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MINI SCROLL: Shari Franke memoir, MrBeast wants TikTok, Justin Bieber unfollows Hailey + Addison Rae opens up about Bryce Hall · 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 every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone.
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  All right, before I get into the stories for today, I did want to
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  say that I listened to the celebrity memoir book club recap
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  of Sherry Frankie's book. And I highly recommend listening
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  or reading the book yourself, which obviously I have not done
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  yet. I think for all of us who have
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  been following the 8 passengers, Ruby, Frankie, Jodi, Hildebrand,
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  whole situation, this kind of puts a lot of the pieces of the
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  puzzle together. For us during that whole what
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  maybe two years that we were kind of following this case
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  since it really blew up, it was difficult to fully grasp what
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  was sensationalized by the Internet, by the media, by
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  whatever was going on, on like Reddit and all the forums and
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  everything. So this kind of answers those
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  questions and fills in any of the gaps.
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  And to be honest, from what it sounds like, a lot of what we
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  have been told was accurate. I don't think there was a ton
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  that was sensationalized from what I knew of the story going
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  into this podcast episode. I won't rehash everything
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  because I've talked about it so many times on this podcast.
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  You guys can search in this feed.
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  I think Jordy and I actually did a full deep dive into 8
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  passengers, Ruby, Frankie and the allegations against her
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  before she, I think maybe she was just arrested when we did
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  that deep dive. I think everything that they
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  covered. Again, I didn't read the book.
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  I find it actually difficult to consume media like a book like
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  this or something that is about work, unless I'm sitting down
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  like thinking, OK, I'm going to read this for work.
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  I find it difficult to enjoy. So that's why I haven't read it
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  yet. But I listened to the podcast
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  episode this morning and yeah, essentially, I think everything
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  else that they touched on in that episode, I think we knew.
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  And I think it's really interesting to hear it from her
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  perspective. It's probably validating for
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  her. And I think in the case of
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  Sherri, like, she needs to get this out there.
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  I know it's also new, but she needs to get this out there.
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  She needs to give these warnings to parents who are vlogging
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  their children. I know she's trying to do some
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  really good work there. And she almost needs to tell her
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  story and then be able to just, like, close this chapter and
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  move on. And even though I know that's
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  going to be like, so, so difficult, I understand why she
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  released the book so soon. Let's get into the stories for
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  today. The first story that I have for
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  you guys is that it seems like Mr. Beast is getting serious
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  about buying TikTok. So Jimmy Donaldson AKA Mr. Beast
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  AKA the biggest creator on the Internet, is looking to buy
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  TikTok as part of a group of investors on January 13th.
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  He posted on X quote OK fine I'll buy TikTok so it doesn't
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  get banned. Obviously this sounded like a
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  joke and TikTok did get banned for like 12 hours.
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  Annabelle did a full deep dive little mini deep dive I guess
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  for you guys yesterday. But now apparently he is getting
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  serious about this. So two days after he posted that
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  on X, he posted a video on TikTok saying I.
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  Just got out of a meeting with a bunch of billionaires.
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  TikTok. We mean business.
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  This is my lawyer right here. We have an offer ready for you.
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  We want to buy the platform America deserves.
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  TikTok. TikTok.
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  I'm on a private jet right now, about to put in my official
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  offer for this platform. I might become your guys's new
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  CEO. I'm super.
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  Excited the investor group, which is led by Jesse Tinsley,
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  who is a tech entrepreneur, he's the founder and CEO of
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  employer.com, is made-up of quote, institutional investors
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  and high net worth individuals who don't want to see the app
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  disappear obviously. And apparently their offer is an
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  all cash offer. How do you guys feel about a
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  creator possibly owning one of the biggest apps?
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  A creator like Mr. Beast, You guys know, like Mr. Beast is my
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  enemy. Number one.
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  This just proves everything we talked about on this podcast,
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  right? Like he is using his platform.
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  He's building his platform to gain power.
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  And this I think really proves that.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is Justin Bieber
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  claims that he was hacked after fan accounts discovered that he
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  unfollowed his wife Hailey Bieber.
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  This is so weird and I also need your opinions on this.
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  So on January 21st, fans noticed that Justin had unfollowed
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  Haley. Now how fans discover this, I
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  have no idea. I saw somebody on TikTok say
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  that media outlets will have bots that basically like track
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  this on different celebrities so that they get I guess like
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  notified or something when there is really big types of like
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  unfollows, like, you know, a husband or wife unfollows each
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  other, whatever. But I don't know, I think that's
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  possible for sure. I've just never heard of that
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  before. So as we know, there's been
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  rumors of separation between Haley and Justin for I mean, for
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  a really long time, but especially recently since they
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  had their baby. So this felt like, I guess maybe
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  like big confirmation that something had happened.
