The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Leave Britney Alone? Because TikTok Correspondents Are Turning Us All Into Monstrous Tabloid Journalists

The Sleepover Club: Why Can't We Leave Britney Alone? Because TikTok Correspondents Are Turning Us All Into Monstrous Tabloid Journalists

Britney Spears is once again the focus point of internet gossip. The conspiracy theories grow more outlandish by the minute; from the pop star having a body double, to her husband placing her in a new conservatorship and pushing the star in front of a green screen to create Instagram content. But unlike in the early 00s, we now all have the ability to comment, dissect, and tear apart celebrities behaviour. No longer is the worst person online Perez Hilton, because millions of us on TikTok are elongating his legacy; using celebrities pain to generate engagement and boost our own profiles. Are we sleepwalking into another nightmare, in which marginalised celebrities are treated with no regard for their wellbeing? Ione and Eden discuss.


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The Sleepover Club: Instagram Is In It's Flop Era

The Sleepover Club: Instagram Is In It's Flop Era

For the last five years, we've all collectively been lamenting the downfall of instagram. First, they took our chronological feed. Then, they pivoted to Reels. But as we all become increasingly exhaus...

9 Touko 202229min

The Sleepover Club: The Limits Of Lived Experiences - Should Marginalised People Be The Only Ones To Tell Their Stories?

The Sleepover Club: The Limits Of Lived Experiences - Should Marginalised People Be The Only Ones To Tell Their Stories?

Lived experience is a debate that comes up time and time again in our cultural landscape - should only gay people play gay roles on-screen? Should white people be able to tell people of colours storie...

2 Touko 202228min

The Sleepover Club: We Need To Talk About Nepotism Babies

The Sleepover Club: We Need To Talk About Nepotism Babies

Why does every famous person have even more famous parents? This week we're delving into why nepo babies still have such a stronghold on our culture. Is talent genetic or are we just overly obsessed w...

25 Huhti 202231min

The Sleepover Club: How Social Media Aestheticised Loneliness

The Sleepover Club: How Social Media Aestheticised Loneliness

Independence is sold to us as a necessity, as YouTubers and TikTok stars emphasise the need for being an individualist and having your own space. But can promoting isolation ever be dangerous? Are we ...

18 Huhti 202229min

The Sleepover Club: Do We Have The Ability To Find Anything Funny Anymore?

The Sleepover Club: Do We Have The Ability To Find Anything Funny Anymore?

Forget middle aged, white cis male comedians telling us they've been cancelled. While they all hopefully disappear into irrelevance, how we approach humour as a generation is coincidentally changing. ...

11 Huhti 202230min

The Sleepover Club: Why Being A Hater Is So Much Fun

The Sleepover Club: Why Being A Hater Is So Much Fun

Being a hater is the one thing none of us are happy to admit to. But with a wave of new TikTok trends normalising our tendencies to be nasty little cows, Ione and Halima are asking the question, is be...

4 Huhti 202226min

The Sleepover Club: Goblin Mode Captures The Mood Of The Moment

The Sleepover Club: Goblin Mode Captures The Mood Of The Moment

This week we're joined by Polyester socials editor and regular podcast guest Eden Young to dissect the mood of the moment, Goblin mode. Call it going feral, call it whatever you want, but we're all ob...

28 Maalis 202227min

The Sleepover Club: What Our Infatuation With Scammers Says About Us

The Sleepover Club: What Our Infatuation With Scammers Says About Us

2019 may have been the year of the scam, but its in 2022 in which we're seeing all of these infamous stories played out on our tv screens. From Anna Delvey's plight to open a members club and Elizabet...

21 Maalis 202230min

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