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MINI SCROLL: Aspyn Ovard vs. mother-in-law, Under The Influence Show comes for Drew Afualo + Yung Filly arrest · 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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  I am recording this episode a day early so this is Sunday
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  right now. So I am just hoping that nothing
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  crazy happens overnight that I miss.
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  But bear with me because I have 3 pretty big stories for you
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  guys today. So much has happened in the last
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  couple of days and I feel like they're pretty meaty stories.
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  But the first one, you guys, I don't know if I can handle what
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  is happening on TikTok right now with Aspenovard.
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  I feel like the content that she's putting out is so out of
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  character. I'm going to get into it.
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  But I feel like what we have seen from her these last few
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  days has felt so out of character that I can't tell if
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  she's like really just trying to like have fun with coping with
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  everything that she's discovered through her divorce and like
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  what she's going through. Or if she's like kind of having
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  like a bit of a breakdown and this is like a cry for help.
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  And maybe it's like a little bit of both.
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  I have no idea. I feel like I'm struggling to
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  keep up with like how quickly things are changing all the
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  stuff that she's posting. So I've done my best to put
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  together like high level the most important points of what
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  happened this weekend on TikTok with her.
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  But you know, I know I'm supposed to be the one that like
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  keeps you guys up to date, but like I am struggling to stay up
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  to date. This is getting like out of
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  control so bear with me. I think I figured it out, but if
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  I have missed something I am sorry.
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  OK, so over the weekend, Aspen has posted some wild videos
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  related to her divorce. The video that I spoke about
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  last week where she talked about like what she wants in a future
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  partner. She addressed that video because
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  basically everyone was speculating that she was outing
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  Parker in that video as gay because she had like rainbow
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  hearts on it. And she was talking about this
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  like big 10 year lie. So she made a video saying he is
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  not gay. She actually wishes he was gay
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  because she likes gay guys. And she said she's also never
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  been cheated on as far as she knows.
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  So I guess those were the two biggest rumors that came out of,
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  you know, her recent content. So she's saying he didn't cheat
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  on me. He's not gay.
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  She also said in one of the videos where she was addressing
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  if he was gay or not, she had like, a caption that said he's
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  not gay, but I might be, though. And then she made a video saying
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  she can't believe that she hasn't picked up on any of the
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  signs that she never picked up on the signs that they were
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  there for so long. But she still won't tell us,
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  like, what those signs are or like the reason why she's
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  getting divorced. And then the most unhinged part
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  of the saga. The most unhinged era of this so
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  her mother-in-law Parker's mother made an Instagram story.
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  Her Instagram handle is 13 Cafe and she posted like an AI
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  generated image of a bear and wrote stop Mama bear is coming
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  out. Stay tuned.
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  And then she put a poll and the poll says would you like to hear
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  another side of the story? Yes, no, it's giving boy mom.
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  So then Aspen responded to this highly inappropriate post with
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  some actually wild content. So first she posted this video
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  with Parker sitting on his lap and they were both like smiling
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  and Aspen used this sound. Oscar, listen, baby, I know I
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  was a bad girl, but come on, you'd have to be crazy.
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  So everyone was so confused. They're like, has this just been
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  like a troll this whole time? Is this all just for money?
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  Is this like APR thing? And then she posted the most
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  hilarious video. OK, this is this is like the
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  unhinged one. This is where actually people,
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  especially on Reddit, started to say, like, I think I'm kind of
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  turning on this. This is feeling a bit like much.
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  You know, she started this whole saga off by saying she's not
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  going to talk about anything related to her divorce out of
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  respect for her daughters. And now she's posting content
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  like this and I actually don't have an opinion one way or
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  another. She's addressed that.
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  Sorry. I'm like getting ahead of
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  myself. She addressed the whole like,
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  concern for her kids thing in her most recent video, saying my
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  kids are going to see this content when they get older and
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  going to think like, mom, you slayed.
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  So OK girl, so in this video, she's in short shorts and a tank
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  top and she's straddling Parker, who is like, I assume he's he's
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  the one filming her while he's laying down.
