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MINI SCROLL: Mikayla Nogueira x Patrick Ta review drama, Jeffree Star on Cancelled Podcast + Shawn Mendes addresses sexuality · 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, Lorne 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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  I have some very exciting news. Overnight.
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  our little brand. All right, let's just get right
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  in to the stories for today. OK, so unfortunately I have two
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  stories today you guys, about Jeffree Star.
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  I can't believe I'm saying his name in mini scroll, let alone
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  the fact that I have two stories about him.
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  I cannot believe that he has somehow weaseled his way back
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  into the zeitgeist. And I think that's on purpose.
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  Like I think he is trying to and I don't think we should let him.
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  But I'm going to tell you what is happening.
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  This is me being part of the problem, but I have to keep you
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  in the know. OK so the first story is that
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  Jeffrey Star has come for Michaela Naguera over her new
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  Patrick TA eyeshadow review. OK so Patrick Taw he just
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  launched these new eyeshadow duos that are formulated with
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  Pearl pigments. They are so beautiful I
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  literally gasped when I saw them.
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  I am desperate to try them. I don't know if I can justify
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  the $42.00 USD 42 USD price tag, which is part of the
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  controversy. I'm going to get into it.
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  But yes, they cost $42.00 for two tiny little eye shadows.
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  But they look so good, like I'm a makeup girlie.
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  So I think I'm going to need to try them anyways.
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  So Michaela, she did a review of them on TikTok.
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  I think it was like a week or two ago, right when they were
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  like coming out and she was obsessed with them as everyone
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  has been who has tried them for the most part.
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  But Patrick has been getting a lot of backlash for this price.
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  He actually had to make a TikTok like addressing why they cost
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  that much. He said there's no filler in the
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  pigment. He said that, you know, they
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  just were expensive to manufacture because it's a
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  unique formula. So it seems like after Michaela
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  saw the complaints over the price, she then decided to make
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  this second video comparing the Patrick Taw eyeshadow duos with
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  an ELF dupe. Patrick Taw just dropped these
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  $42.00 eyeshadow duos, but Elf said hold my dream and I don't
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  give a shit how you spend your money.
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  That's none of my business. But $42.00 for two eye shadows
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  is insane. OK, it's straight up insane.
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  But the elf, you can get one for six dollars or two for 12, and
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  I've heard that these are incredible.
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  And I don't think they're like an official dupe, but she was
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  using them as a dupe essentially.
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  They're similar. They look similar to Patricks.
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  And she claimed in her review that elves were almost just as
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  good as Patricks. Like she didn't really give a
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  conclusion. And she also didn't really
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  compare like Patricks she rarely used his in her review, but she
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  was like elf did it again, insinuating that if you want the
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  Patrick Taw ones, you can get the elf ones instead and they
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  will be just as good or quite similar.
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  And this really set people off because Michaela already has
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  this reputation of not being trustworthy and she also has
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  worked with elf in the past. So people were kind of like,
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  well, this was quite the switch up first of all, from your first
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  review of the Patrick Taw eye shadows.
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  Now you're coming back and saying these don't seem worth
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  the price. Like get the elf once instead.
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  That's like what her video kind of insinuated she didn't like
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  outwardly say that. And people are like you work
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  with elf so like can we even trust this?
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  So Jeffrey, he has talked shit about Michaela on and off over
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  the years on his TikTok lives and he specifically addressed
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  this Patrick TA versus elf review and he did not say very
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  nice things about Michaela. And one of the things that has
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  gone like absolutely viral that he said about her on this live
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  is he said that she has Timu orange hands from her fake tan.
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  But. Mr. Timu.
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  Orange Hands are the ones that gave her the fucking credibility
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  to keep going. Then a couple days after
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  Michaela addressed that exact comment, she let us know that
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  she was listening, that she heard what Jeffrey said about
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  her, and she actually referenced her Timo orange tanned hands in
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  a get ready with me terms of. The color I am trying to match
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  my. And now today she has responded
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  to Jeffreys claims that she is not trustworthy and to just like
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  the general kind of backlash around these reviews.
