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MINI SCROLL: Trisha Paytas memoir, Chappell Roan security update, Elena Taber Reddit controversy + more · 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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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  newsletter, all that good stuff. And let's just get into the
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  stories for today. OK, The first story that I have
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  for you guys today, of course, I had to talk about how Tricia
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  Paytas is releasing A memoir. So Tricia Paytas is officially
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  publishing A memoir titled Crying on the Kitchen Floor.
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  Iconic. OK, so Tricia announced the news
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  yesterday on her socials on Instagram.
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  She posted a series of photos and videos about the book
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  writing in the caption quote, she's a published author.
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  My first official memoir, Crying on the Kitchen Floor is
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  available now for pre-order. Oh, this is going to be good.
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  The thing I'm most proud of on TikTok, she posted that the book
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  will be out on November 11th and pre-orders have already started.
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  Isn't November also when Sophia Franklin's memoir about Call Her
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  Daddy comes out? That's going to be a very good
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  month. So she said in the videos that
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  there will be a lot of stories she hasn't told before, even if
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  you have followed her for years. Let me read a little bit of the
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  overview for you guys. Quote and crying on the kitchen
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  floor. Tricia sets out to answer this
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  question once and for all by opening up like never before.
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  She recounts in vivid, shocking detail how an insatiable need
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  for fame LED a quiet girl from the suburbs to life on the seedy
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  streets of Hollywood. From dangerous encounters with
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  potential serial killers to abusive relationships with
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  former child stars, infinite reality TV cameos and ultimately
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  taking over the Internet, Trisha's desperate search for
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  identity nearly cost her everything.
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  Yet after decades spent battling mental health issues and
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  weathering endless cancellations, she somehow
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  managed to fight her way to the high ground as the world she
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  helped build transformed beneath her feet.
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  That gives me chills. So other details we have so far
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  are that it seems to be 256 pages and it's published by
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  Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette.
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  Now, Tricia has authored books before including the Stripper
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  Diaries, The History of My Insanity, 101 Poems about My
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  ex-boyfriend, Curvy and Loving It, among others.
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  But these were all published in the 20 tens.
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  So obviously a lot has happened since then.
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  You guys know, I was like an OOG Tricia fan.
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  And then, you know, she lost me for several years in there.
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  I had to unfollow her. I couldn't keep watching her.
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  I could not support her. And I mean, I'm going to say
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  even after all of that, I know she's having this like
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  Renaissance, but I just, I have never been able to feel the same
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  way about her. However, like I said, I was an
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  OOG fan and I actually bought the Stripper Diaries.
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  I think I bought it in like 2013, 2014.
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  And I loved that book. I think there was something
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  going on online years ago where people found out she'd either
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  like made these stories up or taken them from someone else,
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  something like that. But regardless, I actually did
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  own the Stripper Diaries in hard copy back in the day.
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  OK, so the reaction to the memoir has been mixed.
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  As with everything Tricia Paytas related, fans are very proud to
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  see how far she's come. Many are speculating that the
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  final cover of the memoir will actually be like her with her
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  family on the kitchen floor, which I think would be kind of
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  cute. Meanwhile, there's lots of
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  people who still question why Tricia should be afforded a
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  platform like this. I think there's no denying that
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  Tricia's life has been incredibly unique and turbulent
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  and challenging and amazing, I'm sure in some ways as well.
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  I hope she gets into a lot of things, including several
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  scandals and controversies that maybe would be the opportunity
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  for her to like properly address these things.
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  I don't know. I'm not really holding my breath
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  on that, but we'll see. All right, Speaking of
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  influencer projects, I just need to quickly mention that Alex
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  Earl's new brand has been released.
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  It is called Real Actives. OK, so first of all, the
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  speculation and sleuthing was correct.
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  The brand is called Real Actives.
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  People are kind of disappointed in the name saying that they
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  feel like that would be a better name for activewear.
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  And I completely agree. Real Actives does not sound like
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  an exciting skin care brand that I want to try.
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  But I also understand it's because I think she's trying to
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  genuinely build up that reputation of like a quality
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  skin care product as opposed to just another quote UN quote like
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  influencer skin care brand. So the brand is billed as a new
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  standard for acne prone skin and it's officially launching on
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  March 31st. There are four products in the
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  launch Get Bear and Make Melting Cleanser, Balm, Poor Power, a
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  gel cleanser, Go Deep and 8% mandelic acid serum concentrate
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  and Do More, a barrier boosting moisturizer.
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  On Instagram, Alex wrote quote Keeping this a secret for the
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  past 2 1/2 years has been nearly impossible.
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  My dream for this brand is not only to provide you with amazing
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  products for your skin but to change the way people think
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  about skin imperfections. A huge pillar for this brand is
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  to do no skin retouching on any photos or models so that we can
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  see real skin, real texture, real pores, real scarring,
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  etcetera. Over the years I've learned that
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  we are our own worst enemy when it comes to our self esteem due
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  to the state of our skin, and Real Actives is here to change
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  that. The Real Actives Instagram
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  account has over 500,000 followers already because it did
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  transition from the what the fuck is Alex doing Instagram
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  account to this. Such a good strategy.
