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MINI SCROLL: Gypsy Rose Blanchard accused of silencing MBP survivors + Galvanized Square Steel-Tok · 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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  All right everyone, Happy Monday.
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  I hope you guys had a great weekend.
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  I had. It was fine.
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  That was so like won't, won't. But honestly, that's kind of how
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  it felt. I'm feeling really like burnt
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  out at the moment and I'm just trying to like get through every
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  day. I feel like this is me having a
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  bit of a revelation, just chatting through my revelation
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  with you guys. I feel as though the beginning
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  of the year was so crazy and I was like, all right, I just have
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  to make it to like, you know, halfway through the year.
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  Like, I would literally fantasize about June, and I
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  would just think to myself, by June everything will be like, so
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  much better. I'll be so much calmer.
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  I'll have a new routine in place.
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  I'll feel so much more in control.
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  And obviously June is in like 2 weeks, not even.
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  And I'm like, Oh no, no. I'm just as frazzled and chaotic
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  as I was at the beginning of the year.
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  A different vibe for sure. I'm much less anxious and like I
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  do have a lot more under control than I did then, but now I just
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  feel out of control in other ways.
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  But I was talking to my hairdresser, Alex.
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  I've been going to him for like 100 years.
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  It feels truly, I think it's been, I think it's probably been
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  five years, five or six years, so maybe not quite 100.
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  But he owns the salon and you know, he's so he's also like a
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  business owner and we talk a lot about stuff like that.
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  And I was kind of telling him, like, I'm really struggling
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  right now because I think I was looking to this time of the year
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  and thinking, Oh my God, it's going to be so much better.
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  And now I'm at this time of the year and I'm like, I don't feel
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  any more like, in control. I don't feel like I have work
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  under control really yet. And I feel like I'm just always
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  catching up constantly. And I don't have time for, like
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  my friends or to hang out with Sean or like anything.
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  He gave me some good advice. He gave me the perspective of,
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  like, you know, when you own a business, some years are really
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  chaotic and some years are much more chill.
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  And that's part of the roller coaster.
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  So you just have to accept that this year is a year where you're
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  going to feel out of control, possibly the whole year.
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  And like, you were going to be working crazy hours seven days a
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  week to catch up and to find this new normal and to get the
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  business to where it needs to be so that you can take a small
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  step back. But with everything that
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  happened at the start of this year, does kind of feel like I'm
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  back, not definitely not at square one, but like I'm back a
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  couple years. I feel like I, you know, I took
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  the business back a little bit. So, you know, I'm just trying to
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  accept that this year is going to be really wild and I'm not
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  going to have a lot of rest. I'm not going to have a lot of
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  time to do gym or hang out with my friends.
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  Like I just have to be laser focused on the business and I
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  need to accept that instead of like trying to resist that and
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  waiting for it to like chill out because it might not chill out
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  for the rest of this year. And I just need to be like, OK
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  with that. So that is what I worked through
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  this weekend. I'm still not fully accepting of
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  it. Like, I'm still kind of like,
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  are you fucking kidding me? But I have come to that
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  realization that I need to accept it.
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  All right, let's get into the stories for today.
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  So I have two stories for you guys.
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  The first story is a bit of like a darker one.
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  And then the second story I'm just obsessed with.
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  OK, so the first story is that a Tik Toker is claiming that Gypsy
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  Rose Blanchard is striking her videos to silence her
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  Munchausen's By proxy story. TikTok, creator at Adaptive
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  Kate, has made some serious claims against Gypsy Rose
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  Blanchard. Kate is a Munchausen's by proxy
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  survivor who makes content sharing the story of how she
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  faced medical child abuse by her mother.
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  Kate has over 150,000 followers and has gone viral several times
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  for her story. In a new video posted last week,
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  Kate opened up about how she feels Gypsy wants quote full
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  ownership of Munchausen's by proxy as condition to use
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  basically as a marketing tool to make money, and as a result
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  Gypsy is trying to silence other survivors.
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  Kate also said that she believes Gypsy has started sharing
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  elements of Kate's own experience with her mother and
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  trying to pass those elements of that story off as Gypsy story.
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  I can't say her name because she will have my video removed, but
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  you will know who this is about. There is the face in My Child
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  Syndrome, my proxy out there. This face of it believes they
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  have sole ownership of it as if it is an advertisement title.
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  They are against other survivors sharing their story.
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  This particular face of it has targeted my account, has trolled
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  me in my life. So stepmom has told me and they
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  master for my videos and she wants me to stop telling my
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  story. I have been on TikTok for three
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  years sharing my story. I had no issues until she got
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  out. I have been targeted by her most
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  recently, but even prior to that I was targeted by her stands as
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  they call them. So I think no matter, you know,
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  kind of how you feel about Gypsy, I know there's a huge
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  portion of the Internet that feels she shouldn't have gone to
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  jail. And other portions of the
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  Internet that feel she should have gone to jail for sure.
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  And that, you know, we shouldn't be kind of platforming her in
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  this way and like celebrating her as like an influencer.
