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MINI SCROLL: Influencers uninvited to Coachella, Julia Fox defends Jake Shane + Euphoria premiere event discourse · Mini Scroll

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  I feel like that's unusual. OK, the first story that I have
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  for you guys today is that influencers are coming on to
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  TikTok claiming that brands have been uninviting them from
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  Coachella trips like 24 hours in advance.
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  So Coachella weekend 1 is this weekend of course, and there's
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  already been a bit of drama around the festival before it's
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  even kicked off. 1st, I wanted to say back in March, there were
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  actually quite a few influencers, specifically
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  Australian influencers who were going viral and facing backlash
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  for quote UN quote, begging for brands to take them to
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  Coachella. And we didn't cover this.
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  Honestly, I'm not really sure why, but this was definitely a
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  thing quite a few weeks ago. So influencers like Sam Guggs,
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  Bridget Sarik and Brock Velicini, we're all facing
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  backlash because they were making these videos basically
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  saying to brands like, can you please take me to Coachella?
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  Like here's my proposal. I'm manifesting a free trip to
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  Coachella with the brand. And some of them are making like
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  full on series about this. Now.
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  I wanted to say when we were prepping this episode, Annabelle
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  was like, Oh my God, are you going to talk about Coachella?
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  Can you please say on the pod, will somebody take us to
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  Coachella? I was like, girl, Coachella
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  starts tomorrow. It is literally like less than
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  12 hours away basically at this point.
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  And she was like, please, I was like, that's what the story is
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  about, is about people begging to be sent to Coachella.
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  And she was like, you know, though, like, I'm mentally
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  unwell. Well, because Justin Bieber is
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  headlining. Like, she has Bieber fever.
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  Justin Bieber is her number one Beyoncé.
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  Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande. Who else do you love?
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  All the pop girlies. Yeah.
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  She says Justin Bieber was, like, her first foray into true
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  fandom. And she was like, please, can
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  you say something on the pod? I was like, girl, it's a
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  literally 12 hours away. I don't think you're getting a
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  free trip to Coachella at this point.
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  He's like, please say it. I need to manifest.
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  So that's part of this story is that influencers are getting
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  dragged for doing this. And Annabelle was asking me to
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  do that on this podcast for you guys.
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  OK, so I do understand why this type of content rubbed people
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  the wrong way. But it definitely also is a
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  trend right now for people to like jump on TikTok and ask the
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  algorithm to like do its thing and help them achieve a specific
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  goal or a specific dream. So even though it is very
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  different for influencers to do this given, I think most of them
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  could probably afford their own trip to Coachella.
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  And also many of them have already been to Coachella.
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  So it's not like a once in a lifetime like bucket list thing
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  that they were asking for. I kind of see that type of
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  content as almost like engagement farming for them more
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  than them actually. Just like wanting a free trip to
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  Coachella. I think it was them jumping on
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  this trending style of content and seeing how much engagement
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  they could get off the back of it.
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  And obviously if they got a free trip to Coachella, and I'm sure
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  some of them did, then you know that's a bonus.
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  Anyways, now a few weeks later, it's seeming influencers are no
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  longer begging to go to Coachella unless you're
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  Annabelle, but instead they are posting videos claiming that
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  they were invited and now have been uninvited to brand trips
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  for Coachella super last minute. So Cathy, O'Brien, Taran, Lamb,
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  Glow, Cortez, Yasmin, Marzielli, Aisha, Asan, Ramu are just a few
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  of the influencers who are posting content talking about
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  how they were uninvited from Coachella last minute.
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  I'm not. Going to Coachella anymore?
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  I literally found out yesterday I received this text message and
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  yeah, let me just get into what's happened.
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  I just been leaving for Coachella in literally.
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  Two days and I just got a text saying we're not going anywhere.
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  It's cancelled. Smiling so.
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  That I don't. Cry, but this is literally
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  insane. This is supposed to be my first
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  year at Coachella, especially going with like an agency.
