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MINI SCROLL: Brooke Schofield x Viall Files, Bella Hadid VS fashion show response, Jillian Webber engaged + Justin Bieber streams · Mini Scroll

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  All right. The first story that I have for
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  you guys is I wanted to cover, I guess the biggest story that I
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  felt like was relevant to us that came out of Brooke
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  Schofield on The Vial Files. So Brooke appeared on the Vial
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  Files podcast and the episode was released yesterday.
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  In the episode, they discussed an array of topics, but the main
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  point of discussion that seemed to come out was Brooke's
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  comments about the ending of the canceled podcast.
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  As we expected. And I know it feels like we're
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  kind of beating a dead horse with how much I've talked about
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  canceled and it ending, but I thought that this was actually
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  really interesting. It felt like something different
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  than what we'd heard from her before or from like both of
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  them, like Tana or Brooke about the ending of the podcast.
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  So Nick basically started talking about how in the final
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  episode of the canceled podcast, Brooke seemed more emotional
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  Tana about the show coming to an end.
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  He then asked Brooke to expand on why the show ended and how
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  she's feeling about it. In response, Brooke basically
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  said that if it was up to her, the podcast wouldn't have ended
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  mostly for financial reasons. She would have liked the podcast
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  to have taken a hiatus. Tana and I both have completely
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  different reasons for wanting to end the podcast, I think.
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  I can't speak for her, but if it were up to me and me alone, it
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  wouldn't have ended. I probably would have just stuck
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  it out just because, I mean, it's so important to my life,
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  especially like financially, like I needed it there.
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  Like, for her, it ended because she was, you know, in my
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  opinion, like being dragged into a lot of controversy because of
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  me, obviously. And I was just like, not doing
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  well mentally. I was really, really struggling.
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  And I felt like every single week I was putting myself in a
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  position to be perceived at like a like as a version of myself
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  that I was not proud of and not excited about.
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  Brooke also said it was very hard for her to deal with all
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  the hate comments. However, a lot of people on
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  Reddit are saying that Brooke explaining the ending of
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  cancelled from Tanas perspective here seems to contrast against
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  Tanas recent posts Tana has posted recently from the Unwell
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  Network offices. So the going theory is that
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  Tanna wanted to end cancelled because she wanted to do her own
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  solo podcast under Unwell or possibly not Love Lying which is
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  her podcast with Trisha Paytas. They're hoping that it will get
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  picked up by the Unwell Network. That's what people theorize
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  because they did also make a joint post I'm pretty sure.
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  I think I saw this on Reddit a couple days ago where they
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  posted a selfie wearing unwell merch saying like Alex when are
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  we going to join the Unwell network or something like that.
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  I like hearing Brooke talk about the financial side of the
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  podcast. I know that was a big point of
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  discussion amongst fans is of course Tana was going to be OK
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  because she has been so wealthy for so long.
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  But it kind of seemed like, well, you know, does Brooke have
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  a lot aside from canceled financially?
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  But then she bought this house and obviously she's engaged to
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  someone who presumably has money himself as well.
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  So I mean, she's obviously going to be fine.
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  But it's interesting to hear how she said like from a financial
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  position, like, I didn't want it to end.
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  I needed it there. OK, the next rate that I have
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  for you guys. Bella Hadid has addressed her
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  mood at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
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  So last week the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show aired.
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  And OK, this is a little bit of like behind the scenes for you
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  guys. I did touch on it in the
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  episode. I don't know if it was like
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  Wednesday, Thursday. Whenever the fashion show aired
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  here in Australia, it aired like during our morning.
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  And so I recorded right after it aired and I touched on it just
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  very briefly, but I kind of got in my head about my take.
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  So I ended up cutting that whole section out.
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  My take for reference was that the women, like the models were
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  way too spray tanned and that take wasn't circulating yet.
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  Nobody was talking about how tanned they all looked.
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  And I started to get in my own head, like almost gaslighting
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  myself thinking like, are you just like to chronically online?
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  Like do you just need to touch grass?
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  Like are you looking for a problem here?
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  So I decided, you know what, I'm just going to cut it out because
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  I don't know if this is like a valid take.
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  But if you've been following the discourse, then you know, that
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  was actually not a hot take and it was actually a valid take.
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  And I really wish I had left it in now because there's been op
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  eds and mainstream media about how spray tans they were.
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  This is like a big topic of conversation online about like
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  how spray tans the girls were and how it just made a lot of us
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  feel a little bit uncomfortable. Anyways, another piece of
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  discourse from the show was that Bella Hadid looked kind of
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  miserable. I guess I'm going to be honest,
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  I didn't really notice this because obviously when we're
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  watching fashion shows, models walk down the runway, they often
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  look miserable. I know the Victoria's Secret
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  Fashion show is very different. They're always like laughing and
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  having fun and all of that. But I just felt like, OK, Bella
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  Hadid, like she's a baddie. Like that's just her vibe today.
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  But no, a lot of people clocked that she seemed to be very
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  miserable. So this one TikTok went
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  particularly viral where the girl said Bella Hadid what the
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  fuck's wrong with you? What we got to do?
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  Looked like she was going to cry the whole show.
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  And yesterday Bella Hadid responded.
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  She wrote, girl, I got my period that morning and my stamina is
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  not up yet after the whole hospital sedge.
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  But I tried my best and I love you for this.
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  I'm OK I swear. I'm sorry if I let you down.
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  Love you. I mean it.
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  I definitely don't think this girl was trying to insinuate
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  that Bella Hadid had let anybody down.
