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MINI SCROLL: Camilla Araujo $6K course, Chinese Baddie-tok, Timothée thanks Kylie + Topgolf vs. Logan's party · Mini Scroll

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  The first story that I have for you guys is I'm going to
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  breakdown why TikTok creator Camilla Araujo is rebranding and
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  why that rebrand is not going very well.
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  So Camilla is a famous TikTok creator and only fans model.
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  She actually got her initial big break in the Squid Games video
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  by Mr. Beast. She was a player in that video
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  and after seeing how much attention she got from that
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  video, she decided to drop out of college and pursue content
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  creation, which is so wild. I had no idea that was her
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  background. So she has since gained over 10
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  million followers on TikTok. I think 30 million in total on
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  social media. She's made $20 million on only
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  fans. She has been very open about her
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  social media success and she of course, was the star of the
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  famous OF collaboration house, the Bop house, which is how a
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  lot of us know her. So Camilla now is under fire
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  because she is leaving only fans or has said that she's leaving
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  only fans and her new era that she's launched is basically like
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  social media courses and she's charging upwards of $6000 for
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  these courses to her audience. However, before I get into all
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  of that, she has faced some criticism over the years, partly
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  for deceptively marketing her Only fans, where she claims that
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  she's posting much spicier content apparently than she
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  actually is. And that, you know, there could
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  be an argument on both sides. But what people have the issue
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  with is similar with Anna Paul, right?
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  It's like they have these huge followings and the majority of
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  their followers are young women who look up to this lifestyle
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  and believe that if they're just an only fans model or whatever,
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  then they can also have that lifestyle.
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  So a lot of Camilla's peers in this industry have an issue with
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  how she presents the lifestyle that this industry has given her
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  and kind of what that inherently promotes to her audience.
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  Also, she apparently hasn't actually quit only fans.
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  People are saying that this is just like part of the promotion
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  of her new era, that she's just taken the links out of her
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  descriptions. I don't know about that, but
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  people are claiming that she hasn't actually quit, only fans.
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  OK, so on to the course. It's called becoming her and
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  it's like modules on how to grow on social media.
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  You have to be approved to join the course.
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  And like I said, she's selling it for up to $6000.
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  I actually saw one person say they paid $15,000, but I don't
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  know if it was a troll. I'm not sure if she was joking,
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  but yeah, like up to $6000 as far as I've seen.
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  And so far, the fan reviews are not super great.
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  So this is from a creator called Aisha.
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  It felt kind of skimmy to me, not like illegal scammy but very
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  hash grab vibes. To start off, there's literally
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  a part where you have to enter your income, your credit score,
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  and how much you're willing to spend on this course.
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  And personally that does not sit right with me.
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  It feels less like let me help you grow in more like how much
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  can we get out of you? And honestly nothing, not a
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  single thing from becoming her stood out to me.
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  As someone who has had quite a few viral videos, the things
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  that she's trying to help you learn in her course is nothing
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  different from what you can find out from a quick tick tock
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  search on how to go viral in the span.
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  Of 10 minutes. And like I said, there's a lot
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  of creators, especially in her space, that feel like she's
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  praying on her young female audience with this because she's
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  basically run out of like men to prey on with her only fans
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  content. I guess.
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  Like that's the that's the take that I've seen.
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  So this is from a creator named Kendall.
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  I feel like a lot of you don't know this because I'm also on
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  that website. A lot of insight on why I think
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  Camilla dropping this course is just so wrong and predatory.
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  First off, management company, whatever it is, mentorship,
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  whatever. If they are making you pay for
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  knowledge, it's a scam. If they are telling you that you
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  do not have to show your face, it is a scam.
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  I want this to be a hate video. I think Camilla is so smart.
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  It just seems disappointing to build up an audience of girls
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  who love you and will support you for whatever you do to kind
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  of just turn around and scam them.
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  Like she went from like scamming men to scamming the women that
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  follow her now. And this from a creator named
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  Caroline. I'm really disheartened by
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  Camilla's actions. I used to send her PR for my
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  clothing brand and I used to really like her but now I'm kind
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  of seeing the truth about her. She's a liar, manipulative and
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  she scams everyone. She scammed all the men in the
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  world now and now she's like who else can I scam?
