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MINI SCROLL: Group 7 x Louvre heist memes, Sombr vs. 25-year-olds + Kira Cousins fake pregnancy · Mini Scroll

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  OK the first story that I have for you guys is I'm going to
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  break down the group 7 meme and how people are combining the
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  group 7 meme with the Louvre getting robbed.
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  SO2 trends are literally sweeping TikTok group 7 and get
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  ready with me to rob the Louvre. People are intertwining these in
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  the most insane ways. So group 7 to start is a viral
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  in joke that started from musician Sophia James.
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  Sophia released a new song called So Unfair, and to promote
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  it on TikTok. She decided to try and like take
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  on the algorithm where she posted several videos in a row
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  to see which one would get the most traction.
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  Her videos were basically like, if you see this, you're in Group
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  one. If you see this, you're in Group
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  2 all the way up until group seven.
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  Group 7 is simply the video that got the most traction.
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  It got the most views. It had 8 million views in just a
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  couple of days. And it's, you know, just
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  absolutely exploded because being in Group 7 has become this
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  in joke. Like I said, I mean an in joke
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  amongst millions, but still everybody is joking that Group 7
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  is elite, Group 7 is superior. And now users have merged Group
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  7 memes with jokes about the Louvre being robbed.
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  So I'm sure you guys have seen but yesterday the Louvre in
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  Paris was robbed and people are combining Group 7 with like
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  heist jokes. Being like robbers are
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  definitely part of group 7. Get ready with me to rob the
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  Louvre as part of group 7. People are doing fit checks like
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  what I would wear if I was going to rob the museum.
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  It's truly insane. It's peak TikTok brain rot humor
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  and I love it. So that's an explainer on Group
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  7. If you guys have seen Group 7
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  everywhere, that's what it means.
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  It's really just like this very simple in joke.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is I wanted to talk
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  about this somber TikTok fan backlash and what's been going
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  on with him. I wanted to say Annabelle told
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  me on Monday to cover this story, but I didn't know what
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  she was saying because obviously she has an Australian accent.
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  I've lived in Australia for almost 10 years.
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  My husband is Australian, tons of my friends colleagues are
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  Australian, but I don't know. I was hearing her say samba,
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  like the dance. And I was like, OK, are you
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  talking about Dancing with the Stars?
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  And I was just like, oh, yeah, OK, maybe, but I already have
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  three stories, no worries. No, she was saying somber, like
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  the singer, the musician. And so today I was like, Oh my
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  God, is that what you were referring to?
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  Because people have been asking us now to cover it.
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  And she was like, yeah, I'm like, Oh my God, dead.
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  OK, so the newly viral singer Somber, whose real name is Shane
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  Boos, has found himself at the center of a TikTok debate after
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  a fan posted a review of one of his concerts.
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  And he proceeded to respond. And people have really turned on
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  him for his response. Somber has two really viral
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  singles, back to Friends and Undressed.
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  And because of this, he's built quite a culty fanbase online.
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  Earlier this week, a Tik Toker named Meg, who was apparently 25
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  years old. That's important.
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  Made a video reviewing his show, his tour that she recently went
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  to and she described it as quote, one of the worst
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  experiences of my life. So excited to see this
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  performance Fr Genuinely the worst concert I've ever been to
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  in my life for a multitude of reasons, but I'm going to
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  explain to you why if you're over the age of 16 you should
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  not spend your money on a somber.
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  Concert, She said. It was, quote, the closest to a
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  middle school dance I've ever been since I was in middle
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  school. And she said that the only
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  adults in the room appeared to be parents of young fans, plus
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  her and her boyfriend. This actually reminds me of
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  something that happened in my real life.
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  It wasn't to me, but two of my friends, a couple went to the
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  Alex Warren concert recently in Sydney, like just a few weeks
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  ago. And I was asking my friend like,
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  how was it? And she was like, it was OK.
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  It was just like a lot of families and young kids.
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  Like, it was mostly just full of young kids.
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  And I was like, well, yeah, he's a Tik toker.
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  He was part of the hype house. He's also really young.
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  And she had no idea. Like, she just knew him from the
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  ordinary, you know, his giant song.
