# notes --- - [[{1.2a2e1} kayfabe content]] # summary --- Broderick brings up a trend that I've noticed peripherally: there is an increasing amount of "podcast clips" that are going viral. One recent viral clip was of a woman talking about having sex with her partner 6-7 times a day. It looks like a woman being interviewed on a podcast -- in that there is a microphone in front of her, and it looks like she's talking to someone off-camera. She isn’t; the whole thing is fake. He calls this kind of thing [[{1.2a2e1} kayfabe content]], or content that is staged but presented, and possibly consumed, as genuine. # highlights --- > Essentially, there are a bunch of content creators — mostly weird Gen Z hustlebros — who set up a microphone and talk into it as if it were a podcast and then turn the footage into short TikTok clips. My theory is that the podcast mic during the time of COVID has evolved into a visual signal of importance, sort of like how during the era of peak TED Talk, a bunch of guys would film themselves on stages, add some inspirational music, and then post it to Facebook. If there’s a mic in front of you, I assume the logic goes, it means you’re important enough to record. >Look, if a cringe Snape wife wants to have a lame Pinterest wedding with her misogynist soyjak Reddit husband I actually don’t think that needs to be a trending topic. I’m sure they’re a fun couple to go to Buffalo Wild Wings with. And if it was her actual wedding photographer that kicked all of this off in the first place, I would literally consider suing him for emotional distress. Though, I suppose using said distress to sell sex toys complicates things. But I honestly just don’t think we’re meant to live this much in public. Weddings, like most big moments in people’s lives, are weird and personal and complicated and probably not really meant for this level of mass consumption