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MINI SCROLL: Brianna Chickenfry vs. Zach Bryan again, JoJo Siwa tradwife era + Cancelled fans react to ending · 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 youth digital
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  media brand Centennial World. Welcome back to mini scroll
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  The first story that I have for you guys is that Zach Bryan and
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  Brianna Chicken Fry are feuding in TikTok comments.
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  I did not think that I'd be talking about Zac Bryan and
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  Brianna Chicken Fry probably ever again, but here we are.
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  As we know, country singer Zac Bryan and influencer Brianna
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  Chicken Fry had a very messy breakup in late 2024.
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  Brianna shared publicly a lot about how toxic their
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  relationship was, including how Zac was emotionally abusive to
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  her and offered her $12 million after their split to stay quiet,
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  which obviously she turned down because she did not stay quiet.
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  Good on her. I didn't sign the NDAI didn't
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  take the money because I'm not signing away my experiences and
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  what I went through to protect someone that hurt me.
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  And I'm a lot stronger than a weak man.
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  They gave me, they started low, then they went up to 10 million,
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  then they went up to 12 million. Then they wanted to give me a
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  house, then they wanted to give me a New York apartment.
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  Then they wanted to do all these things.
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  I mean, that in itself, $12 million to not talk about this
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  relationship that you posted on Instagram that was so beautiful
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  and you had so much love for me. What the fuck are you hiding,
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  dude? What are you scared of?
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  Zach is releasing new music right now and one of the songs
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  that he released called River Washed Hair and TikTok
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  immediately started blowing up with speculation that the song
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  was about Brianna. The first verse he is
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  reminiscing and he talks about good old Anna throwing her hands
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  up. People think using the name Anna
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  is just a play on to Brianna, her dressed in summer clothes
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  having long dark river washed hair.
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  In the second verse, Zach mentioned starting over, finding
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  closure and saying sorry to that sweet girl again.
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  People thinking that Zach maybe regrets how everything went down
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  with him and Brianna and wanting to apologize to her.
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  Third verse, Zach talks about cutting ties with a girl who is
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  looking so needy and desperate and how this girl is just so
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  angry. So like I said there were so
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  many videos speculating but one creator named Tay made a video
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  to the song with the caption. Did someone check on Bree?
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  Lol Zach responded in the comments saying LMFAOI said
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  sweet this is not about whatever she has going on.
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  Haha OK yeah like there were tons of people then off the back
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  of that being like Zach Bryant was literally dragged through
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  the mud by Brianna again for good reason, but publicly
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  dragged by her for months. Do you think he's going to write
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  like a nice song about her now? Brianna has gone on to comment
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  herself writing LMAO. Obviously he doesn't think I'm
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  sweet. I turns down $12 million to
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  share my abuse while Rose and Deb signed Ndas.
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  Also FYI, his songs aren't about anyone.
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  He writes them. Blackout at 6:00 AM.
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  Rose and Deb were Zac's two exes before her.
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  And I think there was like questions around if Deb and Brie
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  kind of overlapped. And then when Brie and Zac
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  started dating, everyone was like, wow, Brie is really trying
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  to be like single white female with Deb.
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  But because she was starting to dress like her, she started
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  doing her hair like her. But I think a lot of it had to
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  do with the Zac Bryan's type and how he would talk about how Brie
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  like dressed and looked and her makeup and her hair and stuff.
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  So she started changing it I assume to like appease him and
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  it was just kind of she started like morphing into Deb and I
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  don't know if that's because Deb also listened to Zach breathe
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  and left another comment that said quote.
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  Also his comment just made me feel very excited to share some
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  videos and stories of him this week on BFFS.
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  Can't wait to release the fire pit recording.
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  So for anyone that doesn't know, I believe the fire pit
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  recording, she's referring to her birthday.
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  So she has a story about her birthday, how he was like such a
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  monster on one of her birthdays. She went to bed early.
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  He was like so volatile with her friends.
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  And I think they were like around a fire pit, which is
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  where the story comes from. I believe that is the night that
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  something really bad happened between Zach and Grace.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys, I'm sure
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  you've all seen this. OK, this is an episode of like
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  almost like updates of people that we talk about a lot.
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  OK, so bear with me, but I'm sure all of you guys have seen
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  this. But JoJo Siwa is going extremely
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  viral for a recent singing video she posted and everyone's like,
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  is this another rebrand? The video, which was posted to
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  her Instagram and TikTok, shows JoJo singing Betty Davis eyes.
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  JoJo was not wearing her signature baggy outfit or her
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  slicked back hair. Instead, JoJo looks straight out
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  of the 1950s, wearing a shirt with ruffles, pearls and a curly
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  blonde Bob. She was obviously emulating
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  Betty Davis, but the visual was shocking.
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  She captioned the post. After performing the song live
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  and then seeing the beautiful response to it, I decided to
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  record a studio vocal. I'm undecided if I should
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  release it on Spotify or not. Do you want me to?
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  If you would? I'm thinking maybe end of this
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  week. OK, so this video stirred up a
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  lot of conversation. Obviously people were shook by
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  her outfit and her glam, but people also had a lot to say
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  about her singing and look. They often do.
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  OK so there's a couple reasons. First there was a lot of auto
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  tune OK whatever. However, also people were saying
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  like JoJo has the voice of like a rock'n'roll, like grungy
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  singer, OK she sounds like in a cool way, she smokes like 20
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  packs of cigarettes a day for like decades.
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  And so this visual like her voice alongside this visual of
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  her dressed in like Bette Davis cosplay, it just didn't match
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  up. So people were like dying over
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  it. It became a bit of a meme.
