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MINI SCROLL: Maya Henry exposes Liam Payne, Jack Doherty crashes $300K McLaren, Billie Eilish won't talk about her sexuality anymore + Canadian high tea TikTok drama · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy, and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday. 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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  All right, I have four stories for you guys today.
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  Three of them are recent and one actually happened last week, but
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  it just came across my desk and it is so relevant to my my life.
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  And I was like, I just need to share this.
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  OK, so let's just get straight into it.
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  The first story that I have for you guys is that Liam Paynes
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  ex-girlfriend Maya Henry has accused the former One Direction
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  star of stalking her since they split.
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  So Maya posted an 8 minute TikTok earlier this week where
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  she said that Liam has been obsessively trying to contact
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  her through multiple different phone numbers since they split.
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  Maya and Liam got together in 2019, they got engaged in 2020
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  and they broke up in 2022. So it's been like 2:00-ish years
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  of this apparently. Quote.
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  Ever since we broke up, he messages me blowing up on my
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  phone. It's not just from his number,
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  it's always from different numbers, so I never know where
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  it's coming from, she said. She said he's also been
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  contacting her mother and friends, and she expressed
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  feeling frustrated that his behavior is always kind of
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  hidden from the public. So Maya posted this video after
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  she revealed in a TikTok duet that Zayn Malik was the One
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  Direction bandmate who threw Liam up against a wall in a
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  backstage altercation. So Liam told this story without
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  naming Zayn on Logan Paul's podcast in 2022.
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  In that same interview, he also said he was meant to be the
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  front man of One Direction, and that was quickly debunked when
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  it was revealed that Niall Horan was actually chosen as the first
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  band member and I guess was meant to be the front man
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  initially. I don't think it's a surprise
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  that Zayn was the one who pushed him against the wall.
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  If we know anything about Zayn and what Yolanda Hadid, former
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  star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Mother 2, Gigi
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  and Bella Hadid and Anwar, we can't forget Anwar has to say
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  about Zane. We know he has displayed,
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  seemingly displayed allegedly, a history of violent behavior.
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  But yeah, it is like, genuinely scary.
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  It's not just annoying, like it's genuinely scary that it's
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  been this long and Maya is allegedly being constantly
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  contacted by different phone numbers from Liam.
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  Like that is creepy and that is scary.
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  OK the next story that I have for you guys is that YouTube
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  Jack Doherty crashed his $300,000 McLaren in a live
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  stream and now somehow Karina Cough and Jeff Whittick are
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  involved. OK so Jack has a massive
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  following on boy Internet for his stunts and his pranks.
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  He has over 14,000,000 YouTube subscribers and three million
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  Instagram followers. In 2023, Jack bought a custom
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  McLaren for $300,000. Jack, by the way, just turned
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  21. Like he was 20 when he crashed
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  it. So on Sunday he was live
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  streaming while driving down the highway in the pouring rain
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  while he was seemingly on his phone.
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  Many people who were watching it say it seemed like he was on his
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  phone. He lost control of the car and
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  crashed into the guardrail. And his car was like smashed.
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  The whole friend, his friend who was in the passenger seat
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  filming him, emerged from the crash with blood all over his
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  face. And Jack basically was like, oh,
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  my God, grabbed the camera and started like filming him instead
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  of being like, are you OK, man? He was like, oh, this is going
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  to make great footage. So the live stream was on Kik,
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  which is a Twitch competitor that has become really popular
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  with basically problematic creators because it has fewer
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  platform guidelines for, like, what you can and cannot post,
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  what you can and cannot promote. But Kick actually deplatformed
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  Jack because of this. So Jack then posted a topless
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  photo of himself standing beside the wrecked McLaren on social
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  media, writing that he crashed it just days before his 21st
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  birthday and is glad that they're both OK.
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  So Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles have said that
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  they've launched an investigation into the wreck.
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  Obviously, this is all just bad enough.
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  This is just such a classic case of someone who is in the
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  spotlight way too young, way too much entitlement, way too many
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  yes men around you. You have all this fame, this
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  money, this validation as a teenage boy.
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  Teenage boys are already entitled and reckless.
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  I can't even imagine what it would be like to have everything
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  that he has. So am I surprised that he
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  thought he was invincible and was like on his phone while it
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  was pouring rain driving the $300,000 car and crash?
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  Probably not really. So all of that was, you know,
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  bad enough, but then he took to TikTok Live yesterday and was
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  essentially asking people to like, give him money in the app
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  via like, you know, tips and gifts and things like that.
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  And then when he was asked to address the accident by someone,
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  he said, I literally hydroplaned.
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  I'm in McLaren in the pouring rain.
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  What do you expect? You guys have never drove a
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  fucking McLaren. OK, Jack.
