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MINI SCROLL: Gen Z stare, Brooke Schofield defends fiancé, Hailey Bieber x Swag + TikTok nail tech crash out · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space.
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  Every Monday through Thursday and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host Lauren Meisner, the founder of the youth digital
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  media brand Centennial World. Welcome back to Mini scroll,
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  everyone. I am wearing my Hey U merch.
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  I'm wearing my baby gorgeous sweater.
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  If you know, you know, I'm obsessed.
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  And I also have decked out my laptop in Hey U stickers.
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  So I'm really out here rapping. OK, so before I get into what I
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  assume is going to be a monster episode for today, I wanted to
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  address some questions we've been getting about high stakes.
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  High stakes is not cancelled. Season 1 was just 12 episodes.
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  That was always a plan. We just wanted to like, test it
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  out, get the girls comfortable with casting, all of that.
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  So Season 2 will be coming. But yes, High Stakes is not
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  cancelled. It will be back.
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  OK, so the first story, tell me why I wrote nearly 1500 words
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  about this first story. I fear for how long this episode
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  is going to be, but I have a lot of feelings on the Gen.
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  Zed stare. Over the weekend, a generational
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  war broke out on TikTok after millennials started accusing
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  Gen. Zed of their own version of the
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  boomer lead poisoning stare. The video that blew this up was
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  by at the E Designer where she said she just heard someone use
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  the term the Gen. Zed stare to describe the blank
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  stare that Gen. Zed apparently do during social
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  interactions when they should be asking questions or engaging or
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  conversing. This creator is actually Gen.
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  Zed herself and she noted that but millennials jumped on this
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  opportunity. I have not seen something like
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  this in so long. I am sure the Gen. zed stare is
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  flooding so many of your for you pages right now.
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  And TikTok is literally just filled with like video after
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  video, think piece after think piece on quote UN quote the Gen.
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  Zed stare. At first the commentary was
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  around the behavior in general. There was a lot of discourse
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  about how this happens in customer service experiences,
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  like if a Gen. Zed is your cashier or your
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  waiter or your host and how they don't greet people.
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  They just kind of like stare at you waiting for you to speak to
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  them. And even when they are asked
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  questions in these roles, they won't give answers, they will
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  just kind of stare. Allegedly this turned into a lot
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  of defensive statements from presumably Genzed about how they
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  don't owe anyone anything and working in customer service jobs
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  is a nightmare and if someone's rude to them in these positions
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  they will just stare at them rudely to get their point
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  across. There were a lot of think pieces
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  about Genzed's hyper individual dualistic mentality and how that
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  is largely contributing to the lack of community that they so
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  desperately want. And people were tracing this
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  back to the fact that they are kind of like the first
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  generation to be openly online talking about how like they
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  don't owe anyone anything. OK so all of that was wrapped up
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  into this like first part of the conversation.
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  But then that part of the discourse spiralled into
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  millennials saying that Gen. Z are misunderstanding the Gen.
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  Z stare and that the stare you give a rude or entitled customer
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  while working in customer service has long been a part of
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  culture and it's not generational specific.
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  And there are tropes of this in TV and film for decades.
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  The stair is actually just unprovoked and it happens at
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  inappropriate times. Like they can't be bothered to
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  interact with anyone socially ever, even when it is the time
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  for them to like speak back to you or help you or answer a
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  question. And then this turned into
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  millennials dunking on Gen. Z for misunderstanding the Gen.
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  Z stare, saying it's the most Gen.
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  Z thing ever, that Gen. Z are misunderstanding this and
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  twisting it. That is a very high level
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  synopsis of the discourse that has been happening online from
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  that. OK, so I have also seen a lot of
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  people from countries outside of the United States saying that
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  this must just be like an American phenomenon.
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  And I actually agree. I'm Canadian, I live in
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  Australia, I'm around Gen. Z all the time, all my employees
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  are Gen. Z.
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  Hand on my heart, I do not think I have ever encountered the Gen.
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  Z stare. If the Gen.
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  Z stare is real, I have to imagine that a lot of it comes
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  down to information processing and how differently young
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  people's minds work because of growing up on screens, being
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  chronically online, and losing some critical social years
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  during lockdowns in the pandemic.
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  I can empathize with this because I am someone who does
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  have a hard time processing information in the moment,
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  especially in work settings. I always have to kind of take
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  the information back from like a meeting or whatever and like
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  think about it and then give a proper response verbally.
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  IRL in the moment, I don't process that well.
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  So I understand if that's what's going on.