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  And I was so excited because I was like, oh, I'm so fortunate
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  that I get to go. Obviously now I'm not going.
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  Oh, it's so sad. I literally have my suitcase
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  already packed and now I'm going to have to unpack it.
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  So I got invited to Coachella this year with a brand and then
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  uninvited, and I already kind of made a video talking about this,
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  but Long story short, they emailed me.
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  I was so excited. I responded, I was like, Oh my
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  God, I can't wait. I'm so excited.
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  I had one question about the whole plus one situation and
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  then they didn't answer my question.
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  And then we kept following up like, hey, what's going on?
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  And then three days later they were like, actually you're not
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  invited anymore. And I was like.
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  I was packing to go to Coachella this morning and on my for you
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  page there's just an abundance of videos of girls being like I
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  can't believe like this brand randomly uninvited me last
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  minute like Airbnb cancellations.
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  I'm thinking like Oh my God I can't believe like this is
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  happening. Like this is so insane.
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  I can't believe people are doing this.
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  Then I get a text from my manager I'm not going to
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  Coachella anymore of the birthday.
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  Has done we're not going Coachella.
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  Do I laugh or do I cry? I used to do a story time and
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  you guys need to tag brands because I still want to go.
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  I've lost out on so much money bought outfits, got my hair
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  done, bought my Ester to enter America.
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  Everything is just a joke. So unprofessional, bad
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  communication. It's literally in two days.
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  Obviously there's week 1 and Week 2, but please, any brands
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  you guys that know that go in, tag them.
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  I knew it was too good to be. True, there are honestly
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  countless videos out there and at first I was like is this just
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  more engagement farming? Because as we know, the Internet
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  loves to support someone when they feel like they have been
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  fucked over by a brand or a corporation.
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  However, after watching all of these videos, I actually do
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  believe they're real. Most of them show emails and
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  different receipts to really like prove that this happened
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  and that they were in fact invited and then uninvited.
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  And also quite a few of them have almost identical stories
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  with almost identical emails and messages, and presumably these
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  ones that are similar are from the same agency.
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  OK, so how did this happen? As someone who is in the media
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  industry and works alongside brands and PRS all at the same
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  time, I have a few theories, But I think mostly like the
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  overarching thing that I think is happening here is that the PR
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  industry is incredibly overworked, understaffed, and
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  underpaid. PR agencies are essentially like
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  the middle men between their clients who are the brands who,
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  I mean, I have never worked NPR, but I work alongside many PRS,
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  like I said, and I know that there's kind of like this
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  running thing in the industry where they really feel like
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  every client thinks that they're their only client.
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  So I think brands, especially given how big some of these
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  retainers are that they're paying, like, you know, they
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  demand a lot. They expect a lot from the
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  agencies that they're paying. So I think there's a lot of
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  pressure on the brand side. And then you're like the
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  middleman between the brand and the talent.
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  And these talent, you know, sometimes they are celebrities,
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  sometimes they're really famous influencers, even if they're not
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  super famous, you know, being a creator who is getting flown to
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  Coachella, like, you probably have some amount of clout, OK?
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  So you have a big personality. There's probably a lot of ego
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  involved and also a lot of expectations on their side.
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  And I think it's just easy for things to fall through the
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  cracks. And also as somebody who is
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  working alongside like agencies and brands all the time, I also
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  know that brands can change their minds on like how they
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  spend their budgets like that. And it's not always up to the
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  marketing manager that you're dealing with directly.
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  Like for example, we had a deal, like a six figure deal that was
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  going to go ahead this year and it got cut more than in half
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  literally the day before it was supposed to be signed because
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  the brand here locally was informed by Global that they
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  were doing this giant campaign this year.
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  And globally, everybody needed to allocate some of their
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  budget, their local budget, the local marketing budget to
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  amplify that campaign this year. And that was like completely out
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  of their hands. And we were literally like a day
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  away from signing this contract. So I know how quickly things can
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  change. Like we had the contracts out,
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  you know, so I know how quickly things can change and it is so
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  often out of, you know, the hands of like the local team or
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  the people that you're actually directly dealing with.
