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MINI SCROLL: Alix Earle as Gen Z Heidi Klum, MrBeast situation gets worse + Brianna Chickenfry x Zach Bryan split updates · 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 Scroll, everyone.
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  Happy Monday, the last Monday of October and we have Halloween
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  this week. And I was thinking, but it only
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  crossed my mind like literally today if I should try and dress
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  up for many scroll on Thursday because I've never recorded the
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  pod like on actual Halloween. The problem is sorry, I'm like
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  trying to fix my headphones. So sorry if you can hear that.
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  The problem is that in Australia, like Halloween is
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  barely a thing, so it never comes to mind.
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  So I might we'll see. I don't want to get you as
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  excited. I also have no idea what I would
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  because again, it's not really a big popular holiday here.
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  So I don't know, I haven't really been thinking about it,
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  but I have actually I had like 100 stories that I wanted to
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  cover today. I am going to cover 3 and then
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  two of them I'm going to talk about tomorrow.
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  So 1 is like the jewelry brand merch drama that's happening on
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  TikTok. So you guys will get a full deep
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  dive into or like a breakdown of that tomorrow.
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  And tomorrow I'm also going to give a huge Aspen Ovard update.
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  So get ready for that. OK?
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  The first story that I have for you guys is I wanted to cover
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  really quickly Alex Earls Halloween party.
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  Speaking of Halloween O, over the weekend, influencers flooded
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  social media with Halloween costume posts, kicking off what
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  looks to be the first weekend of Halloween celebrations.
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  But one influencer has emerged as the favorite, Alex Earle.
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  Alex took Halloween to a new level this year by hosting a Mad
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  Forest themed party at Keys Nightclub in LA, where she
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  dressed up as the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.
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  She shared her usual Get Ready with Me videos on TikTok giving
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  fans a behind the scenes look at the detailed costume, which
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  included heavy duty prosthetics and body makeup.
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  Her Halloween Get Ready With Me even landed her a Cosmopolitan
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  exclusive where the publication captured her getting ready
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  process. O it was really funny and the
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  photos are amazing. And I think when people heard
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  that it was like Alice in Wonderland themed, it was like,
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  oh, of course Alex is going to go as Alice.
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  And the fact that she went as this cat.
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  And the photos, I'll put some on the screen if you guys watch on
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  YouTube or Spotify. But if not, I'll describe.
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  So like the photos are literally her like wrapped around a tree
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  or like sneaking up like a cat behind someone.
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  Like they're really funny. She really like went for it.
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  She really embodied it. And I was looking at her
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  Halloween stuff in comparison to some of the other influencers
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  that I follow who I would consider not at her level in
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  terms of like fame, but just like they do a similar thing.
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  They do like makeup, lifestyle, aspirational level content.
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  They party a lot, like a lot of them are like New York City
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  influencers. And I was looking at her content
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  compared to theirs and I was like, This is why Alex Earl is
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  so famous because she does that thing where she is not afraid to
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  be ugly. That's like the number one
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  thing, right? We always say that like certain
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  celebrities or certain influencers, they're never going
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  to get to that next level because they're too afraid to
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  not look pretty, like they're too guarded.
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  She's like not afraid to like be funny, to look ugly, to be
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  silly. And I'm not saying she looked
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  ugly and she never looks ugly because she's beautiful, but you
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  know what I mean? Like, she's not not afraid to
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  just like let loose and be unhinged.
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  And that is part of her star power.
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  Last year, she set the bar pretty high.
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  She went as Madonna. People loved the costume.
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  Although she did admit that she had to pee through the costume
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  throughout the night. But this year, she has really
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  been crowned the Gen. Z Heidi Klum after hosting such
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  an iconic party and wearing such a unique costume.
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  Her guest list included Ava Max, Stassi, Baby the Kid, Leroy,
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  Landon Barker and Shay Mitchell, according to Cosmopolitan.
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  Now, I haven't covered Alex since her racism scandal and her
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  apology for the Ask FM post that emerged earlier this year and I
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  wanted to touch on that. I feel like I can't talk about
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  Alex in, I don't know, any type of not even that.
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  I mean, this is like a positive story, I guess, but you know
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  what I mean? Like in any type of light
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  without like addressing it, especially because it's the
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  first time that we've talked about it.
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  I wanted to touch on like how she's being perceived.
