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MINI SCROLL: Brat x Kamala Harris fan edits, TrishCrave is the new PopCrave + Poppi Cosmetics allegedly "ghosts" intern · 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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  Thank you guys so much for all of your love and listens on Let
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  yesterday. It was such a successful series.
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  I had the best time doing it and it was really exciting for that
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  Wednesdays. But with that being said, let's
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  just get right into the stories 'cause I have three stories for
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  you guys and one of them is pretty big.
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  OK, so the first story that I have for you guys is that TikTok
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  and Twitter is being overrun with Kamala Harris ex brat fan
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  edits. So after President Joe Biden's
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  recent performance in the presidential debate, many Gen.
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  Z voters are calling for him to step down, James Charles
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  included. We covered that earlier this
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  week as discussions continue about who should take Biden's
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  place if he were to step down. Gen.
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  Z is rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris, not
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  necessarily for her policy positions, but more so for her
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  overall vibe. And they are calling themselves
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  the K Hive. So over the past week, X has
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  come a light with post videos and fan edits about Kamala
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  Harris. As more of these posts start to
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  circulate, a few fan favorite quotes have begun to emerge.
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  So people are taking these quotes of her that she said in
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  different speeches and things like that and like overlaying
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  them with a brat filter and like with brat in the background,
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  like different songs from brat. It's so funny.
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  So the one that is like the most viral is from a 2023 speech.
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  She quoted her mother with this line quote.
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  You think you just fell out of a coconut tree.
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  She was emphasizing the importance of learning from
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  history, but out of context, obviously that quote is kind of
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  insane. And so people are like loving
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  it. And I think so the first one
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  that I saw was her with that quote and it was mashed together
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  with apple from Brat. So I feel like that makes sense.
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  Like to me, that actually kind of aligns because apple is all
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  about generational trauma. Like the apple doesn't fall far
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  from the tree. Talking about falling out of a
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  coconut tree. Coconut tree?
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  Yeah, you just fall out of a coconut tree anyways.
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  So I feel like that kind of like, goes together.
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  But another favorite quote that is circulating is one that she
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  actually repeats very often, which is quote what can be
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  unburdened by what has been. And then they're like mixing
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  these quotes and these brat filters and songs, like with
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  clips of her dancing and just being like, funny.
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  I don't know. It's actually the most insane
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  thing. I can't describe it.
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  Like it's actually almost impossible to describe in
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  sentences out loud because you just have to see it.
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  But if you are online at all, especially if you're on Twitter,
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  you have absolutely seen at least one of these in the last
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  few days. It is everywhere.
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  So I actually think if you are a brand that has access to, I
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  guess commercial sounds, because that's part of the problem is
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  like so many brands, if you're verified, you don't have access
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  to like the regular sounds. But if you're not verified or if
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  you just have access to brat in general, you should make the
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  like a fan at it like this. But instead of Kamala Harris,
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  obviously, you should make it like, you know, your product,
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  your service, your team, something that's like relevant
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  to your brand, Like put the filters over, make like a fan
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  edit a brat fan edit in the style of these Kamala Harris
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  edits. It would be so funny and I feel
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  like it would pop off the next story that I have for you guys.
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  Speaking of accent popping off, Trish Crave is the latest pop
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  culture update account which is specifically dedicated to
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  updates about Trisha Paytas. OK, Annabelle found this
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  account. When she found it, it had like
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  800 followers. It was so new.
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  It was so underground. And only in the last like 24
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  hours has it really popped off. And it's still like very niche.
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  It doesn't even have 10,000 followers yet, but it's about to
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  blow up for sure. And she was like, I literally
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  can't believe you did not start this first.
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  I can't believe someone else started this.
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  OK so Trish Crave launched on Twitter in mid June, but it
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  started getting more traction just this week.
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  Trish Crave is basically the exact same as Pop Crave down to
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  like the branding, the style of post, the way that they write
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  their captions. Like it sounds like it's right
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  from the team of Pop Crave, but I feel like if it was, they
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  would say that in the bio. Like it would say from the team,
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  like from Pop Crave or whatever, but it doesn't say anything.
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  I think it's just like a fan. So the pinned tweet at the top
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  says this page is committed to delivering updates on all things
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  surrounding the queen of the Internet, Trisha Paytas.
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  Follow for coverage of breaking news from the famous Just Trish
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  podcast. We will also be covering content
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  from Trisha's friends and family.
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  OK, so like an example of one of the tweets that they've posted.
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  So one hour ago, they tweeted Katy Perry enthusiastically
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  comments on Trisha Paytas new video quote.
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  Oh my God, I'm going to send you the song.
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  Please do a reaction vid. And it's like a screenshot of
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  Katy Perry commenting this on Tricia pages, TikTok, I believe.
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  So it like it looks exactly like Pop Crave.
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  It's so funny. And you guys know, I mean, if
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  you listen to this podcast, you know about Pop Crave.
