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MINI SCROLL: Charli xcx vs. Lorde, MrBeast defends trans rights, Madeline Argy & Harry Jowsey (?), Alex Warren & Kouvr Anon married + Swiftie news · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
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  from social 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 World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  So on Thursday I was like, I hope on Monday I'll be sitting
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  here, I'll be telling you guys that all the stressful things
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  that were happening in my business the last two weeks are
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  done. They've been put to bed and I'm
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  just back to normal. And I can tell you that's
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  exactly what has happened. Like I said, one day maybe I'll
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  be able to tell you guys what happened.
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  But it was like a legal situation and it was very big
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  and scary. I dealt with it the best that I
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  could, but it was actually so wild and my mental health was
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  so, so bad for two weeks. If you follow me on TikTok, you
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  know I posted a video literally crying on the Internet.
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  But anyways, it is all resolved. Everything is done.
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  Also, I should say, given that I am a media brand in a podcast
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  that talks about people it was not related to like defamation
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  or anything like that. It was such a freak situation.
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  Another company had been mistaken for my company.
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  Anyways, it was like this whole mess but I was very very scared
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  of course at the time but it is done.
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  Anyways, let's just get right into the stories.
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  I have quite a few stories for you guys today to again make up
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  for. No deep dive on Friday, but
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  there will be a deep dive this Friday.
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  We are back to normal schedule now.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys is I want us to
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  talk about all the Lord and Charlie XCX drama quote UN quote
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  because they have made-up on the remix as we know.
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  So Charlie XCX and Lord have squashed their beef revealing
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  they made-up on the remix of Charlie's song Girl So Confusing
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  Together from her new hit album Brat.
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  So on Girl So Confusing, Charlie compares herself to another
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  female pop star. She sings.
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  People say we're alike, they say we've got the same hair.
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  We talk about making music, but I don't know if it's honest.
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  Can't tell if you want to see me falling over and failing and you
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  can't tell what you're feeling. I think I know how you feel.
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  So the song was revealed to be about Lorde, and she features on
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  the remix as we all know it. Like literally broke the
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  Internet over the weekend. But first here's like what went
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  down. Here's kind of like the high
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  level story of Lord and Charlie XX O Lord and Charlie released
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  breakout hits around the same time.
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  Charlie with I love it and Lord with Royals in 2014, an
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  interviewer confused Charlie with Lord, asking her how she
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  came up with the song for Royals or like the idea behind Royals
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  one of my. Favorite songs that you have is
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  Royals. Where did you get the
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  inspiration for that Royals came from?
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  You know, just me looking at like how I'm from New Zealand,
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  from like a small town and you know, like I'm not really part
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  of that bougie like lifestyle culture.
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  So I thought I'd write a song about.
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  It Charlie played along and said that she's from New Zealand, so
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  she doesn't relate to that bougie scene, and it became a
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  running joke in Charlie's fandom to ask her to play Royals kind
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  of off the back of this interview.
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  Obviously they do have a bit of a resemblance.
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  So they've always been compared. They came out around the same
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  time. You know, I think that's just
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  unfortunately like what happens in Hollywood in the music
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  industry. Women are pit against each other
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  constantly. And that's just, in my opinion,
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  like a classic case. Like this is, this was a classic
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  case of that between Lord and Charlie.
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  And then of course, being constantly pit against someone
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  else, whether it's valid or not, like whether you actually have
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  beef with them or not, it's going to make you feel insecure.
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  It's going to make you feel a certain type of way about that
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  person as well. So, you know, I think it just
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  makes sense. There was a lot of like
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  miscommunication between the two of them and there was a lot of
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  kind of insecurities and confusing feelings, I think
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  because of how the industry treated them.
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  So in May of this year, 2024, Charlie told Rolling Stone UK
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  that she compared herself a lot to Lorde in the mid twenty 10s
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  around the Royals era. So she said when Royals came
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  out, I was super jealous of the success of that song Got and
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  that elegant you piece all this stuff together in your brain.
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  Like she was into my music. She had big hair, I had big
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  hair. She wore black lipstick.
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  I once wore black lipstick. You create these parallels and
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  think, wow, that could have been me.
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  So when Brat came out, there was a ton of speculation.
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  That girl so confusing was about Lord.
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  Lord was then spotted at Charlie's concert, and then
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  shortly after, Charlie announced that Lord was going to be on the
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  remix. Lord's verse seems to respond
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  back to Charlie's insecurities while also letting her know that
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  everything is OK, she says. Well, honestly, I was speechless
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  when I woke up to your voice note.
