#65 Annie Rauwerda (Depths of Wikipedia): Living statues, #NotAllBots, the Holy Trinity Bikini

When her college internship was canceled by the COVID-19 shutdown in spring 2020, Annie Rauwerda had a lot of unexpected time on her hands. And instead of learning to bake bread or speak Esperanto, she began curating weird and amusing things she found on Wikipedia. Two years later, Depths of Wikipedia has more than 1.5 million followers combined across Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok . That success means walking a fine line: Annie wants to celebrate Wikipedia's oddities and encourage her followers to edit pages, but not to intentionally contribute false info or "bad writing for the sake of humor." "Sometimes I'll post something and then it'll start getting vandalized a bunch," she says. "Like when I posted the List of Mammals Displaying Homosexual Behavior — don't do this, by the way — people started editing it to add in their name. It's funny, I guess, for two seconds, but then you just feel bad." Today on Follow Friday, Annie shares some great follow recommendations: Meta-influencer Harry Hill (@veryharryhill on Twitter , Instagram, and TikTok ); Twitter bots such as @NYT_first_said , @ResNeXtGuesser , and @AceCourtBot ; post-ironic Catholic Instagram pages such as @ineedgodineverymomentofmylife and @praying ; and TikTok aggregator Leia Jospe (@favetiktoks420 on Instagram). And on Follow Friday's Patreon page , you can unlock an extended version of this interview in which Annie shares a bonus follow recommendation! Thank you to our amazing patrons: Jon, Justin, Amy, Yoichi, Danielle, Elizabeth, and Sylnai. We'll be off next week for the 4th of July weekend in the US, and will be back on Friday, July 8th. Also : Follow Annie: @anniierau on Twitter, @annierau on Instagram, and @anniierau on TikTok Follow Depths of Wikipedia: @depthsofwiki on Twitter, @depthsofwikipedia on Instagram and TikTok

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This episode was published on Jun 24, 2022.

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