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MINI SCROLL: Swiftie book drama, Rebuilding Atlantis TikTok 'cult' + Rosanna Pansino vs. Logan Paul & Keemstar · 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, and happy Tuesday.
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  I have three stories for you guys, so we're going to get
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  right into it because some of these stories are long.
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  So the first story that I have for you is I need to talk about
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  the new Taylor Swift style book because there is some serious
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  Twitter drama amongst the Swifties on Twitter over this
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  book. OK, so this is pretty niche.
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  Like I said, it is like mostly just occurring on Swifty
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  Twitter, but that corner of the Internet is criticizing a fellow
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  fan named Sarah Chappell after she released a book called
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  Taylor Swift Style Fashion Through the Eras.
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  Sarah is a well known Swifty, having run the Taylor Swift
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  Style blog and chronicling the singer's looks since October
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  2011. As you might expect from the
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  name, the book was dedicated to the singer's iconic outfits and
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  was released early last month. While all of this might seem
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  harmless, Sarah has received some pretty intense backlash.
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  Many Swifties have questioned her commentary around the
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  outfits, saying that they are critical and mean for no reason.
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  Quote. I've been following Taylor Swift
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  style for years and I've never once thought anything bad about
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  her. The things written in her book
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  are genuinely shocking. I feel like this all came out of
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  nowhere, one Twitter stand wrote.
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  Users have also been sharing screenshots to, like, prove that
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  this book is unnecessarily harsh, so I'm going to read a
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  couple of them. The title Sarah wrote is
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  Everything is Awful and Everything Hurts.
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  And then the comment says this was a day when I have to assume
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  that every person on Taylor's otherwise impeccable glam team
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  was replaced by a vengeful robot set on wreaking havoc.
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  Target Taylor Swift, objective, heavy hand, everything.
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  Mission accomplished. The overly worked curls and the
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  garish makeup do her no favors, and neither does that dated
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  bandage stress by Herve Leisure, a design that was inescapable in
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  the mid 2000s, relentlessly worn by a bevy of reality TV stars
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  and seen by the dozen in any line sneaking out of a
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  nightclub. OK, another segment.
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  The title is 4 words sequin houndstooth jogger set and the
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  description reads. That phrase should send shivers
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  of fear down your spine. MTVVMAS where Taylor wore this
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  Ashish set are the most appropriate place for a fun,
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  ridiculous look. But why must it be a SHJS?
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  Elasticized cuffs have no business on a red carpet,
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  especially not when they come up short, literally, and hit the
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  wearer mid shin. That said, I've recently come to
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  the conclusion that perhaps the striped elasticized straps on
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  Taylor's Christian Louboutin heels are meant to be a nod to a
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  sportier shoe like basketball high tops to befit the athletes
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  or nature of the jogger set. I am nothing if not someone who
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  can get behind intentional thematic style choices, even
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  when those choices result in dot dot dot this.
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  So a lot of Swifties are fighting about this, saying that
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  she has no business. Sarah has no business commenting
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  on fashion. She has no proper credentials.
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  Although like I said, she has been commenting on Taylor Swiss
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  fashion and kind of like like blogging about it and keeping
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  track of it for years, like almost a decade or over a
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  decade, I guess. And she has a very big following
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  because of it. But yeah, people are fighting
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  about how mean this book is. They're saying like, how did
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  this get published? So some people are coming for
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  her, like I said, others are noting that basically Sarah is
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  simply a fashion critic sharing her opinions, whether they are
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  harsh or not. Quote Sometimes I remember that
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  I like Taylor Swift a normal amount when I see her fandom
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  canceling the Taylor Swift fashion historian for mildly
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  stating Blondie doesn't always have a great fashion style
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  something which I feel every normal person knows about Taylor
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  rights 1 user just some harmless Twitter drama love to see it
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  that's what this podcast is all about OK the next story that I
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  have for you guys is we need to talk about the rebuilding
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  Atlantis TikTok account because this account is going viral.
