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MINI SCROLL: Skibidi Toilet movie + Ballerina Farm interview exposes sinister truth behind tradwife creator · 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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  We made it to the end of the week and we are still about 1000
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  subscribers off from 5000 subscribers.
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  So please subscribe on YouTube. I'm going to count the end of
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  the week as Sunday because that's the end of the technical
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  week. And I feel like with our Part 2
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  of the Tana Mojo deep dive tomorrow, that will hopefully
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  gain some traction and we will hit my goal of 5000 subscribers
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  by the end of the week. All right, I have two stories
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  for you guys today and the first one is just a bit unhinged.
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  So there is a rumoured Skippity Toilet movie and TV series in
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  adaptation. So according to Variety,
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  Skippity Toilet is in talks of being adapted into a film and TV
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  franchise. Director Michael Bay, who
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  actually directed the Transformers movies, and the
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  president of Paramount, Adam Goodman sat for an interview
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  with Variety's podcast Strictly Business.
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  And they discussed this. They said we are absolutely in
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  talks right now both on the television side and the earliest
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  conversations right now on the film side, Goodman said.
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  But it's not a be all end all for us.
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  So when this came out, Taylor Lorenz, the Internet culture
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  journalist of our generation, obviously had to cover this.
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  So for The Washington Post, she wrote about how she thinks that
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  if this adaptation is successful, it will provide a
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  new business model for Hollywood, who is notoriously
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  struggling or has been struggling to compete with
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  social media platforms for attention.
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  And she spoke with Adam for The Washington Post, and he said,
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  quote, I think YouTube is one of the greatest breeding grounds of
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  new IP. It's a business as significant
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  financially as everything we've seen in the traditional
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  entertainment business. It's just a little different.
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  There's so much opportunity for people in Hollywood to jump into
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  this space. I couldn't agree more.
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  I think there is a big difference for sure between, you
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  know, contracting someone like Mr. Beast, because I think he
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  just got a deal with Netflix. No.
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  Was a Netflix or Amazon one of those to create content for
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  them, like TV for them? And I think there's a big
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  difference between being a really good online creator and
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  understanding what's going to hit online and in shorter form
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  content like YouTube videos versus creating ATV series or
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  like a movie cinematic universe. However, I think taking the IP
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  like a Skippity toilet is the perfect kind of launchpad for
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  that. And we've seen that with toys,
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  obviously, right? Like Barbie, Michael Bay, he did
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  Transformers, which was a toy. So they have experience doing
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  that. I mean, I think that Skippity
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  toilet is it like I think that this is going to be the biggest
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  fucking thing. Like we're on the precipice of
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  like the biggest thing this is going to be.
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  I'm trying to think of like what I could compare it to.
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  Like is this going to be like the new Marvel?
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  I feel like it could be or like Star Wars, Star Wars.
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  That's what it gives me. I'm going to call it.
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  And if you guys haven't listened, you have to listen to
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  my episode from a couple weeks back with Skippity toilet Expert
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  Know Your Meme editor, Aiden Walker.
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  I'm going to keep plugging it because it was such a good
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  episode. Like I can't even tell you, OK,
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  that was just a little tidbit, like just an unhinged fun little
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  story for you guys to keep you in the know.
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  The next story that I have. So I need need to talk about the
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  new profile that just came out in The Times on Ballerina farm.
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  So this article kind of exposes the reality behind Tik Tok's
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  most famous trad wife, Ballerina Farm, AKA Hannah Neilman.
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  The article is titled Meet the Queen of the Trad Wives and her
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  eight children. It's written by Megan Agnew for
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  The Times, like I said, and it is some of the most in depth
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  reporting on trad wives that we have possibly ever seen.
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  So Megan Agnew spent four hours with Hannah and the entire time
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  her husband Daniel was seated right there answering questions
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  alongside Hannah, even though the interview obviously was not
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  about him. It was not for him.
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  The only time it appeared that he left her side was when, like,
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  for just a brief moment, they were talking about child birth
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  because Hannah has had her eight children pain relief free.
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  Except she then admitted to the journalist when Daniel was in
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  another room that she did have an epidural for one of her
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  children. And she called it amazing.
