Boy, this one was a lot of fun to do.
"The early Internet was shaped by the attitudes and mindsets of straight white men": Joe Scott and the un-making of Ain't It Cool News
(A conversation with the creator of "Downlow'd: The Rise and Fall of Harry Knowles", the deep dive audio documentary I loved.)
TOPICS INCLUDE: being a character in someone else’s story, the many ways the Internet shapes us, the early Internet being shaped by the attitudes and mindsets of straight white men, disgruntled employees leaking trade secrets to a website, “how people set out to accomplish something on a grand cultural level, only to realize far too late that this success came at a great cost”, the Alamo Drafthouse, attending the Butt-Numb-a-Thon festival as a young movie fan, #MeToo , cancelling powerful people as soon as they’re not powerful anymore, the line between influencers and journalists, how to report on "geek stories” with nuance, the perils of fandom, the monetisation of SPITE and general nastiness, Film Twitter and the Movie Internet at large, nerd culture gone awry, Joel Schumacher, and the lessons one learns writing and producing their first podcast series.
Enjoy.
