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Grief Is Just Content for Social Media
from Thoughtless Animal · #42
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6 minHe continues riffing on how people make others' deaths about themselves on Facebook and Instagram, then Ray arrives late from Brooklyn, leading into a rant about NYC's changing rainy climate and a segue into the story of a Brazilian kid obsessed with aliens who vanished after covering his room in code.
- 3:52Tim on people making deaths about themselves on social media instead of honoring the deceased.
- 4:15Facebook and Instagram posts turn obituaries into excuses for throwback photos of the poster, not the dead person.
- 4:47Ray is stuck in an Uber from Brooklyn in the rain because New York's climate has become a nightmare.
- 5:22A kid in Brazil obsessed with aliens disappeared after filling his room with coded writings and books.
- 5:57Cryptographers dismiss the kid's code as meaningless, but everyone in comedy thinks they're creating a masterpiece.
- 6:23The kid had a statue of a Spanish astronomer who was burned at the stake for saying the sun was the center of the universe.
- 7:03Tim describes the kid's room transformation into the Da Vinci Code while his parents were gone for 22 days.
- 8:00Tim begs listeners to follow his Instagram, calling it a "call to action" for cheap fucks who won't spend a dollar.
- 8:55The real question is whether the missing Brazilian kid's situation is a viral marketing scheme to sell his book.
- 10:01The kid was going around asking people for money, which Tim calls a brilliant meme move.
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