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MINI SCROLL: TikTok wedding photographer drama, Spencer Pratt vs. Alex Cooper, Brianna Chickenfry called out + Alix Earle sells out skinny jeans · Mini Scroll

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  OK, the first right that I have for you guys is that another
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  couple is going viral for their wedding content for hating their
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  reception photos and basically trying to ruin their
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  photographer's reputation. This is the latest example of a
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  couple using their wedding for virality.
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  Now this seems to be a trend for couples getting married to like
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  a drag their vendors on social media.
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  It is honestly so I think disgusting.
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  I really hate this trend. I'll talk a little bit more
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  about my opinion after, but I feel like the beginning of this
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  of like this truly popping off with sepia bride.
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  I feel like she really set the stage for this because she was
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  the first bride I, I think in recent memory that wasn't like
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  truly viral for something like this.
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  OK, so in this particular instance, this new one, the
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  bride, I think her name is Austin, she and her husband
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  posted a TikTok together as a couple, kind of like grimacing
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  into the camera before a slideshow of their wedding pics
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  played. And over it they wrote when you
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  were so excited for your reception pictures and this is
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  what you got back. So the photos that they shared
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  were not great. I don't know, like the technical
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  terms for photography and things like that, but like the lighting
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  was all off. Some of them were blurry.
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  It just kind of looked like photos that your mom would take
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  like on her iPad. Like it looks like you needed to
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  like clean the lens. Almost like they were actually
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  they were not good photos. However, plot twist, users
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  looked at the photos and were like, OK, maybe the theme
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  doesn't photograph well because their theme of their wedding.
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  And also I should also say this, I think they're like 19, the
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  bride and groom, they are very very young.
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  But the theme was like western Alice in Wonderland carnival
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  theme vibe. And I've seen some people on
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  TikTok say it's like they wanted to have this like really
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  Pinterest worthy moment but like the theme didn't translate.
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  The theme didn't translate. But the photos they shared also
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  were just not good photos. They also tagged this
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  photographer in their video, which is so shady because they
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  are obviously trying to send people to her page.
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  They're trying to, I assume, ruin her business in some
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  capacity. So users, you know, went
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  through, clicked on her page, and then some users actually
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  found their wedding album on her website.
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  And the vast majority of the photos that were published were
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  beautiful. They were, you know, clear,
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  crisp. They highlighted everything
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  perfectly, like they were beautiful, almost like editorial
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  style photos. So this bride and groom had gone
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  through this wedding album that they received and essentially
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  like, took all of the kind of like, blown out like shitty ones
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  and publish that on TikTok to, I guess, embarrass their
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  photographer, you know, hurt her business.
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  I don't know. Now, this photographer has
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  issued her own statement about it on TikTok.
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  I truly do feel so bad for the bride.
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  This was totally being handled offline.
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  There was multiple talks with the mom and then everything was
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  kind of, I wouldn't say settled because obviously they were
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  unhappy, but everything came to an agreement and then the bride
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  decided to post this on TikTok. I sent an associate.
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  My contract talks about associates.
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  I get that not everyone likes that style and that's why in the
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  gallery I took both and sent them both just in case she
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  didn't like that, which obviously we can see that she
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  didn't. OK.
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  So I think maybe this has all become a trend as in like, I
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  think maybe brides or couples who are publishing this kind of
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  stuff on TikTok, I feel like maybe they feel entitled to this
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  like viral moment because this is, like I said, like this is a
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  trend now of when you are not happy with a specific vendor or
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  something about your wedding, you basically go on Tiktok and
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  look for this virality, almost like looking, I guess, for like
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  validation in what you didn't like about your wedding.
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  I assume it's because weddings are kind of like universally
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  understood to be like the one day in your life where you get
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  to have exactly what you want and how you want it, and
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  everyone has to like, bow down to you.
