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MINI SCROLL: Chappell Roan TikTok update, Alix Earle accused of copying Becca Moore + Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield Baltimore backlash · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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  daily Internet culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories
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  from social media, the creator economy, and the digital space
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  every Monday through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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  the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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  Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
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  And if you guys watch on YouTube, you might notice that I
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  have a new little guest today. Well, she's not new.
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  She has been on the podcast before, but she hasn't been on
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  it in a very long time. It is my little doggie pumpkin.
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  I actually don't think I've recorded with her since we moved
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  to the studio, but I brought her to the office today because I
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  don't think I let you guys know. But when we were away in Europe
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  for my friend's wedding, my brother was taking care of her
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  and he woke up one day and her face was like a balloon.
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  Like it looked like she was in anaphylactic shock.
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  Anyways, it turned out she had a really bad infection in her jaw
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  from a back like molar tooth that got infected somehow.
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  So she recently had surgery for it and she's doing really well.
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  But you know, we have to keep a close eye on her.
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  And Sean is going into the office today.
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  So I was like, I'll bring her and she can guest Co host the
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  pod. Anyways, let's just get straight
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  into the episode for today. So the first story that I have
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  for you guys is that Chapel Rhone has spoken out once again
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  about her comments about endorsing a presidential
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  candidate and how they have been skewed.
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  So Chapel posted another TikTok just this morning.
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  And look, I don't want to harp on this too much because we've
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  covered it a lot. And clearly she feels like
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  there's a lot of noise around this and she feels like it's
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  being misconstrued. And I don't want to necessarily
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  add to that, but I did want to like update you guys.
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  She's made a new video basically saying that endorsing and voting
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  for are very different and she wants people to understand that,
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  which I actually really appreciated.
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  She said essentially that publicly endorsing one candidate
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  or another would be putting her name and essentially her entire
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  project Chapel Roan like behind a candidate or behind a party.
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  And she said both parties have policies that she does not
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  support or does not agree with. And, you know, voting is very
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  different than endorsing. So she said, yes, I'm voting for
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  Kamala, but that doesn't mean that I will settle for what has
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  been offered. And endorsing, she feels for
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  herself would essentially be her settling for what is being
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  offered to the American voters. But yes, that is the latest
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  update on that. OK, The next story that I have
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  for you guys is that Alex Earl has been accused of copying
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  Becca Moore's podcast aesthetic in her new rebrand.
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  So Alex Earl released the rebrand for season 2 of her
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  podcast Hot Mess yesterday, and it's drawn a lot of criticism
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  because the cover art and just the new aesthetic in general,
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  it's very similar to Tick Tock creator Becca Moores popular
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  podcast for the girls. We've actually never talked
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  about Becca Moore before and I really like Becca Moore.
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  She's dating Shannon Beveridge, who is like such an OG in the
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  creator space. She's like an OG YouTube.
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  And you guys know, I'm just like very entrenched in like lesbian
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  TikTok. It's just one of my favorite
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  niches on the app. So I'm so here for like when
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  Becca and Shannon first announced they were dating, I
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  was literally in shock. I was going insane.
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  And I am always scared to say that I love a creator,
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  especially a white creator because honestly more often than
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  not we are eating our words unfortunately.
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  But for now, what I know of her, I do really like Becca.
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  OK so Alex's cover art is very similar to Becca's.
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  They're both laying on their bed like talking on the phone.
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  It's kind of like pin up style vibe, but like a little bit
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  messier, very girly. It actually gives Sabrina
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  Carpenter's current era. Like that's what it reminds me
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  of both of those cover arts. However, others are saying that
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  while yes, maybe it appears that Alex has taken some inspiration
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  from Becca, Becca actually copied her podcast aesthetic and
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  cover art and also the name for the girls from another podcast,
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  which is obviously also called For the Girls.
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  And the one that I found, I think this is the right 1.
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  So it's by Victoria Alario. It says it has 2,000,000
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  downloads and over 7500 followers on Instagram.
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  The podcast is called for the girls podcast and the cover art
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  from what I can tell is very similar.
