Buzzfeed's Internet Explorer

Katie and Ryan get to the bottom of the latest celebrity death hoax, play a Brazilian language quiz and give thanks for incest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hossein Derakhshan hard-coded the Iranian internet in Persian as one of Iran's first bloggers. But after he was jailed for 6 years, the web he loved looks a lot different. Read his piece! https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426#.rjb75j64i Also, Katie and Ryan initiate Julia into the world of "buttchugging." Photo by Arash AshourinaLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Internet Explorer sits down with Charlie Edge, the woman who recently made headlines for freebleeding in front of parliament. Also, this week, we feature the music of Astro Kid and DJ George Costanza.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tracy Clayon, the host of BuzzFeed's much better and more interesting podcast, Another Round, stops by this week to talk about her first social network: Black Planet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As is inevitable with all tech podcasts, this week we're finally talking about bots! We're delving into old chats bots like Smarterchild, new helper bots like Facebook's M, and the weird and sort of frightening future of sexbots.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we interview two very important Halloween figures: The man behind the dancing pumpkin GIF (you know the one) and the dude who makes all those "Sexy" Halloween costumes. Spo0o0o0o0o0o0o0okkkyyyyyyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know YouTube has a running list of your most watched to videos? For most people it's sort of embarrassing. So we made people explain their. Also, Katie interviewed Neil Strauss, the guy who literally wrote the book on being a pick-up artist.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Akilah Hughes. She has over 125,000 unread emails and we made her go through all of them with us. WARNING: This episode is incredibly stressful.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week BuzzFeed's Internet Explorer takes a trip to Brazil to learn about Brazilian memes! We also talk about the weird fake but not really fake but definitely sorta ironic Brazilian conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne secretly died in 2003 and was replaced with a body double.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan and Katie talk with Nikolas Draper-Ivey, who cosplays as Miles Morales (the new Spider-Man who is black and latino), and Shaquille Dent, who goes by "Black Goku" because of his hairstyle that earned him viral fame.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katie and Ryan talk to Ellie Hall and Hussein Kesvani, reporters who have been following ISIS's use of social media as a tool for recruiting.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know those Twitter accounts that are always posted stolen memes and ripped off Vines and weird advertisements? They're vanishing from Twitter and no one's totally sure why. The question is, should we care, and what does it mean for the rest of us?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a crossover episode with Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt, the fantastic dudes from Gimlet Media's Reply All Podcast. We drank a bunch of whiskey and made them play "Would You Rather" and now we're all BFFs.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we went out and asked people whether Tinder actually is the end of love on earth as we know it. The answers were as mixed as you'd expect.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katie and Ryan talk to Jason Reich, BuzzFeed's director of global security. ***This episode was recorded and edited two weeks before the shooting of two WDBJ reporters in Virginia.***Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amber Gordon, founder of Femsplain comes in to talk about her site for the personal stories of women-identified voices. She also talks about a better future for women on the net. https://femsplain.com/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Logan Paul is hot, rich, famous and carries around some existential ennui. This week, Katie and Ryan talk to Caroline Moss who profiled Logan Paul and talk about how celebrity and fame look very different in 6 seconds. Read her profile here: http://www.techinsider.io/vine-star-logan-paul-profile-2015-7Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're talking about French memes, we play a really gross game of Would You Rather, and answer some questions from our listeners.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet Lucia Cole. She's a new pop star with music on Spotify, Tidal, and iTunes. She has a Twitter and Instagram and she's even been interviewed. The only problem? She's not real. It was all a weird catfish. This week, Internet Explorer attempts to get to the bottom of what exactly happened.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we bring you an interview all the way from Mumbai. All India Bakchod are one of India's most controversial and influential YouTube groups and they sit down with Ryan to talk about what YouTube means for young Indians.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices