WEBVTT - Why North West Is TikTok’s Best Creator 📱

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex

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<v Speaker 1>and Frooms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>FLEXI.

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<v Speaker 1>I have a new favorite TikTok creator. It's not a

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<v Speaker 1>beauty blogger, it's not a finance bro. It's the NEPO

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<v Speaker 1>baby of the century, Northwest Yay's daughter, Kim Kardashian's daughter.

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<v Speaker 1>She is a big deal on TikTok. Her account, Kim

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<v Speaker 1>and North or North and Kim, is a parent controlled account.

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<v Speaker 1>Apparently Kim controls it. Very futuristic, it is, isn't it?

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<v Speaker 1>Where she posts pretty much every day. It very much

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<v Speaker 1>gives the impression that she doesn't go to school. She

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<v Speaker 1>just hangs around the house making videos.

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<v Speaker 2>It's very much like I would.

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<v Speaker 1>Have done that stuff when I was nine or ten.

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<v Speaker 2>My role she is. I guess all content creators give

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<v Speaker 2>the impression that they don't work.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a really good point.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, with posting, Yeah, I don't really see behind the scenes.

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<v Speaker 1>True. True. And she is my favorite account because the

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<v Speaker 1>other day I was watching her and Chicago, her little sister,

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<v Speaker 1>who is the spitting image of Kim. Can you see

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<v Speaker 1>how involved I am?

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<v Speaker 2>Like you have the you know what's going on, I've

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<v Speaker 2>got the family tree I'm like, okay, you are subscribed.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually don't follow any of the Kardashians. It's not

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<v Speaker 1>because I don't get like it's not because I don't

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<v Speaker 1>like them. Yeah, I just don't follow them for whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>This is exactly how it works a parent control of

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<v Speaker 2>TikTok account. It's a pipeline to get more customers, they say,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, in social media, anyone trying to build like

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<v Speaker 2>a profile and the entertainment industry, the younger your fans are,

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<v Speaker 2>the better because you have a longer shelf life with them.

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<v Speaker 2>The Kardashians are quote unquote aging out of their primary

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<v Speaker 2>demographic because they've had children. That's a whole new generation.

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<v Speaker 2>Their core fans don't even have children yet. So when

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<v Speaker 2>you bring in the babies, it's like, whoa wait a second,

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<v Speaker 2>I get full family content. It's very genius.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to talk about this more because I can't

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<v Speaker 1>decide if it's actually because Kim and the family you're

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<v Speaker 1>using this as a money making technique, or if North

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<v Speaker 1>just absolutely loves making videos. See I see that concept.

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<v Speaker 1>It makes a lot of sense to the Kardashians. But

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<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling the Kardashians in some part like

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<v Speaker 1>I think they're obviously so orchestrated, but so much stuff

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<v Speaker 1>has happened to them that isn't just orchestrated, like Kim

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<v Speaker 1>getting like Kim getting taken hostage in Paris, or like

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<v Speaker 1>broken into obviously Caitlin transitioning, like these are stuff that

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<v Speaker 1>would have happened to that family anyway. I guess, like

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<v Speaker 1>the the break and enter wouldn't have happened if it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't Kim Kardashian. But I don't think everything is by design,

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<v Speaker 1>Like for example, North's TikTok. I don't think that that's

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<v Speaker 1>because they want to sell more product and like continue

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<v Speaker 1>the dynasty. I think it's because North is just like

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<v Speaker 1>a nine year old who wants to post things on

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<v Speaker 1>the Internet.

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<v Speaker 2>I disagree. Really yeah, if the average social media account

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<v Speaker 2>says that you can't have access unless you're thirteen years old,

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<v Speaker 2>and the only way you can if you have a

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<v Speaker 2>parent controlled account, why would a family who's experienced that

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<v Speaker 2>much just the worst of the Internet, expose their children

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<v Speaker 2>to that. I don't think the Kardashians are like masterminds

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<v Speaker 2>in the way that the media portrays them out to be.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they're opportunists. And I think you'd be ridiculous

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<v Speaker 2>to not understand the amount of like buying powered children have,

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<v Speaker 2>especially and also how many Kardashians are there, like six seven,

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<v Speaker 2>It's like two of them that are making up the

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<v Speaker 2>bulk of the family's interests, right, it's Kylie and it's Kim.

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<v Speaker 2>Back in like the first couple seasons where they were

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<v Speaker 2>exploiting Courtney's relationship for the whole family to make a bag.

