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MINI SCROLL: TikTok au pair drama, Coachella news, Chinese manufacturers expose luxury goods on TikTok, Katy Perry goes to space + more · Mini Scroll

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  Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
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  culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
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  media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
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  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 school, everyone.
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  OK, I have many stories for you guys and I thought of like four
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  more that I didn't even include when I was driving over here.
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  So let's just get straight into it.
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  YouTube. OK, this is a very quick update
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  to start this episode off and then I hope to never think about
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  this again. But Clayton Eckard, I think
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  that's how you say his name. I don't know.
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  Again, I'm not a bachelor girlie, so I was not part of
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  this universe. I've just been calling him
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  Clayton. But I was like, at some point I
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  probably need to start using his last name.
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  Clayton posted private messages with Gabby Windy to prove that
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  he's, I guess, tried to make things right with her in the
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  past. So I guess I was wrong last week
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  when I said that I thought that neither of them will ever
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  address this again. Clayton responded to Gabby's
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  TikTok calling him out by sharing alleged DMS that he sent
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  her trying to meet up and I guess make things right with her
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  since their bachelor days. So he said on Instagram,
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  essentially saying it's justified to make fun of
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  someone's physical appearance. Reminder, she said he looked
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  like a toe to attack a passion of theirs that's changed their
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  life if they hurt you in the past.
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  So you're teaching your audience to be vengeful, to not forgive.
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  And I don't agree with that. You have every right to be upset
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  with me and what I did on the show.
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  I've done everything in my power to apologize.
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  I've taken accountability time and time again.
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  I've reached out multiple times and extended the olive branch
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  and you want nothing to do with me?
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  OK so then he posted like private messages where I guess
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  it proves that he's reached out to her trying to like smooth
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  things over and meet up with her since their time on the bachelor
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  together. You know what it's giving if you
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  guys watch Summer House, it's giving W being all Sookie that
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  Sierra won't be like buddy buddy with him after he fucked her
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  over multiple times this past year.
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  It's like W doesn't know how to act or feel when he's not
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  beloved by everyone that he's around.
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  And it totally changes his demeanor.
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  It totally changes his personality.
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  And like that is what Clayton is giving in the scenario he's
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  throwing now. Now he's throwing like a hissy
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  fit that she won't back down and apologize for, like hurting his
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  feelings. I think he really thought his
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  initial video being like, dance is my passion.
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  You're bullying me. I really think that he thought
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  that that was going to, you know, under him a lot of
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  sympathy, but he does not understand Gabby Windy's
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  audience and he does not understand Gabby Windy's new
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  era. OK, the next story that I have
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  for you guys, this is everywhere.
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  I am sure so many of you guys have seen this.
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  But one former au pair story is going viral on TikTok after she
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  documented herself sneaking out of her host family's house in
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  the middle of the night to fly home.
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  So creator Ella Catherine is going viral.
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  Like, proper viral. 40 million views viral after she moved to
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  Italy to be an au pair for a family and documented herself
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  escaping in the middle of the night to fly back to the US less
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  than a week later. Gosh, I'm literally shaking.
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  That was the scariest thing ever.
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  I couldn't figure out how to get past the gate, but I got it.
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  And carrying all these bags, kind of scary.
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  I just hope the train comes soon.
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  So Ella is a 21 year old American girl.
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  She was meant to a pair for like 3 months in Milan for a family
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  in Italy with one child. She said she met them on a free
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  au pair website and not through an agency, but she knows that
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  lots of people use that site. The host mom reached out to her
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  and they Facetimed twice and then within two weeks she was on
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  a flight. Ella has since posted a few
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  videos explaining how and why she decided to leave.
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  There were a few factors at play, but it seemingly came down
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  to a lack of training and job clarity, feeling belittled and
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  aggression from the host mom, or alleged aggression from the host
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  mom being asked to work outside of her agreed hours and
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  regularly being alone with the host dad who didn't speak any
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  English so there was like a major language barrier.
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  Ella explained that part of you know why she decided to leave
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  was that she was being blamed for things that weren't her
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  fault. One example she shared was
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  during a weekend trip to Portofino with the family.
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  They were getting the child into the car and when someone honked
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  at them, the host mom turned around and blamed Ella, saying
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  she wasn't paying attention or helping.
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  But according to Ella, she had been with the child the entire
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  time. Ella basically just made it out
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  to be quite this like toxic environment for her which
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  prompted her to sneak out in the middle of the night.
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  I think she was like, I want to say she was like 5 days in.
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  So she said she didn't tell the family that she wanted to leave
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  because she was uncomfortable and worried about how they would
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  react. So she just snuck out and then
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  sent them a text. Ella has received a lot of hate.
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  Many people claim that she dramatized her original video
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  where she posted about escaping. Like people were genuinely
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  concerned for her safety, thinking OK, like what kind of
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  bad situation is she in? And then when she did her story
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  time when she was back in the US, people were like, wait,
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  that's it. So there was already a lot of
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  skepticism them around, you know, Ella and her kind of
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  expectations of being an au pair.
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  And of course, then people start like looking into her social
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  media, they start looking into who the host family could have
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  been and all these things have come out.
