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MINI SCROLL: TarasWrld mortgage-gate, StassieBaby shares BBL reversal + drama channel pop culture variety show · Mini Scroll

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  today, OK? The first story that I have for
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  you guys is I'm going to be talking about Terra's world like
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  mortgage situation that's going on and how now simply Nessa has
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  gotten involved. So earlier this week, TikTok *
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  Tara Lynn, who's also known as sorry, is it Tara or is it Tara?
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  I always say Tara, but I don't know if that's like a Canadian
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  thing. Anyways, Tara Lynn, Tara Lynn I
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  don't know from Tara's world went viral when she did a story
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  time about how she is struggling to afford her mortgage.
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  So Tara does TikTok and YouTube, but her main income source is
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  from only Fans. And now in this video, which she
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  has posted to only fans behind a paywall, she's talking about how
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  she's struggling to afford her $25,000 a month mortgage now.
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  OK, Also side note, she also said seven.
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  I didn't see the video because I don't subscribe to her, but I've
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  seen clips of it and I've seen people talk about it.
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  So just disclaimer, she apparently said in this video
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  $17,000 of that $25,000 a month is of interest.
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  Doesn't that just like hurt you physically?
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  OK so over a year ago Tara went on like now I'm getting confused
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  if I say a Tara or Tara. I don't remember what I first
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  said. Anyways whatever.
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  Tara went on Brianna Chicken Fries podcast and said that she
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  was making around $350,000 a month on Only Fans.
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  But now she's saying times have changed and her Only Fans has
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  slowed down. So this whole thing
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  understandably already sparked a lot of discussion around
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  influencer spending, the whole keeping up the Joneses thing,
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  financial literacy in general, especially for young people who
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  are getting into the influencer industry or even kind of like in
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  the entertainment industry in general.
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  And if you have the ability to start making like tons of money,
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  like having the tools or at least the people around you to
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  kind of help you navigate that. To be fair, a lot of people are
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  thinking that this is terror, just rage baiting.
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  They do think that it is the truth that like she is
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  struggling to pay her mortgage. But like all of this stuff
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  around it, like all the content around it is her just trying to
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  like garner sympathy and become like a quote UN quote like broke
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  influencer so that people subscribe to her on Only Fans
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  again. Now OG creator Simply NASA has
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  shared her $0.02 on it. And I thought this was
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  interesting. So Simply NASA started on
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  YouTube in 2016. She was like a story time
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  lifestyle Blogger. She got quite popular and ran in
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  some of those buzzy circles and she was friends with a lot of
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  buzzy up and coming influencers including Tana Mojo.
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  Also she was part of the creators that started calling
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  out Tana Mojo in 2024 being racist.
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  OK so a couple of days ago NASA posted a TikTok responding to a
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  conversation that was happening on the platform.
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  A user had posted a video saying basically like who remembers
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  Youtubers who were making around $30,000 a month in Adsense?
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  Like where are they now type of thing.
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  Could you imagine being young, making that much money and then
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  having that essentially like taken away from you because you
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  lose relevancy? Did y'all see that video of that
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  girl asking how all the OG influencers were making 30 to
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  $50,000 a month and now they're broke and E bagging on TikTok?
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  Like what happened to all that money?
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  So as somebody who accumulated over 2.5 million subscribers on
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  YouTube back in 2015 and I was literally living in LA so I
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  witnessed a lot of this, I'm going to give you guys the
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  breakdown on what happened with that money.
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  When I moved out there, I thought I was pushing it with my
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  $2000 one bedroom apartment, but I had people living in the same
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  building just at the top floor. I was on the 3rd floor but they
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  were at the top floor paying a $20,000 a month.
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  And then I had some friends that lived in mansions just for the
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  sole purpose of wanting to be able to throw parties and have
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  people come over and make content in there.
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  Literally paying people's yearly salaries like thirty $40,000 a
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  month just to rent this huge house.
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  So for those of you that were also wondering like why do a lot
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  of these influencers have big houses but they're fucking
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  empty? Not even joking.
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  To get some good quality furniture in there it's going to
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  cost you like half $1,000,000. And don't even get me started on
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  their Uber ego. It's like people reach a certain
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  amount of followers and all of a sudden they can't use Uber X.
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  And now that video got a lot of great response from NASA.
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  It went pretty viral, the video that she made.
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  And now she has responded to Terra's world's mortgage gate.
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  So many of you guys have been asking me to talk about the
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  Terra Lynn situation. The influence who was once
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  making over $350,000 a month is now struggling to pay her
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  mortgage. And I mean, $350,000 is a lot of
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  money. She ended up buying a $3.5
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  million home. But according to my
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  calculations, if you're making that amount of money, you could
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  have paid the house off within the year.
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  When you're making all this money, like I said in my last
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  video, you don't think it's ever going to end.
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  You think you're going to always be this relevant and keep making
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  that amount of money? And I did see some comments of
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  people saying like, let's show grace to these influencers.
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  Like they didn't know that they would fall off one day because
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  content creation is such a new thing.
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  Actually, there's been Youtubers since like 2009 and we've seen
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  them fall off in 2014. 2015 monetization has been a thing.
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  We've seen people have the Lamborghinis, the mansions and
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  then the next second it's all gone.
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  I mean, I completely agree. Obviously, relevancy in
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  entertainment doesn't last forever, and we have also had
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  like decades of proof of that at this point.
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  So I agree with her on the point that like, we can't really say,
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  Oh well, influencers, it's like a new industry.
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  People have been making money on YouTube specifically since I
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  think YouTube offered monetization in 2008.
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  I want to say, you know, it has been almost 2 decades of this.
