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MINI SCROLL: Meghan Trainor fan account predicts tour cancellation, Chase Hudson x Ally Lewber + TikTok user inspo for New Girl · Mini Scroll

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  The first story that I have you guys say is a Meghan Trainer fan
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  update account predicting did that she would cancel her tour.
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  So today, pop star Meghan Trainer announced that she is
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  canceling her entire upcoming Getting Girl tour, saying that
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  she's focusing on her family and that's what feels right for her
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  right now. So she revealed that balancing a
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  new album, a planned nationwide tour, and her role as mom of
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  three has simply become too much to handle all at once.
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  The tour was scheduled to start in June.
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  It would run through August with more than 30 cities in North
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  America. So she explained that she needs
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  to cancel the entire tour and be home and present with her
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  family. She also has a new album coming
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  out very soon in like a week or something like that.
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  So it's like, OK, sure, makes sense.
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  She just had this third baby, I think 5 months ago.
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  So, you know, it's like a big change, a big adjustment to her
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  life. Fair enough.
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  However, then fans realized that this sounded familiar because on
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  April 1st of this year, the Meghan Trainer fan account on X
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  Meghan News One posted this exact thing as an April Fool's
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  joke. They wrote Meghan Trainer
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  abruptly cancels her. The Gettin Girl tour refunds
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  have not been confirmed. And they made all these assets,
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  like visual assets to make it look legit.
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  And obviously it was an April Fool's joke.
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  So now fans have been looking into it more.
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  And apparently the ticket sales for her tour were really, really
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  bad. Like venues that could hold
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  15,000 people. She had sold like 500 tickets.
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  So it looks like they were probably going to be canceling
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  the tour regardless. So now the theory is that it's
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  possible that Meghan Trainer's team kind of like teased this to
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  the fan account. Obviously, we know some artists
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  do this. Like their teams will feed
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  information to fan accounts. The fan accounts will put that
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  out onto social media. And it's a way for the team to
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  suss, I guess, like the reaction to things, kind of like test the
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  waters and also get people familiar with an idea so that
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  when news officially drops about something, it's not like this
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  huge shock. So now that is like one of the
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  running theories about what happened here because it is a
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  weird coincidence that they posted this just two weeks ago.
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  For me, I feel like it's probably a combination of all
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  those things. I think it's definitely true
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  that she probably needs to focus on her family right now and, you
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  know, deal with this new phase of life.
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  She has a new album coming up. I'm sure that there's a lot of
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  activity that goes on around that as well.
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  And of course if the tickets were not selling well then that
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  makes sense too for them to cancel.
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  I don't know if the fan account was involved or if it was just
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  like a total coincidence. I don't know if the celebrities
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  use fan accounts as much anymore as they used to.
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  I feel like in the era when Stan Twitter was like the thing,
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  absolutely. There's so many more ways to get
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  information out there right now. I don't know.
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  I don't know if the industry is using fan accounts as much as
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  they used to. Actually feel like they're
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  probably doing what Elena Tabor did recently, which we covered,
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  which is like posting on Reddit about themselves or using teams
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  to do that, which actually comes into our next story.
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  I don't know even how to introduce this next story for
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  you guys. Say OK, Chase Hudson and Ali
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  Luber are apparently possibly dating.
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  I genuinely never thought that I would say either of those names
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  again ever. But when I saw this today I
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  literally yelled what my jaw was like on the floor.
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  So that told me all I needed to know.
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  I knew I needed to cover this story.
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  I don't know if it's relevant to anyone else, but it's relevant
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  to me. Okay, for people who don't care
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  about the 2020 hype house kids or never watch Vanderpump Rules,
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  you guys are probably going to be like, first of all, who are
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  these people? And like, why do we care?
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  And honestly, even for somebody who tracked both of those things
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  and is obsessed with both of those things, like I also
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  shouldn't care. But this is just like so random
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  I could not talk about it. It's at the intersection of like
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  my 2 main interests. OK so I do want to preface by
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  saying we don't really have any details.
