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MINI SCROLL: Tate McRae album review backlash, Alabama Barker vs. Bhad Bhabie, Corinna Kopf calls out Mikaela Testa + more · Mini Scroll

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  today you guys cuz I have like 100 stories.
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  So much happened while I was gone and I already have a full
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  of them today so we have a lot to get through.
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  The first story that I have for you guys is I need to talk about
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  how Tate Mcrae's album is causing the pop fans to fight.
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  Tate Mcrae's new album so close to what was released on February
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  21st and it has become one of the most talked about album
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  releases in a long time. The album, which is her third
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  full length album, has already seen massive success.
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  It's her first number one album on the Billboard 200 chart and
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  has seen the biggest debut week by units for an album by a woman
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  in the last five months. Despite this mainstream success,
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  the pop fans are fighting online about basically how good the
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  album is if it deserves this hype.
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  The debate really started with Swiftologist, who was a popular
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  music review creator. They posted this review saying
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  that Tate is close to being a Maine pop girly, but that her
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  lyrics lack depth, which is holding her back, and that the
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  album itself lacks a clear theme.
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  He said the album was not so much recaptured homage to the
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  2000's pop era, but felt more like trying to imitate it and
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  kind of falling short of that. Now I do want to say like he did
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  say very nice things about Tate as well, but the criticism
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  obviously is what took center stage.
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  And Tates fans, which I only discovered through this review,
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  they are called Tater Tots. I love that they were obviously
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  unhappy that their fave was, I wouldn't say being dragged, but
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  you know that she was being criticized.
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  However, this really popped off when Canadian entertainment
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  creator, producer Liz shared her two cents on this feedback.
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  Essentially, Liz explained that a lot of the criticisms against
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  Tate don't take into consideration that she is
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  Canadian, and Canadian culture slash Canadian music is unique
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  to mainstream American pop music culture.
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  Being the majority of pop culture commentators and critics
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  have opinions and analysis that fall in the lane that this
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  Mythologist video has. So I'm using it as an example to
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  tell y'all American pop music references are not enough to
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  understand so close to what? And a lot of y'all are really
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  telling on yourselves when you post your critiques of this
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  album and you do not engage in the cultural context of which
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  Tate McRae was born and raised. And while no one expects
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  international pop culture critics outside of Canadian
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  orders to have a deep and thorough understanding of
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  Canadian pop music and Canadian pop culture.
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  If you want to play professionally in the arena, if
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  you want to come on to the Internet and talk about this
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  album and you refuse to engage in the cultural context of which
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  so close to what is so obviously ingrained, then it's going to be
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  up to a Canadian pop culture commentator like me to inform
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  you of what you have completely. Missed.
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  So now the swiftologist has responded saying not to not to
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  producer Liz because producer Liz was actually very nice in
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  her like rebuttal. I guess her response.
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  But he has responded using her as like a jumping off point
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  saying I cannot believe how savage the tater tots have been.
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  Like this is just how it goes when you're criticizing anyone
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  that has such a fierce fandom the way that music artists you
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  like pop girlies do influencers we know, like this is no
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  surprise. We know, but music is so
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  subjective. Like there is going to be a huge
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  portion of people that don't like an album no matter how good
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  it is, and that's OK, but in the era of Stan culture it's not OK.
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  But yes, I think both critiques or both points are valid.
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  I think it's incredibly frustrating that we can't
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  critique something as subjective as music without getting flooded
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  with hate from, you know, the artist stands.
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  But also, as a Canadian girlie myself, I obviously understand
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  how culturally different we are to American culture.
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  And I do think unfortunately, that is just kind of the cross
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  to bear as a Canadian. Like the default in people's
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  minds is American culture. And unless you are Canadian
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  yourself, you probably can't fully understand how different
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  those two things are. And a huge reason why we do have
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  such unique and like different music and art scenes in Canada
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  is that the Canadian government has a lot of initiatives and a
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  lot of mandates in place that incentivize and in some
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  instances even enforce the amplification of Canadian art,
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  Canadian music, Canadian entertainment.
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  So because of this, there are a lot of songs, a lot of artists,
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  for example, that get really big in Canada, but like not really
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  anywhere else. So I can understand, like, I
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  don't know if people know Tate McRae is Canadian or not.
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  I mean, I think a lot of people just assume if you have an
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  accent that's, you know, similar to mine, I sound people think
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  I'm from California all the time.
