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MINI SCROLL: Belfast KPop tribute concert drama, KATSEYE Manon hiatus, Ned Fulmer crash out + Aussie brand copycats · 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.
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  Every Monday through Thursday and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host Lauren Meisner, the founder of the Australian
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  youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone.
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  notice that I have a little Co host with me today.
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  I came in and the High Stakes Girls had the studio set up for
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  their episode and I was like, you know what?
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  Let me just put Pumpkin on that chair beside me.
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  Let's set up the studio a little differently because last time
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  everyone on camera? Say hi.
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  She's like please do not disturb my nap.
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  Anyways, I hope you guys all had a great weekend.
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  I had a good weekend and I'm feeling a lot better than I was
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  feeling on Thursday. So thank you so much to everyone
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  who was so kind to be in the comments.
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  OK. The first story that I have for
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  you guys today is I need to talk about this K Pop Forever tribute
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  concert that's going viral everywhere.
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  So on Thursday night, AK Pop tribute concert took place in
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  Belfast that has sparked intense backlash from some parents who
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  bought tickets, who claimed that the show was boring,
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  inappropriate for children and featured hardly any songs from K
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  Pop Demon Hunters. So footage of the concert and
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  complaints from attendees started going viral on TikTok
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  this weekend, with people comparing it to Willie's
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  Chocolate Experience, that flop of an event that took place in
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  Glasgow in 2024. Because people felt like they
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  were so duped. I am beyond disgusted by the K
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  Pop performance at the SSA Arena in Belfast.
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  It was not K Pop and the kids are left absolutely heartbroken
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  and crying. We couldn't sing along to any of
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  the songs and they only knew the songs at the end, guys.
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  If you're going to Kepap, do not go.
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  To Kepap and. To have to scam.
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  And it's an absolute, more like a show and it's disgusting and
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  it's pure. It's a pure wave.
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  Do not feel it. Everybody is sleeping.
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  Literally everybody who's done their kids AP.
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  Purple hair. And all and to joke everybody is
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  actually, we're actually at the confidence.
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  K Pop and the Odyssey should be ashamed of themselves.
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  I am so annoyed. Both my girls first ever concert
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  and it was the worst experience. Totally was not what it was
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  advertised to be. I totally understand it was not
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  meant to be. Lots of people are saying about
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  it. Was K pop demon hunters?
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  It was AK pop genre thing advertised as this.
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  What we seen and got on stage was not that half naked people,
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  belly tops, hot pants, no pants on, touching the shells in
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  inappropriate places, dancing inappropriately, that ways in
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  which children did not need to see.
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  OK, can I first just say I feel like almost nothing compares to
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  Willie's chocolate experience. OK, so people comparing it to
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  that, it was literally nothing like that.
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  This was like an actual performance.
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  If it was a good performance, I don't know, I wasn't there.
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  But regardless, it seems like the event company, what they
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  promised is what they delivered. There was just some type of
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  miscommunication between the parents who bought tickets
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  expecting something different, but that is not necessarily how
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  it was marketed. So this is directly from the
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  BBC. Quote.
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  Caroline McGrath from North Belfast was there with her
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  seven-year old daughter and said while they had a great time, the
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  show was quote, not what we expected it to be.
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  She told BBC Radio she was not aware that K Pop was a full
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  genre. Quote I thought it was good.
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  But then there was some parts that were a little bit raunchy
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  and there were some things where the K pop songs that the kids
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  didn't know. And there was also some parts
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  that my friend's daughter felt was inappropriate and she is 7.
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  She explained the main songs from the K Pop Demon Hunters
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  were not on until the end when it hit the interval.
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  I seen so many children crying and people leaving.
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  I'm sorry I saw so many children crying.
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  I'm not laughing at children crying but this is this is on
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  the parents. I'm sorry this is not how the
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  performance or the concert I mean was marketed.
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  It was not marketed as AK pop Demon Hunter concert.
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  Just because you don't know that K pop is a full genre as you
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  just said, doesn't mean that it was the event's fault.
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  I'm not a parent, so you can disagree with me, but I believe
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  if you're going to spend money on an experience for your
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  family, you should be at least across your children's media
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  diet enough so you understand and what you're attending, what
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  you're consuming and how that fits into culture.
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  I feel like a lot of these issues that we're seeing on
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  social media around this concert could have been avoided if the
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  parents understood that K Pop is not exclusive to K Pop Demon
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  Hunters. Now the organizers of the event
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  and tons of users on social media have come out defending it
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  because again, despite what these parents are saying, it was
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  not AK pop Demon Hunters concert.