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  OK Girls who are vulnerable who like want to know how to be
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  viral on social media. These are probably younger girls
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  or people who lack self-confidence who are just
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  like so desperate to be this, you know, illusion that she's
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  created. Also, she's saying, oh, I quit
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  like and she hasn't. She just took the link out of
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  her BIOS and she's rather not going to promote it anymore or
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  make new content. But it's still there, she's
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  still doing it, and she's still making money from.
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  It OK, so the idea that somebody selling a course like this is
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  scammy is like definitely not exclusive to Camilla.
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  There's a lot of accusations about those online courses and
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  stuff, and there has been for so long.
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  But now where this has escalated to is that Ari, who's another
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  really famous spicy creator on TikTok, has actually called
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  Camilla out for this course. So she's done a few different
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  pieces of content around it. First, she was in the comments
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  section of a TikTok video. And this is what she wrote.
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  I just don't like scammers when everyone who follows us has
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  given us everything that we have and that's all.
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  And then she made a video a few days ago telling her followers
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  to never pay for a social media course.
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  And that quote, anybody who wants you to do well would never
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  make you pay for advice. And then she really escalated
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  things when she made a video a few hours ago calling Camilla
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  out for deceptive marketing of her Only Fans content in
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  general. So Ari specifically references A
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  collab that she did with Camilla on Only Fans earlier.
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  I was going to say earlier this year, last year in the middle of
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  2025, and Camilla, I guess, was promoting it with the
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  insinuation that there was like more happening than what they
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  actually filmed and what actually got published.
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  And she also I guess, was insinuating that Young Gravy,
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  who is Ari's boyfriend, was like involved in it somehow.
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  Now, I did see promotional videos with him in it, so I'm
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  not sure how involved or not involved he was in the final
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  content behind Only Fans. But regardless, Ari was
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  basically saying that she was heavily implying that he was
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  involved in a way that he wasn't.
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  I am not a confrontational girl, but the most important thing to
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  me is transparency and trust with you guys.
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  So if somebody is portraying me incorrectly, then I will be a
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  little bit confrontational. I will never shame anybody in
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  the industry for doing less than I do.
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  That has never been the problem. That's never what I've gotten
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  upset about. I care about being truthful with
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  my audience and the people that literally provide every single
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  fucking thing in my life for me. If you don't, that's on you.
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  That's not on me. So let's clear some things up.
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  If I do a movie club with somebody, I am always going to
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  say exactly what people are going to be seeing.
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  I also tell the people that I collab with that I'm going to be
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  honest that I would appreciate if they were too, because it
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  means a lot to me. But if I do a collab and you're
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  lying and putting captions out saying that my boyfriend quite
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  literally you when he didn't ever.
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  He wasn't even in the video and that I was, you know, in saying
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  when you didn't even unbox, that was, you know, full girl
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  downstairs out again, not that there's a problem if somebody
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  doesn't do what I'm doing, but if you're lying and saying that
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  you are when I was the only one doing anything, Oh no, it
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  doesn't feel right to me, which then leads to my audience saying
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  that I'm a liar and that they can't trust me and that
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  everybody in the industry is scammers just makes me a little.
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  Bit upset so far Camila hasn't responded to any of this
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  criticism and honestly I don't think she will.
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  I don't think that she will take any of this really into account.
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  I really think she is playing the game and trying to
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  accumulate as much wealth as possible, and she's pretty open
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  and honest about that, for better or worse.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys, OK, please
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  tell me somebody else is on this side of TikTok.
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  Sean, my husband and I very much are, but everybody that I've
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  talked to about this doesn't know what I'm talking about,
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  including Annabelle. She was like, I don't even know
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  what this is. So I am dying.
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  There is this creator named Sherri and she is teaching
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  TikTok users how to be Chinese and it's literally all over my
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  for you page and I think she's going to only get more popular.
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  So I need to tell you guys about her and about this content
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  because I'm loving it. So like I said, she's teaching
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  people how to be Chinese, but it's like the way that she's
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  sharing this content is what makes it really stick for users
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  and has been what's I think like one people over and really
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  helped propel her to virality. It's so funny she runs such a
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  tight ship. So let me just play some clips
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  so you guys can understand. So you're Chinese.
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  You didn't know what I was the first one to tell you, and now
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  you have to plan this coming out Chinese baddie.
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  And you don't know how because how do Chinese people celebrate?
