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MINI SCROLL: Audra Winter BookTok debut flop, Matt Rife x Annabelle haunted house + anti-feminist influencer feud · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  through Thursday and sometimes Fridays like today.
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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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  everyone. All right, let's get into the
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  stories for today. The first story that I have for
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  you guys is there is some book talk drama going on with an
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  indie author who launched a highly anticipated fantasy debut
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  novel. And essentially all of her
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  readers are saying it's shit. Creator Audra Winter is being
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  talked about across the book talk community after she
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  released a highly anticipated debut novel, The Age of Scorpius
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  and readers are slamming it. Audra built a following of over
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  150,000 on TikTok where she documented her process writing a
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  fantasy novel over the course of ten years and self-publishing it
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  with the help of her audience through means like crowdfunding.
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  Audra's novel sold 6000 presale copies through TikTok shop,
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  which I guess in the literary world is a presale like unheard
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  of for a debut novelist, like somebody who does not kind of
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  have like an author that doesn't have any books under their belt
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  yet. So when it was released, readers
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  were very disappointed. People said it was poorly
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  written, there were grammar and spelling mistakes, and it seemed
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  unfinished. The rating was so low that
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  Goodreads actually disabled her page and readers were demanding
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  refunds. Now, Audra hasn't taken this
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  feedback very well or she was very defensive at first.
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  Now she's made an official response on TikTok saying that
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  she is going to redo her book and that she is going to
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  Crowdsource from her audience, editors and people to help her.
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  She says she wants it to be re released in December, which I
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  guess people who kind of know this space and who have read the
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  book are like the amount of effort that's going to need to
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  go into this novel to fix it. Like December is a lofty goal.
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  OK. So I wanted to talk about people
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  saying that they were scammed. I don't see this necessarily as
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  a scam. I understand spending your money
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  on something and getting, you know, like subpar art
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  essentially or subpar work is very disappointing.
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  It feels like a waste of money. But I mean, how many times have
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  we, like, I don't know, gone to the movies and seen a really
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  shit movie? And you're like, yeah, that was
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  kind of a waste of my money. You know, she didn't Crowdsource
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  money and then never actually released the book.
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  Like, we actually talked about a story like that a few months ago
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  from an author, right? So I don't see this as
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  necessarily a scam. She's also 22, which is often
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  missing from these criticisms. That is so young.
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  Like, this is obviously her first novel.
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  She's still so young. She didn't do anything wrong by
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  documenting this experience on TikTok and getting people
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  excited for this book, in my opinion, You know, like,
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  obviously it didn't live up to anyone's expectations, but she
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  took a shot. She went for it.
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  She has audacity, which is going to get her very far.
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  I actually saw some people say maybe she should consider
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  switching careers into, like, literary marketing because
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  that's really what she succeeded at in this entire situation.
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  But yeah, I don't see this as a scam.
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  Like, people bought in to her story, her vision, You know,
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  what she was putting out on TikTok.
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  They got excited to support her and a lot of the criticism
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  people are in relation to that. People are like, I know this is
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  her debut novel and I'm really proud of like everything she
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  achieved around marketing it and the pre sales and stuff, but
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  like this was kind of trash. So like that is how people are
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  mostly framing it because again, like she is so young and people
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  were excited to be on this journey with her and obviously
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  this has got to be a really difficult situation for her.
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  I think if she had received the feedback better or if it
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  appeared as though she received the feedback better online, then
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  people would have a lot more empathy for her.
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  So she said every the one who bought her book is going to get
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  a free online copy, like digital copy of the book released in
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  December. And I guess we'll see.
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  But yes, that's just a little bit of like book talk drama for
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  you right now. Okay, the next word that I have
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  for you guys, this is crazy. Matt Rife has bought Ed and
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  Lorraine Warren's home and the adjacent occult museum
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  artifacts. Comedian Matt Rife Comedian Matt
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  Rife, OK, who actually on this podcast is better known as
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  Brooke Schofield's axe. He's announced that he has
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  purchased the home of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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  You know, the haunted like Annabelle dollhouse along with
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  the museum artifacts attached to it.
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  Quote, we are the legal guardians and caretakers of all
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  750 haunted artifacts and items in the Warren Museum, including
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  the Annabelle doll, Matt Rife said announcing his purchase.
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  He purchased it alongside ghost hunter like YouTube ghost hunter
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  Elton Castee. Ed and Lorraine are paranormal
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  investigators. They're working home inspired
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  The Conjuring films, the Annabelle films and Amity Amity
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  Oh my God, I've tried to say this like 4 times you guys,
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  Amityville horror, Amityville horror.
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  Matt clarified. He's not the owner of these
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  things, but he's like their custodian for the next 5 years.
