Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Poking is on the rise!

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

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Today's wild internet story, Jono? Poking is on the rise. Let's get into that. Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's wide web. A swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self-obsessed social media posts. In this digital jungle, Jono and Vienna are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the Wild Wild Web. This is the Wild Wild Web.

Welcome along to another episode of the Wild Wild Web where we take a wild, a true story from the internet and see where it takes us. And today, as we mentioned before, poking is on the rise. We've really click baited you. Well, it's a true story. It is true. It is a true. There's been a 13-time spike in poking on Facebook in the last month. Now, producer Taylor actually found this story.

She had to explain to me what poking was in terms of the internet stuff, the old school poking. I know all about Ben Boyce. Right, yeah. The ins and outs of that, so to speak. But Facebook poking, I don't... Did you never poke anyone? Keep it clean, mate.

Genuinely. Did I never poke... No, not on Facebook. Was it like a, hey you, what are you doing? Or was it like a flirtatious... It could be anything. Anything. It seemed like a little, yeah, a little passive aggressive, was it?

No, it wasn't. I didn't take it like that. It was sometimes it was like hey, so how were you poking people back in the day? It was like a flirty thing or it could be like hey how are you or like I don't know it was like a bump, do you ever do bumps

and texts when people leave you on scene so you bump it? My dad just sends the same text again and again and again copy paste, copy paste, that's a boomer bump that's a boomer bump, that's a boomer bump. A boomer bump. That's a poke from a boomer. So explain it. So people have never poked before on Facebook?

I'm just trying to find it since it's back. I'm trying to find it on Facebook. So it used to be down the side of your timeline and it would just say poke and then you could pick someone. Sometimes it came up with a list of names and it was just like poke beside it and you could just click poke. And so then that would notify them and they'd be like

you've been poked by Ben yeah and so Ben's poked me am I poking him back or am I just kind of going what am I doing back you can poke him back

it can be a reciprocal poke and so then what happens after both pokes have taken place well that can be it or you can like it might start

what a pointless feature I know or does it just lead you into sort of a nice initial sort of break the ice sort of thing, potentially. Yeah. Depending on how you use it. I mean, that's probably why they got rid of the feature, because it's like, what was the point?

But it's back, and it's 13 times popular. Yeah. Do you remember Bebo? Do you remember Bebo? Yeah, I do. And you could send three loves a day. You could send people your hearts, your loves for the day. And then, like, on your homepage, you collected how many loves you had hearts yeah right i don't it was kind of the same thing i never

really was on but i do remember bibo bibo myspace was big now it's all mean snapchat the kids are all sending and they send the same you know they basically have messaged the same person each day to get their snap streak going yeah so i need to send a photo of uh to such and such and usually it's just like a peace sign with your tongue out. But they need to do that. Oh, we'll break my

snap streak. I'm going on camp. We don't have phones. We can't break my snap streak. I had like an over 100 day snap streak. And then I was like,

I can't keep committing to this. It becomes a big thing, right? It does, yeah. Especially if you have it with multiple people. I can't find where to

poke anyone. Yeah, I was just reading an article and it says, no thanks, I don't want to sign up to this god forsaken website. I can't find where to poke anyone. Yeah, no, I was just reading an article and it says, no thanks, I don't want to sign up to this godforsaken website. I think I went

to the same website. Yeah, are you on Gizmo? Yeah. You're on the same article. So it's not actually a... Gen Zers, Gen Zers,

they are really into it. They bought it back. They're like cute. Facebook have embraced it too. back into poking. Yeah. But if you're making poking too hard, I can't find where to do it.

What do you think the all-time ultimate social media fad has been? Oh, as far as a fad. First thing that comes into your head. I think of the ice bucket challenge. Oh, yeah. That was popular. Dabbing. Jeez, dabbing.

Planking. Oh, I remember planking. That was so dumb. What was the point? I'm going to lie down stiff on this thing. But it is a point for a wee bit. And it's fun. We'll kind of get into it. Prime Minister John Key was planking, wasn't he?

Yeah, I think he was either doing or was Max planking. Whatever it was, it was planking. What was that one where everyone stood still and the camera panned around the room? Oh, the mannequin challenge. Yeah, that was it was a fun one humanity we did that one at the music awards didn't we we're like all right we're coming back for a nap break we're hosting the music awards everyone's gonna do the mannequin challenge

everyone's drunk so a few people did it but then you got some guy pulling the fingers and swearing at the corner you got some salty drunk musician yeah oh mate you've ruined the mannequin challenge but it's all like mid chaos and party is the best It actually looked really cool It did Out of all the fads You say so yourself I thought you meant specifically your one at the music

No, no, just the whole genre in general But as soon as we started doing it That's the beginning of the end of the mannequin challenge Harlem Shake was a big one That was the other one I was thinking of. Yeah. I can't remember what. How did you do the Harlem Shake?

We can guarantee being on radio, we have partaken in every single one of them at some point in time. There must be a list of the most top 10 most popular internet fads. Here we go. Let's count them down. Dabbings. Yeah, Dabbings leading the charge there. No one's still.

Flossing. Rickrolling. Oh, Rickrolling. When someone would play and then all of a sudden Rick Ashley's song would come on, right? Yeah. We're going to give you up. Yeah, it was good. Yeah.