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  And there are a lot of people on Reddit who think that Ali has
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  possibly hired APR agency to post about her in a bunch of
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  subreddits because she wants fame and to be on more TV shows
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  and whatever. So I don't know like maybe I'm
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  just like falling for that. But anyways, photos of Chase
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  Hudson and Ali Luber being very, very close and personal at
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  Coachella have come out. For anyone who doesn't know who
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  these people are, which is valid, I need to stress that
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  these people are very random. And this is possibly the most
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  random union that I could ever think of putting together, but
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  it's a very important union to me.
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  So Chase used to go by Lil Huddy.
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  He was an original member of Tik Tok's hype house, and he was
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  Charlie d'emilio's boyfriend for a while during that era.
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  He then went on to date a model named Kiara.
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  And then about a year ago, it was speculated online that they
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  had broken up up. Chase has tried to make music.
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  He had one or two hits, I think when he was still dating Charlie
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  or they had just broken up. And she remember she was like in
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  one of his music videos. That song did really well, I
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  think because they had just broken up maybe and she still
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  did the music video and people wanted to see them, like
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  interacting and stuff. But yes, he has tried to make
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  music. I don't think it's really taken
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  off, but I think that's probably still his main thing.
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  Ali was a cast member on the best reality TV show of all
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  time, Vanderpump Rules for a couple of seasons because she
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  was dating James Kennedy who was a main cast member on the show.
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  So James was engaged to Raquel of the Scandal affair.
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  Raquel was the woman now she goes by Rachel now.
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  But at the time Raquel was the woman who was having an affair
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  with Tom Sandoval who was in a 10 year relationship with his
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  partner Ariana Maddox. So Raquel and Ariana were
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  friends and then Raquel started sleeping with and having this
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  affair with Tom, Ariana's partner.
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  And Raquel had called off her engagement with James the season
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  before I think Scandal. So she was single when Scandal
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  happened and she called it off because James was super abusive.
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  So anyways James and Ali started dating and it was like a full
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  love bomb situation. I think she moved in with him
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  like 2 weeks after meeting him or something insane like that.
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  He was saying I love you right away.
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  But Allie did actually become like a fan favorite because she
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  seemed to really like not take a lot of James's shit and stuff
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  like that. But of course she was still with
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  him. She was still defending him to
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  an extent but not as much as I think we saw in previous seasons
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  with his other girlfriends, the other people he was dating
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  including Raquel. James and Allie broke up in
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  January of last year after a domestic violence incident
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  happened in their home and Allie ended up breaking up with James.
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  So now Ali has been still trying to like be on TV it seems she
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  has booked a few other reality shows like Southern Hospitality.
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  Although I did read, I don't watch it, but I did read that
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  she was like edited out of most of it.
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  And now she's going on a new Netflix dating show.
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  So that is interesting if she has actually like starting to
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  see Chase Hudson that they would be openly flirty and stuff in
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  public because she's obviously about to go on this dating show.
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  But I don't know, after seeing on Reddit that people were like,
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  I think that somebody is being paid to post about her in like a
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  various subreddits. Now I see her name in so many
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  different subreddits. I'm like, that is maybe true.
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  That is maybe what's happening here.
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  So I don't know you guys. I don't know what the legitimacy
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  of this is. The pictures are real, I
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  believe, but you know, is this a real relationship?
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  Is this just for clout? Like I don't know.
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  All right. And the last read that I have
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  for you guys today is a creators going viral after her followers
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  are convinced that she's the inspiration behind the TV show
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  New Girl. OK, this story also touches on
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  another passion of mine, New Girl.
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  Sean And I watched New Girl for the first time last year.
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  And I'm so sad that I didn't watch it in real time when it
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  was airing. I feel like I missed out on like
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  such a cultural moment and like all the discourse, like the
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  water cooler discourse that would have been happening.
