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MINI SCROLL: Amouranth returns to Twitch, Pretty Little Liars cast reflects on series + viral 90s decorating show · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  Every Monday through Thursday and sometimes Fridays.
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  I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the youth digital
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  business for real all right, let's get into the stories for
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  today. The first word that I have for
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  you guys is that Amaranth has returned to twitch.
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  So amaranth, whose real name is Caitlin, is one of the most
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  popular streamers online. She does a variety of streaming
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  ranging from gaming, ASMR and more vlog style IRL streams.
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  You may have heard of amaranth because she is often in the news
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  for a quote UN quote controversial business
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  decisions. People have a lot of things to
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  say about the fact that she does, only she sells her own
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  bathwater. She also developed an AI
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  companion chat bot. She's a businesswoman, OK, but
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  like many streamers, Amaranth first blew up on Twitch.
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  Since then, she's moved to Kik, which is Twitch's major
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  competitor. So she did have somewhat of a
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  strange relationship with Twitch, given that she was
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  repeatedly banned from the platform.
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  She reportedly had a deal with Kik, where she revealed in an
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  interview with Dex Turdo that this deal had basically doubled
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  her income. She signed the deal in mid 2023
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  and has since been streaming there ever since.
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  As we know, there was kind of a mass migration of streamers from
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  Twitch to Kik. When Kik first really took off,
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  they were paying streamers a lot of money and you know, streamers
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  had had issues with Twitch for years.
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  So going over to Kik with all the money that they could make
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  and the platform seemingly prioritizing creators a bit
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  more, it was really appealing. However, the flip side of that
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  is Kik is very controversial. You know, it is primarily A
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  gambling platform. It's backed by the crypto
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  gambling powerhousestake.com. So the guidelines on Kik are a
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  lot more lenient, but it obviously makes it a little bit
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  less of a safe platform. And yeah, there's just a lot of
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  controversy around it. We've covered it here and there
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  over the years. So Amaranth, I guess, was one of
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  the creators that moved over from Twitch to Kick.
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  However, a couple of days ago, she posted a video to her ex
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  account, which essentially was announcing her return to Twitch.
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  So she was filling up the gas of a green car, which is obviously
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  the color of Kicks logo. And the video says I'm on my way
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  after I refuel a bit, be there soon.
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  And then she jumps in the car and drives away.
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  But then the car turns purple, which of course is Twitch's logo
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  color. And according to coverage from
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  Dexterto about the video, apparently in the original edit,
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  a little SpongeBob guy popped up that said $38 million later.
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  You know that meme that's like 2 hours later, three days later.
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  So I guess it said $38 million later.
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  And then the car turned purple, I guess implying that she made
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  $38 million on Kik. So obviously, this is
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  interesting because no matter how you feel about Amaranth or
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  Kick and all of the controversies around both of
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  those things, you know, this really indicates how streaming
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  platforms are adjusting their strategies when it comes to
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  tapping creators. As pointed out in that same
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  Dexterto article quote, it's also not clear yet if Amaranth's
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  Kick deal has expired or if she's leaving early.
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  Kick, like many platforms, has moved away from signing creators
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  to contracts and has instead urged them to multistream.
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  I mean, they weren't going to be able to keep up these creator
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  contracts forever, right? That's kind of what happens with
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  these platforms. They launch or they launch new
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  features, and they're incentivizing creators so much
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  so quickly because they really want to draw people in as time
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  goes on. They can't keep that up, so they
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  start charging for certain features or you know, they
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  really decrease what you make on the platform, things like that.
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  OK, the next one that I have for you guys, this is kind of rogue.
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  OK, I'm going to be honest, you guys will be able to tell from
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  today's episode. It was a tough Newsday.
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  It was actually like, it's not often that I really struggle to
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  find 3 full stories for the episode.
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  Like every once in a while it'll be like, oh, I have two strong
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  stories, I need to find a third whatever.
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  No, today, like Annabelle and I were both looking for hours.
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  It was a very slow Newsday in terms of like Internet culture
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  news. So this is kind of a rogue one,
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  but I'm interested in it because I was a fan.
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  So Pretty Little Liars turned 15, and the cast did an
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  interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
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  Obviously, Pretty Little Liars is one of the most popular teen
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  shows of the 20 tens. And the cast members Lucy Hale,
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  Tori and Belsario. Ashley Benson, Shay Mitchell,
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  Sasha Petrus, Ian Harding, Tyler Blackburn, Keegan Allen and
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  Marlene King Marlene King was the producer but did an
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  interview with The Hollywood Reporter to relive some of the
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  biggest discussion points during the show.
