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MINI SCROLL: Married women on girls trip TikTok discourse, Harry Styles ticket backlash + 'Nutella tricks' meme · 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.
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  Every Monday through Thursday and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the Australian
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  youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone.
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  OK do need to preface, this is my 6th podcast episode in three
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  days. I actually wrote three years in
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  my notes 3 days. I wish it was in three years
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  three days. I feel so delirious.
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  And you guys know I suffer from pretty chronic insomnia and I
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  really did not sleep last night. So I apologize if this episode
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  is not very strong, but I will have a deep dive for you guys
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  tomorrow which is really exciting.
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  And we also had a new Patreon episode go up today on the
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  stories that I didn't cover this month and why I chose not to
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  cover them with some of my. I suppose controversial is maybe
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  not the right word, but some opinions that I would maybe be
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  too scared to share publicly for various reasons.
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  OK, let's get into the stories for today.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is a creator named
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  Jane has become the center of some discourse after making a
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  video saying she doesn't think that she would ever go on a
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  girls trip as a married woman. Jane is a creator based in
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  Connecticut and she made this video last week, but it's really
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  been picked up by the algorithm and sparked a lot of discourse.
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  So here's a clip. As someone who's married, I
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  don't think I would ever go on a girls trip, and if I do, I don't
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  think it would. I can't.
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  Like I can't imagine myself ever going on a girls trip.
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  Like a girls date night, maybe a girls weekend away or something.
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  But a four or five day girls trip outside of the country,
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  away from my husband and my child?
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  That simply just does not sound appetizing to me at all.
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  Like, I'm good with a date night.
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  Nobody takes as good care of me as my husband does.
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  I am not comfortable with anyone the way I'm comfortable with my
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  husband. The response to this has been,
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  as you would expect, tons of women saying they love being
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  married, they love their kids, they love being a mother, but
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  they also love their girlfriends just as much.
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  They love going on a girls trip just as much.
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  So I wanted to cover this not to criticize Jane personally, but
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  rather I think the discourse in general is important considering
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  first of all the demographic of our audience.
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  We have a lot of young women in who are, you know, going to be
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  possibly getting into serious relationships soon, possibly
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  getting married. And also because of the rise
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  that we've seen in conservativism.
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  Conservative. I always say conservativism.
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  I always say I don't. Conservatism.
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  That just sounds wrong. OK, yeah.
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  Conservatism. I don't know why but my brain
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  reads and says conservativism, but conservatism, trad wife
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  culture, and all of this right wing propaganda which I don't
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  think she's trying to make here. I want to be clear, but I think
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  in general this topic is important to discuss.
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  So first, I actually think it's great that she feels safe with
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  her husband and that she feels like he takes such good care of
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  her. I'm the same.
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  I don't think there's anyone in the world who takes as good care
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  of me as my husband does. But the concern here from users
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  is that so often women end up losing their identity to being a
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  wife and a mother rather than allowing being a wife and a
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  mother add to their identity. So it becomes essentially their
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  whole identity. And look, I get it.
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  Not from a wife perspective. I mean, I am a wife, but not
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  from that perspective. As a business owner, like, that
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  is my entire identity. And at this point in Centennial
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  World's journey, it feels genuinely impossible for it not
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  to be my whole identity. So I imagine that when you have
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  a child, like when you are a mother, it's probably like that
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  tenfold. But at the end of the day, I am
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  so much more than just a business owner.
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  And I try to remain aware of it, even though it is very hard.
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  And I try to remain aware of the fact that if I'm not nurturing
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  other parts of my life and myself throughout this
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  experience, I might look up one day when it's all over and
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  realize I've lost myself. I've lost my friends, I've lost
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  my relationship to this business.
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  So there's tons of women, especially older women in her
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  comment section and making stitches and videos about this
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  saying that was me too. And then, you know, my children
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  became teenagers. They didn't need me as much
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  anymore. Or they went off to college,
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  they went off to adulthood, you know, and then who are you at
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  the end of the day? I am not comparing being a
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  business owner to motherhood, but that is currently the like
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  identity struggle journey that I am on.
