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MINI SCROLL: TaraYummy drama, AussieBroSquad concerns + Julia Fox comes out as lesbian · 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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  OK can I just say so my best friend is like really into
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  electronic music and she listens to my podcast every day and she
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  was dying. She sent me like 100 voice notes
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  yesterday after I said I didn't know who John Summit was and no
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  one else has been shocked by that.
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  But I feel like I said something like blasphemous to her.
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  She was like, how are we best friends?
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  And you don't know who this person is?
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  So I apologize for that. I feel like it was a little bit
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  like brain rot chronically online of me to know only who he
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  is through Alex Earl's sister. But honestly, that's just like
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  who I am. That's just who I am at my core.
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  Anyways, let's just get straight into the stories today.
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  So as I mentioned yesterday, I had to spend a little bit of
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  time diving into to two of these stories.
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  And then I also have quite a big story, I think for you guys
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  coming tomorrow. But again, I need a little bit
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  more time. The first story that I have
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  though is somebody asked me to talk about the Tara yummy drama
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  and Annabelle. She helped me with this episode.
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  She normally just does the deep dive stuff with me, like
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  research and help script it, but I was like, I really need your
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  help diving into mini scroll for tomorrow.
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  So she looked into Tara Yummy for me and this is what we
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  found. It was actually hard because no
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  one has written an article on it.
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  There's like some commentary videos, like one or two, like
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  legitimately. And then I think this morning I
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  saw Trisha Paytas, like just Trish, her podcast talked
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  something about like Tara Yummy. So possibly they talked about
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  this. But here are like the two dramas
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  going on with her right now. Hopefully this is what you guys
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  meant. OK, so the first drama going on
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  with Tara is that it's between her and her ex-boyfriend Jake
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  Weber. So for context, Tara and Jake
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  were in a relationship for five years before breaking up last
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  September. The breakup was very public,
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  with both creators sharing videos explaining their
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  decision. Despite no bad blood, they felt
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  it was best for both of them, having met at such at a young
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  age to break up. Tara was 18 and Jake was 20 when
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  they started dating. Tara, by the way, if you guys
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  don't know, is a Tik toker. I don't know.
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  I didn't say that Normally I like intro who people are.
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  Tara is a Tik Toker and she's like having her moment.
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  I think she really started to gain some mainstream attention
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  last year and now it's like constantly people are talking
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  about her. Since the breakup, there has
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  been some ongoing discourse about their friendship, with
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  users labeling Tara as a quote UN quote pick me who hasn't
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  moved on from Jake. And then over the weekend, a
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  photo surfaced of Jake kissing TikTok star Kenzie Luby at a 4th
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  of July party, confirming rumors about their alleged
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  relationship. And then it gets even more
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  complicated because rumors had previously suggested that Kenzie
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  had cheated on Jake with Jayden Hosler.
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  Now, this rumor did come from T Talk Talk on Instagram, so who
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  really knows if this is true or not, but the recent photo
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  clearly shows that Jake and Kenzie are still involved with
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  one another in some way. Tara at the same party was
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  photographed with Jordan Huxold, sparking speculation about their
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  alleged relationship. Previously, there were also
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  rumors that Tara was seeing Vinny Hacker after the two
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  filmed together earlier this year.
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  Whether Tara has a boyfriend or not, there's been a lot of
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  conversation about how Tara and Jake treat each other online as
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  they have remained close friends despite being exes.
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  Some people criticized Tara for continuing to flirt with Jake,
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  assuming that she knows that he has seen Kenzie.
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  A Reddit user on the Tara Yummy Snark subreddit, theorize that
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  Tara and Jake play up their ex status and flirting to gain
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  money and views online because they know it will be a big topic
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  of discussion. OK, the second drama going on
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  with her. Tara recently shared that she is
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  leaving the Dropouts podcast. Yesterday, Tara uploaded a video
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  titled I Left Dropouts to her YouTube channel explaining her
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  departure from the podcast. The dropouts podcast was hosted
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  by Zach Justice, Tara Yummy, and Jared Bailey.
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  It featured conversational segments, various topics, and
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  guest appearances. Zach is fairly controversial.
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  He has faced criticism for his humor, with many claiming that
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  he makes inappropriate jokes, many of which are about topics
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  like race, sex, and pedophilia. And to make matters even more
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  concerning, Zach was previously in an age gap relationship with
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  Indiana Massar. So for context, he is 7 years
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  older than her. They were allegedly together
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  when she was freshly 18, and according to reports, they also
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  met when Indiana was 14. So Zach was allegedly hired by
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  Indiana's mom to help her with her social media when she was 14
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  and he moved into their house allegedly.
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  And then when she was freshly 18, they started dating.
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  OK, questionable. Nevertheless, Tara has also been
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  shipped with Zach since hosting the podcast together.
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  Given that Tara has continued to associate herself with Zach even
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  though he is very controversial, this has contributed to these
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  like pick me allegations and all the hate that she has been
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  receiving Recently. In her video, Tara shared that
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  the podcast environment pushed her to be vulnerable in a way
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  that she was uncomfortable with. Quote, I want you guys to feel
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  like Facetiming with me. And I feel like being on a
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  podcast didn't really feel like that unless it was my own
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  podcast and I kind of controlled the narrative.
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  That's something I may do in the future, she said in the video.
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  So social media reactions have been mixed to this.
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  Some view Tara's decision to leave the podcast as positive
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  given Zach's history, while others wished that she had been
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  more critical of Zach when she was involved in the podcast.
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  So I think that's like a pretty good summary of everything going
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  on with Tara. Yummy.