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  And part of these plans sense of like purchasing the
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  custodianship, I suppose of these items is he's going to
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  open the home up and you know, these artifacts up for overnight
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  stays and museum tours. This is the craziest crossover
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  ever. I'm actually surprised there's
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  not like a stricter vetting process for who gets to take
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  care of these items. I'm very surprised that like a
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  YouTube and some random comedian get to just, you know, be the
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  ones that take care of these items for the next 5 years.
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  Like whether you believe, believe in paranormal activity
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  or not and like, OK, I am someone like I love spooky shit,
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  like I love horror movies. I love all that stuff.
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  I wish I could believe in it. Like I want to believe so bad,
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  but I like, I really don't know if I do, but like I want to, I
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  really want to believe. But regardless if you believe in
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  that kind of stuff or not, like there's no denying that that
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  home, those items have very valuable IP attached to them.
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  And now they're going to just let Matt Rife take care of that
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  very valuable like multi million, if not like billion
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  dollar IP for the next 5 years. 28 year old comedian Matt Rife.
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  Like fuck boy Matt Rife, that is so random.
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  Like Matt Rife has not proven to be particularly responsible when
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  it comes to taking care of anything that we have seen his
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  relationships, his audience. Remember that like DV joke that
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  he released as I think was like the beginning of his Netflix
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  special, his career, how he responded to that.
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  Like do we think Matt Rife is the right person to take care of
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  all of this? I'm like, surely this should be
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  some like historian or something.
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  Like they shouldn't just let anybody buy this.
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  I don't know. Okay, the last story that I have
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  for you guys, I'm going to break down the anti feminist
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  influencer girlies that are fighting right now all over X.
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  So Pearl Davis, Sarah Stock, Morgan, Ariel and Emily Wilson
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  are feuding on X right now. We all know Pearl just pearly
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  things, right? She's been desperately trying
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  for years to be embraced as a voice of the far right, but
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  honestly, like she just can't make it.
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  Like she is continually flopped. She doesn't practice what she
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  preaches. So like people can't take her
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  authentically. And the other women in this
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  story are also like far right commentators, influencers,
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  Christian nationalists. OK, OK, so basically what
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  happened? Sarah posted a picture of her
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  new engagement ring on X writing.
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  I won. Pearl quote tweeted this and she
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  wrote hottest right wing E girl taken off the market brackets.
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  Conservative women will always use their marriage and family to
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  build their brand. Yeah, isn't that like what you
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  preach? OK, I don't know.
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  And then Emily Wilson jumped in writing the ring size with a
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  dead skull emoji. So shady.
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  And then Morgan Ariel jumped in to defend Sarah against Emily
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  being like shady about her ring size.
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  OK, And normally I don't have like an issue reading direct
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  quotes or direct tweets, but like, this tweet has like so
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  many wild accusations. And I've just seen like everyone
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  that's covered this has not actually quoted it.
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  And I feel like that's for a reason.
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  So I'm not going to read the entire thing, but I do need to
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  read the best line to come out of this tweet.
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  She made all these accusations against Emily and then she
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  wrote, you're a disgusting feminist horror with a Jezebel
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  spirit who uses filters in all of her videos.
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  That is actually such a compliment.
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  Like, I wish somebody would tweet that about me.
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  That's like, the best read of all time.
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  I love it. And then she signs off.
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  But yeah, I'm the one who needs money.
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  You gold digging hope so. Yeah, I am better than you.
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  That's how she ended it. I love it.
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  Oh my God, I love it. OK so then Pearl and Morgan were
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  going back and forth tweeting really like racist, homophobic,
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  sexist things at each other. Emily subtweeted that Sarah's
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  man quote can't even afford a ring and questioned how they'd
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  fund a trad wife lifestyle if he can't even afford a ring.
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  And then she compared Sarah's ring to a $70 Etsy listing.
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  Sarah clapped back with more slut shaming, saying Emily has a
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  triple digit body count. And then Emily posted on
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  Instagram blasting quote broke conservative men for expecting
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  women to give up careers for small rings.
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  Oh my God. OK, so I just wanted to cover
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  this really quickly. Like I said, I wasn't going to
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  read like all the tweets because a lot of them are like really
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  horrific. But, you know, I think it's
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  like, fascinating to watch all of these women turn on each
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  other, especially because it spawned from Sarah basically
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  doing like the exact thing that they all preach, right?
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  That they all say they want women to do, which is like, love
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  Jesus and find a man to marry. And then she posts something
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  that kind of goes in direct opposition to like, what they
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  think that should look like, which is like, her ring is too
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  small or whatever. And it makes you realize how
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  fragile their beliefs really are.
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  Who's the snowflake now? All right guys, that's it for
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  Mini scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  I love you guys. Please remember to rate, review,
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  and subscribe. Please remember that I'm a
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  disgusting feminist with a Jezebel spirit who uses filters
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  in all her videos too. I love you guys and I will talk
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  to you on Monday. Bye.