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On June 9th, 2024, in front of the Old

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Bar on Broadway Street in Nashville,

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Tennessee, are YouTubers Tim and D, a

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pair of street interviewers who target

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inebraided women to extract salicious

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answers from their equally indelicate

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questions. Across the street was one

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such woman, a 20-year-old small town

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factory worker that was in Nashville for

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a music festival. Though her friend

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takes over the interview as the factory

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worker walks off, though she returns

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shortly and delivers an answer. Oh, you

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got to give him that hawk too and spit

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on that night. You get me?

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>> 3 weeks later, this factory worker would

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be mingling with an expanding roster of

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celebrities. 6 months later, she would

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launch a cryptocoin that failed not even

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30 minutes after launch. And over a year

0:43

later, alongside frequently paying mind

0:46

to her detractors, she would be

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streaming Fortnite to nine viewers and

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evidently selling photos of her feed on

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her fan fix. While it may seem

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unrealistic compared to where she is

0:57

now, there was a small window of time

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where she was viewed as the all-American

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woman, someone honest and industrious,

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and she appeared to embody these ideals

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partly because she was not seeking fame.

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over. Back to the video. As the video

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was posted on June 10th and immediately

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hit the algorithm, the reach of the

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video was so great that it almost

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immediately seeped into the small town

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of Belfast, Tennessee. In this community

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of under 1,000 people, several took note

2:43

of the video and recognized a girl who

2:45

was enthusiastically giving advice of a

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sexual nature. The first to notify her

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were her friends. This information is

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not so surprising considering at least

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one of her friends was present during

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the interview and thus knew to look out

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for the video. Alarmingly, every time

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she revisited the video, it would only

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grow far beyond her wildest

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expectations. It was only when she

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arrived at work at the Spring Factory

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and where she was in charge of packaging

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orders that she knew her life would

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never be the same. Her co-workers knew

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before she did as they had also seen the

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video and made her well aware of that

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fact. Her close circle of friends, her

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co-workers, and the rest of the world

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were discussing what otherwise would be

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an off-hand comment. As the video grew

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in popularity and jumped across various

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platforms and posts, it was firmly

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dubbed Hogua and Anamanapia. Separately

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regarded was the Hawkua girl. Though her

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friend had clearly said her name in the

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original video.

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>> Amen. Hey,

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>> the internet at large was only exposed

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to the sound bite of Haktua and not the

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extended clip. Yet, there was interest

3:49

in the mystery as to who this girl was.

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Through the video alone, one could infer

3:54

that she's possibly from Tennessee and

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her first name is Haley. Yet, several

3:58

days had passed and Haley had not taken

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ownership of it as expected. There was a

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bizarre and real desire to find Haley

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the Hawktua girl. A painting was made to

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commemorate her and across all social

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media she was virtually only celebrated

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for her faux [music] paw. As a counter

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to the divisive nature of social media

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as to only aid in the search, YouTubers

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Tim and D around the 16th in the absence

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of Haley's social media posted her and

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her friends full first and last [music]

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names, effectively doxing the pair.

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Haley had been hiding, leaving her house

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only for the bare essentials out of fear

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and embarrassment. Though it was

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becoming increasingly clear that this

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was not viable. In her absence, as would

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be even in her presence, opportunistic

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individuals pretending to be her and

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monetizing her meme. Some going as far

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as to launch shitcoins. Finally, on the

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19th, a new post of Haley was making the

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rounds. In the absence of her own social

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media account was a picture posted on

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Facebook of a local hand manufacturing

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company. It was only 2 days later that

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this was also posted [music] on

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Facebook. Quote, Epstein Day School

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Director Carla Reed released a statement

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to us earlier today in regards to

5:05

Wellington's dismissal from the esteemed

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educational conglomerate. We have kids

5:10

spitting on each other and everything

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else since they heard our beloved Miss

5:13

Haley say spit on that thing on YouTube.

5:16

[music]

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If not through the story alone, the

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humor tag or the Facebook account

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description would quickly reveal this

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was a satirical and fake [music] story.

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But it did not appear as such to

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everyone.

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>> And she lost her preschool teaching job.

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Yo, justice for Hawk to a girl. Like

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honestly, be so for real.

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>> The Hawk to a girl's life just got

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ruined.

