Kids Are Using NPR Podcast Comments as Secret Group Chats

Ban Kids From Social Media And They’ll Just Chat In Public Radio Podcast Comments

Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around various restrictions. It was mentioned, somewhat in passing, on the “How to do Everything” podcast last October, where someone who did social media monitoring for NPR described noticing odd comments like these showing up on podcasts like NPR’s TED Radio Hou…

Kids are using NPR podcast comments as secret group chats

Teenagers barred from social media are turning obscure corners of the internet into makeshift chat rooms.

Kids turn Spotify podcasts into a secret social network | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey - National Cyber Security Consulting

It all began with Gilgamesh. No, not the ancient Mesopotamian hero or the Smurfs antagonist. In this case, Gilgamesh was a name dropped in a Spotify comment thread.  “Gilgamesh quit, and I’m crying,” the comment read beneath an episode of NPR's Wild Card. For those who don't know or perhaps don't care, NPR stands for […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed!

Middle Schoolers Hijacked NPR’s Wild Card Comments

Good Morning, Middle schoolers barred from most social media turned the Spotify comments under an episode of NPR’s Wild Card into a group chat. Showrunner Dave Blanchard deleted the posts as bot gibberish until one replied, “so it deleted my com” (The Verge). A new definition of artist? Es Devlin, the designer behind two Olympic ceremonies and two Super Bowl halftime shows, opens a 30-year retrospective at London’s Design Museum on October 2; sh…