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MINI SCROLL: Gracie Abrams x Dora Jar fan petition, Jason Nash takeover BFFs + Victoria Paris accused of copying smaller creator · 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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  summer. OK so before I get into the
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  stories, I did want to say a huge thank you guys for how
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  supportive you were of our Brita campaign last week, our Brita
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  sponsorship. So this will be a year long
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  So I actually talked about this milestone on my TikTok and on my
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  Instagram reels as part of this campaign.
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  Today. The videos just went up, so go
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  So it meant a lot that you guys were so supportive of Britta in
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  the comments on YouTube and on Spotify because honestly, they
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  are helping us keep the lights on in a huge, huge way this
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  year. OK, let's get into the stories.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is that Gracie
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  Abrams has reacted to the online petition to replace her opening
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  act Okay, so Gracie Abrams has clapped back at fans who are
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  petitioning to have her opening act, Dora Jar, removed from her
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  tour. This is so mean, okay?
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  Dora Jar will be opening for Gracie on the European leg of
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  her tour in February and March. The petition is now deleted, but
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  it was posted on Change.org and this is what it said.
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  Many fans, including myself, are baffled by the recent
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  announcement that Dora Jar will be the opening act for the
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  Secret of Us Tours Europe shows. We are perplexed as we do not
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  recognize her and with less than two weeks till the tour, it's
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  virtually impossible to familiarize ourselves with her.
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  Slow paced songs for a memorable concert experience and opening
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  act should set the mood and get the crowd excited.
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  But Dora slow tempo songs may not achieve this goal.
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  It's not just a personal concern.
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  According to Billboard, upbeat opening acts are essential to
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  the overall concert experience as they set the tone for the
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  headlining act and help in keeping the audience's energy up
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  throughout the show. Billboard 2019 and brackets like
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  citing it. OK, I don't know how many
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  signatures this petition got, but it obviously got picked up
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  by some news outlets. Fans were tweeting about it,
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  posting about it and Dora I'm assuming was tagged in it.
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  So somebody had linked the petition and tagged her on
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  Twitter and she wrote don't worry, this doesn't bum me out.
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  I'm here to perform for all the music loving, open hearted fans.
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  Those who aren't interested can go by merch while I'm playing
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  and they might as well let me entertain them, though an
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  overwhelming amount of fans have been so kind and excited.
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  That's a really classy response from her.
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  I imagine despite what she says, it would be very difficult to
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  deal with a petition going around on the Internet of people
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  saying that they think that your music is not good enough to open
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  for Gracie Abrams. Like one of, I assume one of
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  their favorite artists if they're so passionate about
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  this. I think a lot of this comes down
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  to the parasocial relationship and like the fan entitlement,
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  which we have talked about so many times.
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  We have talked about fan entitlement in especially the
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  music space. I don't know, I'm, I'm not like
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  immersed in music enough, I guess to have a very strong
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  grasp on this. But I'm going to say it is
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  possible that over the last few years, because of TikTok,
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  because of the rise of TikTok and how TikTok has transformed
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  the music industry, a lot of us are not going to concerts for,
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  like, big names like Gracie Abrams is at this point, a very
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  well known artist, at least amongst, like, Gen.
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  Z women and, you know, in her genre.
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  So people are not really going to concerts anymore for an
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  artist of that caliber. And they maybe are not familiar
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  with the opening act. And I think a lot of that comes
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  down to social media and TikTok and the expectation that artists
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  must be constantly going viral on TikTok to solidify their
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  music career. And so going to concerts for a
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  big a list name, I know a lot of people might not like that I
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  called Gracie Abrams a list, but you know what I mean?
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  Like a big name like her, maybe there is this new expectation
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  that you kind of are getting almost like a 2IN1 concert.
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  I don't know. But when I was in like my late
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  teens, early 20s, mid 20s, going to concerts, like I never knew
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  the opening act. That's kind of the point of an
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  opening act is you are helping platform their career, right?
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  You're helping kind of give them this like Launchpad for their
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  career. I think it's normal to not know
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  the opening act and maybe like not even really care for them.
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  I don't know what you can also just like go to the concert when
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  the artist that you have paid to see starts.
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  This just gives like a bullying. OK, So Gracie responded.
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  She commented on, I believe this is on Instagram Reels, she
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  wrote. Just hearing about this absolute
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  ridiculousness, so wildly uncool and bizarre and also just does
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  not remotely add up. I've only seen everyone's total
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  excitement and I couldn't be luckier or prouder to share a
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  stage with this talent and wonder stream everything she's
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  ever made, whether or not you're coming to the show, Dora forever
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  and ever. So I think it's great that
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  Gracie spoke up. I think it's necessary, you
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  know, having to reel her fans in a little bit, unfortunately, I
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  think is what needed to happen here.
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  But I don't think we should be able to just make like change
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  org petitions for anything. I feel like there needs to be
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  like a questionnaire. There needs to be somewhat
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  qualifiers for you to make a viral petition like this.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is there are
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  rumors, a lot of them big rumors that Jason Nash will be
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  replacing Dave Portnoy on the BFFS podcast.
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  In November 2024, Dave announced he would be leaving BFFS prior
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  to the podcast returning for 2025.
