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MINI SCROLL: Unwell Vegas recap, King Kylie resurrects + viral American couple faces backlash amid Canada visit · Mini Scroll

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  stories for today. So the first story that I have
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  for you guys is I wanted to give a very high level recap of
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  Unwell Vegas, which is Alex Cooper's Unwell Networks, like
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  convention, pop culture convention festival that just
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  happened this weekend in Las Vegas.
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  So essentially, yes, it was like a festival convention thing
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  where people could buy tickets. You could basically party with
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  Alex and the Unwell network and the celebrities that they had
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  invited. There were panels, there were
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  like DJ sets. There was like tons going on.
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  It did actually look really fun, at least from social.
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  The biggest guest as far as I saw, Trisha Paytas, Paris
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  Hilton, Nicole Byer, Harry Jowsey, Tera Yummy, Heather
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  McMahon, Hallie Batchelder, Chrishelle Staus, and then a ton
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  of like Bravo liberties like Meredith Marx, Sonia Morgan,
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  Heather Gay, Kathy Hilton, Erica Jane, Stassi Schroeder, Bethenny
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  Frankel and more. It did look star-studded in
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  terms of like the people that I personally care about.
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  Like it was like the perfect crossover for we as a human
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  being, a Bravo Liberty and then like chronically online
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  celebrities. Like nothing is more Lauren
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  Meisner than that. Tricia Paytas at Unwell Festival
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  was awarded the lifetime achievement award for online
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  excellence and peak insanity. And no matter how you feel about
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  Tricia, I'm going to say if Tricia's going to win any type
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  of lifetime achievement award like this, is it especially by
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  the Unwell Network, Like if you were to say what celebrity, what
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  like online personality is the most unwell like it's probably
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  Trisha Paytas just like as a human.
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  So it's very fitting. Now there was a little bit of
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  like fan drama feedback criticism around this because
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  fans were pretty shook that Tana Mojo flew back from Hawaii
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  apparently to watch Trisha get this award at Unwell when she
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  didn't fly back to LA for Brooks engagement.
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  I don't need to rehash why that was, but she basically said that
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  she was getting like construction on her house in
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  Hawaii and couldn't get it moved.
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  And people didn't really feel like that excuse was valid.
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  She said she was going to make it up to Brooke.
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  So I mean, I don't know, right? Like if Brooke doesn't care,
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  then Brooke doesn't care. But people kind of thought that
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  was interesting that she would go to support Tricia for
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  something as kind of frivolous as like the unwell networks,
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  like a lifetime achievement award.
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  Like, you know, Tricia's not winning a Tony.
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  She's not winning an Emmy, a Grammy, like something.
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  I mean, I don't know, I guess all awards are like somewhat
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  arbitrary, but you know what I mean?
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  People were like, OK, that's kind of weird.
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  Also side notes, Speaking of Tricia Paytas, she has announced
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  that she is doing a Broadway run in Beetlejuice as Maxine Dean in
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  November. So Tricia's like officially
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  going to Broadway. She went to Broadway for one
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  night where she was herself, but now she's going to like actually
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  perform in Broadway, which is very cool for her.
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  So yes, Unwell, the festival, it looked pretty wild.
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  Like I said, it was just like pop culture parties, DJs, comedy
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  shows, live podcast panels. It did look like something I
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  would have loved to be at personally.
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  I also did want to point this out because it's making the
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  rounds on TikTok now off the back of Unwell Festival, but it
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  happened last month. So JoJo Siwa spoke out on the
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  podcast Radio Andy last month about how she was unhappy with
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  how Alex Cooper treated her during her Call Her Daddy
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  interview last year. Alex like and and this this
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  might not be fair of me to say because she might have a
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  different opinion on this, but I can use my better judgment and
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  like the conversation felt very like she questioned a lot of
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  things about me, right? And was like, how does this make
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  sense? How does that make?
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  Sense I fear that's just what an interview is, but I think it's
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  interesting to hear that she felt almost disrespected by Alex
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  because that's the exact opposite feedback that everybody
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  fan wise gives Alex all the time that she doesn't interrogate her
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  guests enough. So it's interesting that JoJo
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  Siwa feels like she was over interrogated by Alex.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is King Kylie.
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  The King Kylie era is officially launching at Kylie Cosmetics.
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  I cannot believe I'm talking about a Kylie Cosmetics
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  collection launch right now in 2025 on Mini Scroll.
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  That feels so wrong, but it's relevant.
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  We are really living for the 2016 nostalgia because King
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  Kylie is back, at least in the form of makeup.
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  So Kylie Jenner has announced a new makeup line from her brand
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  Kylie Cosmetics called the King Kylie Collection.
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  So as we know, King Kylie was kind of like a baddie persona,
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  an era of Kylie Jenner's, if you will, that she adopted in the
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  mid twenty 10s. It included teal hair, bold
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  makeup, kind of that like Tumblr early social media aesthetic.
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  And it was also really tied to the early days of Kylie
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  cosmetics when her brand was more closely aligned with her
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  personal style that like edgy glam era and she was so huge on
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  Snapchat. King Kylie is considered the
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  most relevant era of Kylie Jenner's career and she has
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  tried to do revivals here and there.
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  But now it seems amid the booming 2016 nostalgia online
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  that we're seeing everywhere on TikTok talk, she's decided to
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  properly harness it with a new line.
