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MINI SCROLL: Halley Kate engaged, Aussie creator Emily Jolie-Pitt makes it to AO + viral Dramageddon drag show · Mini Scroll

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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone.
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  OK, you'll notice if you guys listen often that I added
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  Australian into the intro because we have so many new
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  listeners and because I obviously have an American
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  So I am Canadian and we are based in Australia.
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  We are not American. So I thought, you know what,
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  let's just nip that in the bud. Let's just Australian to the
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  intro so there's never any confusion and you guys know what
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  the brand story is a little bit more upfront.
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  That being said, I did want to acknowledge it feels weird
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  sitting down and acting like everything is normal and I'm
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  here to deliver you guys the tea basically, when so much has been
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  going on. I mean, this, this is how it
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  always feels to be honest. And it feels really heightened
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  right now because of what's been happening in Minnesota over the
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  weekend. But it also feels a bit
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  hypocritical and Western focused when stuff like this has been
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  happening all around the world to marginalized groups.
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  I mean forever, but we have so many American listeners.
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  I know we have a lot of new American listeners.
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  So I did want to say I hope you're all doing OK.
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  I know the weight of what is going on must be so heavy and
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  fuck ice and that's that. Also, I did want to note, I was
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  going to cover the American influencers and celebrities
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  saying that their Tik Toks are not posting that their contents
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  being suppressed, but Annabelle's going to cover that
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  tomorrow because it's a little bit more mini tech focused and
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  she'll cover why that's allegedly happening.
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  But yes, that is not one of the stories for today, but it is a
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  massive story in Internet culture right now.
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  So that's why I'm not covering it in today's episode.
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  All right, the first story that I have for you guys today is
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  Hallie Kate is engaged to her boyfriend.
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  Read of the infamous Sophia Lacorte TikTok love triangle
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  drama. So New York City influencer
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  Hallie Kate got engaged to her boyfriend read while on vacation
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  last week. Normally, an influencer
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  engagement would not necessarily be newsworthy here at Mini.
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  But as we know, this relationship has been front and
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  center in the New York City Tik Toker scene because of this
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  alleged or like, quote UN quote love triangle between Hallie
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  Reed and influencer Sofia Lacourt.
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  I say love triangle very loosely here.
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  So Hallie and Reed, they first got together in early 2023, and
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  then he broke up with her in late 2023.
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  And this came to light because he was spotted by TikTok users,
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  by followers of the girls and it was posted on Reddit.
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  So this is from the R slash New York City influencer snark
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  subreddit. Quote.
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  The two were at Ludlow Hotel cuddled up on the couch enjoying
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  cocktails last night. I don't have a picture, but it
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  was them. Yes.
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  Sophia and Hallie were at the same influencer dinner on
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  Thursday. And This is why I was shocked to
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  see the two together on what appeared to be a date.
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  The two as in Reed and Sophia. So yeah, people were like Sophia
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  and Hallie run in the same circles.
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  And then at the time Hallie did confirm on her TikTok comments,
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  she said no, this is the T She was standing with me as I texted
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  my ex and went through my following DM D him asking him on
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  a date. Gross of both of them.
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  So that was you know when this all happened.
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  She also described Sophia as quote the worst person I've ever
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  met in my life. Imagine standing next to me
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  while texting my ex asking how he's doing and D Ming him that
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  same night. So her confirmation and her
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  comments really sent a wave of hate to Sophia.
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  And I think at first, people kind of felt, I mean, I don't
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  know if they felt bad for Sophia given the story that Hallie gave
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  us, but, you know, they didn't want to see her being dragged
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  like that. However, then Sophia really lent
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  into the drama. She made all of these horrible
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  videos about Hallie and Reed, and then she made like one or
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  two songs about the whole situation.
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  And she really used this opportunity to, like, go viral
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  herself. Oh my goodness some of you guys
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  are acting like I drop kicked someone's puppy.
