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MINI SCROLL: FaZe Banks weighs in on Alissa Voilet vs. Tana Mongeau, Jools Lebron secures 'demure' trademark + MrBeast updates · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone, and welcome to the
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  last podcast episode for like 2 1/2 weeks.
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  This is crazy. I'm going to miss you guys so
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  much. It's been such a wild ride these
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  So please don't forget about me over these next couple of
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  score. All right guys, I have three
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  stories you guys today. The first one is that Faze Banks
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  has weighed in on Alyssa Violet standing up for herself against
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  Tana Mojo and Brooke Schofield. So Faze Banks is saying that he
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  is proud of how his ex-girlfriend Alyssa Violet
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  handles herself amid the Tana Mojo and Brooke Schofield mean
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  girl, quote UN quote drama. So we all know that a few weeks
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  ago Alyssa got in some beef with the canceled podcast and this
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  was right before Brooks tweets came out.
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  So like before they resurfaced. So Alyssa's like stuff out all
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  the stuff going on with Alyssa. It really just kind of simmered
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  quite quickly. But the gist is that Alyssa
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  called Tana mojo out for constantly making fun of Jason
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  Nash for like quote UN quote like begging for money on TikTok
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  live and Tana always stitches them or like always makes fun of
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  it on TikTok. Alyssa made a video saying
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  basically like stop doing that. And then that kind of started
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  this feud between Alyssa, Tana and Brooke, but also just like
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  different sides of the Internet, like the fandoms.
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  So Tana and Brooke, they spoke about Alyssa on their podcast
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  and they said that Alyssa was the meanest girl in LA.
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  So then Alyssa responded and she made a YouTube video and she
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  basically said she addressed a ton of stuff and you guys can go
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  back. In one of my previous episodes,
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  I think was like two or three weeks ago, I talked about what
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  she said. But yeah, she said that she's
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  intentionally unapproachable because LA is like so toxic and
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  it's just easier to be unapproachable, not have guys
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  like constantly trying to like hook up with you or not having
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  people constantly trying to like take advantage of you.
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  And if you really think about like the late twenty 10s, like
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  Alyssa Violet was one of the clickiest names on the Internet.
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  So I completely believe everything that she says about
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  this. I think it would be very
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  overwhelming to be one of the most famous people on the
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  Internet and for all your friends to be like so, so
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  famous. And I think there would have
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  been a lot of cloud chasing around that time.
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  That was kind of like that peak era for YouTube, right?
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  So now Alyssa's ex Phase Banks has spoken out about this feud
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  on a podcast. He went on the All Grown Up
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  podcast, and he said that he's proud of Alyssa for setting the
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  record straight in her YouTube video.
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  And he also said that he completely, like, agrees with
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  what she said about her defence of, like, I'm intentionally
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  unapproachable. He gave an example.
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  He said, I have seen so many girls that I've hooked up with
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  on my For You page talking about how Alyssa was mean to them when
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  they were friends back in the day.
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  And he's like, yeah, because you were hooking up with me, her
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  boyfriend or ex-boyfriend or whatever, at the same time as
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  like, pretending to be her friend.
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  So like, obviously she's not going to then go and be nice to
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  you when she finds that out. So he really had her back, which
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  I thought was kind of sweet because not a lot of people have
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  had Alyssa's back throughout all of this situation.
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  And like, this is the kind of stuff that is like low stakes
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  Internet drama where like nobody should be getting cancelled,
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  quote UN quote for anything. I understand Alyssa standing up
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  for Jason, especially given the history of like Jason and Tana
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  and Trisha Paytas and Tana and the Vlog Squad.
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  But she did address in her response that she actually
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  didn't know about that stuff. And I think I believe it.
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  I don't know, I'm not really on anyone side in this situation,
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  but that's what I'm trying to say is like this is the kind of
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  like petty Internet drama where like the whole Internet went
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  against Alyssa Violet because Tana and Brooke made these like
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  podcast episodes and they kind of like, I mean, Tana wrote like
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  a poem and it was like considered really funny and
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  stuff. So you know, then everybody is
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  like canceling quote UN quote Alyssa Violet for something that
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  is like so low stakes. So it's nice that she has
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  somebody in her corner, especially because they had a
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  very tumultuous relationship. So Alyssa and banks, they had a
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  very high profile relationship in the late twenty 10s.
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  They were like so so popular in that like LA YouTube world.
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  So they got together in 2017 after Alyssa dated Jake Paul.
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  Alyssa and banks were together for about two years and then
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  when they broke up, she accused banks of cheating on her with
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  multiple women. OK, the next story is like a
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  happy one, guys. I feel like we I don't get a lot
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  of happy stories. But Jules LeBron has secured the
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  very demure trademark just days after all of the drama.
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  OK, so after a random man in Colorado filed the trademark for
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  a very demure, very mindful the rightful creator who started the
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  trend, Jules LeBron revealed in a new TikTok video today that
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  she has secured the trademark. Or that they're like, working on
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  it. That like, it's going to be OK.