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  So yeah, I think you kind of assume they're American or even
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  if you know, even if you do know she's Canadian, like I said,
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  unless you are Canadian, how could you fully understand or
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  grasp how different culturally our music and art scene is to
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  the US? And as Tata said in countless
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  interviews, a lot of her inspiration is Nelly Furtado,
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  Fifi Dobson, like these true Canadian pop Queens.
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  That being said, of course, she's also trying to be break
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  into the US as a mainstream pop girlie.
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  I think she has, I know that's like a contentious point or
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  that's something that people are talking about a lot right now.
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  Like if she has gone from, you know, tier like two or three to
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  Tier 1, I think she's a Tier 1. I don't know, maybe not.
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  But in my opinion, she's a Tier 1.
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  I don't categorize her in the same like arena as some of those
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  pop girlies that I think kind of failed to launch or like just
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  can't get to that next step. And we've seen them try for
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  years. Like I don't see her as that at
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  all, even before this album. I like the album.
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  I think it's giving exactly what we have been asking for, which
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  is like 2000s esque recession pop.
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  How many times have you guys seen people go online and be
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  like, we need to bring back recession pop?
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  I think Tate McRae did that and now we're hating on her for it.
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  I don't know. I really like the album.
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  I think it's really fun. The next story that I have for
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  you guys, I'm going to break down Alabama Barker versus Bad
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  Baby. Now, I have been on the fence
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  about talking about this. This whole saga started almost 2
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  full months ago and I did decide consciously to keep it out of
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  Mini because Alabama is so young.
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  However, I fear that it has become too big to ignore.
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  To continue to ignore. It is being covered all over
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  mainstream media. I saw that Forbes wrote about it
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  today and I was like, this is getting a bit out of hand.
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  Alabama Barker is the 19 year old daughter of Travis Barker
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  and the stepdaughter of Kourtney Kardashian.
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  Obviously Bad Baby is 21 years old and her real name is
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  Danielle Bergoglio. She rose to fame after appearing
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  on Doctor Phil years ago as the Catch Me Outside Girl and has
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  since had a very successful rap career and also only Fans
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  career. Back in December, the two got
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  into a feud that has now led to them releasing diss tracks about
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  each other. People are saying this is like
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  the girl version of Drake versus Kendrick.
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  And can I say that is actually deeply offensive to both Drake
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  and Kendrick in my opinion. But this started when Danielle
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  posted on her Instagram stories accusing Alabama of taking her
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  man, quote, UN quote. Lavonne, Danielle and Lavon have
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  a baby together and about six months ago, Danielle publicly
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  accused Lavon of being abusive toward her.
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  Danielle, for context, is also currently battling cancer.
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  She is currently battling leukemia.
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  So then Alabama responded. This was all in December saying
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  I want to be clear, I have no interest in this man, nor would
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  I ever lower myself to be with someone who has been physically
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  abusive towards women. Alabama went on to say that
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  Lavon was the one who pursued her.
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  He lied to her about his name, his relationship status, and all
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  of that she wrote on Instagram stories.
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  To put it simply, LV deceived me, something I have evidence
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  of, including messages claiming he actually wasn't LV, that he
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  was single, and that he didn't have an Instagram account.
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  Before pointing fingers at me. I suggest looking at the source.
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  Overtime, LV initiated frequent communication, including calls
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  and texts, but nothing substantial ever came from it.
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  However, he has since deleted many of these messages, though I
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  have everything documented. I've apologized multiple times
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  to Danielle, understanding that her partner misled me.
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  At this point, this has been going on for almost a year, well
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  before anything was posted, she continued.
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  LV and our friend group traveled to Las Vegas last year, again
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  prior to me knowing that they were together, during which he
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  threw a bottle at my head, resulting in a significant
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  injury. His behavior was not only
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  reckless but also deeply concerning.
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  It's troubling to see that despite his actions, she
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  continues to defend him even after I told her what he had
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  done. Danielle then posted a
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  screenshot of alleged messages between Alabama and Lavon that
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  showed basically them being flirty, seemingly, I guess.
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  And she wrote, it doesn't sound very EW to me.
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  So they went back and forth on social media a lot.
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  Alabama was basically saying, again, it's like crazy that
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  you're defending him still. And Danielle accused Alabama of
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  playing victim, called her a habitual liar and a mass
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  manipulator. Danielle wrote, I'm a mother
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  dealing with postpartum and cancer.
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  Do you really think I care to be in this mess?
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  I do not beef with bitches because y'all know this.
