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by The AyeSphere
The AyeSphere is a weekly interactive podcast hosted on Twitch by AyeforScotland and Joy Demorra
Podcast episodes
Season 3
The Wonka-verse, AI shenanigans, and the travesty of Madame Web | S3 E2
On this week’s AyeSphere, Joy and Aye talk about the Glasgow Willy Wonka AI scam scandal, what the new Timothee Chalamet addition to the Wonka-verse gets right and where the other films rank compared to the original Gene Wilder adaptation. Aye also got Joy to watch Madame Web because apparently he enjoys testing the strength of their friendship ! (Spoiler alert: It’s bad) They also veer into various other media because it’s not the AyeSphere without a tangent.
Newds, Nightshade and Corporate Greed | S3 E01
Welcome back! In this first episode of the year, Joy, and Aye delve into the latest author scandal surrounding NY Times bestselling author J.D. Barker and his mass solicitation of Booktok content creators for lewds, nudes and more inappropriate content to promote his upcoming book and why you absolutely should NOT do this. After that, they take a look at the mass layoffs happening throughout the games industry, and fall headfirst into a rant about how AI is being exploited by corporate greed to destroy the creative industries and what we as creators can do to combat it. Also, there’s a brief segment where Joy has to jump off mic to give her husband the Heimlich maneuver because it wouldn’t be an episode of The AyeSphere without some chaos going on in the background!
Season 2
S2 E15 | Insecurity, Plagiarism, and Lies
In the final AyeSphere episode of 2023, Joy once again regales Aye about the latest book world fiasco as they break down the career-ending saga of Cait Corrain, an up-and-coming author who destroyed everything she’d worked for out of insecurity, racism, and lies. They also delve into the perpetuation of plagiarism and lack of accountability from content farms masquerading as creators, and why James Somerton can go fuck himself. What a way to end the year. Trigger warnings for this episode: This episode deals with fairly heavy topics surrounding racism, misogyny, homophobia, and mentions of Nazism.
S2 E14 | Comedy, Controversy, and Chaos
This week on the AyeSphere, Joy and Aye look at the rapid rise and (hopeful) fall of TikTok “comedian” Matt Rife, the controversial take on Twitter/X that online content creators don’t deserve to get paid for marketing products and then go completely off the rails talking about books, toilet roll holders and upcoming Scottish holiday romance movies.
S2 E13 | Gatekeeping, Accessibility, and BookTok Drama
We’re back! And in true time honored AyeSphere tradition, we’re starting off with some author drama on TikTok as Joy informs Aye about famed author Jodi Picoult describing self-published authors as taking “the easy way out” with publishing and why that’s Wrong. After that, we talk about the death of genre literacy, misconceptions about satire as a medium, and how that enables people to get away with heinous takes online. We wrap everything up by talking about gatekeeping and a lack of accessibility in media—specifically video games—and what we can do about it.