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  We have many many many like countless examples of creators
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  who are super popular and made so much money and got so famous
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  for a moment in time and then completely fell off and like
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  where are they now? The number one thing that people
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  are saying in Tara's comments section is why don't you just
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  sell your multi $1,000,000 home and buy another home much
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  cheaper and that would solve a lot of your financial issues.
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  Queen. Anyways, the next word that I
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  have for you guys is that Stassi Baby has opened up about
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  removing her BBL. So I try not to talk about
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  influencer and celebrity appearance on the pod and
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  plastic surgery and things like that.
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  But I do think that this is an important topic and she is
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  talking about it herself. You know, there's it's not
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  speculation that she's removed her BBL.
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  She has removed her BBL. She is talking about it.
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  She is documenting it. So influencer and Kylie Jenner's
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  bestie Stassi Baby has opened up about why she decided to reverse
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  her very talked about cosmetic procedure.
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  Her BBL wish she revealed she got it. 18 years old, 18 years
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  old. That is such a major surgery,
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  people, I know people die from all types of surgeries.
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  But BPLS are apparently particularly dangerous because
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  of where they're injecting the fat and like the arteries and
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  veins and stuff that are kind of around that area.
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  Like I, I just, I don't know, it just freaks me out. 18 that's
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  such a major surgery OK so in recent months she has been
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  candid with her followers online about the pressure that she has
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  felt as a teen to look a certain way and how that carried into
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  her young adulthood, explaining that she believed she had to
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  have quote a big butt, lips and boobs to fit in with the beauty
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  ideals of the time. And I imagine being besties with
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  the Kardashians does not help because in many ways they have
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  helped set that beauty standard. So earlier this week, she
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  revealed that she was in recovery from removing her BBL.
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  And then she got a little bit of backlash of people saying like,
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  oh, it's just trendy now to be like, all natural and really
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  waist thin and stuff again. So that's why you're just
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  chasing like an aesthetic trend. And she kind of clapped back at
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  that. She said that she's sharing her
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  story to offer the kind of transparency that she wished she
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  had access to back when she was making the decisions to get
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  these surgeries. And I would just like to state
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  that the reason why I'm sharing my experience currently is
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  because I wish I had someone, the one that showed me the not
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  glamorized side of plastic surgery when I was younger and I
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  was 18. And I made this decision that
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  have actually been for years trying to reduce and fix.
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  And just it's actually something that has made me more insecure
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  and made me feel like so unauthentic with me as a human
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  being. I think plastic surgery
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  awareness around, you know, the risks and possibly complications
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  that can go along with it and possibly being unhappy and
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  needing to reverse it like Stoss is doing now.
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  I think all of that is really important.
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  But I think what's more powerful about this is, first of all,
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  she's talking about it and not some type of like dramatic story
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  time type of way. You know, she's not sitting down
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  looking for clicks saying like, here's how I almost died on the
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  operating table. It's not like some sensational
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  story that feels like, OK, well that happened to you, but like
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  that's not going to happen. Happened to me.
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  Like that probably happens to one in like 10 million people.
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  You know, it's not a sensational story.
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  Her talking about those insecurities because I think a
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  lot of people look at Stas and think she's like so gorgeous
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  and, you know, the kind of beauty that we would all like
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  love to obtain. So the fact that she has felt so
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  insecure and also that she does have these procedures, you know,
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  like I feel like we were gas lit for so long by these big like
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  influencer slash celebrity types that their bodies just looked
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  like that. And for many of them, it was so
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  deeply unrealistic. And of course, it set its own
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  totally different, you know, beauty standard that was
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  impossible to live up to. So I think it's powerful from so
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  many different angles. And I really love this chapter
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  for her and I hope she keeps going with it.
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  I have actually really enjoyed getting to know her a little bit
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  more on TikTok. OK, and the last story that I
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  have for you guys, this is a quick one, but I thought it was
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  an interesting indication of the direction of the industry.
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  So drama channels Spill Sesh and Sloan have launched a new show
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  called Poppity. So Christy from Spell Sesh and
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  Sloan have launched what they're calling a pop culture game show.
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  And they have, like, relevant influencers, creator, celebrity
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  guests on each episode, it seems.
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  The first episode was with Tricia Paytas, and they ate
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  Tricia's favorite food in Christie's car.
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  It was like a car vlog. It was like a mukbang, I guess,
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  like a chatty mukbang car vlog. It was very Tricia Paytas.
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  But they also say they're going to take viewers behind the
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  scenes, going to different brand events and just like the
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  industry at large. I think it's really interesting
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  because I feel like it's almost 2 drama channels coming together
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  to start their own entertainment outlet, like video first
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  entertainment outlet. And I love to see it.
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  And I love that they're able to get these really big guests.
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  Like we don't know who else is coming on, but Tricia Paytas is
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  obviously a huge get as their first guest and for huge
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  influencers to be taking drama channels this seriously and
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  agreeing to go on camera like a full long form interview with
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  them doing something cute and fun like doing a mukbang car
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  vlog. Like this is so crazy to me
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  because if you told me that this was happening like five years
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  ago, I would have literally lost my mind.
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  The fact that the industry, the publicist, the managers around
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  these influencers, the influencers themselves are
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  taking commentary channels, drama channels seriously, like
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  this is so interesting. And I think it's a great
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  indication of the direction of new media and entertainment news
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  coverage for sure. And I thought it was funny too,
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  because in the first episode they're like, oh, I imagine we
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  could take you guys to the Wicked premiere.
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  And then they're like, so somebody hopefully invite us
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  like, yeah, literally. So I think that'll be really
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  cool. It's almost like mixing vlogging
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  with traditional entertainment reporting and drama channel
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  reporting. It's very cool.
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  I think it has a lot of potential if they can execute it
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  well. And I assume if they can get the
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  funding for it, which is always the problem.
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