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  So she's like straddling while he's laying down and she's
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  grinding up on him. And she put this like a blurry
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  sensor where his Dick essentially would be sticking
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  up. And she wrote on the video, his
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  mom can't do what I can. And then in the caption she
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  wrote, she's Mama bear, but I'm mother.
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  I can't. And this is the sound that she
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  used. What what Like this is the stuff
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  where I'm like, this is so not the Aspen that we have known.
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  And she actually has also addressed those comments.
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  She said, like, you know, you only see it such a small
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  fraction of who I am in my life and whatever.
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  We know that about influencers, but this is shocking.
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  So then she made another video the next day saying like, she's
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  just having fun, she's trying to cope.
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  And she also mentioned her mother-in-law in this video.
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  I'm a shell of a human and I think that I will be for a long
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  time, if not forever. The grief from that is
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  definitely going to come in waves for me.
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  Making funny tik toks is just funny.
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  People are like, oh, this is for the.
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  Views and the money guys, I don't need the money from this.
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  Getting divorced and being sad like that is literally I'm
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  traumatized. It always feels better to laugh
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  and I know that when my girls grow up.
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  And if they? See any of these videos?
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  They're going to be like, Mom, you were an icon, Mom you
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  slayed, Mom, you ate grandma up with that one.
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  Post So it's very clear that her mother-in-law has triggered
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  something really major in Aspen to like post these follow up
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  videos. And I also think it's clear that
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  her mother-in-law either played like a big enough role in what
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  is going on with her and Parker and their divorce.
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  And I've also heard that Aspen and her mother-in-law used to be
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  really close. So I think everything coming out
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  like whatever has come out, we still don't know, but whatever
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  has come out in their family that has made Aspen file for
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  divorce or at least has contributed to her filing for
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  divorce. When she said there was like
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  this big 10 year lie that everyone knew about except for
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  her, it's very clear that her mother-in-law, I'm assuming, was
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  in on this lie as well. So the main theory among fans is
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  that Parker did something shady with their finances.
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  She's talked about it on her TikTok from last week that he
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  didn't have a job, he didn't contribute.
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  She was kind of like making jobs at him, like financially and
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  professionally. She's debunked all the other
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  rumors for the most part that have been swirling about, like,
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  why she might be divorcing Parker, but she has not
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  addressed the money thing. So people think that he was
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  probably, like, stealing or hiding money from her.
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  It is primarily her money, if not basically almost all of it.
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  I think he worked with her. And so people think he was,
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  yeah, taking money, hiding money, keeping money from her,
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  and that his family knew about it for like, 10 years.
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  That's the most recent theory on Reddit.
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  But people are like, kind of living for this.
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  But they're also kind of like, can you just fucking tell us,
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  though, if you're going to do all of this, like, please just
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  tell us. But I am just so happy, you
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  guys, that I know who Aspen Ovard is and that I have you
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  guys that also care about who Aspen Ovard is because I know
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  there's so many people in the world, in the world on the
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  Internet that have like, no friends that they can talk to
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  about this. I have one friend in my personal
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  life and we've just been sending each other shit like all week
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  and I'm so glad that I have you guys because this is like the
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  tea of the century for me at least in this current moment.
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  OK the next story that I have for you guys is that Drew
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  Afwallow has come for the Under the Influence podcast after they
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  made really horrific, misogynistic and just like mean
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  comments about her and her fiance on their show.
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  So this is a podcast by 4 creators.
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  We would talk Kim, Jeremy Kim or Jeremy Kim Kardashian, Viet trap
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  and Kanye West, Esther or Esther.
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  So they talk about quote modern life through relationships,
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  religion, psychedelics and all your intrusive thoughts.
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  There are really big podcasts that have nearly 800,000
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  followers on TikTok and over 282,000 subscribers on YouTube,
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  which is a big podcast. So a couple of days ago in a new
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  episode of their podcast, they basically came for TikTok star
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  Drew Afualo unprovoked. They called her the female
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  version of a red pilled masculinity influencer.
