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MINI SCROLL: Chris Olsen's "inside joke" with 4.4 million followers, Golloria's social media hiatus, Moo Deng livestream & Taylor Frankie Paul rumoured Dakota split · 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 every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meissner,
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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. There were so many stories for
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  you guys today. I really had to pick and choose,
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  but I think I have 5. I have a lot of stories, some of
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  them are quite short, but it was just a news and trend filled
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  weekend so let's just get right into it.
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  The first story that I have is that Chris Olsen is shifting his
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  narrative by using his spam account to create inside jokes
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  with his followers. So following a very difficult
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  few months, TikTok star Chris Olson has been using his spam
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  account to regain control of his narrative.
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  At the beginning of August, Chris had a mini almost like a
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  breakdown on his public account to 13 million followers where he
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  opened up about the harassment, doxing and abuse that he
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  receives constantly as a content creator for simply being seen as
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  like cringe or embarrassing. Part of this harassment, he
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  explained, was that intimate photos that photographer took of
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  him when he was much younger, starting out in the industry,
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  we're starting to circulate, and there was this narrative that he
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  was like a past porn star. So now about a month after all
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  of this, Chris is trying to reclaim his narrative and he
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  seems to be using his spam account to do so.
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  So Chris's spam account has over 4 million followers.
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  It's like 4.4 million followers and it is private.
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  Over the past week or so, he's been reportedly asking his
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  followers to spread like certain rumors about him as kind of an
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  inside joke. And part of this inside joke is
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  that they must call him Christopher Olsen instead of
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  Chris Olsen to easily identify who was part of the inside joke
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  and who's like doing this kind of to be on Chris's side.
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  So if you guys see Tik Toks where it's like Christopher
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  Olsen, then you know, know that this is part of this inside
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  joke. This is part of like his spam
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  account community. So some of the rumors include
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  that he and Jonathan Bailey were seen flirting at the Emmys, that
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  he's brothers with the Olsen twins, which is believable.
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  And one that went super viral was that he sold his coffee
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  company for $100 million. So I don't really know what the
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  reason behind him doing this on his spam account is.
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  It's probably partly just for fun.
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  I think it's partly to get some more followers and it probably
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  is a little a little bit to shift the discussion and like
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  regain control of his narrative. Because previous to, you know,
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  this past week, if you searched his name on TikTok, it was a lot
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  of commentary videos and videos kind of talking about those
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  intimate photos being circulated and everything that he was
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  talking about with being harassed and docks and all that
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  stuff. And it was videos of support, of
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  course, But still, it was videos that you don't necessarily want
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  coming up when you search your name on TikTok.
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  Like, you know, he probably doesn't want to constantly be
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  reminded of this. So now when you search his name
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  on the app, instead of these commentary videos or videos
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  talking about this like really traumatic thing that happened to
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  him last month, it is videos by his fans kind of participating
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  in this inside joke. And I think it's really
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  impressive that he's been able to essentially turn an account
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  with over 4 million followers. He's able to make that feel like
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  intimate and like the followers that are participating in this,
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  that they're part of some like underground, like a niche inside
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  joke when there's quite literally 4.4 million of them.
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  I think that's so impressive. It's such a testament to how
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  amazing he is at first of all, TikTok, like he is a superstar
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  TikTok. He just gets it.
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  He's so good at social media and a testament to his community
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  building. And I also didn't know he had a
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  coffee company. So that rumor is also really
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  good PR first coffee company. So I kind of love this.
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  I know there's mixed opinions, but when you have a following
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  that big, there's always going to be mixed opinions about
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  literally any decision you make online.
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  So I personally think this is funny.
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  I think it's a great way to shift the narrative about him.
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  Some people are like, oh, he just is doing this all for like
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  attention. All he cares about is being
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  talked about. Well, that's how you stay
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  relevant. I think it's light hearted and
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  low stakes enough. Does that make sense?
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  Low stakes enough, whatever, you know what I mean?
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  That I think this is a really great way to kind of drum up
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  almost like organic PR for yourself and make your followers
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  also feel part of something and be able to support you in like a
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  tangible way that is not asking them for money.
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  You know? The next story that I have for
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  you guys is that beauty. Tik toker Gloria George has
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  announced a social media hiatus due to racist comments.
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  So Gloria George has announced that she's taking a break from
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  social media due to colorist, anti black and racist comments.