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>> The hawk to a girl just got arrested and

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fired from her job. Occurred last week

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in a net Asheville TN Epstein day

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school. This story would balloon and

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would be retold with new details that

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she was arrested or was fundraising

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money after her firing. Though these

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elements were not true, what was as

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reported by Rolling Stone is that

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through her collaboration with the local

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hat manufacturing company, Haley had

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sold $65,000 worth of merch. This news

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broke just 17 days after the initial

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viral video was posted. Though

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reluctant, there was now proven

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financial gain to be the hawk to a girl.

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Thus, Haley Walsh was coming out of

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hiding to embrace her new role. It is

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then that there was a new wave of

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attention and things moving at an insane

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pace. This begins on June 28th with the

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formation of her LLC 16 minutes, a nod

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to the notion of the 15 minutes of fame,

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the instant celebrity or the one-hit

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wonder that is unable to replicate their

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lightning in a bottom moment. Meaning

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Haley was meaning to stick around long

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term. While this was a confident step

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forward, the internet at large nor her

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management team knew what else she had

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to offer. Even so, the time to utilize

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her fame [music] was theoretically

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fleeting. So, just one day after forming

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60 Minutes of Fame, she was on stage at

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a Zack Bryan concert where she screamed

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her famous line. [music]

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At the event, Haley was also interviewed

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by Zack Bryan's at the time girlfriend

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who asked her, "What's next?

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>> What do you do now? Because now you have

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management, now you have a team. What

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are your plans moving forward? Like do

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you want to still be the hook to a girl

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or do you want to like

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>> I don't really want that to be like my

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image.

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>> Yeah,

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>> like h to a girl.

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>> Haley was well aware she needed to find

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what this next thing was less she waste

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her 15 minutes of fame. This was common

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advice in future interviews.

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>> And that's why it's important also to

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figure out your next step.

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>> I think you should do standup. And I

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think we need to like figure out what

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you want to talk about.

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>> Okay.

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>> Either you got to reinvent or bring

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something that people didn't know about

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you or have another viral moment, which

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is probably not very probable.

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>> Yeah, it's very slim.

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>> The reality was that there was no plan

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to extend her status beyond placing her

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personality forward. Haley was an

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incurious and extremely average

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individual. She has no unique talents or

8:04

standout aspects about her. Yet, this

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was in a way working to her benefit in

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cementing her story. The one of a more

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grounded and simpler southern girl as a

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contrast to sensationalist celebrity

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culture. This had something as even her

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tamest answers would bring forward a

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conversation.

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>> It's called huck to or not. And you tell

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me if you want a hook to on that thing

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or no.

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>> Okay. Uh Donald Trump.

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>> No. Absolutely not. [laughter]

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>> No.

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>> Uh-uh. Uh-uh. It's a no for me.

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>> No.

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>> Mrs. Hawk Tua of viral internet fame

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just shared her true thoughts about

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Donald Trump in her first ever

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interview. During a game segment on the

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plan Brie Uncut podcast, Mrs. Hawk, real

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name Haley Welsh, came out against

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Donald Trump, sharing her disgust about

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the convicted former president. Will

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Mrs. Hawk's rejection of Donald Trump be

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a deciding factor in the election? Some

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comments on this post read, quote, "All

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out of fear from the liberal freaks.

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Trump is your president. I'm older,"

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unquote.

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>> So, because she said that she wouldn't

9:05

gargle his [ __ ] meat, they thought

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that this was like an unforgivable sin.

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There were tweets going on about how

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disappointed they were that the Hakua

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girl turned out to be a wokey and [ __ ]

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like that. There was something special

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with Haley that could stir the pot. In a

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strange way, this highly average

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individual [music] could bring out

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polarizing or rational beliefs such as

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this Reddit post where the creator

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appears to an earnest believe that

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people want her as president. Posts like

9:33

this and the controversy about not

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wanting to give theoretical fellatio to

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the president brought her support as he

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countered to what appeared as undeserved

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hate. Though there was the element of

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being overexposed. In just the first 10

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days of July, she was still in the

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public eye for meeting celebrities such

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as Shaq, revealing who her management

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team was, trademarking her phrase,

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launching her official merch store that

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also had to sign up for a newsletter,

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and judging a bikini contest and where

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she broke down in tears of joy. Despite

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the continued opposition still likely

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sourced from her overexposure, she was

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continuing to utilize her fame. In doing

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so, she was praised for her resilience

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and industrial nature. She was the

10:14

all-American woman. The Rolling Stone

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went as far as to call her the national

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hero we need. Quote, "A charming Gen Z

10:21

Dolly Pardon who's rightfully becoming

10:23

America's sweetheart."