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<v Speaker 2>Chris was the one who told Kim to sell a

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<v Speaker 2>sex tape. Like, I don't think that they would view

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<v Speaker 2>putting North on TikTok the height of exploitation. I think

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<v Speaker 2>it's just a simple thing for that, it's an easy win,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean? Like I don't. I'm viewing

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<v Speaker 2>it as like what it is. But I think if

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<v Speaker 2>a family could do that, then putting a kid on

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<v Speaker 2>Instagram to expand their sorry, putting a kid on TikTok

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<v Speaker 2>to expand their reach isn't the most savage thing you

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<v Speaker 2>could do, Like why wouldn't it just be like another

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<v Speaker 2>tick on the box, Like these kids will make us money,

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<v Speaker 2>let's do it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's so interesting to me. I don't know why I don't.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that North just wanted it so bad that

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<v Speaker 1>Kim's like given in and said you can have the account,

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<v Speaker 1>because it makes sense in that way because I don't

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<v Speaker 1>have comments. So it looks like she's getting the best

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<v Speaker 1>of the internet, which is being able to express yourself

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<v Speaker 1>and have fun, like she's a creative?

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<v Speaker 2>Is that the best of the internet for a nine

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<v Speaker 2>year old?

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<v Speaker 1>Though, well, not having comments is better than the worst,

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<v Speaker 1>so there's some protections there obviously. Then you get the

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<v Speaker 1>accounts that repost them so people can talk about it there.

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<v Speaker 1>But in my mind I relate to being like nine

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<v Speaker 1>years old and using my parents' camcorder and just wanting

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<v Speaker 1>to share things. Yeah, so I believe that she just

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<v Speaker 1>loves it, But again I think it's an opportunity then

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<v Speaker 1>for them to sell stuff eventually.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think celebrity kids aren't regular kids, and I

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<v Speaker 2>understand like they probably have a bit more like I

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<v Speaker 2>can understand viewing a celebrity kid like a regular kid

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<v Speaker 2>and saying like kids want stuff, and so why wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>a parent, But I also think, like it's a celebrities kid,

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<v Speaker 2>At what point has it ever been good to give

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<v Speaker 2>real people that much access to a person, let alone

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<v Speaker 2>a child, Like parasocial relationships are what caused stalkers, robberies,

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<v Speaker 2>all of these things. And then you give just like

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<v Speaker 2>we just got off the back of Epstein, Epstein Island,

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<v Speaker 2>Pizzagate wayfair, Like, in what world are you like presenting

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<v Speaker 2>a child to the world and saying like she just

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to play? Does she not have friends that are offline?

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<v Speaker 2>Can she not just make videos and not post them?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you know? Like, I just think it's a very

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<v Speaker 2>like particular way to present the child to the world.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's right because she is a child. So she's

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<v Speaker 2>a childis yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And you really do, like I don't think of her

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<v Speaker 1>as a child.

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<v Speaker 2>That's so other saying because I also agree in the

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<v Speaker 2>sense like I don't like obviously it's clearly like I

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<v Speaker 2>don't like the whole Northwest thing on the internet. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's cooked. But it's because I think that the

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<v Speaker 2>average viewer really struggles to humanize people they see through

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<v Speaker 2>their phones, whether it's a parent, child, person going through heartbreak,

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<v Speaker 2>police brutality, whatever it is, people kind of like glaze

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<v Speaker 2>over it as like a huh, that's an interesting thing.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw on this device next, And I think people

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<v Speaker 2>just can't fathom that, like even like this much conversation

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<v Speaker 2>about a child, like what she wears, what she looks like,

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<v Speaker 2>that she's inspirational, that people are getting advice from her,

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<v Speaker 2>or that she's icon. She's a kid, and like your

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<v Speaker 2>inability to see her as just a kid is the

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<v Speaker 2>weird thing, because like that's all we should be relying on.

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<v Speaker 2>We should have enough like context to be like kids

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<v Speaker 2>are kids and adults are adults. The two shall not blur.

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<v Speaker 2>But now we're kind of like, wait, she's a content creator,

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<v Speaker 2>like weight, she's like more than that, and it's like, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>just a kid.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I guess it goes into all child stars in

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<v Speaker 1>a sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, definitely we.

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<v Speaker 1>Need child stars. But I guess there's cgr now Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I guess it's.

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<v Speaker 2>So fraught with because I think when you're a kid,

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<v Speaker 2>you feel old.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you feel as old as you are, And so

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<v Speaker 1>I think it'd be hard to explain to a child,

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<v Speaker 1>like I, yeah, explain to a child that other people

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<v Speaker 1>have different intentions. Like even when I was like in

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<v Speaker 1>my early teens, if men were interested in me, I thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course they are I'm different. I'm not uly hot.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, now you get to the age of twenty four

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<v Speaker 1>and you really, guys, no, that was weird.

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<v Speaker 2>This was weird. This was weird.

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<v Speaker 1>So it would go all the way back to when

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<v Speaker 1>you're a little kid. So definitely, hopefully I will say

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<v Speaker 1>that ASMR videos are popping, That's all I'll say.

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<v Speaker 2>And I will say in ten years time when Northwest

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<v Speaker 2>comes out and says I'm so annoyed to my parents

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<v Speaker 2>because I was exploited, We'll just leave that, like every

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<v Speaker 2>Disney child actor is, like I didn't want to do it.

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