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  Gloria has built a following of over 2.2 million for her makeup
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  tutorials and product reviews, where she often focuses on
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  reviewing collections or launches from brands based on
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  their inclusivity and how well they cater to deeper skin tones.
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  Some of Gloria's notable work includes when she called out
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  Euphoria in 2023 for its lack of inclusivity.
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  This. Is the darkest shade?
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  Is the alleged shade here in the room with us?
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  This keeps happening because tone inclusivity is not
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  something these beauty companies are worried about.
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  They do not. Care and more recently when she
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  reviewed The Road Blushes. These are the brand new road
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  blushes. I bought these 3 shades because
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  I feel like these would be the three shades that would work on
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  dark skin. First shade we're going in with
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  is Juice Box. Let's just go directly on the
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  face. Let's blender out.
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  This ash is bigger than me. Literally zooming in so you guys
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  can see the sick work. Spicy mark is a really pretty
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  orange color. Let's see what spicy marg is.
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  These can't be the blushes y'all love.
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  And then she followed this up soon after revealing that Haley
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  Bieber had personally called her on the phone just after giving
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  birth. So she wrote in a tick tock
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  comment, she took accountability.
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  She didn't dismiss my experience.
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  She listened and made sure that I was compensated for shade
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  consulting. Go, go, go, Haley.
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  This all happened when I was in Europe.
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  So I didn't report on that specifically.
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  I just wanted to say actually on a note on the Haley Bieber note,
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  this is obviously not the point of this story, but I am hoping
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  that this is kind of more of what we'll see with millennials
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  and Gen. Z coming into our own as like
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  the leaders in the workplace, the leaders at brands, brand
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  owners. I'm hoping that the way that
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  Haley handled this situation specifically is like a testament
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  to the future of brand development and marketing and
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  just interacting with consumers. So Gloria is making a name for
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  herself and doing some really amazing work as a beauty
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  influencer. However, the horrible reality is
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  that fighting for change like this does come at a cost.
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  And for Gloria, she is facing so much bigotry, harassment, and
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  racism. So now she has announced that
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  she is taking a break from social media.
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  She wrote. Hi babes, I'm logging off for a
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  bit. The Internet has become an
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  increasingly violent space, particularly for dark skinned
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  black women. It's heartbreaking and harmful
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  to constantly confront the overwhelming colorist, anti
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  black and racist rhetoric that's directed at us by the masses.
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  No one should be forced to endure that level of emotional
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  trauma. What's even more disturbing is
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  how bigotry and white fragility are amplified when Black women,
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  especially those with darker skin, speak out.
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  The world consistently refuses to listen to us or acknowledge
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  our experiences. There's a persistent failure to
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  see dark skinned Black women as fully human, as deserving of the
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  same empathy, respect, and grace afforded to others.
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  We are often dehumanized, either erased or harshly criticized,
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  because the world doesn't know how to engage with our existence
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  beyond stereotypes and shallow narratives.
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  This is a harsh reality. Society has long been
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  conditioned to dismiss us, to see us as less deserving of care
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  and protection. That dehumanization allows for
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  the continued disrespect and disregard of our voices, our
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  bodies, and our contributions. This has to change.
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  Black women deserve to be treated with dignity, Black
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  creatives deserve recognition and respect, and dark skinned
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  women deserve to be seen, valued, and humanized in every
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  sense. We are not here to be performers
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  for the world's consumption, nor are we here to be your punching
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  bag. We are here to live fully with
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  the humanity that should never be questioned or denied.
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  Gloria, this is just so sad. Like Gloria is such a force in
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  the industry. Like I said, she has been really
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  building her following, building a name for herself, her
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  credibility over the last particularly, I would say 2
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  years. But of course, she's been doing
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  social for a while. And this is just the very sad
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  reality, I think, for so many black women that are online in
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  general, period, as influencers, but especially who are
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  discussing inclusivity, diversity, all of those topics
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  that are so important to be discussed.
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  And I just cannot understand why you as a white person would be
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  triggered or upset by somebody explaining their experience with
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  not feeling included. Just because black women are
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  asking for more inclusive shade ranges doesn't mean that those
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  brands are going to make less shades that are available to
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  you. And even if that actually is
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  what that means, there are literally thousands of makeup
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  brands on the market. I am sure as a lighter skinned
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  person you can find one or two and mix them up and create your
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  own shade. Did we not all watch like 2015,
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  2016 beauty gurus? That's what they were all doing.
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  There are so many options on the market and these women are
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  specifically telling us and have been for like literally 20 plus
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  years, there are not enough options for us.