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Though this description of Haley was

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exaggerative, this was an appeal to her

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resilience and care. On her Tik Tok, on

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multiple occasions, she published videos

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in where she donated a cart full of

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supplies to animal shelters. Comments on

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this Tik [music] Tok read, quote, "We

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made the right person famous. Her media

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team is so smart. This is actually the

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sweetest."

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This was an excellent direction for her

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to take. The story of Haley Welch was

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one of hope and care for the underdog.

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[music]

10:54

>> How's your mom? [laughter]

10:56

>> How's your mom?

10:58

>> My mama a crackhead. You don't want her?

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[laughter]

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>> So, she doesn't have any teeth. You're

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saying,

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>> "No, I'm so serious. You don't want

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her."

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>> There were two leading narratives at

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this point. Haley Walsh is a woman who

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was thrust into endless turmoil,

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beginning [music] from her drugaddicted

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mom to even the fame that she never

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asked for. Despite it all, she is a

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kind-hearted individual who makes the

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best out of impossible odds and is

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someone worthy of her fame. Conversely,

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was the narrative that her stardom was

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emblematic of social media stupidity. A

11:27

vapid comment brought to light an even

11:29

less interesting individual. The truth

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was Haley was not industrious or honest.

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She was a puppet instructed to sell her

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life story. One that's good well came

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from tactical decisions as to use it to

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leverage her brand to draw her audience

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to increasingly terrible and predatory

11:45

products. During an interview with

11:47

celebrity Howie Mandel, Haley's manager

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sells this exact story while pretending

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to be acting in her best interest.

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What's your name?

11:54

>> Johnny.

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>> Hi Johnny. Are you her manager now?

11:56

>> Yes, sir.

11:56

>> Fantastic. Can I just say to Johnny, can

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we see Johnny?

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>> We haven't done anything besides let her

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tell her story. And anyone around the

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world would look at this and see this

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girl hit the lottery with the exposure.

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But she lives with her grandma. She

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worked in a spring factory. She didn't

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want she wasn't on social media. She's

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the only person right now making people

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laugh around the world. And it's

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everywhere

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>> and it's authentic and and nice and

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real. And

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>> you're like the Scooter Braraw of Hakua.

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>> It's all her. It's nothing. This is all

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her. But you'll direct her in the right

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direction because it could go sideways

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and this is a scary business and there's

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a lot of people and

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>> hopefully you steer her always in the

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right direction.

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>> We are here to protect the hawk from the

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vultures.

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>> On screen are two signatures. The one on

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the right is a signature from Haley's

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manager. The one on the left is from

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Alexander Schultz, Howie Mandel's

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son-in-law. He is a direct opposite of

12:51

the ideals of Haley Welsh. This is him

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on Twitter under the alias Doc Hollywood

12:55

giving a quote unquote meme class to an

12:58

unenthusiastic Haley with a massive

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Bitcoin logo in the background. His

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profile is an NFT of a marijuana bud

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sporting Bitcoin themed apparel and a

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massive chain with a lightning bolt.

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This was from the NFT line Bitcoin Buds.

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Though they're virtually valueless, Alex

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did perhaps indirectly utilize his

13:16

father-in-law and his own wife to

13:18

[music] promote the line by providing

13:20

them with an NFT. The top comments of

13:22

these Twitter posts are littered with

13:24

other unsavory NFTTS of the same line.

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Actions done likely to inflate the

13:29

importance and therefore theoretical

13:31

value of otherwise soulless art. This

13:33

means that Haley had a manager who was a

13:35

wolf in sheep's clothing. A manager that

13:38

just signed a contract with the human

13:40

equivalent of branding and career

13:42

poison. A contract for Hawcoin, a

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shitcoin that was set to launch later in

13:46

the year. Upon Haley's manager signing

13:48

the contract, she received $125,000

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upfront. There was an additional

13:54

$200,000 if she promoted the coin

13:56

sufficiently before and after its

13:58

launch. And she was also meant to take

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50% of all the profit from the coin. She

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could later be seen on Twitter promoting

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crypto. Except none of it came naturally

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from her. She was instructed exactly on

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what to say and when to say it. She did

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not even control her own Twitter. I

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don't think you were actually running

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your Twitter page, correct?

