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MINI SCROLL: JoJo Siwa & Kath Ebbs split, Anna Paul update, Chris Olsen called out by ex, AO3 fanfic backlash + more · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet. Culture Podcast.
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  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, I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial.
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  World. Welcome back to Mini Scroll
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  everyone. I hope you guys had a good long.
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  Weekend, If you're here in Australia like I am, we need to
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  get right into. It because I have 5 stories.
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  The first story that I have for you guys is that JoJo Siwa has
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  split from Australian influencer.
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  Kath ebbs amid Chris. Hughes.
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  Speculation from the celebrity. Big Brother House, So JoJo Siwa
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  and her latest. Partner Kath.
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  Ebbs have allegedly split. After Jojo's recent.
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  Appearance on Celebrity Big Brother JoJo was on the latest
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  season of Celebrity Big Brother. And over the.
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  Past couple of weeks. There's been a lot of discussion
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  about what we've seen on the show from her.
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  Notably, she got very close. With a fellow contestant, Chris
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  Hughes and. People were already talking
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  about how close they. Were and how touchy they were.
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  And then a couple. Days ago, JoJo.
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  Revealed that her experience in the Big Brother house has made
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  her realize that maybe she doesn't identify as lesbian
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  anymore, but instead as queer. So people were kind of like, OK,
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  is this because of her close relationship with Chris?
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  Anyways, this whole time JoJo has been dating Australian
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  influencer calf ABS. The two went public in January
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  and I actually think they might have met when JoJo was.
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  Here for the TikTok Awards. Which I think was.
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  In like November ish I don't know we actually have beef with
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  the tick tock. Awards, so I never go.
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  But I think. It's in November.
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  So Kath said that the whole. Time that JoJo was in the big.
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  Brother house she was. Sending Kath messages through
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  different channels, like other people's phones and stuff like
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  that and the messages. Were really loving, they were
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  really positive, she. Thought everything was fine and
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  now. Kath has posted a bombshell
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  TikTok. Video claiming that JoJo broke
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  up with them this weekend at the.
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  Celebrity Big Brother after. Party celebration in the UK.
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  Kath said they flew across the world to support.
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  JoJo after the show and thought they'd be coming on TikTok
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  together to let audiences know that all the stuff we saw
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  between JoJo and Chris. Was like all for.
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  Show and that Kath and JoJo are solid and everything is fine.
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  But obviously that is not. What It seems so JoJo allegedly
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  dumped Kath at this. After party with Chris.
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  In the next room, honestly thought I would come on here
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  right now with my partner being like it was just ATV show and it
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  was all fabricated and we're happy as Larry.
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  But the truth of the matter is, I decided to show up for my
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  partner and hold up my end of the bargain of being in a
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  partnership and being a teammate.
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  And I flew across the world to support and be there and hold
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  that person in whatever they would be experiencing leaving
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  such a wild experience. And instead I was dumped at the
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  after party with Chris in the next room.
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  OK, so I've seen a. Lot of people particularly.
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  Lesbian women noting how young JoJo is like she's only 21 and.
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  Even I forget that. Like I know we talked about JoJo
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  A. Lot on this pod and we talked.
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  About how young. She is, but if you think about.
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  How many relationships we've seen her through, It's been a
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  lot like she's had. Quite a big dating history from
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  like 18 to 21 that we have seen publicly and you know that.
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  Era of your life, whether you're queer or identify a straight or
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  whatever is like. Such a transformative period
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  you're dating. For the first.
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  Time. You're probably out on your own
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  for the. First time we know for JoJo
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  that's like especially. True.
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  You know, at 18, a lot of her contracts broke off and she's
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  just been like, exploring who she is and trying to find.
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  Herself. So that's like a transformative.
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  Period for any of us, and I can't imagine having to do that
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  so. Publicly, if you took a.
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  Look at probably any of our dating history from 18 to 21.
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  It would be a mess. So that's what a lot of people
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  are saying is like. We're kind of forgetting how
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  young JoJo is. Especially because Cath.
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  I think is like 20. 8 So there is quite a big difference
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  between like that period of your.
