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MINI SCROLL: JoJo Siwa & Chris Hughes, Alix Earle Dancing With The Stars + $7200 Dominos Pizza TikTok Drama · 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 and sometimes Fridays like today.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the youth digital
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  media brand Centennial World. All right, no updates for you
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  guys today again, so let's get into the stories.
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  The first story that I have for you guys is that JoJo Siwa and
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  Chris Hughes have seemingly debuted their relationship.
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  I fear Kath Ebbs was right. I don't know if I thought that
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  JoJo and Chris were like going to end up being together, but
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  anyways, let me explain what's happening.
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  So JoJo and her Celebrity Big Brother Co star Chris Hughes are
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  currently on a vacation at an adults only resort in Mexico and
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  they were photographed kissing in the pool and being very
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  coupling. This paparazzi photo shoot came
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  right after JoJo posted a birthday dump on her Instagram
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  yesterday where Chris is in a bunch of the photos and in the
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  middle of the carousel. I think this is the most like
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  incriminating one. If we didn't have the photo of
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  them kissing in the pool, I think this would have been the
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  most like, oh, OK, they are in a relationship.
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  There is a photo in the middle of her carousel and it's them
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  sitting side by side and his hand is on her leg.
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  And like, she's taking a picture down like that.
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  And it's just like, so boyfriend, girlfriend vibes.
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  So as we know, this is right after JoJo has had a very public
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  breakup with Australian influencer Kath Ebbs.
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  Kath exposed JoJo on TikTok a few weeks back, saying that she
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  broke up with Kath at the Big Brother after party.
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  Kath had flown to the UK to celebrate the end of Big Brother
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  and, you know, thought that they were going to be celebrating
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  with their partner. And then obviously, JoJo broke
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  up with them at the party. And Kath said with Chris in the
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  other room. So very much indicating that
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  they believed their breakup had a lot to do with Chris.
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  JoJo has denied that, of course, in different press rounds that
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  she's done. But yeah, like the way that JoJo
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  and Chris acted on Celebrity Big Brother was so intimate and
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  like, so couply. And I know Kath said initially
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  that they thought maybe it was just for the show, but I guess
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  it was not. We'll see how long this lasts.
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  JoJo is a relationship girly. Like, she is a back-to-back
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  relationship girly. How many partners has she had
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  since she turned 18? I swear to God, like 8 And like
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  whatever, you know, I said this before, but like, she's young,
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  she's having fun, she's exploring herself.
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  I mean, there's also, of course, people being like, I thought she
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  was a lesbian. Like, I don't know, those labels
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  don't really mean anything. The majority of my friends
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  identify as straight, but if they got divorced from their
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  husbands, they would probably exclusively start dating girls,
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  you know, like none of this really matters.
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  I mean, I, I guess that they're like together, like they look
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  like a couple. They do, they're a couple.
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  I guess I feel really bad for Kath JoJo.
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  Like you couldn't have get like Kath was heartbroken.
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  You couldn't have just given Kath a couple of months to let
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  this kind of cool off. Maybe JoJo feel slighted because
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  Kath took it to TikTok and, you know, made it really public.
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  But I don't know. I do think that was their right.
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  Like they were in a very public relationship.
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  And all of Jojo's exes have said that it's like JoJo is the one
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  that likes to be very public in the relationship.
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  Like she's the one that's like booking them, you know, front
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  row seats on an NBA game courtside so that they can get
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  photographed and stuff like that.
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  Apparently, JoJo loves having her relationships in the
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  spotlight like this. So I think it's fair that Kath
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  brought their breakup to the spotlight.
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  And I did see that Kath posted a podcast episode about their
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  experience with the breakup. I think it was last week.
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  I haven't listened to it, but I did see it on my Spotify
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  homepage. So if you guys are interested in
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  that tea, I would say go check it out.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, this is just a
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  quick one, but I think it's it's relevant.
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  Alex Earle is going to be joining Dancing with the Stars.
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  Dancing with the Stars is going really hard on the influencer
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  bid because Alex Earle has been announced as an upcoming
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  contestant. This is the second really big
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  name on TikTok, like Itch girl on TikTok that Dancing with the
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  Stars has been able to land. First it was obviously Charlie
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  d'emilio. Now, Alex, I just find it so
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  interesting that Dancing with the Stars has become actually
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  like a stamp of approval from Hollywood.
