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JoJo Siwa cruise, TikTok creator Ian Lightfoot's advocacy platform + Kat Von D house fire situation · Mini Scroll

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  Coming up today on Mini Scroll, the JoJo Siwa crews going viral,
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  TikTok creator Ian Lightfoot's domestic violence work, and
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  Jeffree Star chimes in on the Kat Von D house fire situation.
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  It helps us so much. All right, let's just get into
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  the stories for today. I'm gonna be honest, these
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  stories are a mixed bag, if you will.
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  It's kind of giving Friday mini scroll where it's just like
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  anything goes. But let's get into it.
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  The first story that I have for you guys today is the JoJo Siwa
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  cruise is going viral all over TikTok.
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  So the past three days, JoJo Siwa has been hosting a cruise
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  with Royal Caribbean on the Utopia of the Seas.
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  This is actually not the first time she has done a cruise.
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  However, this is the first time as far as I can tell that her
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  cruise content has gone so viral from attendees and celebrity
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  cruises are a thing. This is not like totally new,
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  but JoJo Siwa and the activities involved in this cruise truly
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  insane. And that is why it's going so
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  viral because this is the craziest thing that you've ever
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  seen. OK, so let me break down some of
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  the activities for you. This is what it says on their
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  website. Quote.
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  Enjoy meet and greets, Q&A's, dance parties, build a bow, fun.
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  I dance class with JoJo and for the first time ever you will see
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  the Infinity Hard concert at sea.
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  This is the biggest JoJo experience ever.
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  It's literally an immersive JoJo Siwa experience.
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  OK it's so wild. So there are a handful of adult
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  creators who have gone for the memes and basically to like,
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  document it and report back for us, which I love.
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  And according to them, it's actually quite a good
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  experience. Like their content is showing
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  JoJo involved. Like she is mingling with the
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  guests, she is on the dance floor with everyone.
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  Update from the JoJo siwa cruise JoJo siwa concert just ended.
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  It was the most I don't have words for yet 'cause we're still
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  processing, but I'm not kidding when I say the best night of my.
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  Life. I am on the boat.
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  I'm on Utopia of the Seas. This ship is huge.
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  I've been on God. I've been on four different
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  cruise ships now. Like like like lines of cruise
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  ships. This is huge.
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  This is Vegas at sea. There's also so many people
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  here. I am here for the JoJo Siwa
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  cruise. It is a block of this cruise.
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  I've already seen one other family that had like JoJo Siwa
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  cruise shirts on and I think there's 2 fan accounts here so
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  I'm excited to see how this plays out.
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  OK you guys, Annabelle just interrupted me to clarify that
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  the first JoJo Siwa Cruz in 2024 was actually Ex OMG, which was
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  like that girl group that I think no longer exists and was
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  definitely controversial and it was created by JoJo.
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  Was there ATV show. I feel like I used to know this
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  story like the back of my hand, but I can't remember.
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  I think that they formed through ATV show.
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  Annabelle says yes, OK, yes. And then Rolling Stone did that
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  big expose from some of the members and former members on
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  like what it was like behind the scenes being in that group and
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  what JoJo and her mom were like. So anyways, the cruise in 2024
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  was actually an ex OMG pop cruise 2023.
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  That's not the point of this story.
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  Anyways, JoJo Siwa hosted a cruise.
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  OK Amanda Golka from Swell Entertainment is there and she
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  said that Jojo's been actually really sweet with all the
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  guests, especially the children. Like she's making sure that they
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  always feel involved and really including them and stuff.
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  And that leads me to my question.
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  Who is JoJo Siwa's target audience at this point?
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  I feel like she is no longer a child entertainer, but I'm like,
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  who is buying tickets for this? Is it families with young kids?
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  Is it tweens? Is it 20?
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  Somethings that think that this is like a funny meme.
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  Maybe it's all of them. Like who is JoJo Siwa's target
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  audience? Annabelle and I were talking
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  about this earlier and we're like, how does one describe JoJo
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  Siwa? And I was really grappling with
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  that. And then Annabelle goes, she's
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  just a corporation as a person. Like she is the queen of
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  capitalism. And I was like, that is actually
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  the best descriptor of all time. JoJo Siwa is in this for the
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  money and the fame, like means to an end.
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  Like she is not going through that.
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  Like, you know, classic child star to adulthood transition
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  where she like rebels. I mean, I think like karma,
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  quote UN quote was supposed to be that era for her.
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  But that was still like put on like that was still like JoJo
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  Siwa just like instead of wearing rainbow and glitter, she
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  was wearing black and glitter. Like that was still the persona
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  of JoJo Siwa. And that's because JoJo Siwa, it
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  might. My opinion is not in it for like
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  the art, right? She's not in for the craft.
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  She's in it for the gains, for the money, for the clout.
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  And you know what? That's fine.
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  Like get your bag, girl. No matter how you feel about
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  JoJo Siwa, she was literally born to be famous.