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  Josh and Bree who were the other Co hosts have posted a couple of
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  episodes without Dave and I think that those episodes have
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  been well received. I don't think they need a third
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  person. But that hasn't stopped rumors
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  that Jason will be joining Bri. And Josh talked about him on an
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  episode, like kind of teasing maybe that he would be someone
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  that could join the pod. And I think that's where these
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  rumors stemmed from. But now fans are even more
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  convinced after Jason posted a photo of himself over the
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  weekend on Snapchat wearing a shirt that says Team Bri with a
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  collage of BFFS photos tacked to a wall behind him.
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  At first, I was like, is this in their studio?
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  Like why? What's up with this wall?
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  This is really weird. However, then he also posted a
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  TikTok where he revealed that the wall collage is in his
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  kitchen. So either this is like, I mean,
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  obviously this is a troll. He obviously does not have like
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  a shrine to BFFS in his kitchen. But you know, either this whole
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  thing is a troll and like he's buying into it.
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  They're all kind of feeding into it because it's getting them a
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  little bit of traction or it is them actually drip feeding and
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  teasing us that Jason will be on the show.
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  Josh commented on that TikTok saying it would be an honor.
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  I don't think it would be for Josh and Bree.
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  I think it would be an honor for Jason.
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  I think Jason is trying to maintain relevancy with every
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  ounce of his being and constantly piggybacking on the
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  careers of people who are like significantly younger than him.
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  And I know that's really mean, but, like, Jason Nash is up
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  there on my list, you know? But, yeah, I don't think that
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  BFFS needs him. And I hope they don't go down
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  this route, but it's seeming like they will.
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  OK And the last story that I have for you guys is that
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  Victoria Paris has been accused of copying a video from a
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  smaller creator. And when I say accused, I feel
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  like I actually need to reword that and say, like, it is so
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  incredibly obvious that this was copied, but just hang on.
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  So Victoria Paris is being called out for copying a small
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  creator's content and it is literally almost identical.
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  So the original video was by a creator with the handle Your
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  under score Mom 69420 iconic. A month ago she posted this and
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  her video was to the song All I Need by Radiohead.
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  The video is just her like blinking into the screen.
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  It's like a selfie of her blinking into her screen into
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  the camera. With the text.
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  You can always tell when a man's jewelry is performative and not
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  a true representation of his spirit.
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  This creator currently has 1600 followers, likely less when she
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  Osted this video, right? Because this was a month ago and
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  that video now is starting to get a lot of traction because of
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  the Victoria Paris of it all. So I'm going to say she probably
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  had, I'm going to say maybe like a less than 1500 followers at
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  the time. Victoria Paris, who was a
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  creator with nearly 2,000,000 followers posted a video this
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  weekend and it's basically the exact same.
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  So Victoria stares at the camera in the same way, blinking at the
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  camera and she wrote you can always tell when a man's jewelry
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  is performative and not representative of his true
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  spirit. So the only real thing that
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  changed is in the original video it says not a true
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  representation of his spirit whereas Victoria wrote not
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  representative of his true spirit.
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  Victoria's video, this particular video has over 8.7
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  million views and 1.2 million likes at this time.
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  This would be so disheartening if you were the original
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  creator. So people started tagging her
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  who had seen her video I guess. And her video at this point only
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  has 50,000 views and I imagine before this Victoria Paris
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  situation it had way less than that.
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  But yes her original video has around 50,000 views.
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  If anybody has any questions about this.
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  I wanted to get this out of the way.
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  It is not a trend. OK.
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  This creator did not start a trend.
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  Victoria Paris is not jumping on a trend that she saw.
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  The difference between this, which is like in my opinion
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  straight up copying and a trend. What would make this a trend is
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  if Victoria Paris instead of saying you can always tell when
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  a man's jewelry is performative and blah, blah, blah, not
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  representative of his true spirit.
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  If she wrote something like you can always tell when a man's
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  something else is performative and not representative of his
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  true spirit. Like a man's social media posts
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  or feed or, I don't know, like his personal style, like
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  whatever you want to say. You could put something else in
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  there and that would make it a trend.
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  And she could use the same trending sound and she could tag
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  the creator. Another way that this could have
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  become a trend is if the original creator was showing the
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  jewelry of Herman, right? So she's saying like you can
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  always tell when a man's jewelry is performative, whatever, and
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  then she shows her man's jewelry.
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  OK. And then Victoria Paris decided
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  to use, use the same text, use the same sound, the template and
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  then showed her partner's jewelry, right?
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  And then everybody would start making their own version of
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  this. That is what a trend is.
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  It's not like a copy and paste. So this is not a trend.
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  She just straight up copied this.
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  I'm going to assume allegedly from this creator, because I do
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  not know how you could have the exact same thought for the text,
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  the style of video and the sound, all those three things
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  together. It is almost the exact same.
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  It is so wild. But yeah, a lot of people I
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  don't think have seen the original creators video.
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  Some bigger creators are reposting it to amplify it and
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  obviously posting about it in Victoria's comment section.
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  Unfortunately, this is a story that we see a lot where big
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  creators just kind of see things from smaller creators and take
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  those ideas and run with it. Even if there's no, like, legal
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  ramifications for this. It's incredibly unethical,
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  uncreative, and I feel really, really bad for this creator in
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  particular. Victoria Pierce's video was like
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  legit viral like I think it would be different.
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  I mean it wouldn't be that different, but it would be maybe
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  a little bit different if Victoria's video didn't have so
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  many views, but the fact that it has almost 9 million views, she
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  must just be like what the fuck? That was literally my idea.
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