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MINI SCROLL: Lindsey Shaw TikTok backlash, Grace O'Malley comments on Brianna Chickenfry friendship + MrBeast investigation findings · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  Happy Monday and happy November. I cannot believe it is November.
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  I feel like I probably say that the beginning of every single
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  month, but I swear I was just sitting here saying like happy
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  October 1st and that is just that's unwell.
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  That is unwell. Anyways, let's get into the
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  stories for today. As always, over the weekend a
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  lot happened, so I had to pick and choose.
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  But I have three stories for you guys today.
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  So the first is that Lindsay Shaw is going viral for
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  complaining about Ned's Declassified School Survival
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  Guide not getting rebooted again.
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  OK so Lindsay Shaw, who is a child star turned podcaster, is
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  going viral for a video she posted this weekend that she has
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  since deleted. So in the TikTok, Lindsay
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  compared Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide to Spider
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  Man, asking why Spider Man has had so many opportunities to be
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  rebooted, but studios cannot give Ned's Declassified, even
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  just one. I just don't understand how
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  spider man can be remade 437,896 times and Nancy classified can't
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  even get reboot once. Not even reboot once for a
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  crappy TV movie. Just let us have a crappy TV
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  movie. So for anyone that doesn't know,
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  Lindsay played Moe's on the show and she has a podcast with two
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  other cast members, Devin Werkheiser, who played Ned and
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  Daniel Curtis Lee who played Cookie.
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  So people like kind of lost their minds at this clip of
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  Lindsay for a few reasons. The 1st is the desperation from
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  these three to hold on to like this little bit of relevance
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  from their childhood. It's just been so strong.
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  They seem to have this like really related view of how
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  important or how impactful or even just like how popular Nez
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  Declassified was in the scheme of like iconic kid shows.
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  Second, Lindsay has been really problematic over the years and
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  people just like don't like her. In 2021, she was called out for
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  being microaggressive against a group of black dancers on
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  TikTok. So she reacted negatively to a
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  viral video of black men dancing to this trend.
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  And she was basically like, why does this video have so many
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  views? But then she was caught hyping
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  up a bunch of white creators in their comments, participating in
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  that same trend and doing that same dance.
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  And then when she was called out she made this really cringe and
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  inappropriate video where she was like sobbing into her phone
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  basically saying that the hate against her is not OK and needs
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  to stop. I did not mean anything and any
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  kind of way. I am learning every day as I
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  think everybody is, and this kind of hate just needs to
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  evaporate from the planet no matter who it's directed
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  towards. Crocodile tears?
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  No dude like this is like my soul out there.
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  I am sorry you were offended. I think we all need to vibrate
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  hire for. The Future and then recently
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  Lindsay and just the entire podcast in general came under
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  fire when the host made disrespectful comments about the
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  Quiet on Set documentary where they basically made fun of the
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  fact that their set was safe and others obviously weren't,
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  especially in that documentary. It was a Nickelodeon documentary
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  or like it was about Nickelodeon shows.
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  They were a Nickelodeon show. They were making fun of how
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  their set was safe, others weren't.
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  And then they made this like sex joke about Drake Bell in the
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  context of the documentary where he obviously spoke out about
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  like what happened to him on set and what happened on their set.
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  And in general, people are like, this show is not going to get a
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  reboot because of the podcast. Like the show itself was not
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  that iconic. But even if it was or even if
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  there were possibilities for it to get rebooted, the podcast has
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  like destroyed any opportunity for them because it's just these
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  three people that keep getting like these 3 cast members that
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  keep getting so much backlash for how they talk about
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  themselves, the show, their relationships on this podcast.
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  The podcast is very like adult content.
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  They talk a lot about how they were all like sleeping with each
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  other and just like these really like adult themes, which
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  obviously the reboot would be about adulting, you know, it
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  wouldn't be about middle school anymore.
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  But still like, it's just in the context of like being a
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  Nickelodeon show, a Nickelodeon reboot.
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  And then them like constantly trying to like profit off of
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  this nostalgia. It is so cringe and it feels so
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  desperate and people hate them. OK so the next story that I have
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  for you guys is a small update on the Grace O'Malley and
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  Brianna chicken fry situation. But Grace O'Malley has addressed
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  the Brianna chicken fry birthday drama.
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  So I saw this on Tori's story from Ready to Be Petty the
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  podcast and I verified with her that it was posted on Grace's
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  story and then it was deleted. So I didn't see it myself, but I
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  saw it on Tori's stories. So Grace had posted what looks
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  like a video of her and Zach Bryan.
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  She wrote over top of it. Now that I have your attention,
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  this last year and however many has been quite the whirlwind for
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  Brianna and Ice. Friendship, yes, there is no
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  denying that, but I wouldn't feel right if I didn't at least
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  ask nicely for you guys to please give her the space and
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  time that she needs to move on and heal.
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  So I'm going to say that that seems like some type of
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  confirmation that something quite big is going on in their
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  friendship, as a lot of fans have speculated.
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  I was kind of on the fence about if I thought anything was going
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  on, but I'm going to say that response tells me there might be
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  more to the story than I was thinking.
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  And probably a lot of fans are feeling quite validated and
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  their speculation about what was going on in their friendship.
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  And if you guys don't know, go back.
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  I've covered like the different sagas, like all the different
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  things that have happened in this saga over the last couple
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  of weeks in why people think that something is going on with
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  their friendship, OK. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys is that Mister Beast has fired as many as 10
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  employees as the internal investigation into his company
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  concludes. On Friday, Mr. Beast, whose real
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  name is Jimmy Donaldson, tweeted out that the three month
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  investigation into his company has finished and he wanted to
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  let his fans know the results. So months ago, Jimmy hired a
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  firm to investigate his workplace environment and
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  culture after there were allegations against former and
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  current employees, namely Ava Tyson, of sexual misconduct and
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  grooming minors. So he posted this like 2 page
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  document. But this is as per CBS News.
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  They write the nearly three month investigation found no
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  basis behind allegations that Mister Beast team members
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  committed sexual misconduct or knowingly employed people with
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  proclivities or histories towards illegal or questionable
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  legal conduct. So given everything that keeps
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  coming out about Jimmy and his company, like in addition to all
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  of this, like Ava Tyson stuff, a lot of fans basically don't buy
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  the results of this investigation since the
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  investigation was self funded and like conducted by the
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  company itself, essentially, right.
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  Like the the firm that was hired was hired by the company.
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  So some of the top replies to him tweeting this out.
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  So Mr. Beast tweeted a three month investigation into
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  allegations regarding my company has concluded the law firm slash
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  investigators reviewed millions of documents, messages and
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  conducted 39 interviews. I was asked to refrain from
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  making public statements to enable a detailed and unbiased
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  investigation. Below are their conclusions.
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  And that's where he posted the two page document.
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  And then the top replies are no way the guys you paid found you
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  innocent. And we've investigated ourselves
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  and found ourselves innocent. That being said, there were
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  obviously up to 10 employees who were fired.
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  So they did claim that there were like isolated incidents of
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  like, misconduct that I'm assuming led to some of these
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  firings. But they claim sexual misconduct
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  was like, not happening. This is not uncommon, right?
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  Like when companies go through maybe like a big PR crisis or
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  like an HR crisis, they will hire their own external firm to
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  conduct investigations like, and, and kind of advise them on
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  how to move forward. Like that's not actually that
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  unusual. I think people just are like,
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  OK, well, it seems like things are not as they seem at Mr.
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  Beast and Co, so it's hard to believe that these actually are
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  the true results. Anyways guys, that's it for Mini
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