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MINI SCROLL: MrBeast mobile, Becca Bloom wedding, Selena Gomez Wondermind scandal + Sofia Richie fashion brand · 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 and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the youth digital
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  media brand Centennial World. Welcome back to Mini Scroll,
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  everyone. All right, I actually have four
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  stories today, so let's just get right into it.
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  OK, the first story that I have for you guys, Mr. Beast is
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  apparently trying to launch his own mobile network.
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  So this story is making the rounds right now.
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  But the information was obtained apparently earlier this year.
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  So some of you guys might have heard of this but it is like not
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  going viral but it's like making the rounds right now.
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  So, a leaked investor deck obtained by Business Insider has
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  revealed that Beast Industries, which is the company founded by
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  Mr. Beast, is considering launching its own phone service.
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  According to sources, the team is actively seeking partnerships
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  but doesn't have a set launch date yet.
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  However, apparently a 2026 rollout is in the plans.
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  The proposal outlines the service as an MVNO, which stands
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  for Mobile Virtual Network Operator, meaning it would
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  operate under the Mr. Beast brand but rely on existing
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  networks like T-Mobile to provide coverage.
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  MVN OS, buy access from larger carriers and then sell their own
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  branded plans. Which is also I guess what Ryan
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  Reynolds did with Mint Mobile, which I had no idea.
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  Like I did not know he owned a mobile cell phone network.
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  And apparently he also sold Mint to T-Mobile in 2024 for $1.35
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  billion. So Mr. Beast, he's going for
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  that billion dollar acquisition. I guess it kind of sounds like
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  private labeling for cell service, which is really funny.
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  But I'm actually going to say that this is probably a good
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  idea for Mr. Beast because if you think about his audience, as
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  we have established many times, his audience are between the
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  ages of like 6 and maybe if we're pushing it, like 10.
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  And that's probably when kids are starting to get their first
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  cell phones, maybe not 6, but you know, like when you enter
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  into your preteen years. So from a business perspective,
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  I think this actually could be a good idea because if you're
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  like, I don't know, a nine year old boy and your parents are
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  talking about getting you your first cell phone, of course
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  you're going to beg them to be on Mr. B's phone plan.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, this is a quick
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  one as well. But luxury lifestyle TikTok star
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  Becca Bloom got married. And I think the vibes were
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  stunning. I have seen some users say that
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  the wedding itself was kind of underwhelming.
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  And I would personally strongly disagree.
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  I will put some photos up. But in general, there were so
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  many colors. She wore so many unique dresses.
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  Like, I loved the vibe. I don't really know what people
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  expect from weddings. Like, there's only so many ways
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  that you can put your own spin on a tradition like a wedding.
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  But yeah, people are saying, so she got married in Lake Como,
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  Italy. And people are saying this is
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  such like a typical basic Lake Como wedding.
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  OK, she's getting married in Lake Como.
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  Like I'm down for a basic wedding if it's in Lake Como.
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  It was also not basic. Again, it was, I thought it was
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  actually quite unique and it was beautiful.
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  Anyways, there are some people, so people just like love to shit
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  on weddings. That's been OK.
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  But there are also some people that are like, I can't believe
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  that her wedding was sponsored by Lancome.
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  OK, so her wedding was not sponsored by Lancome.
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  She did one sponsored post for Lancome, the beauty brand, about
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  her makeup. From working in the industry
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  myself, I'm going to guess that the brand provided all the
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  makeup for her wedding. They could have provided the
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  makeup artist as well, like the glam, and obviously paid a
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  premium to be a part of her wedding content.
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  Not me out here, like defending someone who is so wildly rich.
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  Like that's her entire brand. But honestly, I feel like people
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  get really savage about weddings and they can get really mean.
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  And also, I do have somewhat of a soft spot for Becca Bloom, a
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  parasocial relationship with her, if you will, because she
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  commented something really nice on my TikTok very recently.
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  So me and Becca Bloom besties, OK, the next three that I have
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  for you guys. This is like a bombshell today.
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  Selena Gomez's mental health charity has been exposed by The
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  Cut. Now I say Selena Gomez because
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  she is the Co founder of it. But essentially the expose is
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  about her mom Mandy. So Selena and her mom Mandy are
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  the Co founders of Wonder Mind which is a mental health
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  charity. Their Co founder is Daniella
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  Pearson who is also the founder of the new Zet.
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  But recently this is like an aside.
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  But recently Daniella has come under fire by Forbes.
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  Forbes wrote this scathing piece about her in August calling her
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  career quote, smoke and mirrors. So I'm not going to get into
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  that today, but it's a really interesting read if you want to
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  go down that road. Anyway, back to wonder mind.
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  So the piece by the cut mostly claims that Mandy again,
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  Selena's mom was a quote, erratic boss and she was accused
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  of, quote, hallucinating a break in at the company, spending
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  several nights sleeping at the office, including with her young
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  daughter and regularly received injections of liquid Benadryl,
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  though she reportedly told others that they were vitamin IV
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  drips. One former employee described
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  her office as a quote drug den, while others claimed they
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  witnessed her snort what they believed to be Ritalin, which is
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  a medication to treat ADHD. This is directly from the piece
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  Quote. Employees at Wonder Mine had
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  come to expect erratic behavior from their boss, like
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  disappearances that lasted days or even weeks, and unpredictable
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  angry outbursts since the company was launched a year and
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  a half before TV. So Selena's mom's name is Mandy.