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  A lot of people think we are watching a cult form in a real
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  time on TikTok. OK so there is this man on
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  TikTok who has started gaining traction in recent weeks for
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  documenting the process of what many claim is him forming a
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  cult. So he started his TikTok in
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  February 2023 and it basically just started.
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  You know him talking about how he had 20 acres of land in West
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  TX. It was very much like watch me
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  live off the grid. He did talk a lot about being
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  like anti establishment and he was very much like all, all
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  about the average Joe, like sticking up to the man, you
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  know, fighting back against corporations.
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  So a lot of people got behind it, you know, cost of living,
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  everything that we have going on.
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  People were like, yeah, this seems rad.
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  In November 2023, his video started to take a bit of a more
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  extreme turn where he started using junk that he had collected
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  to basically build structures, like using rusty metal scraps to
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  build a dam. And then one month later, quote
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  in December, he recorded several videos of police officers asking
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  for his ID, which he refused to provide.
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  In all these exchanges, he was combative, sarcastic,
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  disdainful, insulting, and said he was making sure the police
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  weren't doing anything bad. In a video of him addressing one
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  of the incidents, he said he was trying to teach the cop about
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  the law. I know that police training is
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  lacking, to say the least. But outside of that, you can
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  tell that rebuilding Atlantis truly feels like he knows more
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  than authority figures, especially when you remember
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  that he references basic government functions like zoning
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  laws as evidence that we live in a in a dictatorship, writes Jem
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  Blackthorne for Medium. So it was in this same month in
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  December 2023 when he started saying that we need to start a
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  revolution. And he started inviting people
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  to join him on his land for free.
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  And basically was like, just bring your stuff and you can
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  live on my land for free. You know, I won't provide things
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  for you, but if you bring your tent or whatever, like you can
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  live here. So people have been doing it.
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  I'll get into a little bit of that.
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  But so in order to apply to live on his land, which he calls
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  Atlanta, this, you need to subscribe to his TikTok, not
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  follow, but subscribe, which cost 599 a month, so basically
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  $6. He will accept your messages and
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  you can discuss moving there once you have subscribed.
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  And he said he's put up this kind of roadblock as he started
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  getting or this barrier because he started getting all of these
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  messages from people without this kind of barrier to entry.
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  And a lot of them were not taking it seriously.
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  So now if you are paying him money, he will accept your
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  messages. Blackthorne writes for Medium,
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  quote, rebuilding Atlantis is attracting residents by touching
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  on prevalent frustrations. The rent is too high.
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  The system is oppressive. He says he is constantly dealing
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  with police harassment and TikTok restrictions because they
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  don't like what he's doing. They're afraid of what he's
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  doing, and they're afraid of what he stands for.
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  He explains this in his January 5th, 2024 video, where he also
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  says, quote, I can't do it any longer.
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  I can't take this oppressive system.
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  I can't do it anymore. In a tone that sounds more like
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  a plea for help than an audio manifesto.
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  In January 2024, the first man moved to Atlantis.
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  By the end of March, there was another man who had come to the
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  land. And over the last, you know, I
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  guess 10 months, more people have started coming, including
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  some women now. So some of the criticism he's
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  received, aside from like the Colts accusations is that he's
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  clearly starting to love the followers and the fame because
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  he references it a lot. And he complaints about things
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  like TikTok bans and, you know, shadow banning and things like
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  that. This is starting to people
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  because I would say like the general consensus is that this
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  was created with good intentions.
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  This man seemed to be like creating Atlantis quote UN quote
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  with good intentions. But now it seems like, which I
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  think is probably how cults, a lot of cults start now that he's
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  like kind of doing the thing and he is gaining a bit of a
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  following doing it. And he is seeing the benefits of
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  that, like the fame, the money, the attention, the success.
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  Like that is starting. People are worried it's going to
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  like start going to his head because he's already shown signs
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  of that. But now there is a woman who
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  lives there who has a bit of a following as well.
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  So one of the residents, she's been documenting her experience
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  and on TikTok, she is visionary Empress.