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  And they also called her fiance creepy as hell when they saw a
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  photo of him. And then in the clip, if you're
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  not watching the video, you won't see this.
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  But Esther, she gives this like disgusted look when she sees a
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  picture of Drew's fiance. This.
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  Guy made a video how he's talking about drew a flu flow,
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  how she's literally getting married and she's like, she's
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  preventing you from getting married while she's getting
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  married, Yeah, she's telling you to hate all men, Yep.
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  When she's marrying a man, Yep. And what the This guy looks
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  creepy as hell. Yeah, he's scary looking.
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  Yeah, scary. But anyways also like she's like
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  if they hate whatever the red pill version of a man is, she is
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  the red pill version of a female 100.
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  But she's also creating. She's like, if there was a
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  manufacturer of red pill men, she'd be in the top five.
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  Yeah. So just like really mean stuff
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  completely unprovoked. And I mean, this happens to Drew
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  all the time. Men come for her unprovoked all
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  the time because she puts men in their place.
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  But now Queen Drew has responded.
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  Damn. Y'all aren't fucking with me.
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  Wait a second, you're telling me the three men under 5A who do
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  Vegas trips with the boys and use devil emojis on their catch
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  don't like me? Oh my God, yeah.
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  Fucking shocker. Yeah, I'm shocked to my fucking
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  core that three grown men built like Victor from the fucking
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  Corpse Bride and we're struggling to regurgitate the
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  argument from a tick tock of a different bitch ass dude who
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  hates me. Don't really like me that much.
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  Oh my God, someone get Dumois on the phone.
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  Yeah, add it to my fucking tab, you fucking stupid bitch.
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  Of course you hate me. Of course you do.
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  Look at you. Of course she the funniest part
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  about everything they said in that stupid fucking clip, other
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  than the fact that I genuinely believe they thought I was never
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  going to see that fucking shit and weren't counting on the fact
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  that I'm various in Game of Thrones.
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  Bitch, you talk shit on me, one of my little birds is going to
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  find it. Yeah, but I digress.
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  Other than that, the funniest part about that clip is what
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  they're saying. I said she tells women to hate
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  all men and never get married. I have never fucking said that
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  shit. I don't tell women to hate all
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  men, I tell them to fucking forget about.
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  You and then shortly after she revealed that they blocked her.
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  I actually think for a minute they might have taken down their
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  whole TikTok account. I saw a lot of comments of
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  people being like their account has been taken down or maybe
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  they've just like been mass blocking people that were
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  supporting drew publicly. I don't know but I could see
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  their TikTok account still up so for me they're still up.
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  I assume they've just blocked her and maybe blocked some other
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  people, but I mean, that's what you get for being a huge fucking
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  asshole for no reason about not just someone who is so beloved,
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  like Drew is beloved amongst like just women on the app, but
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  in general, like you, just like, why would you just come for
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  someone so unprovoked, so rude? All right.
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  I had finished recording and then I remembered that I
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  completely forgot to cover the Young Philly situation and this
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  is a really important story to cover for women Internet culture
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  in general. So big trigger warning, this
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  story is going to contain mentions of sexual assault and
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  violence against women, so definitely click out if you are
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  not in the headspace for this. But British YouTube and rapper
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  Young Philly was arrested in Australia for rape and assault
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  last week. This is very boy Internet, but
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  Young Philly is one of the most famous British Youtubers and
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  he's recently been on tour in Australia.
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  At the end of last week, he was arrested in Brisbane and taken
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  back to Perth where the alleged assault occurred.
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  This is directly from the Guardian, quote.
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  He is accused of assaulting a woman in a hotel room after a
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  nightclub performance on 27th of September.
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  He faces four counts of sexual penetration without consent and
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  three counts of assault, plus another count of impeding a
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  person's normal breathing or circulation by applying pressure
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  to their neck. So strangulation.
