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Lemmy placeholder and fan community for the Endless Thread podcast. Podcast hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into.untold histories, unsolved mysteries and other wild stories from online communities, collaborating with members of those online communities. Produced by WBUR, Boston's NPR station.

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Comedian, best-selling author and podcaster Jamie Loftus joins hosts Amory and Ben to talk about her latest endeavor: a podcast called Sixteenth Minute (Of Fame). Jamie talks to people "who became briefly notorious on the internet about how it affected their mental health, amongst other things," she says.

Loftus explores the timing and context in which these "main characters" of the Internet, as she calls them, went viral and asks what their virality says about us, the people who helped โ€” made? โ€” them go viral in the first place.

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