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  The interview was quite long, but social media users were
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  particularly interested in their reflections around the
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  relationship between Aria and Ezra.
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  For context, if you do not remember or you did not watch,
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  Ezra was Aria's high school teacher when they started
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  dating. So that is already a very
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  concerning power dynamic and age gap.
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  And to make matters worse throughout the show, as we're
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  really never faced any repercussions for the
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  relationship and the couple even, you know, got married on
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  the show. And on top of this, it was also
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  revealed in the series that Ezra targeted Aria to get information
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  about Allison De Laurentiis, who was obviously Aria's friend who
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  went missing. Allison AI don't know.
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  It's hard to explain because honestly I don't even freaking
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  remember what happened in the series was like so chaotic but
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  Allison was like thought to be the original A OK obviously we
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  know that's not really how it turned out.
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  In the recent interview Sasha who played Allison, said one
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  comment that is going quite viral.
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  Quote to Ezras credit, he met her at a college bar.
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  Why would he think she's underage?
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  In so many ways it's Arias bad. It's an interesting storyline
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  that everybody just inherently loved.
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  I had a crazy fan experience the other day where this girl told
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  me she was dating her teacher because of the show.
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  She was like, and I started dating my teacher and I was like
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  Oh no. Oh, Oh no, Oh no.
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  And obviously these people are characters, but Sasha in this
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  quote is admitting that the influence of what we saw on TV
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  in between these two characters has impacted people in real
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  life. So of course, other cast members
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  noted that this type of storyline would not make the cut
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  now and that it was a very different time, Lucy Hale said,
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  quote, It was a different time. Would that storyline exist if it
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  were being made now? I'm not sure, but probably not.
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  At the time I was cast as Arya, I was 19 years old and I wasn't
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  really thinking about the bigger themes of it all.
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  I was just stoked to be cast on a TV show.
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  Of course, it hits differently at my age now, and I think about
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  the bigger message in anything I play.
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  I don't have regrets, though. I stand behind their love story
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  forever. That forbidden love story drew a
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  lot of people in. Forbidden because he was her
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  teacher, her the romanticization that they all still seemingly
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  have for this fictional couple, which was gross and weird and
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  problematic is wild. Just I actually this I actually
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  don't really have any words. I actually don't have words.
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  I I don't know. I find this really shocking.
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  Just be like, yeah, it was wrong.
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  It could never go today. You know, it was definitely
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  something that was missed in the plot, in the storyline.
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  I wish we would have addressed it better.
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  But I also understand they're sitting up there with, you know,
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  a huge cast, members of the crew.
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  I understand they probably also didn't want to be like throwing
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  anyone under the bus, but like, come on.
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  I don't know. What do you guys think about
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  that? I am really surprised by those
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  takes from the cast. OK, and the last story that I
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  have for you guys, I'm actually thrilled to be talking about
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  this story. We have to talk about the home
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  decorating show that is going viral on TikTok.
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  I cannot stop reposting clips of this show.
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  Actually fun fact about me. So I have like a brand account,
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  like a well, we have like obviously a Centennial world
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  podcast network, TikTok account, which is literally we get like
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  50 followers away from 100,000 followers.
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  So please go follow us if you aren't as we have that TikTok
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  account. I have like a professional
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  TikTok account. So it used to be our infinite
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  scroll podcast TikTok account. And then I just like since Jordy
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  left, it didn't make sense for me to keep that going because
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  that podcast didn't really exist anymore.
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  And like so many of those videos were the one that like did
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  really well were between her and I.
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  So I privated a lot of the videos and then I started using
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  it as my own TikTok account documenting, trying to scale a
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  podcast network because it's obviously still very much
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  related to the podcast anyways. And then I have like my personal
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  account where I just like repost and post random shit.
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  And that account, I am like addicted to reposting.
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  And the girls constantly make fun of me.
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  They say it's like the most millennial thing in me is that
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  I'm like addicted to reposting on TikTok.
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  And it's because it literally gives me the same thrill as
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  reposting on Twitter. Like that is very millennial of
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  me. Like I loved Twitter.
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  Like I lived and breathed Twitter before it got absolutely
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  like decimated, dated by Elon Musk.
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  I was addicted to retweeting on Twitter and now I'm addicted to
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  reposting on TikTok and I constantly get compliments for
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  my repost. OK, people always message me and
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  they say like, your reposts are so funny.
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  When I see Lauren has reposted, I know I need to lock in And I'm
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  like, exactly. I am a cultural curator for you
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  guys. OK, very often I'm not scrolling
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  my for you page. I am going into my repost and
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  I'm scrolling my repost because I'm laughing so hard because I
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  am amazing at this. Like, I have a gift.
