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Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl"

Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl"

FromEndless Thread


Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl"

FromEndless Thread

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Feb 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 2022, a TikTok creator who identifies herself as "Kala" began digging. What followed was an increasingly viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who some on the internet dubbed "tunnel girl", as she excavated and constructed a tunnel system under her suburban home. Her more than half-million followers watched and weighed in with support, suggestions and at times, concern. That is, until a stop-work order halted the project in its tracks late last year.

Producer Katelyn Harrop joins Endless Thread hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson to look at yet another tunneling phenomenon that has taken the internet by storm.
Released:
Feb 2, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (20)

The front page of the Internet--also known as Reddit--is making noise. Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into the site's vast and curious ecosystem of online communities, collaborating with Reddit's 330 million users and over 140 thousand communities to find all kinds of jaw-dropping narratives. A collaboration between WBUR and Reddit.