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Molly Rutter using strangers makeup backlash | Law Roach & Zendaya dress jet + Paige Niemann documentary · Mini Scroll

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  Coming up today on Mini Scroll, Molly Rudder's viral bar makeup
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  scandal, La Roche and Zendaya face backlash over a private jet
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  situation, and an Ariana Grande impersonator drops a
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  documentary. Hi everyone.
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  So the first story that I have for you guys today is Molly
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  Rudder is going viral after asking women at a bar to borrow
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  their makeup. I love kind of silly stories
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  like this. Like, people are genuinely mad.
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  And of course, I'll get into why.
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  But this kind of story I feel like is what Minnie thrives on.
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  Like, this is the stuff that I want to be covering.
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  OK, so earlier this week, creator Molly Rudder went viral
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  after posting a TikTok in which she's asking a table of women at
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  a bar if any of them have any makeup that she can borrow
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  because she's going on a last minute date and she wasn't
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  wearing any. So Molly is a creator.
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  She has around 180,000 followers.
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  And even though she's not like the biggest creator, she did
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  become really well known around like 2024 and 2025 for
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  documenting her dating life. And this actually did backfire
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  on her. She's super controversial.
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  A lot of people really don't like her.
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  And in late 2024, she faced backlash after baiting her
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  audience into believing that she had gone on a date with a man
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  who was violent. So in this controversial video,
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  Molly showed herself with fake injuries and flashing emergency
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  lights alongside the caption that it had been the scariest
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  date of her life. People were freaking out about
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  this, of course. And then hours later, she
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  revealed that the footage was actually promoting a haunted
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  house attraction because it was like near Halloween, and that
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  the injuries that she showed were special effects makeup.
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  She insisted that this was not a paid partnership, but
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  regardless, people were super pissed off at her for
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  essentially like, exploiting their concern and using the
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  possibility of going on a date with a violent man for click
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  bait. She's very divisive.
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  She's kind of become a bit of a lol cow, I would say.
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  I know I cannot stop using that label.
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  It's when I rediscovered it recently.
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  I was like, that describes so many of the people that we
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  talked about on Mini Scroll. So she has become kind of a lol
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  cow. Like she's not taken very
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  seriously. OK, so like I said, in this new
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  video, Molly is asking women at a bar for makeup.
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  One of the girls gives her a lip gloss, which Molly then films
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  herself putting directly on her lips.
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  And the girls are hyping her up. Like they're saying she doesn't
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  need any makeup for this date. They're being really sweet about
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  it. There are some people that are
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  like, you can tell that they were kind of like hesitant about
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  this whole situation. But regardless, like they did
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  give her some product, hey. Ladies, I'm so sorry to
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  interrupt. OK?
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  I'm spontaneously having a guy meet me up for a date and I have
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  no makeup on so I'm asking women if they have any makeup on that.
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  Oh my God, do you have anything? Like any like.
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  Concealer or like something? Well, first.
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  Of all, you don't need it, you don't.
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  Need anything? No, but I feel like I look like
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  because this is all my natural skin, so I'm like I'm so paint.
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  Naturally. You know what I mean?
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  Dating is like the worst right now.
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  I dated somebody for a month and they called me and said we're
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  friends, right? I think we're friends.
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  And I was like, I have black honey Clinique.
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  What's that? It's a it's a it looks good on
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  everyone. Hold on I'll put it on.
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  So this video got 3.5 million views and so much backlash.
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  People were really grossed out that she was asking strangers to
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  use their makeup given contamination concerns.
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  People thought it was selfish and attention seeking for her to
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  be interrupting women while out asking them for this.
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  People thought that she was really not reading social cues
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  properly in this interaction. So let me read you some of the
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  top comments. One reads, You don't need it was
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  your cue to stop asking. Another wrote, I would
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  absolutely lie because I wouldn't want a stranger using
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  my makeup. Someone else wrote, That's all
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  you need means stop rubbing my lipstick on your lips, Someone
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  else wrote. Girl, she was probably expecting
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  you to use your finger. OK?
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  Molly has since responded to all the backlash in a new video, and
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  here's what she said. So I recently had a video go
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  viral where I went up to a random group of women at a bar
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  asking if they had any makeup that I could use because I
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  spontaneously planned a date where this guy was arriving in
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  30 minutes and I didn't have any makeup on.
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  Let me tell you, I've been posting on the Internet now for
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  about four years at this point, and I now can have a pretty good
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  gauge when videos are going to go viral.
