Taylor Swift’s wedding and the latest BookTok drama
This week Lucy Reade and James Ball talk about the highly controversial wedding of global megastar Taylor Swift, as well as the latest BookTok drama.
PODCASTS
Touching Grass
In online culture, to tell someone to touch grass is an encouragement to get off their screen and get back in touch with reality. In this podcast, The New World’s Gen Z-er Lucy Reade and Millennial James Ball try to explain what’s happening on the internet to people with much healthier lives – and each other. Expect confusing discourse, culture wars and bizarre influencer scandals.
Episodes
Chargebacks and time blindness
In this week’s episode, James Ball delves into the terrible TikTok advice on how to commit credit card fraud via chargeback, and Lucy Reade unpacks the internet discourse surrounding whether perpetual lateness is a moral failing or a disability
Starmtroopers over here, Looksmaxxers over there
This week, Lucy Reade tells us about the cult of the Starmtroopers and how they’re coping with the prime minister’s departure, while James Ball discusses why the online Looksmaxxers need some serious lessons in biology.
Should the UK government be banning social media for under-16s?
This week is A Very Special Episode ™️, as Lucy Reade and James Ball discuss the recent UK government announcement that social media will be banned for under-16s