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  Or are you a Chinese baddie going to host this Chinese
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  baddie coming out? I have some idea.
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  The first thing is you're going to require all your guests to
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  wear thuisia, OK? There's no shoes in the house,
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  OK? And no one's going to walk
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  around barefoot because nobody's getting sick.
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  So they're going to wear thuisia at your little coming out next.
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  Nobody's going to be drinking cold juice.
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  Cold. Beverages.
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  OK, that's not very Chinese of us.
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  We're going to be drinking hot tea, if you're seeing.
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  This on your free page. That means you are Chinese, and
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  from one Chinese Batty to another, I have to warn you
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  about the coldest period of the year.
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  That's coming up. And how do I know this?
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  I'm going to teach you how Chinese people calculate the
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  coldest period of the year and what that means and what you
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  should do because you're a Chinese Batty.
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  If you're seeing this on your free page, that means you're a
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  Chinese Batty and you know what Batty Chinese New Year is coming
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  up, so it's time you prep. We have to celebrate.
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  So here are some things that Chinese bodies do to lock in the
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  wells, manifest good things, and All in all, just start the year
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  of the Horse super strong. We have a few superstitions.
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  I would say traditions. OK, so this whole situation kind
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  of reminds me of Bean Talk, where users are like discovering
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  the benefits of eating beans every week or whatever was
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  happening with Bean Talk. And it's like that but with
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  Chinese customs. Sherry's like showing these
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  users the benefit of drinking warm water in the morning or
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  like wearing house shoes, things like that.
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  And then the users are documenting themselves trying
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  that and being like, Oh my God, this is actually like changing
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  my life or like changing my digestion.
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  And like, I'm loving this. And so because of this, her
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  community has now started using the phrase, I've been Chinese
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  for X amount of days now. So you'll see all this content
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  and all these comments from people being like, I've only
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  been Chinese for five days now, but it's already changed my life
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  and things like that. So that's coming from Sherri's
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  TikTok comment section. Now, I don't know for sure if
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  this was the inspiration behind Sherri's content, but her
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  content aligns with the parody phrase You met me at a very
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  Chinese time in my life that became kind of like a parody
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  meme phrase and went viral a few months ago.
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  So this is from know your meme quote.
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  You met me at a very Chinese time in my life is a catch
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  phrase period, getting a line of dialogue spoken by the
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  protagonist in the 1999 movie Fight Club.
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  You met me at a very strange time in my life.
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  The parody phrase was popularized on social media
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  throughout 2025 as it was increasingly used in memes, many
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  of which shared it alongside videos or images related to
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  visiting China, being a Chinese person, or doing something
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  stereotypically Chinese. The phrase is ultimately
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  meaningless and purposefully absurd.
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  I do want to note I think there was some mixed reception from
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  the Chinese community online to this parody meme.
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  I did see some people feel like it was an example of them being
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  made fun of, while others in the community saw it as more of like
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  a positive meme that appreciated their culture.
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  But interestingly, when I was looking into the reception of
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  this meme, I actually found a ton of information from Chinese
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  users in various forums online talking about how anyone can
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  quote, UN quote, become Chinese like Sherri is saying.
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  So for our Chinese listeners, can you let me know your
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  thoughts on this? Because I found this so
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  interesting. And I'm loving seeing all of
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  these people online adopt different customs and lifestyle
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  habits from the Chinese community.
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  Like things that Sherri is saying is one of those fun
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  little movements that honestly could have never taken place if
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  it wasn't for TikTok. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys, I just had to mention this.
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  OK, it's very quick. But Timothy Chalamet, I'm sure
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  you guys saw this, thanked Kylie Jenner in his acceptance speech
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  yesterday. So he made an acceptance speech.
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  He won an award at the Critics Choice Awards and he thanks
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  Kylie Jenner. He called her his partner and he
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  also thanked her for like their quote of quote, foundation, not
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  foundation as in charity. I saw Amanda, I think it was
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  Amanda Seyfried was like, oh, I thought he meant charity.
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  I think she wrote that on social media.
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  He meant like their strong relationship, like their
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  relationship, foundation, partner and foundation.
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  Like those are such serious words.
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  I mean, I'm still shook that they're together.
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  You guys know how I feel about this.
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  But I think it's finally time that I accept and move on cuz
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  that is like some serious, those are some serious words to use
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  about somebody partner and saying that they have this like
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  relationship foundation. Like that's crazy.
