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MINI SCROLL: RawBeautyKristi's homeschool, Chris Olsen calls out HaleyyBaylee + 1 million beers TikTok trend · 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. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  All right, you guys might be able to tell from my voice, but
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  I think I'm actually getting a little bit sick.
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  Of course, I feel like finally everything calmed down for the
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  business. This week has felt so much more
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  like normal and manageable for me and now I feel like I am
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  getting sick. But it is winter here in
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  Australia and that's just kind of how it goes.
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  So anyways, I love how lately I'm getting like DMS and
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  comments of people asking me to cover different things.
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  I feel like you guys are helping me do my job.
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  It's amazing. So one of the stories from
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  today, the first story that I'm going to share was requested by
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  one of you guys. It is a wild story.
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  And then I have two others. So we have a full three stories,
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  full roster for you guys again today.
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  OK, let's just get right into it.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is Raw Beauty
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  Christie is being accused of building an anti LGBTQIA
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  homeschool on her homestead. So as I mentioned, this was
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  requested by a viewer. When I saw this comment on
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  YouTube a couple days ago, I was like excuse me?
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  And then I looked into it and I was like, Oh my God, like this
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  is not a joke. Like I was like, is this a
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  troll? What is happening?
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  OK so for anyone that doesn't know Raw beauty Christie, she's
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  an OG beauty YouTube. She got really popular years ago
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  because she was a self-taught makeup artist and she is just
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  kind of like a regular person. I don't know how to describe it,
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  but like she came up in the era of Jaclyn Hill, Laura Lee, like
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  these larger than life influencers.
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  And she was just so mellow and chill.
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  She didn't change when she got lots of followers.
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  She seemed super down to earth. And yeah, it was just like, kind
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  of a pleasure to follow someone who felt really, like, normal
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  and relatable. Another thing to note about her
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  is, I mean, I have watched her for years and years, and she did
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  seem very progressive at the beginning of her career.
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  She seemed, like, very rooted in reality, very down to earth.
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  So in late 2019, Christy and her husband moved to a property in
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  the woods. And this is when she got into
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  some crunchy hobbies like homesteading.
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  So I think you guys probably know where this is going because
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  we have spoken a lot about the crunchy to alt right pipeline on
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  this podcast. But for those who are unfamiliar
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  with the term crunchy, it refers to a subculture defined by the
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  pursuit of slow living, Wellness, independence, and
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  traditional aesthetics. The cultural practices of
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  crunchy living can range from avoiding food dyes and additives
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  to refusing to vaccinate your children.
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  The crunchy to alt right pipeline has been documented in
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  recent years as the rise of TikTok has brought about this
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  new wave of crunchy influencers infiltrating the online
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  zeitgeist. One of the most popular and
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  renowned articles on this is by Kathleen belew for the Atlantic.
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  She writes quote. The crunchy to alt right
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  pipeline conversation gives us a chance to see something crucial
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  that is often lost in depictions of right wing formations.
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  The white power movement is not just men marching in the street,
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  it's also women sharing cultural materials through social
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  networks. Women and the cultural materials
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  upon which they exert their most intense influence are where we
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  can see this as a social movement.
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  So Blue argues that the crunchy subculture is a form of direct
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  recruitment for the white power movement.
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  Once someone goes crunchy, they are more vulnerable to fear
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  mongering and conspiracies given their existing distrust in
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  government, medicine and other institutions.
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  So something that may have influenced Christie to enter
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  this pipeline is that she has been very open about her
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  complicated health problems, her complex mental health problems
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  and that she has health anxiety. And I think if you spend years
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  going to doctors who can't, you know, give you a proper
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  diagnosis or can't, like, properly help you and treat you,
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  I can see how, you know, it like, makes sense that you would
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  get more skeptical of medicine, I suppose.
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  So I feel like that is possibly just speculating where that
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  could have started from. So anyways, people on Reddit
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  have noted over the years how Christie has felt like she is
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  essentially like more and more on this pipeline, like entering
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  this pipeline. So there's definitely been a few
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  red flags. But over the weekend,
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  speculation that Christie was on the alt right pipeline was
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  seemingly confirmed. And when I say confirmed, I mean
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  she didn't confirm it. I want to make that clear.
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  This is like alleged. So a Reddit poster with the
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  username Mafia girls Fashion compiled a whole post of
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  evidence and a lot of it did come from stuff this weekend.
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  So Christy did AQ and A where she said she will be
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  homeschooling her son with a homeschool Co-op.
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  Christy's sister, who has featured on her channel in the
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  past, started a homeschool group with a friend.
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  This is presumably the homeschool Co-op that Christy
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  will send her child to. OK so this is from the
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  homeschool co-ops about us Paige.
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  And I don't want to say the name of the Co-op, just, you know,
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  privacy stuff. We see this homeschool Co-op as
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  a lighthouse for this fallen world, a place of rescue from
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  the darkness and perverseness of the broken public school system.