If aliens are real, they're just looking at us like, what are you doing? Why are we doing this Plankings in there Harlem shakes Number 7 Coney 2012 Oh Coney

Yeah that was huge Wasn't it Didn't he get expelled I think there was some reason The guy that started that Coney thing Honestly I feel like it's too much And there was Harambe as well The

Dicks Was that Justice House Harambe Dicks Oh and then it became Dicks out for Harambe You got your penis out for Harambe Oh I didn't that justice for Harambe? That became dicks out for Harambe. You got your penis out for Harambe. Oh, I didn't know that. No, and I don't think Harambe wanted that either. Harambe was a gorilla,

and I think it was really helping the gorillas with... I don't think... Why is someone... Why have I taken that? I got my dick out for a gorilla. Of course we did, mate. We wanted to save that gorilla. Is that what we were doing?

I think we were. I'm googling it. Do you reckon Harambe's like, no, I didn't get my dick out for that but a lot of people were getting their dicks out dick to it for harambe why well because harambe you gotta have something you gotta have a catchy reason you know was harambe endangered or was harambe yeah why are you getting your dicks out for an endangered gorilla raising awareness for harambe guys eh guys just get your dicks out for anything get your dicks out for anything. Get your dicks out for the kids in Africa, you know.

Lowland gorilla who lived in the Cincinnati Zoo was Harambe. Oh, then a three-year-old climbed the fence into the thing. He was finally grabbed by Harambe. I think that's right. And they shot him. Oh, they shot him. That's right. Oh, God.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. And that's why everyone they shot him Oh they shot him That's right Oh god Yeah they shot That's right That's right And that's why Everyone got their dicks out I found it Think about the story Why did people get

Yeah I found it I found it Dicks out for Harambe Backstreet Boys edition On YouTube Oh god What

Backstreet Boys Got their dicks out No Dicks out For a run Oh I see Wow And then definitely Tell me why

Should come on Tell me why We really don't know Okay here's the So that was on there That was on there Here's another big One of the top ten

Gangnam Style Oh yeah Huge Of course That really was John Key did that again Didn't he The Prime Minister Poor John Key did that again Didn't he The Prime Minister

Poor John Key But we go around Radio stations At the end of the year Usually around Christmas And basically radio We all want that quirky bit Breakfast radio

He was always up for it All kind of Either put him on the spot Peer pressure him Into doing something Didn't they Yeah And you were on the edge

At the time This is your show This is bloody your show. This is all you making John Key sing. What did he have to sing? Oh, did he sing a Christmas song, didn't he? Oh, yeah, it was really bad. All I want for Christmas is you or something like that. Yeah, that's right.

Mariah Carey. Yeah, him doing Gangnam Style. He brought around bottles of wine, though. That was nice. Yeah. Red wine. The Rock locked him in a bloody sex cage. Well, yeah.

Remember there was... Oh, what? So what we did was bad. No, I don't think he got in there, did he? I think he just made something... Or someone made a joke about it and he laughed or something. And then all of a sudden he was making a joke that was... So he didn't even get in the cage.

I don't think so. I think it was... Yeah, the whole thing was like he... Someone made a joke about something and he laughed and all of a sudden it became John Key's fucking fun at this whole thing. As far as I know, maybe I'm wrong. In New Zealand, we just like to see how far we can push the Prime Minister because you wouldn't get away with it

anywhere else. We used to have his number and we used to call him and we don't have it. The number doesn't work anymore like that. But he answered one day. Like he used to just answer. We're just like, oh, we'll try and call the Prime Minister. And he was like, oh, sorry, I better go back.

I'm in the middle of a cabinet meeting. He'd been talking for like 10 minutes to us. And then we was like, I only answered, I better go back. I'm in the middle of a cabinet meeting. He'd been talking for like 10 minutes to us. And then he was like, I only answered because I thought it might be Obama. I only answered because it was a private number. We're like, we really should stop calling the prime minister. So we did after that. But it did. It took him about 10 minutes to tell us that he had more important matters.

So I better go back, guys. I'm just in the middle of something. Oh, my God. Ice bucket challenge number three? Oh, yeah. You're lucky you're still doing your countdown. No, it's good. Yeah, no, keep going. I can challenge number three? Oh, yeah. You're lucky you're still doing your countdown. No, it's good. Yeah, no, keep going.

I can't just say what number one is. Rick Rowling was number two, and number one is just memes. That's a disappointing number one for a top ten. That's very all-encompassing. Yeah. It was fun, though. We covered off some ground there. Some good trip down memory lane.

We started poking with Facebook. Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how to poke. You've got a Facebook page? Yeah. Yeah. You should be able to do it then. Don't we all have Facebook pages? No, I don't really.

Do you not have a Facebook page? I only do. I've only got the saddest one because I've got, I only have it for admin, but it's not, it's like a private, I don't have no mates. I have no, no one, I don't post, like I don't have a thing there. Don't you? I did for a while and then I kind of got into, I didn't like it. Wow.

Didn't you get into a weird space where you had a collection of people, some were fans, some were family and you're like, I don't know what to post or how to post. And then some people would be like,

they'd go friend request and you're like, oh, I don't know if I want to let them into that and then it ends. I just ignore the friend request. No, no, but then you see them again

and you're like, oh, jeez, I haven't accepted your friend request. And you're like, how about a poke though? You can poke away. so now I'm like I'll just do Instagram and TikTok

yeah it's easy to ignore people on Instagram and TikTok I can't poke you I've got admin I can do it I mean I can cheer you

you can be my only friend but then all of a sudden you get one friend and then such and such yeah but if you're not on Facebook I'm just like poking into oblivion

yeah true it's the fun in that well I am there I am there under a different name a mysterious name oh I want to know what it is

yeah alright hey well that was the Wild Wild Web today thank you so much for listening we appreciate you go and have a wonderful day