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  I also think it's possible that when the lineup was announced
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  and it was going to be Justin Bieber, like I know.
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  So that's a huge poll for a lot of people.
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  Like I know the headliners always supposed to be a huge
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  poll, but like that's a huge poll for a lot of people.
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  So I think it's possible that bigger influencers who maybe had
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  an RSVP DS or maybe had said no, decided to say yes.
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  And of course, like a brand and agency, it's not fair, but
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  they're going to probably prioritize guys bigger
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  influencers because that that's the whole point of taking
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  influencers to Coachella is getting that reach.
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  And I also think it's possible that something that we see in
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  media content partnerships on our end has happened.
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  So sometimes we will be at like proposal stage with a brand and
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  to get it over the line, the agency will suggest that we put
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  together like an interview list. So like an example of who we
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  might interview for this miniseries.
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  Or sometimes they even get you to do like mock up content so
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  they can like see what it's going to look like or how it
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  will go. So I think it's possible that in
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  this case, maybe the agency was trying to get the concept of a
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  Coachella brand trip over the line with their client and to
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  prove the ROI. You know, their client said, OK,
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  well, like who will come? And so they had to reach out to
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  the influencers to get an idea of who would say yes, their
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  availability, you know what they were open to posting.
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  Again, this is not necessarily like ethical, but I'm thinking
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  just like from my personal experience running a media
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  brand, it's obviously different than being like an influencer.
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  But I'm thinking this is possibly what might have
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  happened because it sometimes happens to us in our industry as
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  well. And then again, it's possible
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  that too many people said yes, or the client changed their mind
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  last minute and said, you know, we actually don't really want to
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  go ahead with this. But it seemed on the talent side
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  like everything was getting locked in when really it was
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  actually the agency, like trying to get this idea over the line
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  for them. But I know that can't be for all
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  of these stories because some of them did have contracts in
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  place. Some of these influencers said
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  they had signed contracts. But if you guys are in the
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  industry, let me know what you guys think happened here.
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  Those are just like my theories. I have seen a lot of PR people
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  in the comments being like, this is like the ultimate no go.
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  Like if you accidentally invite someone, if you invite too many
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  people, if you tell someone they can have a plus one and then
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  they actually can't, whatever it is, you can never renege that.
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  Like you can never go back on your word.
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  They're going to Coachella. They might have two followers
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  and they were accidentally invited.
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  They're going to Coachella. You do not uninvite.
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  All right, The next word that I have for you guys today is Julia
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  Fox has defended influencer red carpet interviews in a new
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  statement. OK, so we didn't talk about this
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  on Mini. I also don't know why we didn't
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  talk about this similar to the Coachella stuff.
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  I can't really remember. Oh, maybe it was the week that
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  we were off. Maybe it happened that week,
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  actually. But I know high stakes covered
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  this. But last month, Jake Shane, you
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  know, podcaster Sofia Richie's BFF, he was copping some
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  backlash after he landed an opportunity to do red carpet
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  interviews at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party red carpet.
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  And a few of these interviews went viral because the questions
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  that he was asking came off as out of place, tone deaf,
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  awkward. There was a lot of feedback that
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  instead of asking about the actual event or the projects
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  people were there for, he was making these, like, random
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  comments that didn't really land and came off as quite out of
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  touch. So one of these moments that
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  really kind of kicked off the backlash was when he asked Julia
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  Fox about the film If I Had legs, I'd Kick You.
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  She was trying to explain why she loved it.
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  And he was just like interrupting her constantly
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  saying did you think the kid was annoying?
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  If I. Had legs, I'd kick you.
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  Wow, like every mother's story, you know, especially the kid was
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  annoying. No, I can't.
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  Yeah. You know, that kid was so damn
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  annoying. But she had a shoes.
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  And it's like, that's the thing. I think the kid was annoying
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  because of mom. Can I tell you something?
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  It's it's it's not that it's the mother's fault or the child's
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  worth. It's society's fault.