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  The mission is to provide a safe place for children to learn and
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  grow in their relationship with God, building up a community of
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  homeschoolers who are taking back their identities in Christ
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  Jesus. We pray to be a seed planting
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  cooperation for the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  We are also here to inform and equip other churches and or
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  communities how to plant a school in your own area.
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  The Lord told us we would be a blueprint for more schools to
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  come. We have faith and are walking
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  boldly with the word of our Father in our hearts.
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  OK, so if you guys want to know more about like the crunchy to
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  all right pipeline and how religion plays a role in this,
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  like specifically Christianity, go listen to our Gwen Whiz
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  episode because we dove into the topic in much more depth in that
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  episode. But obviously, as you can tell,
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  this homeschool Co-op is heavily influenced by religion.
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  So it makes sense that, you know, Christie would send her
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  son to this one because it's her sisters.
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  But also the homeschool posted on Facebook that they are moving
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  locations and they posted photos of Christie's property as like
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  the place that they're moving to.
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  Christie had also announced at some point that she was building
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  her sister a house on her property.
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  So now people are convinced that Christie is essentially hosting
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  this homeschool Co-op on her property and like all of that
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  would be OK. That would be fine, however this
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  homeschool Co-op supports anti LGBTQIA views allegedly.
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  So this is directly from the Reddit post.
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  I don't want to paraphrase this. So they wrote.
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  On the 4th of July a video was posted to the homeschool social
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  media pages showing them participating in a parade.
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  It featured them holding signs associated with anti LGBT
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  sentiment. The slogan Don't mess with our
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  kids is actually the name of an anti LGBT hate organization and
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  it is clear that they are associated with this hate group
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  because the sign is promoting their hashtag.
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  Christy's son was in the video face showing.
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  I will not be posting him but I find it interesting she's again
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  showing his face on social media unless it's being used to
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  promote hate. So Christy was not in this
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  video, but she did like the video on Facebook.
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  So now her followers are commenting on her videos and
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  social media and her DMS and they are claiming to be blocked.
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  I wanted to talk about like why it seems like so many
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  influencers fall down this pipeline.
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  Christy is so far from the first influencer to fall down this
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  pipeline and it seems like it just is happening more and more.
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  So I think influencing, especially YouTube is a job that
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  a lot of people go into when they have mental health
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  struggles like anxiety and social anxiety because this is a
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  job where you basically socially isolate.
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  You are talking to a camera, you're interacting with people,
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  but it's all through a computer. So I think the mixture of high
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  anxiety or just not great mental health in general, mixed with
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  spending so much time online, which is obviously also part of
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  that job, I think that's kind of a recipe for disaster.
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  And this disaster is compounded when you consider that many
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  influencers get into this job very young.
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  So they haven't had a lot of real world experience.
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  They might not have formal higher education, and they also
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  have a lot of money. So that can create a superiority
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  complex, a lot of money from a young age where you feel like
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  you're almost like above science.
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  I feel like that all combined makes them the perfect target
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  for this pipeline. I think non influencers, you
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  know, you have managers, superiors, corporate bosses or
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  whatever it is, and that's going to reinforce another level of
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  thinking to you. You're interacting with people
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  from all different walks of life every day.
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  So I think all of that combined makes you very susceptible to
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  the pipeline. When it comes to Christy, it
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  appears like she maybe she has. I don't want to say she
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  absolutely has and it's absolutely confirmed, but like
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  it seems as though it's possible that she has.
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  And I'm sure that having the influence of her sister there as
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  well has of course contributed to that.
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  It is such a wild story. It's very upsetting.
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  Like she I loved her content. I have watched her content for
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  so long. She felt so relatable, rooted in
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  reality, just down to earth. She just, it's just it's such a
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  shame and this just keeps happening.
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  But anyways, let's get on to the next story.
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  So the next story that I have is that Chris Olsen has called out
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  fellow Tik Toker Haley Bailey for mocking abuse victims in her
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  new skit. OK, so this all started, I mean
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  this actually started like last year with like Risa Tisa.
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  So we all know that Brooke Schofield, she did that like 14
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  or 15 part series where she exposed Clinton Kane and his
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  alleged lies. So Brooke made this series in
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  response to Clinton calling her out, right?
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  But she called it her own version of who the fuck did I
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  marry? Which was Risa Tisa series.
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  She did 50 parts, each was like 10 minutes long, and she talked
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  about how she was married to a pathological liar and how she
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  essentially got out of that marriage and survived.
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  So Brooks series obviously was really well received.
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  And then that inspired Chris Olsen, also a tick tocker, to
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  make his own series about his ex-boyfriend and how his
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  ex-boyfriend was super abusive and tried to kill him.
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  And then I guess thinking maybe that this was a trend and not
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  like people's real life stories. Haley Bailey made her own
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  version of this series talking about her fake billionaire
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  boyfriend. And Haley Bailey is the one who
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  had the Met Gala scandal, the let them eat cake scandal just a
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  few months ago. So people are watching her with
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  a very critical eye right now because of that.
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  ANYWAYS, so a lot of people took it seriously.
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  They didn't take necessarily the story seriously.
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  They just took it seriously as in like she was actually trying
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  to pass this off as like a real story.
