Under the Influence (with Jo Piazza) - February 03, 2022


Under the Influence Season 2

Bonus： Pay the Bookstagramers! Women's Day Off the Internet

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

152.1

Word count

618

Sentence count

30

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

sentences flagged

Hate speech

3

sentences flagged


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 last summer i took my kids faces off of the instagram i just wiped it clean
00:00:12.440 and i've never felt better
00:00:17.680 hey guys we just finished up getting ready actually it's been like 30 minutes
00:00:26.800 So I figured, why not just pull the camera out and show y'all?
00:00:30.760 Sometimes I'll throw in like one or two hashtags that have like...
00:00:34.060 See, it was reporting the first season of the podcast Under the Influence that convinced me to do it.
00:00:39.340 That convinced me that Instagram wasn't exactly the best place for my kids' faces.
00:00:45.060 I wasn't even sure if I was going to film it at once.
00:00:46.780 When I started digging into the world of influencers on social media, I thought this podcast would be an expose. 1.00
00:00:53.020 I thought I'd be showing the dark and dirty secrets behind these women's perfect-looking lives with their white houses and white sheets and clean children. 0.96
00:01:03.720 But what I learned is that this world is so much more nuanced than that. 0.97
00:01:11.820 Last season, I found women who support their entire families through influencing.
00:01:17.880 I learned about the relationship of social media companies to creators.
00:01:21.740 I found online hate and nastiness, but I also found community and wonder.
00:01:29.000 So now with a clear grasp on this world, we are going down a new rabbit hole.
00:01:33.940 One that is actually about the state of womanhood itself.
00:01:38.680 Because what I've learned is that what happens on Instagram 0.99
00:01:41.660 is just a reflection of the terrible ways that women are treated in the world. 0.99
00:01:49.360 Welcome to Season 2 of Under the Influence. 1.00
00:01:51.740 this season we're going beyond just moms we're going to answer questions like why do teachers 0.89
00:01:58.880 need to make extra money as influencers it went from like my side hustle to really my main source 0.89
00:02:04.340 of income i can work in whatever district i want whatever school i want it's not about the paycheck
00:02:10.200 it's i want to find the right fit for me and it takes off a lot of that stress and pressure
00:02:14.000 why are women turning to instagram for advice on things like mental health and infertility
00:02:19.100 And what's the risk in relying on influencers for advice on these intimate topics?
00:02:25.040 If there's a tightrope of 50% good, 50% can do public harm, I feel like mental health influencers kind of thread that line and lean towards the harm side.
00:02:35.540 We're also going to continue reporting on the very real dangers of putting your children's faces on the Internet.
00:02:41.820 My 13-year-old comes in my room.
00:02:44.180 She comes in with her Instagram and had it pulled up of another account that was mimicking me.
00:02:53.040 It was six or so photos of mine and instantly like my heart sank and I started going through it and flipping through it and discovered that it was this thing called role play that I had no idea existed.
00:03:10.740 And that's not it. Far from it. We're going to talk about dad influencers and why they get
00:03:18.640 treated so differently from mom influencers. And we're going to be talking to a lot of the people
00:03:24.200 who are working to advocate for the women on the internet. And just maybe, maybe we're going to do
00:03:31.460 a little bit of advocating of our own for the women who make content and for the women who
00:03:36.680 consume it. We have so much power, and we don't even realize it. And that's why we might just
00:03:43.580 have a plan to try to shut it all the hell down. I'm Jo Piazza, and you're Under the Influence.
00:03:55.380 Listen to season two of Under the Influence with Jo Piazza on February 10th on the iHeartRadio app,
00:04:00.880 Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.