In this episode, I sit down with Christine Goding-Doty, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York. What begins with oddly satisfying videos quickly opens into a deeper conversation about how digital media shapes what we feel, notice, and value. Christine studies race, the internet, and digital media through the lens of colonialism. Her current work looks at how online aesthetics, from smooth interfaces to the squish of slime, shape our habits and desires in ways we rarely question. Together, they trace the rise of oddly satisfying content from early Reddit threads to today’s slime economy and AI-generated videos. Along the way, they explore the hidden labour behind content, the environmental cost of slime, why ASMR affects some people and not others, and how “bad” audio became part of the internet’s visual and sensory language. This is a conversation about images, desire, and the systems quietly shaping how we experience the online world.