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MINI SCROLL: Viral TikTok travel series, Huda x Olandria Love Island scandal, Julia Fox Halloween controversy + more · Mini Scroll

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  everyone. OK, so I needed to put a picture
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  for you guys of mine and Annabelle's Halloween costumes.
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  We were Addison Rae and Charlie XCX on the sweat tour.
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  It was the most work appropriate Charlie and Addison vibes that
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  we could find and I think we did pretty well.
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  appropriate because the Halloween party at our office,
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  this was actually insane. Nobody was concerned about what
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  they were wearing in the best way.
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  It was like a lot of fun and people were going so hard.
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  It was actually wild. It was really fun.
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  of the year. The first thing that I wanted to
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  talk about, it's not really a story, but it's an addition to
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  my Billie Eilish story on Friday.
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  So you guys know, we just moved offices.
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  It was a chaotic 24 hours. So the Billie Eilish story, I
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  literally saw it right before I started recording.
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  So I just popped it in there. It was a very short story and I
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  didn't see this part of it. And a lot of you guys let me
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  know that my story wasn't fully complete.
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  So here is an addition to Friday's story because I didn't
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  have a lot of time to prep. So I really just told you guys
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  like what I saw, what I knew to be fact in the moment.
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  So this is from People magazine quote, Eilish put her own money
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  where her mouth is just moments before giving her speech again,
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  she gave a speech about how, you know, she was addressing
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  billionaires in the audience saying there's a lot of people
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  here that have more money than me.
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  If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?
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  Give away your money. So this is continuing the quote.
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  Stephen Colbert, who introduced the Birds of a Feather singer,
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  shared the news that she had donated $11.5 million from her
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  recent tour. He said, also, I have the
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  privilege of breaking a little news tonight.
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  Thank you, Billy, for allowing me to do this.
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  It's extraordinary. Billy Eilish will be donating
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  proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and software to support
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  organizations, projects and voices dedicated to food equity,
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  climate justice, reducing carbon pollution and combating the
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  climate crisis. That donation, ladies and
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  gentlemen, will be $11.5 million and apparently and obviously,
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  OK, like us looking at celebrity net worths, it's not always
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  totally accurate, but apparently her net worth is around $50
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  million. So $11.5 million of a $50
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  million net worth is a sizable donation.
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  OK, the first official story that I have for you guys, this
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  is so a niche and it's not even really viral, but I actually
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  think it will go viral soon. My friend Crystal who runs Z
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  feed, she sent it to me and she was like, this is so obscure and
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  so mini scroll coded you have to cover it.
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  And when I watched it, I was like, I totally agree.
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  So this Australian creator Midori Collusion, that's what
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  her handle is, is building a cult following at the moment for
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  calling out what she is calling trash click bait travel articles
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  about Americans going abroad, but specifically ones that are
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  published on Business Insider. This is so niche.
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  Welcome back to Keys, we've got another one.
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  If you're new here, I love reading these trash Business
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  Insider travel articles so you don't have to.
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  And today we've got 6 mistakes you should never make on a
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  cruise according to etiquette experts.
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  I think they've tried to make it seem niche by pegging it to a
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  cruise and referring to experts, but the way I read it is these
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  are 6 things no human should ever do anywhere at any time.
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  And if you don't know this shit, you're a fucking lowlife.
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  So this creator has been posting content like this here and there
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  over the past few months, but she's gaining particular
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  traction at the moment after she discovered that Business Insider
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  had published 48 articles written by the same writer about
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  this writers single two week euro trip that she took back in
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  2022. So over the weekend, Midori
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  Collusion started a playlist on TikTok where she's going to
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  recap this writer's euro trip in sequential order in a 19 part
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  series. And if you think about the click
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  bait articles that would be published, right, they're not
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  telling you the trip in sequential order.
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  So this girl has read all 48 articles and has basically put
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  together the timeline of this writer's trip and like
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  everything that happened in what she believes to be sequential
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  order. It's going to be so good.
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  Yeah. I did it.
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  I read all 48 articles inspired by this, particularly ham fisted
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  2 week euro trip taken in 2020. 2 all published.
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  By Business Insider over the past three years with no sign of
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  letting up. Published completely out of
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  sequence, of course, But I've unpicked the threads.
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  I've unfolded this into a linear narrative that I proposed to
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  retell over 19 parts. This trip is my muse and this is
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  my opus. We're going to go on an odyssey
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  across 6 cities. We're going to spend 20% of the
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  trip in transit, and we're going to make more mistakes than you
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  ever thought possible for life for.
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  More so that's all I have right now for this story, but you guys
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  need to watch the space because I feel like it could really blow
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  up. It's so niche, it's so obscure.
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  It's the exact type of content that Internet users really like
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  grab on to because it's kind of harmless.
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  It's kind of snarky. It's kind of insane and it can
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  absolutely become one of those in jokes that people who are
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  following along jump in on. So I think watch this space.
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  I fear she's going to blow up for this series.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is I'm going to
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  recap the Huda Love Island racism scandal that's been going
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  on over the past couple of days. So Love Island breakout star
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  Huda Mustafa is facing major scandal after a live stream she
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  did last week where she laughed at a racist slur directed
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  towards her fellow Love Island castmates Alondria.
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  Throughout the season, Alandria and Shelly, another cast member,
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  faced racism from the fandom and online trolls, and a lot of it
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  allegedly came from Hoodies fan base.
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  This racism intensified when Huda said she felt bullied on
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  the show during the reunion and fans pointed to Alandria and
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  Shelly as like quote UN quote Mean Girls that bullied Huda.
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  So this is directly from yahoo.com quote.