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  Life at 21. Versus, you know, your.
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  Late 20s. So far, JoJo has not responded.
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  To the breakup allegations. She has not responded to any
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  media outlets for comment SO. I'll keep you guys.
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  Posted but like I'm. Going to say they're probably
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  broken up. OK, the next way that I have for
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  you guys is that Veruca Salt has.
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  Leaked an alleged voice note from Anna.
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  Paul Which? Here's Anna encouraging friends
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  to cyber bully one of her brother's alleged victims.
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  This is a. Very messy follow up from
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  everything that's been going on between Anna Addis, Michaela,
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  Testa, that whole saga. If you guys want like a more
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  complete breakdown, head back to I think a couple weeks.
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  Weeks ago I. Did like one big breakdown
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  either way. I've done a couple.
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  Like. Updates since then, so just go
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  back and listen to old episodes. But following weeks of Anna and
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  Addis defending themselves, Australian influencer Varouk
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  Assault has now leaked an alleged voice note that Anna
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  sent to a friends group chat. So this is like a very high
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  level recap, but. Anna is obviously one of
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  Australia's biggest TikTok influencers.
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  And her brother. Addis has been under fire
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  getting. Called out by his.
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  Exes, namely Michaela Testa, who is another huge Australian
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  influencer for his alleged pattern of abusing women that
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  he's in relationships with. One of these.
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  Women is named Alice, who claims that Addis.
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  Groomed her. When they started dating and she
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  was 13 and Addis was 16. So Verrucasol.
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  Has always been like peripherally involved.
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  She seemed to be in that circle at one point, but she is
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  definitely not on good. Terms with the Pauls anymore
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  Veruca first got. Involved publicly when she made
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  claims last year that Anna and her family mistreat their
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  father. She was saying he's homeless,
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  living in his car in a grocery store parking lot while Anna and
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  her family live it up in like mansions down the road.
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  Anna tried to defend this. Saying her dad does.
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  Van life, but Veruca. Salt has like.
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  Consistently stuck to this. Story that she knows.
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  That Anna's dad is not trying to do van life and that he is being
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  mistreated by this family. Aside from that, I don't know if
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  we. Will ever know.
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  The truth behind that After Anna and Addis, you know, have tried
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  to, like, defend themselves against Michaela's claims,
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  Veruca released an alleged voice note from Anna to a group chat
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  that they were in called millionaires and.
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  Billionaires where they. Seem to be speaking about Alice.
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  Allegedly, Anna says she is the best person to go against in
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  court. Because she digs herself a
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  deeper hole. Every time she opens her mouth
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  and then Mick new phone so I guess Michaela test a new phone
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  said just the fact that she she was trying to charge Addis with
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  the most fucked up charges makes me so rageful.
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  Anna says Yep. Literally lies.
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  To that should be illegal and then Anna allegedly.
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  Says Addis. Will be fine though, she's just
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  trying, which is so embarrassing, Addis says she's.
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  Mad I got a. 100,000 likes in five hours makes us of course.
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  It just makes me so sick having to read she.
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  Needs psychological help. Anna says she does, and then
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  Anna sends this voice note. Don't save this voice message,
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  but we should make fake accounts.
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  Others is all done. We should make fake tip tock
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  accounts and just comment on her appearance on her tik toks, all
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  the mean shit, all the things that she would be insecure
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  about. We should just go into detail
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  and comment that hate so that she knows that she is really
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  that ugly. Like don't the type of comments
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  that make you stay awake at night.
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  Those types of comments where you're like, are my arms really
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  fat? Is my nose really that ugly?
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  Like we should really go in really specific.
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  Anna finishes by saying I want. Her to have sleepless.
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  Nights and Mick says Addison, I said.
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  Fuck yes. So obviously this also.
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  Doesn't good on Michaela but she has been really consistent in
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  admitting that in her video saying like I am not the perfect
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  victim like. I played a huge.
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  Role in perpetuating kind of all the behavior that she has been
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  calling the polls out for and all of.
