The Aboard Podcast
Katie Notopoulos: There Are Still LOLs on the Internet
October 6, 2026
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48 min 27 sec
How is AI reshaping internet culture? On this week’s episode, Paul is joined by a journalist who has truly looked into the digital abyss: Business Insider’s Katie Notopoulos. Using a few recent AI-related stories Katie reported as a lens, they discuss the increasingly blurry boundaries between the real and the artificial on our social feeds. Katie is known for, among other things, her lists of the worst things on the internet; with AI, Paul asks, has “worst” somehow gotten “even worser”? Plus: In a classic reporter move, Katie flips the script and quizzes Paul about his 2014 essay on YouTube, “The American Room.”
Show Notes
- You can read Katie’s work at Business Insider, or find her on X, Threads, and LinkedIn.
- John Herrman on the podcast
- Katie’s Oreogate story
- Katie’s pickup artist/Meta glasses story
- “The American Room”
- Watch our recent event on AI and museums.
Transcript
Transcript coming soon!