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  So I guess Ella was posting on TikTok prior to going to Italy
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  saying she was going to have like a Euro summer.
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  And she was basically trying to figure out how she was going to
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  do that. And then she started posting
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  that she got this amazing opportunity to have this like
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  beautiful Euro summer, started talking about her clothes and
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  all this kind of stuff. So everyone's like, so you
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  obviously went for, like, a vacation and, you know, when you
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  are au pairing, like, you're taking care of someone's child.
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  So like, childcare needs to be the number one priority.
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  But OK, fine. Like, of course, like, people
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  don't just au pair out of the kindness of their hearts.
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  They're there to experience a different culture, a different
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  country to travel on the weekends.
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  Like whatever. Part of what Ella claims is
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  that. Yeah, like, her duties were
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  beyond what the job description said.
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  So she said that, you know, she was made to bathe the child and
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  and that was not part of her job description.
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  She said she had every Friday off, but then they were
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  expecting her to do child care on Friday, all these little
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  things. And now, of course, multiple
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  Internet sleuths have dug up the job listing and the host family.
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  And I'm not going to like put anything here.
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  I'm not going to read it. Like people have been reading it
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  on TikTok, which I think is just like creepy.
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  Like it's not doxing the host family.
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  But like it could be, you know, like people could like actually
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  figure out like who this is in real life.
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  So I will not be doing any of that.
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  But apparently in the job description, it does say, like,
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  she will bathe the child. It says that she gets, I think
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  Fridays from like 4:30 PM off because the child gets picked up
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  earlier from school on Fridays. So there seems to be a lot of
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  confusion and, like, questions around what her expectations
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  were there and basically blaming her, saying like, you didn't
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  understand what you were signing up for.
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  Oh, yeah. And in one of her first days,
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  she was saying like, she didn't know what she was supposed to
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  do. But I, I guess if you think
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  about it like if all the duties of what you're supposed to do in
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  the house are like listed on the job posting and then you get
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  there and like in theory, you are supposed to know like you
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  take care of the kids. So I think maybe there was just
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  like miscommunication across the board, like her host family
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  thinking she would come in and just like take charge and start
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  doing all those things. And she was not doing that.
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  She was expecting direction and to be kind of like told what to
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  do. And of course, in the first few
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  days, like you do need to be like trained and kind of
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  directed, I get it. But one of the first days she
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  said like there was nothing to do.
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  And so she took a nap in the middle of the day.
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  And then the host mom was like, hello, what are you doing?
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  Basically like texted her and she was like, oh, I'm taking a
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  nap. Ella is definitely kind of
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  getting dragged, but she's like leaning in.
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  OK, so she has turned all the comments off of these videos.
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  But she is like in her influencer era.
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  Also, people saw actually that at the beginning of the summer
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  before she left or like before she, I guess it's not summer yet
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  in the US, but like before she left for Italy, she said this
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  summer, I want to work so hard at TikTok that I make TikTok my
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  fault full time job. So a lot of people are like, OK,
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  did she take this job, you know, this au pair opportunity to kind
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  of build her TikTok. And when she figured out she was
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  or like found out she was unable to like vlog with the kid.
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  Like maybe maybe she even asked the parents, like who knows.
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  Then it kind of like threw a wrench in that plan for her.
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  But it also is like incredibly disorienting living at other
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  people's houses. I did an exchange when I was 16.
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  I wasn't au pairing, but I was like, because I'm obviously from
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  Canada. And so we, I was in French
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  immersion my whole schooling. So I did a French exchange where
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  I lived with a girl and her family who was my age.
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  We were both 16. I lived with her family for two
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  months and then she came to Canada and lived with my family
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  for two months. And it is so disorienting living
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  in a different country and someone else's house amongst
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  their own things. Like it feels very different to
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  moving like a way for university.
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  Like I lived away for university.
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  Obviously I live, I'm an expat now living in Sydney from
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  Canada. And like it's so different when
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  it's like on your own terms, like in your own space, whether
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  it's like your own dorm or like your own apartment or whatever.
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  Even if you're living in a share house and stuff, it's so
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  different than living like slotting yourself into someone's
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  family and their life. It's a very, like, disorienting
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  experience. So I don't know if she expected
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  how bizarre she was going to feel, like all of that was going
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  to feel when she signed up to this.
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  But yes, she is absolutely being dragged.
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  But, you know, she's also 21. OK, you guys.
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  And when I was 21, I was making the most unhinged decisions.
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  I was living away from home at university by myself.
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  And, yeah, I can't say that I wouldn't have made similar
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  decisions. I mean, I probably wouldn't have
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  taken a nap in the middle of, like, essentially a work shift.
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  But, you know, her not like having a solid plan, like doing
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  this, like spontaneously, you know, not going through like, a
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  vetted agency, like all this stuff.
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  I'm like, yeah, but she's like 21.
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  Like, I don't know, to me, I'm like 21.
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  You're just, you're just a kid. Like, you don't know, you know,
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  you're like starting adulthood, like, kind of like dipping your
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  toe into it a little bit and you're gonna make tons of
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  mistakes. And yeah, this is the most viral
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  thing, at least on my side of the Internet right now.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys, this is OK.
