172 - AOL Whitstant Messenger (feat. Colette Shade) [Whit’s Endless Summer #41]

Colette Shade [Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything (essays on a future that never was)] joins the lads in Odyssey for some eXtreme adventures in cliques, Y2K paranoia, and the Odyssians’ forever war with the people of Rakistan. Topics include Y2K aesthetics, being jumpscared by John Avery Whittaker, and what it means to have nostalgia for an optimistic techno future that never came to pass.

 

Colette Shade: Website // Instagram // Twitter // Bluesky

 

Y2K: How the 2000’s Became Everything (essays on a future that never was) (CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR COPY!): In Y2K, one of our most brilliant young critics Colette Shade offers a darkly funny meditation on everything from the pop culture to the political economy of the period. By close reading Y2K artifacts like the Hummer H2, Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” body glitter, AOL chatrooms, Total Request Live, and early internet porn, Shade produces an affectionate yet searing critique of a decade that started with a boom and ended with a crash.

 

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

• Adventures in Odyssey
  • #427: “Something Cliqued Between Us”
  • #429: “The Y.A.K. Problem”
  • #458: Red Herring
  • #514: “Room Enough for Two”
• “A Peek Inside Chatrooms” by Bob Smithouser. Breakaway: A Focus on the Fmaily Magazine for Teen Guys. 1999.
• Citations Needed: Episode 177: Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
• Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King. Vintage Books. 2021.
• Time Bomb Y2K. Dir. Brian Becker and Marley McDonald. HBO Documentary Films.

 

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

 

Interstitial: “Alistair Adelman” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring Brian Alford as “Alistair Adelman”