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  I'm so quiet. The disrespect, repetitive
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  messing with people's men is why I went public with it.
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  I'm not the only one she's done this to.
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  Y'all don't remember. This is an embarrassing mess.
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  Alabama knows. I looked at her like a little
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  sister. I would give her advice all the
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  time. When I realized the type of
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  person she was for real, I started staying away.
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  So like I said, they were going back and forth on social.
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  That's like a snippet of some of the messages.
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  This escalated, however, when Danielle released a diss track
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  on January 29th called Overcooked about Alabama.
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  In this track, she accused Alabama of having relationships
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  with Soulja Boy and Tyga, and she also accused Alabama of
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  having an abortion. Alabama released a statement
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  after this song came out. I have never been pregnant,
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  never had an abortion. I have never been alone with
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  Tyga or Soulja Boy. I won't continue to entertain
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  this nonsense, but this will be the last time I address pathetic
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  lies. Spoiler, it was not the last
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  time that she addressed pathetic lies.
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  I don't know how old Soulja Boy and Tyga are, but I'm going to
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  say even if Alabama was involved with them, based on the
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  timelines of everything that's happened, she, I mean, she's
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  still a teenager. She only just turned 19 in
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  December, at the end of December.
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  So she was either a minor like under 18 or had just turned 18
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  when she was with these men. Like Soldier Boy was popular
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  when I was like in high school. Like these are grown, grown men.
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  So to say that like she's playing victim and to be putting
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  the blame on her as if she's like the one manipulating these
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  men and taking these men from their women and whatever is so
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  off base in my opinion. I truly believe if that is the
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  case, then Alabama has been groomed by these men.
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  I also think accusing her of having an abortion, whether she
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  did or she didn't, is so disgusting.
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  That is not her information, like Danielle's information to
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  make public about Alabama. And I mean, Alabama having to
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  address that when her whole family is famous, her whole
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  family obviously is going to see all this on Instagram.
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  You know, you have no idea how people's friends and family will
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  react to that. You have no idea how they
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  personally feel about having to make a decision like that.
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  It's such a deeply personal decision to make.
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  I don't know. I, I'm honestly shocked by this.
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  So then in February, Alabama released her own diss track
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  called Crybaby, where she doubled down that Lavon pursued
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  her. Her diss track was not well
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  received. I mean, the thing with Alabama
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  Barker is she is not very well liked.
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  The Internet does not like Alabama Barker because I mean,
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  for some valid reasons, but she's a Napo baby, so we
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  automatically don't like Napo babies and she black fishes a
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  lot and people have a big issue with that, which honestly is
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  fair enough. And she does kind of get into
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  drama and stuff, but again, like she's so young, I don't know.
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  So Danielle has now released Miss Whitman, which basically
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  says some of the meanest things about Alabama and double S down
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  on her original claims about Soulja Boy, Tyga pregnancy, all
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  those things. So like I said, people are
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  really on Danielle's side. Everyone loves Miss Whitman and
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  there are a few lines from it that are like going viral on
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  TikTok. And I get it.
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  It is. It's like catchy for sure.
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  And people are like, thank you Alabama for bringing back like
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  OG bad baby. We've missed her.
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  I don't know, this is getting really messy.
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  But one of I guess the most wholesome parts of this story
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  question mark is that Landon Barker, Alabama's brother, has
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  been posting non-stop on TikTok. Just videos of him lip synching
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  to songs by the Fray like a few doors down from his sister's
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  room and his sister is getting dragged across the entire
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  Internet and he is staying completely unbothered.
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  He is staying out of it and he is staying in his room lip
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  syncing non-stop to the Fray. People are like what would it
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  take to disturb Landon's peace? Also I haven't seen anyone else
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  report on this but this is like my theory.
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  I think Travis Barker made his own little statement yesterday
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  about this. So he posted a photo of him in
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  Alabama from like years ago giving the finger and he posted
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  on his Instagram stories yesterday.
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  So I think that was him, you know, taking Alabama side at, I
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  mean, obviously he's going to take his daughter's side, but
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  you know what I mean? Like I think that was him being
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  like, fuck everyone. Shut up, haters.
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  Yes, at a high level, that is the Alabama Barker versus bad
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  baby feud. Let me know what you guys think
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  about that. A little offshoot from this
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  story is that Kourtney Kardashian has addressed her son
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  Mason Disick the rumors that he is a child.
