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MINI SCROLL: Tana Mongeau's $17K Coachella trip, Sydney Sweeney's Reddit movie + Alix Earle livestream drama · 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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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  OK? The first story that I have for
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  you guys is that Tana Mojo has opened up about fan behavior at
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  music festivals and what she would have to spend to go to
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  Coachella safely. On the most recent episode of
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  the canceled podcast, Tana Mojo talked about why she's hesitant
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  to go to Coachella or really any music festival again.
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  OK, quickly before we get into the story on the topic of the
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  canceled podcast, Tana and Brooke are coming to Australia
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  on the cancelled podcast tour and we are trying really hard to
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  get an interview with them on our podcast to promote the tour.
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  Of course they are problematic girlies, but I don't know if
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  there is anyone more relevant to interview on our specific
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  podcast then Tana Mojo. So with that being said, can you
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  guys leave a comment on either Spotify or YouTube and let us
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  know how relevant it would be to have them on the podcast?
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  Because we are fighting for our lives right now trying to prove
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  that it's not like a conflict of interest.
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  And honestly that is like the nicest thing that anyone has
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  ever thought about my brands. It's like the most flattering
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  thing ever. What a compliment that people
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  are thinking that like Tana and Brooke coming on my podcast
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  would be like a conflict of interest for like us to promote
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  their podcast tour anyways. I can't think of a more relevant
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  platform for Tana and Brooke to promote their Australian podcast
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  tour on a podcast specifically about creators and Internet
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  culture news. We cover Tana and Brooke so much
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  on this podcast. Like, I truly cannot imagine a
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  more relevant place for them to come.
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  And yeah, we are like fighting for our lives to prove that.
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  It's like story of our lives, story of our lives as an
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  independent media brand, story of our lives.
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  But if you guys could comment, please, like, then we can send
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  it to management and like, whoever is making these
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  decisions and be like, see, it is super relevant.
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  It's not a conflict of interest. You think my podcast is a
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  conflict of interest with Tana Mojo's canceled podcast?
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  That is like the craziest compliment of all time, but I
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  can't stress enough that it's not OK.
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  Obviously Coachella is soon and Tana was saying that if she was
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  going to attend this year, it would cost her $17,000 to do it
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  the way she wants. And after Brooke and Page kind
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  of pushed her to expand, she said that a huge chunk of that
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  cost would come from her needing to hire security to feel safe.
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  I totaled up what my absolute minimum Coachella spend this
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  year would be, and it's like $17,000 and it's like.
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  There's I'm just going to go out on a whim and say that's not
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  your minimum spend. Like I think you could
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  definitely do it cheaper than $17,000.
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  I know. I guess you're like maybe 14?
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  But if I want to do it Tana style, yeah.
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  You you I also that's. The thing is, the bodyguard I
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  just, I, I love my fans. I wouldn't change anything in
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  the world, but anytime I've done any music festival without a
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  bodyguard, I get touched in places I don't want to get
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  touched. You get fucking berated.
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  I really do like people love to just grab my holes, my orifices,
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  and I know what it. Is wasn't it last Coachella?
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  Someone just came up to you and they were like Tana like grabbed
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  your tits and was like shaking them. 100 engines, it's always
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  the headlock and it's and then it's like, yes, all my friends
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  can go and like then their job is to help me, like protect
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  myself in a way. But that's no fun for everyone
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  with me then, And then no one wants to be around me.
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  Like what am I going to do? Like try to send like fend
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  someone off who's like on Molly rolling and drunk as fuck trying
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  to like say hi to you. No one's going to take me
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  seriously. You need like a big security.
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  Guard and then that's an artist pass for them and then the rate
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  of them and then I don't know it.
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  And obviously, yeah, I could just not do that, but I don't
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  feel safe. OK, so I get that Tana is really
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  open with us, so it kind of feels like we already know so
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  much about her and she's so like emotionally vulnerable with us.
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  I imagine for fans, it doesn't feel like a huge breach of
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  privacy to touch her if you see her in a crowd or something.
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  But like, we need to stop touching celebrities.
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  We need to stop touching influencers.
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  We need to stop touching baby bumps.
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  Just threw that in there. It's rogue.
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  But we need to don't touch random people, especially
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  strangers. And even though you know who
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  Tana Mojo is, she doesn't know who you are.
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  So keep that in mind before you go up to like a celebrity or an
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  influencer or a baby bump to touch it.
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  I think it's just so inappropriate.
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  It's so invasive. And just because Tana or other
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  influencers like spill their heart outs to the camera and
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  upload that on the Internet doesn't mean that their fans are
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  entitled to treating them however they want.
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  And I'm interested to hear the response to this clip because
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  last year when Chapel Rhone said something similar to her fans
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  and was basically Tana actually didn't say this to her fans.
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  She was just like, I love my fans, but like, people touch me
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  and it's invasive. You know, Chapel was
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  specifically being like, do not come up to me, don't touch me,
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  you know, don't ask for photos, like whatever.
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  And I would say the general consensus amongst her fan base
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  was pretty positive. Like, people really understood
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  where she was coming from and they backed that.