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  She is so good at being famous and she clearly loves to be
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  famous. I feel like this cruise for a
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  celebrity as famous as JoJo Siwa would be like a true nightmare
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  for most celebrities. But she is right in there.
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  She is like right in there with the fans, loving every second.
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  At least that's what it looks like.
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  All right, the next story that I have for you guys today is
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  TikTok creator Ian Lightfoot has turned a viral series into a
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  resource to support domestic violence survivors.
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  So Ian Lightfoot is a TikTok creator with nearly 400,000
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  followers. He makes a lot of advocacy and
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  commentary content around politics, racism, LGBTQ rights,
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  women's rights, and recently at domestic violence.
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  So on May 10th he started this multi part series that has gone
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  super viral called Famous Male Abusers, where he talks about
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  allegations against celebrity men who have yet to be quote UN
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  quote cancelled. Essentially, in an effort to
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  draw comparisons or like highlight the hypocrisy between
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  how we treat famous women who we consider to be like annoying,
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  entitled, self-centered, all of that kind of stuff, versus how
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  we treat famous men who have been accused of doing very
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  horrible things. I really wanted to hate Chapo
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  Rone for being kind of mean, but I just couldn't bring myself to
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  do it when there are so many worse things to be so.
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  This is the first installment of famous male abusers who still
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  haven't been cancelled as much as a woman who doesn't smile.
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  Enough. This series has drawn a lot of
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  attention from particularly women online, but everyone
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  online. But now Ian has taken the series
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  one step further and launched a platform called Famous Male
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  abusers.com, where he essentially has put together a
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  table that kind of acts as like a running list of famous men who
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  have been accused of abuse. So the table columns include the
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  person's name, what they're known for, the accusations
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  against them with citations and their accolades, and the site
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  also features a resources section for survivors.
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  In the last. Three days I've.
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  Spent more than. 20 hours creating.
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  An online database of famous. And powerful.
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  Men that. Have been accused of abuse and I
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  would like to walk you through I really.
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  Had two. Main goals with this website,
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  number one was to have a public table with all of the sources
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  and links I used to get information about these men for
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  my videos. The other was to create some
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  sort of inbox for other survivors of famous and powerful
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  men to share their stories, add their alleged abusers to the
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  list, and hopefully feel a little more supported.
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  As you can see, the theme of the website is teal, and that's
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  because teal is the official color for sexual assault
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  survivors. Not every man on here is a
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  sexual abuser but that's a big focus.
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  So I wanted to understand before reporting on this is how people
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  who have experienced domestic violence are receiving the
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  series and now this website. So I read through thousands of
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  comments and there seem to be 3 main sentiments that stand out.
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  First is that overwhelmingly people are grateful to Ian and
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  incredibly supportive of his series and of this resource that
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  he has now created this website. Second, there are some questions
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  about how he's using the money he makes from the TikTok creator
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  fund on this series. Like I said, the series has gone
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  pretty viral. So people are asking like, are
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  you donating this to domestic violence shelters, to any
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  organizations? And I would say the majority of
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  these questions are not asked in any type of like accusatory way.
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  They seem to be genuinely asking or kind of like a nudging him in
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  that direction. So far, as far as I've been able
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  to see, he has not addressed those questions yet.
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  And 3rd, there are some suggestions on how he could
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  improve the website to better support survivors.
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  So, for example, he does have this disclaimer at the top that
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  says inclusion on this list does not prove innocence or guilt.
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  And like, of course, that would be for legal reasons.
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  But some of the feedback argues that this statement kind of
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  erases the work that he's trying to do.
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  So there's suggestions that he can change the wording from
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  innocent to not guilty. And there's also a popular
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  suggestion that he had a column to the table about court
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  proceedings. Anyways, by and large, this has
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  been received very well. And it does seem like a great
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  example of a creator with a really big platform using that
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  platform for something meaningful.
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  There's also a lot of people in the comments saying like, I will
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  do volunteer work for you for free.
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  Well, I guess volunteer work is usually for you, but you know, I
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  will do some work on the website for free.
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  You know, I will help represent you if you ever need that.
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  If any of these powerful men come for you, obviously that is
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  a risk. So yeah, it's really amazing to
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  see. And like I said, so far, people
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  are really appreciative of this work, it seems, and are taking
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  it in good faith. And I think that also says a lot
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  to the reputation that he has built, right.
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  And he does this kind of advocacy on his page, like this
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  kind of like a digital advocacy where he talks about these
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  topics and advocates for certain topics and stuff.
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  Like he's been doing that now for a long time.
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  So he has really built up that reputation.
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  All right, And the next story that I have for you guys today,
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  two names that I honestly never thought I would say again and
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  especially like in the same story or the same sentence, but
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  I'm going to cover the Kat Von D house fire situation and how
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  Jeffrey Star is involved. Normally, I am not covering the
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  insurance and outs of what Jeffrey Star is doing or Kat Von
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  D for that matter. I don't support either of those
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  people. But this story has really blown
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  up because it does have a third person involved.