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  And the journalist specifically notes, which, like is what makes
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  this article so great because the journalist was so brutally
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  honest, so cutting, so savage almost in how she reported on
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  this story. And she says in the article
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  that, like, Hannah, like, lowered her voice kind of
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  insinuating that A, Daniel would be upset if she was talking
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  about how she had an epidural and liked it, and B, possibly
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  insinuating, reading between the lines, that Daniel is the one
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  who wants her to have pain relief free births.
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  So yeah, it was, I'm going to say this article in general was
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  like quite dark. It was very difficult to get
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  through. And I've seen a lot of people on
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  social media say that they cried at certain points because the
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  journalist does such a good job of depicting how trapped Hannah
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  is and controlled, it appears, feels like she is possibly by
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  her situation. And a lot of that obviously has
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  to do with Daniel. So for example, to give you guys
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  an example of a time that he, like interrupted her.
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  So this is a direct quote from the article.
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  Neilman is the most known trad wife despite having never
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  attached herself to the movement or even used the term.
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  How does she feel about it? Quote.
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  We were already together doing what we were doing.
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  Daniel replies instead. And then trad wife came along.
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  We can't help it. This is what we are.
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  If we're trad dad tried wife, so be it.
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  Neilman, however, thinks otherwise.
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  Quote, I don't necessarily identify with it, she says,
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  because we are traditional in the sense that it's a man and a
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  woman. We have children.
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  But I do feel like we're paving a lot of paths that haven't been
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  paved before. So there's just all these little
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  moments like this where the journalist writes, Daniel
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  interrupts or Daniel replies instead or whatever to like let
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  you know what it was like being there, what their dynamic is
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  like where he is just constantly, at least for the
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  journalist, Like maybe it's not like that day-to-day, but maybe
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  he feels very protective of their brand to the public.
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  And he doesn't want Hannah, I don't know, to say something
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  that's going to upset him. He wants to to be presented in a
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  certain way. You know, it was very obvious
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  from the way the journalist wrote this piece that he was
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  trying to control the narrative. And Hannah was more so just
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  trying to like, you know, do her interview and tell her story.
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  The journalist also, like, presses them on their answers to
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  different questions. So like, in one part, Hannah
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  says that their first year of marriage, they had to sacrifice
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  a lot. And the journalist is like, what
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  did you have to sacrifice? And right before that, we had
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  learned that Daniel's father owns JetBlue Airlines.
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  So he's like, you know, they're like heirs to a billion dollar
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  fortune. So kind of implying that what
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  would you have to sacrifice? Most young couples, you know,
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  they're financially unstable. It's a very difficult time.
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  You're young, you don't have a lot of money, you know, and
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  that, of course, wouldn't necessarily be the case for
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  them. And she says, but we did have
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  this vision, this dream. And Daniel interrupts.
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  We still do. What kind of sacrifices?
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  I ask her, Well, I gave up dance, which was hard.
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  So if anybody didn't know, sorry, I should have said this.
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  Hannah was a Juilliard trained ballerina.
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  Let that sink in. You give up a piece of yourself.
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  And Daniel gave up his career ambitions.
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  And then the journalist says, I look out at the vastness and
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  don't totally agree. Daniel wanted to live in the
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  Great Western Wilds, so they did.
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  He wanted to farm, so they do. He likes date nights once a
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  week, so they go. They have a babysitter on those
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  evenings. He didn't want nannies in the
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  house, so there aren't any. The only space earmarked to be
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  Neilman's own, a small barn she wanted to convert into a ballet
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  studio, ended up becoming the kids school room.
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  So on that note, they don't have nannies.
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  You know, I think that was a big conversation or a big assumption
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  that we had about a lot of these trad wife creators, especially
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  the really wealthy ones, is like we're seeing what they put out
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  there, but there's got to be a team behind them.
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  So this was really interesting because she doesn't have any
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  nannies. They do have a cleaner once a
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  week. And in the article they do say
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  that Daniel does the laundry. The article continues.
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  The children appear to look after each other quite well too.
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  There are so many that they seem to have become almost a
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  self-sustaining entity. Still, Daniel says Neilman
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  sometimes gets so I'll from exhaustion that she can't get
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  out of bed for a week. So Hannah is out here being a
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  full time content creator, one of the most famous creators on
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  TikTok, arguably in terms of like being relevant in the
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  cultural zeitgeist right now. She has so many followers.
