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MINI SCROLL: Instagram Rings, Nintendo sues Reddit mod, 6 7 Meme Coin, Alix Earle split + Trisha Paytas Euphoria · Mini Scroll

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  OK. And the last day that we're
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  stories for today. We honestly had a hard time
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  finding stories that were not related to Taylor, Taylor Swift.
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  But there was no way that I was going to do a full week of
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  Taylor Swift stories for you guys because tomorrow Mini, I'm
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  sure that we won't talk about Taylor, but high stakes will
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  talk about Taylor. So I was like, I cannot do
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  Tuesday, Wednesday and then have high stakes covering her Friday,
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  and then I also do it on Thursday.
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  Like no, no, no, no, no, no. Also, by the way, high stakes on
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  2026. We're going to look at the
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  but we're still going to of our deep dives and I'm still going
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  to be doing mini on the weeks that I don't do deep dives on
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  Fridays. OK, the first story that I have
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  for you guys is that Instagram is launching a creator award
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  system. So the platform is launching
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  Instagram Rings, which is a program that is billed as quote
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  a new award celebrating creativity.
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  According to the blog post announcing Instagram Rings, this
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  award will be given to creators after being judged by a panel of
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  judges, including the likes of Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs, Pat
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  McGrath, Adam Masseri and more. The panel will nominate their
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  favorite creators and then the eventual winners will have a
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  ring visible on their Instagram profile.
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  Like how I guess a ring appears when you post a story, like
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  around their profile picture. The winners will also receive a
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  physical ring designed by Grace Wales Bonner.
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  According to The Hollywood Reporter, 25 creators will
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  receive rings and they will be from many different corners of
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  the platform. The head of fashion partnerships
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  at Instagram, Eva Chen, spoke to the publication to reveal more
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  about rings of the judging process.
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  She said Instagram is a community of 3 billion people,
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  and those 3 billion people probably reflect a billion
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  different interests. So the criteria was really
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  tough. I'm saying this as a judge,
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  seeing the huge list of nominees and being able to cull it all
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  down just to 25. It was a challenge.
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  And I know that, like the other judges, it was too many great
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  people to choose from. But really we were looking for
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  people who take creative chances and who are always pushing the
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  envelope and thinking about new ways to talk to their audience.
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  Obviously, there are already existing awards for creators.
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  Most of them mirror traditional award shows like the Streamys,
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  but this is obviously kind of a different approach.
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  It's hard to tell how successful this will be or if people will
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  even care since it is still very early days, but it's positive to
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  see a platform recognizing and rewarding creators.
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  And I wonder if this is kind of Instagrams way of saying sorry
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  that we took away the specialness of the Instagram
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  verification and now anybody can have the blue tick beside their
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  name. So now this is like another
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  layer of being like, OK, anyone can buy a blue tick now.
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  So how do we make creators who are still using the platform?
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  How do we incentivize them to keep doing so?
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  And how do we make them feel special and all of that kind of
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  stuff? Because I do feel like the
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  Instagram verification cheapen the platform so much in so many
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  ways. I don't think the average user
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  will care if they come across the creator with an Instagram
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  ring, but I imagine creators will care a lot about this.
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  OK, the next way that I have for you guys, It's a bit random for
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  mini scroll, but it's still interesting.
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  It's actually the tech scroll coded.
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  I don't know you guys. Like I said, every single
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  fucking story right now on the Internet has something to do
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  with Taylor Swift, so these stories are just random.
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  OK? Nintendo is suing a Reddit mod
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  for $4.5 million. The Reddit user Archbox, whose
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  real name is James Williams, is being sued by the video game
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  company for piracy. So there is a popular subreddit
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  called Switch Pirates which is a source quote on everything
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  revolving around piracy on the Nintendo Switch from apps,
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  games, development and support. That being said, if you enjoy a
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  game and you have sufficient money, consider supporting the
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  developers by buying it. So James is a moderator of this
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  community. According to the motion filed
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  against James, Nintendo alleges that he, quote facilitated a
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  network of unauthorized shops that have offered to the public
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  extensive libraries of pirated Nintendo Switch games for
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  download. The filing also claims that
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  James sent thousands of messages to users informing them about
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  different piracy websites and also asked for donations of gift
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  cards in return. Nintendo also allegedly sent a
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  cease and desist letter last year.
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  But James, while cooperative at first, later became a quote,
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  combative and uncooperative. Allegedly.
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  I'm sorry, I need to pause here. Why would you ever become
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  combative and uncooperative against a company as big as
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  Nintendo if they are threatening to sue you?
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  What did you think was going to happen?
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  As for the $4.5 million that Nintendo has put forth, Patricia
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  Hernandez explains for Polygon that quote.
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  The number is somewhat speculative in the sense that
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  Nintendo is not arguing that the company suffered $4.5 million in
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  losses. Rather it arrived at that number
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  by looking at similar cases like the one involving Bungie and
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  cheap makers where the Washington based company was
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  awarded and millions in damages. I also may have said Bungie want
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  wrong. Maybe it's Bungie.
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  I assume it's Bungie. OK, Annabelle informed me that I
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  said, and I think some of you guys counted this too, that I
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  called him DJO instead of Joe. Like for Joe Carey like, but
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  he's like his DJ name is like singer name or whatever is Joe a
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  little bit. It's like spelled DJO.
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  OK, I'm sorry, I had never heard it said out loud.
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  That keeps happening to me lately and it's so embarrassing.
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  OK. Nintendo has long had an issue
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  with piracy apparently, where they've sued and reached
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  settlements with various sites that hosted copyrighted games.
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  Polygon, for example, also reported on the settlement reach
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  between Nintendo and Love roms.com and Love retro.co
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  previously. Now, there's a a lot of debate
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  around lawsuits like this within the video games community.
