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MINI SCROLL: Spotify Wrapped 2024 backlash, Barry Keoghan x Sabrina Carpenter cheating rumours + BOQTOQ goes viral · 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 Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini school, everyone, and welcome back to a
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  podcast from home today. As I mentioned last week, right
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  now I am flying solo on editing the podcast episode.
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  So I always edit Mini because those just go up right away.
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  But the deep dives are always edited by Danny, who's on our
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  team, and she is on a big trip after she graduated uni.
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  And the extra workload is so intense you can probably hear
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  Pumpkin coughing behind me on my bed.
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  I can't. These are the sweet sounds of
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  recording from home. But yes, the workload is crazy
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  and I'm just feeling really burnt out.
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  Like I know it's that time of year where you feel like you're
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  crawling to the end of the year. And I really was like, I cannot
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  commute in today. So I think this will probably be
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  the last mini that I have to do from home because the next two
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  podcast episodes before we go on break for Christmas.
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  They'll need less editing. They're not as much like deep
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  dive video essays as they are. I mean, I don't really want to
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  spoil the topics for you guys, but they're like a little bit
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  more chill anyways. So that is why I am podcasting
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  from home right now. The other update that I have for
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  you guys is OK, so maybe like 3 weeks ago, Annabelle, who is our
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  podcast producer, she is always like checking everything on
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  socials for us. She's always on Reddit.
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  She's the one that helps me find different stories.
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  She's the one that researches and helps me write a lot of the
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  deep dives and stuff. So you guys know, I talked about
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  Annabelle a lot, but she was on Reddit.
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  She's always like typing in infinite scroll Centennial world
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  on Reddit, keeping tabs. And she found that one of you
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  guys, one of the podcast listeners, started a subreddit
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  for infinite scroll and there was actually a spelling error in
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  the URL. So she had messaged the admin
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  and just like let them know. And they were so sweet back.
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  I guess they just got back to her and she was like, yeah, they
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  were so sweet. I think that the spelling error
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  is fixed. It is infinite scroll podcast.
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  I swear it was not started by anyone on our team.
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  Like Annabelle straight up just like came across this, but very
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  exciting, very scary. You know, Reddit can be a very
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  scary place, but really exciting.
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  So I think Annabelle will probably be, you know, like
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  keeping an eye on it and maybe responding to some things here
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  and there in the subreddit, which is really exciting.
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is, is Spotify
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  Wrapped came out today and Spotify is getting a little bit
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  dragged right now on social media for excluding several of
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  the loved categories or beloved categories and labels that
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  they've had in the past. So today Spotify Wrapped came
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  out and we all found out, you know, a little bit more about
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  ourselves. But if we were in your Spotify
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  Wrapped, first of all, thank you so much for all the listening.
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  Please, if you are going to share it, like tag us, tag us on
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  Instagram, tag me on Instagram infinite scroll podcast or
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  Lauren Meisner under score, because I would absolutely love
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  to see it. It's so exciting to like it's
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  literally like Christmas Day for especially like an independent
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  podcast like ours, part of an independent media brand.
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  Like it's so exciting that you know, there's so many of you
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  where we are like in your top five podcasts of the whole year.
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  So please tag us. But yeah, so to Spotify wrapped
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  today. I'll tell you guys what my
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  Spotify was if you guys are interested.
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  I know that there's always jokes that people are like, nobody
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  cares about this, but I actually really care about people.
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  Spotify Wrapped, it's something that I've started caring about a
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  lot more like as the years go on.
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  I don't know, I'm just like interested in what my friends
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  are listening to and stuff, OK. My top artists were Taylor
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  Swift, Charli XCX, Chapel, Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Peach PRC.
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  Last year my very top artist I think was Peach and then I think
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  it was Taylor after that. I'm actually surprised there's
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  not more like rock vibes in there.
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  I listen to like such an array of music.
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  I talked about this recently. With that being said, my
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  October, my top artists in October were at Linkin Park,
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  Limp Bizkit, and System of a Down.
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  So I don't know what the fuck I was going through in October,
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  but things were unwell in October for me.
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  Clearly. I went from like bubble gum pop
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  vibes for like the whole year to like hardcore new metal vibes.