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  So a man named Tiva Dreschbach has taken to TikTok to publicly
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  accuse Kat Von D of being responsible for a fire that
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  nearly burned down his family's Los Angeles property 16 years
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  ago. In a series of Tik Toks, Tiva
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  claimed that Katz alleged negligence while she was renting
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  the home caused a fire in 2008. According to him, his mother
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  initially leased the property to Cat without issue, but said that
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  he did note a large number of candles throughout the house
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  whenever he visited. He said the home was eventually
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  damaged by a fire that investigators determined was
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  caused by candles. He claims the fire left
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  extensive smoke damage throughout the property and
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  damaged the hardwood floors. And then he was also saying that
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  this fire took a significant toll on his family.
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  OK. So a legal settlement was
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  reached following the incident. But he says the stress of
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  everything contributed to his mother's declining health, and
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  she eventually died from cancer. Morning.
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  I'm going to tell a story that I have had close to my chest since
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  I was a kid. I wasn't able to tell the story
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  or allowed to. I many years ago my my sweet mom
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  had signed an NDA with a celebrity in order to avoid
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  trial and get a settlement. The thing is, is I didn't sign
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  an NDA 'cause I was just a kid. Well, my mom is no longer here.
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  I want the story to be told because I think that celebrities
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  should be held truly accountable for their actions.
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  OK, so then a few days later, Cat responded on TikTok.
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  She did acknowledge renting the property but said that she was
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  not home when the fire occurred. Instead, she argued that it was
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  caused by faulty electrical wiring in the basement and
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  claimed that she had previously raised this concern with the
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  homeowner. Tiva is accusing me of burning
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  down his mother's house because I was lighting candles, which is
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  not true. I wasn't even in the in the home
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  when the fire happened. I was on a book tour.
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  He's also accusing me of having made his mom sign an NDA to
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  where she wasn't allowed to talk about a lawsuit or anything that
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  happened with the fire, which is not true either.
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  She also said she lost significant things in the fire,
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  like clothing, computers, hard drives, photographs and her pet
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  cat, Valentine. OK, so yes, this fire happened
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  and there was litigation around and all of that kind of stuff,
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  which obviously people can verify through records.
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  And then Jeffrey Starr got himself involved.
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  He just couldn't help it. So he commented on Tiva's video
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  writing. I know what really happened.
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  I'm so sorry your family had to go through this.
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  And then Tiva responded saying can we talk in private?
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  Going to DM you. And then he did make a video
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  saying he wasn't sure if he wanted to talk in private with
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  Jeffrey because he's like, I know that they were close.
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  And I'm not sure if I actually want to know the things that he
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  knows about Cat because it's going to make me more mad.
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  I watched Cat von D's. Video thing is cat.
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  Was not expecting my mom to have set me up.
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  With her. Own e-mail login right before
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  her passing so I have everything correspondence between attorneys
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  insurance demands. Preparations for.
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  Court, if it came to that. And most importantly, the fire
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  reports. Start with the first candle.
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  Fire that. Kat Von D had in the house was
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  she also tried to conceal I'm going to.
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  Read from my laptop but I will put the screenshot on the screen
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  as well. She goes on to say that it
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  wasn't a very big deal and she's respecting my mom's no smoking
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  rules. The neighbors called the fire
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  department after a candle set off the smoke alarm, claiming
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  there wasn't a real fire. It was no big deal.
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  Well, there's an instrument report for that too.
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  There were multiple investigators, both sent from
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  the insurance. Companies as well as private
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  forensic arson, they all had the same findings.
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  Kat Von D. Goes on to make my mom out to
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  sound as though she was a petty landlord and.
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  She makes me. Sound like I'm a money.
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  Hungry son who's? Looking to make money off of
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  this situation. I'm not making a dollar off of
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  this. Kat Von.
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  DI will never be able to prove what you were doing behind the
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  walls of my childhood home. But what I do know is that you
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  claim to be a Christian. It does not seem like a very
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  faithful thing to tell a lie about a situation that you
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  played a very large role in and gaslight the family and speak
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  false things about a situation that involved a woman who is no
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  longer here to defend herself. So if you guys have no idea
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  what's going on here, Kat Von D and Jeffrey Star had this highly
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  publicized falling out in 2016, which ended their very longtime
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  friendship. Like they were besties.
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  Besties. So this began when Kat Von D
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  publicly announced that she was disassociating herself from
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  Jeffree Star, citing his promotion of drug use, racism,
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  and bullying. In a following YouTube video,
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  Kat accused Jeffree Star of failing to pay a graphic
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  designer friend of hers who worked on his Makeups brand logo
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  as well. And then Jeffrey Star responded
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  to this in a lengthy Twitter rant and a 30 minute video
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  response in which he denied the allegations, claimed that the
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  graphic designer had been paid, and he accused Kavan D of
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  basically being a bad friend to him and hypocritical.
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  Anyways, like I said, both of these people suck and Jeffrey
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  just having to slither his way into this entire thing is so
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  freaking classic from him. I can't.
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  Anyways guys, that's it for Mini Scroll today.
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