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  It was AK pop genre tribute concert.
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  K Pop is just like any other genre, right?
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  It's like a pop genre. So it's like if you're going to
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  a pop performance or a tribute concert for, I don't know, some
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  type of pop star, you know it. It's not necessarily going to be
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  kid friendly if you're taking your kids to Sabrina Carpenter.
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  That was like a huge topic of conversation a couple years ago
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  with her short and sweet twirling.
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  Just because Sabrina Carpenter was a Disney kid and has this
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  kind of like, you know, sweet kitchy little stick going on
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  right now doesn't mean that she is made for kids.
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  So the BBC actually did speak to a parent who was not offended by
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  the show. She said, quote, it's no
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  different to if you went to a Katy Perry concert, if you went
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  to a Beyoncé concert. Yes, the girls were wearing wee
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  belly tops or wee bras, but they had tops over them and they had
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  rips in their jeans. So the arena where it took
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  place, SSE Arena, its website described the show as featuring
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  quote fully live performances of smash hits from Blackpink, BTS
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  twice, soda pop golden and more, calling it the ultimate non-stop
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  party for all ages. So I guess the all ages part of
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  it, maybe, I mean, but it was I, I, I don't know, I wasn't there
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  again. But I mean, according to people,
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  some people who were there who are kind of defending it, like
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  they're saying it wasn't inappropriate.
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  It was obviously just not what these parents expected.
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  And right on the website of where you buy the tickets, it
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  says the names of all of these different K pop bands where
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  they're doing tribute songs for. So in a statement released on
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  Thursday night, Aiken Promotions and the SSE Arena said that they
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  were quote, aware of some feedback following the Belfast
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  show. They added that the performance
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  is part of a global tour and was designed to celebrate the K pop
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  genre as a whole hole, not just demon hunters.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys today is that Cat's
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  Eye's Mano announces her hiatus. And now the father of a fellow
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  Cat's Eye member, Daniela, he's in the comments section
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  basically being so rude about Manol.
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  So if you're unfamiliar with Cat's Eye, I feel like maybe
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  I've spoken about them. I don't know.
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  Annabelle is constantly trying to get me to talk about Cat's
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  Eye on the pod, she loves Cat's Eye.
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  I do like some of their songs. I listen to them at the gym.
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  So if you're unfamiliar with Cat's Eye, they are a girl
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  group. They were created by Highbee and
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  Geffen, basically testing out whether the K pop method should
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  work on an international scale. The girl group was put together
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  through a survival show with around 20 candidates and ended
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  up with six members Sofia, Laura, Megan, Daniella, Yuncha,
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  and of course, Minnow. The selection was not without
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  criticism. Many of the viewers were rooting
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  for different combinations or specific girls to debut.
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  Minnow was a fan favorite but was also a colorizing figure.
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  Now, over the weekend, it was announced that Menaul would be
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  going on a hiatus from the group.
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  Hybee and Geffen first issued a statement which read quote
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  hello. After open and thoughtful
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  conversations together, we are sharing that Menaul will be
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  taking a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her
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  health and well-being. We fully support this decision.
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  Katzai remains committed to showing up for one another and
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  for the fans who mean everything to us.
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  The group will continue scheduled activities during this
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  time, and we look forward to being together again when the
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  time is right. Many fans were shocked by this
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  announcement. However, MENA has also been very
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  vocal about her health and mental health before, so it
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  wasn't like a totally unprecedented reason.
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  And then MENA also issued her own statement via Weaver's
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  quote. Hi friends, I want you to hear
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  this from me. I'm healthy, I'm OK, and I'm
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  taking care of myself. Thank you for checking in.
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  Sometimes things unfold in ways we don't fully control, but I'm
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  trusting the bigger picture. Thank you for standing by me.
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  I love you endlessly and I can't wait to see you again.
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  So obviously that is a pretty different statement to what the
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  management released. Her decision to lead with the
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  fact that she is healthy and taking care of herself raised
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  eyebrows. And then of course people were
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  confused about her commentary around the bigger picture.
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  So after this conspiracy theories really kicked off, many
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  Cat's Eye fans were convinced that Menaul was being forcibly
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  put on hiatus, and there are a couple theories floating around
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  online as to why that may have been.