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  Now, the makeup collections packaging is the start of this
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  line. It features old Snapchat photos
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  of Kylie and memes that Internet users created from the King
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  Kylie era, which is really funny and relevant and I love that
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  she's leaning into that. In the promo, Kylie is wearing a
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  2011 Roberto Cavalli snakeskin set and it actually shows her
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  getting arrested for being quote the baddest bitch on Earth and
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  slang 24/7. Now a lot of users have found
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  this marketing specifically to be a questionable decision given
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  the Kardashians history of black fishing and the disproportionate
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  incarceration of black, brown, and Latin communities in the US.
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  Users actually had similar sentiment toward Tana Mojo's
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  tart collab marketing, which also saw her getting arrested.
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  And I actually don't think that I touched on this when I talked
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  about the tart collab with Tana. Given Tanas tart collab launched
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  basically at the start of ISIS like mass raids across the US,
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  some fans thought that it was an inappropriate time to release a
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  marketing campaign like this. Now campaign aside back to King
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  Kylie, the fact that she's launched a collection like this
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  literally in the exact moment of of the 2016 nostalgia revival is
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  very on the pulse for Kylie because literally for years
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  Kylie cosmetics has followed trends not set them, which is
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  really not how the brand started.
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  And when I say followed them, I mean sometimes like years too
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  late like she was launching liquid blushes 10 trend cycles
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  behind Rd. rare beauty like all the major celebrity beauty
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  brands. I think that's a huge reason why
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  Kylie Cosmetics has fallen off. I mean, aside from the actual
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  association with the Kardashians and Kylie's name in general, I
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  think if she had maybe named it something else, it could have
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  had a bit more longevity. But a huge reason of why Kylie
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  Cosmetics has lost a lot of its relevancy is because they just
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  like don't stay up to date. Like 2-3 years later, Kylie
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  Cosmetics is coming out with the products like the Clean Girl
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  products that everybody was launching five years ago when we
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  were all Clean Girl, you know, So the fact that she can get
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  this together so quickly to specifically tap into this like
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  nostalgic moment that is happening in this exact moment
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  in time, time is actually impressive for the brand itself.
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  Okay, the last story that I have for you guys is I need to talk
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  about the couple who traveled to Canada and didn't realize it's
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  not the US. So an American couple on TikTok
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  is going viral for traveling to Canada on a vacation.
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  Specifically, I think they went to Montreal and they made a
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  video talking about how the wife didn't realize that Canada was a
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  different country to the US until they missed their flight
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  because it was an international flight and they didn't get to
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  the gate early enough. So we just made it in Canada and
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  I just want to show you guys a few things that I've seen thus
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  far in Canada or experiences were in Canada.
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  First and foremost, I did not know that this is an
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  international flight until I missed my flight today.
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  They literally closed the boarding an hour prior to the
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  flight. In the video, she also named
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  some stuff that was different about Canada, like the fact that
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  we use kilometers instead of miles and that everything is
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  both in English and French. We do have two official
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  languages. Everything is both in English
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  and French, a cereal box, both English, French, a sign, a road
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  sign, English, French, all of it.
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  Especially if you're in Montreal, like you're lucky
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  you're actually getting English in Montreal.
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  So they got so much backlash that they turn the comments off
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  and made a follow up video. But instead of being like, oh,
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  joking or like sorry or like whatever, I don't know, people
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  kind of thought that maybe they were joking.
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  They basically doubled down on the fact that it's fine that she
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  didn't know Canada's a completely different country
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  from the United States, and said what do you expect us to do,
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  like research where we're traveling?
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  Like that's basically what they said.
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  Obviously, my baby here, they know that Canada wasn't part of
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  the US and that's fine. You know, we've been in the
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  United States for a very long time and coming to a whole
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  different country was very different.
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  And we've seen a lot of differences being in America and
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  also being here. So we weren't trying to bash
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  Canada in the 1st place. Obviously we're not by the go.
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  Type in. Oh, let me search up some facts
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  about Canada before I go. Search up oh, what's the metric
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  system or do they have a Walgreens or do they have no.
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  So when I'm searching up oh, what's the nearest like
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  drugstore and Walgreens is not popping up or CVS is which the
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  ones that I know you guys should understand like oh, OK.
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  What's interesting about this TikTok is it's gone beyond
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  Canadian algorithms and US algorithms and the rest of the
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  world is now seeing this TikTok and questioning a if it's
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  propaganda since obviously there were a lot of threats from the
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  Trump administration at the start of the year about the US
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  forcibly annexing Canada. And there are also questions
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  about if this is rage bait. However, if you look at any of
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  the commentary videos and the comment sections of those
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  commentary videos about this particular moment, you will see
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  thousands of Canadians with whom I agree with who believe no.
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  Like this is actually just how a lot of the United States looks
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  at Canada. It's just like they're
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  irrelevant, little sister. I don't think it's propaganda.
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  I don't think it's Rage Bay. I think it's real.
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  I think they genuinely did not know that Canada is a different
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  country. They didn't realize we would
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  have our own government, our own currency, our own languages.
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  They didn't realize any of that. I do truly believe that.
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  And there is one comment that's going super viral.
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  Like I said, they turned off the comments section.
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  But before they did that, someone had screenshotted this
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  comments exchange. So someone wrote, are the
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  schools closed in the United States?
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  And then the couple responded, you thought you ate the US
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  doesn't teach about Canada, sweetie.
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  And then the person responded, that is very clear.
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  So in the comments section of other videos about this
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  particular couple, people are just putting that screenshot.
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  It's become like a meme in and of itself.
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  It's like taken on a life of its own.
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  That comment exchange. Anyways, that's it for me to
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