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MINI SCROLL: Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B, Chat GPT x Etsy shopping + German 'pudding mit gabel' trend · Mini Scroll

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  stories for today. So the first story that I have
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  for you guys, I'm going to recap the Nicki Minaj versus Cardi B
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  Twitter beef that went down these past couple of days.
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  So Nicki and Cardi have a long standing feud and it was drummed
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  up again this week on X after Cardi B recently dropped a new
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  album, Am I the Drama? In response to the album, Nicki
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  Minaj made several posts, some have since been deleted, mocking
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  the album's promotional pricing. She posted quote 499, as in like
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  $4.99 and insinuated that Cardi was inflating or manipulating
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  her sales figures. Nicki also repeatedly made jabs
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  at Cardi's pregnancy in her posts and her lyrics.
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  One of her tweets read ABCDEFG surgery to look like me.
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  Tell the rat and tell Jay-Z. Rico fraud and perjury.
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  Falling off the charts with a big belly, running trains
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  barefoot. Still smelly.
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  Still you could not outsell me. I don't know why I'm saying this
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  as if I'm like low key singing, but you guys get it.
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  She wrote it like lyrics. OK, if you're not watching on
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  screen. If you're not watching on like
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  YouTube or Spotify, you can't see it on screen.
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  She wrote it like she was writing lyrics.
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  Cardi struck back almost immediately.
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  She called Nikki Cocaine Barbie in Spanish and made personal
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  references to Nikki's family, including criticism of Nikki's
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  brother's legal history. ABCDEFG your man have to snatch
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  pussy pussy taste like honeycomb your bro be touched in 12 year
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  old. And then she also took jabs at
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  Nikki comparing herself to Cardi, suggesting Nikki compare
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  herself with other artists from her own era rather than younger
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  peers. Quote It's not the gag you think
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  it is. You've been in the game like 16
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  here is you need to compare yourself to your peers that
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  started around your time. Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake,
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  those are the numbers you need to be competing with and you
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  can't because you doing lower than all of them.
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  I was in high school when you came out.
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  What the fuck is you comparing yourself to me for?
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  Cardi continued. All right, now this is the third
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  tweet talking about my pregnancy like you wasn't going to
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  different fertility doctors because you couldn't reproduce
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  from all of them. Perks scrambling your eggs like
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  Percocets, not allegedly. Lord, protect my babies.
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  OK, so there was a lot of back and forth.
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  Like I said, a bunch of these tweets are deleted.
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  But then I spice got involved. She tweeted this like teehee
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  emoji, like the keehee emoji because Cardi and I spice have
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  some drama themselves. It's not really like as
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  established as Nicki and Cardi. It's more that people feel like
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  Cardi tries to assert dominance over her place in the industry
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  with I spices like really steep rise to fame.
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  ANYWAYS, things took a really dark turn between Nikki and
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  Cardi over these past 24 hours after they started dragging
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  their children into this. This is from Yahoo
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  Entertainment. Quote.
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  Nikki referred to Cardi's unborn child as a sympathy baby and
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  told her to abort. Abort mission.
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  She also called Cardi's daughter Ugly and a Roach and a monkey.
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  She also referred to Cardi as Cokie B writing Please don't
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  sniff coke with baby number 4/5. This continued from Yahoo
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  Entertainment. For her part, Cardi said that
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  Nikki's son is non verbal because Nikki couldn't put the
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  drugs down. She also said the only reason
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  Nikki was instigating a fight was because Cardi is pregnant.
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  She wrote, I seen you at 2 Mac galas and you never have that
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  energy. But where the fuck you at?
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  So yeah, bringing the kids into this, calling the children ugly,
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  talking about aborting the kids is so low and horrible.
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  And that is where fans went from like, kind of, you know, keeping
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  up with the Twitter drama and being like, oh, this is like,
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  kind of interesting. Like we love the IT to being
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  like, well, no, maybe not. No, this is too far you guys.
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  What the fuck? OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys. This is actually pretty mini
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  tech adjacent, but I saw it this morning and I thought it was
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  really relevant. Users can soon buy Etsy products
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  via ChatGPT, so Open AI has announced a feature called
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  Instant Checkout that lets users in certain regions buy items
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  directly through ChatGPT, including from Etsy sellers.