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  So when this came up on my for you page, I was like, Oh my God,
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  it's my time. The universe is literally
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  handing me an opportunity to talk about New Girl with
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  thousands of people on this microphone.
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  So here we go, a TikTok user named Viper pilot Karth Rice I
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  think is how you probably pronounce it.
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  I'm going to call her Viper. We don't know her real name as
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  far as I know. She has been gaining traction
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  for sharing that her life is weirdly similar to Jessica Day
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  from New Girl. And so many people online are
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  convinced that she was the real life inspiration for the
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  character. And there are several reasons
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  why. So a week ago, she published
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  this video on TikTok that kicked off the whole thing in which she
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  explained that her niece is convinced that New Girl is based
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  on her life and she's explaining the reasons why.
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  So she was an elementary school teacher in the 2000s.
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  She lived in an illegal loft with three guys.
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  She played the ukulele. And she said she was kind of
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  like this kooky teacher personality, right?
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  Like the guys would help her with her lesson plans and they
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  would help her with different skits at school and things like
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  that. And they would like, dress up in
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  funny costumes. And it was just like a silly,
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  goofy vibe, OK. New Girl is not based on me, but
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  my 16 year old niece is convinced that New Girl is based
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  on me and she's got reason for it.
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  She was like fantasizing about when she's finally old enough to
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  just get a get an apartment with her friends and run around by
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  herself in New York City. She lives in New York City,
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  she's grown up there, but she wants to just have control of
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  her own life in New York. And she said, didn't you love it
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  when you were in your early 20s in New York City?
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  Wasn't it the best? And I was like, yeah, honestly,
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  it was like, I don't miss New York now as a middle-aged single
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  lady. It's not, it's not my favorite,
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  but in my 20s, I loved it. And I told her I when I was
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  teaching elementary school, I lived in an illegal loft with
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  three guys and I was the only one who had a door because I was
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  the girl. And they sort of all adopted me
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  and they, like, built me a loft to study when I went to grad
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  school. And they like, helped me act out
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  things with my students when I did dramas with my students.
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  And she stopped in the middle of the street and she went.
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  Auntie Mookie, are you New Girl if you.
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  Guys have watched New Girl. You know, that's like Jess's
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  whole shtick is that she's like this silly, goofy, larger than
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  life, but also like the happiest person that you've ever met type
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  of teacher. And she's like, so passionate
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  about that. And she lives in this loft.
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  I don't know if it's an illegal loft, but this loft in LA with
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  three guys. OK, So people are like, yeah,
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  sure. And then she tells us in this
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  video that she went to school with the woman who created New
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  Girl. And I was like.
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  No, that takes place in LA. And then I said, well, I did go
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  to school with the girl who created New Girl so.
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  This video got 2.3 million views and now she's made an entire
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  playlist dedicated to the saga. But it's not until like the
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  second or third video that she also tells us that she dated a
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  guy while she was living in this loft and in her like Jessica Day
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  New Girl era. OK, who ended up moving to LA.
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  So New Girl is set in LA, but she was living this life in New
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  York, so she was dating this guy.
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  He obviously was familiar with her loft life, OK, And like,
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  what was going on there? They were dating and then he
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  moved to LA for work and he ended up becoming a writer on
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  New Girl. The fun.
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  Fact that I remembered during that time I did date a friend of
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  one of my roommates who was an improviser and a comedian.
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  Amazing guy, so kind and great. Again, we were not true love.
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  We were very, very little. But after we broke up, he went
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  to LA and became a comedy writer.
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  He wrote for New Girl. He was a writer on New Girl and
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  I Know. That this all sounds like if you
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  haven't seen these videos, it probably sounds fake, but I
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  can't stress enough like I really believe it.
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  I know that's like not a legitimate source of truth.
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  Me just saying like I believe it, but like I believe it.
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  If I you have watched these videos, I believe this woman.