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  It's been interesting to watch how all of that has left the
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  conversation around Alex because that was only two months ago,
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  which is crazy to say. It was right before I went to
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  Europe. I think this is interesting to
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  see how quickly it all just went away for her.
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  That's not the right word because I understand it didn't
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  go away for a lot of people in terms of how they perceive her
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  and how they relate to her now and if they follow her anymore
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  and all of that. But, you know, I think it's only
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  been two months, like I said, and this is a huge mainstream
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  moment for her to get an opportunity like this with Cosmo
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  just two months off the back of that.
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  It really shows the pitfalls of cancel culture in the sense of
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  like, I mean, we've talked about this, but like, is anyone ever
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  really cancelled? Like, when you are somebody like
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  Alex Earl, do you ever really face consequences?
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  Actually, there is someone on TikTok who is making a series
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  about like, genuinely cancelled celebrities, like famous people
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  over the years who had a big scandal and could not recover
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  from it. But I don't think we have seen
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  something like that in a very, very long time.
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  OK, the next story that I have for you guys is I have a bit of
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  a Mr. Beast update. I haven't given one in a long
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  time. I felt like for a couple weeks
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  there, this entire podcast was a Mr. Beast dedicated podcast, so
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  it was nice to have a bit of a break.
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  But there are some new developments.
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  So just over a week after Rosanna Pansino posted a video
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  testing Lunch Lee the Snack kit launched by KSI, Logan Paul and
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  Mr. Beast and finding mold in it, she is back with a new video
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  calling out Mr. Beast. So as we all know by this point,
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  Rosanna has been exposing Mr. Beast AKA Jimmy Donaldson for
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  his problematic behavior over the years in a new YouTube video
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  titled Mr. Beast New All Along 1000, plus leaked messages she
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  posted to her channel yesterday. Essentially she goes through
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  messages from their work chat on Telegram.
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  So she alleges that the chat logs were, quote, confirmed as
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  legitimate by multiple former Mr. Beast employees that were in
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  the chats. We have been obviously unable to
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  confirm or verify this claim, so take this with a grain of salt.
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  But she is claiming this is true.
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  From scrolling through the conversations, Rosanna claims
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  that Jimmy was aware of Ava Tyson's inappropriate behavior
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  around minors. So for a quick recap, Ava was a
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  longtime Co host of Mr. Beast videos and has been friends with
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  Jimmy since childhood. Earlier this year, she faced
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  allegations that she sent inappropriate tweets and
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  messages to a Mr. Beast fan when the fan was a minor.
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  Ava later took to Twitter to address the claims, apologizing
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  for her previous behavior while also clarifying that quote, she
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  never groomed anyone. She also announced that she will
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  be taking a step back from social media for her mental
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  health and all things Mr. Beast to ensure that no one at the
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  company would be hurt by these allegations.
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  And then Jimmy issued a statement saying that he
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  recently became aware of the allegations and was taking it
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  seriously. It is important to note that the
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  fan spoke out saying they did not feel groomed by Ava, but
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  based on other stories that he had heard from other young fans,
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  he thought it was the right move by Jimmy to kind of take a step
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  back from his relationship with Ava.
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  Nevertheless, in Rosanna's newest video, she states that
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  Jimmy must have been aware of this behavior far before the
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  news broke to the public because he was in these chats under the
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  name John Smith. OK, so we don't have time to go
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  through all of the claims, but here are some examples.
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  Among the messages she receives, Rosanna alleges that Ava sent a
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  message including a sexually explicit photo of a 13 year old,
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  believing it to be Ivanka Trump. Rosanna goes on to say that is
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  wildly inappropriate and just insane for a company chat.
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  Rosanna notes that Ava allegedly repeatedly made sexual memes
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  about minors, specifically concerning different animes.
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  Roblox, Animal Crossing, and the Incredibles quote.
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  When you look at the dates of these chats, Jimmy was already
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  mainstream. This is when his videos were
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  getting millions of views. He was claiming to be really
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  family friendly. He was working with a lot of
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  creators like myself who had family friendly brands.
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  So reading through these chats happening at the same time is
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  really disturbing. Rosanna says she has since
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  tweeted that she, quote, reported what I found and my
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  concerns to the authorities at FBI.
