Latest / Mini Scroll / MINI SCROLL: Harry Styles & Taylor Russell split, Lana Del Rey x Nessa Barrett collab + HaleyyBaylee faces more backlash

Transcript

MINI SCROLL: Harry Styles & Taylor Russell split, Lana Del Rey x Nessa Barrett collab + HaleyyBaylee faces more backlash · Mini Scroll

• 0:00
  Hi everyone, Welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
• 0:03
  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
• 0:06
  media, the creator economy, and the digital space.
• 0:09
  Every Monday through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
• 0:13
  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
• 0:17
  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
• 0:19
  Happy Tuesday. Let's just get right in to the
• 0:23
  stories for today because I have 3 for you guys.
• 0:26
  So the first story that I have is that Harry Styles has split
• 0:29
  from his girlfriend Taylor Russell.
• 0:32
  So according to People magazine, Harry Styles and actress Taylor
• 0:36
  Russell have broken up after less than a year of dating.
• 0:39
  Harry and Taylor were first speculated to be something back
• 0:43
  in June 2023 when they were spotted out together for the
• 0:46
  first time. The next day, Taylor was spotted
• 0:49
  in the VIP section at Harry's concert in Vienna, and the two
• 0:53
  spent the following day together as well sightseeing, and they've
• 0:57
  also been spotted on and off together for the last few
• 0:59
  months, though it's unclear what happened between the two.
• 1:02
  A source told people earlier this month that they were going
• 1:05
  strong. The source said that the two
• 1:08
  were getting, quote, fairly serious after traveling
• 1:10
  together, and that both Harry and Taylor were aligned on
• 1:13
  keeping their relationship private.
• 1:16
  So there has been, as far as I know, not much else about this.
• 1:21
  I didn't even really know that they were together.
• 1:24
  I mean, I guess him and Olivia Wilde, their relationship was
• 1:27
  like so public and there was just a lot going on with Harry
• 1:32
  Styles in the media and Olivia Wilde in the media at the time.
• 1:35
  So I guess we heard about him and Olivia a lot.
• 1:38
  But obviously when you look at his relationship with Taylor, I
• 1:41
  barely even knew that he was dating her.
• 1:43
  So they did do a good job of keeping it private, if that was
• 1:47
  the purpose. Annabelle said she saw a rumor
• 1:49
  that he wants kids and Taylor doesn't, which is why they
• 1:53
  split. But I think that's just like,
• 1:55
  big speculation, so don't take my word for it, OK?
• 2:00
  The next story that I have for you guys, this was a story that
• 2:03
  I missed, that I should have said yesterday that I should
• 2:06
  have told you guys yesterday, but I missed and I only saw it
• 2:08
  today. So Lana Del Rey brought Nessa
• 2:10
  Barrett on stage with her this weekend to perform.
• 2:14
  So at Hangout Fest over the weekend, Lana Del Rey surprised
• 2:18
  fans when she brought TikTok star turned singer Nessa Barrett
• 2:21
  out on stage to sing American Jesus.
• 2:24
  American Jesus is a single from Nessa's Forever Young tour that
• 2:27
  wrapped in March 2023. Nessa has long said that Lana is
• 2:31
  a massive influence on her music and her aesthetic.
• 2:34
  And I mean that is basically the extent of this story, but I just
• 2:38
  thought it was so cool. I think we are starting to see a
• 2:42
  few like key breakout stars from those like early TikTok days and
• 2:47
  I don't know if anybody considered that Nessa would be
• 2:50
  one of them. I think she was kind of in, she
• 2:53
  was so Internet, right? Like, even though she's done
• 2:55
  music for a long time, she really did not take the fame
• 3:00
  route in the same way that I feel like the D'amelios or
• 3:03
  Addison Ray did. You know, she really decided to
• 3:05
  like hunker down and be like I'm going to be an artist.
• 3:08
  And she almost like removed herself from the public eye for
• 3:11
  a bit. So, you know, that's a risk.
• 3:14
  And I think it's paid off clearly, because it's making
• 3:17
  people take her music and her as an artist much more seriously.
• 3:22
  Then I think if she did go down that kind of like take every
• 3:24
  opportunity that you're handed, become as famous as possible, be
• 3:28
  as much of an influencer as possible.
• 3:30
  And we have seen some of the consequence of that.
• 3:33
  I mean, obviously with the Demilio's like Dixie's music is
• 3:36
  not taking anywhere near as seriously as Nessa's music.
• 3:39
  But also when you look at someone like Madison Beer for
• 3:42
  example, who we have interviewed actually twice on this podcast,
• 3:45
  which is like so cool, claim to fame for infinite scrawl.
