Yamaneika Puts Dating, DMs and Doomscrolling on Trial
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Comedian and all-around entertaining extraordinaire Yamaneika Saunders is back with a fresh episode of You’re The Problem… with Yamaneika! — and this week the internet, dating etiquette, celebrity DMs and family streaming accounts are all being called to the witness stand.
The new episode comes with an equally Yamaneika title: “No romance without finance, but does rejection come with a refund?” And yes, there is a story behind that question. One of the episode’s messiest dilemmas involves a man who sent a $68.50 Venmo request after being rejected. Because apparently getting turned down now comes with an invoice.
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Before she even gets there, Yamaneika has social media on the brain. Being chronically online may be part of the job, but she is clearly wondering how much access is too much access when everybody’s business is sitting one thumb-scroll away. That spirals naturally into A$AP Rocky’s DM fumble, because celebrity behavior does not magically become less awkward just because there is a blue check nearby.
There is also a $6,000 fashion dispute in the mix, followed by Yamaneika turning the camera back on herself and revealing the kind of content her own algorithm keeps serving up. By the time she starts talking about a social-media detox, you can practically hear the collective screen-time notification getting nervous.
That combination is exactly what You’re The Problem was built for. The weekly comedy show, launched in July as the first original podcast from Chelsea Handler’s Dear Chelsea Network with iHeartPodcasts, gives Saunders and her voice-of-reason counterpart Tyree room to bounce between pop culture, current events, celebrity nonsense, relationships and whatever fresh piece of internet behavior needs to be examined under fluorescent lighting.
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The episode also makes room for a good old-fashioned family streaming-password war, because nothing exposes household politics faster than somebody changing a login and suddenly acting like Netflix credentials are part of the estate.
Underneath the jokes, there is a recognizable theme running through the episode: everybody wants access. Access to your money, your attention, your passwords, your DMs, your relationship business and apparently even reimbursement after a date goes left. Yamaneika’s gift is taking all of that everyday chaos, turning it sideways and asking the question the show was literally designed around: who is actually the problem here?
And if your answer keeps changing every five minutes, congratulations. You understand the assignment.
Watch Yamaneika’s “No Romance Without Finance, But Does Rejection Come With a Refund?” Episode
The video episode on Yamaneika’s YouTube channel gets into social-media overload, A$AP Rocky’s DM fumble, money drama, her algorithm and the family streaming-password battle.
Source: You’re The Problem… with Yamaneika! via iHeartPodcasts and Yamaneika’s YouTube channel.