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  It sets mothers up to fail, You know, even the fact that, like,
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  school gets out at 3:00, but most jobs are done at 5 or 6.
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  Like, like they all those little things are so positioned to just
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  not, are not conducive to mothering, if that makes sense,
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  you know, And it's Julia Fox for president.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  I feel like we've dragged this on a little bit and there's a
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  whole bit. I want to talk.
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  Julia Fox for president. I mean if you are, I just want
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  to take a break like I can take. This clip made Julia Fox look so
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  good. Everyone was like, Oh my God,
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  she handled this so gracefully and she really had such a great
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  answer. But this backlash extended
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  beyond social media. So Variety actually wrote, I
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  wouldn't say it was like a hit piece, but they wrote a not so
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  flattering article about the entire controversy.
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  And it was about how this whole situation proved, like the Jake
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  Shane interviews proved, that influencers should not be doing
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  red carpet reporting. Now since Julia Fox interview
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  was kind of like the catalyst of this piece, I guess she was
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  asked about that take at the Fashion Trust US red carpet
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  today and this is what she said. I mean.
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  It's like, listen, I I'd understand, like influencers in
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  an emergency room doing surgery, but it's like a red carpet,
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  like, who cares? Let the influencers in.
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  Let them in. Yeah, I'm, I don't like it's,
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  it's not that serious. Period.
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  Again, a classy queen. I understand what she's saying
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  here. I I think there's mixed opinions
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  on that response. I've seen people in the comments
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  be like, you know, journalists trained for like at least four
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  years. This is probably one of the more
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  like glamorous parts of their job, something that they get
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  excited to do with like a fun part of their job.
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  So, you know, it does feel like unfair that, I don't know,
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  influencers get to do this instead.
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  And that probably is true to an extent.
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  We're in a bit of a different situation here in Australia.
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  It's pretty rare, I would say, for a media outlet to contract
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  red carpet interviewing out to like a personality or an
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  influencer because I think there's so little money here.
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  There's just not the budgets for that.
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  I haven't, as far as I know, been on a red carpet where an
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  influencer is interviewing. That's not true.
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  I think maybe one or two of like the youth media brands have
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  contracted influencers or like creators to do red carpets that
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  I've been on. But typically it is like an in
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  house journalist reporter. And there are actually a lot of
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  brands and social media companies that will do that.
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  Like, so for example, when I was at the TikTok Awards, beside us
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  were two people doing red carpet coverage for Uber Eats because
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  Uber Eats was one of the major sponsors.
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  And it was like a creator who was contracted by Uber Eats to
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  do like the red carpet interviews.
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  So that will happen more here. Where I stand on this is I
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  understand why people are like, please bring back journalists to
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  the red carpet. You know when you watch even
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  like a Ryan Seacrest, you know, when you watch kind of the more
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  old school red carpet coverage, entertainment red carpet
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  coverage, you can really spot how skilled those people are
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  compared to what we see on the red carpet a lot of the Times
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  Now. However, when it comes to like
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  the Jake Shane situation, it was actually the Oscars, like Vanity
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  Fair, Oscars after party red carpet, like there were three
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  steps removed from like the actual Oscars red carpet
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  situation. And I think in general, no
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  matter how we feel about it, this is like the direction of
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  the world. Like this is the way of the
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  world. Not every influencer is cut out
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  for that role, but we actually have seen quite a lot of
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  influencers who are amazing in these positions, like Teffi, for
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  example, Drewafwallow, Brittany Broski, Like there are examples
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  that we have of creators who are doing this well.
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  Also, Quen Blackwell, who was on the red carpet with Jake Shane,
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  she did make a video about this and she was like, it was
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  supposed to be silly and funny. And it was a live stream too.
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  So you really need to like capture the audience and keep
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  them engaged in a live stream. I didn't agree with how he went
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  about his questions and his coverage, his reporting on the
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  red carpet. But I do think there is some
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  nuance lost in this conversation.