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  But for anyone that somehow does not Pop, Crave is like one of
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  the most popular Twitter accounts right now, at least
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  popular in the sense of like the zeitgeist, like it actually
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  makes a difference to culture. And they just post these like,
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  rogue celebrity updates. And, you know, and a celebrity
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  like Camila Cabello will like, post a new selfie on Instagram
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  and they'll put that on Twitter and be like, Camila Cabello
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  stuns in new photo. Like they're just such mindless
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  pop culture updates. But it's so funny.
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  And every once in a while, they do break news.
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  And I know that a lot of music managers and record labels and
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  artists send information or tips or press releases to Pop Crave
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  because they want them to tweet about, you know, when this new
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  artist releases a single or whatever.
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  Because like, they're actually quite influential.
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  They have so many followers and they're one of the only Twitter
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  accounts. I feel like now, especially
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  after Elon Musk like destroyed the platform that is still like
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  incredibly relevant. Like they're actually super
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  successful. So I think it's going to blow up
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  because Annabelle found this literally yesterday.
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  It had like 800 followers and now they have almost 7000
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  followers and Trisha and Moses both followed the account
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  yesterday. So now that they followed it and
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  if they start like retweeting it or reposting them or whatever,
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  like they're just going to blow up.
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  So ground floor right now go follow Trish Crave if you want
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  to be one of the first, OK, And the last story that I have for
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  you guys, this is the kind of big one.
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  So I don't know if any of you guys have seen this.
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  It only came up for me yesterday on my For You page but it is now
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  like blowing up like crazy. So Tik Toker has called out the
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  beauty brand Oy Cosmetics for ghosting her in the middle of
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  her internship. O creator, I got dumb bitch.
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  Itis, whose real name is Olivia on TikTok, went viral earlier
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  this week when she made a video about how she was ghosted while
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  interning for Poppy Cosmetics. Poppy Cosmetics is not
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  affiliated to Poppy, the soda brand.
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  Just to let you know. There was a lot of people in the
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  comments who were confused about that.
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  So Poppy was created by a woman named Nikki Naman and they sell
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  colored cosmetics. In Olivia's video, she said she
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  started interning for them in March but a couple days ago she
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  quote UN quote. And this is presumed to be Nikki
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  because she does mention Nikki later, but she doesn't mention
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  her by name yet, but she just keeps referring to like she so
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  presumably Nikki but could have been someone else on the team.
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  She said she took Olivia out of the group Slack chat.
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  So Olivia said she texted her asking what's going on and she
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  didn't get an answer and then Olivia sent a second text after
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  a few hours and she realized that she was blocked on
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  iMessage. Olivia said she then sent her an
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  e-mail and this is when she started getting worried because
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  she was doing this internship for college credits and she was
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  like, I won't graduate on time if I don't get these credits.
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  Olivia woke up the next morning, her e-mail was unanswered and
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  she noticed she had been blocked on TikTok, blocked on Instagram
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  and the company account also blocked other associated
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  accounts to Olivia's. So like when you block someone
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  on Instagram, it will block them and all the other accounts that
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  they own or like manage. But she said they also blocked
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  her like college equestrian account.
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  And that wasn't like, it's not like her account.
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  It's like the college is equestrian account that she does
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  have access to. But she was like, I don't know
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  how they would know that. I don't know.
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  I'm sure it's just like some Instagram like Thai thing.
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  And then she also said she noticed she was locked out of
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  the company TikTok account the day before.
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  But I guess I'm presuming that she noticed that the password
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  had changed to the TikTok before the slack chat said like before
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  everything happened. And she was like, I just kind of
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  thought, well, maybe there's like a new intern.
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  We needed to change the e-mail, like whatever.
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  So Olivia was like, I've been ghosted and blocked on
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  everything. I don't know how to get a hold
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  of anyone. Olivia said she's yeah, been
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  ghosted and blocked on everything.
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  And so the only way that she kind of knew how to get their
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  attention was she tried leaving a bunch of one star reviews on
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  their Amazon page. And she also said that the day
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  before she got blocked on everything, Nikki, who she did
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  name this time, texted her at 4:00 PM asking Olivia if she
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  could make some content. Olivia said she could later in
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  the week. And then Nikki said, oh, yeah,
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  that's great. Totally.
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  OK. So, you know, there was no
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  indication that was like the last communications that she had
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  with her and then she was just blocked on everything.
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  So like I said, this video blew up.
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  It has 4.5 million views. And Poppy, social media
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  understandably was flooded with comments about it.
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  So the brand turned comments off.
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  And I saw on Reddit, some people said that they removed all the
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  content that featured Olivia as well on TikTok.
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  I wasn't able to like Fact Check that, but that is what I read.
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  And then they issued a response on TikTok yesterday in two text
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  slides. So it says some of you may have
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  seen recent TikTok posts from a now former intern about the
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  former interns brief tenure with the company.
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  Unbeknownst to the company at the time, the former intern
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  interviewed for, commenced and engaged in the internship.