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  That stuff. But yes, so obviously if this is
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  real. It's a huge contradiction to
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  everything that Anna's been defending herself against, which
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  is like, you know, the fact that she calls people fat or body
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  shames them or it's just like. Really not the.
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  Person that we see online I guess.
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  Veruca released. This to be like see she's lying.
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  I feel like a lot of what is happening.
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  Is just so serious and I really hope like the proper authorities
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  are being. Contacted and this will also get
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  handled. Offline because.
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  We're seeing a lot of stuff. Online that I feel like.
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  Maybe we shouldn't be seeing all of this.
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  And maybe. This should be dealt with by
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  like the authorities. OK.
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  This is a lighter story. The next three that I have for
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  you guys is that. Luke Bateman is blowing up on
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  book talk. So Australian bachelors this.
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  Is a very Australian. Episode I just realized.
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  I didn't mean for it to be, but anyways.
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  Australian Bachelor star Luke. Bateman has joined Book Talk,
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  and he's going. Super viral because the women of
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  book talk are basically. Dying for him.
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  In his first video posted five days ago.
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  He explained that he loves reading and loves fantasy books,
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  but he never. Really felt comfortable.
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  Talking about it because he's from the country and he does.
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  Blue collar work. And then he was.
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  Like, you know, I heard about. Book talk so I.
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  Wanted to like throw my hat. In the ring and like you know,
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  try and join you guys. Like I said, his account
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  launched 5 days ago. He already has a. 115,000
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  followers. He's definitely a vibe.
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  Like I totally get why people. Are obsessed with him.
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  He's super hot. You know, he comes online, he's.
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  Like in his truck. He's in like a cowboy hat.
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  I mean, it's not a cowboy hat. What is it called in a croup?
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  A croup. Whatever.
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  A Kubra. Australian listeners are going
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  to kill me. I've literally lived here for
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  like almost 10 years. I'm sorry.
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  And my husband is also from Tamworth, which is the country.
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  But yes, he's wearing one of those very Australian hats.
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  He has this. Very like country, Australian
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  accent and of. Course the girls are going to be
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  like Oh my God, like a sensitive guy that loves to read.
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  Like loves fantasy books. Who works with his?
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  Hands like what more could you want?
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  So we'll watch. This space.
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  However, I did want to say like, if we've learned.
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  Anything in the? Last like 5.
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  Years since tik. T.O.K really blew.
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  Up. It's that whenever.
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  We thirst over. A guy on social media like a new
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  guy that comes along. We always get disappointed
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  whenever we put a man on a pedestal like.
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  This it. Comes crashing down so.
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  Hopefully. We don't find out something like
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  really fucked up in his past or present, you know?
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  But for now the girlies are loving him.
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  I'm cautiously optimistic. I've also seen a few women and
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  say that like who are in the book talk community say.
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  That it's so hard for. Creators who are mostly female
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  in this community to grow and to find any type of like traction
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  it. Can be a really.
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  Competitive niche. And so they're kind of saying
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  like. It's just classic.
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  That this hot guy comes in and he gets 100,000 followers.
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  In like a matter of days. When so many female creators
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  have been slogging away in this niche, making like really high
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  quality content for years and can't even crack anywhere close
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  to that. And then I started thinking
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  about it in terms of like, women infiltrating.
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  Infiltrating is not the right. Word, but, you know, kind.
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  Of like dipping their toes in or going into like more male
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  dominated niches on the Internet corners of the Internet and how.
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  We are received there. And it's not well.
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  Like if you. Think about women in gaming.
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  If you think about women in sports, we often get like
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  bullied. Out of these spaces.
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  And told that we have no. Idea what we're talking.
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  About this space is not. For us, like it.
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  Becomes a really toxic, like misogynistic experience for a
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  lot of women. So I think it's really
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  interesting that often the reverse happens when a man comes
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  into a woman's space who seems like genuinely interested and to
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  have, you know, like it isn't coming in in in any type of like
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  antagonizing way, like coming in with like a pure, with pure
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  intentions. So we'll see, but he is the
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  latest creator. To pop the fuck off, especially
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  on book talk. OK.