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  I went on a date with a guy that was single.
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  I guess the paparazzi cared and was commenting on his ex
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  girlfriend's stuff. Commenting on her post saying me
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  Sophia Cord was with her ex-boyfriend.
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  His ex-girlfriend texts me and says hi this is Hallie because
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  she knows I don't have her number because we're not
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  friends. I'm getting DMS that you were on
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  a date with my ex last night. Oh my gosh I'm so sorry.
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  I didn't know you owned him. He wasn't wearing a collar.
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  Genuinely feel like so many people are just coming on here
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  and bullying me for fun like I'm scared.
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  Like thank God I'm OK OK if you guys actually think that I would
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  come on here and cry, you have the wrong bitch.
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  And this is actually the situation that gave us Ken
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  Urich's famous TikTok sound. I actually hate that little
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  ginger bitch because Hallie and Reed got back together and then
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  Sophia like went in even harder and was doing story times about
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  their dates and just it was insane.
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  So yes, all the TikTok girlies kind of band together and
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  supported Hallie and that is where we got Ken Urich's line.
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  So now Hallie and Reed are engaged.
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  And I did want to say to all the people who are like, I can't
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  believe she got back together with this guy who said he wasn't
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  or she wasn't the love of his life.
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  I can't believe she got engaged to him.
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  I think like, they're so young. Literally, Hallie was, I think,
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  23 or 24 when he broke up with her.
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  Like, they are so young. You have no idea who you are at
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  that age. It's totally normal to want to
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  experience other things and to not be sure.
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  And it's also fine to get back together with somebody and find
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  your way back to each other. Like, I don't think that that
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  criticism about Hallie and Reed, in my opinion, is very valid.
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  I think we often forget how young they are in this
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  situation. Or maybe the people criticizing
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  them are also that young, so maybe they don't have that
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  perspective yet. A lot of people have issues with
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  the fact that Reed appears to not be super happy in Hallie's
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  content. Again, I mean, I sound like a
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  Hallie and Reed Stan right now, but I think in the scheme of
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  influencer relationships to judge and influencers to judge
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  in general, I think the amount of hate that Hallie Kate gets is
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  not warranted. And yeah, I think he probably is
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  just not very comfortable on camera.
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  We don't see probably even a fraction of their relationship.
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  Now. A lot of people are a little bit
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  concerned. They want her to get a prenup
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  because obviously she makes so much money.
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  Fair enough. If you want to share your
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  opinion on that, I think that's fine.
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  And that's different. And now people also have a lot
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  to say about her ring. So her ring is this beautiful
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  huge long diamond shaped diamond all down her finger and then it
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  has 2 bands and one band is gold and one has diamonds around it.
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  And the bands are kind of off center, like they're not
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  parallel to each other. One is a little bit diagonal.
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  It's all one band, like it's all one ring, she said.
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  Read custom designed to this with a jeweler.
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  OK, and now in like all of her tick tock comment sections,
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  people are putting screenshots of what looks to be this exact
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  ring design from Amazon in the comments section.
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  I think as like a gotcha moment. There's only so many designs
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  that you can do in a ring and there's only so many like trends
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  that are happening at one point. And having like an unusual ring
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  design like Halley's is what's trending right now.
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  And there's so many ways that something could be custom made
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  without it being like a totally brand new design, right?
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  Like that's not really what custom made means in my opinion.
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  And this Amazon ring is probably just a RIP off of, you know, a
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  jewelry designer's design. And who's to say that Reed
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  didn't get her ring at that exact jewelry designer that
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  Amazon is ripping off? Like, we have no idea.
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  I don't know. I just don't think that this is
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  the gotcha moment that people think it is.
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  I know people have issues with Hallie Kate and how she
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  seemingly promotes overconsumption with her hauls
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  and things like that. But in terms of her engagement,
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  I think we just need to let her live and be happy and trust that
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  she is making the right decisions for herself.