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  Huda said that after seeing clips back from the show, there
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  were moments she felt bullied, though she did regret the
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  cursing and the name calling. This led to the confrontation
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  that fans had seemingly been waiting for when Andy Cohen
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  asked Huda to clarify when she felt bullied because he didn't
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  see it as a viewer. But why didn't you do the post
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  that Alandria asked you to? Like I was doing so much outside
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  of that. Like I didn't know what to say
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  in that moment, 'cause I was dealing with so much.
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  I wanted to address more than just that.
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  Truly wish you would have just prioritized that moment to just
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  address the racism and the bullying towards me and Shelley
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  since that was spewed out the most.
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  That hurt. I I was getting hated on as
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  well. Very I.
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  Get that? But your face was not plastered
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  on George Floyd's body. I didn't mind what I told you
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  that this was as a result of that.
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  Bad either, I don't want to explain.
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  It in the airport like that, it's hurt it.
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  Hurt. OK so Fast forward to this week
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  and Hooda was on a live stream with her boyfriend when an
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  anonymous caller used the N word about Alandria.
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  In the clip, Hooda and her boyfriend appear to laugh at the
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  slur before hanging up. Now, the backlash for how they
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  handled this situation was immediate, and Hooda was quickly
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  dropped from her mastership with Hooda Beauty.
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  Hooda addressed the incident in a series of Instagram stories,
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  saying that they couldn't hear properly what the person was
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  saying. Quote Also the laughter because
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  it was awkward, she wrote. It was awkward and
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  inappropriate. Whoever said it is in the wrong.
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  Alondria responded saying quote. Words like that carry
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  generations of pain, and pretending otherwise only keeps
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  the cycle going. Well, I anticipate this will
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  result in surface level apologies that will fade in a
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  few days. I'd like to transform this
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  moment into something actionable.
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  And then she called on the live stream participants and their
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  followers to, quote, demonstrate A genuine commitment to anti
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  racism by donating to organizations and foundations
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  dedicated to educating and uplifting this community, such
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  as UNCF and AACP and or the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
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  And then Hoda released a second statement and apology a day
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  later. Quote, I want to take this
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  moment to more fully take accountability for my actions.
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  I want to be clear that I do not condone or tolerate anyone who
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  uses such language. And I strongly encourage the
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  individual responsible to reflect deeply on their words
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  and the harm they've caused. And then she did close up the
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  statement saying she will make a personal donation to the N
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  Double ACP and encouraged others to do the same.
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  So yeah, one of the major points to come out of this is everyone
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  is praising Hooda Beauty for taking action so quickly and
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  being so steadfast in this, which like, sure, OK, yes.
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  Is the bar on the floor? Like probably I understand why
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  the bar is on the floor for brands like this when it comes
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  to ambassadorships, and I get it.
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  I understand why. But I do feel the conversation
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  around Hooda Beauty now is turning into, oh, like this is
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  the positive we can take away from this situation.
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  There's no positive that we can take away from racism like this.
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  But us, I think labeling will let you know, Oh my God, like,
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  look, Hooda Beauty is setting this precedent.
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  Like this is a positive we can take away from it.
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  I, I just, I worry about that messaging.
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  OK. The last word that I have for
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  you guys, I was trying to find like, interesting celebrity
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  Halloween stories. There weren't many, but I am
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  sure you guys have all seen this.
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  Julia Fox is going viral for her very controversial Halloween
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  costume and she has defended it. So for a Halloween party in New
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  York City, Julia Fox dressed up as Jackie Kennedy.
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  She was wearing this blood soaked pink suit, recreating
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  what the former First Lady of the United States wore on the
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  day that her husband, President John F Kennedy, was
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  assassinated. As you can imagine, the costume
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  sparked many strong reactions online with tons of people
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  calling her disrespectful, attention seeking, and that she
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  was glorifying political violence.
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  Following the backlash, Julia wrote this on Instagram.
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  Quote I'm dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit, not as
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  a costume but as a statement. When her husband was
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  assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood stained
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  clothes, saying I want them to see what they've done.
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  The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is
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  one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern
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  history. Beauty and horror, poise and
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  devastation. Her decision not to change
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  clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of
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  extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest, and
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  mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and
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  grace to expose brutality. It's about trauma, power, and
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  how femininity itself is a form of resistance.
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  Long live Jackie O. I've actually seen a lot of
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  people say that her statement about this changed their minds
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  about the costume. I don't know.
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  Let me know what you guys think about this costume.
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  I'm not sure where I land on it yet.
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  I do feel like it's an interesting time in politics and
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  culture to be making a statement like this.
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  But maybe this is the perfect time to move making a statement
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  like this. And I also do wonder if you have
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  to over explain your costume this much and the intention
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  behind it, like maybe it just didn't quite land.
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  I don't know. What do you guys think?
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  But Julia Fox, she does love to draw up discourse.
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  And that's what this is doing because most people across the
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  board don't seem to have a very solid opinion on this.
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  It hasn't actually been. I mean, it was initially very
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  divisive. And then when she explained it,
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  people were like, oh, OK, I can see we're going for there.
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  I can appreciate that. And now I feel like a lot of
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  people are kind of sitting where I am, where it's like, I need to
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  think about this more. I'm not totally sure, OK.
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  But I did want to give a mention to some notable celebrity
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  Halloween moments. First of all, Lily Allen as
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  Madeline. That was insane.
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  If you guys don't know the lore behind Madeline and Lily Allen
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  and why that matters, go listen to High Stakes.
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  I think it was just last week they did a breakdown on her
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  divorce from David Harbour and her album and kind of Madeline
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  is like one of the songs about his cheating.
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  So yeah, she dressed up as the doll Madeline and then Demi
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  Lovato went as Pooh Lovato, which is iconic.
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  I'm so happy she did this. It was so funny.
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