Emily Grosser enters Mads World! We get straight into the chaos: the TikTok Awards scandals, fake attendance stories, influencer delusion, the terrifying rise of the red-pill pipeline, why men in pearls can’t be trusted, unhinged dating experiences, the three-week ick, unstable situationships, the politics test for first dates, and why Australia only has ten celebrities.

Emily shares wild truths about the creator industry, being verified, living in Belgium, why she never laughs on dates, how to spot an undercover misogynist, and every hot take she’s been dying to say online but can’t.

We dive into:

• The real story behind this year’s TikTok Awards chaos

• Dating men who reveal traumatic stories within two minutes

• The anti-vaxxer date that escalated in a café

• Incels, the red-pill pipeline, and teen boys falling into it

• Luke Bateman, BookTok, and why publishing is cooked

• Why Travis Kelce might be a beard

• Taylor Swift’s confusing fashion era

• Making men feel inferior as a talent

• Personal Roman Empires and 2016 nostalgia

• The things we misunderstood our whole lives (snowflakes… wind farms…)

• Influencer delusion and the blue-tick drama