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  Now the other discourse that has followed is people questioning
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  whether this is a genuine JoJo Siwa rebrand and that perhaps
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  she is entering her trad wife era, which obviously is a far
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  cry from her karma era. She also changed her Instagram
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  icon. OK, I feel like that's a bit of
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  a sign that it could be more serious.
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  However, I do personally believe this is a troll.
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  I think JoJo saw how people have reacted to her relationship with
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  Chris. I think she's seen how people
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  are like how can a lesbian date a man?
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  Like is she straight now? And she's like going full on
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  trolling us now where she's like, OK, I'm if, if that's how
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  you're going to be, I'm going to swing the pendulum so far the
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  other way. You are getting straight as an
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  arrow trad wife JoJo Siwa. That's what I think she's doing.
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  I actually do think it's a bit of a troll.
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  Jojo's like whole thing is trolling.
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  So anyways, I don't know what else to do with this
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  information, but there you have it.
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  Everyone is dying over JoJo Siwa's possible rebrand.
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  OK, and the last story that I have for you guys, Tana Mojo and
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  Brooke Schofield have announced that they will not be fulfilling
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  their podcast contract. And we now do have an ending for
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  cancelled. And fans have a lot of mixed
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  feelings. In the most recent episode of
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  the cancelled podcast titled The Truth About Cancelled Ending,
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  Tana and Brooke talk more about the podcast coming to an end.
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  Tana began the video very emotionally.
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  She's pretty much crying off the bat and talking about how she
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  can't see the podcast contract through.
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  In the description, it was written that the podcast will
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  end in six episodes. That's very soon, 6 episodes.
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  So they did acknowledge how easy, how privileged it is that
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  their job is quite easy to basically be like recording a
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  podcast with your best friend every week.
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  But they did admit that they struggle a lot with the
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  commentary around them and the constant backlash, which they
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  honestly do get a lot now. There has been quite a range of
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  responses on the most recent episode under the podcast
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  episode on YouTube. Most of the comments are
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  relatively positive. Many people are understanding of
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  their situation, saying they can't even imagine facing that
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  level of scrutiny and back. They've also acknowledged that
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  both of them have gone through a lot while recording the podcast.
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  Like Tana's been dealing with addiction and getting sober,
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  Brooke has been dealing with her BPD, and then of course like her
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  relationship and all of these things.
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  On the cancelled subreddit, however, it is a completely
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  different story. Many members of the subreddit
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  were disappointed in Tana and Brooke for how they've addressed
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  the whole thing, claiming they simply did not read the Room 1
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  post titled all right, I'm officially done with the pod.
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  Well unfortunately girl, the pod is also done with us but this is
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  what it says. I've only listened to the 1st 5
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  minutes of the newest episode so far but I just can't.
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  Crying over having to sit and talk with your friend for an
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  hour once a week if that is just pathetic.
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  Imagine being so privileged to release this in today's climate
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  and not realizing how embarrassing you sound.
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  People have also been listing things that they feel ruined the
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  podcast. Some of the main things are the
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  fact that they like half a dress or don't address certain
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  controversies that are surrounding them.
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  Brooke's personality shift after she was like quote, UN quote,
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  canceled for her racist content. The fact that they started
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  saving things to talk about on Patreon or on their tours,
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  constantly centering their men or their boyfriends.
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  Brooke's obsession with reading comments and responding to fans.
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  So yeah, the list goes on. I don't really know how I feel
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  about this. I understand why they are so
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  upset. I don't know if it was the right
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  move to bring that to their fans.
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  I don't know. I see why they chose to do that.
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  Like, I understand that they wanted their fans to see how
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  hard this decision was, how much they've enjoyed this experience,
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  whatever. But I also understand from their
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  perspective how it would be such a hard decision to make to end
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  something that not only makes you, I'm presuming, millions of
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  dollars, but has become like the cornerstone of your career for
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  the last several years. I mean, canceled really gave
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  Brooke a career and it revived Tana's career.
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  It gave her a bit of a renaissance, you know, And this
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  really is like the end of an era.
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  And and that would be very challenging to deal with.
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  And I'm really surprised that they are ending their contract
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  like that. They're getting out before their
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  contract ends. I presume they're going to lose
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  a lot of money because of that. But yes, I don't know if
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  bringing that level of emotion to their fans in this current
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  climate is quite right. I think what really could have
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  helped them is if they stopped skirting.
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  I mean, as this person said, like stopped skirting.
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  So many questions and controversies and drama around
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  themselves. I don't even necessarily mean
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  addressing it like in the moment on the podcast, but even in this
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  announcement, I think people would have taken it better if
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  they said, all right, let's get everything out on the table.
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  Like this is what we're doing. This is why we're so upset about
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  it. But like, let's talk it out and
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  talk about like all the things that we won't fucking talk
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  about. Maybe they'll still do that.
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  But like, I think this announcement should have had
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  this in it because then I do think fans would have taken it
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  much better. It's like their inability to
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  properly acknowledge or admit why their fandom has become like
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  this, why their podcast has become like this.
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  You know, that I think is what's like pissing people off the
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  most. And now I'm just really glad
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  that we actually didn't get the opportunity to interview Tana
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  and Brooke when they're coming on their podcast tour in
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  Australia because that would have been kind of depressing and
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  it wouldn't have meant anything anyway.
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  It would have just been kind of a moot point.
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  So you know what, everything happens for a reason, I guess.
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  Anyways, guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys.
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  Please remember to rate, review and subscribe.
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