Angel Vic and the truth about hustle culture
It's the latest example of an influencer's digital persona disintegrating before our eyes. For several years, Angel Victoria Murdock has been portraying a life of self-made success, from real estate d...
4 Sep 34min
Lindsay Clancy and the age of TikTok trials
A Massachusetts jury are deliberating in the shocking case of Lindsay Clancy, a mother who admits to killing her three young children amid suffering, her lawyers argue, extreme post-partum psychosis. ...
27 Aug 38min
Everybody wants to be Ellie Ellis
How did a 16-year-old girl with no prior online presence manage to gain more than 700k TikTok followers within a week of her first post? On this episode, we discuss the theories behind Ellie Ellis' un...
21 Aug 38min
Exposed: the faceless accounts inflaming the Ceuta crisis
After roughly 78,000 migrants made the journey from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in a matter of hours at the end of July, reporters across the world were quick to identify the role of socia...
14 Aug 30min
A grievance syndicate is defrauding young men
The manosphere is just the tip of the iceberg - that's the premise of a new report, shared exclusively with Top Comment, about the so-called male grievance industry. Its author, Kristina Wilfore, has ...
7 Aug 33min
The vigilante streamers destroying reputations on Kick
From chasing pickpockets to unmasking predators, vigilantism has become one of the biggest trends on social media. On this episode Matt and Marianna discuss how the age of streaming has added a new la...
30 Jul 35min
Andrew Tate is blaming the Matrix again
Manosphere kingpin Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in the US over the weekend after British authorities announced dozens of new charges against the pair, including rape and sex traff...
23 Jul 31min
Erling Haaland, crypto billionaires, and the foxes incident
You may already think crypto is overexposed online, but is what we're experiencing just the tip of the iceberg? On this episode, Matt talks about his new BBC documentary in which he meets some of the ...
16 Jul 39min
