SHERBERT: TikTok logged me out of my main account a couple months so l’ve been using a burner. JEFFERS: Speaking of hiveminds… what do each of your TikTok FYPs look like?ĪLARIO: I know Sam and I are really similar FYP-wise.ĪLARIO: A lot of global south content lol, like Brazilian children singing and dancing. I’m always picking things up from these two… our hivemind grows stronger… Because we have the world’s most active three person group chat of all time. Our communication styles feel like they’ve converged over the past two years, though. I think Alexi and I first made contact over email and I was very taken by her use of emoticons.ĪLARIO: I was prob like, 75% more kawaii back then. I was like “omg … me… podcast …” Biz really has that vintage music executive type of instinctual charisma, I think she just saw our girl group vision and acted on it.ĬUMMINS: Yes, I was super caught off guard but excited because Biz is so brilliant. I don’t really remember but I definitely propositioned them at some point.ĪLARIO: I was really taken off guard because Biz and I had never really met but it was kind of like a Cinderella moment. JEFFERS: So you all met online, how did that go down? Who slid into whose DM’s? Idk why in my head I was like A is for Alexi. So, for this week’s Search History, we slid into their DMs to find out how their fated coalition began (also over DMs) and debate the virtues of various kinds of mac and cheese.ĪLARIO: Oops LOL WAIT. Hourlong episodes have been dedicated to sub-cultural currents like Apres Ski Chic, Global South-core, and even the latest iteration of moto-mommy fashion via Kylie Jenner’s Khy. Equal parts cool-girl historians and low-key visionaries, the ladies have expanded their scope of inquiry from nostalgic deep dives to cultural forecasts and trend nomenclature they were the first to coin the term “Blokette,” a hybrid of coquette fashion and British football garb, and it’s since taken over both Pinterest and the Lower East Side. Their cheeky moinker is a direct reference to the specific early-2010s Tumblr ecosystem that the podcast’s hosts-Sam, Biz, and Alexi-have managed to safely escape. Nymphet Alumni had me at their first ever podcast episode in 2021, a two-part dissection of the rise and fall of Dov Charney’s American Apparel. Sam Cummins, Alexi Alario, and Biz Sherbert of Nymphet Alumni, photographed by Tina Tyrell.
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