Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

#FreeBritney’s Dark Turn

Aug 1, 2023

44:10

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Free Britney Movement and What the Hell They're Doing Online

4min

The Free Britney Movement

2min

The Conspiracy of Free Brittany

3min

The Conspiracy of Bianon and a Well in the Check of Brittany That Goes Viral

2min

The Evolution of Britney Spears' Hair

2min

The Free Britney Fandom's Care Plan

4min

The Similarities Between QAnon and the Hollywood Elite

2min

Brittany Spears' Instagram Account Has Been Deleted

2min

10.

Brittany's Response to the TMZ Call

2min

11.

The Confusion Over Free Britney's Teeth

3min

12.

TikTok and the Free Brittany Movement

4min

13.

The Free Britney Truther Fandom

5min

14.

The Importance of Empathy in Journalism

2min

15.

Britney Spears: The Most Tragic Pop Star of Our Time

2min

16.

Leave Britney Alone

2min

At the end of Britney Spears’s conservatorship in November of 2021, most of her fans rejoiced. But conspiracy theories have a subset of #FreeBritney fans convinced she’s still not really free. They focus on what they see as oddities or glitches in some of her Instagram posts. Vox reporter Rebecca Jennings says there are even theories that Britney has been replaced with AI or a body double. Rebecca and Sam talk about her current piece for New York Magazine and get into the TikTok sleuthing of this extreme set of Britney fans, how the conspiracy theories mirror QAnon, and what Britney herself thinks about her fans’ actions.

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