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>> Yeah, that's right.

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>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. We I I would

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interact with and I would DM the person

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and I would they'd be they [music] like

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pretend to be you and I could tell it

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wasn't you. I was like there's no way.

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>> I mean

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>> I [laughter] was like there's no way

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>> you can tell if I'm running an account

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or if I'm not.

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>> Yeah. I think it's awesome that like

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looking back that you hadn't seen the

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Twitter at all cuz there was there was

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so much going on there that I was like

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what is h like I remember specifically

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early on there was like this AI

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generated like meme of yours in like

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July and I was like there is no way that

14:47

she tweeted that like that that does not

14:49

make sense. [music]

14:50

>> This is possibly the AI generated image

14:52

that was posted. Haley's management

14:54

alongside milking her fame had the goal

14:56

to extend it as long as possible. To do

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this, it would help if she was able to

15:01

establish an identity outside of Hog

15:03

Tua. This is a graph of the search

15:05

trends of Cash Me Outside and Bad Baby.

15:08

The red line represents the origins of a

15:10

meme that quickly died off only for the

15:12

girl behind it to maintain public

15:14

interest outside of the meme. This is

15:16

what it means to push past the 15

15:18

minutes of fame. However, Haley's team

15:21

was not as big or as well put together.

15:24

This is her graph between her meme and

15:26

her preferred alias which is also her

15:28

real name. Her meme far overpowers her

15:31

own staying power. Even the search term

15:33

Hawk to a girl is far more searched than

15:35

Haley. Yet there needs to be not only

15:37

something new but also a vehicle to

15:39

sustain engagement. That of which

15:42

Twitter nor Tik Tok could do. Or even

15:44

now Fanfix, [music] a website that

15:46

allows users to unlock images at a set

15:48

price.

15:49

>> But you did start a paid wall platform.

15:51

>> Oh, what?

15:52

>> A paid wall platform. What is that?

15:54

>> Like basically it's like a paid wall

15:56

platform is something that someone pays

15:58

money to monthly.

15:59

>> Oh, a fan fix. Fanix.

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>> Yeah. So, we're going to do mine

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different. Like it's going to be like

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relationship advice and just

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conversations. None of that. Which give

16:09

or take. I might have an outfit on or

16:10

something like that, but I ain't going

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to be naked on there.

16:12

>> With the launch of this platform, it

16:14

appears that Haley's management were

16:16

trying to sell her identity in a new

16:18

way. Rather than the all-American girl,

16:21

she was attempting to be sold as a

16:22

dating guru. Her audience was mainly

16:25

composed of men between the ages of 25

16:27

to 44. Men of this age took on more

16:31

interest in her than even men or women

16:33

of her own age. So, the fanfix and the

16:35

dating angle appears to be taking

16:37

advantage of this metric. To this, it

16:40

was rumored that Haley was going to have

16:41

her own reality show. Though even if it

16:44

was in the works, the data behind her

16:46

decreasing popularity would have lost

16:47

confidence in any network. A safe bet

16:50

considering that in August, interest in

16:52

her had dwindled. It was this month that

16:55

Haley launched Paws across America, a

16:57

fund meant to provide financial

16:58

assistance to [music] animal charities.

17:01

In terms of interest in Haley, this only

17:03

aided her reputation [music] as interest

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in her continued to slump. With the

17:07

reality show unfeasible, there was still

17:09

a chance with its [music] low-budget

17:11

cousin, the podcast.

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>> She's literally doing anything to stay.

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>> Does anyone actually give a [ __ ] about

17:16

her?

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>> Why are we keeping this girl relevant?

17:18

Your 15 minutes are up.

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>> Your joke was funny for 2 days. Stop.

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>> Y'all really thought I was done? I'm

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just getting started, baby.

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>> This was posted on the channel Talk to

17:28

Haley Welch, [music] a podcast produced

17:30

in partnership with Better, a sports

17:32

betting app co-founded by Jake Paul.

17:34

Naturally, this podcast would also

17:36

include Haley selling the app. A later

17:39

interview would reveal Jake Paul's

17:40

degree of confidence in this podcast,

17:43

pointing to its lack in value. [music]

17:44

>> Thank you for coming on my cringey

17:46

podcast.

