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MINI SCROLL: Alex Cooper vs. Lauren Burnham, Tana Mongeau & Emma Chamberlain podcast updates + Taylor Swift x Toy Story? · Mini Scroll

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  Coming up today on Mini Scroll, Baby Alessi versus Alex Cooper
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  resurfaces SNL spoofs Alex V Alex Tana Mojo is to launch her
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  own podcast while Emma Chamberlain winds hers down and
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  the Taylor Swift Toy Story promo that was teased on her website
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  and nothing was announced. Hi everyone, welcome to mini
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  scroll, the daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the
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  biggest stories from social media, the creator economy and
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  the digital space every Monday through Thursday and sometimes
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  Fridays. I'm your host Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the Australian youth digital media brand
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  Centennial world. Welcome back to mini scroll
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  everyone. OK, you know what time it is,
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  Stop the bop, please Spotify star rate US so I can stop
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  asking you guys. And if you, I have no idea what
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  I mean by stop the bop, go listen to Friday's episode
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  because I explained I'm not going to stop asking until you
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  get us to 1000 Spotify star ratings.
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  We are at 925. OK, thousands of you guys listen
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  to these episodes every single day.
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  Please, please star rate US. Please.
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  I know a lot of you guys probably don't have Spotify, but
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  please, if you do, please tell your friends.
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  All right, I have another big announcement, a very exciting 1
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  you guys, our podcast advertising platform is
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  officially live. I finished her yesterday and I
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  was debugging all evening and all morning.
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  I've had Sean look at it, I've had Annabelle look at it, I've
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  had Crystal look at it like just tear it apart, like go through
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  every single part of it. I'm so excited.
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  I am getting legal counsel today to make sure that all of our IS
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  are dotted and our T's are crossed and all of that good
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  stuff. But it is live.
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  So when you guys listen to this, it is live, it is ready.
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  So I'll put a link down below, but it's called Spawn Studio,
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  like sponsored Spawncon, get it Spawn Studio to help indie
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  podcasters find sponsors for their shows.
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  There are no download minimums to join.
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  There are a few platforms like this that already exist, but you
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  need to have at least like 10,000 downloads a month or per
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  episode sometimes to join them. You don't need to have minimum
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  download. Brands don't need minimum
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  budgets. That's another thing that we
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  hear from that side of the market is brands want to
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  experiment with, you know, maybe like $5000 instead of committing
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  to like a $30,000 buyout from a major network or whatever.
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  So at the moment, it's a free marketplace on both sides.
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  Podcasters will always be listed for free.
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  I never want to charge for that. Brands, it is free as well right
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  now. So sign up until we start
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  charging. If we do start charging, I want
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  to see how it goes first, obviously, but it was a labor of
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  love and I had a lot of fun building it.
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  It was tough thanking my lucky stars that my brother is a
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  developer. I really hope it changes the way
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  that we look at podcast advertising and the industry as
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  a whole because another thing that makes our platform
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  different is we do not report on downloads.
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  It is all about total listens. One of the biggest drawbacks
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  about podcasting in Australia specifically is all of the like
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  measurement tools specifically go off of downloads.
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  And what even is a download? I have so many episodes on Apple
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  Podcasts that are downloaded to my phone that I will never
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  listen to. Downloads often don't encompass
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  YouTube views. They don't encompass Spotify
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  video views. Now that like basically everyone
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  can have video on Spotify. Like it doesn't take how quickly
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  the industry is changing into account at all.
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  So our platform reports on listens.
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  So podcasters put in their monthly listen ranges and that
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  can be live streams, that can be YouTube views, that can be
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  downloads, that can be streams. Like that can be like Spotify
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  video streams. It can be all of that.
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  Hi guys, editing Lauren here. I know it's not that deep, but I
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  feel like I totally forgot to let you guys know about one of
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  my favorite parts of the platform, which is the
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  resources. That is also something that
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  makes us really different is I have built templates for media
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  kits, post campaign reports, everything that an independent
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  podcaster might need to properly sell ads based on their podcast
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  and then report on those results through a full campaign on one
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  side. And then on the brand side, I
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  have also built templates for how to write a good brief to a
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  podcaster that maybe has never had a sponsorship before, what a
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  host read ad means and how you can actually measure it as a
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  marketer. And we also have a media
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  planning section. So if you've been cruising
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  throughout directory and you find a bunch of different
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  podcasts that you think could be a fit for your campaign, you can
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  add it to your media plan and then you can request connections
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  through that media plan instead of having to individually open
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  new tabs. So yes, if you guys expressed
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  interest early on, then you will have already received an e-mail
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  from me if you didn't check your spam.
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  I am not putting it out publicly into the market.
