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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Trends

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Speaker 1: So Good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, trends Yes

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Speaker 1: yes yes balloon Hello, I'm Jack. That is super producer

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Speaker 1: Becca Ramos. And for people who haven't seen that video,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be confused, I guess a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna talk about it.

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Speaker 1: So as were we all? Should we just kick off

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Speaker 1: with that, because I guess.

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Speaker 2: So we started there, we should.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this was on my list of like, oh, we

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Speaker 1: forgot to talk about that this week over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: and then I lost that list and then we forgot

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Speaker 1: to talk about it again this week. But it is

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Speaker 1: this video of a person on TikTok, a woman who

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Speaker 1: has a cowboy hat and a mustache in like for

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Speaker 1: a moment, like a graphic over, and then the main

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Speaker 1: chunk that I think people chose to to like I

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Speaker 1: think it went viral on Twitter, was her saying ice

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Speaker 1: cream so good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes, and

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Speaker 1: it just.

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Speaker 2: Her name is Pinky Doll. By the way, her.

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Speaker 1: Name, yes, I should do not erase Pinky Doll. So

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Speaker 1: Pinky Doll is somebody who's part of a TikTok trend

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Speaker 1: that Becca as a resident TikTok expert, I am asking

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Speaker 1: you to explain to me, and you I asked you,

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Speaker 1: and you just put your head in your hands and

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Speaker 1: began weeping. So that is.

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Speaker 2: Truly how it's felt going down this rabbit hole. I

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Speaker 2: actively tried to avoid it on TikTok because I kept

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Speaker 2: seeing it pop up and I was like, what is this?

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Speaker 2: And then I saw more people making fun of it,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, I simply, is it above my head?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand, and then I and then I. The

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Speaker 2: thing that made me bring it up was I got

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Speaker 2: to serve to TikTok saying, oh, this is actually fetish,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, of course it is. But obviously

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Speaker 2: no claims have been you know, confirmed or denied. What

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Speaker 2: this is. It is basically people TikTokers pretending to be NPCs,

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Speaker 2: which are non playing characters right AI video.

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Speaker 1: Game, like the background characters who just respond to stimulus

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Speaker 1: and do the same thing over and over again.

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Speaker 2: Yes, which there have been other trends on TikTok of

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Speaker 2: like NPC vibe, but they've been more in the vein

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Speaker 2: of showing outfits like choose your character and then it's

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Speaker 2: like right, So and then people like change all these

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Speaker 2: different outfits to be different characters that type of thing.

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Speaker 2: But this has been kind of a weird thing because

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Speaker 2: it's specifically for TikTok Live, because on TikTok Live, people

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Speaker 2: can send different emoticons and those emoticons are equating to

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Speaker 2: a certain amount of actual dollar coins attached to it

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Speaker 2: to pay the creators to act to it.

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Speaker 1: So she when she's saying ice cream so good, and

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Speaker 1: like maybe ice cream so good? Yes, yes, yes, that

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Speaker 1: is a gift that is being sent to her. That

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Speaker 1: is also a gift. There is a monetary value that

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Speaker 1: she is receiving in connection with that, And the point

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Speaker 1: of the people sending this is just to see a

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Speaker 1: human being devoid of all humanity, just to having free

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Speaker 1: will taken away from them by technology, which I feel

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Speaker 1: like at a deep like, at a deep psychological level,

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Speaker 1: is kind of how everyone feels a little bit. So

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Speaker 1: that's probably where part of the fascinations coming from. And

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Speaker 1: then yes, probably people are also masturbating.

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Speaker 2: People are definitely masturbating to this. That was the vibe

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Speaker 2: I got from specifically the TikToker ming a lla bay

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Speaker 2: They were explaining how when these TikTokers, specifically like Pinky

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Speaker 2: That's like kind of the fetish to it, and.

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Speaker 1: The people who are.