17:47

>> Hey, I I don't think it's cringey. I

17:49

really like where you guys are going

17:50

with the science and the history of

17:53

civilization and just being able to

17:57

explore and break down barriers of human

18:00

philosophy.

18:01

>> I still don't even know what philosophy

18:02

means. [laughter]

18:03

You're not helping your case.

18:04

>> Yeah, I'm really not.

18:06

>> It's okay.

18:06

>> Right. Right. Right. Well, it's amazing

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to be here. Thank you.

18:09

>> Well, of course. Thank you for coming

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on.

18:11

>> Yeah. I think we had to delete the last

18:13

one, right, that we did.

18:14

>> I'm sure it still exists somewhere.

18:16

>> I was as drunk as a skunk.

18:18

>> Yeah, you walked off of it. It's okay.

18:21

>> I didn't walk off. Did I walk off? I

18:23

>> You actually kicked the microphone over

18:24

and said, "Fuck this podcast."

18:26

[laughter]

18:28

>> I feel like I should get up and do that

18:29

sometimes. Jake was not the only guest

18:31

to make fun of the podcast on it. And

18:33

>> I also saw it was like a collage, I

18:36

guess, or like a slideshow, whatever you

18:37

want to call it, but um it had like a

18:39

million likes and it was like a picture

18:40

of me and you and it slowly faded into

18:42

like Plato and Socrates, I believe. And

18:45

it was like pretty much calling us the

18:48

next Plato and Socrates. So,

18:50

>> what the [ __ ] does that mean?

18:51

>> We're like philosophers essentially. Do

18:53

you know who they are?

18:55

>> No.

18:58

>> All right.

18:58

>> What is that? [laughter] I have I'm not

18:59

even going to lie. I have no idea what

19:01

he's talking about either.

19:02

>> Wow. Maybe you guys should listen to

19:05

some of the philosophers and then you

19:07

guys would come with some more in-depth

19:08

stuff for talk to.

19:09

>> Wait, you mean a philosopher like

19:11

Shakespeare?

19:12

>> Well,

19:14

[laughter]

19:14

Shakespeare was something more of like,

19:17

you know, a play like he would write

19:18

plays.

19:19

>> So, we were talking about like our

19:20

vapes. She was like, "We don't have like

19:22

vapes here with like flavors in them."

19:23

And I was like, "Why not?" She was like,

19:24

"Oh, the prime minister doesn't allow."

19:25

And I was like, "Prime Minister?" I was

19:27

like, "What the [ __ ] are you talking

19:28

about?" Yeah.

19:28

>> I thought y'all had presidents there.

19:30

I'm

19:30

>> No. No, we don't. We don't.

19:32

>> I don't get out much if you can't tell.

19:33

>> We also have provinces instead of

19:35

states,

19:36

>> man. Just like Plato and Socrates.

19:39

>> Me and you.

19:40

>> You're going to have to sit down and

19:41

educate me some more sometime.

19:42

>> Ah, yeah. Yeah. Someone needs to.

19:44

>> In no exaggeration, every episode of the

19:47

Talk to a [music] podcast would be

19:48

littered with comments not engaging with

19:50

the episodes. Rather, there were

19:52

comments overstating the [music] podcast

19:54

importance with users citing how they

19:55

would unplug loved ones life support to

19:57

view the podcast [music] or were

19:59

skipping their wedding and were dropping

20:01

out of college purely to binge it. The

20:03

first episode of the podcast sits at 2.8

20:06

million views. Yet, no episode would

20:08

ever again surpass a million views and

20:11

as continued to be the case with her

20:12

popularity, views trended downward.

20:15

Lesser known at the time was this video

20:17

by Tim and D. The YouTubers partly

20:20

responsible for her initial popularity.

20:22

In November, they uploaded this video

20:24

exposing their feud with Haley that

20:26

stems from her lies.

20:27

>> You're going to come up to me with a

20:28

microphone and ask me something like

20:29

that. Oh, well, I'm going to hawk to and

20:31

spit on it, you know. [laughter]

20:33

>> I don't mean nothing by it.

20:35

>> Yeah, you were like actually being

20:36

serious. Was there more of the

20:39

>> We going to come up to her?

20:41

>> We came up to her. I don't I don't think

20:43

that's how that happened.

20:44

>> Haley was indeed lying in this moment.

20:46

Her friend even contradicts her in her

20:48

own podcast.