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  Because correct me if I'm wrong, but when it started, it was kind
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  of like we're really washed up celebrities who were like maybe
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  trying to make a half assed comeback, like went or it was
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  like reality stars who were trying to break out.
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  Well, it is a reality show, but you know what I mean, Like
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  trying to break out of like how we knew them.
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  So like Kim Kardashian, like Lisa Vanderpump, some of the
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  kind of bigger reality stars from those franchises, like
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  lifestyle franchises. Yeah.
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  I think it's really interesting. Alex.
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  Earl's a huge get, honestly, a bigger get than Charlie for
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  sure. Like, Charlie does not have as
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  much cultural relevance by far as Alex Earl does.
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  And I think this is actually going to bring in like,
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  genuinely so many young women viewers.
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  I will be really interested to see the ratings on this and if
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  we can see any, like, demographic split because I
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  think this is like a huge opportunity for Dancing with the
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  Stars to actually tap that, like young female audience.
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  OK, the last story that I have for you guys, this is a crazy
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  one. A Canadian creator named Naya
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  Sakir has taken to TikTok to share that Domino's Pizza quote
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  took $7200 from her. OK, so this poor girl, Naya, she
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  went on TikTok. So she had posted before, like
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  she was posting, you know, just like personal content.
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  And then she said that everybody in her life was like, take this
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  to TikTok and honestly good advice because it has absolutely
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  blown up. And I really think she might be
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  able to get some justice here because of it.
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  So she says she ordered Domino's Pizza from their website on
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  March 30th. She's in Toronto, I believe
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  that's what her bio says. And the order was $72.53.
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  She paid online and she has a receipt that says that is what
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  she paid. She says the next two days she
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  got missed calls from Domino's and she thought it was just like
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  customer service feedback calls. So she didn't answer them
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  because it was the weekend and she was out with friends, like
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  busy and stuff like that. And then later in the weekend,
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  she checked her e-mail and she saw that she had an e-mail
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  saying she was over her credit limit.
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  And she thought that was weird because she had recently paid
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  off her credit card. So she checks her credit card
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  and she notices that Domino's took $7253 from her instead of
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  7253. That's obviously wild, but, you
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  know, could be a mistake, like an honest mistake from the
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  worker, a decimal issue, right? And I'm sure that's what it was.
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  But the way that Scotia Bank and Domino's have reacted to this
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  and treated her is what actually makes this so appalling.
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  So she obviously first went to the Domino's store and was like
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  calling them, trying to talk to the manager.
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  She's like, they literally couldn't care less.
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  Took it to Domino's head office. She said again, headquarters and
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  her emails and everything, like couldn't care less.
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  Nobody was helpful. Basically Domino's both at the
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  store and headquarters were trying to turn it back on her.
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  And she was like, there's nowhere online that I can input
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  the total amount that I'm going to end up paying.
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  So like, I could not have inputted like $7000.
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  So then of course, now she's been trying to deal with
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  Scotiabank. So she's been contacting
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  Scotiabank, she's submitted, submitted multiple emails with
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  all of her proof, all of her receipts.
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  She's called so many different teams.
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  She said she's talked to the customer service team, the fraud
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  team, the social media team, the credit team, like everyone and
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  no one is helpful. She said that their disputes can
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  take between 30 to 90 days. And so after 30 days, because
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  this happened on March 30th, she called Domino's and started this
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  process on April 1st. When it hit 30 days, she called
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  Scotia for an update and they were like, oh, you haven't
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  submitted XYZ. So we haven't even like opened
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  it. And she was like, well, how was
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  I supposed to know that I needed to submit all this stuff?
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  So then she submits the stuff. She called back again recently,
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  which is why she ended up taking it to TikTok because, again,
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  it's been 50 days now, and it has not even been opened.
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  And the problem with a credit card, as I'm sure you guys know,
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  is that, like, there's a timer on it.
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  You know, there's a time limit for how long you can keep that
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  balance there. So without paying it off.
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  So she ended up paying off the $7000, like the full amount
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  because she was like, this is going to affect my credit score.
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  And for Australian listeners, I'm sure you guys understand
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  credit and how it, it differs in North America versus Australia.
