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MINI SCROLL: Millie Bobby Brown addresses appearance, family vloggers flee California, Piper Rockelle x Bop House backlash + Oscars red carpet · 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.
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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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  OK, I wanted to make a quick clarification from yesterday's
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  episode before I jump into today's episode.
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  When I talked about Swiftologist opinion on Tate Mcrae's album,
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  and I said that it was like missing the Canadian music
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  culture context. I was aware that Swiftologist is
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  not American. I didn't say it.
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  I honestly just forgot to mention that I missed that, but
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  I didn't mean that their perspective specifically was
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  through an American lens. I meant more so that most of us,
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  our default is to look at pop culture through an American
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  lens, including me, and that it would be really hard to
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  understand the Canadian influences in Tate's music if
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  you're not Canadian and you didn't grow up with it and you
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  weren't like immersed in it. So I recognize I wasn't very
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  clear on that. I think there was some confusion
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  that I was specifically targeting Swiftologist and
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  saying they are looking at this from an American lens and
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  assuming that they're American. I knew that they're not American
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  before I reported on this story. I just, you know, I didn't say
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  it like I said, and that's not really what I meant, so I just
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  wanted to clear that up. OK, sorry.
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  The first story that I need to get out of the way, this is
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  literally happening as we speak. I just got a bunch of messages
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  from my team being like, have you recorded Mini yet?
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  Millie Bobby Brown has made a long reel on Instagram and she's
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  talking about the hate against her.
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  So I haven't had time to even watch it, so I'm going to insert
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  it here. I started in the industry when I
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  was 10 years old. I grew up in front of the world,
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  and for some reason, people can't seem to grow up with me.
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  Instead, they act like I'm supposed to stay frozen in time,
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  like I should still look the way I did on Stranger Things Season
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  1. And because I don't, I'm now a
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  target. I want to talk about some of the
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  articles that have recently released while I'm on my press
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  tour and some of the writers who are so desperate to tear young
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  women down. This isn't journalism.
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  This is bullying. The fact that adult writers are
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  spending their time dissecting my face, my body, my choices is
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  disturbing. And the fact that some of these
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  articles are written by women makes it even worse.
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  We always talk about supporting and uplifting young women, but
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  when it comes down to it, it seems a lot easier to just tear
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  them down. For clicks.
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  I mean, I really agree that we should not be writing ever about
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  how people look. You know, I know we did a
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  podcast episode at the very beginning of last season on like
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  the discourse around why quote UN quote, like Gen.
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  Z looks old and how that was kind of an off offshoot of Kylie
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  Jenner showing up and everyone thinking that she was dissolving
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  her filler or had, I can't remember, she had too much
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  filler or she'd been dissolving it or something.
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  So I recognize that there are instances when we have
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  perpetuated that narrative as well, but always hopefully we
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  have done it in a way that's like for the bigger picture that
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  is sending a bigger message or dissecting a bigger topic.
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  Like, I completely get like the concept of just writing articles
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  about how somebody looks different.
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  I mean, how many times have we seen this too?
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  Like how many times have we seen a child star grow up and go
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  through different phases? I went through like 100 phases
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  when I was a teenager and in my like, early 20s.
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  You can ask any of my friends growing up in high school, I had
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  like black hair. I had blonde hair.
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  One day I was sporty, one day I was goth.
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  Like that's just part of like coming into your own and
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  figuring out who you are. And I can't imagine having to do
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  that in the public eye. I don't know how I feel about
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  her name dropping the journalist because I do know how this
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  industry works and it's not always within the journalists
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  control like what they write, who they write about, the
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  headlines that are put on their articles, things like that.
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  However, I completely agree with her message.
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  You guys know how I feel about the teenage girlhood.
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  I know she's not a teenage girl anymore, but like, the teenage
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  girlhood, the like, young 20s, like being a young woman is so
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  hard. It is honestly such a traumatic
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  experience and I can't imagine having to do that in the public
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  eye while you're trying to figure yourself out.
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  And like she says, publications are writing about you.
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  Every time you change your look, it's being covered.
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  So yeah, that was a little bit like muddled because I didn't
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  have any time to process it because, like I said, I got
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  these messages literally as I'm recording.
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  However, let's get into the rest of the stories for today.
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  So the next story that I have for you guys is that I wanted to
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  discuss kind of the narrative that's been going on on TikTok
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  right now about family vloggers and how a lot of people think
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  that they are fleeing California to avoid the new child labor
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  laws. Internet users have been
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  spreading this narrative in recent weeks that family
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  vloggers are fleeing California and relocating specifically to
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  Tennessee to avoid having to compensate their children for
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  being in their content. In September, the governor of
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  California signed a bill which requires content creators who
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  feature minors in their content at least 30% of the time to
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  compensate those minors by putting aside a proportional
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  percentage of money into a trust fund for when they reach 18.
