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MINI SCROLL: Alix Earle & Xandra Pohl SI Swim Week recap + MrBeast surpasses T-Series · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
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  from social media, the creator economy and the digital space
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  every Monday 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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  Happy Monday. Happy June.
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  How is it June? I know everybody says that when,
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  you know, we get halfway through the year and we're like, what
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  the hell. But like, for real, what the
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  hell? This year has been so intense,
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  and it's been a good year, but it's been a really big, intense
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  year. I can't believe it's halfway
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  over. That's like, unwell.
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  Anyways, let's just get into the stories for today.
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  There wasn't a ton that happened over the weekend, but it was
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  Miami Swim Week and there was a little bit of tea that came out
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  of that. So Alex Earl made her Swim week
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  debut for Sports Illustrated as their first ever digital cover
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  star. Tick Tock.
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  Get ready with me Queen Alex Earle had a big weekend with
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  Sports Illustrated. First, the 23 year old Tick
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  Tocker was announced as the cover star for the magazine's
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  first ever digital version of their iconic swimsuit issue.
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  Beginning this summer, Sports Illustrated, which has been in
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  publication for 60 years, 60 Wild will be launching Quote
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  one-of-a-kind digital issues timed to major moments in
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  entertainment and culture, revolutionizing the way fans
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  engage with their favorite swimsuit content, according to
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  the press release. In addition to this milestone,
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  Alex made her runway debut for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit at
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  Miami Swim Week this weekend. Alex opened the show and then
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  she also walked the runway with her sisters.
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  So she has a sister that is just a couple years younger than her,
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  Ashton, and she has two younger sisters.
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  I think they're like half sisters and their children.
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  So this was a very big controversy on Reddit, on
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  TikTok, among the fandom, the fact that, you know, her parents
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  allowed this, that Alex was supportive of this and that
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  Sports Illustrated would be OK with children in bathing suits
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  walking in Swim week. I see.
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  From the brand's perspective, I suppose if they do sell
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  children's swimsuits, it's like, yeah, this is swim Week.
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  This is, you know, essentially like our Fashion Week of where
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  we show off our new styles. If we make kids clothing or kids
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  swimsuits, like they're going to walk the runway.
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  On the other hand, the whole idea of Sports Illustrated is
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  like a sexy magazine, right? It's it's kind of like a softer
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  version of like Playboy or something like that.
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  It has a very specific brand identity.
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  So allowing like from her parents perspective and Alex
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  like being supportive of these young children walking in that
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  show, it's like, would you be OK with children in, you know,
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  lingerie at a Playboy show? Probably not.
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  So I think that's where people are like, first of all, the
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  brand identity is very different than kids walking in a runway
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  show for, I don't know, like some other designers like kids
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  line at, you know, Paris Fashion Week or something like that.
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  And you know, Alex is a very high profile figure and you guys
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  know how I feel about kids being on the Internet in general.
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  I think they're not just these kind of two random kids that are
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  modeling swimsuits. This imagery and this video of
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  Alex is going to get shared everywhere.
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  This is going to escape, you know, the fashion spaces, quote
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  UN quote, that these images might have kind of stayed in if
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  it was Paris Fashion Week or just some random designer.
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  It's going to be shared widely all over TikTok and all over
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  these different mediums where men, you know, older people will
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  be able to see these videos and these images.
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  From my perspective, I find this inappropriate.
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  I did a whole episode, you guys would know a few months ago on
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  children online and just the stuff that I found out from
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  researching that, that things that I didn't even feel
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  comfortable putting in the episode.
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  It's just no, I understand the need for like child models, but
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  I think it's the brand association with Swim Week and
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  Sports Illustrated that makes it feel so icky and like hyper
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  sexualizes the children. And of course, I've seen the
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  counter argument, which I addressed in that bigger episode
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  that I did a few months ago where it's like people are like,
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  well, you're the one that's making it gross.
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  Like people talking out about this are the ones that are like
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  sexualizing the kids were being normal about it.
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  That's not an excuse. That is not like a good thing to
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  say. Like people talking out about
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  Child Exploitation and child sexualization on the Internet is
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  not them being predatory. So I'm not going to like accept
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  any of those comments. If anybody comments anything
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  like that underneath. That's just not what people are
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  worried about here. They are not putting that on
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  these kids on Alex's sisters. They are concerned about what
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  people will do with this, these videos and these images and
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  those are very valid concerns. All right.
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  The other parts to this story, though, on a lighter note kind
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  of is that Xandra Pole also walked in Miami Swim week for
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  Sports Illustrated. So as we know, Xandra and Alex
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  were friends at university. They were like in the same
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  friend group. I think there was a big belief
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  that they were like besties because they did record Tik Toks
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  together a lot. But I think it's been pretty
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  well documented that they were just kind of like party friends
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  in the same party group. But it does seem like they had
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  some type of falling out after their grad trip last year.
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  And we never really got an answer to that.
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  So people were like, Oh my God, what is going to happen when
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  they are both having to be in such close quarters?
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  Will they interact? So they are in a lot of like
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  photos and videos in this like group pictures and like videos
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  and stuff together. And there is a clip that's going
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  viral on TikTok of them walking the runway like separately but
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  like right beside each other. But I haven't seen any footage
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  or photos of them interacting. I think this is confirming that
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  something probably did happen, but I don't think we will ever
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  get a true answer as to what happened.
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  All right, And the last story that I have for you guys today
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  is that Mister Beast has become the most subscribed to YouTube
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  channel. Mr. Beast has finally become the
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  most subscribed to YouTube channel, full stop.
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  So he previously held this title for a channel by an individual.
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  Series notoriously had more subscribers than him.
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  But yesterday Mr. Beast gained more than two million
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  subscribers, which is a record for his channel in a single day.
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  And that puts him at 268,000,000 subscribers which surpasses T
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  had this whole campaign going on like six years ago where he was
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  promoting Pewdiepie's channel, trying to get people to
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  subscribe to PewDiePie so that PewDiePie would surpass T
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  It was like a race to like who could get to 100 million
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  subscribers first. And T series did end up winning.
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  So now Mr. Beast is like, I've avenged PewDiePie by surpassing
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  T series. So, you know, his influence and
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  his power in this space just keeps growing.
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  And he is now the most subscribed to YouTube channel
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  ever. 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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