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  OK, so this actually turned into beef between Karina Kopf and
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  Jeff Whittick because Karina expressed her disgust with Jack,
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  like filming his friend while he was bleeding from his face after
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  the accident. So on Twitter, she quote tweeted
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  a clip of the live stream writing your friend's face is
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  gushing blood but you make sure he stays filming from all
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  angles. Nice.
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  And then Jeff commented, like responded and said, I don't see
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  anything different here than what your idiot friend as in
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  David Dobrik did to me, which actually was supposed to be you.
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  The only difference is your friend tried saying I asked him
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  to do it and then blamed it on me.
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  Jeff is just not holding back. Like he has so much anger for
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  David and like, fully understandable, but like he
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  really just let it, Like he pushed it down, let it fester
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  for like, what was it maybe a year or two to?
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  And then it has just bubbled up and like exploded.
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  And it's just he's just letting it all out these past like this
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  past year or two since the lawsuit.
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  But I think that's fair enough that criticism, like Karina has
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  stayed friends with David and his whole thing was putting all
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  of that kind of stuff online. Like I truly believe if this
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  accident happened to David Dobrik and he was in the car, he
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  would have done the same thing. He would have prioritized
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  filming it for content. So, yeah, I think that is, like,
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  a valid criticism from Jeff. And what Jeff went through was
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  so traumatic. Like, I understand he's just
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  trying to, like, get justice and, like, get through it.
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  OK. The next story that I have is
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  that Billie Eilish has said that she will never discuss her
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  sexuality publicly again. In a new interview for Vogue,
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  Billie Eilish has opened up about what it was like to
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  publicly share her sexuality last year.
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  Quote I wish no one knew anything about my sexuality or
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  anything about my dating life ever ever ever.
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  And I hope that they never will again.
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  And I'm never talking about my sexuality ever again.
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  And I'm never talking about who I'm dating ever again.
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  I guess I also underestimate the things I say will be blown into
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  the biggest news of the whole world.
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  That's so unnatural. We're all babies.
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  We're all little kids growing up and learning ourselves.
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  So what she's referring to here is.
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  Earlier this year, Billy went viral when she told a Rolling
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  Stone journalist about the first time she realized she was
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  attracted to women while writing her song Lunch, and of her
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  sharing that with Rolling Stone. She said she felt frustrated
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  that she was in interview mode and kind of shared that part of
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  her story while she was. Yeah, Like doing this interview.
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  This is just another example of a celebrity who used to be kind
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  of accessible to their fans, but then the 24/7 feedback from
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  social media becomes too much. And now she's literally publicly
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  telling us, like, you are not going to know about my
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  relationships, about, you know, my own sexuality journey, which
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  is, like, fine. Like, that is so personal.
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  But those are things that, you know, made her really relatable
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  and her fans loved about her. It was, like, going on this
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  journey with her. And while they're exploring
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  themselves as well because Billy is only 22.
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  And I think that is part of that kind of relationship that a star
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  has with their fans, like, especially an artist because
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  they are singing typically about, you know, their emotions,
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  their experiences, their life, things like that.
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  So yeah, I think it is unfortunate that we are just
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  going to see more and more stars seeing it with Chapel Round 2.
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  Just have to pull back because the feedback, whether it's
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  positive or negative, it's just too overwhelming.
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  It's too much when they share anything personal.
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  And that is a little teaser for the deep dive that we have
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  coming up on next Friday. OK, the last story that I have
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  for you guys, like I said, this one is a little bit old.
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  It's from last week, but it just came across my desk.
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  So there is some Canadian TikTok high tea drama.
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  And I had to cover this because for those of you who don't know,
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  I'm from Oakville, ON, which is basically right beside Toronto.
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  It's like a suburb of Toronto. And this drama takes place
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  between Burlington and Kitchener, which are also kind
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  of like, well, Burlington especially, but like suburbs of
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  Toronto. Burlington's right beside
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  Oakville. So this is like my life.
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  Like this is where I grew up, this is my domain and I was like
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  dying. This is so niche and like
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  specific to me. And I feel like I never talk
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  about anything Canadian related on this podcast in terms of like
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  what's going on online. So I was like, we need to cover
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  this one. OK, so there is this TikTok
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  account called Queen of Afternoon Tea and she reviews
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  high tea slash like afternoon tea experiences around the GTA
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  and southern Ontario. GTA here stands for Greater
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  Toronto Area, not Grand Theft Auto.
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  So she is known for really brutally honest reviews, and I
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  think she's only given like 1/5 out of five on her account since
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  she started raiding cafes. Okay, so the queen of afternoon
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  tea, she gave a really bad review last week to the Cupcake
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  Cafe, which is in Maple View Mall.
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  And I cannot explain how like specifically niche this is to my
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  life and my experiences. If you guys grew up in the GTA,
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  you know, you know, you know Mapleview Mall, you know.