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  Oh my God, I can't read this like these lyrics without like
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  hearing it in my head if I accidentally start singing it.
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  I'm sorry you told me how you'd be feeling.
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  Let's work it out on the remix. You'd always say let's go out,
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  but then I'd cancel last minute. I was so lost in my head and
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  scared to be in your pictures because for the last couple
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  years I've been at war in my body.
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  I tried to starve myself thinner and then I gained all the weight
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  back. I was trapped in the hatred and
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  your life seems and your life seemed so awesome.
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  I never thought for a second my voice was in your head.
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  Girl, you walk like a bitch. When I was 10 someone said that
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  and it's just self-defense until you're building a weapon.
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  She believed my projection and now I totally get it.
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  Forgot that inside the icon, there's still a young girl from
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  Essex Because I ride for you, Charlie.
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  This verse has literally broke the Internet.
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  First of all, it's just so nice to see these two women publicly
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  like and in their art form, you know, address the industry
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  pitting them against each other, but then also address their
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  internal turmoil that they were going through.
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  And I think that's just so relatable.
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  Like it's super relatable on Charlie's side to feel like a
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  jealous of the person that you feel like you're in direct
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  competition with that the industry is making you in direct
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  competition with. And it's also from Lord's
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  perspective, when she's like, I never thought that like I was in
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  your head at all. I was dealing with my own
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  demons. You know, that's also incredibly
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  relatable because so often when you have this kind of messiness
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  between friends or relationships like that between women, it's
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  like it actually has nothing to do with like if you actually
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  have drama or beef, it quite often manifests from a place of,
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  you know, insecurity or self defensiveness or whatever it is.
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  And I think that this whole verse and this whole remix is
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  just so beautiful, even though of course it's like still in
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  Charli XC XS classic, you know, like dance pop, hyper pop vibe.
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  It's so powerful and beautiful and I love it.
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  So that's the story of them. And then one last tidbit about
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  Charlie XCX. She had to tell her fans to stop
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  chanting Taylor is dead at her concerts.
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  Because as we know, I think I reported it on its last week,
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  but people are speculating that Taylor is re releasing or
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  releasing I guess all these like different versions of tortured
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  poets department to knock Charlie off #1 or block her from
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  getting number one in the UK with Brat.
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  So yes, I guess people are chanting that at her concerts
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  and she's like can you stop? Like this is literally so toxic.
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  It's also exactly what she just addressed with Lorde on Girl.
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  So confusing. So anyways on to the next story.
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  Mr. Beast has defended trans friend Ava Tyson.
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  So we all know that Ava worked with Mr. Beast and actually also
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  Co hosted his channel for quite a while before she transitioned
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  and you know, was a huge part of the Mr. Beast channel of the Mr.
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  Beast family, the fandom, all of that.
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  And then a couple of years ago, I believe it was she started
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  transitioning or asking, you know, to use she her pronouns
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  and things like that. So anyways, Mr. Beast has been
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  very supportive of this. And you know, I am like, if Mr.
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  Beast has one hater, it's me. But I want to give him credit
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  where credit is due. And I think that this is an
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  important story to talk about because Mr. Beast is one of the
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  most visible creators in the world.
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  He has the most followers. He is a white man from the South
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  in the US and he is standing up for trans rights.
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  And I think that's an important thing to talk about.
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  So Nick Merckx, who is a creator, streamer, manosphere
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  guy, Faze, Faze Clan, I think he's part of Faze clan.
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  His username says Faze Nick Merckx.
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  But phase has had such like a a rebrand and like a restructure.
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  So I'm not sure if he has remained in phase clan.
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  But anyways, so Ava had posted something on Twitter over the
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  weekend and Nick wrote, you should be ashamed of yourself
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  leaving your wife and child to play pretend.
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  One day you'll wake up and realize what you've done and
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  play pretend as in, I guess, quote UN quote, pretend to be a
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  girl. So drama alert Keemstar had
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  reported on this Twitter interaction and then Mr. Beast
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  responded to Drama alerts Twitter and wrote Ava is
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  literally always with her kid and doesn't even go on shoots to
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  spend more time with him. Tuckman is always smiling.
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  Not sure why this rumor is a thing.
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  So look, it's like the bare minimum in my opinion, of a
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  friend to do that. But Mr. Beast, like I said, he
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  is the most followed creator in the world.
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  And it's important also to think about whose audience is like his
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  audience for the most part is young men and boys.