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  What was that sentence? Whatever, you guys know what I
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  mean. OK so there were rumors last
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  week from a fake social media account that Mason Disick,
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  Courtneys eldest son is a dad. So she responded to these rumors
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  now she said on Instagram stories today.
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  I rarely address rumors or conspiracies regarding myself or
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  my family. But this is about my child and
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  it feels wrong to let anyone think for a second that these
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  lies are remotely true. They are not.
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  She went on to say that the accounts pretending to be him
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  are not him and that her son quote really values his privacy.
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  And I'm asking all media to please be respectful.
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  He is a kid with feelings and a beautiful life ahead of him.
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  Please stop spreading a false narratives and spinning lies.
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  So I guess Mason Disick is not a father.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, another quick 1.
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  Colleen Ballinger is apparently quitting YouTube and nobody
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  cares. So Colleen Ballinger has
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  announced that she is taking an indefinite hiatus from YouTube
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  vlogs because she is burnt out and needs to heal in a million
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  different ways. She said.
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  And honestly, Internet users don't care.
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  And a lot of them are basically telling her that they wish that
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  she would stay gone forever. And I actually, I mean, aside
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  from the fact that like, I feel like they probably need her
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  income, I wouldn't be surprised if she did decide to just
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  quietly, you know, remove herself from the Internet for a
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  very long time. But I guess we will see.
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  The next story that I have for you guys is that Karina Cough
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  has spoken out against Michaela Testa amid the Anapol
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  allegations. This is quite the crossover.
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  So Karina Cough, who is best known for being a part of David
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  Dobrik's blog squad and then she also had a successful streaming
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  career and also an only fans career.
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  She has inserted herself into the Anna Paul and Michaela test
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  a feud. It seemed to start when Michaela
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  posted that Drake when he was in Sydney, he wore it makes me feel
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  broke shirt, which obviously comes from Anna Paul's apology,
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  quote UN quote apology TikTok. And so Michaela wrote it looks
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  like champagne Poppy has picked his side with his I feel broke
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  tea in Tonight Show in my city element.
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  Oh, sorry, it was Brisbane. I think it wasn't Sydney.
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  And then Karina who is an American influencer.
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  But I guess her and Michaela used to be really good friends.
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  She wrote on Instagram stories. Until I met her.
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  I never encountered a true pathological liar.
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  I'm done sitting here in silence while other people suffer over
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  someone I have first hand experience with.
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  I mean this wholeheartedly when I say Michaela Testa is the most
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  narcissistic and manipulative person I've ever met.
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  Until I met her, I had never encountered a true pathological
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  liar. Michaela responded saying Karina
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  doesn't know me well or my friends.
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  Ask my 10 friends that have come into contact with her.
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  She is a parasocial fan for Anna and Addis.
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  In 2021, she was paying people to ban my Instagram as I started
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  to blow up. I didn't know her in 20/22.
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  She invited me to the Bahamas after Addis and I had broken up.
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  But meanwhile she was texting him trying to meet up.
• 20:39
  He told me everything. In 2020, 23, she was still
• 20:42
  trying to be my friend online by grooming me by posting photos of
• 20:45
  me on her story and posting nice things about me.
• 20:48
  I'm sure it was all for collabs on OF because Michaela also does
• 20:52
  or did. I'm not sure if he still does.
• 20:54
  I think she does. Only fans.
• 20:56
  We met for the first time and I loved her.
• 20:58
  She asked me everything about the Pauls and I told her exactly
• 21:01
  what I've been telling you guys, without gruesome details of
• 21:03
  course. She then unfollowed Addis on
• 21:06
  Instagram. I told her what he did to me and
• 21:08
  she said that she feels bad but she can't relate because that's
• 21:11
  something she likes. That was my first red flag.
• 21:14
  I was unconscious so I don't know how I'd like it.
• 21:17
  Because as we know, Michaela has accused Addis, who is Anna
• 21:20
  Paul's brother and used to date Michaela, of abuse.
• 21:24
  Michaela continued more. She's mad this morning and gone
• 21:27
  off on a tangent because I'm posting about Drake.
• 21:29
  We all know the history there. Does Drake have a history with
• 21:34
  Karinikov? That is something I don't know.
• 21:37
  Karina is not a girl's girl. Her entire personality is
• 21:40
  surrounded by male attention and what man she is meeting up with
• 21:43
  next week. She doesn't care about women or
• 21:45
  friends. She hurts in the process.
• 21:47
  She doesn't know Anna. We'll never know.