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  But it was definitely like a bit like it was definitely a skit
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  that she was trying to do because I think it's pretty well
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  known what UN quote her like billionaire boyfriend is fake.
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  I think I think it's like a bit. So she, you know, made her own,
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  like, version of this to like, jump on, you know, the trend and
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  like, I think trying to be funny.
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  And obviously people were like, what the fuck?
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  Like you, you can't be out here making, like, funny skits, quote
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  UN quote, funny skits mocking abuse victims, like playing an
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  abuse victim. So this didn't go over very
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  well. She deleted the video.
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  And then Chris Olsen, on his alt account, made a response.
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  Listen, I'm not above satire. I'm not above making up a little
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  story on the Internet for fun like me saying Meghan Trainer
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  and I were childhood friends. When we're not getting the
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  audience and all of us having a little laugh together, we're
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  satire. And making up stories is not
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  appropriate. It's stories about abuse.
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  This isn't a trend to jump on because you see, it's getting
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  other people views. I wouldn't even say this is a
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  trend to jump on at all. I was inspired by the women
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  before me who were bravely sharing their stories and knew
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  that it helped me feel less alone.
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  So I figured if I share my story, I would feel less alone.
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  But regardless of the views and whatever I'm getting from it,
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  I'm still living with the trauma of that story.
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  I'm still living with the fact that I'm now kind of scared that
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  he's going to reach out to me. I'm still living with the fact
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  that in so many of my relationships, I operate under
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  the guise of always thinking I'm in the wrong, or always thinking
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  this person is going to flip a switch and turn on me out of
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  nowhere because that's what this guy did when I was 15 or 16.
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  I'm still living in fear and views aren't going to take that
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  away. And so I just think if you're
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  getting on this trend and making something up, it is a bit
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  disrespectful to the people who have actually been through
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  something. Chris's response was also
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  reposted by Taffy. So I think the interesting thing
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  here, I mean, obviously Hailey Bailey is very like, not
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  socially aware. I don't think that's surprising.
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  And I think a lot of influencers who are really rich, famous,
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  gorgeous, you know, surrounded by yes men, like, I think most
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  of them are probably not that socially aware.
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  I don't think that's like unique to her.
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  But I think it's interesting to see her peers like Taffy and
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  Chris call her out, especially because no one really spoke up
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  about the Met Gala stuff as far as I know.
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  So it's interesting to see them kind of taking a stand now.
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  OK, And the last story that I have for you guys, I'm sorry.
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  I need to wrap this up because I'm really like struggling to
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  talk because I'm not feeling well.
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  I wanted to share the 1,000,000 beers trend.
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  OK, so Sean keeps telling me to talk about this.
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  He's like it's been on his for you page forever.
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  He keeps sending me these videos like you need to talk about this
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  on mini scrolls. I'm like OK, I'll talk about it.
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  It's funny. So 1,000,000 beers is a new
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  TikTok trend that seems to mock toxic masculinity.
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  It's like mocking alpha male Jim Bros.
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  But that's not actually like how it started.
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  So it was started by a creator named Zach and Yon in June when
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  he posted a video wearing Snapchats handsome lens filter
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  walking around a party with the caption open bar.
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  You say, yeah, I'll have 1,000,000 beers.
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  This obviously didn't start as social commentary on toxic
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  masculinity, like I said, but it's kind of turned into that.
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  So the use of the handsome filter, which is kind of like
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  the equivalent of tick tocks bold glam filter for guys, it
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  makes these men look like the ideal Chad.
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  And if you listened to our looks back sing episode, then you'll
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  know that Chad is an incel term that describes the ideal man
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  like a man who's really hot and jacked and successful and gets
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  all the girls. So the combination of this
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  filter with saying you want 1,000,000 beers, men are using
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  this trend as basically like a way to mock a masculine one up
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  culture. It's like, oh, last night I
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  drank like, Can you believe I drank like 10 beers and then
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  someone's like, oh, really? Like I drink 12 and then it's
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  like I drink 1,000,000, you know, like that kind of vibe.
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  So a lot of the videos are now being hashtagged with Sigma and
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  alpha male. They're not all commentary
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  though. There are a lot of these videos
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  that are just men participating without kind of like the bigger
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  message. But the gist is men are making
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  skits on TikTok wearing this Snapchat handsome filter asking
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  for 1,000,000 beers. And these videos are always set
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  to the sound slide Co by Sarah Bro.
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  So I feel like this is funny because maybe like if you have
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  for example, like a skin care brand, if you're like in
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  marketing at a skin care brand, like I feel like there's
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  opportunity here for brands. So let's say you have a skin
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  care brand, I feel like you could so easily do this.
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  You could have that filter on or the bold glam filter.
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  It would just be so easy to make a quick little video wearing
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  that filter being like I'll have 1,000,000 face creams or
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  whatever. Like there's lots of opportunity
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  here. Anyways guys that's it for mini
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  scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  subscribe. It helps me so much.
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  I will talk to you on Monday, but there will be a deep dive as
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  always tomorrow. OK, bye.