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Internet history with power in the frame.
There Are No Girls on the Internet treats the web as a contested archive, not a neutral machine. Recent episodes move from AI panic in publishing to women’s hidden influence on personal computing and the politics of platform moderation.
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There Are No Girls on the Internet looks at the internet as culture, infrastructure, memory, and battleground. Its center of gravity is power. The show follows who gets credited for shaping technology, who gets punished by platform rules, and who is treated as an afterthought in stories about digital life. Recent episodes suggest a wide editorial range. One week may point at AI anxiety in publishing, from controversy around books to a cancelled novel accused of using AI. Another may move through news-roundup territory, touching tech companies, online parody, fandom behavior, platform bans, trial coverage, and celebrity internet drama. The show is especially strong when it connects current tech fights to older histories. In an episode about Susan Kerr, the conversation turns the early Mac’s icons, fonts, and visual language into evidence of how deeply women shaped personal computing. That episode also broadens into the question of preservation. Physical machines can sit in museums. Interface design, online communities, message-board culture, and fan-built systems can vanish more easily, even when they changed how people live online. The show’s feminist lens is explicit, but the work is concrete rather than slogan-driven. It names sexism as part of the record and then keeps following the material consequences. There is room for internet absurdity. There is also room for anger. The register is conversational, but the editorial stance is disciplined: technology is never just technology, and online culture is never just noise. Bridget Todd is the named figure associated with the show, and the show’s recent archive reflects that mission through news, criticism, and recovered history. It suits listeners who want internet stories with context and stakes. It is especially useful for people who care about AI, publishing, platform governance, women in computing, and the fragile record of digital communities.
Made for: For listeners who follow tech, AI, platform politics, and internet culture but want more than headline churn. It especially suits people interested in feminist tech history and marginalized voices online.
What sets it apart: The show links current digital controversies to longer histories of erasure, preservation, and credit. Its strongest work makes internet drama feel connected to design, labor, memory, and power.
Marginalized voices have always been at the forefront of the internet, yet our stories often go overlooked. Bridget Todd chronicles our experiences online, and the ways marginalized voices have shaped the internet from the very beginning. We need monuments to all of the identities that make being online what it is. So let’s build them.
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A thoughtful case for treating interface design as technology history, centered on Susan Kerr.
Susan Kerr's icons, fonts, and visual language helped make the early Mac feel approachable, even if her name is not as widely known as the technology she shaped.
A TwitchCon assault puts Twitch's security response beside the safety women streamers have been asking for.
The roundup finds its sharpest throughline in the safety concerns women streamers have been raising around public creator events. It moves from warnings by Valkyrie and QT Cinderella to the assault of popular streamer Amiru at a TwitchCon meet-and-greet, where a man rushed up…
SkinnyTok traces how old diet culture keeps resurfacing on newer platforms.
The episode looks at why diet and exercise messages that can glamorize disordered eating keep finding an audience online. Its strength is in treating the problem as older than any one platform: ideas once aimed at women through slogans, family habits, and mass media now move…
Private truths, told under pressure.
Outback lives, told close to the dust.
Rural motherhood, told with grit and care.
Kat Tenbarge tells Bridget Todd that TikTok's "Skinny Talk" is built around extreme thinness, "what I eat in a day" videos, and the idea that thinness is an ideology.
The Tea App, designed for women to vet dates, leaked driver's licenses after a 4chan breach while claiming to empower safety.
Bridget Todd examines Amanda Hirsch's sponsored Polymarket post about the Lindsay Clancy trial after Hirsch had described the case as involving dead children, postpartum illness, and investigative questions.
A news roundup covering Zendaya drama, BAFTAs slur fallout, Sheryl Sandberg's AI focus, a sex pest conviction, Meta's sex toy ban, and an ANTIFA terrorism trial.
Bridget Todd and Dre of the Dre Dossier examine how Mia Ballard's horror novel Shy Girl was canceled by Hachette after Pangram founder Max Spiro reported that a scan found 78% AI-generated text.
This episode discusses the Goodreads scandal that foreshadowed the current AI crisis in publishing, interspersed with promotional segments for other podcasts.
An interview with Karen Hao discussing how Sam Altman is building an empire rather than just a company.
Bridget Todd and Mike examine Drewski’s elaborate Erica Kirk parody, including Grok’s apparent failure to recognize the comedian in costume.
This episode features a discussion about Lindy West's experience with adult braces and whether it was a mistake, interspersed with promotions for other podcasts.
A discussion about Sam Altman's controversial suggestion that people might form intimate relationships with AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
There Are No Girls on the Internet revisits Susan Kerr’s work designing the early Mac’s fonts, icons, and visual language.
The transcript is a promotional ad for multiple iHeart podcasts, not an actual episode about Diddy's acquittal.
This episode discusses Jeffrey Epstein's creepy emails with Harvard and OpenAI's Larry Summers.
A news roundup covering Emiru's attack at TwitchCon, the decline of Tea App, Charlie Kirk's grifters, Spotify ICE ads, and OpenAI's browser memory feature.