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  I understand. And I think this would make
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  sense given how different Gen. Z's childhood and teenagers were
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  compared to older generations. Like it makes sense that they
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  would process information differently as a whole.
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  Not worse, just differently because they are really the
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  first generation to have grown up online in this way.
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  The second thing I fear is happening, OK, is that
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  millennials, I'm a millennial by the way, are out here fighting
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  with literal teenagers in the comments.
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  There are a lot of Gen. Z leaving unhinged comments,
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  like really kind of aggro comments, responses to this
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  saying like, you know, we don't owe you anything.
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  Hope this helps. Things like that, right?
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  And it's those inflammatory comments that a lot of the major
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  creators who are engaging in this discourse are responding
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  to. They're stitching them, they're
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  using as examples of Gen. Z being intentionally obtuse or
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  aggro about the topic. There's a lot of accusations
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  that Gen. Z can dish it, you know, like
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  making fun of the millennial pause, for example.
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  And now that everyone's talking about the Gen.
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  Z stare, they can't cop it. But I'm going to presume the
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  reason why these comments are unhinged aggro and why it seems
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  like Gen. Z can't actually cop it, can't
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  actually take any type of like observation about themselves or
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  feedback in general, is because the vast majority of these
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  comments and the vast majority of the people who are reacting
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  this way are teenagers. I know that some Gen.
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  Z are in their mid 20s, but the youngest age for Gen.
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  Z is also 14, which means a huge portion of that generation are
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  still teenagers. And it's just such an angsty
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  teen mentality to be like, I don't owe you anything.
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  I didn't ask to be born. I don't need to go out of my way
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  to make you feel comfortable. Whatever, right?
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  And that's not like a generational thing.
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  We were all angsty as teens. I'm sure we can all remember
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  that time and how it felt. But when you get into the real
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  world, you kind of shed that mentality.
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  First of all, you obviously grow up, your hormones level out, You
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  stop being a bit angsty, But also you realize you'll never
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  succeed in a job or your career if you don't owe anyone
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  anything, because then no one owes you anything either.
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  You realize that's not how the world works.
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  And then when your frontal lobes fully develop, you realize you
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  really didn't know how the world works, but you were super
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  entitled and super wrong when you were like a teenager and in
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  your early 20s. And I think that's when some of
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  that like, cringe embarrassment kicks in where you're like, oh,
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  my God, I didn't know anything. I was so wrong about so many
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  things and including how you operated at work.
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  And that's when you're like, holy shit.
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  OK. So I really do believe when we
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  have these, quote, UN quote, generational wars online,
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  millennials, Gen. X boomers are not realizing that
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  a lot of the time the people that they are fighting with are
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  actually teenagers. And I get it, like, this is kind
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  of the first time in history where every generation is
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  together in one figurative room online, which I've spoken about
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  before. This wasn't my concept that I
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  made-up. It was something that went viral
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  a couple of years ago. If I can find the original
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  source of it, I will tag it down below.
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  But we're at this point in time where, yeah, like online spaces
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  like Twitter, TikTok, whatever, put everyone from every
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  generation, every walk of life kind of together in one
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  figurative room. However, in this room,
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  everyone's opinion, despite age expertise is just as loud and
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  taken just as seriously as the next.
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  And this was not the world that we grew up in even as
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  millennials. Like there was still a hierarchy
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  in social settings based on age and education and expertise for
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  centuries. And suddenly the intranet almost
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  democratized that. And now a 12 year old's opinion
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  on something can be heard just as loud and be taken just as
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  seriously as like a 42 year old's opinion on that topic who
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  has like studied that or worked in that field for decades.
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  And then that 12 year old and that 42 year old start fighting
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  about their opinions and the 42 year old probably has no idea
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  that they are fighting with a 12 year old.
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  The last thing I want to say on this is I've seen a lot of
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  millennials arguing that it's not fair that we had to cop the
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  millennial pause discourse and jokes and how Gen.
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  Z is kind of getting upset about the Gen.
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  Z stare. First of all, millennials, we
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  are older than Gen. Z, so some of us are parenting
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  Gen. Z.
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  At this point, making fun of a generation where half of them
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  are still minors is punching down Gen.
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  Z. Making fun of millennials is
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  just what every other generation does, right?
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  Like making fun of the older generations because you're
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  young, you don't get it. You're like, Oh my God, they're
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  so old. OK, Boomer, come on, we started.
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  OK, Boomer. Second, the millennial pause is
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  this kind of like quirky behavior from our generation
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  that was born out of growing up filming ourselves and how the
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  earlier cameras that we grew up filming ourselves on had a bit
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  of a lag right before they started actually recording.
