r/woahthatsinteresting • u/ExplorerFast335 • 5d ago
I'm glad she is growing but how is this even possible?
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u/scumpingweed 5d ago
Saw her chance and took it. Nothing but respect for that lady
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u/someonefarted 5d ago
Legit she struck gold with going viral and she was smart enough to get her and her family out of poverty with it. Good on her. I wish her good luck
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u/Ganadote 3d ago
Reminds me if the south park episode where all the viral people went to the internet to get their money, and they got nothing.
She was able to get her bag. Good on her.
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u/thenotsoamerican 5d ago
I was gonna say lol she’s awesome and I’m happy for her success. From what I’ve seen, she seems like a really cool person
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u/Many-Application1297 5d ago
They threw shit tons of cash at her for only fans. She would have made bank! And she didn’t do it. Gotta admire that. Good luck to her.
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u/YT-Deliveries 5d ago
People have gotten famous for way less than this, and way less innocuous things. She did a silly thing on a video and is now making bank off it. If only we all were so fortunate.
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u/Which-Day6532 4d ago
It’s so hilarious that the people mad about her success are probably the same people that think Elon is a genius
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u/Connect_Hospital_270 5d ago
People think it's an indictment on her when it's an indictment of society. I can't blame her one bit for riding that wave of stupidity
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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 5d ago
Exactly. She’s at least intelligent enough to know to go with what seems to be working for her. The things we value in this country will be the ruin of us all.
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u/GreaseBuilds 5d ago
This is why it's hard to fully hate the Kardashians. Z-list "celebrities" get thrust into the limelight by a video of their daughter getting dicked-down by a C-list celebrity; they manage to pivot it into a billion dollar dynasty that will have generational wealth at a minimum, fame for decades to come most likely. It really is just a testament to the stupidity of the average media consumer.
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u/RockyShoresNBigTrees 5d ago
Agreed. I don’t hate any of them, I have no interest in them and will never understand the draw to something that contributes nothing of value to anything. And at the same time recognize they are using what was handed to them. That’s on the folks being drawn into it.
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u/gmanisback 5d ago
The whole "she's famous for being famous" thing is very strange
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u/SaltKick2 5d ago
People have been worshiping royalty for centuries :\ not quite the same, but I imagine there's a lot of similarities
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u/GodTurkey 4d ago edited 4d ago
Fuck mega millionaires and billionaires. Easy as that. Wealth hoarding is immoral and the ACTUAL blight of our society.
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u/13TheGreenMan 5d ago
Very easy to hate a family that has had strong ties to Diddy for decades, but okay.
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u/ironburton 4d ago
America loves to glorify stupidity. Her getting that famous for that stupid of a response and dudes eating it up like ice cream shows me exactly where we are culturally. It’s embarrassing. But good for her on lapping up the money and fame.
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u/Ormild 5d ago
I don’t follow this too much, but she is/was a school teacher.
Grind it out for the next 40 years making, I dunno, $50k per year, or cash in on your 15 minutes of fame and make a shit ton more, work way less, and be less stressed?
Choice seems obvious.
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u/slaughterlanternfly 5d ago
The teacher thing seems to have been incorrect - which also helped boost the virality.
She was working in a spring making factory.
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u/ivisiblecow 4d ago
Idiocracy was a documentary! It’s crazy and sad to see the latest empire to slowly decay. The saddest part most people aren’t really aware how bad it has gotten.
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u/BacchusInvictus 5d ago
The actual indictment of society are the guys in spot 1 and spot 2 on this list...
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u/PaleontologistOk2516 4d ago
If anyone is wondering why the election is a toss up, just look at this list… yikes
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u/WTAF__Republicans 5d ago
Why is it an indictment on anyone?
She's funny, good-looking, and fun to watch and listen to. Which are the exact same things all entertainers have.
Why is it an indictment on society that people like her, but not an indictment that people like Adam Corolla or Jay Leno?
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u/CyberneticPanda 5d ago
Yeah, I dont care about her but I don't understand the hate at all. She is charming, from what little I've seen. She's also pretty wholesome. She gave a PG-13 answer to a question designed to elicit a graphic response and hasn't cashed in on her fame with an onlyfans account or "leaked" sextape.
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u/WTAF__Republicans 5d ago
Hell... she even turned down playboy.
I don't get the hate?
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i don't really care about her. I'm more concerned that Tucker Carlson still does numbers like that. What does he even talk about? How to bloat your face after you turn 50?