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  I mean this is going to sell out of course regardless of how
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  people feel about this. She has such a huge platform, so
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  much influence. Absolutely.
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  I think that this will be successful.
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  I also found out that it is under the same incubator as
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  Michaela Noguera's POV beauty, which is interesting.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys today, another
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  little update here, but the security guard involved in the
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  Chapel Ron and Georginio situation has spoken out about
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  his side of the story. So the security guard's name is
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  Pascal Duvier and he posted a statement on his Instagram.
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  He took accountability for the situation and clarified that he
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  was not part of Chapel's team. I take full responsibility for
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  the interactions. On March 21st, I was at the
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  hotel on behalf of another individual and I was not part of
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  the personal security team of Chapel Roan.
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  The actions I took were not on behalf of Chapel, Roan, her
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  personal security team, her management, or any other
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  individuals. I made a judgement call based on
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  information we obtained from the hotel, events I had witnessed in
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  the days prior, and the heightened overall security risk
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  of our location. My sole interaction with the
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  mother was calm and with good intentions, and the outcome of
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  the encounter is regretful. This is really interesting.
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  I need to understand more about who he was there for and why
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  because in Catherine's statement she was like he was not hotel
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  security but her statement implied that he was related to
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  Chapel because she said he was like there on behalf of music
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  management or something like that.
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  So I don't know, but I need to know if he was asked to make
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  this statement or how this all went down.
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  Because if I was him and the decision that I made in my job
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  was literally being talked about and blasted like all over the
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  Internet internationally and these huge A list celebrities
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  were involved, I would be hiding under a fucking rock.
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  I would be so scared to make this statement to look good on
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  him. But also I need to know did he
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  make this decision himself? Was Chapel's team Like, I don't
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  know, threatening or pressuring him or I, I don't know.
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  I need to know. I wish that we had a bit more
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  context, but I guess Chapel statement, no matter how we felt
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  about it, I guess it was correct.
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  She was like, this was not my personal security guard.
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  I didn't know what was happening.
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  I know it was a bit of a controversial opinion for me to
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  say that I thought that Georginio was like overreacting
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  in his Instagram stories. I know he was a protective dad,
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  but I still stand by it that he should have handled that
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  privately. If he had a big issue with
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  something that an A list celebrity, him as a celebrity
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  himself in the public eye. If he has an issue with how this
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  something was handled, then I still believe he should have
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  reached out to her personally or someone on her team or whatever.
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  Like there's definitely ways that they could have figured out
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  how to get in touch. Blasting her publicly like that,
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  I think was inappropriate. I stand by that.
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  I stand by that. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys is that Shane Dawson's videographer and
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  editor, Andrew Sawicki has started his own YouTube channel.
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  And this is like the most millennial story of all time,
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  OK. But I saw his video come up on
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  my Explorer last night and I was like Andrew and I was like,
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  wait, what? How do I know that name?
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  And then I'm like, how is this somebody'd first YouTube video?
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  Like I was so confused. And then I realized who it was
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  and what I was watching and I was like, Oh my God.
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  And of course millennial like Reddit and YouTube and tick tock
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  is exploding and just losing their minds over this.
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  So Andrew was super famous online for a time, especially
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  during Shane Dawson's documentary era.
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  He was often the man behind the camera and helped produce
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  conspiracy theories with Shane Dawson, The Truth About Tanacon,
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  and the Secret World of Jeffree Star.
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  Andrew and Shane reportedly separated professionally in 2020
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  around Shane's mass cancellation.
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  Fans later noticed when Andrew had updated his bio to remove
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  any association with Shane and started working with the talent
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  agency instead. Since then, Andrew has continued
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  to work alongside Garrett Watts, who was also a friend of Shane
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  and in a lot of his content, but later distance himself from him
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  as well. So yesterday Andrew posted his
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  first ever YouTube video himself titled I Did Not Want to Make
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  This Video, and in the video he talks about how he's made many
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  YouTube videos over the past decade but has never made his
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  own channel like his own video for himself until now.
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  The video is so cinematic, and I feel like in this era of
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  nostalgia and especially like millennial nostalgia, this is
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  the right move. People are going to follow him.
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  People are going to be so excited to see this.
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  Oh my God. I really hope he talks a little
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  bit more about that era of his career.
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  I feel like he won't. I feel like that's not really
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  the vibe that I get from him, that he would, like air his
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  dirty laundry. He seems like a pretty private
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  person. But I would love to know more
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  about what that experience was like working with Shane and
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  helping carve out this new, I suppose like genre of content on
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  YouTube that was so insanely successful.
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  OK, the last word that I have for you guys today is the
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  girlfriend of Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Vecna in
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  Stranger Things. He also plays other things, but
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  most notably recently, he played Vecna in Stranger Things.
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  She's going viral for exposing her anonymous Reddit.
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  So this actually happened a couple of days ago and I
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  screenshotted it. I think I've told you guys this
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  before, but the way that I curate mini stories is I
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  literally just like keep screenshots in my phone when I
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  see things. And so I screenshotted this and
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  I don't even know it just got lost in my screenshots.