• 3:49
  But you know, like she built herself such a big influencing
• 3:52
  career. And I don't know if that was
• 3:53
  necessarily her fault at first. I know she was trying to be
• 3:56
  being an artist and then being an influencer, kind of, I don't
• 3:59
  want to say like it fell in her lap, but it was a natural path
• 4:03
  for her because she was like so hot and people were really
• 4:07
  interested in her life. And we kind of saw how being
• 4:10
  pigeonholed as, like, an influencer really impacts how
• 4:14
  people take her music if they take her seriously as an artist,
• 4:18
  even though Madison Beer is one of the like, she has one of the
• 4:20
  most beautiful voices and she writes her songs and she really
• 4:24
  is like a true artist. But, you know, that's kind of
• 4:27
  hindered her success musically. So NASA is doing it well, I
• 4:32
  think. And this is just really fucking
• 4:34
  cool. Like, how cool would this be if
• 4:37
  you were NASA and you've been working towards this for years
• 4:39
  and you're still so young. And you know, I'm sure there's
• 4:42
  been many points for her career, especially as a TikTok star and
• 4:46
  there's been lots of scandal and all of that, you know, where you
• 4:48
  just kind of felt like maybe this isn't going to work out the
• 4:51
  way that I wanted it to. Maybe I shouldn't have started
• 4:54
  posting on TikTok. Maybe I should have tried to go
• 4:56
  more, you know, traditional route.
• 4:57
  But it's really cool. So fun for her.
• 5:00
  So cool. And the fan edits and clips of
• 5:02
  it all over Twitter and or X or whatever.
• 5:06
  And TikTok are really, really cool to see.
• 5:09
  All right. And the last story that I have
• 5:11
  for you guys. OK, so it seems like Haley
• 5:15
  Bailey is facing backlash again, and this time for not learning
• 5:20
  her lesson after the Met Gala scandal.
• 5:23
  OK, so I'm not going to rehash what happened with the Met Gala
• 5:27
  scandal. I think first of all, if you
• 5:28
  guys listen to this podcast, you know, it was everywhere.
• 5:31
  It was all over the Internet. And I covered it twice on this
• 5:34
  podcast. But, you know, Haley apologized
• 5:36
  for the Let the Meat Cake Marie Antoinette video, and it was a
• 5:41
  very lengthy apology. And you know, she did try to
• 5:44
  playoff like, oh, I'm just a regular person getting these
• 5:47
  opportunities. I just, I can't believe what my
• 5:50
  life has turned into. And everyone was kind of like,
• 5:52
  you're not really a regular person.
• 5:54
  Your apartment cost $17,000 a month in rent.
• 5:57
  But, you know, that aside, I think typically when it comes to
• 6:02
  a scandal of this magnitude, this got really, really big.
• 6:05
  And you know, I do believe it will impact her getting invited
• 6:10
  to different events. I mean, obviously this whole
• 6:12
  thing kicked off the celebrity block list, like it kicked off
• 6:15
  like a whole movement against celebrities.
• 6:17
  So, you know, I think it will be a while until she can recover
• 6:22
  from this from an industry perspective, but also now from a
• 6:27
  follower and user perspective because she, you know, just
• 6:31
  resumed posting as usual, I guess.
• 6:34
  And of course, people every time they see one of her videos now
• 6:37
  are commenting under it about the scandal because people are
• 6:40
  not over it. And that's just, you know,
• 6:42
  that's just the Internet. That's just how it goes.
• 6:44
  They're going to post on all of her videos for a while until
• 6:47
  people forget about it, basically.
• 6:49
  But now Haley is clapping back at people who are leaving these
• 6:53
  comments and it is making a lot of people think that she really
• 6:57
  didn't learn very much from this scandal.
• 6:59
  So a couple screenshots are that are going around from things
• 7:03
  that she's commented. The 1st is someone wrote I can't
• 7:06
  afford cake and she responded but you can afford a phone.
• 7:10
  I'm sorry, I'm confused. And then the next comment is no
• 7:15
  one, literally no one in capitals.
• 7:17
  No one could make me like you. And then she replied, I guess I
• 7:20
  need to send a couple of people to convince you a couple means
• 7:23
  2IN capital two, like in capital letters.
• 7:27
  OK, so the cake one, the iPhone cake one very tone deaf, very
• 7:37
  out of touch. Just very off base.
• 7:40
  It reminds me of the very invalid argument that people try
• 7:44
  to make when they talk about somebody who is houseless and
• 7:47
  they have a phone or someone who is in poverty and they have a
• 7:51
  phone. You know, you see that all the
• 7:52
  time, even on TikTok. If people are talking about
• 7:54
  their financial situation and people will be like, well,
• 7:56
  you're doing this from a phone. Having a phone is not a luxury
• 8:01
  in 2024. It is an absolute necessity.