Conservative media is a food desert. It's no surprise that she's enjoying such success. Her competition is two brain dead babboons with dicks in their hands.
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u/FattyMooseknuckle 5d ago
I don’t get it either. If she turns out to be a vapid, shallow drain on society like a seeming majority of influencers then I can get behind bring mad. But if she’s genuine and interesting, she’s just another multi-category talk show host. So far she’s using her fame and money to do good things and could be a good source of positive energy. Is it really just because a girl lucked into the spotlight and is cashing in on it that has people’s knickers bunched up in their taints?
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u/XenuWorldOrder 4d ago
It’s not. This site is full of a bunch of jealous losers who hate on everything they didn’t approve of first. Everyone is commenting like they’ve listened to the podcast. Maybe it’s good, maybe it sucks. I have no idea so I’m not offering my take. Or maybe all the haters have listened to it, which would explain why it’s number three on the list.
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u/liberty 4d ago
Also, it's not like Adam Carolla or Jay Leno or anyone else in the spotlight is the indisputable pinnacle of entertainment talent. I mean, it has to be someone, and [whoever] may not be a bad choice, but there are literal millions of people who could do just as well.
There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes and the end result is that someone gets picked to be famous or popular or whatever. The only difference here is that, with this particular podcaster, it all happened in plain sight, and folks think that what happened in plain sight isn't good enough.
Well let me tell you. I guarantee that whatever Jay Leno did to get picked by NBC wasn't any more special. If we can credit him for rising to the occasion (even if you don't like him, we can at least acknowledge his success), then we can just as well credit this podcaster.
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u/foggin_estandards2 5d ago
I'm genuinely interested in what she has to say as in, what could she possibly have to talk about.
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u/brookelynfd 5d ago edited 5d ago
A couple nights ago I had the same question and was curious, so I gave her first episode a watch, totally expecting to just have it playing in the background and tuning out. Next thing I knew, it was 3am and I had already watched all 3 of her episodes. I was bummed i was already caught up and now had to wait for new episodes to drop.
As I watched her podcast, It became clear almost instantly why her fame has evolved so rapidly. She shines! Her personality is so much fun, easy and relatable. She’s just a normal girl with normal friends that are just winging this overnight success thing and very honest about that. I find myself rooting for her and her friends.
Also, she talks about her and “Pookie” a lot.
Who’s Pookie, you ask? No one has a clue 😂
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u/foggin_estandards2 5d ago
Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. Tbh, I liked her from the start, when she turned up to be a regular girl instead of... you know.
Anyway, maybe I'll give her a shot.
Again, I appreciate your response.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net 4d ago
Aside from that, she very likely got picked up by a social media agency. There's no way she'd be so highly promoted and listened to organically like this.
Props to her for making good decisions either way, from everything I hear she sounds like a great girl.
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u/-Miss-Anne-Thrope- 5d ago
Instead of what?
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u/Moist-Pickle-2736 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think the non-incel version of what they meant in the other reply is: “someone who lacks depth, and treats their marketable sex-appeal as the core of their personality”
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u/Growth_Moist 4d ago
I know you’re getting a ton of hate but I get what you mean. Make, female, it’s not a flattering trait to talk about spitting loogies on private parts… generally. In this instance she was trying to make a joke and it landed. She’s cool. I don’t get why she’s remotely famous for it but whatever lol.
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u/disastermaster255 4d ago
What did she actually talk about? Or is this just someone from marketing?
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u/likebuttuhbaby 4d ago
I heard her on the radio guest DJing. Her answers to the regular DJ’s questions/prompts were brief but they had a ton of charisma. She seemed to converse so effortlessly compared to other ‘flashes in the pan’.
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u/nickelroo 4d ago
You said so many words, yet said absolutely nothing about the discussion.
This is so insanely brain rotting that it makes sense why she’s famous.
America wants comfort, not a discussion.
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u/2tonegold 4d ago
Lol when I checked it out to see what all the fuss is about my literal thought was "Now I understand what brainrot means"
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u/Bencetown 4d ago
OK, that was a lot of words to say she has a nice personality. But what does she talk about?
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u/Useuless 4d ago
Reminds me of the hate train for the iZombie TV show before it aired. People said it looked horrible.
Once it aired though, the reviews called it charming and it was a success.
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u/ThePennedKitten 4d ago
Oh wow, thanks for this! That’s interesting. So, someone with an attractive personality got a chance and it worked out for her. Interesting.