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  Actually, no, I have two Coachella adjacent stories.
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  The 1st is that Addison Ray made her Coachella debut.
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  Annabelle is like the biggest Addison Ray Stan.
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  She's like, that's my girl. So she spent the whole day
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  today. It's Monday for us in Australia,
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  the whole day today with three screens, one of them working on
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  the podcast with me, the other on Slack with us.
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  And then the third, she had the Coachella live stream going up
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  and she was like sending us screenshots being like, Oh my
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  God, my girl Addison. So Addison made her debut.
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  That's very cool. It's also really cool to think
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  that Sabrina Carpenter, didn't she play espresso for the very
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  first time at Coachella last year, like this time last year.
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  That's wild to think of the impact since, OK.
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  But the other Coachella adjacent story that I have for you guys
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  is that Timothy Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are attending
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  Coachella together. And there's this clip of them
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  together in the crowd being affectionate.
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  And I don't know, they're like amongst 1,000,000 people and it
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  was just taken by a random fan. It did not look staged.
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  It was not like APR moment. And they were just being like
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  really cute together. So you guys know, like, I don't
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  believe in them. I don't believe that they exist
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  in the same universe. But this clip really is the
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  first time where I've seen like actual chemistry from them.
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  And it was really cute. So I've decided I will buy in.
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  I'm going to stop being a Timothy Chalamet and Kylie
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  Jenner denier for the time being, and I will subscribe to
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  their love story. The next story that I have for
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  you guys. I don't really know what else to
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  say about this, but it's something that you need to get
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  across and I'm sure a lot of you guys are.
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  But TikTok is being flooded with Chinese manufacturers sharing
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  how they make luxury goods. So in the wake of the US
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  tariffs, Chinese manufacturing companies are spilling the tea
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  on TikTok about the process and actual pricing of making luxury
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  items and encouraging consumers to buy direct from the source
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  now instead of through brands. That Irma's fatigue will cost
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  you 38,000 USD, but what is the real cost out of the factory
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  today? I'm going to break it down in
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  front of you step by step. So it's just an endless stream
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  of these manufacturers sharing the pricing and kind of like how
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  you can get in touch with them and how you can buy their
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  products. So it's like you're seeing a
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  Birkin being made and then it gets shipped back to Italy and
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  they put, you know, like the logo on it and maybe some
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  finishing touches. But they're like, yeah, if you
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  want to buy this Birkin bag directly from, you know, us in
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  China, get in touch and you can buy it for like 450 USD or
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  something like that. It was probably more than that.
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  I kind of forget this whole situation has started quite a
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  big conversation about, I mean, obviously the tariffs, but also
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  kind of how, like China is pushing back.
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  And also just like, the price of luxury goods or the price of
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  branding. Because at the end of the day,
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  sure, you could buy a Birkin bag directly from the manufacturer,
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  but it wouldn't have the Hermes branding on it.
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  So then is it a Birkin bag, you know, And like, what's the
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  point? Isn't the point of buying
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  something that is so expensive so that people know that you
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  have something that's so expensive, you know, so that
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  they know that you're part of this, like, elite club?
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  Like, isn't that kind of the point?
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  Yeah, I guess the power of marketing and branding, and it's
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  really interesting to see the pushback.
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  OK. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys is that Katy Perry is going to space.
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  So Katy Perry is one of six women who are heading to space
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  courtesy of Blue Origin, which is a private Space Flight
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  company owned by the devil himself, Jeff Bezos.
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  For context, the flight is thought to cost hundreds of
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  thousands of dollars, but it's not known exactly how much.
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  It is also presumed that the celebrities who are heading to
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  space paid for it themselves. This flight has been billed as a
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  historic event because it is the first female only crew since
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  1963, but online, people aren't taking it as seriously.
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  On Twitter, many people have been sharing memes about the
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  flight, with update accounts like Pop Base and Pop Crave
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  counting down until she leaves. Nevertheless, the flight will
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  allegedly last around 10 minutes total.
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  This is just so stupid. Rich people need to stop going
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  to space. Do you remember when rich people
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  used to donate like buildings? They would build libraries, they
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  would build hospitals, they would build education, they
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  would fund the arts. Like stop going to fucking space
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  for what? Also, if I was an astronaut, I
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  would be so deeply offended that all of these rich people can
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  just, like, pay for a ticket on my life's work, basically.
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  You know, like these people are like elite physicists and they
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  are an elite physical condition, and they are like, training
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  their whole lives. It is so incredibly difficult to
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  become an astronaut, to, like, actually go to space and do the
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  work. And now all these rich people
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  just get to go. I'm interested in staying on the
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  ground. If I had that much money, I
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  would literally never go to space.
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  Like, that would be the last thing that I would care about.
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  Who cares? I guess when you have that much
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  money, you're just like, what else is there?
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  Like, how else will I get a thrill?
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  You know what else am I chasing? So I guess Katy Perry is about
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  to get 10 minutes of thrill. Anyways guys, that's it for Mini
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