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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Willa Paskin hosts the popular Slate podcast ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...