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  Hopefully they will look into these Mr. Beast Telegram company
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  chat logs and other concerns. So again, who knows if these
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  messages are legitimate or not. I don't think Rosanna would have
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  brought them to her channel, to the Internet if she didn't
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  believe that they were real. And she wasn't pretty sure, you
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  know, in terms of like, being verified.
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  But like, again, who knows? I'm not sure when she decided
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  that, like, taking down Mr. Beast was her life's mission.
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  But I appreciate the work that she's doing.
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  Honestly, I think she's pulling back kind of the veil, like
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  pulling the veil off of what's that saying?
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  Pulling the veil back, whatever. Pulling the curtain back,
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  whatever. On such a powerful figure in
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  children's entertainment, really.
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  And I think it's necessary. OK.
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  The last story that I have for you guys is that Brianna Chicken
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  Fry has returned to Instagram after her Zac Bryan split last
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  week. Brianna said she would be going
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  offline for a little while to take some time to heal after the
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  country singer broke up with her.
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  In case you missed it, Zac broke up with Brianna and then posted
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  to his Instagram stories the next day announcing their split.
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  Brianna then made a video and a post saying she was shocked that
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  he took this public and she didn't even have a heads up.
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  So there actually have been quite a few updates since.
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  So Zach was reportedly seen on Raya basically the same day that
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  they broke up. There were screenshots going all
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  around Reddit. Dave Portnoy, who is Brianna's
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  boss, came to her defense and he's also been talking really
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  publicly about how he didn't like Zach and he revealed that
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  Bri and Zach broke up more than just this one time.
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  Notably, he claims that they split back in September.
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  So now people are kind of speculating that the reason that
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  Zach took to Instagram stories and like publicly addressed this
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  and announced their split like right away is so that he and
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  Brianna could not get back together.
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  Anyways, a few days after all of this, Brianna is back online.
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  She posted a series of stories with her friends and family.
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  So one of them she is on like a guy's shoulders and she said I'm
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  literally so fine besties fuck men and kill them all LMAO.
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  So another is a box of cupcakes and the cupcakes say his lose
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  and she wrote Gabby and Josh meant to write his laws but they
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  wrote his lose. And the one that has everybody
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  like oh she has a picture or it's like a video of her and a
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  friend and she wrote remember when I put my life on pause for
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  a man? Forgive me, I'm only human.
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  So I said last week, I think it was last week, that I don't
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  really know the Zac Bryan lore that well, and I still stand by
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  that. But I'm definitely learning
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  more. It seems like he has a bit of a
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  pattern in how he treats his partners.
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  He's rumoured to be a big cheater.
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  We know that. And his thing is to be like with
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  a woman. They'll buy a dog, they'll buy a
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  house near where she grew up, I guess, like near her hometown.
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  And then not long after he breaks up with her.
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  But Deb Pifer, I don't know if that's how you say your last
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  name. I think it is was his partner
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  before Bri and I'm unsure if they overlapped or not or if
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  that's just like a rumor or speculation.
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  But Deb has a pretty big TikTok following and I guess she was
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  getting a lot of comments and stuff like that about the Zach
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  and Brianna split, so she actually made a video addressing
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  it. I just like want to be clear on
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  the fact that I don't find any gratification and other people
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  heard it, specifically other women.
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  So I feel like I've seen some comments on my personal social
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  media pages alluding to the fact that I do and I don't.
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  So I just wanted to make sure that that was clear.
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  I like, I think that emotions are so nuanced and so
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  complicated, but it doesn't. I don't feel better because
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  other people are. So people love Deb in general,
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  but I thought that was really classy.
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  And I think it's just nice to see.
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  Like, I'm sure surely, surely like deep down a little bit, you
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  would be a little bit like satisfied.
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  I don't know. I just have to imagine if there
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  was a crossover. But at the end of the day, she's
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  also been on the receiving end of Zach Bryan, and you know that
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  whirlwind, and I'm sure she can see what happened to Brianna.
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  And she's just like that fucking asshole.
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  He did it again. And I just love publicly.
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  I think it's really important. Even if you feel a certain way,
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  I think publicly it's important for women to have each other's
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  backs. Anyways, guys, that's it for
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  Mini Scroll today. Thank you so much for listening.
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  It helps me grow. I love you guys and I will talk
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  to you tomorrow with a big Aspen update and all that jewelry
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  TikTok drama and I'm sure there will be other stuff to cover.
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  All right. Thanks, guys.
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  Bye.