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  It is, I assume this is Victoria sitting on her bed talking on
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  like an old school vintage phone rollers in her hair and her
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  podcast says it's from 2021. I think when it comes to the the
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  accusations of Alex copying Becca, I do think it's probably
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  just more so that aesthetic and vibe is so popular right now.
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  Like I said, it's very Sabrina Carpenter, and I wouldn't say
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  that Sabrina Carpenter like made it trendy at the moment, but I
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  would say that she has helped very much bring it back into the
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  zeitgeist. Like that aesthetic, that whole
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  vibe, it's been around for so long.
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  It's not new. It is not something that Becca
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  Moore made-up or that this girl Victoria made-up.
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  But if I was Victoria, I would actually be a little bit pissed.
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  There are just so few truly original ideas.
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  But I will say, we just talked about what 2 days ago about like
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  the blatant plagiarism that can happen in the creator space.
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  So I don't know, maybe maybe Alex did take a little bit more
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  than just some inspo from Becca's cover art.
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  But it's not like Becca owns that aesthetic, that vibe.
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  Anyone can kind of replicate it, put their own twist on it, which
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  is essentially what Alex has done.
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  OK. And the final story that I have
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  for you guys is that Tana Mojo and Brooke Schofield are facing
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  backlash for a video that they made about their Baltimore tour
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  show. So since Brooks racist tweets
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  emerged and she returned to the canceled podcast, fans have not
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  been very happy with how the women have handled or talked
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  about the situation. For example, in Brooks first
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  episode back, Tanna wore AT shirt that said only God can
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  cancel me. And this just felt very
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  disrespectful to the hurt that Brooke caused, especially
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  because Brooks tweet about Trayvon Martin was just so
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  sinister and dark. And Tana had also done this like
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  big spiel on her first episode on cancelled.
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  Like after Brooks tweets surfaced, Tana came back on the
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  podcast herself and did that whole like, monologue at the
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  start. And she was like trying to take
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  accountability for her past stuff and, you know, apologize
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  for her past racist history and things like that.
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  So then wearing this T-shirt, when Brooke came back, it was
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  like, oh, OK. So like both of your apologies,
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  it just felt so performative. It was like a slap in the face.
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  It was like they were mocking what had happened, right?
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  So since then, people have continued to have issues with
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  how the women have handled things.
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  And now they are under even more fire for a TikTok that they
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  posted about their live podcast show in Baltimore.
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  So in the video, they laugh and joke about how they don't have a
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  fan base in Baltimore. And they've only sold like 27
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  tickets to their show. Tana clarified in the caption
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  that the show was actually 55% sold.
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  But compared to I think most of their shows are usually sold
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  out. So they were like joking about
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  the fact that like they don't have a fan base in Baltimore and
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  they couldn't believe it. So this also just felt so
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  ignorant and people like literally can't believe that
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  they posted it and that it's still up.
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  Because if you know anything about Baltimore, as of 2024
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  demographic stats, 61.25% of people that live in Baltimore
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  are black or African American. So it's clear why their
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  Baltimore show is not sold out. It's clear that, yeah, they
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  probably don't have a big fan base in Baltimore because over
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  60% of the city is reportedly black or African American.
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  And Brooke was quite literally just involved in this giant
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  scandal where all these horrible racist tweets came out.
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  And then they've been like seemingly making light of the
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  situation on their podcast. And it just feels like they
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  haven't learned anything and they're not really taking it
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  that seriously. So I'm going to read some
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  comments from the TikTok. Ash 1111 said, are you insane to
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  be posting this? This is dehumanizing.
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  Do you see the demographics of Baltimore?
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  Y'all will never change. Steph said hey, so this is
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  insane. T said, oh girl, I thought at
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  least Tana was smarter than this.
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  And then hi :) said ha, I mean, we are living in the same
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  universe. Like did we forget what came out
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  like a month ago? So yeah, in general, people are
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  very disappointed in how they have been given the second
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  chance. I mean, Tana's been given like
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  100 chances, but you know what I mean.
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  They've been given this chance to properly take accountability,
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  apologize, learn, change, and it feels like they're actually just
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  kind of throwing all of this back in everyone's faces.
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  But anyways, guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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