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  And by that I mean like doing a LinkedIn post and doing press
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  releases and like officially launching until we have more of
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  a user base of podcasts that join and, you know, have some
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  testing on the brand side as well.
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  So you guys, as our listeners, our many school listeners, you
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  guys get like first dibs. Like you guys get to join the
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  platform 1st and play around with it.
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  You guys can always let us know how you feel about it in the
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  comments or DM me or whatever, but we're not going to
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  officially put it out there quite yet.
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  I want to do like a proper launch strategy, but I was so
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  excited to tell you guys. And of course, as our loyal
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  listeners, you guys get to know first.
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  I get to play around with it first if you want.
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  All right, the first story that I have for you guys today, this
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  is a crazy one. But former Bachelor star Lauren
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  Burnham is publicly criticizing Alex Cooper over comments that
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  she made about her daughter on Call Her Daddy.
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  So Lauren is a Bachelor star. She's married to Ari, who is the
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  Bachelor. They met on season 22 when Ari
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  initially chose Becca before famously breaking off his
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  engagement with Becca to pursue Lauren following their dramatic
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  TV reunion in March 2018. They married in 2019 and they
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  actually have four children together.
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  So Lauren has been chiming into the Alex the Alex drama, and
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  she's been making it clear that she is team Alex Earl.
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  And now over the weekend in a TikTok, she's explained why she
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  said that years ago when Alex was still hosting the podcast
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  with Sophia Franklin, they regularly featured a recurring
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  segment on Call Her Daddy making fun of their daughter Alessi
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  before and after she was born. So Lauren was like, the jokes
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  that they made about myself and my husband were one thing, but
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  the way that they talked about their baby went quote too far.
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  She described tried the commentary as inappropriate,
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  disgusting and claims that Alex and Sophia sexualized Alessi and
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  that the segment continued for a long time.
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  So long that they actually considered suing Barstool
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  Sports. It's come to my attention that
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  there are articles circulating now.
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  I just kind of want to clear the air and give you the short and
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  not so sweet information about that.
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  A few years back Alex Cooper was on Call Her Daddy podcast and
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  her and her Co host would They had this regular segment ongoing
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  and they thought it would be funny to make fun of our unborn
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  baby. Which is fine, whatever make fun
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  of us don't care. But they took it too far.
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  They made a regular segment before she was born and after
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  she was born where they were sexualizing our child and
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  talking very inappropriately and disgustingly about her.
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  And I will not say any specific things right here.
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  If you guys want to know, you can do your own research and
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  find things. This was ongoing for a very long
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  time, to the point where I wanted to hire a legal counsel
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  to go after Barstool Sports for. This OK, so it seems the reason
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  why Alex and Sophia were quote, UN quote making fun of baby
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  Alessi was because Lauren and Ari had created an Instagram
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  account for the baby before she was even born.
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  And it started out as them making fun of Lauren and Ari for
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  doing that. And then I think like trying to
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  poke fun at how insane and also risky it can be to put your kids
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  from the time that they're born, even before they're born on
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  social media. I think that is like the origins
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  of the baby Alessi stuff. And so you may think, OK, that's
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  valid. Like you guys know how I feel
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  about children on social media. I'm super against it, especially
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  if you're a public figure. I think making an Instagram
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  account for your child that is public, I think that's crazy,
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  especially if you're famous. And that is the defense that
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  their fans are using in her comments section.
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  However, when you listen to some of the segments about Baby
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  Alessi, you will feel different dude.
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  She's going to have this arrested dude, baby Alessi
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  Alesso Alesso. Oh like that one Alesso Ho dude.
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  I well, we're saying that a stripper was jizzing on a baby's
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  face like Oh no, and doing like Co baby Alessi back bitching.
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  The office tells us that we can't get certain studio time
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  because everyone else that does shows with guests is priority.
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  So Sophia and I were like, we do have baby Alessie, who's a
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  guest. Baby Alessie has been a little
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  on the brink of prostitution lately.
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  She's been doing casting couches, No?
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  Matter the intent or what the original stance that they were
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  trying to take here was and I was not an original call her
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  daddy listener. I have gathered that like the
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  fact that they were trying to take some type of stance and
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  like poking fun at this Instagram account and stuff from
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  comments on Reddit on on TikTok and like what other people are
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  saying. So keep that in mind too.
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  But regardless, whatever the stance they were trying to make
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  or their original intent, it is very clear from even those few
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  snippets how inappropriate and fucking weird Alex and Sophia
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  were being about this child. And I know we always say
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  Internet humor has changed so much and it has right?
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  Like IA 100% agree with that. What was considered funny on the
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  Internet like 1520 years ago is no longer funny and would never
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  be considered funny anymore. But this was like 6 years ago.
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  Making sex jokes about a baby was never considered funny, was
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  never OK. And this podcast had millions of
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  listens every single month. I don't know how they got away
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  with this kind of shtick for so long.
