Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily Internet
culture podcast bringing you the biggest stories from social
media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday
through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone.
OK can I just say so my best friend is like really into
electronic music and she listens to my podcast every day and she
was dying. She sent me like 100 voice notes
yesterday after I said I didn't know who John Summit was and no
one else has been shocked by that.
But I feel like I said something like blasphemous to her.
She was like, how are we best friends?
And you don't know who this person is?
So I apologize for that. I feel like it was a little bit
like brain rot chronically online of me to know only who he
is through Alex Earl's sister. But honestly, that's just like
who I am. That's just who I am at my core.
Anyways, let's just get straight into the stories today.
So as I mentioned yesterday, I had to spend a little bit of
time diving into to two of these stories.
And then I also have quite a big story, I think for you guys
coming tomorrow. But again, I need a little bit
more time. The first story that I have
though is somebody asked me to talk about the Tara yummy drama
and Annabelle. She helped me with this episode.
She normally just does the deep dive stuff with me, like
research and help script it, but I was like, I really need your
help diving into mini scroll for tomorrow.
So she looked into Tara Yummy for me and this is what we
found. It was actually hard because no
one has written an article on it.
There's like some commentary videos, like one or two, like
legitimately. And then I think this morning I
saw Trisha Paytas, like just Trish, her podcast talked
something about like Tara Yummy. So possibly they talked about
this. But here are like the two dramas
going on with her right now. Hopefully this is what you guys
meant. OK, so the first drama going on
with Tara is that it's between her and her ex-boyfriend Jake
Weber. So for context, Tara and Jake
were in a relationship for five years before breaking up last
September. The breakup was very public,
with both creators sharing videos explaining their
decision. Despite no bad blood, they felt
it was best for both of them, having met at such at a young
age to break up. Tara was 18 and Jake was 20 when
they started dating. Tara, by the way, if you guys
don't know, is a Tik toker. I don't know.
I didn't say that Normally I like intro who people are.
Tara is a Tik Toker and she's like having her moment.
I think she really started to gain some mainstream attention
last year and now it's like constantly people are talking
about her. Since the breakup, there has
been some ongoing discourse about their friendship, with
users labeling Tara as a quote UN quote pick me who hasn't
moved on from Jake. And then over the weekend, a
photo surfaced of Jake kissing TikTok star Kenzie Luby at a 4th
of July party, confirming rumors about their alleged
relationship. And then it gets even more
complicated because rumors had previously suggested that Kenzie
had cheated on Jake with Jayden Hosler.
Now, this rumor did come from T Talk Talk on Instagram, so who
really knows if this is true or not, but the recent photo
clearly shows that Jake and Kenzie are still involved with
one another in some way. Tara at the same party was
photographed with Jordan Huxold, sparking speculation about their
alleged relationship. Previously, there were also
rumors that Tara was seeing Vinny Hacker after the two
filmed together earlier this year.
Whether Tara has a boyfriend or not, there's been a lot of
conversation about how Tara and Jake treat each other online as
they have remained close friends despite being exes.
Some people criticized Tara for continuing to flirt with Jake,
assuming that she knows that he has seen Kenzie.
A Reddit user on the Tara Yummy Snark subreddit, theorize that
Tara and Jake play up their ex status and flirting to gain
money and views online because they know it will be a big topic
of discussion. OK, the second drama going on
with her. Tara recently shared that she is
leaving the Dropouts podcast. Yesterday, Tara uploaded a video
titled I Left Dropouts to her YouTube channel explaining her
departure from the podcast. The dropouts podcast was hosted
by Zach Justice, Tara Yummy, and Jared Bailey.
It featured conversational segments, various topics, and
guest appearances. Zach is fairly controversial.
He has faced criticism for his humor, with many claiming that
he makes inappropriate jokes, many of which are about topics
like race, sex, and pedophilia. And to make matters even more
concerning, Zach was previously in an age gap relationship with
Indiana Massar. So for context, he is 7 years
older than her. They were allegedly together
when she was freshly 18, and according to reports, they also
met when Indiana was 14. So Zach was allegedly hired by
Indiana's mom to help her with her social media when she was 14
and he moved into their house allegedly.
And then when she was freshly 18, they started dating.
OK, questionable. Nevertheless, Tara has also been
shipped with Zach since hosting the podcast together.
Given that Tara has continued to associate herself with Zach even
though he is very controversial, this has contributed to these
like pick me allegations and all the hate that she has been
receiving Recently. In her video, Tara shared that
the podcast environment pushed her to be vulnerable in a way
that she was uncomfortable with. Quote, I want you guys to feel
like Facetiming with me. And I feel like being on a
podcast didn't really feel like that unless it was my own
podcast and I kind of controlled the narrative.
That's something I may do in the future, she said in the video.
So social media reactions have been mixed to this.
Some view Tara's decision to leave the podcast as positive
given Zach's history, while others wished that she had been
more critical of Zach when she was involved in the podcast.
So I think that's like a pretty good summary of everything going
on with Tara. Yummy.