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  I feel like this keeps happening and I was telling Annabelle and
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  she's like, we need to come up with a better system so that
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  doesn't keep happening. And I was like, I know girl.
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  She really keeps me in check. It's the Capricorn and I'm a
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  Sagittarius so like, that makes sense.
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  Anyway, so I screenshotted this and I wanted to cover it when it
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  happened a few days ago but I just forgot because they got
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  lost so we're covering it today. Jamie's girlfriend is Elena
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  Tabor, and she's a content creator known for her fashion,
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  travel, lifestyle content. Rumors of the couple first
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  started circulating in April 2025 when Dumois posted a
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  picture of the two together. Since then, the couple have
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  appeared on each other's socials.
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  They've walked red carpets together, they've attended
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  events together, like they're together.
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  But now it seems that Elena has accidentally exposed herself.
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  In a post on R/NYC Influencer Snark, a user took to the
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  subreddit asking for Quote Elena Tabor updates question mark
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  saying that they hadn't kept up with Elena but wanted someone to
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  talk about her and her relationship with Quote.
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  This relationship isn't new news but I need someone to talk about
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  this with. I haven't kept up with her as
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  much but she used to be one of my favorites back in the day and
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  I keep seeing her pop up with Jamie Campbell Bower and it's so
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  crazy to me. I loved her vibe alongside Moya,
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  Moini and Marguli and those girls who seem cool and kind
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  etcetera. She seemed to be one of the few
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  influencers who at least attempted a level of more
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  researched slash interesting content like the history lessons
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  or the financial education or just traveling to more unique
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  parts of the world and showing the culture by connecting with
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  locals. Even if a bit pseudo
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  intellectual sometimes. I really appreciate that there
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  was more substance than so many of the other New York City
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  consumerism final boss influencers I follow.
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  I kind of stopped keeping up with as much as she left NYC for
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  Paris but she doesn't seem to post as much and maybe has gone
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  more private because of her relationship.
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  It's insane seeing so much unhinged hate she gets for
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  existing and dating someone famous.
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  I saw this TikTok recently and I'm like damn this would suck.
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  So this post link to TikTok and then users on Reddit notice that
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  when they clicked the link on the TikTok it came up that
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  Eleanor Tabor's account shared the TikTok.
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  So you know when you click on a TikTok and it will tell you who
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  has shared that link. So it said that her official
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  account the link. So the post was quickly deleted
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  from the Stark Reddit and so has the account that posted it.
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  So assuming this was Elena's account, Reddit users
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  immediately went to see the other comments that she has
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  allegedly made through this Reddit account.
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  And apparently this account had made comments about other
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  creators and celebrities who Elena might even be friends
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  with. Creator Katie Inc posted a video
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  covering the situation and she mentioned Coco Schiffer as an
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  example. The account had commented on a
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  post about her on Reddit questioning whether she had
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  bought most of her followers and paid APR agency to get her
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  invited to event. OK so of course the general
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  sentiment is that if this is true, if this was actually Alana
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  Tabor's Reddit account and she made this post about herself and
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  then she linked this TikTok. Like of course that's incredibly
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  embarrassing. Somebody said they would torch
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  their phone if this was them. And now some are believing that
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  she has possibly hired APR agency or paid for bots. 2 flood
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  posts on subreddits that have quote UN quote exposed her.
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  So one Reddit user made a post on the R/LA influencer snark
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  subreddit saying that in 30 minutes they had received more
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  than 10 comments saying the exact same thing, with many of
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  them defending her. I will say every once in a
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  while, I feel like TikTok does kind of mess up.
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  Like I don't know if you guys are ever scrolling and like
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  every once in a while they'll be like some a list celebrity or
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  like a huge influencer and it'll be like people you may know.
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  And I think we used to believe, or maybe this was originally the
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  case that the people you may know was because they were like
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  usually contacts in your phone. And I'm like, OK, I don't know,
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  like that person like I don't know Billie Eilish, like why is
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  she coming up for me as like people I may know.
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  So I feel like every once in awhile TikTok is not completely
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  accurate, but the fact that this Reddit user account was also
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  deleted after people were like, Oh my God, is this Ellen Tabor
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  posting for herself? I think that's a little bit SUS.
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  But honestly, maybe she just needed like a little bit of
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  hype, you know? Maybe she just needed to see a
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  subreddit thread of people saying she's amazing, we love
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  her, she inspires me. If you are somewhat of a public
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  figure in your own right, you're building your own career and
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  then you get into a relationship with somebody who like
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  absolutely takes off. That probably is kind of hard,
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  you know, So maybe she just needed a little confidence boost
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  and she thought, I'm going to take to Reddit.
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  I'm going to like say some nice things about me, see what people
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  say. And then unfortunately, possibly
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  all blew up in her face. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  mini scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  Yeah, Annabelle just said allegedly we are in deep dive
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  editing hell. Anyways, I will talk to you guys
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  for another mini on Monday. OK bye.
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