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  But like, credit scores are so, so, so important in North
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  America. Yeah.
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  She was like, I was obviously in a very bad situation situation.
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  And she's like, thankfully this happened to me and not somebody
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  that, you know, would not be able to pay that off.
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  Like $7000 is such a huge amount of money.
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  There's only one person at Scotiabank now, thank God, which
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  I only found last week, who's kind of trying to help me.
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  But he called me on Friday and told me that I'm calling you
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  because I promised I would and I promised I'd give you an update.
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  The update is that there is no update.
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  So basically, nobody is working on it.
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  Nobody is helping me. All that I keep thinking is
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  like, what would happen if this happened to somebody who could
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  not pay off the $7000? Like, how is this OK?
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  How is this legal? Like it causes so much stress.
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  This is somebody's livelihood. Like $7000 is not a joke.
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  Oh, and the kicker here is that the store Domino's, where she
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  actually like ordered it from, told her that after this dispute
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  is resolved, everything is said and done that they will be
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  coming to collect the 7253 from her.
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  But I wanted to talk about the situation it like it is going
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  relatively viral, but I wanted to talk about it more in
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  relation to how I think the online reception to this story
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  is indicative of larger cultural change that we're seeing in
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  online spaces. If this video was posted like
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  even a year ago, I'd argue that we would see a much more divided
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  comment section and plenty of stitches of people blaming her
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  for like, not picking up the phone when Domino's called, for
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  not checking her credit balance, for not double checking what she
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  ended up paying for, people calling her a liar for clout,
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  you know, and overwhelmingly, every piece of content, every
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  comment that I've seen, everything related to this story
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  that I have seen online has been on her side.
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  So many people are commenting, offering her free legal advice.
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  People are telling her like, step by step what she needs to
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  do. Scotia Bank employees are
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  commenting, saying message me, like I'll get on this right away
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  for you. I saw CTV commented saying that
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  they've reached out to her. So like they're obviously going
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  to do some type of like news segment about this.
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  So it's like it's really such a nice result to see.
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  Like it's, it's a nice result out of a, a shitty situation.
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  And the reason why I think this is indicative of a shift is
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  because online reaction turned so dark amid Kovid.
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  Like Kovid really was like the turning point for us.
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  And we're still very much seeing the repercussions of that.
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  And I think a huge reason why the online space became so
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  tumultuous and divided partly, honestly, TikTok.
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  I think TikTok democratized so many elements of viral fame and
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  viral culture and being able to share your opinions and your
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  commentary. And that existed before.
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  But TikTok amplified that, right?
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  Like, all of a sudden, regular people could share an opinion
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  and people can't latch onto it. They can stitch it, they can do
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  at it. They can reply in comments.
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  And that video can just get millions of views.
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  Like, of course, there was, you know, Twitter, for example,
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  where people could, you know, share their opinions on
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  political news or something. But the chances of that being
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  amplified to millions of views users was very low if you were a
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  nobody. Whereas TikTok completely
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  changed the game and changed all the rules for social media and
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  influence and all of that. So that was a huge part of that.
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  The other is that I think during COVID and then onwards from
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  COVID because of everything that's happened since, and I
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  know we're not out of Covic, but I just mean like 2020 vibes is
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  that feeling of intense helplessness and people were
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  just looking for a place to project their anger and to feel
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  some semblance of control. So getting mad at strangers in
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  comment sections, it like validated the kind of confusion
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  and anger and out of control feelings that we had.
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  So yes, we really have watched people abuse each other over the
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  last several years online over some of the pettiest stuff
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  sometimes. And like, these interactions
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  have always existed, but for the most part, they were really
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  reserved for trolls. And then that behavior became a
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  lot more widespread and a lot more normalized because of
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  COVID, because of Trump, because of all of the things that we've
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  been through in the last several years, and again, because of
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  TikTok. But I genuinely have seen such a
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  shift lately, and it's giving me a little bit of hope.
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  I always said that the pendulum was so far one way, like it
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  really did have to swing back at some point.
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  And I think we are starting to see the beginnings of it.
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  I think the average person is starting to give each other the
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  benefit of the doubt online again.
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  We'll see. I'm going to eat my words.
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  OK, guys. Well, that's it for mini Scroll
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