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  And my top song was the Tortured Poets Department.
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  And I guess I'm not really that surprised because I love that
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  song. I love that song.
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  And I know I've talked about this a little bit on the
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  podcast, but this year's been a really hard year for me.
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  And so Tortured Poets Department coming out, I was kind of like a
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  hater when it first was announced.
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  And when it first came out, I was like, Oh my God, eye roll
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  vibes. But it was the perfect album for
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  me during this like really difficult year.
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  It was like the melancholy vibes that I needed, you know?
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  And I really just love like a Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
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  collab. I know a lot of people have a
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  lot of things to say about their like music together and that she
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  needs to branch out and stuff, but something about them
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  together is like magic to me. So I love it.
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  OK. But a lot of people across
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  social media have been questioning why Spotify Wrapped
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  feels so different this year and they are not happy about it.
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  So in years past, Spotify Wrapped would include like
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  really quirky personalized features like telling you what
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  city your music tastes like, fits into giving an aura based
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  on your music. I remember they did that one
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  year and like those types of things are like noticeably
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  missing. Like the was much shorter this
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  year. It was basically like here's
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  your top artist, you know, here's your top songs, that kind
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  of stuff. However, I do want to say I also
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  remember that when Spotify did have those kind of unhinged,
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  personal, quirky little features, people made fun of
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  them all across social media. Now everyone's like, where is
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  it? I want to know what city I am.
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  The one thing that I really liked about the Spotify wrapped
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  this year was that you could see the evolution of your music
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  taste as the months went on. So that's where like, you know,
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  I knew that in October I was mostly listening to like new
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  metal rock, whereas in like June and July I was mostly listening
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  to pop like Sabrina Carpenter, Charlie XCX.
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  So I liked seeing the evolution. I thought that was more
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  interesting than being like, oh, here's this random city that
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  like we claim or we think like suits you.
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  But anyways, I really I like that.
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  I like that evolution, although then in the evolution is where
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  the like crazy personalization came in.
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  So let me read you guys, some of the ones that I've found online.
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  This is just from social media, like people that I know.
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  So Spotify wrapped will say like March was your XXX and it will
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  be like based on your music of March.
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  So for example, this one, I saw this one.
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  So August was your coastal grandmother Beatle esque yacht
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  rock moment. May was your pumpkin spice Vogue
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  90s pop moment. OK.
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  July was your pink Pilates Princess Hollywood pop moment.
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  OK, Like word salad, but it's so obscure and niche that people
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  are sharing them because it's like so funny.
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  Oh, also, sorry, this is all over the place.
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  Also, getting the Spotify Wrapped for the podcast was
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  really cool because we could see that almost 70% of our listeners
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  now are new listeners that we got this year, which is really,
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  really crazy. So we've seen so much growth
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  this year with the podcast, and that obviously doesn't include
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  YouTube, and YouTube is growing pretty quickly as well.
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  So very exciting. But yeah, definitely it.
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  Leave me a comment on Spotify or YouTube if you guys had some
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  unhinged like evolution like your May was some word salad.
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  I would love to hear what you guys were getting.
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  OK the next story that I have is that influencer Brecky Hill has
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  sparked cheating rumors between Barry Keoghan and Sabrina
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  Carpenter. I think I said Barry Keoghan's
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  name wrong yesterday. Sorry about that.
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  So OK also it turns out we all agree that Sabrina and Barry
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  were most likely PRI Got so many comments about that when I said
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  that yesterday. But there's still are some
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  cheating rumors going around so I'm going to entertain them but
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  I don't know if I necessarily believe it.
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  OK so after the news that Sabrina and Barry split Brecky
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  Hill who is an only fans model and a huge tik toker, she has
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  over 4 million followers. She started sparking rumors that
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  she was like, somehow involved in it when she started reposting
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  videos and like, blind items and things like that, like claiming
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  that he cheated on Sabrina with a blonde influencer.
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  So Dumas was the first to post, I guess, about their breakup
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  rumors a few days ago. So she posted a blind saying
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  that they had split and he had cheated on Sabrina with a blonde
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  influencer in LA and that Sabrina had allegedly seen
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  messages between the two of them on his phone.
