Wikipedia's dry oddities become a lively tour of the site's strangest corners.
Annie Rewerda leads ICYMI through Wikipedia's odd, funny corners, where sexually active popes can sit alongside stolen and missing moon rocks.

Internet culture, with the consequences still attached.
ICYMI treats the internet as both a ridiculous place and a serious force. Through brisk interviews, it follows stories about Wikipedia rabbit holes, AI publishing allegations, celebrity backlash, influencer marriage discourse, and celebrity GoFundMe debates.
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ICYMI is Slate's brisk, interview-driven read on internet culture, built for stories that start as posts and end as arguments about how people live now. The show has a dry sense of humor. It can spend time with the strange pleasures of Wikipedia, including goofy page lists and the people who maintain the site's human texture, then pivot to why that messiness matters. It is just as comfortable with messier terrain. Recent episodes look at an AI book scandal in publishing, online suspicion around authorship, and the incentives that can reward a book because it seems sellable before anyone knows whether it is good. Celebrity coverage is not treated as harmless background noise. A Chappell Roan episode uses backlash and fan entitlement to ask why fame still seems to require accepting harassment as normal. The show also has a strong feel for TikTok domestic discourse. Its conversation about the husband-who-seems-to-hate-his-wife genre turns viral clips into a broader look at marriage, embarrassment, safety, and women warning each other in public. It likes a tangent when the tangent explains the mood. That is part of the point. ICYMI often catches the small social behaviors that become rules online, from party etiquette after dating apps to the way social media changes parasocial relationships. It is not only about celebrities or creators. Episodes on Anthropic, Pentagon contracts, surveillance, and autonomous weapons show the same internet-native skepticism applied to AI companies and government power. True-crime coverage gets similar treatment. The show notices when amateur investigation starts to sound less like civic curiosity and more like clickbait suspicion. The result is funny, mildly exasperated, and morally alert. ICYMI suits listeners who want internet stories explained without pretending the internet is either trivial or cleanly separable from real life.
Made for: For listeners who follow online discourse, celebrity backlash, AI unease, fandom, TikTok etiquette, and platform weirdness, but want a sharper frame than the feed provides.
What sets it apart: ICYMI keeps the joke and the harm in the same room. It uses loose, guest-led conversations to turn internet artifacts into cultural diagnosis without sanding off the absurdity.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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ICYMI catches internet chatter at the point where it starts shaping life away from the screen. Kate Lindsey uses guest conversations to examine group-chat labor and changing party etiquette, then follows online behavior into higher-stakes territory such as political…
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Wikipedia's dry oddities become a lively tour of the site's strangest corners.
Annie Rewerda leads ICYMI through Wikipedia's odd, funny corners, where sexually active popes can sit alongside stolen and missing moon rocks.
A viral AI accusation becomes a sharp look at how a self-published book can move into traditional publishing.
ICYMI follows a viral claim about an AI-written novel and uses it to examine how publishing choices get made. Kate Lindsey and Slate contributing writer Imogen West-Knight stay close to the chain of events: a self-published book, a burst of reader enthusiasm, a Hachette pickup,…
Roan, celebrity entitlement, and the internet's habit of treating boundaries like a personal insult.
Kate Lindsay and Josh Lora keep the conversation centered on Roan, the internet's urge to cancel her, and the blunt case she makes against the idea that fame entitles the public to a person's time and access.
A pointed review of how a viral marriage joke becomes a question of safety.
ICYMI starts with a recognizable unhappy-marriage premise: a woman posts about a husband who seems to hate her, and the story moves quickly into the people watching from the comment section.
A sharp, funny look at changing dating etiquette and optional-sounding plans.
It tracks the changing etiquette around flirting, clubwear confidence, and the gamble of asking someone out, and it is sharpest when it stays with the small details: business-casual club fits, the pull of a blazer, and the way maybe-attending culture makes plans feel optional.
A sharp look at Anthropic's government ties and the red lines it drew around surveillance and autonomous weapons.
ICYMI keeps the focus on Anthropic's ties to government work and the line it tried to draw in the Pentagon dispute. The show points out that the company already had a roughly $200 million contract with the Pentagon, so the argument is not coming from an outsider.
Celebrity fundraising becomes a messy lesson in fandom, shame, and who gets to call generosity.
ICYMI turns celebrity GoFundMes into a sharp look at how support and public reaction can tangle online. Kate Lindsey talks with writer Lorena O'Neill, whose reporting on the rise of these fundraisers gives the episode its footing, and the discussion lingers on the uneasy feeling…
A clear look at where crowd sourced sleuthing ends and clickbait begins.
ICYMI looks at internet culture and true-crime spectacle through Kate Lindsey and Luke Winkie, who draw a careful line between useful crowd sourced sleuthing and the louder, clickbait version that turns a case into a manhunt.

Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.





Internet drama, with the receipts in view.
Kate Lindsey talks with Annie Rewerda, the person behind Deps of Wikipedia and an upcoming book with the same name.
Kate Lindsey opens with Slate contributing writer Imogen West-Knight, who is also the author of Deep Down, and digs into a novel that was pulled from publication after the internet alleged it was written by AI.
Kate Lindsay opens with Josh Lora.
Sachi Cole interviews journalist Melanie Hamlet about the trend of women online showcasing their husbands' hateful behavior, using Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard as a case study to explore toxic relationships, patriarchy, and societal pressures in heterosexual marriages.
Host Kate Lindsay interviews sociologist and TikTok creator Josh Laura about his viral Substack post 'the mainstreaming of loserdom,' exploring why people are increasingly staying home, avoiding social plans, and defending isolated lifestyles.
Host Kate Lindsay and guest Tony Ho-Tran discuss how AI company Anthropic became an unlikely 'woke' icon after refusing Pentagon demands for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, sparking backlash from Trump and viral support from users like Katy Perry.
Kate Lindsey opens ICYMI with writer and investigative journalist Lorena O'Neill, who recently wrote about the rise in celebrity GoFundMes.
Kate Lindsay and Luke Winkie discuss the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, exploring how true crime creators and social media have transformed coverage.
The hosts discuss the viral phenomenon of Punch the Monkey, a rejected baby macaque whose sad story captivated the internet, and then award social media medals to the top viral moments from the 2026 Winter Olympics, including a dog interrupting a race and a figure skater's triumphant comeback.
Kate Lindsey interviews Charlie Sosnick about internet subcultures and masculinity, starting with his first internet memory.
Host Kate Lindsay interviews writer Jenna Rue about the internet slang term 'finger princess,' which describes someone who asks easily Google-able questions instead of looking them up.
Kate Lindsey talks with writer Sonia Weiser about the earliest internet memory question she asks every first-time guest.
Kate Lindsay interviews journalist Kat Tenbarge about the troubling trend of memeing the Epstein files, discussing how viral jokes and conspiracies trivialize sexual abuse, silence victims, and hinder accountability.
Host Kate Lindsay interviews Mia Sato about 'slopaganda,' exploring how low-quality, often AI-generated content shapes politics and culture.
A $59 piece of plastic called Brick has become a status symbol for people trying to spend less time on their phones, but the people who love it most can not stop posting about it online.
Kate Lindsay interviews writer Laura Wheatman-Hill about TikTok's new ownership by Trump allies and its impact on the app's algorithm and culture.
Kate Lindsay and guest David Mack dive into three stories of petty internet drama, including the glam bot operator Cole Walliser's cancellation, Brooklyn Beckham's public feud with his parents, and the hypocrisy scandal surrounding podcasters Dan and Chris Powers.
A speculative discussion about a hypothetical reset of internet memes in 2026 and its impact on digital culture.
Kate Lindsey introduces a discussion about Twitter's decline with guest Charlie Worzel, noting recent controversial AI-generated images.
Kate Lindsey introduces an episode about Twitter's decline, recorded before Elon Musk's Rock AI generated sexual images of children, and asks a guest about their first internet memory.
Kate Lindsey interviews Casey Lewis about her newsletter on teen trends and their shared millennial internet memories.
Kate Lindsay and Angelina Matza discuss the viral DemonTok trend on TikTok.