If there's a drama that I missed let me know in the YouTube
comments and I will cover it. But that seems to be like what
she is facing at the moment. OK the next story that I have
concerns about Tik Tok's Aussie Bro squad mount as influencers
start calling out the account. So for context, I was introduced
to Aussie Bro Squad months ago. I would say it's probably about
six months ago from Sean, my husband.
He, I don't know, he ended up on like Aussie Bro Squad talk
where, you know, he would get the account, but then he would
also get the commentary around the account.
And he was like, you need to cover these guys like they're
kind of niche, but like you need to cover it because it felt kind
of like, I mean, people are comparing it to like a Run
Eleanor situation. And at the time I was like,
yeah, yeah, OK. Well, like, I'll look into it
later. And then of course now over the
last few weeks, Christian Hall, who's a big TikTok or a comedian
here in Australia, he started talking about them a lot on his
TikTok. And then I mean, people had been
talking about them for sure. But he's he like amplified the
conversation essentially. And now other influencers have
got involved. So here is everything that I
have found and there's like one, I think big like deep dive
commentary video. If you guys wanted a deep dive
on Aussie Bro Squad, I can definitely try and bring you
one. So just let me know.
But this is like, you know, high level what's going on.
So Aussie Bro Squad gained popularity at the end of last
year with their dancing videos. The group consists of 15 year
old Jackson, 17 year old Tyler and 18 year old twins Braden and
Rawson. They have multiple accounts, one
for each member, a communal account with just under 150,000
followers and their mother also has an account.
Concerns have arisen about the amount of work that the creators
are doing as they are almost always on live, so there are
worries that they may be coerced into creating content due to the
lack of monetization options on Australian TikTok except for
receiving gifts during live streams.
Basically, we don't have the creator fund fun fact for our
American viewers. So they're basically this like
dance squad, like these siblings that do dances and for the most
part, like they don't speak. And what was like really
concerning to Sean, at least when he was first telling me
about it, is he was like, you can like hear their mom in the
background, like coaching them and like she'll answer the
questions on live and stuff, but they'll just be like dancing.
And it's giving like uncanny valley.
They're like smiling and dancing and like, you know, whatever.
But they're never stopping. Their mom will literally be
like, OK, like, you know, so and so is just coming home from
school. And then they're going to be on
live from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM for like hours and hours a day on
TikTok live. And their mom is the one, like,
who seems to be controlling this, like controlling their
live streams, controlling what's going on on social media.
So Christian Hall and other creators have questioned the
situation, especially whether the boys are being coerced into
creating this kind of content. The concerns have specifically
been leveled towards their mother, Beverly, given that she
is sort of like the momager. Like I said of the group, on top
of this, their profile, those weird things like they block
literally everyone and they go on and off private constantly.
Brittany Saunders, a long time Aussie creator and business
owner, highlighted the issue of serial blocking and how it feels
like they may be trying to hide something.
She said that AQ and a session to address audience concerns
would be easy to do and it would just put kind of all of the
speculation, the rumors, the questions to bed.
As for how people are interpreting the account, one
Reddit user wrote quote. It's a cult like situation.
The boys always have fake smiles and are clearly very controlled
by that strange woman. She even makes them dance in her
shop. It's all very very odd.
The boys don't seem to have any life outside of dancing, another
redditor wrote. Quote.
I don't even know how they are supposed to live their lives
when mom is live streaming every moment of the day, even when
they are having dinner. So that's kind of the gist of
the story. Like I said, if you want like a
full deep dive, I can absolutely try and bring you guys that.
But that's like at a high level, the concerns, what's going on
with the account, it's starting to gain a lot more traction.
Absolutely. So I'm interested to see kind of
where this goes. I think Christian and Britney
and some other influencers who are chiming in like that is
going to help amplify the situation.
But there is definitely something sinister it feels
going on there. OK.
And the last story that I have for you guys is that Julia Fox
has come out as a lesbian on TikTok.
So after letting the world know that she's been celibate for the
last 2 1/2 years, Julia Fox has come out as gay in a TikTok
stitch She stitched comedian at M Grace dogs video who said
quote, I love when I see a lesbian with their boyfriend.
It's like, oh, you hate that man.
You literally hate him. So Julia stitched it and she
said, hey, that was me. I was that lesbian.
So sorry boys won't happen again.
People are mostly happy or excited about the fact that she
came out so casually. Like it just, it felt really
authentic and I think it's a great example for young
audiences. Obviously she has a big TikTok
audience and I'm sure a lot of them are very young.
To see another example of coming out in such a casual way.
I thought it was cool. I know there's a lot of mixed
opinions about her, but I don't know.
I just love her, you know? I know you could fault her for
some things for sure, but I don't know, I like her and I
think she's doing cool things on TikTok and I think she's doing
cool things for like Hollywood and breaking down the mystique
around fame and money and notoriety and power.
And she is also Centennial World's like #1 fan.
We she doesn't follow us, but she likes so many of our videos
on TikTok. And I'm like girl, please hit
that follow button. Anyways guys, that is it for
today. Like I said, I have another big
story coming tomorrow so stay tuned for that.
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It helps me grow. And I will talk to you guys
tomorrow. Bye.