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  She has almost 50, 50,000 followers and people are kind of
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  following along with this too. Again, her followers are
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  expressing concern about her living there.
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  But yeah, like, the general consensus of this is like, it is
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  a fascinating thing to follow and to watch.
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  But a lot of people are like, I can't believe that I'm here
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  before the Netflix documentary. Like a lot of people think this
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  is going to be another kind of like 7 M TikTok cult vibe that
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  we saw turn into some documentary, kind of like
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  Unravel, get a bit out of control.
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  And I don't know, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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  All right. And the last story that I have
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  for you guys is that Rosanna Pansino is facing a lot of
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  backlash from various influencers after her recent
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  videos and posts exposing Mr. Beast.
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  OK, so for a quick refresher, Rosanna recently made a video
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  where she was sharing like inappropriate messages that were
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  allegedly shared in Mr. Beast's like work chat amongst different
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  employees. And the video was titled Mr.
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  Beast knew all all along 1000 leaked messages.
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  She basically went through this work chat, alleged work chat on
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  Telegram. I'm not going to get into the
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  specifics because we did recently cover it, but she
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  alleged that the members repeatedly made sexual memes
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  about minors. And she also claimed that Ava
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  Tyson, who was Mr. B's longtime friend and Co host, sent a
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  message including a seemingly sexually explicit photo of a 13
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  year old. Since then, Rosanna has received
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  backlash from the likes of Logan Paul and Keemstar.
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  Now keep in mind Logan Paul and Keemstar, OK?
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  Like I want to cover this story in its entirety because she has
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  responded and stuff, but like, keep in mind who she's receiving
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  backlash from, OK? So in a TikTok posted last week,
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  Logan Paul, who is one of the founders of Lunch Lee alongside
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  KSI and Mr. Beast, took to the platform to address the rumor
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  that some Lunch Lee kits have been recalled, which he
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  maintains is not the truth. He also came for Rosanna in the
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  TikTok, calling her quote, an attention hungry little clout
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  goblin who has made it her entire identity to speak
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  negatively on all things Mr. Beast.
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  OK. Meanwhile, Keemstar has
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  criticized Rosanna for her video on the Mr. Beast work chat
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  trying to discredit her and her claims.
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  He alleged that the chat Rosanna shared was not actually a work
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  chat, but were quote screenshots of the meme chat that were
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  definitely not work related at all.
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  In a video posted to Twitter, he added that Rosanna also was not
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  truthful when she alleged that a sexually explicit photo of a
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  minor was shared in the chat. Quote this whole video and all
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  these allegations were designed to destroy Mr. Beast career and
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  his reputation online and they were false.
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  The whole thing, he said. OK, I mean, first of all,
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  whether it was actually a work chat or not, I don't know if
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  that makes that any better because Mr. Beast was still
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  allegedly in that chat and a bunch of his employees were
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  still in that chat. So even if it wasn't like a
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  company owned Slack channel or something, they were still
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  apparently sharing these like very inappropriate messages,
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  borderline criminal messages. So I don't know if that makes a
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  huge difference. But Rosanna has since come
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  forward to defend herself in a series of posts on Twitter.
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  In one post she wrote quote. Multiple people from these chats
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  have confirmed they were work chats and they discussed work
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  often. I've attached a few examples
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  with some insurance fraud as well.
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  I honestly didn't think the Gooner gang Keemstar and his
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  attack puppies would band together to defend pedo jokes in
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  the Mr. Beast main Telegram chat, but here we are.
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  Side note, I've heard from multiple sources that Keemstar
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  is in business with Mr. Beast in an undisclosed partnership.
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  That would be tea. The creators are all still going
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  back and forth together so I'm sure more will come out.
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  If there's any other updates I will let you guys know.
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  But that's that. That's the update.
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  I swear almost every day there is a Mr. Beast update and I'm
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  sorry, I don't want to be giving you these updates either.
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  OK guys, that is it for today. Thank you so much for listening.
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