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  And the next? Word that I have for you guys is
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  that Chris? Olsen has been exposed.
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  Quote UN quote. By his ex-boyfriend, Patrick
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  Johnson. So TikTok stars.
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  Chris Olsen and Patrick Johnson dated from October 2023 until
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  about the end of last year. I think they dated for like a.
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  Year over the. Weekend Patrick made several.
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  Videos calling out Chris for. Essentially being fake.
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  For the public. In a now deleted video, Patrick
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  wrote quote. When you realize your ex
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  completely exploited your relationship for.
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  Views and. Used your relationship for.
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  Engagement, yet you had feelings and treated him better than he's
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  ever been treated before. Thank God I'm over his attention
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  seeking ass he then. Told a story.
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  To I guess try and like give a glimpse into how quote UN quote
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  horrible Chris was to date and he said he went through hell and
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  back with Chris. Just to kind of like, put in
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  perspective how horrible my ex was, we had gone to the Taylor
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  Swift Argentina show and we had left before the first time that
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  Taylor had said Karma's gone, the Chiefs.
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  And we got back to the hotel room and I had been scrolling
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  and told him I was like, Oh my God, did you see that?
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  Taylor said Karma's gone, the Chiefs.
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  And I said that in a genuine place of like, Oh my God, you're
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  such a Taylor fan, like, you're going to love this.
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  And then he looked up from his phone and said, I don't fucking
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  care. And then went into the bathroom,
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  shut the door and then filmed the slower reaction to that
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  audio and then posted it and saying can't believe I saw this
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  live. Chris has now responded in a
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  video he's lip syncing to the Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana song
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  Nobody. 'S perfect.
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  And he's lip syncing. Over like the part where she
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  says. Everybody makes mistakes.
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  And then in the comments somebody was like, are you
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  really a Swifty or not? And then Chris said yes, I am a
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  Swifty, I guess. I guess.
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  When you think about like dating someone.
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  Who is like significantly. More famous than you like?
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  Chris is like the. Famous one in this relationship.
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  I don't even know if Patrick had a following before Chris.
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  But either way, Chris is like. The famous 1.
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  You as a person who dated them. Obviously.
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  Knows them better than anybody on the Internet is ever going to
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  know them and you know. People are like complex.
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  I'm not saying that. Chris Olson is not a shitty guy.
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  Like, I have no idea, but you know, people.
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  Are complex like. Relationships and the way they
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  break down are nuanced and complex.
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  And yeah, I do imagine that if you dated.
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  Someone who was like super famous.
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  And they were super. Beloved, the way that.
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  Like Chris Wilson is and you're watching millions of people
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  adore them when you feel like they mistreated you or you.
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  Feel like. That doesn't add up to the
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  person that you knew. Yeah, I imagine that would be
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  difficult to handle. And we?
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  See this a lot where people are like the influencer that.
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  You think you know, like you don't know, and I think we just
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  need to remember as audiences like that is always going to be
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  the. Case there's always.
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  Going to be like a public persona even.
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  When regular people who. Are not trying to be influencers
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  post. A TikTok like you're still.
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  Putting on some type of performance, some type of filter
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  for, you know, the public consumption.
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  Patrick did end this video saying he.
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  Hopes that people will stick. Around so I think he did get a
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  lot of his followers through. Chris, and he was.
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  Like I hope you'll stick around and like give me a chance to
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  show you like my personality and stuff like.
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  That the last story that I have for you guys is that AO3 authors
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  are. Removing their The Pit fanfic
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  after. The cut.
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  Wrote a story. Linking to their work.
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  I know that sounds like word salad.
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  But let me explain. So AO3 which is the.
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  Fan Run, nonprofit repository for fanfiction and other types
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  of fan work, has been platformed by The Cut in a new.
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  Article published yesterday. And the AO3 community is
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  actually not down the cut. Wrote an article.
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  About the fanfiction being written about the TV show The
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  Pit. Which which is I've never.
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  Like seen it or? I hadn't even.