20:49

>> We're just walking and we see like two

20:51

dudes, you know, with like a big

20:52

flashlight and a camera. And I was like,

20:54

"Haley, a camera." And we would go over

20:56

there and I was like, "Are y'all

20:57

vlogging?" And they was like, "No, we do

20:58

YouTube." We're like, "Oh, okay." I was

21:00

like, "Do you'all mind if we ask y'all a

21:02

few questions?" We were like,

21:03

>> "Never once told us what the questions

21:05

were."

21:05

>> Those were the last questions I was

21:07

expecting to hear.

21:08

>> This comment establishes several things.

21:11

They approached Tim and D. They claimed

21:13

they did not know the questions would be

21:14

that intense and they state they knew

21:17

that they were being recorded to be

21:18

posted on social media. Henley would lie

21:21

or otherwise contradict herself in every

21:23

one of these statements. I

21:24

>> think he posted the full video on

21:26

YouTube this past Sunday, but he only

21:28

told us he was a YouTuber. He had never

21:30

said anything like about, you know,

21:32

Instagram, Tik Tok, nothing of the sort.

21:34

So, I was like, "Oh, well, I'm never

21:35

going to see this again." Sure enough, I

21:36

seen it again. While it was true that

21:38

they introduce themselves as YouTubers,

21:40

Tim and D also alleged that they

21:42

informed Haley of their other platforms

21:44

as well as show that her friend demanded

21:46

they post the famous Hawk to a clip.

21:48

>> Tell we tell them it's Instagram,

21:50

YouTube, Tik Tok, all that. That's

21:52

exactly what we say. I mean,

21:53

>> for every platform, if it's going on

21:55

YouTube, wouldn't you expect it to go on

21:58

every other platform? It's going on

22:00

social media.

22:01

>> You say we better post that?

22:02

>> Yes.

22:03

>> Okay.

22:03

>> Post it through.

22:05

>> All right. While Tim and D are

22:07

indelicate with their questions, as is

22:09

inherent with their content style,

22:10

[music]

22:10

it was again Haley's friend that

22:12

demanded they ask a salacious question

22:14

after being asked a relatively tame one

22:17

and even brought Haley over to answer

22:18

this question.

22:19

>> Do you know what makes you wifey

22:20

material?

22:21

>> Me wifey?

22:22

>> Yeah.

22:22

>> Everything. Come on. You got to get a

22:24

spicy one.

22:25

>> You want a spicy one?

22:27

>> Yeah.

22:28

>> What's one What's one move in bed that

22:30

make a man go crazy every time?

22:31

>> One what? This is for her.

22:34

>> What?

22:35

You know how to answer this. You got it.

22:37

>> What's one move in bed that makes a man

22:39

go crazy every time?

22:41

>> Oh, you got to give him that hawk, too,

22:43

and spit on that thing. You get me?

22:45

>> To recap, Haley and her friend

22:47

approached Tim and D. They were informed

22:49

that this was to be posted on social

22:51

media. Her friend asked for a salacious

22:53

question, handed it off to Haley, and

22:55

demanded the hawk to a clip be posted.

22:58

These are only a few points of Tim and

23:00

D's longer 41-minute video on the topic

23:02

where they also discuss the rocky

23:04

communication between them and Haley.

23:06

Meaning Haley was not the most honest

23:08

person even outside the direction of her

23:10

management who was nearly ready to

23:12

launch the shitcoin at a separate

23:13

product known as Pooky Tools. In

23:16

essence, it is AI repackaged and limited

23:18

to disseminate dating advice. When Steo,

23:21

who was interviewing Haley, correctly

23:22

deduced it's a repackaged form of chat

23:25

GBT, Haley's manager offscreen counters

23:27

by claiming it has hundreds of functions

23:29

for dating.

23:30

>> That sounds like the app simply has to

23:33

be linked up to chat GBT.

23:35

>> Yeah,

23:36

>> AI.

23:37

>> Hundreds of functions for dating she's

23:39

been introduced. After browsing the

23:41

features, it became very clear that the

23:42

Pooky app aims to create long-lasting

23:45

relationships based on genuine

23:46

connection and non-supficial factors

23:48

like there's a height detector and bald

23:51

predictor. What is this? And also this

23:53

one called Wealth Detective that helps

23:55

you find out if your date is rich by

23:56

asking hard-hitting questions like,

23:59

"Well, does it seem like they are?"