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  Making fun of the millennial pause is not Gen.
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  Z passing like a moral judgement on us.
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  They're just making fun of this kind of quirky behavior that is
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  somewhat ingrained in us. But all of the discourse around
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  the Gen. Z stair is a moral judgement on
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  them. It's about about how Gen.
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  Z as an entire generation, like talk about painting with broad
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  strokes, OK, an entire generation lack social skills,
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  they lack emotional awareness, they're selfish, they're
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  individualistic. They're the reason why society
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  doesn't have community anymore. You cannot compare the two, in
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  my opinion. And I would say that you can
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  compare Boomers and they're punching down on millennials
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  about our entitlement, our laziness, our avocado toast,
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  whatever. That's the comparison.
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  And we are doing that now to Gen.
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  Z with the Gen. Zed stare.
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  And all of this is like infighting between all of us
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  regular normie people online to actually distract us from the
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  real reason why nobody has community, why everybody's so
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  burnt out, why we all have to buy avocado toast as like the
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  only thing we'll ever be able to afford in our lives.
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  So that we don't actually look at the bigger picture, which is
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  that the powers that be, the government, the billionaires,
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  whatever, have absolutely fucked all of us.
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  And that is how I feel about the Gen. zed stare.
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  I still still stand by that it's not real.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, This is just a
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  quick one, but Brooke Schofield has finally addressed her
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  fiance's backlash in a series of Instagram stories.
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  It seems like Brooke took my advice from last week.
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  Remember last week I said if they just addressed things head
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  on, their announcement of cancelled ending and just like
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  the temperature around the podcast in general would have
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  just landed better things would be better for them.
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  And I feel as though maybe she listens to mini scroll because I
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  think she took my advice. OK so she has formally addressed
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  the backlash around her fiance Miles Canton and the rumored
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  relationship that he had with a teenager while he was in his
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  late 20s. Her statements quite long.
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  I won't read all of it, but she said I would never under any
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  circumstance defend a man who had a relationship with a
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  teenage girl. As an adult.
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  I have first hand experience with men like this and it is
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  something I have and always will take seriously.
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  I don't care how much I love or care about someone.
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  I would always stand with the victim regardless of the
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  circumstance. Here is what is important to me
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  and what should be important to to you.
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  This story came from Reddit, not from a woman.
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  Nobody at any point has come forward and accused him of
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  having any sort of inappropriate relationship with him.
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  The girl in the photos who he allegedly dated when she was
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  underage has made it abundantly clear to me that this narrative
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  is completely untrue and they never had any romantic or sexual
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  relationship what whatsoever. I can think of 100 men in the
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  public eye who have actually done horrible and unforgivable
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  things. Men with actual allegations,
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  accusers, and evidence against them.
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  Never in my life have I seen the world relentlessly bully and
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  demand accountability from his wife, girlfriend, or partner.
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  I'm curious why this is different.
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  I do agree. A lot of people I think are
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  using this whole mile situation as an excuse to project their
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  disdain for Brooke. Like you know they're projecting
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  it onto her because they don't like Brooke.
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  They don't like Brooke for a lot of valid reasons.
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  But regardless, I agree with her in that statement.
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  I think she I don't know if this is true or not.
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  OK, but I think she genuinely believes this.
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  I believe Brooke believes everything he has told her,
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  whether what he's told her is true or not, and whether what
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  this girl has told her is true or not, I don't know, but I
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  believe that she really, really believes that.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is I'm going to
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  talk about Justin Bieber's new album and Haley's reaction.
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  So on July 11th, Justin Bieber released a new album for the
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  first time since 2021 titled SWAG.
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  The album is his first without Scooter Braun and his OG team.
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  And now upon the release, Haley posted something on her stories
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  that had the Internet talking. I'm not going to say as much as
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  the album, but it was definitely talked about.
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  She shared Justin's post announcement and then she wrote.
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  Is it finally clocking to you fucking loser?
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  OK, so this is in response to Justin's now pretty infamous
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  paparazzi interview. You're not getting it.
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  It's not clocking to you. It's not clocking to you that
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  I'm standing on business is. It and it largely went viral
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  because it felt so erratic and people were like, oh, OK, so
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  we've thought Justin Bieber was crashing up, but this feels like
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  confirmation that he is not. OK.
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  So I do think Haley posting this was her trying to be like, do
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  you realize this was all a marketing ploy?