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  TV had gone through phases of sleeping in her office where she
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  had two couches. She seemed to stay for days
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  without bathing. There was number shower in the
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  suite and sometimes without changing her clothes.
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  And then this is another quote. According to dozens of
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  conversations, the company's grand mission and basic
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  operations were tanked by Gomez's and TV's personal and
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  family dysfunction, including the denial of TV's instability.
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  Selena knew her mother was not well enough to be running that
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  company. Now, this is actually not the
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  first time that we have heard issues about Wonder Mind.
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  Back in May, reports emerged saying that the company couldn't
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  make payroll. Quote according to several
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  staffers, TV said Gomez had stepped in multiple times to
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  cover employee payroll. The article also does share some
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  things about Selena, including one instance where she was
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  apparently noticeably drunk and slurring her words at a team
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  dinner in its first year, like in the charity's first year, and
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  was telling the table of employees that she would be
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  leaving early to have sex. Now, in a statement to Us
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  Weekly, Mandy denied snorting Ritalin in her office, saying it
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  absolutely never happened. Quote, I started wonder mind
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  because I wanted to help people with mental illness.
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  It's unfortunate that a few disgruntled employees with an
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  axe to grind can spread lies about me and distort the truth.
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  Even more disappointing that the media is willing to amplify
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  their lives. I actually don't really know
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  anything about Selena Gomez's home life.
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  She was a little just going to like, make me sound so old, but
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  like, she was a little bit too like, young for me coming up.
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  Like, I was more of like a Hilary Duff era girl.
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  So I didn't follow Selena very closely in those younger years.
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  I don't know much about like her Disney career and her parents
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  and the family stuff that comes along with being being a Disney
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  kid. I know we often do hear about
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  that. So if you guys did follow Selena
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  and you're more familiar with that, like let me know what you
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  think about this whole story. I will say I do not like the
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  disgruntled ex employees narrative.
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  You know, like I don't know anybody that is going to the
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  media with stories of their ex bosses unless something like
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  really serious was going on at their workplace.
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  I'm not saying that these are all totally the truth, but I am
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  saying I don't like the narrative that like anybody who
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  speaks out about someone in power, about an ex employer is
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  just spreading lies and looking for attention.
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  They were just bad at their job. They couldn't copy it.
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  Like whatever the narrative is often painted around these ex
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  employees. Like I think they usually have a
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  leg to stand on. OK.
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  And the last way that I have for you guys is that Sophia Richie
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  has teased that she is launching a fashion brand.
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  Sophia Richie is seemingly about to launch a fashion brand.
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  Today, she posted a screenshot of a new Instagram page called
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  SRG Atelier for Sophia Richie Grange, obviously.
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  And she set in it almost here. Then the bio of that page says
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  coming soon. And Sophia also reposted this
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  infographic from people, brands and things that reads spotted.
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  Sophia Richie Grange has just started teasing the launch of
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  her fashion brand SRG at Tilly Gay with a sneaky photo of some
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  items and their new social account.
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  Oh, yeah. She posted this photo with like,
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  the eyes emoji, like the emoji. And you can only just see like
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  the top of a bunch of jackets and they look maybe like leather
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  jackets. But I fear you guys.
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  I fear this is going to be really boring.
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  I don't know, maybe she will surprise us.
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  I also could see that I could see her coming out with
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  something like really cool, but my initial gut reaction is I
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  foresee very expensive neutral basics that like every celebrity
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  influencer brand is already selling us like Morgan Stewart,
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  Molly May, Matilda Girf, like that kind of vibe.
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  I know Morgan Stewart is like more elevated and there is more
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  creativity with her designs, but still like still in that same
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  realm of like these are basics. You can wear these everyday and
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  they're expensive. However, she has been partnering
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  with Amazon on like shopping related stuff lately, like doing
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  shopping related partnerships with them.
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  So I also maybe could see her doing a more affordable range.
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  But I still think it's going to be that kind of like elegant
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  elevated clean girl aesthetic. I'm so done.
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  I'm so done with the clean girl vibe.
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  Bring back color, sequins, sparkles, fun pattern.
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  Bring back full glam. Bring back big hair.
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  Give me like a smoky eye and a nude lip or a red lip and a
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  wings liner. Like give me a beat to the gods.
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  That will get me every single time clean girl, I'm done.
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  It looks good when you're like this close to somebody, but far
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  away. We all look with the slick back
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  like so few people can pull off the slick back.
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  I can't pull off the slick back when they wear a slick back.
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  I know it's like unwell, but it's just like desperation, you
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  know, so few people look good with the slick back.
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  Please let your hair flow let it down.
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  We're all getting receding hairline.
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  OK anyways guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys.
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  I love you and I will talk to you tomorrow for a Friday mini
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