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  Shortly after this was discovered, however, Justin post
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  on Instagram stories saying that someone hacked into his account
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  and unfollowed Haley. He wrote quote, someone went on
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  my account and unfollowed my wife.
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  Shit is getting suss out here. And then he immediately followed
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  her again. What does that mean you guys?
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  There is no way that somebody just hacks into Justin Bieber's
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  account and all they do is unfollow Haley.
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  You think that's all they're going to do with access to one
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  of the biggest celebrities in the world, their private
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  Instagram account where they could DM anyone, post anything,
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  do whatever they wanted. So the main theory online is
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  that he has new music coming out and he wants to drum up some
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  type of hype. But I don't know, like I don't
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  think Justin seems like someone that would like, I don't know,
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  feed into that type of PR machine.
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  I he doesn't need it either. Like Justin hasn't released
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  music in so long. People are dying for more from
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  him, right? Like just for more like, I don't
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  know, public presence in general, let alone music like
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  that would just pop off. He does not need any type of
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  like weird hype drummed up pre album launch or music launch.
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  So I don't know, I have no idea what's going on here.
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  What I think probably happened was because they got in a fight
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  and he made a bit of an irrational decision to unfollow
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  her as like a little petty. Like fuck you, you know?
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  Like I have a friend who when she would fight with her
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  boyfriend, they're no longer together, but when she would
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  fight with her boyfriend, she would block him not just on
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  Instagram, but like also his phone number and stuff, which I
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  feel like is a bit extreme, but I feel like maybe that's what
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  happened here is he unfollowed her as like a petty dig because
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  they were in a fight or something like that.
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  And then obviously not expecting that fan accounts have this kind
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  of stuff tracked. And then he was like, Oh my God,
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  this is so embarrassing. And then had to issue this thing
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  that he was hacked, quote UN quote.
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  Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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  I'm absolutely never praying for anyone's downfall, but I think
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  when there are constant rumors and speculation about a
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  relationship, like usually we find out that there was trouble
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  in paradise, that something was going on.
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  So I feel like it is possible, but I hope not.
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  I really do like Haley and Justin and I really loved seeing
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  their relationship together on was it seasons that was his like
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  docu series or whatever. I really liked that.
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  I didn't like how it seems like a lot of the adults in his life
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  almost like parentify Haley. Like they were like, oh, we're
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  so happy now we know he's safe because he has Haley.
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  Like she takes care of him. That was not the vibe.
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  However, I really like their relationship and I think they've
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  been through it with so many rumors and just like the media
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  attention around them and like the Selena Gomez of it all.
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  So I feel like we just need to leave them alone.
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  But like, that is not helping Justin.
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  OK, the last story that I have for you guys, a little bit more
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  relationship news. Addison Rae has addressed
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  finally for the first time, the infamous Las Vegas trip that
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  split up her and Bryce Hall in a new Rolling Stone interview.
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  OK, so Addison Rae is the new February cover star for Rolling
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  Stone magazine, and she spilled some details tells about her
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  past relationship with Bryce Hall in the interview.
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  First of all, this cover is amazing.
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  It was circulating on TikTok and Twitter before it was like
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  officially announced and released by Rolling Stone and
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  Addison and Annabelle And I were looking at it because I was
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  like, maybe I'll talk about it on mini.
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  This was a couple days ago. I couldn't figure out if it was
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  AI or if it was like completely photoshopped and not real
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  because there was no like official announcement of this
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  cover. But people seemed to be posting
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  about it as if it was real. And I was so confused.
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  And I was like, is this just an example of like misinformation
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  like a deep fake or like, you know, AI generated cover art
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  that we are now posting about and saying is like, Oh my God,
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  Addison is slang and it's not real.
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  So I didn't cover it because I was like, I can't verify if this
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  is real or not. But I guess it was real.
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  And it just like so she said in this interview, I am very
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  guarded when it comes to relationships because my first
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  public relationship taught me a lot about myself.
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  I think he cheated on me. He says he didn't.
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  She said their breakup was a quote, shit show quote.
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  He was very vocal about everything and it was a mess,
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  She says she doesn't have hard feelings towards him though.
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  She said, quote, I believe there's good in everyone, so I
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  like to think there's a good part of him.
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  We were really young. I like to think that there's a
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  good part of him. You know, Bryce Hall treated her
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  like crap to say. I like to think that there might
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  be a tiny part of Bryce Hall that is a good person inside
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  that is actually the biggest shade.
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  So in case you missed it, in February 2021, Addison and Bryce
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  split after Bryce went to Las Vegas.
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  And then there was rumors all over the Internet claiming that
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  he cheated on her and he continually denied it.
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  But she posted some ominous things on Instagram that seemed
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  like it was true. And then they were broken up
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  ever since. And now Addison is literally the
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  IT girl and where is Bryce Hall? And that's that on that.
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  OK guys. Well that's it for mini scroll
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