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  And if she loves this ring, whether he got it on Amazon or
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  he's lying to her about it being custom made or whatever, like
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  who cares? Literally who cares?
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  OK, the next way that I have for you guys is this is niche, but
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  it's all over my For You page. And if you're Australian, then
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  it's probably all over yours too.
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  Australian creator Emily Jolie Pitt has made it to the
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  Australian Open, but not with Ralph Lauren.
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  So a creator who goes by Emily Jolie Pitt, obviously Jolie
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  Pitt, I'm assuming is not her real last name, has found
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  herself in a box at the Australian Open and she has 4000
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  TikTok followers. So this is like, I love this
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  story. This is like a story of tapping
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  into niche subcultures and how powerful that can be and how
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  beneficial that can be for your brand, but also for you as a
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  creator. So she made it to the Australian
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  Open with a brand after her hilarious post about how she's
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  obsessed with the Australian Open and also Ralph Lauren went,
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  I would say like a relatively viral within a specific niche.
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  So her content is always a selfie with text over top and
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  she posts really, I don't know. I can't say another word niche.
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  I'm sorry, I can't say niche a million more times, but I'm
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  going to very niche takes usually about Australian culture
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  or pop culture. But the through line is usually
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  that she's referencing like obscure celebrity facts, Sydney
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  socialites, like 2000 Australian pop culture drama.
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  Things are like really obscure. But if you know, you know.
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  And if you don't know, then you have no idea what she's posting
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  about. So her content is really funny
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  and she's gaining a very cold following and a very specific
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  demographic. Part of her stick is that she's
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  obsessed with the Ralph Lauren Factory outlet and the
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  Australian Open. So she started posting content
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  about how it was her dream to attend the AO with Ralph Lauren.
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  This became a meme amongst her followers and they were
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  desperately trying to get Ralph Lauren's attention to help Emily
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  get to the Australian Open and she was making edits of herself
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  with like the socialites that usually are in the Ralph Lauren.
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  I don't know if it's a box, a suite, I'm sorry, I don't know
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  tennis very well. Who are normally like there in
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  the Ralph Lauren suite and it's like her in the middle of like
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  these two socialites and stuff. It's so funny.
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  Anyways, Ralph Lauren didn't actually send her but Beginning
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  Boutique and MasterCard apparently both reached out and
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  she has made it to the Australian Open.
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  So obviously this is really good PR for these brands, again
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  within a smaller niche. However, I've also seen a lot of
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  people talk about online how this was a huge miss for Ralph
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  Lauren. Even though Emily doesn't have
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  like a giant following yet, I am predicting she will pop the fuck
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  off. I think by year's end she will
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  have hundreds of thousands of followers.
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  Even though she doesn't have a ton of followers yet, she is
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  making a name for herself in the very exact demographic that buys
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  Ralph Lauren. Like her comment sections are
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  filled with Australian socialites, PR girls, media
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  girls, influencers, because she talks about them and references
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  them and like I said, makes edits of herself with them.
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  And it's really funny. Like it's very harmless.
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  It's really funny. And she's tapping into a very
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  specific subculture with in Australia that's really only
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  covered by like the Daily Mail. And so she's establishing
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  herself as like almost a fan girl of this subculture.
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  And because of that, this subculture is taking notice
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  because again, they are covered in media, but usually it's not
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  mainstream. It's usually not people talking
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  about them in the same way that like we talk about influencers
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  here, for example. It's a lot more niche,
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  unfortunately. This was definitely a missed
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  opportunity for Ralph Lauren, but I think it is possible that
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  they will reach out to her to work with her soon.
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  I mean, I hope, I mean, I'm just guessing.
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  I'm just guessing. I have no basis for that
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  assumption, but I'm assuming. All right.
