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MINI SCROLL: TikToker Lily Chapman jewellery controversy, Aspyn Ovard x SLOMW + 'Suspect' TikTok trend · Mini Scroll

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  So please leave us a review. All right, let's just get right
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  into it. So the first story that I have
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  for you guys today, as promised, I'm going to be talking about
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  the like jewelry merch drama going down on TikTok between
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  Lily B Chapman and verified blue check mark.
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  So this is some niche TikTok drama, but it all started when
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  Tik Toker Lily B Chapman posted a video about her next merch
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  job. Lily for contacts has over
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  850,000 followers on TikTok and she does like lifestyle content.
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  I would say I I don't follow her but it appears that she does
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  like lifestyle vlogs. She has all these playlists.
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  She has like a pregnancy playlist, baby stuff, home,
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  Renault, that kind of stuff, travel vlogs, that vibe.
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  So in her merch video, she talked about different products
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  that she was launching, and many of them appeared to be based on
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  previous items that she had worn from different brands.
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  One item, for example, was a pair of earrings that she
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  frequently gets complimented on but claims that the brand
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  stopped selling them so she decided to make her own.
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  So many of the comments were criticizing Lily, saying that
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  she was essentially stealing from existing brands and
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  products. Meanwhile, others speculated
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  that these were all items that she had purchased wholesale from
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  shipping websites like Aliexpress.
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  And then one Tik Toker who has over 123,000 followers on
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  TikTok, his name is Mark, but he goes by or like his handle is
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  verified blue. Check Mark.
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  He stitched her video. He compared the existing designs
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  with Lily's merch, and he even made a TikTok noting that one of
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  the earrings that Lily claimed were no longer being sold
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  anymore were seemingly still available from a brand named
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  Petite Moments. Lily went on to make a TikTok
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  referencing Mark's content, denying any claims that she was
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  purchasing the products from Alibaba or planned on drop
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  shipping. She also explains the process of
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  product development development, saying that she was working with
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  a company who works with producers.
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  Essentially, she sends the company ideas and mood boards
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  and they send back samples. Nevertheless, many users are
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  questioning the producer, asking why Lily would be sending mood
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  boards as opposed to sketches and whether the producer is
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  using fast fashion type manufacturers, which I'm
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  assuming that they are. People have also gone on to like
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  in the situation to creator Alexandra Pierce, who is known
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  as HRH Collection, who has been accused of drop shipping her
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  jewelry collection. I mean, and that is like the
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  lowest thing on the list of reasons why HRH Collection is
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  problematic. But people are kind of comparing
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  the situation, and I also have to liken it to what is happening
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  on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City right now with Whitney and
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  her jewelry brand Prism, and how she's being accused of
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  purchasing the designs from, I think it was Alibaba.
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  And like, using even the same photos, like merchant photos
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  that they use for her website. I think this is very common.
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  I just think people feel like the way she presented it to her
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  audience was very deceptive. All right, the next story, as
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  promised, we are doing an Aspen Ovard update.
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  So a few things have been happening in the Aspen Ovard
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  world over the last couple of days.
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  The 1st and biggest is that Aspen was seen attending the
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  Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Halloween party over the weekend
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  and she actually posted videos with some of the women.
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  She posted a video with Taylor, Macy and Michaela.
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  She posted another one just with Taylor, like like basically
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  baiting or like teasing her audience and then she deleted
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  them and people are like, Oh my God, is she filming?
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  Because right now I guess Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are
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  filming. And a lot of people have been
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  saying they've seen them all around Salt Lake City filming
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  and stuff like that. I think, Oh my God, what's her
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  name? Miranda is also filming with
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  them for season 2. So I think they finally got her
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  on board. She was one of the original
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  swingers. I know only Taylor was, you
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  know, in that like swinging crew, OG mom talk crew.
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  And then they were unable to get Miranda and I forget the other
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  ones name. And they went on that podcast
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  and talked about it, and then they shared like screenshots of
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  text messages with their agent saying like, we're going to pass
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  on this show because Taylor's involved.
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  And now people are like, OK, It seems like Miranda saw the hype
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  around the show, like how popular it was and wants a piece
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  of that. So people are like, Oh my God,
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  does that mean Aspen is maybe filming?
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  But Aspen lives in LA, and I know she's from Salt Lake and
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  she lived there for so long, but like, she lives in LA now.
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  And I do not think Aspen Ovard is going on reality TVI do not
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  think she is part of this. I think she just went to this
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  Halloween party because she's like, friends with them, knows
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  them or people that know them. And, you know, she knew that
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  this would be like another moment for her TikTok audience
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  to dissect. Like we would all just lose our
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  minds and we did. She's just having like the most
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  fun playing with us. And I was actually going to say
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  this at the end of the story, but I'll say it now.
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  It is like a weird line to be towing when I cover Aspen or
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  anyone that covers Aspen because she has been very open about how
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  this is like the hardest thing, like a very traumatic thing.
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  She's going through her divorce and whatever this big 10 year
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  secret is that Parker's been keeping from her and whatever is
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  happening in her personal life that like she is keeping
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  private, but also like kind of teasing to the whole world on
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  her TikTok. It's this weird line because on
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  one hand, I want to respect that she is having like a really hard
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  time and you know, this is a very serious thing.
