Schmeitgeist is the pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday where we decode the biggest and weirdest trends. You’ll meet self-professed bimbo feminists, fall down the rabbit hole of edgy, online Catholicism, find out how an entire generation got to be mad at capitalism and allergic to monogamy. Every week, journalist and comedian Ange Lavoipierre goes inside the most defining trends of the moment to investigate how we got here, and what’s next.
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Schmeitgeist is the pop culture podcast from ABC Everyday where we decode the biggest and weirdest trends. You’ll meet self-professed bimbo feminists, fall down the rabbit hole of edgy, online Catholicism, find out how an entire generation got to be mad at capitalism and allergic to monogamy. Every week, journalist and comedian Ange Lavoipierre goes inside the most defining trends of the moment to investigate how we got here, and what’s next.
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June 13, 2023
How a decade of 'body positivity' progress was usurped by the ultra-thin look
The 'body positivity' decade is over, and the ultra-skinny look has made a return. The message that all bodies are beautiful has given way to a resurgence in diet culture and obsessive body checking on TikTok and Instagram. So what happened to all that supposed progress, and why are we suddenly backsliding into the toxic size standards of the 90s and 2000s? Or maybe the notion of thinness as a virtue never really went away? In this episode of Schmeitgeist, we investigate the reasons why ten years of body positivity messaging has seemingly evaporated. We're also exploding some of the biggest lies propping up the pro-thin culture that's replacing it.
June 6, 2023
Landlord hate and Nepo Babies: how young people lost faith in capitalism
Hating capitalism isn't just a left-wing project anymore. Even in 2018, 59 per cent of Australian Millennials believed that capitalism had failed. Since then the mood has only darkened, with vitriol for landlords, Nepo Babies and Depop resellers who flip secondhand clothes for a profit, rife on social media. Under-40s are abandoning the centre in record numbers, but not everyone is lurching left. The multiverse of Gen Z political identities on the Internet has rendered the left-right spectrum obsolete. Meanwhile, Millennials are in the process of becoming the first generation in modern history not to drift to the centre-right as they age. So how did we get here, and if the better part of two generations has lost faith in capitalism, then what happens next?
May 30, 2023
Schmeitgeist VI: like it or not, we're all horror fans now
You can deny you're a horror fan all you like, but the numbers say otherwise. Films like Scream VI and M3gan have been tearing up the box office, and horror has roughly doubled its market share in recent years. At the same time, the content formerly known as 'the mainstream' keeps getting darker. Juggernaut series such as The Last Of Us and Stranger Things aren't usually classed as horror, but their genre credentials are undeniable. They're part of a new wave of popular film and TV that's thematically confronting, more violent, and spookier. In this episode of Schmeitgeist, we find out what's behind our growing appetite for horror. What does this new dark streak in our preferences say about us?
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