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  And the last way that I have for you guys today, a relatively
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  light slash funny one. To end the episode, we need to
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  talk about this Dramageddon drag show that is making the rounds
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  online. So we first saw clips of this
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  drag show posted by Kat Tenbarge, who's arguably one of
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  the most famous Internet culture journalists.
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  She posted a compilation of clips of the show which included
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  the Queen's lip syncing 2 iconic sound bites from the BI sister
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  saga. She also credited the drag
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  Queens in the show in the caption.
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  Grace period as Totti Westbrook, Anaphylactic shock as Geoffrey
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  Star chartreuse Sprite as James Charles Benedict the bastard as
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  Shane Dawson, Penny Nicole Dime as the birthday dinner waitress.
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  Sucking Dick and cock like I'm just.
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  Like, Oh my. God.
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  And my apology, I stand behind 100% and still rain true Hello.
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  Karma. My past has been recorded, it's
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  been videoed. Just makes me sick to my stomach
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  because I don't know who that person was.
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  So the post promoting the show sold it as quote.
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  Get ready to relive the wildest, pettiest, most scandalous moment
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  in YouTube history live on stage.
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  We're talking 2019 levels of chaos, betrayal videos, tearful
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  confessionals, cryptic tweets, makeup mogul meltdowns, and
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  more. You guys, I am so jealous that I
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  wasn't here like it actually causes me physical pain that I
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  wasn't at this show. So at the time of recording,
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  cats video has a master on 10,000 views and the initial
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  post promoting the show has around 20,000 likes.
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  Discussions around the drag show are also popping up across
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  Reddit. So the reason I wanted to talk
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  about this is first of all, it's obviously iconic, but also
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  because it's interesting how bi sister still has such a
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  stronghold in pockets of culture.
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  And I have a few theories as to why, and I'm interested to hear
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  your theories as well. Spy sister was such a
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  monoculture Internet culture moment for youth audiences.
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  We've obviously had some others, Coldplay, the cheating Coldplay
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  scandal thing that happened last year that comes to mind.
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  You know, we've had these big viral moments for sure, but this
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  was something that we could like sink our teeth into, right?
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  There were multiple sides to this story.
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  At first we were against James and then we were against Tati
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  and then Jeffrey Star got involved and Shane Dawson got
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  involved and then we against them.
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  And you know, there was there was a lot to sink our teeth into
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  and it really took over the Internet and it took over the
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  media in a lot of ways too, in a way that Internet culture had
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  not taken over the media yet. On top of this, I think we
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  sometimes forget how much drama there was on YouTube at that
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  time. So like this was a period of
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  time where we were locked the fuck in.
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  Like we were locked in to YouTube drama, especially in the
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  beauty community. That was a huge genre of the
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  platform. That was something people were
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  highly invested in. And after by sister, we actually
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  got a bit of fatigue from that. And now we see, you know, kind
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  of like a different experience with quote UN quote YouTube
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  drama. But at the time, like this was
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  at its peak. Like YouTube drama was at its
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  peak and we were locked the fuck in.
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  We also got so many iconic lines from it.
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  It was like these larger than life, incredibly dramatic
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  personalities. None of them were backing down
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  from the camera. Like nobody was trying to like
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  be private about any of this stuff.
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  They were all just fucking going for it.
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  And I also think the shock, the shock that somebody who was so
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  close to James Charles, and this is not me supporting James
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  Charles, but just in general, you know, who's who was so close
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  to somebody who was like significantly younger than them
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  at the time, who had been kind of like a mentor to them to
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  James. Like Tati being almost kind of a
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  mentor to James, you know, would turn on him like that in such a
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  scathing way. And the knowledge that we have
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  as well that she had to script that video, you know, get all
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  ready to film, sit down, film, and then get that.
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  I don't know if she edited it or somebody else did, but
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  regardless, it was edited and then she had to upload it, write
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  the description, write the title and hit publish all of that.
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  And she still decided to post that.
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  That's like another level of commitment to letting us know
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  how you felt about somebody that you used to be friends with.
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