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  I can't believe that she is having to take a step back.
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  Like I feel like Gloria is like really coming into her own.
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  Like she's really coming up as like one of the most notable
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  TikTok stars at least kind of in my realm.
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  And obviously I am very immersed in the beauty realm, but still
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  she is so buzzy. Like she is becoming such a star
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  on TikTok. And for her kind of in her
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  moment when she's, I feel like about to like really make it
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  mainstream. To have to pull back and take a
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  break is just so fucked up. OK, the next story is a little
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  bit of a palate cleanser for us, a little bit of like a nice
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  little story here from TikTok. We don't get a lot of those.
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  We need to talk about how Mudang is getting her own live stream.
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  So Mudang is this week's most viral TikTok star.
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  She is a 2 month old pygmy hippo from the Cao Kio open zoo in
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  Thailand. And she is literally everywhere
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  because she's just so cute. Like I don't know, there's it's
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  just one of those moments on the Internet where we've all
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  collectively come together and decided Mudang is like this
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  weeks queen. We love her because she is so
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  wholesome. This is like the cutest content
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  ever. She is like Oh my God I'm
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  obsessed with her. I've been sending videos of her
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  to Sean literally all weekend. She reminds me so much of
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  Pumpkin my dog. So people really love her
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  specifically because she can't eat solid food yet, but she
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  mimics her mom eating. So like her mom will eat and
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  then Moodang will be like either in the food bowl as well or
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  she'll be like beside her and she'll be like chomping but
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  she's not eating anything because she can't eat solid food
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  yet. It's actually so cute.
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  Anyways, now she's obviously this huge sensation, so she is
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  getting a 24/7 live stream according to The Associated
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  Press. And I actually don't know if
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  there is a creator fund in Thailand, but I hope for the
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  zoo's sake there is because there's actually not the creator
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  fund in Australia. Fun fact, I don't think a lot of
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  people know that, but there's actually not the creator fund in
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  a lot of countries so Moodang. Regardless though, even if there
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  is no creators fund, she has increased the zoo's visitorship.
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  So apparently the zoo had over 10,000 visitors just last
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  weekend and I can't even imagine how many they had this weekend
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  because she is even more famous now.
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  OK, the next story that I have is that Taylor Frank you Paul is
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  rumored to have split from her boyfriend amid secret lives of
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  Mormon wives controversy. So Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
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  * Taylor Taylor Frankie Paul teased over the weekend that she
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  may have split from her boyfriend, Dakota.
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  So Taylor and Dakota starred in the first season of Secret Lives
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  of Mormon Wives, which just aired a couple of weeks ago.
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  Upon the show's release, fans had big concerns about their
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  relationship as Dakota seems controlling and possibly
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  emotionally or verbally abusive based on some of the texts that
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  were shared on the show. And some of like Macy, for
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  example, one of Taylor's besties was like, I'm concerned about
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  him. So just based on like what we
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  saw on the show. The first season documents the
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  couple getting pregnant and preparing for their first baby
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  together where they spend basically the entire season
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  fighting. And almost everyone on the cast
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  is talking about how they should break up.
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  Anyways, now Taylor has posted this TikTok that has fans
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  questioning if she and Dakota have split.
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  In the TikTok, Taylor looks like she's crying to the sound.
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  I had to go through hell to prove I'm not insane.
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  I had to meet the devil just to know his name with the text not
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  me slowly morphing into 2022 me over top of it.
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  So that was already SUS. But then her cast mates and mom
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  talk besties Macy and Michaela commented.
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  So Macy wrote this new chapter will be better than ever.
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  Lean on us. We got you baby.
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  And Michaela wrote always here for you BB.
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  It's hard to know because Taylor posts a lot of clickbait stuff
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  and her actual like start on TikTok was she would make up
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  these rumors about herself or like, I don't know, I guess it
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  was kind of like lies. She would make up these lies
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  about her story and tell them as if they were facts.
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  She was like trolling. She was like giving like big
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  troll energy. So it is hard because she is
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  kind of like a troll. And maybe it is just, you know,
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  to drum up some more press for the show.
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  But the show has a lot of press and there is already a lot of
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  controversy with her in Dakota. So I would actually be surprised
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  because now she has a baby with Dakota.
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  Like I would be surprised if she was using, you know, the rumors
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  about their relationship and the opinions about their
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  relationship to troll. But who knows.
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  Anyways guys that's it for mini scroll today.
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