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  She made a new video and she claimed that the video she
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  posted with the Patrick Todd versus ELF that she made $0.00
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  from it. I don't know if that's true
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  because she's definitely part of the creator fund, but
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  regardless, like she was not sponsored for that video.
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  She says that she does not have an ongoing like ambassadorship
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  endorsement with ELF. I think the missing piece here,
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  however, is that she might not have an active campaign with ELF
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  right now, but she has worked with them in the past.
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  It's the same thing as when we talked about like why would Tart
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  or all these beauty brands send influencers on these lavish
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  branch trips? Well, it's like they might not
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  be continually working with, I don't know, Alex Earl, like Tart
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  might not be paying Alex Earl a yearly salary to talk good about
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  the brand. But you know, she's going to
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  speak well about the brand ongoing if they send her first
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  class to Dubai, you know, So it's kind of the same thing.
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  It's like because Michaela has worked with Elf in the past, you
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  know, I'm sure she wants to work with them again.
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  She will probably wants to keep working with brands that pay her
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  bills. So she's going to be more
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  inclined to give a positive review of a product of theirs.
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  And if she gives a negative review, then they're less likely
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  to work with her in the future. So I think the problem with
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  Michaela and like I think why she switches up so much, it
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  almost reminds me of what we've talked about with Mr. Beast
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  where like her number one priority is virality and views
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  over integrity. So she made this video in my
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  opinion, comparing the Patrick taught eye shadows with elves
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  and I think she called elf's better kind of in not so many
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  words because she saw that the conversation online was that
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  Patrick Todd's eye shadows were too expensive.
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  I believe that she knew that making that video and sharing
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  that the elf dupe was a good alternative.
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  Like that's going to get her a lot of views.
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  Even though she gave a positive review, like we said to the
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  Patrick Todd eye shadows to begin with, I think she knew
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  that that would get her a ton of views.
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  And I just, I think in general, like she is driven by views and
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  virality, which is why so many of her opinions and reviews and
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  stuff feel conflicting because she's not really trying to kind
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  of keep her integrity. Like she really is just making
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  content that will go viral. Like that is her priority for
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  right now. OK, the next story that I have
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  is that Jeffrey Star is going on the cancelled podcast.
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  So Jeffrey is about to make an official play.
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  I would call this an official play for a comeback.
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  Yesterday he recorded the cancel podcast with Tana Mojo and
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  Brooks Schofield. Now, lots of people are really
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  upset about this given Jeffrey's history of racism and just like
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  generally bullying. Like he basically had to leave,
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  not like leave the Internet. He has not left the Internet,
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  but he kind of lost so much relevance.
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  He had to move out of LA because he got like, quote UN quote
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  cancelled so hard, partly for his really racist past behavior
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  among like the 2020 kind of a reckoning that we had with
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  white, like Internet stars, but also partly because he burned so
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  many bridges in the beauty community.
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  And his reputation was absolutely shot.
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  And, you know, he basically spent years seemingly bullying
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  them. So I think it's an interesting
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  move that Tana and Brooke would have him on the cancelled
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  podcast, given Brooke is fresh off of her own racism scandal.
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  And I saw people on Reddit debating on like why they would
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  have Jeffrey on to begin with, especially given everything that
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  went on with Brooke. And, you know, they're trying to
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  kind of rehab their image now. And I saw somebody's put it
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  quite simply, and I agree with this, just for views, you know,
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  their podcast. I'm not sure what the kind of
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  numbers they're pulling in now are, but I imagine they are not
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  pulling in the same amount of views and numbers as they did
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  pre Brooke scandal. And I think in general, like
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  their podcast, it was so buzzy. It was always in the news.
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  People were obsessed with it. And I think after everything
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  happened, you know, they kind of pulled back a bit.
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  I know people were saying like it doesn't feel like Brooke is
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  in this anymore. And I think they just kind of
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  stopped having that same like synergy and energy.