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  And anecdotally, something my mom talks about actually quite a
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  lot is how when she first got married, which was 40 years ago
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  by the way, she was one of the only ones in her married friend
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  group, like her group of girlfriends that all got married
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  who wanted to keep hanging out and doing things together and
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  just like, didn't expect their relationships to change.
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  She often talks about how she lost so many friends in that
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  transition because a lot of them felt like they had to change
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  their identity completely. And I mean, that's only two
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  generations ago. And I feel like it really has
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  changed since then. Like, you know, I'm 34, I have a
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  lot of friends who are married. And I would say my friends being
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  married is like the least interesting thing about them.
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  I feel like I forget that, like all my friends are married and I
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  assume they forget that I'm married too because it's really
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  not that central to our identities.
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  Like we have such full lives outside of that.
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  It's a part of our life. It's a big important part of our
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  lives, but it's not our entire lives.
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  And I wouldn't want my partner to feel that way about me.
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  And obviously, you know, my husband is super happy for me to
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  not feel that way necessarily about him and about our
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  marriage. So that is kind of the main
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  points extracted from this discourse but put with my own
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  personal spin on it I suppose. But let me know what you guys
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  think about that. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys is there is some backlash right now around Harry
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  Styles and his pre sale tickets for his tour.
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  So Harry Styles has announced a new album and released a new
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  song which I'm sure you guys have seen and possibly heard.
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  And he has also announced a small tour for the first time
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  since 2023. Presale for the tour went up
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  this this week and he's receiving a bunch of backlash
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  for the pricing of the tickets. Some of the tickets fans were
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  showing online in screenshots on Twitter, Reddit, TikTok were as
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  expensive as $1000, like USD for one ticket in the upper bowl.
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  Now for comparison, in 2023, Harry's last tour, like I said,
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  the average ticket price was reportedly 115 dollars, again,
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  USD. So this is a big jump.
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  And interestingly, what has made fans even more mad is that Harry
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  reportedly isn't using dynamic pricing.
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  So this means in theory he either had a hand in what these
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  tickets were priced, or he was at least probably aware of the
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  pricing. So this is from Forbes quote.
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  While in the Ticketmaster queue, fans were notified that tickets
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  were priced in advance by the tour from $50.00 to $1182.40 and
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  that prices would not be changed during pre sale or on sale.
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  So these are some comments from Reddit quote.
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  The criticism he's receiving for the ticket prices is deserved.
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  BH Harry isn't a rookie in the industry.
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  He definitely has a say in what ticket prices for his tour
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  should be. 1000 plus dollars for a face value ticket is
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  disgusting and just because some people will pay that it doesn't
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  mean they should have to. I'm really curious what his
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  response will be. I'll also be very disappointed
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  if he just ignores it and then someone responded.
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  This is what I'm saying. I know he can't control
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  everything but he does have a voice.
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  For some reason he doesn't use it.
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  The fact that tickets for someone like Beyoncé are cheaper
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  is wild. He does look really greedy right
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  now to be fair. And the other thing that people
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  can't believe about this is that he has put tickets on sale for a
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  tour and they are so expensive and the album isn't even out
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  yet. I feel like the ticket pricing
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  stuff, while it may be kind of a repetitive story because we see
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  this a lot, I think it's important to keep talking about
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  because it's that kind of public pressure that will make artists
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  reconsider and to understand that touring is really
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  expensive, especially since lockdowns in COVID.
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  You know, everything has surged so much since then.
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  I totally understand that. But the price of live music
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  should never be someone's paycheck.
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  Like, just full stop. It should never be that.
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  And you know, it's really funny because there was actually a lot
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  of discourse. This is, again, kind of an
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  anecdote. I don't know what this episode
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  is, you guys. I'm sorry.