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  A popular phrase that's thrown around when kind of talking
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  about this is quote If buying isn't owning, then pirating
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  isn't stealing. And that logic implies that if
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  purchasing a game doesn't lead to actual ownership, then having
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  an unauthorized copy isn't technically stealing because
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  ownership in the traditional sense doesn't exist.
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  Put simply, you can't steal something if you can't own it.
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  I don't know if that would necessarily apply in every
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  context, but I think it's an interesting idea and it's not
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  unique to video games. We've been having this
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  discussion about how like, nobody owns anything anymore.
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  You pay a licensing fee to companies to basically like rent
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  or borrow their services. If you think about how back in
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  the day you used to buy a physical like DVD or VHS, like a
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  physical film, and now you just pay subscription money to
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  services to temporarily watch that and they can take that away
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  from you and you don't personally own it, so you can't
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  do anything about that. Those are just a couple examples
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  but we're seeing it everywhere. Like the whole economy feels
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  like it's propped up by us paying subscriptions for things
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  instead of us actually buying things anymore.
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  OK the last story that we need to talk about, I do have like 2
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  little tidbits at the end of very quick news.
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  But the last full story is we need to talk about how the 6-7
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  kid is seemingly getting into crypto.
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  We haven't actually spoken about the 6-7 meme on mini scroll yet
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  and I have no idea how that's the case, but we haven't.
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  But 6-7 has become an extremely popular term online,
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  specifically among younger Gen. Z and Gen.
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  Alpha. It seemingly originated from the
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  song Du Du by Skrilla, featuring G Herbo.
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  As explained by Know Your Meme quote, this song became the
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  subject of a variety of videos, including edits of the
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  basketball player Lamello Ball, who is 6-7 in height, and lip
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  dub memes that mention the number 67, with Tik Tokers
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  saying it reminds them of 6-7. Since then, it's taken on a life
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  of its own. I'm sure many of you guys have
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  seen, but people are using it in many different contexts and most
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  of the time it's pretty random and doesn't necessarily make
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  sense. But that is basically part of
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  the joke. It's like referential humor.
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  Then from the 6-7 meme comes the 6-7 kid.
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  So this was basically a video of a young boy at a basketball game
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  that was posted on YouTube by Cam Wilder.
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  When the camera panned to him, the boy started screaming 6-7.
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  This bond a whole subset of memes being the Mason memes,
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  which were basically a way to stereotype teen slash tween boys
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  who overused the 6-7 meme and they as part of this meme also
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  what has been described as having fluffy hair.
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  Anyway, the kid in question, he's named Maverick Travillin
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  and he has since started posting content himself under the handle
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  at Mav 67 kid. He is 14 years old allegedly,
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  which is crazy. And now this brings us to the
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  actual story. OK he recently posted a video
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  with some updates. In a clip on X he said we have a
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  team in place and an overwhelming amount of collabs
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  we are working on. We are ready to bring 6-7 into
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  crypto. Reminder this kid is 14 now.
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  When you look at his accounts he has at 6-7 on chain, LinkedIn,
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  his BIOS on X and Instagram the associated websites read 6-7.
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  Is the meme taking over the world now?
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  It's official. It is now on chain tokenized by
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  at mav. 6-7 kid not to own it, rather to steward it.
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  He was the catalyst. And 6-7 is bigger than any one
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  person. It belongs to the people, to the
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  community that lives it, builds it and pushes it further than
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  any meme has ever gone. Come on, any meme has ever gone.
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  These people did not grow up in the 20 tens.
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  Any meme. Come on. 6/7 is not bigger than
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  any meme that has ever existed. Anyway.
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  Unsurprisingly, many people feel this may end up being a rug
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  pull. We will see how this plays out.
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  I hope that he is not, you know, kind of getting himself into a
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  situation like Haktua. But like, this seems to be
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  happening a lot where it's like somebody goes like momentarily
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  viral for something like this, like these ad hoc videos, right?
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  They turn into a meme as happens and they're able to capitalize
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  on that, which okay, sure, like good for you, honestly, good
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  job, but then they get like absorbed by the crypto
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  community, the crypto community like swoops in and then they end
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  up kind of launching these like, you know, shitty meme coins and
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  I don't know, we've seen it time and time again.
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  It ends up being a rug pull. It ends up being like a low key
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  scam. OK, the last two stories that I
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  wanted to mention, like I said, these are very quick tidbits.
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  They weren't really anything beyond just what I'm going to
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  say, but there have been a lot of rumors recently that Alex
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  Earl and Braxton Berrios were broken up.
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  They haven't been together in a while, like physically they
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  haven't posted each other in a while.
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  Obviously Alex is doing dancing with the stars, so like that's
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  part of it. But Braxton also hasn't gone to
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  a Dancing with the Stars taping since Alex has been on Seeming.
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  However, this week, Alex put an end to those rumors when she
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  posted Braxton for his 30th birthday.
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  And then the next story. I didn't want to make this a
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  full story because it seems like people are not totally
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  convinced, but Trisha Paytas may be starring in the next season
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  of Euphoria. She mentioned that she had a
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  role in Euphoria in the recent episode of Just Trish, but many
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  Reddit users seem unsure if it was a joke or not Trish Crave,
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  who we actually did interview one time, did post that Tricia
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  told him about it personally about six months ago, possibly
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  bringing some credibility back to these rumors.
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  But a lot of people on Reddit seem to think that she's
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  referring like making a joke in this clip, and she's referring
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  to a time when she actually sent in an audition tape to Euphoria
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  and didn't get it. Anyways guys, that's it for mini
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  scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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