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  So there are a lot of caveats there, but there is an effort
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  being made to compensate child influencers.
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  This is the third state in the US to implement these types of
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  protections. So Illinois and Minnesota
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  already had protective measures in place for child influencers.
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  So yes, there are all these videos now going viral of people
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  being like, do you want to know why all these influencers are
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  moving to Tennessee? Because this law is about to
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  come into place now. It seems that causation and
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  correlation are getting a little bit mixed up here in this
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  narrative. There have been a few big family
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  vloggers that have relocated from California to Tennessee.
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  Colon, Savannah Lebrandt, Cicely Bachman, Shannon Rose, and
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  Brittany Xavier to name a few. So these are the influencers
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  that are primarily being used as examples in this narrative.
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  However, all of these families except for Brittany's moved
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  before this bill was signed. Journalist Taylor Lorenz and for
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  Tessa Latifi suggest this trend of influencers moving to
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  Tennessee is likely tied to these families becoming
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  increasingly right wing rather than them trying to skirt child
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  labor laws. Taylor Lorenz writes for user
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  mag Quote. Conservative family influencers
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  in other states that have zero child influencer laws on the
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  books are also flocking to Tennessee, further refuting the
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  idea that this is a California specific phenomenon.
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  Despite conservative influencers leaving, the influencer industry
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  in California is growing, not declining.
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  In 2020, California led the United States in influencing
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  with professional content creators comprising 5.45% of its
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  population, according to. Influence it.
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  Influencity influencity. I'm sorry, I don't know how to
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  say that influence influencity I don't know a digital marketing
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  platform since their poll, that number has only grown.
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  Despite this, I don't think it's actually necessarily a bad thing
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  that we are looking at family vloggers with a more critical
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  eye and questioning their motives.
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  I think we've been waking up to the fact that family vloggers
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  can be as predatory as stage parents in Hollywood.
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  And I think theories like this where users online are talking
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  about these laws and child protection and the parents
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  motives and all of that, I do think these conversations are
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  important and I think they could lead to further protections for
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  children online. But I also understand the
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  importance of what Taylor and for Tesla have done here, which
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  is kind of poking holes in this, like quote, UN quote conspiracy
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  theory because obviously there is a war on valid information.
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  And I think it's important to also point that out.
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  So I think two things can be true here.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you.
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  Speaking of child influencers and family vloggers, there is a
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  lot of concern around influencer Piper Raquel after she did a
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  collab with the BOP House last week.
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  Piper Raquel is a 17 year old creator who has 13 million
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  followers on TikTok and 5 million followers on Instagram.
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  She started her online career very young and rose to fame
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  quite quickly for her content collective which was called
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  Piper Squad. Piper Squad launched in 2020
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  when she was around 12 or 13 but she had started influencing
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  before then. In January 20, 2211, former
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  Piper Squad members, along with their parents, filed a lawsuit
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  against Piper's mother Tiffany, alleging quote, emotional,
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  verbal, physical, and at times, sexual abuse, as per People
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  magazine quote. The teen creators also allege
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  they were unpaid for their contributions, though it's
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  unclear if they were ever promised payment.
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  The lawsuit added that Smith, who is Tiffany Tiffany Smith,
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  conspired to intentionally interfere with and sabotage
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  their individual YouTube channels by using bots and false
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  reporting slash flagging to drive down their views, thereby
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  significantly diminishing their own revenue avenue.
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  So I suppose the theory here is that Piper's mother, Tiffany
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  would be doing this to the other squad members because most of
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  the Piper Squad videos were going on Piper's channel.
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  Before this lawsuit, there were questions around Tiffany's
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  treatment of Piper in terms of like her career and how that was
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  being managed. So now Fast forward to last week
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  and Piper did a collaboration with the Bob House, the Bop
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  house. I don't think I've spoken about
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  the Bop house on this podcast before, but it is a new content
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  creation house formed by primarily only fans creators.
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  So basically, users were outraged that Piper again, who
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  is a minor, would be filming content with them.
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  The biggest concern here is that the Bop house has 3,000,000
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  followers, and it's assumed that the majority of these followers
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  are, you know, men or people that follow the creators in
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  general for that, like spicy content.
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  So to have Piper, who is a minor, featured on their page in
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  their videos, like, it's just a risk.
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  The Bob House and Piper have both responded to this backlash.
