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Lemmy placeholder and fan community for the Endless Thread podcast. Podcast hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into.untold histories, unsolved mysteries and other wild stories from online communities, collaborating with members of those online communities. Produced by WBUR, Boston's NPR station.

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Looking for a man in finance and finding a record deal: How memes become pop hits (www.wbur.org)
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In April, a TikTok creator mused, "Did I just write the song of the summer?" Girl on Couch's "Looking for a man in finance" song spawned hundreds of remixes, and won her a record deal. While it might seem remarkable that a five-second TikTok sound can command the attention of pop music kingmakers, the industry has been capitalizing on internet memes for decades. Endless Thread takes a crash course in internet meme pop music history.

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