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  Instant Checkout is a built in commerce feature in ChatGPT that
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  allows users to complete purchases without leaving the
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  chat bot. It will initially support
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  purchases from US based Etsy sellers, but it will expand this
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  presumably. So how it works is when a user
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  asks for a product recommendation or says like I'm
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  looking to buy XYZ, can you tell me about this?
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  ChatGPT will then service listings of supported like
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  instant checkout products with a buy button and then clicking it
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  will prompt you to confirm like shipping, payment, all of that.
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  So ChatGPT will essentially be like another middleman
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  marketplace for these Etsy sellers.
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  Open AI will take a Commission fee from any purchases that go
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  through its platforms. So at the launch, only one item
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  per transaction will be supported.
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  You won't be able to do like multi cart purchases yet.
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  It will be like literally a single transaction.
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  It is only US based for now, but obviously it will be rolled out
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  globally I imagine. And not every product or seller
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  will be available through this. So the seller has to opt in and
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  also there has to be like some compatibility things going on
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  where Open AI can say like yeah, this makes sense and we can do
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  this on your platform. And yeah, they say that they
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  won't be biased towards results that do have the instant check
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  out. But like, sure, Jan, this is a
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  pretty big deal because I mean, we talked about this all the
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  time, but literally everything is just a marketplace to sell us
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  something. And this is a pretty big
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  indication that obviously Open AI is not just trying to help
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  you find things and, you know, help you source information and
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  all that kind of stuff. But now they are trying to help
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  us buy things and trying to sell us more things.
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  So aside from Etsy, over 1,000,000 Shopify merchants from
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  brands like Skims, Glossier, like a lot of the big brands
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  that we know and love are expected to integrate soon.
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  If you guys haven't listened to this yet, you should listen to
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  the corporate gossip podcast. They did a two-part series, like
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  a deep dive into Sam Beltman and open AI, and it was so
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  fascinating. I really didn't know the T.
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  It really opened my eyes to that corporation and I really didn't
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  know about a lot of it, especially kind of how they hide
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  behind this mission of like, if we don't do this now, the world
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  is going to end, and we are the ones that are going to help
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  solve the world's ending while also giving the world
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  significantly more problems. So yeah, I highly recommend
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  listening to those two episodes if you want more information on
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  and the behind the scenes. I guess I have like these big AI
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  companies, specifically Open AI. OK, so first some lighter news.
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  Thought I'd finish on a light note here.
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  The last way that I have for you guys is there is this new viral
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  German trend of eating pudding with a fork and it has turned
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  into like a full blown global community movement.
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  OK, so the movement of eating pudding with a fork started as
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  basically a joke. At the end of August, mysterious
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  Flyers popped up around Karlsruhe.
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  I really have. I said that right, A city in
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  southwest Germany inviting locals to a quote, we eat
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  pudding with a fork event. Hundreds of people showed up to
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  this event, counting down together before plunging forks
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  into pudding cups. And videos from this meet up
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  quickly went viral, spreading across Germany, Austria and
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  Switzerland. Soon more gatherings followed.
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  Over 1000 people gathered in Hanover, hundreds gathered in
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  Vienna, and events around Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden and
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  Munich all started popping up on TikTok.
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  The hashtag Pudding MC Gabel, which I'm sure I absolutely
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  butchered, I'm very sorry, which translates to Pudding with a
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  fork, now features hundreds of videos under the hashtag of
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  people jumping in, joining the craze, eating pudding with a
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  fork, whether by themselves or in friend groups or in these
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  giant community movement groups. So this is from
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  tastingtable.com. A group spokesperson in Hanover
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  said to DPA International that the purpose of the meetups is to
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  allow people to vent. In our current times, it seems
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  to be a chance for people to enjoy a sense of community and
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  togetherness in uncertain times, and to experience a collective
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  sort of unburdening, taking part in an absurd ritual that has no
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  other purpose than inciting laughter and promoting
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  silliness. Though new, it has definitely
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  already become one of the most bizarre food trends of all time.
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  I love this, and I hope we start to see even more Putting with
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  the Fork meetups all around the world.
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  I hope you guys go out this weekend and have Putting with
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  the Fork meetups with your friends.
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  I love shit like this. This is like what the Internet
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  is all about. This is like why TikTok is good.
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