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u/PartyPorpoise 3d ago
A lot of people who become memes try to make money from it, but very few manage to take it very far. I figure that she must have something else going for her if she's managed to find this much success. The meme opened the door for her, but she get herself through.
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u/Zesty-Lem0n 4d ago
She has deep insights on neural networks and the shortcomings of current developer mindsets on their deployment.
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u/Devreckas 4d ago
I saw a post on this. This is a meme, right? Or did she actually talk with someone about machine learning?
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u/gangsterroo 4d ago
That's a really particular topic. Is it relevant somehow?
Oh, snobbishness and autofellatio, got it.
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u/Dense-Lock489 4d ago
Do you? I dabble in software development and, unless you're deep in the weeds with that stuff, it's incredibly complicated and nuanced.
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u/Nozzeh06 4d ago
If I was getting paid that much for basically doing nothing I'd be finding all sorts of shit to say lol.
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u/BreastFeedMe- 4d ago
Are you kidding? I have 3 pages of notes on episode one alone. The complexity of the concepts the delve into, and the insights they provide on them are genuinely life altering. I can’t wait for next weeks episode. I’m definitely calling into work, I need the whole day to process it
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u/JorahTheHandle 4d ago
for her to have hit the #3 spot, this isnt some discount bin operation, she likely has/had a team working around her and on this project well before it launched and knew how to make a successful product.
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u/jakethesnake949 4d ago
As a man, I'm not even interested in her sexually but I've genuinely been in a "I need to hear more" situation with almost every snippet of podcast she has been in. She's kinda fascinating: to see someone be so ignorant yet pretty intelligent, so out there yet so relatable. She's a literal personality and she might not be that way for everyone because they already know a crazy character like her but she coincidentally just took off for not being afraid to just say something stupid.
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u/ausername111111 4d ago
Reminds me of that South Park where one of the female class mates starts growing b@@bs and all of a sudden all the male classmates thinks she's smart and interesting.
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u/Backseat_boss 5d ago
Glad for her, get every dollar you can.
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u/LongTallDingus 5d ago
She wouldn't be finding success if she wasn't an engaging person. I'm not going to sit down with a talk variety show about 20~somethin' stuff on any sorta regular basis, but I did sit through an episode.
She's pretty good at being a presenter, holding the conversation when she needs to, and passing the ball. Experiences in her life before this developed the ability to host a show like this.
I give her two thumbs up. Way to go. Saw an opportunity, took it, and is succeeding not just because of the opportunity, but because of who she is.
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u/Diamondhands_Rex 4d ago
Honestly the people shouldn’t underestimate her just because of her 15 minutes of fame bit. As far I can tell she’s smart enough to keep this ball rolling and develop herself into something else. I say good on her and hope she can keep up the good work and she uses her platform for good.
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u/jack-t-o-r-s 4d ago
Thank God a breath of fresh air from someone who can make an objective observation about the rare skill of being a natural broadcaster.
I'd challenge anyone who doubts her (or myself for that matter) to hold court on microphone for 5 minutes. AND THEN maintain the flow of conversation without dead air.
It's a gift.
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u/Danielsax 5d ago
Absolutely l. I don’t blame her one bit for milking her fame as much as she can and creating a personal brand for herself. Good for her
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u/Backseat_boss 5d ago edited 3d ago
Exactly, Paris Hilton was already rich and became bigger for saying “that’s hot” I’m happy to see a regular person get some money.
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u/ShanTheMan11 5d ago
Too many people with the IQ of an alarm clock, that’s how it’s possible.
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u/MDFan4Life 5d ago
That's not fair! Alarm clocks at least have a purpose, and are extremely usefull.
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u/tehpenguinofd000m 5d ago
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u/TumblrInGarbage 4d ago
nah, r/peoplearestupid
It's not that OP is a genius, and OP did not claim that.
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u/funnytickles 5d ago
The people that talk negatively about her and how the shtick is so played out are the same people that made her popular in the first place
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u/TreStation 5d ago
Watch the movie, Idiocracy, you'll find all your answers there.
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u/Working-Narwhal-540 5d ago
This movie was more of a prophecy than a satire at this point. Just waiting on the brawndo!
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u/irohr 5d ago edited 5d ago
Reddit can’t help giving itself a pat on the back for watching a fucking Mike judge movie and calling it prophetic.
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u/_ch00bz_ 5d ago
jesus christ what kind of sad fuck listens to tucker carlson?
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u/ChaosFinalForm 5d ago
Not any particular kind, just sad fucks in general I think.