• 8:05
  For example, jobs, they used to be posted, you know, in the
• 8:10
  newspaper. I'm sure there's some newspapers
• 8:12
  that still post them. I'm sure people are going to be
• 8:14
  like that still exists. OK, how are you going to find a
• 8:17
  job for 99% of jobs? How are you going to find a job
• 8:20
  if you don't have access to the Internet?
• 8:23
  What's the easiest and most affordable way to have access to
• 8:25
  the Internet is to have a phone. Because a phone.
• 8:28
  Not only are you paying for like a phone plan 1 phone plan to
• 8:31
  have access to the Internet, but then you're also in that phone
• 8:34
  plan getting access to phone calls and texting and staying in
• 8:37
  touch with your loved ones and you know, being able to do an
• 8:41
  interview for a job over the phone or over zoom on a phone.
• 8:44
  You know, iPhones are like, you know, smartphones.
• 8:47
  They do fucking everything and they are an absolute necessity
• 8:50
  in 2024 and is such an insane and tone deaf and just like
• 8:55
  elitist thing to say, like Oh well, you have a phone.
• 8:57
  So you actually can't be that poor like it is.
• 9:00
  It's a necessity. It is just full stop.
• 9:03
  The second comment, the one about her saying like I'll send
• 9:07
  a couple people. A couple means to.
• 9:08
  I don't take that as her being snarky.
• 9:10
  I don't take that as her like trying to say like a couple
• 9:13
  means to like you know, being like a bitch about it.
• 9:16
  I see it as her saying you know, because this person said no one
• 9:20
  could make me like you. So she's saying like I'll send
• 9:23
  two people then instead of 1 and they'll make, I think it was
• 9:26
  just her trying to be like funny.
• 9:28
  But I think this whole situation, I think again this
• 9:31
  just shows how out of touch sometimes influencers and
• 9:35
  celebrities and stuff can get. Like I understand the desire to
• 9:39
  clap back. And if you guys follow this
• 9:41
  podcast on YouTube specifically, or TikTok, you know I am often
• 9:45
  clapping back at people in the comments.
• 9:48
  People leave the worst fucking shit.
• 9:49
  They comment the most annoying, the most obvious, the rudest,
• 9:53
  like the most fucking annoying worst shit on content that is
• 9:57
  free that is given to them for free.
• 9:59
  So I understand if you have 10 million followers like Haley
• 10:02
  does and you've just been through a scandal, your comments
• 10:04
  section is probably really infuriating to scroll through.
• 10:07
  And even before the scandal, I am sure she just received the
• 10:10
  most annoying and the rudest comments constantly.
• 10:12
  That's literally just how these platforms work, unfortunately.
• 10:15
  But this just feels like PR 101. Like you just went through this
• 10:18
  major scandal where people were calling you like out of touch
• 10:22
  elitist. It kicked off a literal like
• 10:25
  global online movement where people were blocking and
• 10:30
  unfollowing celebrities. A new word came out of it
• 10:32
  Digitine, which stands for Digital Guillotine.
• 10:35
  Anyways, it was like this whole thing, and to not have, like, to
• 10:39
  not take pause and just like don't look at your comments if
• 10:43
  they're going to piss you off that much.
• 10:44
  Like, have some humility. Like, have some perspective on
• 10:49
  what just happened and how and why you infuriated people and
• 10:53
  just like, let it go for a little bit, clapping back at the
• 10:58
  people that are telling you that what has just happened was
• 11:02
  really not OK Like, that's not going to make people like you.
• 11:05
  That's not going to bring you back on top.
• 11:07
  That's not going to be the redemption arc.
• 11:09
  Getting mad at your audience for genuine criticism.
• 11:13
  It's not the move anyways. I think this is probably the
• 11:16
  last time that people are going to be talking about Haley, you
• 11:19
  know, I think this will soon blow over.
• 11:22
  It already feels like it's kind of blown over, but you know, she
• 11:26
  should have just let it blow over.
• 11:28
  Like, if she had just waited a couple weeks to start
• 11:31
  interacting again in her comments, this would all be
• 11:33
  fine. But now it's being brought back
• 11:35
  up again because, like, she just couldn't stop from jumping in
• 11:38
  her comments. But honestly, maybe she doesn't
• 11:41
  care. She might just be so over it at
• 11:42
  this point. She might just be like,
• 11:44
  whatever, Think what you want about me.
• 11:46
  I'm going to clap back if I feel like it.
• 11:48
  I really don't care who knows. Anyways guys, thank you so much
• 11:51
  for listening to Mini Scroll. Please remember to rate, review
• 11:54
  and subscribe if you like this episode if you like the daily
• 11:58
  podcast and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.
• 12:02
  Bye.