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MINI SCROLL: Tana Mongeau x Tarte, healthcare workers fired for viral post + Filipino TikTok exposes nepo babies · 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. A cute little Friday mini Scroll
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  for you guys, also here in Sydney.
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  It's finally starting to feel like maybe summer and apparently
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  Tuesday is going to be 27° so I am so looking forward to the
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  summer. I am ready for winter to be over
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  even though I am Canadian and you would think that I'd be able
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  to hack the winter. But any expat here knows that
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  the winter in Australia hits so different because nothing here
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  is built for winter. Nothing here is actually built
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  for any weather. I see people say that on TikTok
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  all the time and I'm like that's so true.
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  The houses, the buildings, nothing's built for summer or
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  winter. OK, before I get into it, Please
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  All right, the first story that I have for you guys is Tana Mojo
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  has collabed on a new makeup collection with Tart Cosmetics.
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  So Tana Mojo has just launched a makeup collab with Tart.
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  The collab features 2 limited edition lip kits and at the time
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  of recording, one of them is sold out.
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  I imagine the other probably also is at this point, but it
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  will for sure be sold out soon. They're basically inspired by
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  Tana's like everyday lip combo vibe and I actually love that
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  it's a lip kit. At first I was like, that's such
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  a weird decision. Like that's so archaic.
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  And then I was like, actually, that's such a good decision
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  because it's so nostalgic. And, you know, Tana's kind of
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  like peak infamy and her career was like 2015 to 2018 when lip
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  kits were everywhere, when they were so viral.
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  Viral. Were they even viral?
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  Was viral even a thing back then?
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  Like, it was, but I guess it was viralistic Snapchat vibes.
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  I don't know. Whatever.
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  Yeah. So I thought this was a really
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  good decision also. Like, we are always looking for
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  a lip combo. I have seen people criticizing
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  that one of the lip kits comes with like a Haley Bieber esque
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  lipstick or like lip gloss, like phone holder thing and it's like
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  kind of ugly and I don't know. It's it's it's not like really
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  the vibe, but I actually think the products are going to be
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  really good. I love tart products.
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  I know we talk a lot about tart on this podcast because they do
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  all those insane influencer trips and there's always just
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  like a lot going on behind the scenes with that brand.
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  But their products, I actually love them.
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  Every product that I have tried from tart, I've been like, this
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  is honestly amazing, especially their eye products like oh so
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  good. I love their eye shadows.
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  I love their eyeliners. So if I was like a really big
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  fan of Tana, I would definitely be getting this.
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  Now. The video announcing it is
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  really cute. Tana said that she felt like it
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  was so weird to be working with such a big like mainstream brand
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  because for so long mainstream brands wouldn't touch her
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  because she was like not brand safe.
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  So she was like, it's so weird being in like brand safe era,
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  which is really cute. Now another little bit of Tana
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  Mojo news. This is not like a second story.
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  It's just like an offshoot is that she was spotted at the
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  unwell network offices recently. So people are wondering if she's
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  going to be launching a podcast under unwell.
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  And now that cancelled is over. She still has Not Loveline with
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  Trisha Paytas. But I mean from what I see on
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  Reddit, people don't really like that podcast.
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  It doesn't really seem to be super popular with fans.
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  And I saw one interesting analysis.
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  And if you guys listen to Not Loveline and you listen to
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  Cancel frequently, let me know if you agree with this.
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  But I saw people talking about how like with Cancelled, Brooke
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  and Tana were OK with disagreeing and Brooke like
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  brought a bit of friction to their dynamic, whereas Tricia
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  and Tana like constantly agree with each other.
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  And so it's just not that interesting.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, I'm sure you have
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  seen this. This is the most viral thing on
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  the Internet today. Urgent care workers have been
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  fired from a clinic in California after making Tik Toks
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  mocking patients bodily fluids. So a group of California
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  healthcare workers have been fired after a TikTok video
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  surfaced of them mocking stains which were believed to be bodily
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  fluids on exam tables. The video was posted by an
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  employee on their own account, and it featured a carousel of
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  clinic staff members basically posing with, like, their thumbs
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  up and, like, big smiles beside exam tables.
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  And like, you know, the paper that's on exam tables when you
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  go to the doctor and there seem to be like, patient discharge
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  from pap smears or other reproductive testing.
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  So this carousel was in response to the prompt, Are patients
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  allowed to leave you guys gifts? And the caption read Guess the
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  substance. Now the backlash was really
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  intense, as you can imagine. I mean, this is so fucked up for
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  so many reasons. But some of the main things that
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  people were saying. So, you know, like women and
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  just like people going for medical exams, but like
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  especially women going in for reproductive testing.
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  It's such a vulnerable experience anyways.
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  And now having to see your healthcare workers mocking you,
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  especially if you go to that clinic or you've been to that
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  clinic, it's so horrible. It's going to make people so
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  much more apprehensive to get this type of testing if they
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  feel like this is how their medical team feels about them or
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  responds to them having a very normal function, which is like
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  stuff coming out when people are up in there.
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  OK, There's already so much distrust in science and medicine
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  right now. So this is also just giving
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  people more ammo to like, fall down or go down the Moja
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  pipeline. And I also saw one comment that
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  literally broke me. It's said that some women get
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  the worst news of their lives on those beds.
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  And it's disgraceful to be making a mockery of that entire
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  situation. So the company, Sutter Health,
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  which overseas the clinic, confirmed Wednesday that the
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  employees responsible had been terminated, calling the post
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  inappropriate and insensitive. The network also said the person
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  who uploaded the TikTok had not worked at the facility for two
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  months. A lot of people don't believe
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  that. They're like, why would somebody
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  post this video of them clearly at work with all their
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  colleagues if they had left two months prior?
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  But I don't know, whatever. It doesn't really matter either
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  way when this person did or did not work there.
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  And even though they were fired, many are calling for the workers
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  to lose their medical licenses. People are saying fired isn't
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  enough. OK.
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  And the last that I have for you guys, there's like this digital
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  uprising in the Philippines right now going viral as TikTok
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  users expose the neppo babies of politicians and government
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  contractors in an effort to fight back against corruption.
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  This is a very interesting story.
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  I got it from pedestrian. Whenever I find something that's
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  a bit niche, I try and like cite where I got it from.
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  So I did not find this on my own.
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  This was through pedestrian. So this movement was triggered
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  by outrage over the July 2025 floods, when monsoon rains and
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  storms left Metro Manila and nearby provinces underwater.
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  Over 6 million people were affected, more than 30 were
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  killed and thousands were displaced.
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  Billions were spent on flood protections, but obviously this
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  whole situation highlighted how ineffective those protections
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  were. So then online investigators
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  started to do some digging because they felt like this just
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  didn't add up. And they uncovered that over 1
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  billion pesos of the 545 billion pesos flood control budget went
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  to just 15 contractors, many allegedly tied to politicians.
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  So in an effort to, I guess, fight back against this, now
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  users are digging into the social media accounts of these
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  contractors children and criticizing their luxury
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  lifestyles. And this actually has led to
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  some fallout. So, for example, vlogger
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  Claudine Co, her father's company was implicated and she
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  disappeared from social media after backlash to her luxury
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  lifestyle posts. Creator Jamie Cruz, who was also
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  tied to another firm that received received billions, made
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  her Instagram private after a Chanel bag video went viral
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  where she was like showing a Chanel bag.
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  A bunch of these Napo babies have restricted comments or
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  locks down their accounts amid all of this mounting pressure.
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  Now, there's two sides to this, of course, right?
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  So there's the people that are like in favor of this.
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  And then there's other people who are like the children of
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  these powerful people. What did they have to do with
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  this? Like, why are we taking it out
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  on them? So the people who are like in
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  favor of that are basically saying like a lot of these
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  children, quote UN quote, look like they are in their late 20s,
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  maybe even 30s. They shouldn't be shielded by
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  this. They're adults, they can handle
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  it. And some people think having the
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  pressure on the children will maybe actually make the
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  politicians and the people who are like doing this alleged
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  corruption, I guess change or reflect or something might
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  happen. Others feel like maybe this is
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  just like a lifestyle policing witch hunt.
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  You know, people feel like they want to get up on their
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  righteous high horse and go after people who have more than
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  them. And I mean, I think both of
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  those ideas or opinions on this are valid because we do see the
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  latter happen so often and people kind of frame their, you
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  know, cyber bullying as social justice.
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  But I also do think that there is some interesting organization
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  going on behind the scenes of like, this digital kind of
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  uprising. Like I said, a government in the
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  Philippines has begun official investigations into flood
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  control spending. And it promises apparently to
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  pursue, quote, even a whiff of corruption.
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  But regardless, if anything actually comes of this, I think
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  this is another example of how people are just not having this
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  widening wealth gap and they're looking for ways to create their
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  own change. And they're using social media
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  to do that because at the end of the day, that is some of the
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  best power that we have right now.
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  Anyways, guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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