbroussard.com/books/

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In November 2022, one Philadelphia man took it upon himself to eat a rotisserie chicken every day for forty days. Why? Jamie flew across the country, went to his house, and interrogated him.

Follow Alex here: https://x.com/AlexiconTom

Get Raw Dog here while you're at it: https://bookshop.org/p/books/raw-dog-the-many-histories-of-hot-dogs-jamie-loftus/18785131?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyJqzBhBaEiwAWDRJVD9r1z2NOcI0CT3yvq3h68RY6tW9BdoKm7dkRjMrcr7rLlCOYNwtsRoCks8QAvD_BwE

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If a tree falls in the garden where a woman enjoys drinking coffee with her husband and no one’s there to hear it, should the Internet harass her anyway? In 2022, Daisey sent one innocuous tweet that launched a thousand takes.

Follow Taylor Lorenz: @TaylorLorenz on all platforms 
Follow Julia Claire: @ohJuliatweets / @juliaclairegrams
Follow Bridget Todd: @BridgetMarie on twt / @bridgetmarieinc on insta 

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In the summer of 2023, a Boston cop humiliated himself by tumbling down a public slide in the most embarrassing way possible. This week, Jamie tries to find his pig ass, and admits her background as a Terminally Boston Woman.

Interviews with Molly Conger and Jeff Raymond.

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https://x.com/socialistdogmom 

Follow Jeff: 
https://www.masstransparency.org/author/jraymond/ 

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In 2015, the world was gripped by one question: is this dress black and blue, or white and gold? No, no, I refuse to argue with you about it — but the story of The Dress is the dying breath of a pre-algorithm driven social media, the peak of Buzzfeed, and contains some dark truths about the internet.

Featuring interviews with Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz), author of Extremely Online and Max Fisher (@maxfisher22), author of The Chaos Machine. 

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This week, it's Kelly and Antoine Dodson's sixteenth minute — Jamie interviews Professor Gabriel Peoples, author of 'The Forgotten Kelly Dodson: Viral Performance and the Interplay of Excess and Erasure' about what happens when someone is erased from their own story.

https://gender.indiana.edu/about/faculty/peoples-gabriel.html

Read "The Forgotten Kelly Dodson": The Forgotten Kelly Dodson

Follow Antoine Dodson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@antoinedodson34

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This week, it's Antoine and Kelly Dodson's sixteenth minute — Jamie interviews Antoine about the 'bed intruder' saga of 2010.

Read "The Forgotten Kelly Dodson": The Forgotten Kelly Dodson

Follow Antoine Dodson here: https://www.tiktok.com/@antoinedodson34

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Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) is a weekly show that gives a sixteenth minute of fame to the Internet's most notorious characters of the day. Jamie Loftus talks to the characters themselves, and tries to get to the bottom of how they made it to the top of your feed for a fleeting moment -- and what that does to warp your brain.

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