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  But I think sometimes there is not that kind of grace for an
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  influencer. So I'm interested to see what
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  the reception is to this. But I completely get why she
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  would want security. Who wants to be touched by
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  random strangers, especially all weekend at something like
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  Coachella? OK, the next word that I have
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  for you guys is that Sydney Sweeney is about to star in a
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  Reddit story being turned into a movie.
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  I am obsessed with this crossover of worlds for us.
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  So Warner Brothers has won on the rights to a film about a
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  viral Reddit story posted four years ago and it will start
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  Sydney Sweeney. The story was posted on the R
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  slash no sleep subreddit which is like AI think they called it
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  creepypasta subreddit by an English teacher Joe Coat in 2021
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  and the story is titled I pretended to be a missing girl
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  so I could rob her family. The short story follows a girl
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  who pretends to be the missing daughter of a grieving family so
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  she can infiltrate the family and steal from them.
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  It's kind of giving Orphan. I can't even tell you guys like
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  the orphan was one of the formative movies for me.
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  I watched it when I was at my cottage.
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  I think I was like 10. I don't even know.
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  I was young when it first came out.
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  And my best friend would always come up every summer to spend a
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  week with me at my cottage and we would have like the best week
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  ever, like all these sleepovers. And we would always go to the
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  drive in and, and we went to the drive in and it was like a 60s
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  drive in. Like it was such a vibe.
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  And we watched the orphan. And I remember it was like one
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  of the first years that we were old enough where my mom would
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  let us stay for like the double hitter.
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  Like, you know, usually when you're younger, you go for like
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  the first movie and it's like more of a kids like family
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  friendly movie. And then it would be like a
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  scary movie or an action movie or something after.
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  And so this was like the second movie and we got to stay.
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  And I just remember like my best friend and I going back and like
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  having a sleepover on like the screened in porch at my cottage
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  and just being so scared that the orphan, what was her name?
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  It wasn't like Annalise, but it was something I forget anyways
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  that the orphan was going to like pop up.
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  It's just like one of my formative memories.
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  OK, so the author of this Reddit story, Joe Coat, said that the
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  story is entirely fictional. And he's also been brought on to
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  be an executive producer. And he did give some quotes to
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  some news outlets. And he was like, what the hell
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  is happening? When he said that he found out
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  that studios were reaching out to him.
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  He was like, what is going on? I think this is so cool.
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  Like, how cool is it that you just post a story on Reddit?
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  Like you, you do some creative writing, you post it on Reddit.
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  And now Warner Brothers has paid you for the rights to make this.
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  You know, the Internet has done some really bad things and
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  Reddit can be a really bad place, but this is one of like
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  the best types of stories to come out of the Internet and
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  social media and forums and Reddit in general.
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  Like these kinds of stories make it feel worth it, like
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  sometimes. OK, the next two stories that I
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  have, I'm sorry, you guys, these stories are just so nothing.
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  But it was a slow Newsday in Internet culture creator News.
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  So Alex Earl has responded to rumors that her boyfriend
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  Braxton Berrios has been texting his influencer ex.
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  So yesterday Alex and Braxton went on live and during it, Alex
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  made a shady comment saying that Braxton's ex was hitting him up
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  today. So everyone immediately thought
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  that it was Sophia Culpo. Sophia and Braxton dated right
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  before Alex and Braxton dated and Sophia has been quite vocal
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  about like alluding to the fact that Braxton cheated on her with
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  Alex Earl. So fans have been sending Sophia
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  I guess some hate because everyone thought that Alex was
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  referring to Sophia saying that she was hitting him up.
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  But Alex has addressed this and she wrote in a comment on TikTok
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  I was making a joke about it. There is nothing bad going on
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  and it's no one that anyone knows.
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  So please don't attack people. I understand Alex probably feels
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  like she doesn't owe Sophia anything especially if Alex
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  truly I mean if they didn't have an affair but also if she
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  doesn't believe that she did anything wrong with Sophia and
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  Braxton. And yes, like Sophia has gone on
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  many a public platform and talked about how they had this
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  like affair like cheated on her. So like I get that Alex probably
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  doesn't have the best feelings for Sophia but I also just think
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  like knowing the like a love triangle between them and the
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  discourse, it still hasn't calmed down.
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  I understand largely because of Sophia, but still the fact that
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  she would say that on live, especially if it's not about
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  Sophia, I feel like is just messy.
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  OK, and the next story that I have for you guys, I don't have
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  anything to say about this, but Jake Paul got engaged to Olympic
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  speed skater you to leer them. I fear for this woman.
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  I don't know how you could be an Olympic athlete who is also so
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  hot and you choose to spend your life with a man like Jake Paul.
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  I'm scared. I'm scared for her.
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  He is a bad man. Also, their engagement picks and
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  stuff, like they are both wearing full white.
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  Like there's no way that this was not, in my opinion, staged
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  or planned. I don't know.
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  Jake Paul's engaged. OK, someone check on Tana.
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  OK guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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