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  And I did predict that this video was going to reach a lot
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  of people. But I thought it was going to
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  reach people because it was simply a wholesome, adorable
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  moment of women supporting women.
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  OK. I did not expect for the
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  comments section to be blown up with people thinking it would be
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  somehow possible for me in 30 minutes time to go to a store,
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  get makeup, and come back. I don't know if some of you live
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  in a magical land where there's a Sephora at every corner.
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  Like you can just exit a bar and there's Sephora is aplenty.
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  Please let me know if there's a magical place like that that
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  that exists. I would love to go.
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  But. What I do know is that in
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  reality, there are places like cities, like major cities where
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  you can exit a bar and you can find many stores nearby where
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  you could get some make up in a pinch, right?
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  Like Acvs, like a Walgreens, right?
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  But I don't live in one of those places.
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  I live in Buffalo, NY, a small city, a car dominated city with
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  pretty terrible public transportation that's not widely
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  accessible. And I don't have a.
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  Car. So yeah, I mean, this video
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  didn't really go down that well. I think that her delivery is
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  part of the reason why people have a hard time with her in
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  general. OK, my opinion on this, first of
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  all, I don't think it's crazy that she was at the bar with no
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  makeup on. I don't know.
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  I saw some comments like that, like if you were at a bar, did
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  you not already get ready? I mean, there's like levels to
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  getting ready and there's lots of people who would like be
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  going out for a drink with their friends and not care and just
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  wear whatever and wear no makeup versus if they were like going
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  out with a guy. I think one of the things here
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  for me, OK, Molly is around my age, so she is in her 30s.
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  When you're in your 20s, sharing makeup at the bar with random
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  girls is part of bar culture. I cannot stress that enough.
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  I have been in so many bathrooms with so many random girls,
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  helping them do their makeup, fixing their makeup after
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  they've been like crying in the stalls.
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  Sometimes with my own makeup. Like I am that friend that goes
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  out with a purse filled with makeup.
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  If you ever see me with a purse at any given time, all I have in
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  it is makeup. I don't have a wallet.
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  I have all my cards on my phone, OK?
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  I have nothing in that purse except for makeup.
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  So I have like whatever you could need.
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  I always have it on me. That is a literally part of bar
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  culture when you are younger is being in the bathroom with girls
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  that have like a sleigh makeup on and you're like, Oh my God,
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  do you have that lipstick on you that looks so nice?
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  Oh my God. Like what mascara are you
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  wearing? You know, whatever.
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  And then doing each other's makeup and having the best time
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  and sharing drinks, kissing each other.
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  Like there is a way grosser shit in my opinion that goes down at
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  bars. Then sharing each other's
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  lipsticks. OK, I have seen some disgusting
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  shit go down at bars when I was in my 20s and like partying like
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  crazy, kissing boys at bars? Way grosser.
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  Straight men in their 20s at bars?
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  Disgusting. And if I had to go on a date and
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  I had no makeup on and I had 30 minutes till this date, like
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  that would be an emergency situation to me.
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  Would I be going around to random tables asking girls to
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  borrow their makeup at this age? No, because this is where like I
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  can't get behind it. In your 30s, your frontal lobe
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  is fully developed, so you do see the risks in sharing makeup
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  with random strangers or even just your friends.
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  You know, when you're in your 20s and you're having fun and
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  like, whatever, it's all just like fun and games.
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  OK, So I can like understand why the girls share their makeup
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  with her and things like that. But like in your 30s, you have a
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  different perspective. I would say in general, even if
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  you're not really that afraid of germs, I also just feel like if
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  I at this age was at a bar with my friends doing whatever and I
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  wasn't ready and a guy was like can I take you on a date in 30
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  minutes? I would say no.
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  I'm out with my friends. You can take me on a date
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  tomorrow or you can take me on a date in like 2 hours when I've
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  gone home and showered and gotten ready.
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  So that is where I struggled to get behind it because I just
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  feel like you grow out of some of that like male centeredness
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  the older you get and you get a bit more, you know, like a
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  stronger sense of self. I would say.
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  The other thing is you can hear in the video one of the girls
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  say, are you recording? And that I think is like the
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  most egregious part of this whole situation.
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  Like, I don't think the sharing of makeup with strangers at a
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  bar is the craziest thing. But I think it's pretty
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  egregious that she went up and is recording them.
