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New Website and Staff Changes at Reply All
TLDR Reply All announces a new website called replyall.fyi to inform listeners of new episodes, but due to staff changes and babies being born, they will be publishing slightly less frequently.
Timestamped Summary
00:00
The hosts announce a new website called replyall.fyi that will inform listeners if there is a new episode of the show each week, but also mention that due to staff changes and babies being born, they will be publishing slightly less frequently.
04:36
The first harbinger of the end of the world is the trend of people joking about eating Tide Pods, which has escalated to people actually preparing and eating them.
08:53
People started joking about eating Tide Pods on YouTube, which led to teenagers actually eating them and ending up in the hospital because laundry detergent is poisonous.
13:07
The origin of the "Ugandan Knuckles" meme starts with a director in Uganda named Isaac Nabwana who made low-budget action movies, and an American guy named Alan who discovered the movies after getting dumped and feeling heartbroken.
17:10
An American guy named Alan moved to Uganda to make low-budget action movies with director Isaac Nabwana, and they now have a company called Hollywood together, which gained some internet fame and led to the creation of the "Ugandan Knuckles" meme.
21:13
Logan Paul and his brother Jake are American teenagers who gained fame on Vine and YouTube for their stunts and have a massive following of teenagers, comparable to the Beatles, but they have to constantly top themselves to maintain their popularity.
25:09
Logan Paul, a popular YouTuber, faced backlash and controversy after posting a video in which he filmed a dead body in a Japanese suicide forest, causing outrage among his millions of teenage viewers.
29:07
The hosts discuss the concept of pestilence and how it relates to a viral internet meme involving a clip from an old cartoon, and then transition into talking about PewDiePie's controversial actions and his response to Logan Paul's controversy.
33:48
PewDiePie uses Logan Paul's controversy to criticize YouTube's moderation and creates a viral video called "YouTube Touched a My Spaghetti," which leads to the spread of a niche meme.
38:18
The episode ends with a humorous skit about creating a new internet free of spam and offensive content.
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