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MINI SCROLL: Jack Blues Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter & Barry Keoghan allegedly split + Bobbi Althoff claps back at haters · 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, and welcome to our
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  second last episode before I take two and a little bit weeks
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  off. So just a reminder, tomorrow is
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  the last episode of the pod until I am back on Tuesday,
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  September 17th. So yeah, just over two weeks.
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  I am going away for one of my best friend's weddings.
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  And if you guys want to follow along, please follow me on
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  Instagram at Lauren Meisner under score.
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  OK, I have three stories for you guys today and the first one I
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  have no idea how I miss talking about this.
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  I just have gone the whole week without mentioning it.
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  But obviously Hailey Bieber had her baby.
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  Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber have welcomed a son.
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  They named him Jack Blue Bieber and they we announced it with a
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  photo of Haley's hand holding the baby's foot.
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  And I kind of love that. I love that all of the like
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  really big aspirational celebrities are not doing the
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  classic, you know, like People magazine or even like, you know,
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  kind of the more editorial shoots where they get paid
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  essentially to share photos of their baby.
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  I love that everyone's doing it privately on their Instagram.
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  Like Sophia Ricci did the same thing.
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  It feels way more authentic and less exploitative.
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  And I feel like Haley and Justin might not share their child and
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  what their child looks like. And same with Sophia.
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  She's been really covering her baby's face as well.
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  And I love this new era of parenthood, like the young
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  millennials, Gen. Z parents, the celebrity
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  parents. I love that they are so aware,
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  especially I guess like they're all Neppo babies, the ones that
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  I just mentioned. So they would be aware of like
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  what it is like to have famous parents and to be famous when
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  you're really young. And I'm sure that's informing
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  their decision. I also love that it's a normal
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  name. Like, I love the name Jack.
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  I have actually always loved that name.
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  I love that Jack Blues. Like, it's a very cool name, but
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  it's a very normal name. I'm glad we're, like, back on
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  the path of normal names. And an interesting little tidbit
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  that has come out. So according to Vogue, Justin
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  Bieber helped his wife choose her manicure for the
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  announcement of their son's birth.
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  Like I said, it was Haley's hand holding the baby's foot.
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  Quote. Justin has just been choosing
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  Haley's nail design lately and it was his request.
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  I don't know why but that I just felt was so random and I don't
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  know if that's true or not. But I don't know why they would
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  mention that. Like I don't know why that would
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  be thrown in there. Very cute.
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  Like I said, I don't think we will see the baby maybe ever,
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  but at least for a very long time.
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  And I know Haley has also posted her first photo back on
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  Instagram, so seems like she is doing well.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is that Sabrina
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  Carpenter and Barry Keegan have allegedly split.
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  So now this is not confirmed yet, but following the release
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  of Short and Sweet, rumors started circulating that Sabrina
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  and Barry had split after a source told people that they
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  were on again, off again. And I feel like this could be
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  APR thing. I mean, I know we thought that
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  their whole relationship was PR. And I kind of I feel like now
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  with the confirmation or like the rumors story that they are
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  on again, off again and like that they maybe have split.
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  I feel like now I'm even more inclined to believe that their
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  relationship was PR. And I do think a lot of
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  celebrity relationships start off as PR and then they end up,
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  you know, liking each other and actually dating.
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  And I feel like that is what could have happened here.
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  But the fact that she released short and sweet and like
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  literally all around the same time.
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  And now these like sources are coming out saying they're on
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  again, off again. And now there's these rumors
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  that they've split. And like that's obviously just
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  going to go drive more listeners to short and sweet because
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  everyone wants to hear her saying about Barry and, you
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  know, get the get the hints right, Like at the T hear what
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  she's saying about her relationships.
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  So I feel like it is possible that this was PR.
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  But in a new interview with The Guardian, Sabrina praised
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  working with Barry. They work together, obviously on
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  please, please, please her music video.
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  She said it was, quote, one of the best experiences I've ever
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  had. I'm very honored.
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  And I got to work with such a great actor, she said.
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  And then she kind of like mocked, I guess, how she said
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  that she was like mocking her own, like coyness.
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  And she repeated, like, he's such a great actor in like a
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  mocking voice. And I think that's much more
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  impersonal than when she first was talking about working with
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  him on Please, Please, Please where she was like singing his
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  praises and being like, he's one of the best actors of our
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  generation and stuff. So I don't know.
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  I feel like it is possible that they have broken up.
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  Also, I got absolutely annihilated yesterday by
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  Annabelle, who works for me. She does a lot of work on the
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  big podcast like the Friday deep dives.
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  She's a huge fan of the pop girlies.
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  She's a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan and I was like, how do you
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  feel about Short and Sweet? Because I don't know if I really
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  like it. And she was going nuts and then
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  she like sent me a list of songs to listen to based on like what
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  I said I liked from the album. So I have started listening to
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  those. It is actually starting to grow
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  on me, but I don't know, there's something about the album and I
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  don't know if it's like a Sabrina Carpenter thing or if
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  it's this specific album that feels like almost misaligned.