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  She had no idea that he was a Tik Toker.
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  And I was like, yeah, of course. Like, of course, this audience
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  is so young. But she literally had no idea.
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  And she was like, yeah, it was a little bit weird.
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  And they also left early because Meg, she said that she left
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  early from this concert. So she said basically she found
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  there was like humor throughout the concert and she found it to
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  be really immature. She said at one point he made a
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  6-7 joke, which we know is like a Gen. alpha joke.
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  Basically. She said he hosted like a somber
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  dating show segment where young fans were encouraged to call
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  their toxic acts on stage. She called it cringe.
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  She also said a lot of his jokes felt inappropriate given the age
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  of his audience. And yes, she said she left
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  before it ended. So this went really viral and
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  people for the most part were actually on somber side.
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  And then he responded in his own TikTok, calling this whole
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  situation TikTok drama. I totally respect people having
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  opinions but I am a 20 year old artist freshly 20 and if you're
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  25 years old and and you're going to come to my concert and
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  not expect people younger than you to be there when I the
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  artist and five years younger than you, it's just a skill
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  issue. Also like the jokes thing like
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  you have to have known about my online presence before coming to
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  my concert. I mean anyone who knows me knows
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  I've never uttered a serious word in my life.
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  And also I make jokes for 5 minutes of the concert and the
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  rest is music. Like live a little, enjoy life.
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  He also said at one point that everyone's welcome at his shows
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  despite being like, if you expect people to be your age, if
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  you're coming to my show at the ancient age of 25 years old,
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  like that's a skill issue. Insane.
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  So ironic. So yes, basically just full
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  clapping back. Meg has since responded saying
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  she's received more backlash over this concert saga than for
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  any of her political posts, which is what she usually posts.
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  OK so I'm not super across samba.
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  I had heard his viral songs, obviously, but I literally only
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  just discovered who he is through the situation.
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  I've seen some mixed things online.
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  I've seen that he over sexualizes himself.
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  He like grabs his crotch while performing.
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  He gets his fans to bark at him. Apparently he calls himself
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  daddy to them while they're all really young, right?
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  They're tweens, They're teens. But then I've seen other people
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  say, well, like, it's not really his fault that his audience is
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  so young. He doesn't market himself as a
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  tween performer. He's not like a Disney star, you
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  know, He's not trying to intentionally appeal to that
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  audience. That's just who he's found and
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  he shouldn't change his performance style because of his
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  audience because that's not who he's trying to appeal to.
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  However, I guess now with this situation, maybe you could argue
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  that he actually does want to appeal to people who are under
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  20s, so tweens and teens. After saying that 25 is
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  basically ancient and they shouldn't be going to a show,
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  Might I note that anyone who's in their mid 20s, late 20s, even
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  early 30s, you know, like we're the ones with disposable income
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  to support your career, to go to your show, to buy your merch.
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  Like most of us don't have kids yet, maybe not mortgages yet.
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  Like those are the people that can afford to actually support
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  you in your endeavors. Now, as someone who is a lot
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  older than 20 and 25, I will say there definitely is a difference
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  between those two ages. But at the end of the day, the
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  more distance that you get from like your early to mid 20's, the
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  more you look back on it. And it's like, yeah, there might
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  be a lot of life that's lived between 20 and 25.
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  But in terms of who you are as a person, when I can look back
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  now, it's almost like 10 years ago for me.
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  I'm like, OK, I was a baby in both of those instances.
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  Both of those ages are just like total babies compared to the
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  rest of your life. And I fear for somber this was
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  truly the least PR savvy thing he could have done.
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  I know he's young, I know he's new to fame, but criticism, even
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  if it feels targeted, even if it feels nasty, is unfortunately
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  part of the game in this social media ecosystem if you want to
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  be a famous artist. I'm not saying it's necessarily
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  right, but it is part of it. And he got so much success and
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  fame from TikTok. So at the end of the day, like
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  that's where people are going to be talking about you.
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  It's a double edged sword, you know?