• 21:48
  Anna and her invites over the last few years have fallen on
• 21:51
  deaf ears. She's almost 30 and relies on
• 21:53
  young creators and Internet drama to boost her OF and create
• 21:56
  abundance. OK, and then Karina responded
• 22:01
  and these were just like voiceover videos.
• 22:03
  So she said if I was so envious of someone blowing up and trying
• 22:06
  to get their Instagram banned, why on earth would I tag her in
• 22:09
  every single one of my Snapchats over and over again over a four
• 22:12
  week span, blowing her Snapchat following up to 750,000
• 22:16
  followers? That just doesn't really add up
• 22:18
  to me. She also said that she's always
• 22:20
  felt this way about Michaela and even discussed it with others.
• 22:24
  And others agreed with her, apparently, allegedly, that
• 22:26
  Michaela was a, quote, pathological liar.
• 22:29
  And then she denied Michaela's accusations that she's a
• 22:32
  parasocial fan, saying that after she'd heard about the
• 22:35
  allegations made against Anna Paul, she should have distanced
• 22:39
  herself from Michaela. Karina continued writing.
• 22:42
  I'm not the only person who has crazy stories about Michaela
• 22:45
  lying. And now she's trying to lie
• 22:46
  about me, too. People can see through the
• 22:48
  darkness you've created. The lies are public, and
• 22:51
  bullying is public. These lie rampages.
• 22:53
  You go on make other people who have stories about you scared to
• 22:56
  speak out. But I'm not staying silent.
• 22:58
  I was there. I experienced you lying first
• 23:00
  hand. There isn't a lie or a line you
• 23:03
  won't cross in your desperate pursuit of fame, attention, and
• 23:05
  pity. Please seek help.
• 23:07
  This is very interesting to me because Anna has absolutely been
• 23:13
  facing a ton of backlash after Michaela's videos.
• 23:16
  Like I would say the overwhelming like if we're going
• 23:18
  to talk about audiences or like the Internet taking sides.
• 23:22
  Like the Internet is very much on bad baby side and the
• 23:25
  Internet is very much on Michaela Testes side.
• 23:27
  OK. And the last story that I have
• 23:29
  for you guys, kind of like I said, I really had to pick and
• 23:32
  choose, even though I had like 7 stories, is that Alex Earl got
• 23:37
  quote, UN quote dropped by Alex Cooper's Unwell Network.
• 23:41
  So we have been talking about this.
• 23:43
  I have been doing stories about something going on between the
• 23:46
  two of them. The Internet has taken notice.
• 23:49
  You know, we all knew something weird was going on between the
• 23:51
  two of them. And then last week, I think it
• 23:54
  was Variety that first reported it.
• 23:56
  And Variety is obviously very legit.
• 23:58
  So media outlets were reporting, basically using this exact
• 24:01
  wording, that Alex Earl had been dropped from Alex Cooper's
• 24:06
  unwell network. However, Alex Earl herself
• 24:09
  addressed these allegations very, very briefly in a TikTok
• 24:13
  video all over the weekend, basically saying she has no idea
• 24:16
  what's going on. So my opinion here is that the
• 24:20
  contract was probably up. They all probably knew that Alex
• 24:24
  Earl was going to be taking her podcast so low or like without a
• 24:28
  network or starting her own thing, whatever.
• 24:31
  We know that, you know, her dad came on board as her manager and
• 24:34
  has talked about how she signed kind of shitty business deals.
• 24:37
  A lot of people think that was referring to Unwell.
• 24:39
  So yes, we knew that probably Alex's hot mess, her podcast was
• 24:44
  not going to continue on the Unwell network.
• 24:48
  And I think Unwell tried to get ahead of it and do this like PR
• 24:53
  spin that they dropped Alex Earl.
• 24:55
  But everyone saw through it right away because like, why
• 24:57
  would this network drop the most famous influencer that they have
• 25:02
  on its roster? And Alex Earl star has only
• 25:05
  continued to rise since she signed with unwell.
• 25:08
  So from a business perspective, that does not make sense that
• 25:12
  they would like choose to drop her.
• 25:14
  I'm going to assume it's because either A she wanted way more
• 25:18
  funny and they didn't want to give it or be she just decided
• 25:21
  I'm going to do this on my own or whatever.
• 25:23
  I don't think she's going to stop her podcast.
• 25:25
  I think her podcast seems to be actually like a big part of her
• 25:28
  brand now. But yes, that is the team.
• 25:32
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