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  The 1st is people speculating that she broke her contract due
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  to various personal activities. Many fans are claiming that this
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  may be a result of Menaul taking part in short films with her
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  friends. Others are speculating whether
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  it's because she went viral earlier this year after shouting
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  Free Palestine while leaving the artist for AIDS benefit concert.
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  Neither of these reasons are confirmed, just recounting
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  speculation here. The second theory is that Hybee
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  was always planning on reducing Cats Eye to five girls as
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  opposed to six. Many fans have pointed out that
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  it seems like Hybee has taken moments to test how fans would
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  respond to A5 girl group, and there are a couple of examples.
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  One was when Cats Eye collaborated with Glossier.
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  The girls, minus MENA took a picture in front of the
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  Billboard. Another was when Cats Eye
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  performed alongside Lavee. MENA was actually not there for
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  that performance either. However, perhaps the most
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  significant example is the Gabriella performance video Mana
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  was also not into. Mana was also not there due to
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  injury. That being said, there are other
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  instances where one member was not there for a performance or a
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  shoot. It's not just Mana, but it's
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  definitely a little bit sass. Her wording versus theirs and
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  all of these instances. Plus, social media users have
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  also noted this is not the first time that Hybee has cut a girl
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  from a group. This speculation only
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  intensified when an alleged confidential document leaked
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  from High B that said Mana would be quote phased out of the
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  group. There is no confirmation that
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  this document was real, but social media has really run with
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  it and it's giving delusional conspiracy theory believing
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  everything we see on TikTok. Please, we need to bring back
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  media literacy. So all of this has LED social
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  media users and fans to believe that Hybee is treating MENA
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  unfairly. And of course, in this instance,
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  we also cannot ignore that MENA is the only black woman in the
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  group. And now Daniella's dad Rafael
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  has reportedly been leaving a series of comments under a post
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  by Paddy Pop Culture about the situation.
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  According to screenshots he wrote, the show must go on with
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  or without a member. Cat's eye is bigger than one
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  girl. And in response to someone who
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  said I am the hugest girl group fan and normally OK with members
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  leaving, the Cat's eye is a set six piece.
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  He allegedly wrote 5 is OK too. And then he also allegedly
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  commented, come back when you're ready to work as in to Manal.
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  We could not verify these comments, of course, but Paddy
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  pop culture has posted about this himself and the account
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  that it was commented from has been deleted, which is
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  definitely SUS. So that is the full breakdown
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  about what is going on with Manal leaving and Daniella's dad
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  allegedly leaving unhinged comments.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys today, This is
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  a quick one, but Ned Fulmer Ned Fullmer, his dating app profile
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  on the dating app field has he claims been doxxed and he's
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  having like a full crash out on Twitter slash X So former try
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  guys star and notorious wife cheater Ned Fullmer is crashing
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  out on Twitter and he was all weekend after claiming one of
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  his dating profiles was doxxed. He wrote apparently somebody
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  doxxed my field profile. Cool, saves me 2999 a month.
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  I truly give zero fucks and invite you to roasted,
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  especially Bebe Rexha. Why?
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  Why bringing Bebe Rexha into this?
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  The reason people think the reason why he brought Bebe Rexha
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  into this for the actual context is because a few days ago Bebe
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  Rexha had tweeted asking her followers to like set her up
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  with a successful man, like an eligible like single successful
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  man. And I I assume people were
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  tagging Ned like I think that's why he's commenting this or like
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  it brought her into this. But everybody's like leave Bebe
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  Rexha out of this. Why is she always copping strays
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  lately? OK he kept going like I said
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  this was a crash out. Follow me for more divorced dad
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  unhinged energy or whatever or unfollow me I don't care.
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  Hope this gave you a laugh. OK so for anybody that doesn't
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  know field is a dating app for quote open minded individuals
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  which includes ethical non monogamy.
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  So honestly you know what at least he's like learned his
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  lesson from the Ariel situation. Maybe monogamy is not for him
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  and he should enter into open relationships consensually.
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  So we got to give him that. OK then he started posting
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  screenshots of his profile where you can also see his photos and
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  he's like raiding his photos of himself and you can see in his
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  profile he called himself Edward.
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  He says 38 man straight and in one of the screenshots you can
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  see Dom leaning switch looking for a bratty sub 510 ENFJ
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  athletic and currently sporting a beard.
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  I'm not going to read you all of his tweets about him rating
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  himself in his photos, but I'm going to say this is not a man
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  who's unbothered. You know, when his first tweet,
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  when he's like, whatever, I don't care.