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  He was granted bail as long as he surrendered his passport,
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  stays in WA, does not post about the case on social media and
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  does not contact the alleged victim.
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  He is, rightfully so, losing brand deals.
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  So far he has lost brand deals from the likes of Heinz, ASOS
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  and the Football Association. This is so horrific and I'm so,
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  so glad that the alleged victim has spoken out, has presumably
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  pressed charges. I assume that's how this has
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  happened. And I'm glad that it's being
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  taken seriously. But I will say, a lot of the
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  stuff that I've seen online, there is a lot of people
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  defending him, which I think is sick and twisted.
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  And in Internet culture there is.
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  I mean, this is just in life, but especially with pop culture
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  reporting, Internet culture reporting, there is a lot of
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  focus on women holding women accountable.
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  And I think there's this kind of belief that influencing and
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  creating is primarily a woman's domain, like a woman's industry,
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  like a female dominated industry.
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  And therefore, maybe that's kind of how people justify this, but
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  there is consistently, and I'm guilty of this too, so much more
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  heat on holding women accountable in this space.
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  But when it comes to men in this space, they are consistently
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  defended. There is just never the same
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  amount of accountability and heat on them.
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  And they're the ones that are doing so much harm, like the
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  magnitude of harm that I mean, men in general do compared to
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  women. But you know, including in this
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  space, like the things that people are like, this is not
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  like quote UN quote cancelled. Like that is not at all what is
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  happening here. But like the things, if you're
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  going to use that word that men are cancelled for in this
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  industry versus what women are cancelled for in this industry,
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  you know, 9 times out of 10, what the man has done, what men
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  are doing is so much worse. And the heat is just not there
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  for them. So I wanted to touch on this
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  story because it's so I think it's so important that we talk
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  about this, that we are aware of what's going on and that we hold
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  him accountable. Like this is he is literally one
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  of the biggest Youtubers in England, like one of the biggest
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  British Youtubers. And the last little tidbit of
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  information that I wanted to share with you guys.
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  It's not really a story, but it's just like a little
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  something Trisha Paytas has said that she wants to remove or
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  plans to remove a lot of her old content from her OG YouTube
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  channel Blonde ascend all for Mji know it is filled with
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  deeply problematic content. Speaking of holding creators
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  accountable, I support her taking that content down.
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  I support her taking that because of like the harm that it
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  causes honestly. But I would feel a little bit
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  sad if she deleted the whole channel because or removed all
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  the content because like that is like an Internet archive.
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  Like that is YouTube history that is like OG that's like a
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  chronicle of like OG YouTube days like a genuinely is.
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  So I would be sad if she took that down.
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  I would understand why I took down all my old YouTube content.
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  Maybe like, I don't know, maybe like two years ago, I just
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  privated the videos. I only did YouTube for a couple
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  of years. But even in the span of those
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  couple years, like I changed so much.
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  I grew so much I felt like the content didn't represent present
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  like who I was anymore or what I wanted to be like putting out
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  there in the world. And yeah, I was just like, this
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  is just not me anymore. So I get it.
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  But I feel like we would be losing a really big piece of
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  Internet history if she did that.
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  All right guys. Well, that's it for mini scroll.
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  I'm sorry to end on such a shitty note, but I love you
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  guys. Thank you so much for listening.
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  Just a reminder that on Wednesday I will have no mini
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  scroll because I have a crazy day at South by Southwest.
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  I'm speaking on two panels and I'm also interviewing Heather
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  and Whitney from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
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  I'm really excited because the publicist said that I do have
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  permission to put the footage and the interview on the
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  podcast. So I'm hoping that it turns out
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  well enough for the pod. You know, I don't want to put up
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  like shit content. So if the interview just isn't
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  quite right, then I won't publish it on the podcast.
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  And it will just be on TikTok at Centennial World TikTok.
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  But if it flows, if it's long enough, if it's media enough, if
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  it's good enough, then I will absolutely post it on the
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  podcast, which is really exciting.
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  Anyways, I love you guys and I will talk to you tomorrow.
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  Bye.