Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
孩子们把 NPR 播客的评论区变成了群聊
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR’s Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids getting creative to work around the restrictions placed on them.
中学生们因为可能被禁止使用其他应用程序和社交网络，竟然把 NPR 播客《Wild Card》某一集下方的 Spotify 评论区变成了一个即兴群聊。在《This American Life》的一期新节目中，主持人艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）深入探讨了孩子们为何会聚集在那里以及背后的原因。归根结底，这主要是因为孩子们为了绕过对他们的限制而发挥了创造力。
When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, “We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.” Which, obviously, hurt Glass’s feelings a bit.
当格拉斯问其中一个孩子为什么选择这个特定的播客时，他们回答说：“我们只是找那些评论不多的播客。”这显然让格拉斯感到有些受伤。
Initially, showrunner Dave Blanchard thought the comments were a particularly odd strain of bot. “It was just like gibberish,” he tells Glass in the episode. The posts were “clipped, weird, incoherent,” he said, and loaded with emoji and shorthand. So he deleted them. Then one of the accounts posted, “so it deleted my com.” So Blanchard shared screenshots of the comments in NPR’s Slack.
起初，节目制作人戴夫·布兰查德（Dave Blanchard）以为这些评论是一种非常奇怪的机器人程序。他在节目中告诉格拉斯：“那简直就像胡言乱语。”他说，这些帖子“简短、怪异、语无伦次”，并且充斥着表情符号和缩写。于是他删除了这些评论。随后，其中一个账号发帖说：“所以它删除了我的评论。”于是，布兰查德将这些评论的截图分享到了 NPR 的 Slack 工作群中。
Producer Hannah Chin almost immediately recognized the behavior not as bots, but as kids. “I was a kid who used weird parts of the internet not as they were originally designed to talk to my friends,” they said. “I talked back and forth with my friends on Google Docs,” demonstrating just how resourceful kids can be when cut off from traditional social media.
制片人汉娜·陈（Hannah Chin）几乎立刻就认出这些行为并非来自机器人，而是出自孩子之手。她说：“我小时候也曾利用互联网上一些奇怪的地方，以非原定设计的方式与朋友交流。我曾在 Google 文档上和朋友们来回聊天。”这证明了当孩子们被切断与传统社交媒体的联系时，他们是多么足智多谋。
A similar thing happened last year with Ted Radio Hour.
去年在《Ted Radio Hour》节目中也发生过类似的事情。