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  If there's a drama that I missed let me know in the YouTube
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  comments and I will cover it. But that seems to be like what
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  she is facing at the moment. OK the next story that I have
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  concerns about Tik Tok's Aussie Bro squad mount as influencers
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  start calling out the account. So for context, I was introduced
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  to Aussie Bro Squad months ago. I would say it's probably about
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  six months ago from Sean, my husband.
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  He, I don't know, he ended up on like Aussie Bro Squad talk
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  where, you know, he would get the account, but then he would
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  also get the commentary around the account.
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  And he was like, you need to cover these guys like they're
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  kind of niche, but like you need to cover it because it felt kind
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  of like, I mean, people are comparing it to like a Run
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  Eleanor situation. And at the time I was like,
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  yeah, yeah, OK. Well, like, I'll look into it
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  later. And then of course now over the
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  last few weeks, Christian Hall, who's a big TikTok or a comedian
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  here in Australia, he started talking about them a lot on his
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  TikTok. And then I mean, people had been
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  talking about them for sure. But he's he like amplified the
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  conversation essentially. And now other influencers have
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  got involved. So here is everything that I
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  have found and there's like one, I think big like deep dive
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  commentary video. If you guys wanted a deep dive
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  on Aussie Bro Squad, I can definitely try and bring you
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  one. So just let me know.
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  But this is like, you know, high level what's going on.
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  So Aussie Bro Squad gained popularity at the end of last
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  year with their dancing videos. The group consists of 15 year
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  old Jackson, 17 year old Tyler and 18 year old twins Braden and
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  Rawson. They have multiple accounts, one
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  for each member, a communal account with just under 150,000
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  followers and their mother also has an account.
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  Concerns have arisen about the amount of work that the creators
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  are doing as they are almost always on live, so there are
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  worries that they may be coerced into creating content due to the
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  lack of monetization options on Australian TikTok except for
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  receiving gifts during live streams.
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  Basically, we don't have the creator fund fun fact for our
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  American viewers. So they're basically this like
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  dance squad, like these siblings that do dances and for the most
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  part, like they don't speak. And what was like really
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  concerning to Sean, at least when he was first telling me
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  about it, is he was like, you can like hear their mom in the
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  background, like coaching them and like she'll answer the
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  questions on live and stuff, but they'll just be like dancing.
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  And it's giving like uncanny valley.
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  They're like smiling and dancing and like, you know, whatever.
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  But they're never stopping. Their mom will literally be
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  like, OK, like, you know, so and so is just coming home from
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  school. And then they're going to be on
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  live from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM for like hours and hours a day on
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  TikTok live. And their mom is the one, like,
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  who seems to be controlling this, like controlling their
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  live streams, controlling what's going on on social media.
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  So Christian Hall and other creators have questioned the
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  situation, especially whether the boys are being coerced into
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  creating this kind of content. The concerns have specifically
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  been leveled towards their mother, Beverly, given that she
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  is sort of like the momager. Like I said of the group, on top
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  of this, their profile, those weird things like they block
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  literally everyone and they go on and off private constantly.
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  Brittany Saunders, a long time Aussie creator and business
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  owner, highlighted the issue of serial blocking and how it feels
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  like they may be trying to hide something.
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  She said that AQ and a session to address audience concerns
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  would be easy to do and it would just put kind of all of the
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  speculation, the rumors, the questions to bed.
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  As for how people are interpreting the account, one
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  Reddit user wrote quote. It's a cult like situation.
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  The boys always have fake smiles and are clearly very controlled
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  by that strange woman. She even makes them dance in her
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  shop. It's all very very odd.
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  The boys don't seem to have any life outside of dancing, another
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  redditor wrote. Quote.
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  I don't even know how they are supposed to live their lives
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  when mom is live streaming every moment of the day, even when
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  they are having dinner. So that's kind of the gist of
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  the story. Like I said, if you want like a
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  full deep dive, I can absolutely try and bring you guys that.
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  But that's like at a high level, the concerns, what's going on
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  with the account, it's starting to gain a lot more traction.
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  Absolutely. So I'm interested to see kind of
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  where this goes. I think Christian and Britney
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  and some other influencers who are chiming in like that is
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  going to help amplify the situation.
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  But there is definitely something sinister it feels
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  going on there. OK.
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  And the last story that I have for you guys is that Julia Fox
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  has come out as a lesbian on TikTok.
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  So after letting the world know that she's been celibate for the
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  last 2 1/2 years, Julia Fox has come out as gay in a TikTok
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  stitch She stitched comedian at M Grace dogs video who said
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  quote, I love when I see a lesbian with their boyfriend.
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  It's like, oh, you hate that man.
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  You literally hate him. So Julia stitched it and she
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  said, hey, that was me. I was that lesbian.
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  So sorry boys won't happen again.
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  People are mostly happy or excited about the fact that she
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  came out so casually. Like it just, it felt really
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  authentic and I think it's a great example for young
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  audiences. Obviously she has a big TikTok
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  audience and I'm sure a lot of them are very young.
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  To see another example of coming out in such a casual way.
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  I thought it was cool. I know there's a lot of mixed
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  opinions about her, but I don't know.
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  I just love her, you know? I know you could fault her for
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  some things for sure, but I don't know, I like her and I
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  think she's doing cool things on TikTok and I think she's doing
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  cool things for like Hollywood and breaking down the mystique
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  around fame and money and notoriety and power.
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  And she is also Centennial World's like #1 fan.
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  We she doesn't follow us, but she likes so many of our videos
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  on TikTok. And I'm like girl, please hit
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  that follow button. Anyways guys, that is it for
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  today. Like I said, I have another big
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  story coming tomorrow so stay tuned for that.
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  But I love you guys so much. Please remember to rate, review
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  and subscribe. It helps me so much.
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  It helps me grow. And I will talk to you guys
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  tomorrow. Bye.