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  It's not just like journalist versus influencer on the exact
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  same level of red carpet, right? Like, there's various tears to
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  this, and there's various reasons why these media outlets
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  are choosing to contract influencers.
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  They need the eyeballs, OK? We keep hearing journalism is
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  dying. Media is dying.
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  Who's going to save it? Jake Shane.
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  OK, And the last word that I have for you guys today is I
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  need to talk about the Euphoria premiere.
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  It happened yesterday. Everyone is talking about it and
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  Euphoria has been such a cultural moment since it first
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  aired back in 2019. So every time something comes
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  out about it, there is just like so much discourse.
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  OK so season 2 came out in 2022. This is giving Severance.
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  Like, this is what I'm worried is going to keep happening with
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  Severance, where it's like literally five years between
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  seasons. I can't.
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  Severance is like my number one. I think about it all the time.
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  I watch every single video essay that I can about it.
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  I eat that shit up. I am so desperate for a new
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  season and I feel like we're not going to get one until like 2027
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  at least 'cause I think they're only just starting to film in
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  like July. OK?
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  This, this story is not about Severance, it's about Euphoria.
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  Euphoria Season 2 came out in 2022 and since then Sam Levenson
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  who is the showrunner, writer, and director has found himself
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  in controversy, particularly with the release of The Idol,
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  which is a show featuring Lily Rose Depp about the dark side of
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  being a pop star. It was heavily criticized for
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  over sexualizing the cast and fetishizing trauma and porn.
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  Also, fun fact, people tell me all the time that I look like
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  Lily Rose Depp. OK, so at the time, social media
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  users were thinking about boycotting season 3 of Euphoria,
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  but so far that doesn't seem to be the case.
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  I think that discourse, cuz it was like so long ago, has just
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  kind of died. Annabelle and I were talking
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  about this and we're like, have we seen any of that discourse
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  anymore? Like with kind of the talk about
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  the premiere and like what's been going on?
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  And no, So I don't know. I don't know if that discourse
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  has died. I don't know if that take has
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  died. I don't know if people have just
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  forgotten, but people are not boycotting it as far as we can
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  tell. OK, so a couple moments from the
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  premiere seems to be dominating the online discourse, but
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  Zendaya's attendance is probably the most significant fans of the
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  show. We're actually not convinced
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  that Zendaya would attend at all, even though she is the
• 18:53
  show's lead. Her star has risen significantly
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  over the years, and, you know, she's just been busy.
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  In 2026, she also apparently got married.
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  As we know the show, the cast, there's so much controversy
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  around them. So the affiliation is less than
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  positive for somebody as a list as Zendaya.
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  Throughout the filming and production, there were also
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  rumors floating around that Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya had
• 19:17
  beef. Some reports suggested that the
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  tension between the two actors came from different political
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  views, especially since Sydney has seemingly embraced
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  conservatism. I could never say that word.
• 19:27
  Conservatism, conserve. I always want to say
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  conservativism. Conservatism.
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  How do I say it? Conservatism.
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  Meanwhile, other reports contend that it was over Tom Holland.
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  So tabloids have published articles alleging that Sydney
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  had the hots for Tom and was flirty with him when he came to
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  visit the set and quote UN quote.
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  Insider told The Sun quote Euphoria's bosses are all too
• 19:56
  aware the pair do not get along. There were tensions way back.
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  Their paths barely crossed during the making of Season 3.
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  During the press tour, any interactions between the pair
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  were being kept to a minimum to avoid any awkward encounters on
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  camera. There is a complete ban on
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  journalists asking about tensions between Zendaya and
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  Sydney. OK, obviously we will never
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  actually know what happened here, but it is worth mentioning
• 20:18
  that the tabloids also like to pit women against each other.
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  And ultimately heighten the tension for clicks and traffic.
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  So I guess take that with a grain of salt.
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  Having said that, Zendaya and Sydney both attended the
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  premiere. However, there have been reports
• 20:31
  alleging that Zendaya was late to the carpet and also skipped
• 20:34
  the cast official after party at Chateau Marmont.
