Middle schoolers use NPR podcast comments as group chat

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 26 Sept, 18:42 · Archive

Middle schoolers turned the Spotify comment section of an NPR podcast into an impromptu group chat.

Middle schoolers have apparently been using the comment section of NPR's Wild Card podcast on Spotify as an impromptu group chat, likely because they are blocked from other apps and social networks. NPR staff initially mistook the comments for bot activity. Ira Glass explores the phenomenon in a new episode of This American Life.

How it is being reported

• Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chatThe Verge · 26 Sept, 18:32
• The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?TechCrunch · 25 Sept, 21:33

In this story: NPR · Spotify · Ira Glass · This American Life · Wild Card

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