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  I just I can't I cannot get around the recording of
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  strangers in public. Even if we don't see their
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  faces, which we didn't in this video, I still think we can hear
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  their voices. Their reactions is still
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  identifiable. I think it is so wrong.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys today is La
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  Roche is currently going viral after it was revealed that he
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  had a private jet waiting for him with a dress.
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  So Lias, whose real name is Elias Medini, posted a video of
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  La Roche backstage at Schiaparelli for Paris O Couture
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  Week. In the video, they are talking
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  about one of the dresses slated to be worn for an upcoming
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  premiere. Law said that he had flown into
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  Paris the night before and had the jet waiting to go to London.
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  They didn't say who and what exactly the dress was for, but
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  as many social media users expected, it was for Zendaya at
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  the Odyssey London premiere. OK so the reception was in like
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  2 camps. First fashion lovers were
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  obsessed with the behind the scenes of this where they got
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  this glimpse into like how this all came together.
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  Lobbying backstage waiting for the dress to come.
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  Like literally fresh off the runway with a private jet
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  waiting for him to take the dress to Zendaya.
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  But then the other camp of social media users were less
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  than impressed by the chosen mode of transportation literally
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  for a dress. So a lot of the discourse around
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  this is taking place on Reddit. So let me read you some
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  comments. This one's from our slash pop
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  culture chat. Someone wrote quote.
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  It does definitely dampen my enjoyment of red carpet stuff
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  generally. Like I'm sure they're using
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  private jets to get everyone where they need to be on such
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  tight timelines. But address address the train
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  was also right there. And if insurance or the brand or
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  whatever said no to that, then just wait two days.
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  It's not worth the We're the same day headlines other thread
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  on the R slash What the Frock subreddit epitomized the broader
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  sentiment. Some users loved the effort that
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  Lawton Zendaya went to, while others were criticizing the
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  look, saying the rush was excessive.
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  They claimed that the dress didn't even fit Zendaya right
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  because Law prioritized shock factor over everything else.
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  So this is how the conversation went.
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  Somebody wrote Law had a private jet to transport the dress from
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  the Paris show that morning to the premiere the same evening.
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  And then a response. Well, that at least explains why
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  it doesn't fit her properly if it wasn't properly fitted for
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  her body. Someone responds oh damn it did
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  need to do all that. I love the skirt and of course
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  she looks gorgeous with the hair and makeup, but the dress didn't
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  need to be sent on a jet. I liked the Valentino dress she
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  changed into. She could have just worn that
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  the whole time and still been stunning and perfect.
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  And then finally someone wrote love lot and love Zendaya.
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  But seriously this is ridiculous.
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  A plane to get a dress. I hope they don't play the
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  climate chance and sustainability advocate later.
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  So celebrities have long been criticized for their private jet
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  usage, most notably Taylor Swift.
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  Much of the conversation now centers on the environmental
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  damage that these jets cause. So according to a report from
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  the International Council on Clean Transportation, a majority
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  of private jet journeys are short haul flights.
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  Yet in 2023, private jets collectively quote, emitted more
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  green house gases than all flights departing from Heathrow
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  Airport, the busiest airport in Europe.
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  I've seen a lot of sentiment to where people are like I have to
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  check my bias here because I would be so angry if Taylor
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  Swift did this. So I need to like hold the same
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  energy for Zendaya, which I think is interesting.
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  I'm not trying to pit them against each other, but I think
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  the self reflection that I have seen in the comment sections
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  regarding this particular story has been honestly unique.
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  That's not very common amongst like pop culture discourse and
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  look like La Roche and Zendaya, like they're definitely not the
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  only ones who are using private jets to get outfits here and
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  there. And, you know, all of these
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  kinds of things that feel really like wasteful.
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  I mean, we saw on the Hills. OK, Like this is the first thing
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  I thought of when I saw this story is on the hills.
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  Lauren Conrad is flown from LA to New York to drop off a dress
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  for, I guess New York Fashion Week.
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  I can't really remember. And then she is put on a plane
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  immediately right after she like hand delivers the dress to
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  somebody, she's back on another plane.
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  And I know that's not private jet usage, but that is one
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  example from so many years ago. And that was a dress.
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  I want to say it was for like an editor or something.
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  I don't even think it was for like an A list celebrity.
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  So I imagine when we're watching scenes like that in the hills,
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  like decades ago, that A list celebrities are using their
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  private jets for all this kind of stuff all the time.
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  But we don't need to see that right now.
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  Like we are not in 2010 flex culture anymore.
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  People don't like to see that anymore.
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  The general consensus right now is like, yes, we do anticipate
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  that things like this are happening.