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  So she calls this the worst afternoon tea review yet.
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  And to be fair, like it's in Mapleview Mall.
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  She said it's like a way too expensive for what you get is
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  $55 a person. She said only one tea that
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  you're offered isn't caffeinated, which she says is
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  like unacceptable. Like lots of people don't want
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  to have caffeine. She called the bread stale.
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  The service she called horrible and basically like the attention
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  to detail just wasn't there. She also said they were supposed
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  to be like chocolate covered strawberries that came out with
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  their afternoon tea and they just like didn't get anything
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  like that. OK, so this went viral because
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  it was like so savage. And then the cafe responded to
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  her. And this is where it gets like a
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  little bit dramatic. The cafe owner said that she was
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  recently made aware that the Queen of Afternoon Tea actually
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  owns her own competing cafe in Kitchener and that none of that
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  was disclosed on her page. So the owner is basically like,
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  this is a competing cafe owner trying to slander my cafe
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  because my cafe is doing well. So she addressed the criticism,
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  saying the bread was purchased fresh.
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  The strawberries were basically, she said something happened.
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  I don't know if they were like mushy or they weren't ripe
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  enough, but she was like, they weren't like good enough to
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  serve. So we offered everyone on that
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  day, like a different type of dessert instead of the
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  strawberries because we didn't want to serve those.
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  She basically just tried to like debunk all of her claims about
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  why it was like a bad experience.
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  And then she also said that the Queen of Afternoon Tea has sent
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  her friends and followers to message the cafe death threats
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  and leave one star reviews when these people have not even gone
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  to the cafe, which I think of course death threats are like so
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  unacceptable. That is literally the craziest
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  thing ever if this cafe is getting death threats to people
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  that work at this cafe or own the cafe because of a bad
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  review, If that is where Internet culture has gone, like
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  we need collective mass therapy. Like that is so insane.
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  If that is true. And I also agree you should not
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  be leaving reviews if you have not attended a cafe, you know,
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  like, especially because like they just didn't have a good
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  experience. Like, I don't know, like, OK,
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  I'm thinking about Scandal, for example, when fans started
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  spamming what is what's it called?
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  Short Schwartz and Sandy's. Yeah, whatever their bar is
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  called, I think that's what's called.
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  And they started spamming it with like one star reviews and
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  leaving bad Yelp reviews and things like that.
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  Like, OK, that's also like not totally fair.
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  But also yes, Tom Sandoval did something bad.
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  It doesn't have anything to do with his bar, but like he did
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  something really bad. This cafe like this person just
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  left a negative review. Like that is like what she does
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  like that is she reviews cafes and experiences and she didn't
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  like this one. That's all it was on that train
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  of thought. However, it's like it's really
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  not that serious, but I understand that for the cafe
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  owner, it feels like especially because this video got over 6.6
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  million views like it's gone so viral.
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  So this is like really not doing well for I'm sure her the her
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  business is like perception. So I understand her feeling like
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  really defensive and stressed and making this video.
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  However, in her response video, she also showed the face of
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  Queen of Afternoon Tea. And Queen of Afternoon Tea has
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  never shown her face on her account before.
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  So it was like kind of doxing. I mean, I think if you can trace
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  her digital footprint, I think you can find her face.
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  But like, regardless, it's not great.
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  So YouTube Marky looked into the whole like competing cafe thing
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  because again, Queen of Afternoon Tea has never said
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  that. Like she's not disclosed that.
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  And he basically said, if you go through the older content of
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  this alleged Kitchener Cafe, you will see the woman who's face
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  was like exposed as queen of afternoon tea in the cupcake
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  cafes response video. Are you following?
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  None of these people have names. Well, I think they probably do,
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  but I don't want to like necessarily say their name.
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  They obviously have names. That is like a crazy thing that
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  I just said. They obviously have names.
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  I, I'm, I mean, it was probably, their names are probably public
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  somewhere online, but I don't necessarily want to say them
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  because I don't know how public they want to be.
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  So he basically looked into this.
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  And, yeah, if you look back through the older content on
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  this alleged Kitchener Cafe, you will see this woman's face who
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  is supposedly a queen of supposedly, I hate when people
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  say that supposedly Queen of Afternoon Teas face, like it's
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  supposedly her. She's talking in that content
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  about how she's trying to sell the business.
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  And then he found that her review count, Queen of Afternoon
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  Tea was launched after that video was posted of her talking
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  about how she's trying to sell the cafe.
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  So he's kind of like, well, maybe she wasn't able to sell
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  the cafe and she still owns it, but it's also possible that she
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  sold it. And then after she sold it and
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  there's no longer a conflict of interest, you know, now she does
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  this review account, which I feel like is maybe more likely,
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  I don't know. But yes, that is the very niche
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  Southern Ontario High Tea Cafe drama for you.
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