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  And I have seen that take as well where people are like, Oh
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  my God, he's such a genius. Like he was, you know, saying
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  all these mean things about Haley on Mother's Day and like,
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  making us question him and staying in the public guy in the
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  PR machine, you know, where we all thought he was crashing out
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  when really he was just getting ready to release an album and
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  now we're all paying attention. I don't think Justin Bieber
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  wants that kind of PR around him.
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  I don't think Haley, especially at such a big moment for her
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  first Mother's Day, she sold Rd. Like, I don't think she would
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  also agree it to be part of such a volatile PR narrative.
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  You know, it was not a flattering narrative for either
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  of them. I don't buy that.
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  All of that was for this album release.
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  I think this album release is actually part of the crash out
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  too. But anyways, then Scooter Braun
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  made a statement congratulating Justin on his album.
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  He said, quote, this is without a doubt the most authentically
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  Justin Bieber album to date. It's beautiful, raw and truly
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  him and that's what matters. And then Haley posted an
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  Instagram story, just a selfie using like a silly filter with
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  Mariah Carey's why you so obsessed with me song playing.
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  And everyone's like, OK, that is absolutely in response to
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  Scooter. The album has also reportedly
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  helped Justin pay Scooter back. He apparently owes him $31.5
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  million from his cancelled Justice tour and unpaid
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  commissions, and apparently this has really helped pay that back.
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  Regardless of what is going on there, people are actually
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  loving the album, especially the lyrics.
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  They think they're great. And I think people are just so
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  happy, like Believers are so happy to have Justin Bieber
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  back. Annabelle is the Believer of the
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  century, OK? Like she is a Justin Bieber
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  stand to her core. She was so excited when this
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  album came out. I need to read you guys what she
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  said in Slack. Do you know what it was like for
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  me when I woke up and saw he was releasing an album?
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  I thought it was hallucinating. I was convinced that man was
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  never returning. I'm down bad with Bieber fever
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  this morning. I was like, OK, so you can't
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  work Monday morning. You have Bieber fever and the
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  last three that I have for you guys, four stories today and I
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  think tomorrow's going to be 4 stories as well.
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  Actually, no, you know what? Sorry I forgot to say.
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  So I have been getting some requests to cover like the salad
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  drama on TikTok and I was going to cover it tomorrow.
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  But it is also such a big topic. So I think it will be its own
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  mini deep dive on Friday because it's also still evolving even
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  though it's like 2 weeks old still like the story she keeps
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  changing. So I believe that will be on
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  Friday's episode. OK the last word that I have for
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  you guys is that nail techs are crashing out all over TikTok
• 16:50
  over OP is new at home gel kit. So Speaking of crashing out nail
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  techs on social media are very upset because OPI has released
• 16:59
  an at home gel kit for consumers.
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  The video that kicked this off was by at nailed by Bethany.
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  So I never. Thought that we would see the
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  day as licensed nail techs where OPI decided to finally sell out.
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  They're now making at home DIY gel kits for the average
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  consumer. Pretty much saying fuck you to
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  the licensed professionals over the last 30 years who have made
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  them filthy fucking rich. This video has 4.5 million views
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  and it has started massive discourse between nail techs and
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  customers. The main pushback from customers
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  is that beauty services, not just nails, but beauty services
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  have become so expensive. And given how fucked the cost of
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  living is right now and how many like layoffs people are facing
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  and all of that, a luxury service like hair and nails,
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  they become wants instead of needs.
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  So OPI is just answering consumer demand and
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  understanding kind of like the trends and what's going on in
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  consumer behavior right now. And I think there's another
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  element when it comes to independent nail techs because
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  look, the price of nails and beauty services in general have
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  absolutely gone up the past few years.
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  And part of that, of course, is because the products that, you
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  know, the hairdressers have to purchase and the nail artists
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  and stuff, those have gone up. So they have to charge consumers
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  more. But I think for independent nail
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  tax, which is what Bethany is, and kind of like who is pushing
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  back on this? It's not people that are working
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  in like express salons that are upset about this.
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  I mean, as far as I've seen, it is more so like these
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  independent nail tax. If you are charging someone like
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  $200 to get their nails done every three to four weeks, that
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  is a luxury price point for a service like nails, especially
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  when you can still go to express salons and get a gel manicure
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  for like 40 or 50 bucks. And obviously those are not
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  going to last as long. You know, they're not as good
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  quality. You probably can't get nail art
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  and all the things you want. But regardless, like it is still
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  available for you at that price point.
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  So if somebody is choosing to spend 150 plus dollars, like
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  that is a luxury service in your industry.
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  If you're one of the providers that charges that price point,
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  then you need to provide a luxury experience.