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  And as a result, I do think a lot of viewers have kind of
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  maybe not like completely stopped listening or watching,
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  but I think they've kind of dipped in relevance.
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  And, you know, having Jeffrey Starr make his kind of play for
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  a comeback. I know he's done podcasts and
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  stuff over the last couple of years, but nothing as mainstream
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  as going on Tana's podcast. Going on Tana's podcast is like,
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  a clear, in my opinion, a clear indication that he is making a
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  play for, like, a mainstream return.
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  Yeah, that is going to get a lot of views.
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  Like everyone is going to listen to that.
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  Now, there are also concerns with this about what this means
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  for Tricia Paytas's affiliation with Jeffrey.
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  Tricia and Jeffrey were longtime friends, and they had a falling
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  out around the same time that Tricia cut Shane Dawson off.
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  And I can go into a whole like, actually maybe let me know if
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  you guys want that, like a whole timeline of everything that
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  happened between like Trisha, Jeffrey and Shane.
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  I think that could be interesting.
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  But I won't go into it like all of the details, but just know
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  they used to be friends and they are no longer friends.
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  And, you know, Tana responded to a comment on TikTok.
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  So somebody was like, wait, basically, how does this affect
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  Trisha? Because, you know, obviously
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  Tana and Trisha are really close.
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  And then Tana commented saying just wait.
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  And so people are like, oh, this is not going to be good.
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  If Tricia has let Jeffrey back into her life and they're going
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  to publicly like be reunited, that is going to do a lot of
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  harm to Tricia's renaissance. Like it will.
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  She's really had this rehab of her image and being publicly
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  friends or at least like affiliated in some way with
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  Jeffrey Star. It's not going to be good.
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  All right. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys is that Shawn Mendes has opened up about his
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  sexuality. So last night at a concert in
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  Colorado, Shawn Mendes addressed the ongoing questions about his
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  sexuality. Basically, even though he has
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  dated tons of high profile women over the years, there have been
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  so many rumors that basically he's gay or likes men.
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  Bisexual people are not convinced that he is completely
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  straight, so he addressed this publicly on the show.
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  So he said, quote, since I was really young, there's been this
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  thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about
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  it for so long. I think it's kind of silly
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  because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing
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  and it's so hard to just put into boxes.
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  It always felt like such an intrusion on something very
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  personal to me, something that I was figuring out myself,
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  something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to
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  discover. The real truth about my life and
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  my sexuality is that, man, I'm just figuring it out like
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  everyone. I don't really know sometimes
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  and I know other times. And it feels really scary
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  because we live in a society that has a lot to say about
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  that, that is so like earnest and honest and open.
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  And I don't know if those words all mean the same thing.
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  I feel like they do, but like vulnerable.
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  And I think it's like the perfect explanation and the
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  perfect way, hopefully, to like, shut people down.
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  And I don't think he's necessarily trying to shut
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  people down. I actually think he's trying to
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  open up the conversation because I haven't actually seen this
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  myself. But I saw that he's like,
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  gearing up for a new album release.
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  And apparently a lot of the songs seem like they will
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  explore this particular topic. I also just feel like when it
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  comes to us questioning celebrities and their sexual
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  orientations, did we not learn anything from Billie Eilish?
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  I feel like that was the most recent example, big high profile
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  example of that. She was like getting so much
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  criticism a couple of years ago for that one music video.
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  She was being called out for like queer baiting and getting a
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  lot of backlash for that just because she had publicly only
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  dated men and people. I don't know, I guess just
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  thought there's no possible way that someone could be bisexual.
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  So she was getting so much backlash for that.
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  And then literally this year she came out and it's like, did we
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  not learn? Did we not learn?
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  You can date women, but you can also be attracted to men and
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  want to date men or hook up with men or whatever.
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  Like people are fluid. And I think it's ridiculous that
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  we keep trying to put these celebrities in boxes.
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  And I don't I just I don't believe that Shawn Mendes would
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  have been dating Camila Cabello for like 100 years and then got
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  back together with her and all this stuff.
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  If you know, he wasn't like into her.
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  I don't know. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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