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  Bob House creator Sophie said that Piper visited her personal
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  house, not the Bob House itself. And in a deleted video, the Bob
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  House official account wrote. How many videos are people going
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  to make about us doing Tik Toks with Piper?
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  We're just chilling making Tik Toks, All right?
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  And the last thing I wanted to talk about today is the Oscars
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  red carpet. So obviously yesterday was the
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  Oscars. And I honestly don't have much
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  to say on the awards because I feel quite removed from like the
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  movie world. I am much more a TV girly than I
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  am like a film girly. So I thought I would share my
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  best dressed from the red carpet instead.
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  Although I did want to say I saw a trailer for Anora when I went
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  to see Wicked, and I literally said to Sean, like, we need to
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  see that. That looks so good.
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  And then when I saw it was winning, I was like, Oh my God.
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  I thought that this was some random, like, underground movie
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  because we went to, like an indie cinema to see Wicked.
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  And I thought it was just some like, random movie that I don't
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  know, like nobody else would ever see.
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  And I was just like, that looks so good.
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  I want to see it. Yeah, apparently not.
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  So I'm even more excited to see it now.
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  OK, first, Cynthia Revo's giant dark green gown, which I think
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  was velvet. It was structured.
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  It was larger than life. And I think it was the perfect
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  way to close off this amazing wicked era for her.
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  I know that they are doing wicked too, but the wicked era
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  round one I guess. I also really did love Ariana's
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  gowns, both of them. Her red carpet gown was like
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  that light pink structured long Tutu Tull vibe.
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  I'm sorry, I'm not a fashion girly, so the way I'm describing
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  this is probably going to hurt some of you if you are.
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  And I'm sure there are real names for different things that
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  I'm describing and words that I'm not using.
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  So you feel free to correct me in the comments.
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  Like that's totally fine because I don't know what I'm talking
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  about. And then on stage, she wore this
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  like red gown and it paid homage to the Wizard of Oz.
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  It was red, it was sparkly and it had a Ruby red slipper on the
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  back. And I thought that was so cool.
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  It was like such a cool, unique twist.
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  I am forever sad about her makeup throughout this era and I
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  was hoping that for the Oscars she would come out with a
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  different makeup look. I just like can't get over the
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  strip lash. This strip lash is shocking to
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  me. I've also seen people say that
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  she has insisted on doing her own makeup throughout this whole
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  press run and stuff, which I can appreciate like I am usually I
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  do my own makeup kind of girly too.
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  But the strip lash like half the time you can see it lifting.
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  I don't know, I just I wish that she came out with a different
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  glam but I loved both of the looks.
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  I thought Selena Gomez looked gorgeous.
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  I know she was a bit understated but I loved like the full
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  diamond vibe. I really feel like that kind of
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  off the shoulder is her look. Like she seems to be wearing
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  that a lot and it looks so good on her.
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  Demi Moore, another sparkly dress.
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  She looked so good. I really have nothing else to
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  say. Like she is just so hot.
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  Redmond Rock, our influencer king.
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  He wore this giant like gold metallic piece almost with a
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  shrug, and it kind of looked like he had wings when he would
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  lift his arms. And I just thought he looked
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  like this gold, like majestic royal bird or something.
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  It was so cool. Obviously everybody loves
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  Timothy Chalamet's yellow suit. I thought Lisa from Blackpink
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  wearing that dress suit thing. At first I was like, oh, that's
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  kind of cool. And then I was like, maybe it's
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  giving like Halloween magician. I'm not really sure.
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  I can't tell if I think it's really cool or if I think it
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  looks like a costume. And finally, Lupita Nyong'o I
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  think was my best dressed, or at least I think she would have
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  been my best dressed if it wasn't the Oscars.
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  I am of the opinion similar to the Mac Gala, where like the
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  Oscars should be kind of like larger than life.
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  And I recognize that her dress wasn't really that, but it was
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  so good. I was obsessed with it.
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  It was so chic, but it was also so feminine and it was just so
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  beautiful, like she looked so I don't know, I just loved it.
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  I loved that dress. That is a dress that like I wish
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  I could own and in general the main friends that I saw come out
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  of this carpet. I'm going to say sparkles like
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  diamond rhinestone sparkle vibes, almost like wet looking
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  metallics. Again, I'm sure there's official
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  wording for this that I am not nailing, so feel free to let me
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  know what this stuff is called. But yeah, it's like wet looking
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  metallic and fairly like straight silhouettes also with
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  like spaghetti straps, not a lot of strapless.
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  Anyways, guys, that's it. That's it for today.
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