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Speaker 2: Yes ya, and so the people sending it are you know,

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Speaker 2: getting off on seeing the TikToker react, whereas the issue

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Speaker 2: being this is a child's app, why would you, you know,

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Speaker 2: bring this child's you know, this adult play child in

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Speaker 2: but that's you could say that about all the lives

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Speaker 2: in general, and they all make their money this way,

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Speaker 2: like this is just one specific weird way to make money,

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Speaker 2: but they all make this money from receiving these emoticons.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people go live, like regular ass

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Speaker 2: content creators go live so that they can earn money

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Speaker 2: that's like, oh my god, thanks Jess for sending me

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Speaker 2: that you know ice cream. I'm like so grateful for

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Speaker 2: you when it's not being this creepy, weird AI n

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Speaker 2: a little black marry that you know, Pinky Doll won't

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Speaker 2: break character and she's like on Live twenty four seven.

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Speaker 2: She's literally on Live right now as we were like

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Speaker 2: looking up shit for this article.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is weird, and you are one of her

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Speaker 2: We should make that and you know, selling my money

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Speaker 2: out to be Actually I'm like losing my apartment for this.

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Speaker 1: I'm seniging money to Pinky Doll over these gifts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does feel like something that would be too weird

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Speaker 1: for Black Mirror. Like I feel like we've gone from

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Speaker 1: now we're just like this is like if you if

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Speaker 1: do with that. Like usually yeah, like there's that one

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Speaker 1: that almost feels like quaint now, Like then you that

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Speaker 1: it was like, okay, that was your reaction to the

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Speaker 1: that's that just seems like we've digested that and moved on.

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Speaker 1: This is not me saying like Black Mirror, you're so lamb.

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Speaker 2: Up that it already moved they can not move.

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Speaker 1: Through new surreal terrain like at a startling pace that

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Speaker 1: I feel like it almost makes the job of someone

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Speaker 1: making a Black Mirror show like hard, too hard. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, well anyways, I it's one of those weird

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Speaker 1: of their left All right, Oppenheimer, it is Boppenheimer Day

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Speaker 1: at midnight tonight tonight they both drop.

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Speaker 2: Well, okay, I am seeing it tonight before midnight because.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are showing it early. But I kind of

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Speaker 2: was thinking about this before we got on MIC. Do

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Speaker 2: you remember the days when movies would actually drop at

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Speaker 2: And I kind of miss that. I mean, I was

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Speaker 1: You go and you sit, and I choose to still

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Speaker 1: believe in that reality and say, oh, yeah, these are

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Speaker 1: just Thursday previews. Yeah yeah, it's so. The reviews are in.

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Speaker 1: They they've lifted the review embargo on Metacritic, and the

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Speaker 1: reviews for Oppenheimer and Barbie are in, and they are

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Speaker 2: Like this, it's definitely better than I thought it was

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Speaker 2: going to be, like the reviews for Oppenheimer, because like,

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Speaker 2: I guess maybe it's just not my like, it's not

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Speaker 2: I love Christopher Nolan. There's definitely movies of his that

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Speaker 2: So and I felt like the press for Barbie was

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Speaker 2: so overshadowing Oppenheimer that people were like, na, like Oppenheimer's

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Speaker 2: gonna be okay, but they're doing better than Party.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your favorite? Like what's we We've done this

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Speaker 1: Like Inception?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I wrote a whole like essay on it

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Speaker 2: A ten page essay on Inception in college.

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Speaker 1: I don't think when I saw it, Inception was my

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Speaker 1: his other sillier movies. No, yeah, not so much. But

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Speaker 1: is my favorite Christopher Nolan movie. And then the Barbie

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Speaker 1: reviews are in, and they are in the eighties eighty one,

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Speaker 2: I've got my Juicy Gutour sweatsuit on right now, yes,

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Speaker 1: To go right pink Juicy Guitour ready for the premiere.

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Speaker 1: So that so you're going.

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Speaker 2: Tonight, I'm going tonight because I couldn't wait. I personally

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Speaker 2: So I was like, they're available on Thursday. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The reviews, I think, I think some people say

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Speaker 1: but you know, the the pre purchases of Barbie tickets

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Speaker 2: My theater sold out. I'm going to be getting there

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