Manisha Krishnan: I feel like I won the PornHub Award this year because when talking to many stars about censorship, I found one of them called his stuff a meat missile to avoid social media censorship. So I think that's a good kid with my vocabulary.
Lauren Goode: Meat missiles. Who calls whom?
Manisha Krishnan: He is called Master Zhou Chang. He was 6'6" and he won good friends. He was actually tied with Spanish performers. And, since neither of them Americans, when he accepted, he was like, "I guess this is the reason why immigration is good." ”It’s very interesting.
Lauren Goode: It feels like the perfect place to rest. When we come back we will make some suggestions and tell the audience what else to check on Wired.com this week. Welcome back Incredible valley. I am Lauren Goode, a senior correspondent in cable. I was joined this week by Manisha Krishnan, senior culture editor at cable. Before we take off, Manisha tells our audience what should definitely be read on Wired.com this week, besides your fantastic story about the PornHub Awards.
Manisha Krishnan: Yes, so I encourage everyone to read Elana Klein’s article on Generation Z’s cruel fear of cringing over dating apps. I think this is their mentality so big. Basically, it’s like you just share everything you want to have a long-term relationship and it’s possible to seriously say your hobby is considered extremely cringe-free. Essentially, any type of vulnerability is huge artificial pas, but many are super lonely and struggle with connections. I think these two concepts are very related. They are very judgemental in the work, but also very interesting. So I just love these types of stories and I think everyone should read it.
Lauren Goode: What is an example of super cringe on a dating app? I just want a friend.
Manisha Krishnan: OK OK Okay the first one I thought of, I agree this is the guy who posted the big fish.
Lauren Goode: Oh, they have fish.
Manisha Krishnan: Yes. That's like a classic. What about you, Lauren? What do you recommend this week?
Lauren Goode: I really like Bobby Johnson's feature story, we call it the big story, about the pretend they're called in the story, a bunch of pretenders from North Korea, are working for US-based technology, IT jobs, IT jobs and basically continuing the whole scam and working with third parties in the United States who are doing great things in their way while helping them promote these anglo names and running, and their behaviors seem great, and their behaviors seem great, and their behaviors seem great, and their behaviors seem great. To interview them, they as Asians, had accents and recruiters chaos, but eventually they got a job and stole money from the United States and handed it over to the North Korean government. This is a wonderful story of a freelancer named Bobby Johnson, and I suggest everyone check it out. If you are already not paranoid enough about what is happening online, this will make you even more paranoid. That's our performance today. We'll link to all the stories we talk about in the show notes, so check out these stories. And make sure to check out Thursday's episode Incredible valleythat's about what Doge has achieved, what is not done and everything that could look like after Elon Musk exits. If you like what you hear today, be sure to rate it on your preferred podcast app. If you would like to get in touch with any of us to ask questions, comments, show suggestions, please write to us at unnancyvalley@wired.com. Jordan Bell, Kyana Moghadam and Adriana Tapia made the episode. Macro Sound's Amar Lal mixed this episode. Jordan Bell is our executive producer. Conde Nast's global audio head is Chris Bannon, and Katie Drummond is the global editorial director for Wired.