• 20:37
  Some reports, basing their accounts on attendees, also
• 20:40
  alleged that Zendaya didn't stay to watch the episode, leaving
• 20:44
  without speaking to the press. 1 TikTok by Metro Entertainment
• 20:47
  made this claim and has accumulated 6.5 million views.
• 20:51
  Commenters are split. Many are sympathetic to Zendaya,
• 20:54
  noting how busy her schedule is with the drama and how Euphoria
• 20:57
  is the quote least important project in her schedule.
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  I agree with that. Other commenters have described
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  this alleged behavior as unprofessional and rude.
• 21:06
  However, again, it should be noted take this with a grain of
• 21:09
  salt because there do seem to be clips of Zendaya inside the
• 21:11
  event despite many claiming that she left after taking photos.
• 21:15
  I feel like I have never heard in Zendaya's what?
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  How long has she been in entertainment?
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  Like over 10 years, over a decade, I have never heard of
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  her ever being described as unprofessional and rude.
• 21:28
  And I know that these commenters are saying that that behavior
• 21:30
  would be unprofessional and rude, but I do not believe that
• 21:34
  she would do anything around her career that's unprofessional or
• 21:37
  rude. Maybe I'm just being a Zendaya
• 21:39
  apologist, but that's my take on that.
• 21:41
  Aside from Zendaya, though, other cast members are making
• 21:44
  headlines, specifically Alexa Demi and Sydney Sweeney.
• 21:47
  Many fans of the show were excited to see Alexa Demi attend
• 21:50
  the premiere. She holds this like unique place
• 21:53
  in pop culture where Jen Zed continues to take inspiration
• 21:56
  from her and talk about her even though she is relatively
• 21:59
  private. So memes have now started
• 22:01
  circulating that this is like the last time that we'll ever
• 22:03
  see Alexa Demi because she never goes out, she is never in the
• 22:08
  public eye. Meanwhile, social media users
• 22:10
  were surprised to see Sydney Sweeney bring her boyfriend
• 22:14
  Scooter Braun to the premiere. The two didn't walk the red
• 22:17
  carpet together, but they have been romantically linked since
• 22:20
  September of last year. Now tick tocks of the pair
• 22:22
  sharing a kiss inside the event have made the rounds and the
• 22:26
  reaction on social media has been exactly what you would
• 22:30
  expect. It is crazy because Sydney
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  Sweeney and Scooter Braun are two of possibly like the most
• 22:36
  hated people in Hollywood and so for them to get together is kind
• 22:40
  of wild. Speaking of Sydney Sweeney,
• 22:42
  Sierra Miller from Summer House spoke to the actress on the red
• 22:46
  carpet in like a little interview Vox pop moment about
• 22:49
  stealing your friend's ex-boyfriend and what is the
• 22:52
  correct next move. So Sierra was obviously
• 22:55
  referring to Cassie stealing her best friend's boyfriend in the
• 22:58
  show. However, as we know if we are
• 23:01
  Bravo fans, Sierra was also probably referring to Amanda
• 23:05
  stealing West. I mean, if you steal your
• 23:08
  friend's ex-boyfriend. It's it's not good.
• 23:11
  What? Do you think is the next step?
• 23:13
  I honestly, I feel like you ought to get married.
• 23:16
  I mean, I would hope so. You got to make it worth that.
• 23:19
  Make it worth something that's just worth too much pain.
• 23:23
  The parallels of that situation did not go unnoticed by the
• 23:26
  fans. And for those of you guys that
• 23:28
  are Bravo fans and really encouraged us to do a Patreon
• 23:31
  episode about it, I'm going to do that right after this.
• 23:34
  Sean is coming to the office and we are going to be recording a
• 23:37
  summer house breakdown episode about everything going on.
• 23:40
  And Sean has no idea what's going on.
• 23:41
  OK? So it's going to be like me
• 23:43
  recounting everything to him and getting his reaction.
• 23:46
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