BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer
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BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer
BuzzFeed editors Ryan Broderick and Katie Notopoulos explore the weirdest corners of the internet, so you don't have to.
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78 episodesI Feel Personally Attacked By This Relatable Content
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 wor...
2018 Predictions: We Subsist Only on Tide Pods
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'...
Grabbing A Cold One With The Boys
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. T...
The Worst Things On The Internet in 2016
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 ye...
Werner Herzog Loves Cat Videos Too
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'...
Is Beyonce Holding Sia Captive?
...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...
Politics Is Out-Weirding The Internet
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.
Dicks Out For Harambe
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...
Everything Is Terrible Except For Pokémon Go (Maybe)
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-mou...
How A Teen Uncovered The Internet's Weirdest Catfish *RERUN*
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 o...
Are Emojis Actually A Language?
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 T...
What Happens When A Stan Retires?
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 retir...
Why Hoaxes Will Never Die
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 f...
How Parentheses Became a Symbol for Hate Speech
Katie and Ryan talk to Cooper Fleishman and Anthony Smith about the punctuation mark that antisemites are using on Twitter and other platforms to targ...
Who The Hell is Jacob Sartorius?
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...
Slack To The Future
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.
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Our Complicated Feelings About Thirsty Male Allies
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...
Where Do Memes Go To Die?
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...
Blackness and The Meme Cycle
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.
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Grace Helbig Smells New York
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...
Joanne The Scammer Is A Messy Bitch Who Lives For Drama
This promposal season, we talk to Joanne the Scammer aka Branden Miller, whose character Joanne the scammer has inspired robber *and* fraud.
The Official Another Round Drunken Summit
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 K...
1999: The Years That Changed The Internet
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 rea...
2005: The Years That Changed The Internet
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 A...
2010: The Years That Changed The Internet
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.
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"I Sent Porn to the Entire Company" & Other Horrors
We've all hit send too quickly. That massive embarrassment is part of the human experience! Katie and Ryan tell their worst workplace email/chat disas...
Japan's Most Viral Teen is Blazing A Path for Young Girls
Reika Oozeki's silly antics on Vine just may be upending the constricting structure of fame in Japan. And the furry community is very into Disney's Zo...
Who Is Making Trap Remixes of the Whitest Songs?
Katie and Ryan discuss their theories on Ted Cruz being the zodiac killer. Then, BuzzFeed writer Grace Spelman plays a very important fart game. And t...
Fandom Culture is a Superpower
Damnnnn Daniel, Katie and Ryan are back at it again. They talk to BuzzFeed Geeky editor Krutika Mallikarjuna and Sam Maggs, author of the Fangirl's Gu...
Meet the Paypigs Who Get Off on Being Hacked
Katie and Ryan introduce listeners to the world of financial domination, where men pay just to have money taken from them. Ryan and Katie talk to a su...
When Teens Strike Back
Katie and Ryan follow a tip about a fake Twitter account and it leads them to a group of angry pop music superfans. Plus, BuzzFeed Russia's Victor Ste...
The Internet's Weirdest Catfish is Back
Remember the tale of the Internet's most bizarre musical catfish? Well, she's back and Katie is looking into all FIVE of the accounts this catfisher u...
The Mystery of Michael Jackson & Sonic Has Been Solved
Katie talks to writer Todd Van Lulling, who finally solved the mystery of whether or not Michael Jackson wrote the music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Rya...
Can A Dickpic Ever Be Good?
Katie is joined by guest host Summer Anne Burton and two experts in the field of dickpics: penis photographer Soraya Doolbaz and Madeleine Holden of "...
Ghost Sex and Chill
This week, our two enlightened guests, Katie Heaney and Arianna Rebolini try very hard to fuck some ghosts and ask a time-honored question: is ghost s...
Making a GRATATA: The Bryan Silva Story
Ryan and Katie tell the tale of viner/gay porn star/rapper/bodybuilderpreneur Bryan Silva, who was arrested in the only way you could imagine: with hi...
We Took A Gourmet Chef To Try McDonald's New Burger Robot
Sarah Sanneh is the head chef at New York City's Pies And Thighs and has previously worked at places like Magnolia Bakery, The Biltmore Room, Diner, M...
Are The Siblings In That Folgers Ad Doing It?
You know that Folgers ad where the brother comes home from "West Africa" and it definitely seems like he and his sister are doing it? Yeah, that.
The Worst Things on the Internet of 2015
Katie and Ryan reveal the weirdest things the internet has produced in the year of our lord Kevin the Minion 2015 alongside friend of the podcast Cate...
Meet the Shero Who Buttchugged Cough Medicine
It's that time of year, when Katie and Ryan celebrate the worst things on the internet of 2015. With help from guests Freakmommy the virgin recluse de...