24:01

>> Pooky Tools currently sits at 3.2 stars

24:04

on the Apple App Store. It is almost

24:06

nearly split between one and five-star

24:08

reviews. Though the majority of

24:10

five-star reviews, as per their

24:12

commentary, are written ironically. With

24:14

Haley's presence floundering and her

24:16

image deteriorating, there was one last

24:18

thing left to do to destroy both. In

24:21

episode 12 of the Talk to a podcast

24:23

released late November, Haley talks to

24:26

famous entrepreneur Mark Cuban. At the

24:28

start of the episode, he gives her the

24:30

sage advice to sell products that

24:31

directly relate to her and her brand.

24:34

perhaps a simple product like bourbon or

24:36

whiskey, only for her later in the

24:38

episode to figuratively spit on this

24:40

advice by obligatorily pushing her

24:42

upcoming meme coin. A product that she

24:45

admits she does not comprehend to the

24:47

point that she is even struggling with

24:49

her wallet. you're authentic and that's

24:51

you want to find things that you like

24:53

and products that you love and you like

24:56

or that you want something that you

24:57

think you need that um people that you

25:00

know would relate to because then it's

25:03

easy for you to sell it. You know, hey,

25:05

I came up with this. It's because I

25:07

needed it and I love it and I'm sharing

25:10

it with you not because I'm trying to,

25:12

you know, sell zillions of them. I hope

25:13

I do, but because if I need it, there's

25:16

a good chance that all the people who

25:17

follow me here need it.

25:18

>> They might need it. Yeah. So, when you

25:20

get along those lines, then then you

25:23

start finding things that really work.

25:25

>> Oh, yeah. If I launch a meme coin, can I

25:26

give you some tokens?

25:27

>> Yeah, I'll give you my wallet. I'll give

25:28

you my wallet. Okay.

25:30

>> But are you sure you're going to launch?

25:31

I don't know. I'm not a big fan about

25:33

meme coins. I love crypto, but but you

25:35

can make some money from it. There's no

25:36

doubt about it. No doubt about it.

25:38

>> I'm very new to it and I'm still

25:39

learning what it is. The Phantom Wallet.

25:41

Do you know what that is?

25:42

>> Of course.

25:43

>> So, evidently it gives you a 12word

25:45

password. Right.

25:46

>> Right. Your seat face. Yeah. Well, me

25:47

and him, I had to have him help me put

25:49

it on my phone. I didn't know what I was

25:50

doing.

25:51

>> And you didn't write it down?

25:52

>> No.

25:53

>> You're [ __ ]

25:54

>> What this demonstrates is Haley's

25:55

incompetence and lack of intuition.

25:58

Every step of the way, there has been a

25:59

series of red flags warning her that

26:01

nearly everyone in her management team

26:03

and those working to forward the

26:04

shitcoin are working solely in their

26:06

self-interest. Doc Hollywood is someone

26:09

who has no record of success. In the

26:11

early 2010s, he attempted to become a DJ

26:13

and release music that is the accidental

26:16

parody of the Hollywood stereotype. His

26:18

only claim to fame is marrying into it.

26:20

Furthermore, he is pushing a form of

26:22

crypto infamously known for being

26:24

inherently valueless, something he has

26:26

done in the past. He has shown himself

26:28

to have no taste nor reason and is

26:30

willing to utilize the fame of those

26:32

around him to their detriment. Haley's

26:34

manager is also the same with him

26:36

pushing equally valueless and needlessly

26:38

complex products like pooky tools that

26:40

failed miserably. These are entirely

26:43

manufactured individuals that siphon

26:45

wealth and are of the sort that will

26:47

only place their own interests first. It

26:49

is catastrophic to mix the brand of the

26:51

small town girl with new age

26:53

technologies and their complexities such

26:55

as AI or crypto. The dissonance between

26:57

the two is so profound, it is astounding

26:59

that Haley went along with it, despite

27:01

her intuition screaming at her

27:03

otherwise. Yet, there is a reason. And

27:05

the reason, as revealed in a feature

27:07

interview, was money for paws across

27:09

America.

27:10

>> The way it worked, they're like, "Okay,

27:11

how it got explained to me, they're

27:12

like, "This is like really good. Like,

27:14

everybody's going to get a cut of it.