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  Heard of it but apparently it's amazing people are like going on
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  and on about. It it's apparently a very
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  realistic. Depiction of what it's like to
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  work in the ER. So fans of the show have been
• 15:45
  writing like, you know, sexy fanfic and anyways, Emily.
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  Gold for the Cut wrote about this, she said.
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  Quote. For your convenience and.
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  Pleasure, I've compiled. Some of the best, most
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  satisfying, most elaborate, and most.
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  Straight up bizarre. Pit fan fiction on the Internet.
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  Charge your favorite devices. And get to reading.
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  She then compiled. A list of work that followed
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  different. Fan fiction storylines for The
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  Pit. So these are some of them.
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  Doctor Santos and Doctor Garcia enemies.
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  To lovers Doctor Mel. King as bisexual Doctor Mohan
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  and Doctor Abbott getting together and then some just.
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  Like straight up sex stories? The article.
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  Is essentially a listicle. Like she literally says.
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  Here's one fanfic that's like PG14 and.
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  Here is like a very high level summary.
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  Of it and she like links it out but now the AO3 community.
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  Is really pissed that. This content has been taken kind
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  of. Out of their safer.
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  Fan community and platforms on this mainstream publication.
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  So the backlash first started on Instagram, where users and AO3
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  authors were commenting. Some of the comments say, hey, I
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  don't think any of these writers consented to having their work
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  which was meant for that specific fandom space.
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  LinkedIn, fucking New York Magazine have some decorum,
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  Another says. I understand the aim of this.
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  Article but a lot of the authors.
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  Of these works didn't consent the publicly of them publicity.
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  Of them, fan fiction is created. Did by fans for fans and we
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  don't need corporations of any size to mingle in our.
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  Affairs. It just.
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  Harms fan communities and pushed writers not to write.
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  Best thing to do? Is to leave us.
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  Alone what? The fuck the cut?
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  We're really out here. Dropping AO3 links on a
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  mainstream magazine website like fan fiction wasn't specifically
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  meant to stay within fandom spaces.
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  And shame on you too, Emily books gold either.
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  You know nothing of fandom. Etiquette or you deliberately.
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  Chose to ignore it. To get this piece out.
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  The backbone of fan fiction is by fans, for fans, and trying to
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  monetize. It like this is just a disgrace
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  and now a lot of these authors are.
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  Apparently removing their. Stories.
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  Because they don't. Want it to be kind of platformed
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  like this on a mainstream publication.
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  I did question if I was doing the same thing as the Cut by
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  talking about this story, but like I'm coming at it from the.
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  Perspective of of like why the? Community would be feeling this
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  way. Also, this is like an Internet
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  culture podcast and it's kind of laughable to think that I
• 18:03
  shouldn't cover something because.
• 18:04
  It's like the same as the cut. Like the cut is literally.
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  Part of New York Magazine like we are not the same.
• 18:11
  So at first glance, you may. Think why would the authors not
• 18:14
  want their? Stories to be platformed.
• 18:15
  In the cut like could this not? Be of great.
• 18:17
  Benefit to them and it could, but when you think about why
• 18:21
  people join these communities. Like it is a safe space away.
• 18:24
  From the quote UN quote like stigma that mainstream culture
• 18:28
  can bring to so many. Interests like this, people who
• 18:33
  are in these. Communities want it to remain,
• 18:35
  you know, filled with people who actually want to be part of that
• 18:38
  community and partake in that interest not.
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  People who just like. Find this kind of niche
• 18:42
  community or niche interest on a mainstream publication like The
• 18:46
  Cut, go to it out of interest, and then, you know, they
• 18:49
  probably don't fully understand it.
• 18:51
  They might think that it's kind of weird.
• 18:53
  Whatever the stigma may. Be and that does put these
• 18:56
  communities, these authors, you know, potentially in harm's way.
• 19:00
  You know, they're just staying protective of their safe.
• 19:02
  Space for everyone. In there understands like.
• 19:06
  What the goal is, what the rules are, you know what they're there
• 19:09
  for. But I think this situation
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  aside. We've seen more and more.