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  I think it's also usually the most expensive day of people's
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  lives. So I think when you're kind of
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  on this wave of entitlement around your wedding, maybe you
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  feel like people will be on your side for these things, which is
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  why you post it. I don't know.
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  But it's such a horrible trend. And I do hope that now that we
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  look deeper into it and all the users kind of look at these and
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  think like, let me actually check out this makeup artist or
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  this photographer or whatever. And now it seems like the
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  audience on TikTok usually turns on the bride or the couple that
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  is bringing this to the platform.
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  Maybe this will make people think twice about calling out
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  specific vendors. There's a big difference between
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  a vendor like not following through on a contract or I don't
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  know, like doing something that is seriously like ruins your
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  wedding day versus you not being happy with the service that they
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  provided. If you're not happy with their
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  service, it is a completely disproportionate reaction to
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  take it to TikTok knowing that the chances of that going viral
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  are there. Like I don't know if they're
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  high, but like it could go viral.
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  And with virality, especially tagging one of the vendors like
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  the photographer that opens all of this up to so much harassment
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  and bullying of the potential of that for that vendor.
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  It's like, what are you trying to achieve here?
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  Are you trying to get them to lose business?
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  Are you trying to make them consider hurting themselves?
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  Are like, what are you trying to do with like publicly shaming
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  them in front of millions of people?
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  The abuse that that specific vendor, like the makeup artist,
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  photographer, whatever we've seen recently, they could be
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  subjected to is so extreme. If you don't like the service
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  that somebody provides, you leave a Google review, you know,
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  that is not going to end up having like extreme virality.
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  All those eyeballs on it. Like I don't know if we
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  remember, but like there's a reason why like Yelp and Google
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  reviews and things like that exist.
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  I get it, a wedding is very important.
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  I get that it's a very expensive day, but at the end of the day,
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  is it worth like possibly ruining someone's livelihood,
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  they're possibly their life over, depending on how viral it
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  goes and what side, quote UN quote, the Internet takes for
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  what? So you can have this like viral
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  gotcha moment. I don't know.
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  I think it's really toxic. But this particular couple is
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  very, very young. So I think that's also coming
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  into play here. OK, the next right that I have
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  for you guys is that Spencer Pratt is beefing with Alex
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  Cooper. This is so rogue.
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  So we all know that Spencer Pratt was all over TikTok and
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  the media these past couple of weeks asking people to stream
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  his wife Heidi Montag's song to help them make some money back
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  after their home was sadly lost in the California fires.
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  So he did a TikTok live with Bethenny Frankel.
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  I am sure you guys know who Bethenny Frankel is because she
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  used to be one of the Real Housewives of New York, but now
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  she's basically just like a Tik Toker.
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  So I'm sure you guys know who she is.
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  But yeah, so he did a TikTok live with her.
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  And on this live, Spencer ranted about Alex Cooper not posting
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  about Heidi's song. So when he was asking people to
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  post about Heidi's song to get people to stream it, you know,
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  there was like, celebrities, influencers, people from the
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  hills, like, whatever, kind of posting themselves streaming the
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  song, like listening to it, dancing to it, whatever,
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  encouraging people to stream. He said, quote, I asked her to
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  post the song and I texted her husband and I was like, hey, it
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  would really help. Spencer claimed she kept tagging
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  Alex and messaging her things like this and she just didn't
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  answer. Eventually Alex responded,
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  quote, we have a lot of people displaced at her house.
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  And then I guess Spencer said I'm like, girl, post the song
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  respectfully. If I keep my platform and I keep
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  being an A list rich celebrity, she's so fucked, Spencer added.
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  Because I have beef with her now, she's going to be targeted.
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  And then he said Alex is top of his hit list.
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  OK, So like, obviously Spencer is unhinged.
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  And I think a lot of what he says in this capacity is kind of
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  like shock value, you know? I don't know if he's always like
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  serious but I am dead at him saying if I keep on being an A
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  list rich celebrity. She's so fucked.
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  Spencer. I love the Hills, I love Laguna,
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  I love the OG era of MTV reality TV shows.