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  Unfortunately, the benefits of having a platform like TikTok,
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  being able to be discovered so quickly, have your songs go
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  viral, all of that has made it infinitely easier in some ways
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  to reach what he has reached. But the downside of it, a
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  negative review of your concert could go absolutely viral.
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  And now everyone's talking about how your audience is like 12
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  years old, but it seems like he wants his audience to be 12.
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  So I don't really know. Anyways, the next story that I
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  have for you guys is I'm going to break down the Keira Cousins
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  fake pregnancy saga. This is really sad.
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  I mean, I do believe there's a lot of mental health stuff going
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  on in the story, so keep that in mind while I tell it.
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  So Kira Cousins is a 22 year old from Scotland.
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  She's going viral right now for faking a pregnancy, faking a
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  birth and faking having a baby with a reborn doll.
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  So if you're not familiar, reborn dolls are very expensive
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  life looking dolls that are created to very much look and
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  feel like a real baby. Some of them also can move,
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  which apparently Kira's did. And I believe the main purpose
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  of reborn dolls is for women who have experienced infant loss and
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  miscarriage. So this is how the story goes.
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  Kira allegedly fell pregnant shortly after she started dating
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  her boyfriend, and apparently the baby's father and family
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  weren't super supportive because they were not dating for very
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  long. Kira continues on with the
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  pregnancy. She's posting about it online,
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  including her baby shower scans. She has a visible bump growing a
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  few months into her pregnancy. She even posts about how the
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  baby has a heart defect. And then Kira announces that on
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  October 10th, she had a baby. She had a baby girl named Bonnie
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  Lee. Kira apparently told a friend
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  that there were tensions between her and the baby's father, so
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  she decided to give birth alone. Suspicions arose when Kira took
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  Bonnie to meet Bonnie's dad. So like the baby's dad and the
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  baby's dad's mom noticed that the baby was cold and wasn't
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  moving. So apparently Kira played along
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  and was like, I'm going to rush the baby to the hospital.
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  And then she told them that the hospital had discharged them but
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  that the baby Bonnie has health issues.
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  Kira was introducing this baby again.
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  It was a doll, this baby to like everyone, like her family, you
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  know, the baby's dad, the baby's dad's mom, her work friends, her
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  work friends, parents as well. And in all of these situations,
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  it seems like it was the parents who kept questioning, like,
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  what's going on here? I mean, presumably because the
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  parents have had more interactions with babies than
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  like the 22 year olds in the story.
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  So yes, all of this was a doll, OK?
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  There was no actual physical baby.
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  So all of this exploded on social media after Kira's cousin
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  Neve exposed the lies on social media and included receipts.
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  Basically, the lies about the baby came to light after Kira's
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  mom grew suspicious and she like broke into Kira's room, found
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  the doll and was like what the fuck is going on?
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  Neve said. Everybody believes Kira, She had
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  a gender reveal, she posted scan photos and even said the baby
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  had a hole in its heart. Then she texted me saying the
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  baby was born. We were all so happy.
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  OK so there were mixed reports about how Kira responded to this
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  because there are so many fake accounts right now popping up
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  trying to get in on this engagement.
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  Like fake accounts pretending to be her.
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  So it's unclear exactly how she responded.
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  Some media outlets are reporting that Kira posted admitting it
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  was a hoax and said she had no real reason to do it.
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  She just lied and never was pregnant, never had a baby.
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  And then others are saying that in her apology post she said she
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  did it because she had a miscarriage.
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  What seems to be reported across the board is that Kira is
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  defending her family saying they had no idea.
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  Like they bought her thousands of pounds worth of baby stuff.
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  She is claiming they fully believed that it was real.
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  So yes, even though it is wild to think that her boyfriend, her
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  mom, like her family, her friends that she's apparently
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  close with had no idea, never saw her stomach during this time
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  anything. I guess at the end of the day,
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  like she was clearly isolating herself.
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  You know, if she was able to do something like this, she
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  obviously was isolating herself from people.
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  I do believe that they didn't know.
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  But yeah, everybody is like, this is definitely the next
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  Netflix documentary. That's why I said at the
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  beginning, I feel like there is definitely some mental health
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  stuff going on here. But yes, that is the update on
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  that. That is the latest on that.
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