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  They run businesses on their farm.
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  So she's like working these businesses on her farm.
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  She's working the farm, She is working her content creator job
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  and she is raising eight children.
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  And I also believe she homeschools them.
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  So she is doing like 100 different jobs and you know, as
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  it says in this article, Daniel didn't want nannies.
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  So she is doing it all herself to the point where she's working
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  herself so hard that there's days for days on end where she
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  can't get out of bed. So I want to read one of the
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  final paragraphs before I get into how the Internet is
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  perceiving this. So it reads.
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  I can't, it seems, get an answer out of Neilman without her being
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  corrected, interrupted, or answered for by either her
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  husband or a child. Usually I am doing battle with
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  steely Hollywood publicists. Today I am up against an army of
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  toddlers who all want their mom and a husband who thinks he
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  knows better. I love it.
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  This is journalism like this is what it needs to be.
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  And I'm very aware as someone who has interviewed a lot of
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  famous people, like it's almost never like this, which is
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  exactly why she pointed out the journalist pointed out like I
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  usually you're battling publicist for like what you can
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  and cannot ask them and things like that.
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  The fact that this journalist wrote this in the article is so
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  powerful and should be fair. Like it's because Hannah like
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  ballerina farm is not, you know, a list enough famous enough that
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  there's like all these parameters.
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  It's because they are excited for the Times to interview them,
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  not the other way around. So if there's just a power
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  dynamic going on, that doesn't exist a lot of times when you
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  are a journalist interviewing like an A list celebrity for
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  example. But Oh my God, like this is how
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  profiles used to be all the time before social media.
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  Really. You know what kind of more
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  democratized fame and what celebrities need the media for?
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  This is so fucking good. So I feel like that really gives
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  us a sense of what is going on behind the scenes at their home.
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  So everyone is going nuts for this article, obviously, because
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  it really shows a side to the trad wife creator discussion
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  that I think a lot of us had not considered.
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  Like I said, there was kind of this assumption that these huge
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  trad wife creators, the ones that had millions of followers
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  that would be making possibly millions of dollars themselves
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  and where full time content creators had teams behind them
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  or people helping them with their childcare or their cooking
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  or whatever. Hannah cooks everything from
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  scratch. She doesn't have childcare.
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  Like I said, she's working all these jobs.
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  So this profile really exposed like a more sinister truth, at
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  least for Ballerina Farm herself.
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  She's doing all of this all while having Daniel kind of keep
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  her like, trapped, It appears, at least from this profile, in
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  this like, weird trad wife like fetish.
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  And this is more realistic to what the trad wife lifestyle
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  actually is. And it's really sad.
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  They talk about her ballet career like she went to
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  Juilliard. And that's not to say that what
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  you do in your life as a young person, like at university or
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  school has to translate to, you know, what you end up doing as
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  an adult. But Juilliard, like, that's not
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  just getting some like regular, regular degree, you know, like
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  getting accepted to Juilliard for dance, Like that's the
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  pinnacle. That is what every dancer in the
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  world who is taking dance seriously wants to do.
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  So that is extreme talent, extreme discipline, that is
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  extreme ambition, extreme dreams.
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  And I'm not saying that she is not living out her dream in a
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  different way, but I think this article has positioned how we
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  see her dream and how we see what she ended up giving up for
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  this trad wife life. So creator Caro Claire Burke,
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  who has done a lot of content on kind of demystifying trad wives
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  online, she said the real deception with this account now
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  with the Ballerina farm account now is the.
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  Appearance of everything being easy, breezy, beautiful, when in
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  fact it seems like Hannah Neilman is slowly working
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  herself to death to do multiple jobs, take care of these
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  children, perform as an influencer online without any
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  additional help. So not exactly a win for anyone
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  there. And I think that really sums it
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  up nicely. Definitely go with the article.
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  It is worth a read. It is sad like it genuinely it's
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  it's sad. And if you read it with a
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  critical eye and you kind of read between the lines, you will
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  feel very, I think emotional while you read it.
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  Anyways guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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