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  So for some personal contacts, I'm very interested in this
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  story because you know, I'm a nail girly.
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  I'm a nail art girly. I have been going to the same
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  independent nail tech for like I'm going to say five years now.
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  I drive an hour to her and an hour home every single time I
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  go. I mean, I've moved with her.
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  She used to be much closer to my house and she moved and I was
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  like, I'm sticking with you. And I don't know if she left
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  nails, if I would find a new independent nail tech or if I
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  would just, you know, go to an express salon or do it myself.
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  Because for me going to her, it's like the experience that
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  she curates for us because it is a luxury experience.
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  It's not just the work she does, It's not just her services.
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  It's the fact that, like, her salon is beautiful and airy and
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  we can watch whatever show we want on an iPad.
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  We can chat with her. She's like my friend now, right?
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  Like because I've been going to her for so long, she has
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  chocolates and teas and snacks and like, whatever you want.
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  You can get she curates this beautiful, luxurious experience.
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  And so for me, part of the value of paying that much and driving
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  that far is that experience and the routine that I've kind of
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  built around that experience. So I am paying partly for that
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  experience. So if you're also a luxury nail
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  tech, then you shouldn't be worried that people are going to
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  start doing their at home nails because in theory you should be
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  curating an experience that feels luxurious enough.
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  If your price point is that high that people want to go to you
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  for other reasons than and just, you know, the nail Polish that
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  they get on their nails, it's kind of like going to the hair
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  salon, right? Like I could just get box dye.
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  I mean, blonde is tough regardless, but you know, like I
• 20:44
  could try, but I want to go partly for the experience.
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  I want an expert to be doing my hair or something as important
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  as my hair dye. I want that done by an expert
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  and I go to a specific salon because I like that specific
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  experience. So Bethany clarified what she
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  feels ripped off by with OPI is that the products they sell for
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  professionals are expensive. But now that they're selling
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  these at home kits to consumers, they're selling them for much
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  less than, I guess the professionals have to pay.
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  But I think it's the same with any kind of beauty service.
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  Like, I'm sure my hairdresser is not buying, you know, blonde dye
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  for $12.00, the same that I could buy at the chemist, you
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  know? And a lot of people in the
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  comments are making the point that if she's claiming the
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  products are the same, then just buy the cheaper version.
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  But they're likely not, right? Because at home kits are
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  tailored to novices versus professionals and I'm sure a
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  slew of other things. All of that to say, there are
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  some valid concerns from the nail tech community about how to
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  safely handle gel at home. I know this was a conversation
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  during lockdowns, but a lot of people were buying gel Polish
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  and then buying like Amazon lamps.
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  And I guess I know from my nail tech, she's like Amazon lamps or
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  they're usually not good enough. They don't cure well enough.
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  And so a lot of times that's when you get gel allergies.
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  There's a certain protocol that you need to follow when handling
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  gel. You need to cure it properly.
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  All of these things, right, so that you avoid having issues.
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  I'm going to assume that OPI will have taken all of that into
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  account when they create these kits.
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  I'm assuming they'll have proper labeling and instructions just
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  how like handling hair dye, they give you gloves and you know,
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  very detailed instructions and all of that.
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  But still, I understand the legitimate concern.
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  I think we all kind of understand that like getting
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  hair dye on you, you know, that can cause harm.
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  But gel, I feel like you get nail Polish on yourself all the
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  time. You don't necessarily realize
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  unless you're like very into nails that gel and like regular
• 22:38
  nail Polish are different things.
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  But yes, I'm interested from you guys to hear what you think of
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  this. Like I said, I'm such a nail art
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  girly. I'm such a nail girly.
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  It's such a big part of my like monthly routine.
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  But I go to like a very specific person for a specific reason.
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  And if she were to leave, I don't know if I would look for
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  somebody new like that because I'm not just going to her like
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  for the nails, you know, it's like the experience that she
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  creates to me is worth the amount of money and the travel
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  time. And like now she's like my
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  friend. So I got, you know, a little
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  catch up and stuff. All of that is worth that time
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  and that money for me. And I kind of feel like if you
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  are a nail tech, a luxury nail tech, like you shouldn't be
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  worried about this at all because what you in theory
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  should be providing for that price point would be totally
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  different than what somebody wants who is buying one of these
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  at home kits Anyways, guys, that's it for me to scroll
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  today. I have no idea how long I've
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  been recording for. Thank you so much for listening.
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  I love you guys. Please remember to rate, review
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  and subscribe. And I will talk to you guys
• 23:38
  tomorrow for another episode. Bye.