# E398. Why The Internet Is Already Dead | Kat Rosenfield - Walk-Ins Welcome

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Published: 2026-07-09T10:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4535

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Bridget sits down again with novelist and Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield to talk about the rise of death doulas, the death of YA fiction, and how the internet is quietly erasing itself. Kat digs into how YA fiction collapsed into "romantasy" and smut, the dead internet theory and vanishing digital archives - including Bridget's own lost Playboy articles and Kat's MTV News work. They also cover the Kennedy Center controversy, why Gen Z treats Trump as their political "factory settings," w...

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