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  And then once mainstream outlets started covering their breakup
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  and it seems like, OK, their breakup is definitely confirmed,
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  at least by, you know, their camps.
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  Not necessarily the cheating rumors, but like it seems like
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  their breakup is confirmed then this is when Brecky started
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  reposting different videos and things like that.
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  And that's basically the gist of the story.
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  She's just like getting herself involved by reposting
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  speculative videos and things like that, that claim that like
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  he cheated on Sabrina and that insinuated was with her.
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  I'm going to say this seems like a bit of like a cloud chasing
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  moment from her. I think she knew that it would
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  get her name talked about. It would get a lot of engagement
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  on her page. And I'm sure she's part of the
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  creator TikTok fund and so she's probably making money off of
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  this. So I don't know, to me, I feel
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  like this is just an easy way for her to like drum up a little
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  bit of like speculation drama around her name without having
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  to come out and like specifically make a statement.
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  She hasn't said anything outwardly yet, at least at at
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  the time of me recording this. And I actually like, I don't
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  think there's going to be much to say.
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  I think even if she did hook up with Barry, I think like we all
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  agreed, all of us, the scrollers, we agreed they
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  Sabrina and Barry were in APR relationship.
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  All right, the last story that I have for you guys, this one is
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  like so unhinged. Annabelle was like, you have to
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  include this story and I was like, OK, so there is a creator
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  named Molly who is going super viral right now on TikTok
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  because she's kind of like low key trolling Ethan Slater for
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  his character Bach and wicked. OK, so Molly, her handle is T
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  swift fan for 20 and you guys will probably know her because
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  she makes all that content where she's like, here's my impression
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  of a girl who's just done with the conversation.
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  I'm done with this conversation. Like, she makes content like
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  that and her videos are always everywhere, at least for me.
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  So her videos are everywhere again, but this time she is
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  making fun of Ethan Slater's character Bach.
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  She's making fun specifically of how like his love interest in
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  the movie sings like me and Bach.
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  Oh, me and Bach, Yeah, we're perfect together.
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  So she was posting like tons of content, basically like
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  trolling. The fact that anybody would like
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  like Bach, I think was the point.
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  But she was making so much content that she was like
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  constantly, constantly coming up on people's for you pages that
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  it turned into this inside joke with her audience where they
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  were like, see you in a couple swipes, Queen, because like, you
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  know, they'll be scrolling through like swiping through
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  their for you page. And she's like there again and
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  there again, making these videos about Bach.
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  And now it's turned into such a viral series that she has
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  decided to put together a Bach look alike competition.
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  Do you look like Bach and do you feel really bad about it?
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  You should anyway. Bach look alike contest this
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  Saturday, Washington Square Park again.
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  I'm only inviting 15 people legally noon.
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  And again, like, all of this is a troll.
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  Like all of this is to kind of like make fun of her like a hate
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  on Ethan Slater. The girls and I were talking
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  like if it wasn't Ethan Slater specifically who played Bach,
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  would she be making fun of this? Probably not.
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  So like there are some people that are like, this is mean.
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  But like, I would say the vast majority of people see it as
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  just kind of like an Internet troll and they think it's funny.
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  And this is just such a good example of a creator.
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  I mean, I wouldn't say there was like necessarily a strategy
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  behind this, but like being able to turn her content so
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  organically into a meme and create this viral moment where
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  her audience keeps coming back and actually keeps commenting,
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  saying like, I'm going to be back.
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  And I know that the algorithm is going to keep serving me you
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  because you keep creating this like hype around this one
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  specific series or this one specific moment online.
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  So she does hold the Bach look like competition.
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  I will definitely keep tabs on that and I will let you guys
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  know how it goes. But yes, this is just like a
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  really funny niche viral moment and she has like created it
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  herself. It didn't like accidentally
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  happen. It's not like a one off video.
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  She is creating this like a viral narrative around her
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  content right now in a really funny way and I think people
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  appreciate that. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  mini scroll today. And this is actually the last
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  mini scroll that I'm ever going to do as a 32 year old because I
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  turned 33 on Sunday. I have very mixed feelings about
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  that. But anyways, guys, thank you so
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  much for listening. I love you guys.
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  tomorrow and then I will talk to you on Monday as a fresh 33 year
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  old. Bye.