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  Like she is going through a divorce.
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  She is presumably going to be in a custody battle.
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  You know, it's not a good time. So it's like weird to be
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  reporting on like all of the rumors all the time.
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  But at the same time, she has also told us that, like, her
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  playing around on TikTok and joking around and being silly
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  and teasing us like this, like, this is helping her get through
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  it. And I think she likes it.
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  Like, I think she really likes all of the kind of fodder around
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  her and all the speculation and all of that.
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  And if it ever appears like she doesn't, like, she wants to, you
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  know, put a boundary back up or she asks us to stop, then I
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  absolutely will. But yeah, for now, I'm going to
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  keep giving you guys the updates.
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  OK, So there are two new popular theories as to what is happening
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  with Aspen and that big 10 year secret that Parker slash
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  everyone she says new. The first new theory is that
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  something really bad happened when he was a minor before he
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  met Aspen or at least before they were married and his family
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  helped him not like covered up but like helped him through it
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  and like they withheld that information from Aspen.
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  The biggest theory around that is like he got a DUI and someone
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  got hurt or something like that. And this would explain why like
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  quote UN quote, like everyone in his family knew and Aspen didn't
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  know. The rebuttal to that is that
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  Aspen said this secret really cut her so deep.
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  So it feels like it's more related to like her or her kids
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  or like, I don't know, like something as opposed to
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  something that happened years and years and years ago, which
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  obviously she would be very upset to find out that Parker
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  allegedly got a DUI and maybe hurt someone.
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  But I don't know if that would be something that she would
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  describe as like cutting her so deep.
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  I don't know. I guess it depends on how severe
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  the DUI was. Again, this is speculation.
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  I've literally no idea if there was a DUI, but you know what I
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  mean. Like if there was, who knows.
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  The other theory though, in this was shared by at Miss Razzle
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  dazzle on TikTok suggests that it's not Parker's mother who is
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  the Reddit leak, but it's actually Parker himself.
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  This would explain why so much of Aspen's private life over the
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  last however many since this account popped up has been
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  spread all over Reddit. I mean to be fair, it would be
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  kind of weird if Parker was this person on Reddit and like his
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  family knew and I don't know we're somehow supportive of of
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  that and Aspen didn't know. But it would explain, like I
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  said, why a lot of her private information has been leaked And
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  some of the posts that these that this person made, like they
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  would be like, thank God those kids have such a good dad And
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  just posting things that literally then happened like
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  days later that like we're then revealed days later.
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  Like this person definitely has some type of like intimate in
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  with Aspen. The rebuttal to that, however,
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  is that Aspen has been like, don't be mad at Parker.
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  Like he's not the one to be mad at for all of this.
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  So that would make no sense. However, then people are like,
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  well, maybe she's just saying all of that publicly about
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  Parker and like trying to play nice with him because she is
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  going to go through a divorce and a custody battle.
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  And, you know, that could be used against her.
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  Like the way that she's acting online in terms of like if she's
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  like slandering him or whatever could be used against her in
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  their custody battle, which is I guess also true.
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  I don't know, guys. These are just the two most
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  recent theories. They're so far fetched.
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  And at this point, it's like, can you just tell us?
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  Because it's like snowballing so much.
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  If we ever do find out what the secret was or like why they
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  divorced, I think we will look back at these episodes
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  specifically of mini scroll like all these theories and be like,
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  that was literally insane. I don't know, just my two cents.
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  All right, And the last story that I have for you guys is I
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  wanted to quickly share a new trend on TikTok.
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  Anytime I feel like I'm really early to a trend, I want to get
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  it on mini scroll because I know so many of you guys are like
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  working marketing or social media, and I want you guys to be
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  able to harness the trend. So I'm going to call it like the
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  suspects trend. Basically people are recording
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  themselves alongside another person in the video running, but
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  each time they record they're essentially like roasting the
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  other person. So for example, Gianna Joyce on
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  TikTok made a video with her friend where they went back and
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  forth saying Suspect is 19 but still face times her mom for
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  everything and Suspect can't leave the house until she draws
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  on her eyebrows. Spect is 19 but still face times
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  her mom for everything. Suspect can't leave the house
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  until she draws on her eyebrows. The suspect claims she goes to
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  the gym regularly but I haven't seen her there in four months.
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  You too You too suspect is currently in her longest
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  relationship yet and they just hit their one month anniversary.
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  Brand Remy by Riley also made a TikTok with the trend saying
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  roast like suspect says she left her house but hasn't even
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  started her makeup. Or a suspect has crippling
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  anxiety but will fight in public.
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  Suspect says she left her house but hasn't even started her
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  makeup. Suspect let her dog lick the
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  inside of her mouth. I think there's crumbling
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  anxiety, but we're talking about the public.
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  But claims she's poor but spends money on food everyday.
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  It's mostly been couples or groups of friends, but it could
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  be good for brands. It could definitely be something
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  that you do with your team, you know, you could really showcase
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  like, funny employee personality quirks, you know, And it's just,
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  again, it's like a harmless fun trend.
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  So I think it's worth jumping on, but you got to do it quick.
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  All right guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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