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  I think it was more just like out of concern.
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  The fact that Bella Hadid looks like that on day one of her
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  period though is so insane. I can't imagine a worse
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  experience than having to walk in like the most televised
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  fashion show probably in the world, or at least, you know, in
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  America in lingerie and 50 lbs. She said the wings that she was
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  wearing were 50 lbs. OK, 50 LB wings.
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  After her grueling hospital stay, we all saw the pics on
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  Instagram on day one of her period.
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  That's actually insane and women are superheroes.
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  Like for real. Okay, the next story that I have
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  for you guys, this is also a story I had to cut out.
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  So I talked about this a couple days ago in mini and I had to
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  cut it out because I was saying her last name wrong.
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  Okay, so TikTok star Jillian Webber is engaged.
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  I know who Jillian Webber is. Obviously.
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  I know her brother Jake Webber. Like, I know this whole vibe,
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  OK. But for some reason, every
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  single time I said their last name when I was reporting on
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  this story, I was calling them web.
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  And I didn't even realize it until I was editing.
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  And I was like, this is so embarrassing and cringe.
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  Like, I can't publish this. Everyone's going to be like, are
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  you OK? So Gillian Weber is engaged.
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  So Gillian Weber has announced that she's engaged to her
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  longtime boyfriend Ethan. Gillian is a 24 year old rising
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  TikTok star. She's famous for her fun dancing
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  and lifestyle content, and she went super viral when people
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  found out that she was a teacher but also posting dancing videos.
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  Some people felt it was inappropriate, while others
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  really defended her. More like, she's having fun, let
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  her live. But in general, fans of Jillian
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  have described her as the Charlie d'emilio of this next
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  generation. Jillian is also the younger
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  sister of creator Jake Weber, but they both got famous online
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  separately. Jake was a viner, and he
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  famously dated Tara Yummy for a long time.
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  But yeah, Jillian got famous in her own right.
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  So people are really excited for this engagement.
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  You'll see Jillian Weber Engaged is trending on TikTok right now
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  and fans are making tons of edits of their proposal.
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  OK. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys is that Justin Bieber is on Twitch.
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  Now. This is a story that Annabelle
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  was advocating for because Justin Bieber amongst Justin
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  Bieber, Ariana Grande, Beyoncé. I feel like that is the trifecta
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  of who she stands, but she loves Justin Bieber.
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  She prepped this story for me and she literally made the
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  headline JB on Twitch heart my king.
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  So Justin Bieber has recently made a twitch channel and he was
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  streaming for the first time earlier today.
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  So before his stream, he posted on socials that he was live on
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  Twitch before sharing a link to his channel.
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  And throughout the live stream, he played basketball, he was
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  skateboarding, and he also took viewers on a tour of his
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  warehouse. While speaking to the camera, he
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  shared that he would be live streaming almost every day.
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  Imagine Justin Bieber started live streaming on Twitch every
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  single day. Imagine that's how he pivoted
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  his career. I think that was probably just a
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  figure of speech, just something he was saying, but I would be
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  interested to see if he keeps this up.
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  So Justin Bieber becoming a Twitch streamer in 2025 I don't
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  think was on anyone's bingo card, but there are a couple of
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  things that we can take away from this.
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  First, and most obvious, is that we are definitely seeing live
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  streaming go mainstream in a way that we haven't before.
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  This isn't a surprise given that the biggest influencers amongst
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  Gen. Alpha are quite literally
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  streamers, but also more and more brands are jumping on the
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  platform as we know Annabelle reported on this yesterday.
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  Another thing is that Justin Bieber has always been
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  relatively on the pulse when it comes to socials.
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  People forget that he was literally plucked from obscurity
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  on YouTube and throughout his career he's always been quite
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  chronically online. Like he was super active on
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  Twitter for a long time and then now you'll see him posting like
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  1000 times a day on Instagram. Given how casual he seems to
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  treat socials these days, doing streams like this doesn't feel
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  like entirely out of place. But also jumping on Twitch is
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  obviously part of his broader comeback this year after
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  surprise dropping swag and then swag 2 and also being announced
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  as the Coachella headliner for 2026.
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  He even talked about Coachella on his stream.
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  He said I'm putting on a hell of a show for you guys, for
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  Coachella, getting ready and getting inspired.
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  Now, something that I didn't formally insert into this story,
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  but I think is something that I would like to look into a little
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  bit more is people have noted that I guess his highest number
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  when he was streaming was 10,000, like 10,000 viewers.
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  And there's a lot of discourse right now about how Twitch is
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  just filled with bots. Like people are not actually
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  getting, let's say 30,000 views a stream, they're getting 5000
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  and the rest are bots. OK, that's kind of ambiguous
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  numbers, but you understand what I mean.
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  There's a lot of discussion about how people believe that
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  Twitch is just like full of bots and people are saying like some
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  of the biggest Twitch streamers in the world, their numbers are
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  ginormous. And the fact that Justin Bieber,
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  OK, like he is literally the biggest celebrity in the world
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  in many cases, like he's one of the biggest celebrities in the
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  world. On his first ever Twitch stream,
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  he only had 10,000 viewers, so people are convinced that some
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  of these really big twitch streamers that get giant numbers
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  are just flooded with view bots. I believe the theory is that the
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  streamers themselves are aware of these bots and they are
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  encouraging them buying them. I'm not really sure how bots
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  work on Twitch, but I'm going to assume you can buy bot views.
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  Anyways guys that's it for mini scroll today.
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