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  I love that Spencer and Heidi are having their moment.
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  I actually think it's so impressive that their marriage
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  has lasted this long. It shows that it was a real, you
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  know, genuine love, genuine marriage.
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  I think their family is really cute.
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  I feel so bad that they lost their home.
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  I feel so bad for anyone that lost anything in these fires.
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  Spencer, to say that you are an A list celebrity, I think that's
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  kind of crazy. Maybe on the Internet.
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  I feel like right now he could be considered like A list
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  Internet celeb right now, but even that I think is kind of a
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  stretch. I also do want to say, so I've
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  been getting a lot of like OG hills content and stuff.
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  And then I think, what was it Heidi?
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  I, I think I don't know if this was real or not.
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  I didn't look into it cuz I didn't care that much.
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  But Heidi released a new song and it's like us about forgiving
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  and forgetting, which is obviously the iconic line that
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  Lauren said to Heidi when their friendship basically broke on
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  the hills. She was like, I want to forgive
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  you and I want to forget you. Do I think Lauren Conrad may
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  have been a bit of an entitled toxic friend?
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  Sure. However, did she also watch her
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  best friend enter into an incredibly toxic relationship
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  with a man that kept treating her poorly again and again and
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  she was just trying to make sure that her friend like was
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  protected and tried to stay out of it?
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  Yes. And then also did that best
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  friend and her boyfriend that was toxic to her then turn
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  around and tell people that Laura had a sex tape.
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  Also yes, I cannot handle with like the switch up of the
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  narrative around the hills. Everyone's like re watching the
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  hills as an adult is realizing that Lauren was the problem.
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  I think she was the problem in some capacities for sure.
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  I think back then she was very much painted as like the good
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  girl and like Heidi was painted as the villain.
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  However, I also think, and I, and this is not talking about
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  how like Lauren treated like Audrina or whatever, like I
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  don't know. I'm just saying like in the
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  Lauren, Heidi Spencer saga, the big elephant in the room that I
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  think maybe some people don't know or like people forget about
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  is that Heidi and Spencer or like Spencer.
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  And then I think Heidi obviously was like his girlfriend and
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  Lauren was supposed to be her best friend.
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  He was treating Lauren so badly talking about the sex tape that
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  she had pre social media. You couldn't just get your story
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  out there. You couldn't just like say your
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  piece to your audience. So I don't love that for this
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  narrative. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys, this is like A2 parter.
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  There is a little bit of like Brianna chicken fry getting
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  called out. I swear we're like a Brianna
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  chicken fry update podcast now. First we were a Mr. Beast update
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  podcast and in the last few months has been a Brianna update
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  podcast. So I'm going to try and keep
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  this quick. I swear, I'm not trying to just
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  like constantly come for her, but the way that the Internet is
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  obsessed with her, for good or bad, it's still the truth.
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  OK, so first there is this new trend on TikTok.
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  I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen it where someone posts a
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  photo and writes you're so funny as if someone's saying that to
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  them. And then they respond with
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  thanks. And then they like basically
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  detail their trauma, their deepest darkest trauma that
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  would have like led them to make them that way.
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  So a girl on TikTok named Carly posted one writing you're so
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  funny. Thanks.
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  My brother died and Brianna Chicken Fry implied I couldn't
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  be that sad about it on her podcast.
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  OK, so this is going pretty viral.
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  And creator Nikki Mac, who does pop culture news, made a video.
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  She basically did some digging to uncover like what that could
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  have been about because obviously some people are like,
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  excuse me, what is this true? So she found out what this was
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  all about. South Carly's TikTok references
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  Carly as in the girl that made this original TikTok.
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  She's referencing a 2021 situation where 2 high school
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  hockey players, one of them being Carly's brother Joey, were
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  killed in a car accident. Brianna called it self-serving
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  that people were like commenting on their Instagram posts.
