Lolcows and the Internet's "Digital Freakshow"

Never Post · Mar 26, 2026 · 37m · transcript

Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle.

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