SYOTI: Why Does the Internet Feel Different Now?

About this episode

Kate and Nicole explore fantasy romance books, internet nostalgia, and the future of social media in this episode.

In this week’s episode of See You on the Internet , Kate and Nicole take a tour through fantasy romance books, millennial internet nostalgia, and the cursed future of social media . We kick things off with our current reads (the Red Rising universe, cowboy romances, and Quicksilver ), why some books desperately need more kissing, and where we land on the eternal battle of audiobooks vs. physical books —especially when it comes to fantasy, smut, and memoirs. From there, we detour into our past lives as early-days Twitter addicts , using tweets as group chats, subtweeting with full government names (we clearly have no shame), and why we’re craving a new era of social media that feels more like a friend group chat and less like an ad-filled algorithm slot machine. We also get into AI-generated content , the Vine reboot, what a counterculture “anti-AI” creator movement might look like, and why group chats feel like the last good place on the internet. Of course, it wouldn’t be us without some millennial nostalgia : code names for high school crushes, unhinged nicknames, Candy Crush addiction, Jonas Brothers drama, and a little holiday chat about Friendsgiving. In this episode we talk…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kate, Nicole

Topics covered

• fantasy romance books
• millennial internet nostalgia
• social media
• audiobooks vs. physical books
• AI-generated content
• group chats

Keywords

• fantasy books
• romance
• social media
• audiobooks
• millennial nostalgia
• group chats
• AI content

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Red Rising, Quicksilver, Punk 57, Onyx Storm

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