I Feel Personally Attacked By This Relatable Content (01:09:05)
In the grand randomly timed tradition of Internet Explorer, we're back! This time, Katie and Ryan discuss how not even Facebook understands how it works anymore, what's wrong with Gushers, and Ryan ma...
2018 Predictions: We Subsist Only on Tide Pods (00:39:47)
Ok, Katie and Ryan didn't actually eat the Tide pods, but they discuss predictions for 2018 with their best friend and yours, Cates Holderness. There's some reflecting, a bunch of predictions, but mos...
Grabbing A Cold One With The Boys (00:30:11)
Your two favorite trolls, Katie and Ryan, are back to discuss what the heck happened to the internet in the year since Internet Explorer last aired. There's Nazis, furries, YouTube Stars, and things t...
The Worst Things On The Internet in 2016 (01:20:52)
Ryan and Katie are back! Surprise! In this one-off holiday spectacular, you can listen to all the disgusting things people did on the internet this year without having to look at it.
Long-time friend...
Werner Herzog Loves Cat Videos Too (00:43:57)
Holy frick! Fancy-pants genius filmmaker Werner Herzog talks to Katie this week about harambe, robots, the internet, teens and so much more. Also, we'll have an update from Ryan, who's in Rio covering...
Is Beyonce Holding Sia Captive? (00:32:45)
...uh, probably not, but Brazilians are pretty psyched about the conspiracy theory behind it. And Ryan should know! He's in Brazil where things going the way of the This Is Fine dog.
Meanwhile, Kati...
Politics Is Out-Weirding The Internet (00:48:50)
This week's a big one! Katie and Ryan get together IRL to talk political conspiracy theories and to remember Harambe once again, of course.
Katie debunks the conspiracy about Trump's alleged speech ...
Dicks Out For Harambe (00:33:49)
The world is still shit, but Katie and Ryan are reunited and they're out of their gourds on #content. This week (and everywhere) Katie and Ryan revel in the true joy that is Pokémon Go, and they do a ...
Everything Is Terrible Except For Pokémon Go (Maybe) (00:26:55)
Hold still there's a Charmander behind you Yes, Pokémon Go is very much happening. Katie is off this week, but Ryan has awesome guest co-host Gena-mour Barrett on the show to talk about all that is aw...
How A Teen Uncovered The Internet's Weirdest Catfish *RERUN* (00:34:39)
Meet Lucia Cole. She's a new pop star with music on Spotify, Tidal, and iTunes. She has a Twitter and Instagram and she's even been interviewed. The only problem? She's a catfish.
This week, Katie a...
Are Emojis Actually A Language? (00:30:47)
This week we're asking one of the fundamental questions of our time. Ryan is away, but Katie sits down with future emoji-Pulitzer winner and Senior Tech Writer Charlie Warzel to mine the shadowy dept...
What Happens When A Stan Retires? (00:36:49)
A stan is a superfan who defends a celeb at all costs. Myleeza Mingo has been obsessed with Kim Kardashian for over a decade, but she's about to retire.
What happens when a person whose identity is ...
Why Hoaxes Will Never Die (00:33:14)
Congrats! You've been fooled into the biggest hoax of all time: this podcast. On week's episode, we find out why fake news is irresistible with help from Craig Silverman, founding editor of BuzzFeed C...
How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech (00:36:23)
Katie and Ryan talk to Cooper Fleishman and Anthony Smith about the punctuation mark that antisemites are using on Twitter and other platforms to target their harassment. It's weird, but that goes wit...
Who The Hell is Jacob Sartorius? (00:30:45)
He's a 13-year-old kid who is forging his path to stardom by using a lip-syncing app called musical.ly. Welcome to the Teen Industrial Complex in 2016.
Katie and Ryan talk through teen topics, then s...
Slack To The Future (00:31:17)
Slack bills itself as a messaging app for teams, but Katie and Ryan aspire to live in a world where it's a messaging app for... memes.
This week we tried an experiment where we made a Slack that any...
Our Complicated Feelings About Thirsty Male Allies (00:33:28)
There's no thirst quite like that of a male ally looking for a cookie, and this week we go deep into the world of performative male feminism. Michael Blackmon, a BuzzFeed writer whose post about Matt ...
Where Do Memes Go To Die? (00:27:09)
It's time to talk memes. Friend of the show Brian Feldman, of the NY Magazine blog Select All, stops in to share his talents as memeologist with Katie and Ryan. We learn what loss.jpg is, how apologet...
Blackness and The Meme Cycle (00:33:17)
Katie and Ryan are joined by Doreen St. Felix and Niela Orr to talk about how race and cultural appropriation play out as memes spread.
And our favorite scammer, Joanne, aka Branden Miller was scamm...
Grace Helbig Smells New York (00:31:26)
Queen of Youtube Grace Helbig stops in to chat with Katie and Ryan about her latest project, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl this week guyssss!! Ryan also tells the world about an insane conspiracy theory...
Joanne The Scammer Is A Messy Bitch Who Lives For Drama (00:28:51)
This promposal season, we talk to Joanne the Scammer aka Branden Miller, whose character Joanne the scammer has inspired robber *and* fraud.
Then, Katie and Ryan make sure you are all up to date on ...
The Official Another Round Drunken Summit (00:41:32)
It's a crossover episode! To celebrate a year of BuzzFeed podcasts, Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu of Another Round talk to Ryan (who is in NY!) and Katie about the toughest questions the internet can...
1999: The Years That Changed The Internet (00:39:36)
To close out our 3 part series, we go back to 1999 and talk to the internet's greatest monster: the man who invented Microsoft's Clippy (jk he's a really nice guy named Kevan Atteberry). We hear from ...
2005: The Years That Changed The Internet (00:45:02)
For part 2 of our series, we go back to 2005 and talk to some pretty big personalities. Tila Tequila and Perez Hilton join us, along with BuzzFeed’s Anne Helen Petersen and the internet's foremost Til...
2010: The Years That Changed The Internet (00:47:08)
In part 1 in our special series, Katie and Ryan look at what 2010 meant to the internet at large and conjure up a few ghosts of internet past.
Damien Leonhardt talks to Katie and Ryan about what it ...