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  The former intern was seeking university credits for the
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  internship, which was not disclosed to the company until
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  May. In May, the company was also
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  advised by the former intern that the university required the
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  former intern to complete a document demonstrating that the
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  former intern complied with the University's requirements to
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  receive internship credits. The Former Intern, however,
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  advised the Company that the Former Intern failed to comply
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  with the University's requirements for receiving
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  internship credits, specifically the number of hours required by
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  the University each week. Notwithstanding the Former
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  Intern's failure to comply with the University's requirement,
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  the Former Intern requested that the Company execute the document
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  and to misrepresent to the University that the Former
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  Intern complied with the University's requirements for
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  credits, something that the Company would not do.
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  As a result of the Former Intern's recent posts and under
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  a full reservation of the Company's rights and remedies,
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  the Company reported the Former Intern and provided documentary
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  evidence to the University. With the Company's full
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  cooperation, this matter is now being handled and investigated
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  by the Former Interns University.
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  The Company has been happy to cooperate with and fully
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  supports the investigation. As a result of the ongoing
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  investigation into the former intern by the University, the
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  Company will not provide any further public comment until
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  such time as the investigation has concluded.
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  The company, however, was compelled to make the statement
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  to correct the public record. The Company appreciates your
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  understanding. Thank you.
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  OK, so essentially what they're saying is that Olivia took the
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  internship, didn't tell them that she needed college credit.
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  That's actually happened to US one time before.
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  But I mean, it's usually fine. Like it's just it's just like a
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  number of hours thing. I mean, I don't know, maybe it's
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  different at in the States, maybe it's different at her
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  university. We were just like, OK, we can
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  just make sure that you intern for X amount of hours every week
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  for X amount of months. Like that was all it took for us
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  to like meet that requirement. But I understand feeling a bit
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  blindsided for sure. And I understand not wanting to
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  go through with the internship if Olivia was not able to
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  complete those hours. And so, you know, you as a
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  company don't feel comfortable lying to the university.
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  Like I, I get all of that. I think where people are like,
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  OK, but is that you communicate that to the employee, to the
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  intern. You don't just ghost them on
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  everything. So that's where there's like
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  something that's not adding up. So it's really confusing because
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  if this is what they did, if they just, you know, got
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  uncomfortable and instead of communicating that with her and
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  terminating her internship, they literally did just ghost her.
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  I mean, yeah, that is like, wildly unprofessional.
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  We're at this like weird place right now in professional
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  corporate culture where TikTok has almost like democratized it
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  in a lot of ways and given the worker, like the average worker,
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  a lot of power in a way that we didn't have previous.
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  And that's amazing on one hand. But on the other hand, like, I
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  do worry. I just worry that there's a lot
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  of Gray area in a lot of these stories that we see on TikTok,
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  whether it's someone calling a brand out for, I don't know, a
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  faulty product or bad customer service, or it's, you know, a
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  former employee like this, which we've seen many times as well,
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  calling out a former employer for something.
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  I think sometimes in these stories, there can be enough
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  Gray area that it's going to possibly like flip the other way
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  on the person. So like that, like Olivia's
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  getting a lot of praise and like a lot of support right now by
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  the general public because like, obviously that is a horrible
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  thing to happen. You just getting blocked and
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  ghosted by your employer is horrific.
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  But I can already see in her comments section tons of people
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  being like, oh, the brand put out a statement and like arguing
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  about like, what was actually unethical about them doing this
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  if she was asking them to lie. And then other people commenting
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  saying that Olivia was agreeing in some of the comments or like
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  admitting in some of the comments that she had asked them
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  to lie. And I didn't see those comments.
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  But either way, a potential employer could see all of that,
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  could look in the comments and could make an opinion about that
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  person and how they will behave in the workplace based on those
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  comments, even if they're not factual.
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  Like I saw tons of comments saying that she had been
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  admitting to it, but I never saw those comments.
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  Like I never saw her admitting to that in the comments.
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  It goes back, I think a lot to like our concerns around media
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  literacy. I'm not concerned about people
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  using TikTok as a platform to speak out about things.
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  I'm concerned about the receiver, like how they are
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  going to interpret that and the consequences of these people who
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  are speaking out and using this platform to their advantage in a
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  way that we haven't been able to in the past and how that might
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  just come back and bite them in the ass even harder.
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  So that's all I will say about that because I have no idea
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  what's going on in this situation.
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  This situation is so confusing, but I still stand by the fact
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  that like if she was blocked and ghosted without any proper
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  communication by her employer, that is that's horrible, that's
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  horrible. But the story has already been
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  twisted so many different ways in the comment section in the
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  reaction videos that that's what I'm trying to say.
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  Like the narrative can get away from you so quickly when
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  something goes viral. And that's why sometimes I do
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  feel like unless it's like absolute worst case scenario,
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  like keeping it offline and trying to deal with it privately
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  is sometimes the best case scenario.
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  And I think because we have this platform of TikTok and we know
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  that if we post things, it could go viral.
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  If something like really bad happens to you, you could post
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  it and it could go viral. And you know, you could have
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  that chance to say your piece to get a bit of justice.
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  No matter what the situation is, it can feel empowering to do
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  that, but I just don't trust that the people in power are
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  going to actually be affected by that all the time.
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  And I don't trust that it won't just come back and like, you
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  know, bite us harder in the ass is basically what I'm trying to
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  say. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  Mini Scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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