Panic World
Jul. 29th, 2025 07:21 amWhat happened to Kanye?
https://pod.link/1740187810/episode/d3296dfdc71b51c6bf8143bb88ebe497
Akilah Hughes joins the podcast to discuss whether Kanye West has always been a mirror to the American zeitgeist, and what's wrong with all of us.
Panic World is a podcast about how internet culture has affected mainstream society, and I’ve been enjoying it so far. The quality of the episodes is variable depending on the guests, but I like this one. Hughes makes an argument that I agree with, which is basically that the “everyone has a voice” quality of the internet was great up until around 2016 or so, when many of us realized that the “silent majority” (of people with unfortunate political opinions) perhaps should have remained silent.
Along the same lines, the recent “What happened to JK Rowling” episode (here) is quite good as well. This episode isn’t saying anything that people who spend a lot of time on Tumblr don’t already know, but it’s good to hear the story presented as a cohesive narrative in the context of the broader conservative shift in people who formerly identified as progressives.
https://pod.link/1740187810/episode/d3296dfdc71b51c6bf8143bb88ebe497
Akilah Hughes joins the podcast to discuss whether Kanye West has always been a mirror to the American zeitgeist, and what's wrong with all of us.
Panic World is a podcast about how internet culture has affected mainstream society, and I’ve been enjoying it so far. The quality of the episodes is variable depending on the guests, but I like this one. Hughes makes an argument that I agree with, which is basically that the “everyone has a voice” quality of the internet was great up until around 2016 or so, when many of us realized that the “silent majority” (of people with unfortunate political opinions) perhaps should have remained silent.
Along the same lines, the recent “What happened to JK Rowling” episode (here) is quite good as well. This episode isn’t saying anything that people who spend a lot of time on Tumblr don’t already know, but it’s good to hear the story presented as a cohesive narrative in the context of the broader conservative shift in people who formerly identified as progressives.