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  Now. I think this particular story
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  and just what we've seen from Gypsy since she's been released,
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  there was a lot of concern when she started to become like an
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  influencer and people started like standing her and stuff that
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  it was going to go sideways. And a lot of questions about
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  like what she wanted to gain from all of this and what this
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  was going to do to the Munchausen by proxy community
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  but also Gypsies mental health. And I think that we're watching
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  some of that play out. Like, I don't.
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  Obviously we don't know if what Kate is saying is true, but
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  let's say it is. I think we are kind of watching
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  the results of somebody coming out of jail after such a
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  traumatic, I mean life that they led.
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  And then getting sent to prison and then coming out and being
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  like a full-fledged celebrity, being celebrated.
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  The Internet making like fan edits of her just absolutely
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  turning her into a meme but also this like pedestaled public
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  figure. And I think it would be too much
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  for kind of anyone to handle. Especially somebody who has the
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  experience in this back story like Gypsy has, you know,
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  getting that famous that quickly, that much praise, that
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  much money, that much excitement, all these
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  interviews. Like she, it was a shitstorm
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  from the minute that she left prison.
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  And I believe, you know, fame and money and accolades that,
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  you know, that goes to anyone's head.
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  And so I can see if Kate's story is true.
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  I can see how you would get protective of that thing that
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  you feel like makes you different, that makes you
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  famous, that gives you that money, you know, that has
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  basically built your career. You would get probably
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  protective of that thing. So I could see how Gypsy has
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  become kind of weirdly protective over being the famous
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  one who, you know, experienced Munchausen by proxy.
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  And I can see how any person might get caught up in the fame
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  and the glitz and the glamour of what she's currently
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  experiencing and not want that to go away.
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  And being fearful that maybe there's not room for, you know,
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  two quote UN quote famous Munchausen's by proxy girlies on
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  the Internet 'cause I think if this is true, if she is striking
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  her videos, I believe that's probably where it's coming from.
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  All right. The next story that I have for
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  you guys, OK, so galvanized square Steel talk is the latest
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  niche corner of the Internet to go viral.
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  This story is for the marketing and the social media girlies.
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  I mean, it's for anybody that wants to stay in the know, but
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  if you guys work in that space, you have to jump on this trend
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  like ASAP. So we're saying goodbye to
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  industrial grade glycine and we are saying hello to galvanized
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  square steel. So the latest niche to sweep
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  TikTok is AI generated videos, mocking renovation videos that
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  turn small spaces into functional homes.
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  So I mean, I'm sure we've all seen that there's like full HGTV
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  shows about this, right? It's like you take a tiny little
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  New York apartment or some tiny little space and you or like a
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  van or something and you turn it into something very beautiful
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  and fully functioning. So it's like mocking that type
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  of content. OK, so each video involves some
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  AI generated person. You usually see them in the
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  video when it starts saying they've saved all their money or
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  they inherited some money or something and they have
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  purchased this tiny little room. Like some of the rooms are
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  literally like a square meter, like that's how small these
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  rooms are. Many say that the room is even
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  too small for their grandfathers coffin.
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  That's one specific element that is for some reason just this
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  through line in most of the videos is there's like a mention
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  of a grandfather's coffin they say quote.
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  Now let's see how we can turn this into a fully functional
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  house. And then they remove the windows
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  or the walls. And you're watching this like in
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  AI, like you're watching it happen on the video.
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  And they use galvanized square steel that extend outward to
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  expand the room. And then they almost all also
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  quote, borrow some screws from their aunt to secure these steel
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  frames. So again, it's the grandfather's
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  coffin and the ants, screws that are like these two very specific
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  and bizarre elements that like tie up the meme in these videos.
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  If the video has these two things they are like truly part
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  of this niche. And then you cover that steel in
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  eco friendly wood veneers again. So galvanized square steel, tiny
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  square meter room, grandfather's coffin ants, screws and eco
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  friendly wood veneers. Those are like the five main
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  elements of these videos. So this meme is like another Don
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  Juan Jinlong situation, Another like glycine industrial Gray
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  glycine situation where it's so bizarre that users are now
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  creating their own content around it.
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  And actual renovation and home building videos are now flooded
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  with comments from people asking if they're using like galvanized
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  square steel and eco friendly wood veneers and if they got the
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  screws from their aunt. It's so funny, people are
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  literally making like fan edits for galvanized square steel.
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  So I believe that this niche, it's been kind of going on for a
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  few weeks. Like Annabelle said that her
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  friend showed her this side of TikTok a couple weeks ago, but
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  over the weekend it has like literally exploded.
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  It's like with John Wanjin Long, like they started their accounts
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  in December, but then like over the course of two days, like the
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  whole concept of them and like the Glycine and all that like
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  exploded. So we're at that precipice right
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  now where it's about to explode. So if you guys want to make
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  content around that, definitely get on it ASAP because I think
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  this will be another one that comes and goes really quickly,
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  but it's so niche and internetti right now.
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  It's so funny. All right guys, well that's it
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  for Mini Scroll today. I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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  It means a lot to me and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.
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  Bye.