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  I have a gift. OK, So all of that to say this
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  like a 90s decorating show called Decorating Sense, as in
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  CENTS is going viral all over TikTok and I can't stop
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  reposting it. It's a show from the 90s, like I
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  said, and it was hosted by Joan Steffand.
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  The premise of the show was that they would take a room and
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  redesign it. OK, There were a lot of shows
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  like this, you know, trading spaces.
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  Like it was kind of like that vibe.
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  These like design vibes. According to to HGT VS Blurb
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  quote, Decorating scents is for home owners who care about and
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  want variety and home decor. Variety the key here, but are
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  trying to stay within an affordable budget.
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  In each episode, host Joan Steffen and guest designers
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  provide room makeovers costing less than $500, ways to turn
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  trash into treasures, and tips on making a room feel and look
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  fresh by rearranging furniture and adding a few inexpensive
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  accessories. Rob Anderson is a TikTok creator
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  and he's going pretty viral for talking about this on TikTok.
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  The clips like we're going everywhere.
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  I think it's uploaded. I want to say paramount, like I
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  think it just got onto a streaming service and people
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  were like what is going on? And so it's been uploaded and
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  Rob Anderson has been posting a lot about it.
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  He's going quite viral for talking about it.
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  And he basically makes fun of how like every single room they
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  try and like redesign just like gets worse.
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  OK, Some of the main examples of unhinged things that they are
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  doing in their core. In one episode they use
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  children's clothing as decor. So they literally take the
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  parents like their their children's clothes and they like
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  hang them on the wall and they like put their shoes on a bench,
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  you know, as like a decor, like everything is decked out in
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  their kids like dirty clothes. And I think it was Rob that said
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  he like reviewed this room and he was like, OK, maybe if their
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  child passed away at like a soccer match, this could be like
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  a tribute room to them. But like, what is going on?
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  There's another scene where so they they love they love window
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  treatments. They love a window treatments,
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  They love a door frame treatment.
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  There's a lot of fake vines going on.
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  They love a fake vine, a fake leaf around a door frame, around
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  a window. There was also a scene where
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  instead of hanging curtains or blinds in a kitchen in the
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  window, they hung strings of pitchers like lemonade pitchers.
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  And they're like, look at how creative this is.
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  That's not blinds. Like what?
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  And one of the frequent guest designers is Nancy, who is
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  actually the mother of Nate Berkess, who if you guys know
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  anything about like 2000s, 2010's design culture, American
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  designers. Like he is one of the most
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  famous designers from that time. And everyone's like, how, how is
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  this possible? Oh my God.
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  There's also one where they talk about how like the hard wood
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  floors always get so like dirty and stuff scuffed up because
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  they have dogs and like family, whatever.
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  And so instead of just like buying a rug, they paint a rug
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  on the hardwood floor. They paint a rug and they love
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  to use stamps. Like they will literally buy
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  like, I don't know, cut out like foam and stuff into different
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  shapes and they will just like randomly stamp colorful paint
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  stamps like all around like on the floor, on the backsplash, on
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  the walls. Oh, and they they love a sponge.
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  They love that like sponge paint that was really popular in like
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  the nineties, 2000s. And honestly, the whole thing
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  really just explains like this show really shows younger
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  generations like why millennial Gray happened because it's not
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  that like my friends and I grew up in houses like this, but it
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  was a lot more like this than it was like millennial grey.
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  Like these design choices, these homes are unhinged.
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  But it was so common for 90s kids to grow up like the
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  boomers. They loved a crazy colorful like
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  a bathroom. Like I remember when I was
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  younger, my mom did that sponge paint technique all over my
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  parents bedroom in green. I don't know, my kitchen was
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  pink growing up. It's it was just like the design
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  vibes like this. This show was actually unhinged,
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  the stuff that they're doing and they're like, oh and look, this
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  only cost us $35 and it's like in the nineties, $35 for decor
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  could probably stretch quite far.
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  How have you made everything look so bad?
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  It looks insane. Anyways, I highly recommend
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  looking up these episodes or looking up these clips of
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  decorating scents. They are so funny.
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  It's actually wild. The stuff that they are doing.
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  It makes no sense. Everything looks so ugly but
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  it's so good. It's so good.
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  I can't stop. I cannot stop.
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  My whole for you page is just this show and I hope it never
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  ends. Anyways guys that's it for mini
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  scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  will talk to you guys tomorrow. Bye.