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  Like, how did it never come up? Like, maybe you know what, we
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  should cool it on that. Maybe we shouldn't make sexual
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  jokes about an infant. Like I don't know how that just
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  never came up. How this they let this stick go
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  on and on and on. All the people around them.
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  I mean, I understand Barstool Sports was their producer, but
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  regardless, they had millions of listeners, They had brand
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  sponsors. Like, I don't understand how
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  this just like flew under the radar.
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  Now, this actually isn't the first time that Lauren has
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  publicly spoken about this. She talked about the situation
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  before on the Unplanned podcast. But.
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  Essentially, from what I, from what I gathered, from what Ari
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  told me, you guys were pregnant with Alessi and you guys, I
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  think Ari had been like doing these like silly, cute videos
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  where you're like talking as if you're Alessi and break it down.
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  It was just. A caption.
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  Oh, it was a caption like a. Bump photo.
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  And then he would do like we would like alternate every other
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  week where we'd write the caption from baby Leslie or baby
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  Lion like at the time. So we would kind of be like, OK,
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  today we're the size of a watermelon.
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  Good. Because like I love watermelon.
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  It was just. Like dumb rhymey kind of book.
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  Yeah, exactly. That's where my book came.
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  That's where the. Idea for the book came from
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  Yeah, OK, so. We would do that every week and
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  just like update people on the status of like what happened in
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  our lives with the pregnancy every week.
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  And they they kind of did it after she was born, though they
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  didn't do it. Because we continued, we
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  continued her page and like baby pictures of her, like we do it
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  every week. Be like, hey, it's like first
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  week on Earth. This.
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  Week we talked for the first time and you know, like things
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  like that and they decided that it would be really funny to make
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  fun of baby lion dyke or baby lessee on the podcast.
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  And they were talking. I don't remember what it was
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  because so long ago, but I was really pissed because they would
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  talk about her and then they would say stuff about like her
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  being on a stripper pole or like what there would be like.
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  The next sentence would be about like BJ's and just like really
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  inappropriate things. I'm like the people, girl.
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  Was so ratchet, you know so. Baby Classless.
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  And I haven't checked this because I'm not in the business
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  of looking up minors on Instagram, but I do wonder if
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  Ari and Lauren, despite all of this, still have Instagram
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  accounts for their kids. Speaking of Alex V Alex, this is
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  a quick one. I'm sure you guys saw, but SNL
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  spoofed the feud this weekend between Alex and Alex and it's
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  going so viral mostly because people just can't believe that
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  SNL spoofed it. And I saw Christy from Spill
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  Sesh who we have had on the pod. Hey girl, say that you know a
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  Gen. that employee pitched this and you know that they were
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  fighting for their life trying to explain that.
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  Like, we don't actually know what the drama is, but we know
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  that there is drama and it's still worth spoofing because I
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  promise it will go viral even though we have no idea what the
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  drama is. And they did a good job.
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  And also bringing Brianna chicken fry into it was crazy.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys today is Tana Mojo
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  has announced the launch of her new podcast while Emma
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  Chamberlain is winding hers down.
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  So months after teasing her own show, Tana Mojo has finally
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  announced that she's launching a new podcast called Brand Safe on
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  May 9th. So the name was actually created
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  by her fandom, which I love. When Tana got sober and she
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  started dating Makoa and her life started to really like a
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  turn around. Her fans would say that she's in
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  her brand safe era. And this really picked up when
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  she did her tart collaboration. I think it was like lipsticks
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  and people were like, Oh my God, you would have never had this
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  opportunity when you were like, you know, Bleach and tone.
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  Tana even canceled podcasts OG Tana.
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  And it was just exciting for people to see this kind of
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  evolution. And Tana has spoken very openly
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  about how over the years, she's lost out on a lot of
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  opportunities because she was not, quote, UN quote, brand safe
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  on what the podcast will be. Tana claims it's the most
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  personal content that she's ever put out to her fans since she
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  started posting on the Internet. It is a solo podcast, by the
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  way. Some episodes, she says, will be
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  explorations into her mental health.
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  Other, she will share more about her parents and her traumatic
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  upbringing. And others she'll be sharing her
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  opinions on, like, TikTok creator drama.
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  So like, whatever she's into talking about that week.
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  And she made a very heartfelt video talking about how long it
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  took her to get to this peaceful place and this like successful
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  place in life and how the podcast will reflect that.
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  But I. Do really want to give a special
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  thank you to the people. Who watch me?
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  During bleach and Tone and dirty.
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  Door and toothbrush era and like all of those things.
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  And people have been rocking with me since then, and I know
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  I'm just immediately crying, but like, hold on, stick with me
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  here, obviously. I have gone on at length at how?