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  We do imagine that they're happening.
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  We kind of know they're happening, but please don't show
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  us because we are all going through so much right now.
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  Everything is so fucking expensive if the world is going
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  to die before all of us can have children.
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  Like, it is such a dystopian, like, weird place that we're at
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  right now. Please don't show us.
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  Like, we know it's happening. Please don't show us because
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  there's no way to control it, right?
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  It makes people feel more hopeless and more helpless to
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  see that. OK.
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  And the last story that I have you guys today is Paige Neiman.
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  The infamous Ariana Grande impersonator has dropped a
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  documentary. So Paige Neiman is pretty
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  infamous online. She is an Ariana Grande look
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  alike, but also kind of like an impersonator.
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  She's been quote a quote impersonating Ariana for years.
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  Adjusting her look to track Ariana's different eras.
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  She has over 700,000 followers on Instagram and 10 million on
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  TikTok and she is currently 22 years old.
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  She's gone viral many times for many different things, but she
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  actually started an only fans, which I think was her biggest
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  like controversy. I would say because many felt
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  like she was leaning on her likeness to Ariana Grande to
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  generate this revenue and that it was maybe like unethical.
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  Given she actually can make herself look so much like Ariana
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  Grande. People were concerned that she
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  would be like using that and like almost, I guess like in a
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  way pretending to be Ariana Grande.
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  People would be signing up thinking that they're getting
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  like spicy content from Ariana Grande that it could lead to
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  issues with like deep fakes and things like that for Ari.
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  So anyways, that was like quite a big content controversy.
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  So now she is releasing a documentary with Prime Video
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  called Turning the Page and the series will seem to have about 6
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  episodes. So many social media users seem
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  shocked that she has done this docu series or like reality show
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  at all. But one of the biggest
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  bombshells so far came when she was asked whether she'd ever
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  spoken to Ariana. And then she revealed that they
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  have exchanged DMS and this is what the DM reads that Ari
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  allegedly sent to Paige. I am flattered and I am sure
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  you're very sweet but I just wanted you to know I looked back
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  a little ways on your page and I think someone should tell you if
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  they haven't today that you're very beautiful as yourself
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  without all the makeup and trying to make your face look
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  more similar to someone else's and what not.
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  I had to say because it is the truth.
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  Always do what makes you happy of course, but if I didn't say
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  that to you I'd regret it. You're beautiful as you are,
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  take care. I mean that is like literally so
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  nice. So Ariana has spoken out against
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  her like look alikes or impersonators before.
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  Paige is not the only one. She has two other infamous look
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  alikes, Jackie and Jess, and Jess actually pretended to be
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  Ariana Grande at Disneyland back in the day.
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  It would like take pictures with fans.
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  Back in 2019, when Paige first started going really viral,
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  Ariana responded to a tweet about her content, questioning
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  why Paige leaned into doing Cat Valentine's voice while wearing
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  looks that echoed Ariana's own. Thank you next era quote.
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  I just wonder why the cat voice slash dialogue.
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  I am sure she is the sweetest sweet sweetheart for real but
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  it's definitely bizarre seeing people blend the two worlds
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  LMAO. A year later, Ariana posted a
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  video on her Instagram Story from actor Jordan Firstman in
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  which he criticized people who make, like, memes
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  recontextualizing an artist's work into something that
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  degrades its value. She captioned the story.
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  Oh my God, can this please also double as your impression of the
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  ponytail TikTok girls who think doing the cat Valentine voice
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  and that wearing winged eyeliner and a sweatshirt is doing a good
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  impersonation of me because this is really how it feels.
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  It would be so weird being a celebrity that has
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  impersonators. I also think I, because
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  sometimes I get the Taylor Swift impersonator is I think her
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  name's Ashley on my free page. And sometimes I look at her
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  content and I just feel a little bit sad.
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  And I guess you could say the same for Paige because it's
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  like, yeah, you have a lot of followers, but off the back of
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  what? Pretending to be someone else
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  looking like someone else like that is not career longevity.
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  That is not true fandom. Those followers are there
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  because of someone else, not because of you.
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  And it kind of makes me feel a little bit like sad for them.
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  But I also understand why celebrities do not like it
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  because it does kind of border on like freaky.
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  Anyways, I'm actually looking forward to watching Paige's
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  documentary. This is right up my alley.
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  Like it's so Internet culture coded, so I'm definitely going
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  to be watching it. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  Bye. Centennial World podcast network
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