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  I literally give zero fucks or whatever he said, like follow me
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  or don't like. This is a man that is deeply
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  bothered. This is a man that cannot handle
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  that his return to the Internet was not well received.
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  And this is where I feel like Ned Fulmer just needs to read
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  the room. Do I think it's right that he
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  was allegedly doxed for this? Absolutely not.
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  I think that's super invasive. That's super fucked up.
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  But he's also like a famous Internet personality who has
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  been in the news a lot the last few months, and he is still
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  largely hated. I just feel like maybe he should
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  have taken a beat and maybe he would say back to me like, well,
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  it's because I don't care. Like, I don't care if people see
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  this. I don't care if people know who
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  I am, whatever. But I'm going to say, as I said,
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  that these tweets are not from a man that doesn't care.
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  OK. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys today is I'm going to break down what could have
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  turned into beef but actually didn't, which is like a nice
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  change for mini scroll between the two brands.
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  Can I have a sleepover and mode mischief.
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  So at the end of last week, Australian based small business
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  Can I have a sleepover posted a video of a tote bag that had
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  been in development for quite a while.
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  The bag was denim and has this like polka dot pattern bikini
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  top and bottom detail stitched on.
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  And in the TikTok, the brand's founder Jazz holds up the bag
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  while saying I swear I didn't copy you Mode mischief,
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  referencing a popular Aussie based clothing brand.
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  I swear I didn't copy you mode Mischief.
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  I don't know whether I should put this bag into production
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  now. So I recently started showing
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  this bag on my socials and asking whether people would be
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  interested in it to put it into production.
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  It's this gorgeous denim tote bag, but the most amazing
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  Australian brand, Mog Mischief, a brand that I really look up to
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  that I am obsessed with, just released a bag that's kind of
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  similar like last week and I'm like crushed.
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  I don't know whether I should go forward and put it into
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  production or whether people will think I copied even though
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  I have been posting this on my socials.
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  Mode Mischief has seen so much growth over the past few years
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  and tons of it. Girls are wearing their clothes
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  all the time like Emma Chamberlain, Hailey Bieber and
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  over the past month, Mode Mischief's founder Mia has been
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  teasing the launch of a new tote bag that also has a bikini
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  design. So both of the tote bags
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  basically show like a bikini chop and then the handles are
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  like the bikini halter parts. Obviously, the tote bags are
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  different, but the concepts are very similar.
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  So Jazz took to TikTok to share her side of the story and
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  basically plead with the algorithm and Mode Mischief and
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  users who are going to come across her content to be like,
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  please, I promise. Like I did not copy them.
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  And Mode Mischief's brand account ended up responding to
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  the video and they wrote it's super cute.
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  Thank you for the love for our brand.
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  We don't think it's similar. Wishing you a successful launch
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  and now after this positive response, can I have a sleepover
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  announce that the bag was officially open for pre-order
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  Now while the brands have been supportive of each other, social
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  media users have not necessarily been as supportive.
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  If you look at the comments section of these videos, people
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  are talking about like which bag is better, which one they like
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  more. And honestly that's just exactly
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  why Jazz made this video to begin with.
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  Because I believe what she's saying that this was in
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  production before she saw Mode Mischief's bag.
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  And if she had released it, nobody would have believed that
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  her comments section would have been slammed.
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  There would have been drama videos made about how like, you
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  know, they ripped off Mode Mischief and all this stuff.
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  Like it would have just been this huge issue for her.
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  Even though I would say in general, TikTok users tend to
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  support small businesses, of course, over like bigger, more
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  successful brands. But like I said, Mode Mischief
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  is super culty right now and it could have come across as a RIP
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  off if you didn't know the story.
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  So I mean, that is why she tried to get in front of it, you know,
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  and I think that was probably the right move.
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  And now not only are people going to to hopefully understand
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  her side of the story, but also I think she has so many more
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  eyes now on her. I'm so happy that mode Mischief
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  came back like this and they were so like understanding about
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  everything and like, it just is going to become like a non issue
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  for them hopefully. And I love that.
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  We love that in a world where we are seeing so many like small
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  businesses just get ripped off all over online and fashion is
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  so notorious for that. Like it's just such a savage
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  industry when it comes to copycats and stuff.
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  And you know, people are suing each other all the time for
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  things like this. And I just like love this.
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  Like this is a really nice interaction and I hope that jazz
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  makes a lot of money on this. All right, guys, Well, that's it
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  for mini scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  I love you guys and I will talk to you tomorrow.
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