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  I mean, I guess like they've been together for three years.
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  Like I don't know, I'm delusional.
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  And then our queen club Chalmay. So she was caught like lurking
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  kind of in the background of them at the Critics Choice
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  Awards. And then she was on social media
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  and somebody was like, what was it like being close to Kylie?
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  Because as we know, she has bullied Kylie online, allegedly
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  bullied Kylie online. And then Club Chalamet Simone,
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  our queen, she was like, oh, there were no problems.
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  I only want the best for Simone, as we know.
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  So I'm happy for her. I'm happy she had no problems
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  with Kylie. OK.
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  And the last story that I have for you guys is I'm going to
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  break down the beef between Top Golf and Logan's Party.
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  There is this other like viral meme sensation going on.
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  It's similar to the 365 button situation on TikTok.
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  And it started from a rogue TikTok comment.
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  So it started because a user posted a video showing that a
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  Topgolf location in Michigan, USA was basically being
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  destroyed by an ice storm. If you guys don't know, Topgolf
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  is like a franchise of driving ranges, like golf simulators and
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  things like that. And I think it's around the
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  world. The video got a lot of views
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  because it was honestly a crazy visual.
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  Like you can see this ice storm destroying like the Nets and
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  stuff. Like it's crazy.
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  And in the comments, a person named Logan Phillips wrote they
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  better have that fixed by January 9th.
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  My work Christmas party is there so that comment just took off.
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  It has almost 300,000 likes right now and users have taken
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  this comment and just run with it.
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  Everyone is in the comments of this video concerned about
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  Logan's Christmas party and people are making tik toks all
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  over the Internet about it. So let me read you some of these
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  comments. Well, this is an awkward way to
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  find out that I wasn't invited to Logan's Christmas party this
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  year. I work at Topgolf and it will be
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  fixed by January 10th, the day after Logan's Christmas party.
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  If Logan's party is canceled on January May 9th, I'm going to
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  lose it. Hey, isn't Logan's party taking
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  place there? Six more sleeps until the party.
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  Damn. Did anyone reach out to Logan
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  about this? I came to the comments hoping
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  for a description of what caused this and I'm now leaving
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  extremely concerned over the status of Logan's Christmas
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  party. OK I'm back and we have 4 days.
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  Is Logan's party happening or not?
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  And then somebody this. This comment sums it up nicely.
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  I love when comment sections have their own lore.
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  OK, so it has been fixed. The official Topgolf account,
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  they commented on this original video and they wrote.
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  So now all of a sudden everyone knows Logan, huh?
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  And then they made a video a couple days ago filming the Nets
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  being fixed with the caption. We're excited to announce that
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  the Nets are fixed in time for Logan's work Christmas party.
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  I love it. OK, so I actually wanted to
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  share three things that this comment, Logan's comment has in
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  common with 365 buttons that we can take away.
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  We can take away why these comments went so viral.
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  So this is what I believe and I'm interested to hear your
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  perspective as well if you think there's something else that like
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  contributes to this. This was just kind of off the
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  top of my head. So first of all, both comments
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  are incredibly specific, but also ambiguous and unhinged.
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  It's kind of being soupy of both of these users, like the 365
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  buttons girl, Tamara and Logan. It's giving bean soup a little
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  bit where it's like, well, what about my incredibly specific
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  situation? It's like we understand what
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  they're talking about and we can relate to what they're concerned
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  about or what they're saying, but it's also slightly unhinged
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  to comment that, OK, the next thing is that they are self
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  centric in a harmless way. So again, that kind of goes back
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  to the bean soup of it all. And then third, both comments
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  and both people took themselves very seriously.
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  And I actually think that's like the magic sauce here.
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  And I mean, we saw that, especially with 365 buttons at
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  the end. The comment that with the most
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  viral was tomorrow being like, I don't need to explain it to you.
• 18:33
  It just makes sense to me. And Logan being like this better
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  be fixed by my work Christmas party.
• 18:40
  And these people are serious. And that's what is like the
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  magic sauce here. Like the cherry on top of why
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  these comments went so viral. All right, guys, well, that's it
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  for Mini Scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  and subscribe. Annabelle will talk to you guys
• 18:57
  tomorrow for mini tech and then I will talk to you again on
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  Thursday. Bye.