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  So for their fave, like this person that they idolize, like
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  he is God to them, for him to be standing up for trans rights is
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  super powerful. It's very important and I think
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  it's great to see. And I'm, I'm glad that Mister
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  Beast spoke out about this, that he said that it's such a
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  disgusting narrative to hear somebody say you left your wife
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  and kid for this, as if transitioning your gender
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  doesn't mean that you couldn't still be a present parent or a
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  very good parent. Like it has truly nothing to do
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  with it. So I really appreciate that he
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  also stood up for that part of it, you know, and said like that
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  this is just not true. Like Ava is a great parent.
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  So you know what, kudos to Mr. Beast.
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  Thank you Mr. Beast for saying that.
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  And Mr. Beast is also in Australia right now.
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  And apparently if you buy festivals, this is not
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  sponsored, but if you buy festivals right now, you are
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  entered to win a car, I think if you're in Australia.
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  So maybe I'll go buy a festival at lunch.
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  OK. Anyways, the next story that I
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  have for you guys is that Madeline RG and Harry Josie are
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  quote UN quote, not dating despite speculation.
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  This is kind of a womp womp story about whatever.
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  So Cannes Lions festival was last week and multiple photos of
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  Tik Toker, Madeline Argy and reality * Harry Josie were
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  posted all over the Internet and many people were like, OK, are
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  they together? What's going on here?
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  A few of the photos did make it seem like they were getting kind
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  of cozy. They were like looking at his
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  phone together laughing. They were like in close
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  quarters. There's one photo where his arm
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  is like, I don't know if it's like a round her, if it's just
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  kind of like behind her, but either way, they're like getting
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  close. At least it seemed like that.
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  However, news sources have told TMZ that they are not together
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  and they are simply friends because they are both part of
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  Alex Cooper's unwell network. Which is not that surprising
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  actually when you think about the unwell connection.
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  Of course they would know each other and probably pretty well.
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  That being said, Madeline was linked to Central C on and off
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  for a very long time. I don't know where they stand
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  now, but I know that they were like, very on and off.
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  While Harry has recently been linked with reality star Jess
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  Vestal. Vestal.
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  Vestal, I'm sorry if I said that, Vestal.
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  I think because the two have a relationship that's currently
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  playing out on Netflix's show Perfect Match.
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  So if you thought that Madeleine and Harry were dating, you're
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  wrong. And that's not on that.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is that Covert Anon
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  and Alex Warren are married. This is such a throwback.
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  So Hype House alum Cover Anon and Alex Warren officially wed
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  in California on Saturday. The wedding interestingly, also
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  had a lot of references to Taylor Swift.
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  So there's references to Who's Afraid of Little Me.
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  I think Cover posted her official kind of like wedding
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  reveal TikTok video to that song.
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  And then there was a lot of references, of course, to love
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  her throughout the venue and like the event.
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  So, for example, an entrance to go outside at the venue, read at
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  every table and then behind this, like, photo wall or on
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  this photo wall, I guess with like a couch where you could
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  take, you know, guest photos and things like that.
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  It said, I'll save you a seat, which obviously that whole line
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  goes together and love her. So some notable guests were
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  Charlie Demilio and Markell Washington.
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  And yeah, this is just so cute. I mean, we know Cover and Alex
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  began dating in 2018, and they were both founding members of
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  the Hype House. They announced their engagement
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  on New Year's Eve 2022. And I mean, they really are the
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  only couple that was left standing in that, like, OG
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  TikTok era when TikTok really blew up.
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  And we were, like, obsessed with those kids.
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  And they stuck the course, stayed the course, stayed the
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  course. They stuck it out and stayed the
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  course. I was trying to combine those
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  two. But, yeah.
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  So I think this is so sweet. I love that, you know, they've
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  just stayed together. They seem really supportive of
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  each other. They seem super in love.
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  And it's cute, OK. And then the last story that I
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  have for you guys. Speaking of Taylor Swift and
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  love, Travis Kelsey joined Taylor Swift on stage at the
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  Arrows tour. So Swifty is attending London's
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  Arrows tour on Sunday night. Got a very exciting surprise
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  when Travis Kelsey joined Taylor on stage for I Can Do It With a
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  Broken Heart. It was actually really cute.
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  I mean, it was kind of cringe, but like, of course it was going
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  to be cringe. I don't know if we expected
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  anything different to see Travis Kelsey dancing on stage with
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  Taylor. And of course, we also know that
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  this weekend they went Instagram official with a selfie with the
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  royal family. So that is quite the hard
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  launch. Anyways guys, that is it for
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  mini scroll today. I hope you guys liked this
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  Please rate review and subscribe if you do.
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  I love you guys so much and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye.