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MINI SCROLL: Connor Franta x Troye Sivan confirmed, Made By Mitchell vs. Malachi + Madison Beer boyfriend rumours · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy, and the digital space.
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  Every Monday through Thursday and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Meissner, the founder of the youth digital
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  media brand Centennial World. Welcome back to Mini Scroll,
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  everyone. All right, if you guys are
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  watching, you might notice that we have a pink microphone now.
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  OK, let's just get into the stories for today.
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  The first story that I have for you guys.
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  I forgot to cover this yesterday, but there has been
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  some like quote UN quote drama unfolding between Connor Franta
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  and Troy Savant over the past two weeks.
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  So this is quite the throwback. It all started when Troy posted
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  the iconic picture of him, Connor Franta and Chapel Roan
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  before she was like the Chapel Roan to his Instagram on August
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  15th. The catch was that he had
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  cropped Connor out of the photo. The photo was the first photo in
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  a dump that was captioned a series of images.
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  He reportedly clarified that it was not his crop writing FYII
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  found that pic online doing my weekly Google of Troye, Sivan
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  and Chapelron. Not my crop.
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  Anyway, the post was a big deal to fans of Troye and Connor
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  because in the mid twenty 10s there were rumors circulating
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  for years that Troy and Connor were together.
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  Their ship name was actually Tronner.
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  A day later, Connor went on to post the picture with This Time
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  with Troy cropped out. His post was captioned My Good
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  Side, which many took as a reference to Troy song The Good
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  Side, which was from his 2018 album Bloom.
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  The song is a sort of apology to an ex-boyfriend about how their
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  breakup went down. Many believe the song is about
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  Connor. So this back and forth led to
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  Connor posting a video on YouTube also titled My Good
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  Side. In the video, Connor
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  acknowledged the back and forth on Instagram before admitting
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  his surprise that people still cared about quote a relationship
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  I had for two years. Through the video, he didn't
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  mention Troy by name or anything, but it was very clear
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  who he was talking about. When addressing the post, he
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  clarified there was no drama between him and his former
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  boyfriend. He even explained that they had
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  crossed paths at an event in recent years after breaking up
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  and it was very smooth. He did reflect on the song,
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  however. He also didn't say it by name,
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  but he said quote the horrible thing about that song.
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  I mean he was right, but he was also completely wrong.
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  I think he got the good side of things emotionally, but I think
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  in many ways a song like that neglects the idea that people
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  are individuals and everyone chooses their own path in life.
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  I think the good side of life is completely subjective.
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  And the older I get, the more I realize I'm living my good, good
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  side. To me, my life is exceptional.
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  And then he finished his video with a message to his viewers
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  and to Troy. He first said a big thank you to
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  anyone who continues to consume his content, saying that having
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  a platform is, quote, the honor of his life, which is so cute.
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  Meanwhile, his message to Troy was quote, I just want to let
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  you know that I'm proud of you for every single thing that
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  you've done. Stan's believe that this is also
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  another call back to the good side.
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  The song again, where the lyrics are, quote.
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  I'm sure we'll meet in the spring and catch up on
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  everything also say I'm proud of all that you've done.
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  OK like obviously obviously that's a call back to that so a
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  wholesome conclusion but people are dying that Chapel Roan is
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  like at the center of this. So many of the comments under
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  the video about Chapel like this one quote Chapel Roan being the
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  reason of getting closure on some 2014 lore was not in my
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  bingo cars. All right the next right that I
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  have for you guys is also something that unfolded earlier
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  this month. It only just came across my
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  desk, but it is very OG to Centennial.
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  Like it is about the beauty community.
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  It's about a collab scandal like that really feels like native to
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  how Centennial started. So I wanted to cover it even
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  though like I said, it is a little bit old.
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  This all went down like mid August.
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  But I don't know, I like I didn't even see it.
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  So there is a bit of like a scandal around Made by Mitchell,
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  the makeup brand by UK influencer Mitchell Halliday,
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  where people are calling a collab that he had in the works
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  a scam. So like I said, Mitchell Holiday
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  is Auk beauty influencer. He has his own brand called Made
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  by Mitchell. The company was apparently
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  really struggling, but then they got on TikTok shop a couple of
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  years ago. They've had a lot of products go
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  viral. They've seen a lot of success
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  from that. So they've really been popping
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  off in the last couple of years. Now this collab scandal
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  situation starts in March 2023. So on March 15th 2023 Mitchell
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  announced a global beauty competition called a Full Face
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  of Color Case and the prize was a winner would basically be able
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  to design their own collection with made by Mitchell and earn
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  Commission on those sales. The winner was a creator named
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  Malachi and earlier this month he made a multi video series on
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  how this all went down and basically blew up in his face.
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  So according to Malachi, he had a call with Mitchell scheduled
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  on May 23rd after the announcement of him winning.
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  Mitchell postponed this at the last minute saying he'd be too
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  busy. Two days later they spoke and
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  Mitchell invited him to Liverpool in June to discuss
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  business ideas. When Malachi arrived, he says
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  that Mitchell was hours late, but eventually they did meet and
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  Malachi shared an art book and sketchbook of different
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  concepts. He claims that he was told the
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  collection would include 10 to 15 products and they would be
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  aiming for a Christmas launch. Before he left, Mitchell gave
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  him a package of products, showing the giveaway off on
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  TikTok Live. Malachi accidentally left behind
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  his sketchbook, art book and the makeup package, but said that
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  Mitchell promised to mail them the next day.
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  He was also told, apparently, that the contract for this
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  collab would be ready in their next meeting.
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  Weeks passed and Malachi says neither his books nor the
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  package of makeup ever arrived. By late August, he messaged
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  Mitchell. He claims that Mitchell
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  reassured him that these things take time and progress would
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  come soon. When Malachi followed up in
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  October, he says he got no response and by the end of 2023,
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  still nothing had moved forward. A full year later, in March
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  2024, Malachi finally heard back.
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  Sarah, who was a member of the Made by Mitchell team, sent him
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  an NDA and a woman named Holly arranged a call to discuss the
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  project. But instead of moving forward
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  with his original idea, Malachi claims that he was asked to
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  pitch new concepts again, this time for a box set as opposed to
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  a full line. He says he initially didn't like
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  this idea because selling something as a box that he felt
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  would be too expensive for consumers.
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  So he says after this meeting, Mitchell emailed him thanking
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  him for his ideas, and then Malachi responded saying he
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  wanted to stick to an affordable collection, not a luxury box
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  set. He also says that he was told he
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  wouldn't be paid upfront, only through Commission on TikTok
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  shop sales. He says it was far from the,
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  quote, life changing money that Mitchell had promised in the
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  initial like collaboration announcement.
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  Then in September 2024, Malachi claims he was invited back to
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  Liverpool for another meeting. Once again there was no contract
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  and he was asked to share even more ideas.
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  Malachi says he didn't even hear back from them after this until
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  January 2025. On a call with this woman,
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  Sarah, he reminded her of Mitchell's promise of, quote,
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  life changing money. Weeks later, he was introduced
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  to Mitchell's business manager Jeanine, who allegedly assured
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  him a contract was on its way. After months of back and forth,
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  Malachi says the contract finally arrived in late May
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  2025, and it didn't reflect what he'd been promised.
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  Instead, it was basically only slightly better than the TikTok
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  shop deal. Malachi sent Mitchell a long
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  message of frustration. He says he'd put other
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  opportunities on hold, that his audience was still asking him
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  for this collab. And when Mitchell finally
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  responded, he kept it short. He said from then on,
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  communication would go through Jeanine.
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  And then on July 9th, Malachi walked away, telling Mitchell
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  the deal was nowhere near what had been promised.
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  And then, of course, about a month later, he made all of
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  these videos. So Mitchell did respond to his
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  videos on TikTok. He admitted that he had quote
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  bit off more than he could chew, saying that he hadn't run the
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  competition properly. He apologized to Malachi,
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  acknowledged that he hadn't dedicated enough time to push
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  the project through. Quote First of all, and most of
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  all, I want to apologize to Malachi for how this experience
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  has felt for him. I didn't prioritize the time to
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  get this collection through the gate the way I intended when I
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  first launched the challenge. The excuse he gave was basically
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  that made by Mitchell exploded overnight, which I already
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  mentioned, right, largely because of TikTok shop.
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  And so of course, that's going to kind of change your
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  priorities, take a lot of your time and energy and like just be
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  incredibly overwhelming for the founder if something blows up
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  like that, I guess. But he said he was still open to
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  a collaboration moving forward. And as far as I could see, all
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  of these videos have since been removed.
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  I've seen some people say, well, like 2 years is a normal amount
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  of time for a collab to get off the ground.
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  However, I think the problem here is that nothing was moving
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  forward. Like, yes, maybe 2 years to like
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  put products like an entire collection into production,
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  right? Like manufacturing, like coming
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  up with everything design wise, formula wise, packaging, all of
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  that and then put it into production and then get it out
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  for sale. Sure, that could be two years
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  and that could be normal, but Malachi didn't even have a
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  contract to sign for the first like 18 months.
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  So like nothing was in production, like nothing was
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  moving forward. I also saw somewhere on Reddit,
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  again, like a lot of these videos have been removed so I
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  haven't been able to Fact Check this, but I saw on Reddit people
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  saying that Malachi was really naive because he apparently was
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  saying he was expecting like a six figure partnership deal.
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  Like collaboration deal because it was branded as like life
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  changing money. The way that Mitchell promoted
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  this challenge and talked about what this opportunity would do
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  for the winners. Like yeah, I can see why he
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  maybe thought that. I do think the language that we
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  use around public promises, giveaways, challenges, that kind
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  of stuff is really important because it can really impact
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  people. So yeah, it's it's an
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  unfortunate situation across the board.
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  But like, of course, as you can imagine, the Internet is
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  overwhelmingly on Malachi's side.
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  All right, and the last story that I have for you guys, this
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  is just a quick one, but Madison Beer is rumored to be in a new
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  relationship. So Madison Beer has been spotted
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  and is rumored to be dating Los Angeles Chargers quarterback
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  Justin Herbert. The two were first spotted
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  together on August 18th, and there have since been several
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  paparazzi shots of them together.
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  A lot of Internet users, at least on Reddit, think that this
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  could be PR for her album release, mostly because the
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  paparazzi shots are from Back Rib, which is the agency that
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  celebrities can call on themselves.
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  I guess this would be getting her in the headlines, you know,
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  So it's kind of drumming up some buzz around her before her album
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  releases. If she has an album coming out.
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  I don't even know that. But yeah, I also didn't know she
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  was not dating Nick Austin anymore.
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  So Madison dated Tick Tocker Nick Austin for so long, and
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  they broke up in 2024. And I mean, I'm not that
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  surprised, like Nick Austin was like a friend of in the TikTok
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  hype house and I'm almost certain he dropped out of high
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  school to be like adjacent to the hype house.
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  And when he was criticized about that, I this just burned in my
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  brain. Like, you know, when you just
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  have like these random facts that happened in pop culture
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  that are just burned in your brain.
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  I will like never forget that he publicly addressed people like
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  basically criticizing him and making fun of him for dropping
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  out of high school to like kind of adjacently join the hype
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  house. Like he wasn't even in the hype
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  house. I'm pretty sure he was just
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  friends with Alex Warren, Oregon Thomas Petrou or like one of
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  those guys. And I remember he defended
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  himself so staunchly being like, I'm moving to LA to like join
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  forces with the most popular, you know, TikTok house or
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  whatever, like making millions of dollars, blah, blah, blah.
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  And yeah, unfortunately, where is the hype house now?
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  Unfortunately, but he got to date Madison beer from it.
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  So you know what's live. And he still has 3,000,000
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  followers on Instagram and 8 million followers on TikTok.
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  So you know what, he probably actually has a pretty OK career.
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  So you know what, go forth, Nick Austin, I'm happy for you.
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  Anyways, guys, that's it for mini scroll today.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I love you guys.
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  Please remember to rate, review and subscribe.
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  This was a bit of a light Newsday.
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  It's very rare that we like struggle to find stories, but
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  today we were scraping OK. So hopefully when I talked to
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  you guys on Thursday, the stories will be fresher.
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  Anyways, I love you guys and I will talk to you on Thursday and
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  Annabelle will talk to you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye, yeah.