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  She said she wouldn't get into how she got it and how she's
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  working on it, but she said she has management now and because
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  of how popular the trend has become, obviously I presume that
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  her management is helping her get that trademark.
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  But Jules previously said that she wanted to use the money from
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  this trend blowing up to complete her transition and help
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  out her friends and family. So I am so happy that this
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  chapter is going to be closed for her hopefully.
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  I mean, it was a very short one, but like, it would have been a
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  devastating 1 to find out that some random man was trying to
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  Co-op this saying and like, you know, profit off of this trend
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  that was started by a trans woman.
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  Like not OK. And I'm so, so glad that she has
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  people in her corner now and like, team members who are going
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  to be helping her out with this. OK.
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  And the last story that I have for you guys, it's a very, very
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  quick one. But Mr. Beast has hired a very
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  high profile lawyer to fight the former employee that is making
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  all of those crazy viral YouTube videos against him.
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  So Mr. Beast has reportedly hired Alec Baldwin's lawyer who
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  cost $2000.00 an hour to fight that random guy Dogpath four O
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  4, who has been making these videos about working for Mr.
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  Beast. In these videos he's called him
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  a fraud. He's called him a sociopath.
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  I think his name is Dawson. He is so unhinged whether what
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  he is saying about Mr. Beast is true or not.
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  And I know I've reported on some of the stuff that he has said.
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  And I'm sure there's a bit of truth to it and a bit of not
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  truth to it, you know, like, I think just kind of with like
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  everything in life. But he, the way he is coming for
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  Mr. Beast, I don't know his background.
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  Maybe he is a lawyer. Maybe his father is a lawyer.
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  Like maybe he can actually fight this.
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  But I'm like a dude, I don't know what is going to happen,
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  but I can't believe he's just not scared.
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  He is like unhinged. Like he's making videos being
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  like, oh, his team is waiting to make a response until I drop all
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  of the videos. So and then he's like calling
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  out Jimmy's lawyers by name. And he's like, OK, so, so and so
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  here's what I'm going to say in the next video.
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  So, you know, so you can get like a head start on this.
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  And then he'll just like, say it.
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  It's actually like, it's insane. Like he is so combative.
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  It's so, so wild. And I don't know, like I'm I'm
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  scared for him. I don't know if he realizes what
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  he's gotten himself into, but he does not seem scared at all.
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  Like he is stepping up to the plate and he is going full
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  throttle and he is saying things like he's saying point blank,
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  like Mr. Beast has committed crimes.
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  He's not using the word allegedly, like he is just
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  saying things. And I'm like, what is happening
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  here? But another person that is not
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  backing down in the Mr. Beast saga is Rosanna Pansino.
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  Now, she is much more considered with her delivery and her
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  approach on all of this because I do think she is presenting
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  mostly stuff that she has been told from other people, like
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  messages that she's received. And it's she's making it clear
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  that like, these are anecdotal, like messages and experiences.
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  But yeah, she's not backing down either.
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  She just keeps making these videos.
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  So it's been a bad summer for Mr. Beast and I wanted to read
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  this excerpt from the garbage day sub stack because Ryan
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  Broderick, who writes it, he just, he positioned it so well.
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  He said the walls are closing in and he, as a Mr. Beast finally
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  hit the first thing. He can't optimize his way out of
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  public opinion. And that is exactly what we are
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  seeing. You know, whether there's
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  actually any like legal ramifications or financial
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  ramifications to Mr. Beast is to be determined.
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  And I would say probably unlikely, but the public is
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  turning on him and public sentiment around Mister Beast is
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  just not the same as it was even just like four or five months
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  ago. So I think this is, I know I
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  keep saying this, but I do think this might be the beginning of
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  the end. I think it might be the
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  beginning of like his fade into irrelevance.
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  That's not to say that he won't still get a bajillion views and
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  I think that's something that's really interesting with Mr.
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  Beast. I would like to hear you guys
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  opinion on this because he somehow has remained kind of
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  like fringe and random even though he is the biggest YouTube
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  in the world. Like if I asked any one of my
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  friends do you know who Tanner Mojo is, most of them would
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  probably say yes even if they've never watched a Tana Mojo video.
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  If I said you know who Mr. Beast is, most of them will probably
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  say no. Even though his audience in
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  theory is like 100 times bigger than Tana's.
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  He is just not really part of the zeitgeist, which is harming
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  him now because I, I was going to say he doesn't have stands.
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  That's not true because I've been on the receiving end of Mr.
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  Beast stands. But I don't think he has a
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  community in the same way that other creators have managed to
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  build because all he cares about is optimization for views.
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  Like all he cares about is going viral.
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  He doesn't care about creating content for, you know, a subset
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  of people online that follow him and love him and expect certain
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  things from him. All he cares about is beating
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  his numbers video to video. So I do think even though the
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  public perception is shifting and even if he becomes like,
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  quote UN quote irrelevant, I would argue he's already kind of
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  irrelevant. And I also just think he will
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  consistently get hundreds of millions of views all the time
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  because he is creating content for an algorithm.
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  He is not creating content for people.
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  And that's my two cents there. All right, guys, well, this is
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