Internet bad

互联网不好。

Today, Explained

2026-01-04

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Once a place of serendipity and discovery, the internet now thrives on feeding us toxic rage bait designed to piss us off. Can we get the good internet back? This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Sarah Schweppe, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Jonquilyn Hill.  Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images.  If you have a question, give us a call on 1-800-618-8545 or send us a note here. Listen to Explain It to Me ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • If you look over my shoulder while I'm on my phone,

  • you'll see my feed is pretty wall-to-wall food content.

  • Easy rice dishes to upgrade your rice game.

  • Recipes to try.

  • I'm cooking the top 50 near times recipes of 2025.

  • Dinner party inspiration.

  • This week I had a friend over for a blueberry themed dinner party.

  • But in the last year or so, I noticed something.

  • That a lot of the food I was seeing was pissing me off.

  • Let's make my grandma's famous McDonald's casserole.

  • Just chop up some burgers, layer with ranch, nuggets, fries, and finish with melted American cheese.

  • I'm getting served the most bizarre stuff.

  • I'm talking disgusting food combinations, unsanitary kitchen practices.

  • Oh, you put just pasta right in an aluminum pan.

  • Don't even take the paper out because you want all the season.

  • And it turns out making me mad is the goal.

  • This stuff is rage bait.

  • Rage bait to me is, in a way, it's kind of like an engine that makes the internet work in some ways.

  • Craig Silverman is co-founder of Indicator, a website that investigates digital deception.

  • But in a strict kind of definition, it's, to me,