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  When we came out of lockdown here in Sydney and NSW and they
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  released this initiative within the state to help people get
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  back out into the community. And so you could get, I think it
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  was like $50, maybe it was $250. There was some type of voucher
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  that they gave to residents of NSW and we could use them, you
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  know, at different like restaurants.
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  We could use them at cultural events, like I think museums.
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  We could use them at live music, comedy, that kind of stuff.
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  And I remember, remember there was a lot of discourse at the
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  time, especially from older people who said, you know, back
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  in my day, like this, this sounds like really
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  stereotypical, but like genuinely like back in my day,
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  if we wanted to see an artist, you know, we would save our
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  money and go see them. And now we're handing out, you
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  know, free tickets, essentially. And I remember Sean and I had a
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  conversation with somebody who was in their 60s at the time
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  about this. And we actually, Sean, my
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  husband and we actually explained to this person, I
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  don't think he to understand how much ticket prices are now to
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  see your favorite artists. You know, it's no longer $50
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  even with inflation, you know, it's nowhere near that pricing.
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  Also, we shouldn't be hating on the government giving us, you
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  know, subsidies to go spend on arts and culture.
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  But that aside, the fact that ticket pricing, seeing live
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  music is so incredibly expensive now is just it's outrageous.
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  So I think it's important to keep talking about this,
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  especially for male artists, OK? The girlies, they get a lot of
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  Flack for the ticket prices. And I think it's important that
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  we keep note of this as well for the male artists, OK?
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  And the last story that I have for you guys today is there is a
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  new meme going viral everywhere. And it's the Nutella tricks
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  meme. So this was actually posted in
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  our Discord, which you can join if you're a Patreon member.
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  Sorry, Annabelle is always telling me to plug the Patreon.
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  I'm her boss, but she's like, actually my boss.
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  So Nutella tricks, it's a meme. It comes from a viral post where
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  someone shared a Nutella lifehack, softening the spread
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  by sticking a hand mixer in the jar with the caption Nutella
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  tricks you've never taught in school.
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  So this is obviously like an absurd meme.
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  This was posted on January 24th 2026, so a couple days ago.
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  So the idea of there being a class at school teaching you
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  tricks about Nutella obviously absurd and just absolutely
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  caught fire and has spread everywhere.
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  So now users are reposting and remixing this phrase, pretending
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  that they did learn different things about Nutella tricks in
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  school or joking about people who missed quote UN quote
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  Nutella class. People are actually using this
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  to share nostalgia for different school subjects and this really
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  pulls on, I mean, what we have seen for the last several years,
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  which is the yearning for like pre smartphone time,
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  specifically at school. So people are really like
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  pulling on that with this trend. Obviously it has a lot of that
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  in joke stuff that we talked about a lot where it's like if
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  you know, you know, and if you don't, you're on the outside and
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  it's like funny if you know. And of course it's just the
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  absurdity. And I think Annabelle and I
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  talked about that in an episode at the end of last year.
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  Like memes just take off often because they're so unhinged.
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  Like that is often the through line is they make kind of enough
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  sense to like pick up, but like usually not really any sense and
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  that's why they go viral. So far.
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  I don't know if the brand has picked this up, but obviously
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  this is the perfect opportunity for Nutella or any other type of
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  like spread brand FMCG products to jump on this and make, you
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  know, their brand tricks. See if they can kind of
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  capitalize on that. I know sometimes that doesn't
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  work for users. Like I totally understand that
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  sometimes that's actually the opposite of what users want, but
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  if you can really nail it, I think you could start doing
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  this. If you work at a brand that's
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  similar, I think you could really capture the zeitgeist,
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  but it literally has to be like before the end of the week.
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  Anyways, guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys.
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  There will be a deep dive tomorrow.
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  I'm also Co hosting high stakes tomorrow because Maddie is away,
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  so I am Co hosting it with Laura.
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  So that will go up tomorrow morning as well, if you guys
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  want to listen to that. And I will talk to you again on
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