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u/Bad-Umpire10 5d ago
Still better than Tucker Carlson
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u/poofartgambler 5d ago
And Joe Rogan.
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u/Baby-Ima-Firefighter 4d ago
Did anyone feel more depressed that those two poop sculptures were the benchmarks than at all interested by the hawk tuah lady? Jesus.
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u/MisterAbbadon 4d ago edited 4d ago
If Satan emerged from the bowels of Hell to launch a podcast and it had a legitimate chance of beating out Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan I'd do everything I could to push up its numbers. If she beats either of them it's a win.
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u/MYDOGSMOKES5MEODMT 5d ago
I mean, this, Bobbi Althoff, Mr. Yeast infection... If someone has +10M subs I'm immediately suspect that their content is wildly algorithm driven and ergo complete fucking garbage
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u/swampballsally 5d ago
The amount of people supporting the podcast without even hearing it is fucking weird
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u/Feelisoffical 5d ago
Apparently people are posting her on Reddit and providing her free advertising
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u/Killer_Ex_Con 4d ago
Yep this is like the 5th post I've seen the last 2 days otherwise I would have no clue she had a podcast.
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u/uselesslogin 4d ago
Right I listened to 3 minutes of the podcast. All because someone is a genius marketer. I'd say I didn't like it but as others have pointed out the other 2 are probably even more terrible. I think I just don't like podcasts.
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u/rymyle 5d ago
Because people won't stop posting about it saying "wtf how is this possible?" Bad publicity is good publicity. Aka ignore it and it goes away
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u/Rhymesbeatsandsprite 5d ago
Ill play Devil’s Advocate:
What made the original video funny was how spontaneous and unexpected her answer was, it was hilarious.
Most of these viral people in the past would have flamed out by now, but she’s done some interviews and she has shown she is actually a very charismatic and funny personality all the time. She gained an audience, her podcast was heavily publicized so a lot of eyes were on it. She has a couple entertaining/fun first few episodes, and boom thats it. If she is a good podcast host then more fucking power to her dude.
She isnt saying “hawk tuah” like Bart Simpson, she is just as entertaining as any other comedian led podcast.
I dont see any reason to hate on this woman. She didnt drag her joke into the ground, the media did, she saw an opportunity and capitalized. Every single one of us would do that
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u/Seabrook76 5d ago
To answer your question, everybody is tired of Rogan and she hasn’t done anything to mess it up at this point.
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u/GojoPenguin 5d ago
Didn't do a deep dive to fact check this, but here is what I found. I do not know what the timeframe basis is for these rankings.
77 across all categories on Apple podcast.
5 on Spotify in America
9 on Spotify in Canada
17 on Spotify in the UK
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u/Alien_invader44 5d ago
Yeah this is quirk of the algorithms. Basically every new podcast jumps up the rankings because it tracks increases in popularity and any number of listeners is a big increase from 0.
It's ironic that this is a realitively well known thing but everyone is taking it as evidence for idiocracy.
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u/panchugo 5d ago
"how is this even possible?"
Because you keep advertising for her...
Let's be happy for her success, and let her make the most out of the opportunities her life have given her. She seems like a genuinely good person who, I would argue, is worth being given the attention and a platform to well before the ones above her on the list.
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u/agent0088 5d ago
It's a car crash. People are slowing down to look. If they stick around for another 6 months, then she has something that's entertaining and people want to watch or listen to.
Look at Meghan Markle and her podcast and shows. They ran up to the top of podcasts and shows when first aired. It didn't take long to see they were empty and not entertaining (no energy) at all. At least, Hailey is putting in the effort and time.
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u/xCanadaDry 5d ago edited 5d ago
She got attention from a meme and absolutely understands she's getting her 15 minutes of fame. She's gonna ride this right out to make money, and you can't even be mad. You gotta respect it.
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u/That-thing1224 5d ago
Look, I'm not one to defend brain rot in society but y'all can all stop being sour and accept that she is also extremely loveable.
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u/Maiberaa 5d ago
She’s doing what everyone would want to do if they got 15 minutes of fame and was able to hold onto it. Can’t hate the girl for hustling while the spotlight is still on her. Get that bag, girl
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u/bluntrauma420 5d ago
Third most popular? that's ridiculous! I'm going to have to start listening to help push her to number one
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u/tinumake3p8z6 5d ago edited 2d ago
Girl landed 15 minutes of fame and is milking every second of it.
she's won the lottery and she's collecting the winnings.