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  Like there's some songs that like, it almost doesn't flow for
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  me. I don't know, maybe I just have
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  to keep listening to it, but I have found that a lot of the
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  songs just sound like other artists.
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  Like I can't find her own distinct sounds.
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  Like I can't figure out, you know, like what sound is hers.
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  I feel like some of the songs sound like Dua Lipa, some of
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  them sound like Ariana Grande, some of them sound like Kacey
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  Musgraves. And I don't know which sound is
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  hers, if that makes sense. But I love taste.
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  Maybe that's her sound. OK, And the last right that I
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  have for you guys is that Bobby Altoff has clapped back at fans
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  who said she ruined her face with filler.
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  So in a new TikTok posted yesterday, Tik Toker and
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  podcaster Bobby Altoff is asking the haters to basically leave
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  her alone. So I guess she's been getting a
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  lot of comments about how she like, quote UN quote, like
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  ruined her face with filler and Botox as it looks much fuller
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  than it did when she first rose to fame.
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  So she made this face to camera video and she basically was
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  like, I gained 20 lbs after I stopped breastfeeding.
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  All I have is a little bit of filler in my upper lip.
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  And as somebody who has, you know, dabbled in filler and
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  Botox, I will say even a tiny little bit of work can
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  completely change how your face looks because is not really
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  Botox, you know, because Botox doesn't actually fill your face.
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  I think that is a common misconception.
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  It just kind of like freezes it, but in terms of filler, like
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  because it changes the balance. So your features look different
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  all together, right? And so I think partly it could
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  be the weight gain like she mentioned, but then also just
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  having fuller lips is going to change what her facial balance
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  looks like to us. But really the bigger issue is
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  that you people seem to not care about your digital footprint.
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  Like I just don't understand because I don't know a single
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  successful person or normal person who leaves hater comments
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  under anything. Do you want to know what regular
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  normal people do? They talk shit about people they
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  see on the Internet to each other, not under their comment
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  section. Like send my fucking video in
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  your group message. Be like I'll how is she still
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  relevant in your group message Or I'll what the fuck happened
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  to her face in your group message?
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  But commenting about it publicly, leaving a digital
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  footprint of your comment? That's not normal.
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  That's weird behavior. And I think it's so funny that
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  she's like, talk about me and your group chat, Like, stop
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  commenting publicly. Your digital footprint is going
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  to be so messed up. And I think too many times we
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  hear celebrities or influencers say that happy people don't
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  comment on what other people are doing or what they look like or
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  other people's successes. And I don't think that's
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  necessarily true through. So I like that she acknowledges
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  like normal people, quote UN quote, like they might be still
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  talking shit, but like they are doing it in private.
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  Because I just don't like when celebrities or influencers call
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  people jealous or try and like put these different kinds of
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  like labels on people when they criticize them, even if it is as
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  something as low as criticizing someone's looks.
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  I think when that label is placed on fans or like one of
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  quote regular people where it's like, oh, they're just jealous
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  of my lifestyle because they're not as rich, they're not as
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  successful. I think that's reductive to the
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  power dynamic at play between the ultra wealthy and the famous
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  and the average person who just based on how our society is
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  structured, we are forced to engage with celebrities and
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  wealthy people as if they are special.
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  Even if you don't give a shit about celebrity culture, which
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  obviously I give a shit about, I care a lot about celebrity
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  culture. But, you know, even if you don't
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  care about it, like we are all forced to engage with it and
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  they get so much more than the average person because they are
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  treated or seen as special. So I do think sometimes the way
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  that celebrities and influencers talk about their haters or the
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  criticism around them or how they perceive that, it's not
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  accurate, and it's really reductive to that power dynamic.
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  And the way she responded was kind of harsh, but I feel like
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  it is OK for Bobby to respond like that.
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  I don't think it would work for certain influencers or
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  celebrities, But because she's a comedian and because her whole
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  shtick is to be kind of like rude and guarded almost, I think
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  it works. But now this is like what, three
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  weeks in a row we had Chris Olsen, Chop Arone, and now Bobby
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  Altoff. And I know that all three of
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  them were addressing separate things that were like not really
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  that similar, but they were all addressing like the boundaries
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  around the fan celebrity dynamic and how it's just becoming
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  increasingly toxic. And I think that this is
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  something like, I keep saying this, but like, we need to keep
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  an eye on this. And I don't know when it will
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  end. I'm not sure if this is largely
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  a symptom of us like still kind of reconciling everything we
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  went through the last four years and now this major cost of
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  living crisis. So tensions are clearly at a
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  high right now. And I think it's really worth
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  like noting and considering how we are speaking about and to
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  celebrities and influencers, I just think now with so many big
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  ones speaking out in a row, like something's got to give, you
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  know? Anyways guys that's it for
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  today. Thank you so much for listening
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  to mini scroll. It is so so hot.
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  I absolutely need to open all the doors and like get outside.
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  I am sweating so much. But thank you guys so much for
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  It helps me grow. I love you guys and I will talk
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  to you tomorrow for the last podcast before I go on break.
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  OK, bye.