The Hottest Topic at This Year’s Pornhub Awards? Censorship

Manisha Krishnan: I consciousness for illustration I won nan Pornhub Awards this year, because successful talking to truthful galore stars astir censorship, I recovered retired that 1 of them calls his thingy a nutrient rocket successful bid to debar societal media censorship. So I consciousness for illustration that was a bully small 1 for my vocab.

Lauren Goode: A nutrient missile. Who is nan character who calls it that?

Manisha Krishnan: He is called nan Girthmaster. He's 6'6" and he won Bestie. He really tied for Bestie pinch a Spanish performer. And because they're some not Americans, erstwhile he accepted, he was like, "I conjecture this is different logic immigrants are good." And it was truthful funny.

Lauren Goode: That feels for illustration nan cleanable spot to return different break. When we travel back, we're going to do immoderate recommendations and show our listeners what other they should cheque retired connected WIRED.com this week. Welcome backmost to Uncanny Valley. I'm WIRED elder analogous Lauren Goode. And I'm joined this week by WIRED elder civilization editor, Manisha Krishnan. Before we return off, Manisha show our listeners what they should perfectly publication connected WIRED.com this week successful summation to your awesome communicative astir nan Pornhub Awards.

Manisha Krishnan: Yeah, truthful I would promote everyone to publication Elana Klein's portion connected Gen Z's crippling fearfulness of being cringe connected nan making love apps. I deliberation it's conscionable specified a awesome portion into their mindset. And fundamentally it's for illustration everything from conscionable sharing that you want a semipermanent narration to really earnestly saying what your hobbies are is considered highly cringe. Essentially, immoderate type of vulnerability is simply a monolithic faux pas, and yet a batch of them are ace lonely and struggling pinch connection. I consciousness for illustration these 2 concepts are very related. They're very judgmental successful nan piece, but besides hilarious. And truthful I conscionable emotion those types of stories and I deliberation everyone should publication it.

Lauren Goode: What's an illustration of being ace cringe connected a making love app? I'm conscionable asking for a friend.

Manisha Krishnan: Just, OK, nan first 1 I thought of and I benignant of work together pinch this 1 was nan guys who station nan elephantine fish.

Lauren Goode: Oh, they person nan fish.

Manisha Krishnan: Yeah. That 1 was for illustration a classical one. And what astir you, Lauren? What are you recommending this week?

Lauren Goode: I really enjoyed Bobby Johnson's characteristic story, we're calling it The Big Story, connected really a bunch of pretenders, arsenic they're called successful nan story, from North Korea are interviewing for US-based tech jobs, IT jobs, and fundamentally perpetuating this full scam and moving pinch 3rd parties successful nan US who are helping facilitate them, wherever they question and reply pinch these very benignant of Anglo-sounding names and they look to person awesome résumés and bully coding abilities, and past erstwhile a recruiter goes to question and reply them, they coming arsenic Asian and they person accents and nan recruiter's benignant of confused, but they extremity up getting a occupation and siphoning distant money from nan US and giving it to North Korea's government. It's a awesome communicative by a freelancer named Bobby Johnson, and I urge everyone cheque that out. In lawsuit you weren't paranoid capable already astir what's going connected online, this will make you much paranoid.

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