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  Much you saved that girl's life that she would not be.
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  Alive today here making this video.
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  If it was not for you, it was the very first.
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  Time I ever felt seen or heard by anyone.
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  Was that time? Of my life.
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  But obviously then. My career went on to do so many
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  things that I lived 1000 lives and I lost her along the way a
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  lot of the times, you know, and through making Brand Safe, I
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  almost feel like I have found her again in a way that is
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  crazy. I do this thing now where
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  whenever I'm going to do something, I bring Tana who
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  needed the bleach and tone. I I literally imagine her almost
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  in that halter top in that outfit.
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  I bring her in the car with me. I know that sounds so crazy, but
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  I just I bring her along with me throughout my day and I think
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  about the things that she would think about even like the Hannah
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  Montana premiere, just about how she'd be like, no way.
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  We get to like go to this and we get to walk on this red carpet
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  and we get to meet all these girls outside who like.
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  Have loved. Us for 10 years and like, Oh my
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  God, I love your shoes. I think about all the little
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  things. That like she would like, love
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  and be so excited about even just like right now, like my
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  house and my view by like she's sitting here on this couch with
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  me like so, so, so like enamored by the life that we got to
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  build. And this all started when I sat
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  down to film the very first episode of the Brand Safe
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  podcast. Because let me tell you
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  something, OK? Tears aside, solo podcasting is
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  a very. Different game, but.
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  Just as Gen. Z girlies are getting a new
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  stream of consciousness podcast from a fave, they're losing
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  another because Emma Chamberlain announced last week that she is
• 15:48
  taking an indefinite hiatus from her podcast Anything Goes what
• 15:52
  she's been publishing since April 2019.
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  She basically just said she wants to focus on other things.
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  Fair enough. That's been a long time that
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  she's been podcasting. And I know that it probably
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  sounds like a lie, but I actually think Emma Chamberlain
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  was one of the first like a list creators to start podcasting.
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  Am I wrong in saying that? I remember when she launched her
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  podcast and I remember people being like, this is so random.
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  And look at her now. How many years ago was that?
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  Like 7 years? That's a long time, All right.
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  And the last story that I have for you guys today is Taylor
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  Swift. Her website seemingly teased
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  like a Toy Story related promo and then the announcement never
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  came. So fans have been very confused
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  after a cryptic countdown briefly appeared on Taylor
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  Swift's official website last week, and many people assumed it
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  was tied to Toy Story 5. SA mysterious timer showed up on
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  taylorswift.com displaying a blue sky with white clouds and
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  people said that instantly reminded them of Toy Story.
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  The countdown was set to finish on May 2nd, 2:00 PM ET, but it
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  only stayed live for about 10 minutes before disappearing.
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  So people found it. They were freaking out about it,
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  posting about it, and then it disappeared.
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  And then the site reverted back to her usual like life of a
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  showgirl theme. So no announcement came on May
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  2nd. No one has addressed what
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  happened here, but of course, fans have been piercing clues
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  together. So a lot of people think that
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  she's doing some type of Toy Story collab because like I
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  said, the clouds and then there was like yellow outlined font.
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  Also Taylor Swift Toy Story TS, get it?
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  Another theory centers on the date.
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  So Toy Story 5 is apparently set to release June 19th.
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  Toy Story 5? That is crazy.
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  I think I remember seeing Toy Story.
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  I think I remember seeing Toy Story one in theaters.
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  I don't know. So yes, it's gonna release on
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  June 19th, which also happens to be the 20th anniversary of
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  Taylor's debut single, Tim McGraw.
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  And then people are tying in her recent fashion choices.
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  Like, you know, we love an Easter egg in the Swifty fandom.
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  People are like, Oh my God. The blue and white striped dress
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  paired with a yellow bag and red heels like that gives Toy Story
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  logo. What do you guys think is
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  happening here? I think it's possible she is
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  doing something for the Toy Story, like soundtrack or album
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  or whatever. I think the counter was probably
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  not supposed to release or they were doing a test and so they
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  had like test date and time in there and they didn't realize
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  that they had set live, which is why everybody was counting down
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  till May 2nd. But May 2nd wasn't like actually
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  the date that we were going to get this on.
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  And then of course they had to like immediately take it down
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  when fans noticed it. And they're not going to let us
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  know until they decide how to like announce this in a
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  different way. I think that this was probably
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  something they were testing that was not supposed to go live.
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  I don't know. What do you guys think?
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  What are your theories? I like the 20th anniversary of
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  Tim McGraw. Surely she's going to do
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  something for that. I don't know if it's going to be
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  related to Toy Story, but doing something for her 20th
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  anniversary of her debut single, Tim McGraw.
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  I mean, she has to do like a secret pop up performance with
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  Tim McGraw. Come on.
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