Tearin' Up My Charts: How MTV's "Total Request Live" Got Rigged (PTFO Vault)
from Pablo Torre Finds Out
by The Athletic
Published: Tue Jul 01 2025
Show Notes
The "TRL" countdown was America's high-school cafeteria — a daily election of cool. Until one fateful day, when a chain letter set off a movement to hack the vote. Correspondent Yourgo Artsitas helps us investigate whether MTV's shadow government was protecting the sanctity of our culture... with a lie.
(This episode originally aired on March 12, 2024.)
•TR(ol)L: New Kids on the Block, Total Request Live and The Chain Letter That Changed the Internet
• Pablo Torre Finds Out Substack
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