Episode Title:Babezilla & Canada’s Tallest Man: A Tale of Two Giants

In this week’s episode of Unsubscribe, Rebecca shares two surreal behind-the-scenes stories from her time working inside the world of viral YouTube content creation: stories that reveal how the internet distorts scale, identity, and even humanity itself.

In Tale One, she becomes “Babezilla,” the accidental muse of a fan who digitally magnified her 5’2 frame into towering giant-girl fantasy art. In Tale Two, she meets Jerry Sokoloski, Canada’s Tallest Man, whose record-breaking height and hands become fodder for a trending clickbait video that racks up nearly a million views.

This episode explores:

The psychology of viral media

Internet fame and identity distortion

Clickbait culture and trending algorithms

Parasocial relationships and fan dynamics

The commodification of the human body online

Life inside a YouTube content machine

The strange comedy of early influencer culture

When everything is compressed into a thumbnail, what happens to scale? And more importantly...what happens to us?

This is Unsubscribe: Notes from inside the machine, and the true cost of internet “fame.”

Written and recorded by Rebecca Felgate in Calgary, Alberta.

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