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  And I guess the town also a lot of people like for the funeral
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  procession, like stood on either side of the road with like
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  hockey sticks. So was kind of like an archway
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  of hockey sticks as the hearse went through and just showing
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  like this town just like showed their support for these two
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  hockey players. And on her podcast at the time
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  in 2021, Brianna basically said that it was self-serving that
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  people who went to that high school or lived in that town
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  were posting heartfelt condolences on social media for
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  the boys. The second piece of drama that
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  Bri has been in is that Bran Flakes, who is a Philly based
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  Tik toker, he apparently went on live with a friend and said the
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  rudest influencer he ever met was Brianna.
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  So I didn't see the live myself. I couldn't verify exactly what
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  he said, but apparently he was like, he said that he did
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  Brianna's podcast. He said that when he was being
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  interviewed by her, he could tell that Brianna just like
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  wasn't very interested and then they ended up at the same
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  influencer event and Brianna was just ignoring him.
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  Honestly that is a really horrible experience to have
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  being interviewed by someone on their podcast and feeling like
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  they don't give a shit. That's happened to me once and I
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  literally will forever associate that with this person.
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  Kind of get why? Like even if he has interacted
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  with her since and it's been positive, which it doesn't
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  really sound like it has been, but regardless, nothing makes up
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  for that because you're taking your time, your energy to go on
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  their podcast, which they are going to make money from that
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  content and whatever. Like whether you're a big name
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  or not, like it's still content for them.
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  And to feel like they don't give a shit is truly like a horrible
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  feeling. But again, it's very he said,
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  she said, I'm sure. So take it with a grain of salt.
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  OK, The last story that I have for you guys is that Alex Earl
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  has sold out her skinny jeans collaboration.
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  So Alex revived her collab with framed denim and her skinny
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  jeans called the Alex have now sold out.
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  In November, Alex wore skinny jeans and a TikTok video when
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  she was getting dressed for a football game.
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  And basically people freaked out that skinny jeans were back.
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  So obviously they had to capitalize on this.
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  So we all know fashion repeats itself.
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  It's very cyclical. But I think the fact that
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  everyone's like, Oh my God, Alex Earl wore skinny jeans.
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  So that means we all have to wear them again.
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  Like we need to bring back individual sense of style,
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  please, personal style. And I want to say like, I am not
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  one to talk, OK. I do not have a very strong
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  sense of personal style. I'm not a fashion girly.
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  I really wish I did, but it does not come naturally to me so I
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  don't. But I think we are all so like
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  brain rotted with micro trends. It is so wild to see that it's
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  like on a dime like this, like one single person wears skinny
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  jeans, like, she's a cool girl. And it's like, oh, we all have
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  to throw out our big baggy jeans and get skinny jeans.
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  But I think another part of it is that there has been so much
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  discourse over the past few years making fun of people who
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  stay like stuck in their youthful styles, like
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  millennials with skinny jeans, for example.
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  That's just one example that was really labeled as like chewy and
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  embarrassing. So I think online there just is
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  this culture of being like really intolerant of people
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  dressing in a way that isn't exactly part of like the current
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  micro trend vibe or that's going to exactly fit into like what
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  youth style is now. And that is part of the problem
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  of what we always say that like the Internet now with the social
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  platforms, everyone is in the same room as each other.
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  So someone who's 50 is also in the same room as someone who's
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  19 and you're influencing each other in a way that maybe
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  wouldn't have existed before social media became so
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  collective. You know, like, I don't know if
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  it was super normal for people who were in their 30s, like me
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  to be exposed to trends that like 18 year olds are wearing
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  and to be kind of like questioning if we should be
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  wearing that too. I think now it's very obvious
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  that young people, they don't dress for subcultures anymore.
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  They dress for the algorithm. And I think part of that is fear
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  of feeling left out, which is normal, like we all experience
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  that pre social media fear of feeling left out, but also fear
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  of like being made fun of online, like on social media by
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  complete strangers. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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