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  I do. I will say there are people that
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  are questioning if this whole series is because she has a book
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  coming out. I think she said it's coming out
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  next year and it's about her teaching days.
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  Like, there is something related to this, but I am telling you,
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  I'm not skeptical. I believe everything that she's
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  telling us. OK.
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  This creator then went to her storage unit and she dug up all
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  these old pictures and she's making like photo albums on
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  TikTok about this. And you can see that the loft is
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  so similar to the loft and New Girl and the dynamic with the
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  friends and stuff. Like it's so silly.
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  It's so fun. So then Viper and her followers
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  were trying to figure out how to get in touch with Liz
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  Meriwether, who was the creator of New Girl, to figure out if
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  the loft or Viper herself were actually the inspiration.
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  So Viper texted one of her old roommates.
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  She said he was kind of like the Nick Miller, I suppose, of the
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  loft. And this is what she asked him,
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  Liz. Meriwether, I did go to school
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  with her, but like she was behind me in school.
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  I didn't know her very well and I didn't think she'd ever seen
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  our stuff because it was before social media.
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  I didn't think she'd ever seen our loft.
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  The pictures of our loft, if you go back and look, they do look a
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  lot like New Girl. But I was like, but she wouldn't
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  have seen that. I texted one of my roommates to
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  ask. I texted the Nick Miller
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  roommate and here's what I asked him.
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  I said first of all, hello. 2nd and very random.
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  Is there any chance Liz Meriweather would have known
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  about us living in a loft, me teaching elementary school?
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  My 16 year old niece is convinced that New Girl is about
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  me. Us on Madre St.
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  Ha ha ha. I figure he's going to say yeah,
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  I have no idea. I don't think so.
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  It's not what happened. Are you ready?
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  He says hello. I did a few shows with her.
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  Timeline checks out. So she.
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  Shares this and then I open the comments section and Wikipedia
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  is in the comments section being so rude.
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  This is what they wrote. According to the New Girl
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  Wikipedia article, Elizabeth Mayweather pitched an idea for
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  ATV sitcom about an offbeat girl moving in with three single
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  guys, inspired by her experience of bouncing from Craigslist
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  sublet to Craigslist sublet for four years in LA when she was in
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  her 20s. OK, like way too squash our
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  dreams. Wikipedia doesn't mean that it
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  couldn't also be kind of based on Viper's life.
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  And that is what she is saying. And she's like, I feel like if
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  anything, I'm like one piece of the inspirational puzzle, you
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  know, like I'm not the full inspo.
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  And now I think she's been offered to go on Jake Johnson's
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  podcast. Jake Johnson played Nick on New
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  Girl because 2 days ago she made a video being like, guys, I'm
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  not going to go on it. Like I don't feel comfortable.
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  And I couldn't find where this potential offer was made.
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  Like I was on his podcast TikTok page.
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  I was looking at all the comments sections of all her
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  videos and I couldn't see his name pop up.
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  But I think she has possibly been offered and maybe people
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  are just like, Oh my God, you need to go on it.
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  Like please pitch yourself. I'm not sure.
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  But she said she's not going to go on it.
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  Whether this is true or not, though, it's kind of giving.
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  Don't fuck with cats. But like wholesome and not
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  intense and not harmful. Like collectively, the Internet
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  is coming together with her at the helm like she has the most
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  information trying to help her like investigate this
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  possibility. But it's like wholesome and fun
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  and not really like true crime, but it's kind of like giving
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  true crime. And This is why people on the
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  Internet love true crime because we love a fun little collective
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  investigation and we love a collective inside joke.
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  And me pulling out a don't fuck with cats reference.
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  I think it actually puts a nice little bow on the ending of the
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  most random episode of mini scroll that I think I have ever
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  done. So thank you for sticking with
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  me. I hope that this was still at
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  least somewhat enjoyable. Anyways, guys, thank you so much
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