The Spiciest Memelord - An Interview with Jeopardy Champ Lilly Chin
"MIT\u2019s Jeopardy champ talks strategy, memes -- and becoming strangers\u2019 media object."\n\nIn early 2017, Lilly Chin won the Jeopardy College Championship. The MIT senior and Comparative Media Studies minor took home a check for $100,000, but with her Final Jeopardy response \u201cWho is the spiciest memelord?\u201d, she also earned a spot in the same internet lore she studied.\n\nWe talked to Lilly about that Jeopardy experience and discovered that sudden fame, in a digital world where anyone can reach you on forums or Facebook, isn\u2019t always pretty. But Lilly showed us that the right education, whether the enlightening kind you get as a CMS student or the self-guided (or self-inflicted) type you get through years of trawling the darker corners of the internet, can help anyone prepare for their 15 minutes of uninvited fame: or as she put it, for the surreality of becoming other people\u2019s media object.\n\nImage credit: Jeopardy Productions