• 19:12
  Outrage similar to this. Around like, public interest
• 19:15
  journalism, when it comes to reporting on like Internet
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  culture, what's happening on TikTok, what's happening in
• 19:21
  these fan communities? Whatever, and.
• 19:23
  I'm finding that very, very interesting because we're in
• 19:26
  this like weird point in time, these last five.
• 19:29
  Years where like. Regular people are being.
• 19:32
  Covered by like the biggest. Publications in the world
• 19:36
  because they make a tick. Tock about something and it
• 19:38
  gets. A few views there hasn't really.
• 19:40
  Been a time like. This where like average people
• 19:44
  are getting. Written about getting
• 19:45
  platformed, their content is being shared in this like really
• 19:49
  widespread, mainstream way. Now, especially without their.
• 19:53
  Quote UN Quote Consent. As people are saying here, like
• 19:56
  if you get covered as a regular. Person and like you know, your
• 19:59
  town newspaper. Or a magazine or whatever.
• 20:02
  It's like you've. Probably sat down for an
• 20:04
  interview. You've probably done a photo
• 20:05
  shoot. Like all you know.
• 20:06
  What's happening, You understand what the story's about, and in a
• 20:09
  lot of publications like that especially.
• 20:11
  Print. Media you get to.
• 20:12
  Read the story before it goes out but with.
• 20:15
  You know, digital media and kind of.
• 20:17
  Like click bait culture. And Internet culture reporting
• 20:20
  happens now with like. TikTok.
• 20:22
  And everything moving so fast. People see a viral.
• 20:25
  Video and they. Write a story about.
• 20:27
  It and then that person now has. Their face, their video.
• 20:30
  Their name, Their handles. Whatever on like yeah, they're
• 20:34
  cut or like the. Daily Mail or wherever it's
• 20:36
  interesting. Because it's also not illegal
• 20:38
  because like that. Publisher has taken or that
• 20:41
  journalist has taken that content that the person has put
• 20:45
  out there and as long. As they are not.
• 20:47
  Like, you know, doxing. Them like revealing information.
• 20:49
  About them that is not publicly accessible online.
• 20:52
  As long as they're not doing something like that, you know
• 20:54
  they're covering. It from a public interest
• 20:57
  perspective that is fully legal. That's under fair use.
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  And like. That is part of.
• 21:01
  Public interest journalism. We could argue all day.
• 21:04
  If that's like valid journalism, you know, if it's like useful
• 21:07
  journalism. But in terms of the argument
• 21:09
  that a lot. Of like we've seen a lot of
• 21:11
  regular quote, UN quote like regular people who are to say
• 21:13
  regular, I mean people who are not like celebrities or
• 21:15
  influencers. Who are not like, who would not
• 21:17
  normally be? Covered by the media.
• 21:19
  For any like. Random reason, you know, we see
• 21:22
  a lot of. Outrage when this happens and
• 21:25
  they. Feel like their their.
• 21:26
  Privacy is being invaded. But that is actually just a risk
• 21:29
  that we take. Posting online and actually in a
• 21:32
  lot of cases depending on the. Terms of service the.
• 21:34
  Platform actually owns that content, like you don't own the
• 21:37
  IP to that video. Yeah, it's very interesting
• 21:40
  because there's a lot of friction right now.
• 21:41
  Between like regular people. And like entertainment
• 21:44
  journalists and like kind of the expectations of both.
• 21:47
  There's definitely a lack of due.
• 21:48
  Diligence on the publisher. Side you would say the same
• 21:50
  thing for. Us here, you know, I'm not
• 21:52
  reaching out. To people that you're going to
• 21:54
  put in. Stories And then of course, I
• 21:55
  think there's also like a lack of understanding from like an.
• 21:58
  Average user of like OK if you're.
• 22:00
  Publishing this on TikTok and it does go.
• 22:03
  Viral even if it doesn't go viral, but like if it does go
• 22:06
  viral, this. Will get picked up and like
• 22:08
  that. Actually is fully legal.
• 22:10
  Doesn't mean it's ethical, but it's legal.
• 22:12
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• 22:14
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• 22:23
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