One Year: 1995 Hitting the Spot

Decoder Ring by Slate Podcasts

Apr 17, 202657:49Society & Culture

Last week we aired an episode about lonelygirl15, one of the first proper YouTube stars, and perhaps the most famous example of playing around with the boundaries of fiction and truth on the internet. But it was not the...

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