27:16

Like, whatever we raise out of it." And

27:19

they're like, "Chelsea, like you're

27:20

going to get this cut and then Haley,

27:21

we're going to take your cut and we're

27:23

going to donate it." And I was like,

27:23

"That's fine." Like, let's do that. for

27:25

like animal shelters. I have a charity,

27:27

Paws Across America and we're going to

27:29

take that and then we're going to use it

27:30

to go in there and fund everything. Like

27:33

if we're going to a shelter, we can

27:34

donate to them here, there, everywhere.

27:36

Yeah. So,

27:37

>> and they also made it out like it was

27:38

like a really good idea to like get my

27:41

followers engaged with it, too. Like the

27:43

idea that we talked about was like, oh,

27:46

one month if you go and you adopt a pet

27:47

from an animal shelter, you get so many

27:49

coins. But of course, I don't run that.

27:51

I'm too much of a dumbass to run

27:52

anything like that. So, [laughter]

27:54

but that was it. It it was made out to

27:56

be like a good thing. So, I was like,

27:58

"Okay." Which at first I was like, "No,

28:00

I don't want to do that. I've never

28:01

heard anything good about that. Bitcoin

28:03

or anything on the stock market. I don't

28:04

know. I'm a girl. I don't know nothing

28:06

about that shit."

28:06

>> With Haley's cut marked for her charity.

28:08

And with the $125,000 up front she got

28:11

presumably already donated, the launch

28:14

date of the shitcoin inch closer. The

28:16

crux of this coin was to utilize Haley's

28:18

ignorant audience to buy into the coin.

28:21

Over here, the developer and the launch

28:23

pad of the coin was stating as much.

28:25

Quote, "Why Hawk is special. This isn't

28:28

just another token launch. Haley's

28:30

launch of the Hawk memecoin represents a

28:32

meaningful step in bridging mainstream

28:34

audiences with the crypto world.

28:36

Transparency first. Hawk's focus on

28:39

inclusivity for non-crypto fans sets a

28:42

new standard for memecoin launches,

28:44

leading the charge for transparent

28:45

communitydriven projects." unquote.

28:48

Haley on Twitter, or rather the person

28:50

behind her account, continued to

28:52

virtually only promote crypto. Then came

28:54

December 4th, launch day. Just the day

28:57

prior, Haley released an episode titled

28:59

How to Avoid Getting Canled. This, like

29:02

her coin, would not age well. For the

29:04

first 20 minutes or so, the coin went up

29:06

significantly in value, then immediately

29:09

plummeted, leaving anyone that bought

29:11

into the coin after the first few

29:12

minutes of its launch at a loss. The

29:15

true tragedy came in the Twitter space

29:16

following the failure of the coin.

29:18

Haley, the girl toaded for genuineess,

29:21

would be reading from a script prepared

29:22

by human exemplars of the inhuman.

29:25

Individuals [music] that are

29:26

incompetent, yet will still find those

29:28

that they could fool with their facade.

29:30

These individuals would, to the best of

29:32

their ability, attempt to sway public

29:34

opinion with their commentary about

29:35

memes and wanting to do good. While this

29:38

confirmed to many that the product was a

29:40

failure from its inception, it also

29:42

provided listeners with the confused yet

29:44

entertaining diet tribes of dog

29:46

Hollywood.

29:46

>> Yo, Haley, they try to [ __ ] us. It's all

29:50

good. It's all good. Let them know

29:52

you're here to [ __ ] You're not You're

29:54

not here to get sniper botted all day.

29:57

You're not here to get [ __ ] We're

30:00

here to have some fun. We're here to

30:01

meme. And most of those coins, by the

30:04

way, are going to your community for

30:06

free. Nobody on the team is selling.

30:10

Impossible. Impossibly. Okay. I don't

30:13

know what language anybody [ __ ] here

30:15

speaks, but everyone just is so jaded.

30:19

Everyone thinks that, oh, everything's a

30:20

rug. Everything's a rug. Everyone's here

30:22

to [ __ ] you. Nah, we're here to onboard

30:25

real people outside of this spaces,

30:29

right? The people here, you you guys are

30:31

already [ __ ] Y'all are [ __ ] [ __ ]

30:32

in the head. [ __ ] every day thinking

30:35

everything's a scam. And And you know

30:36

what? You guys were right. Everything is

30:37

a scam. But not this. Not this. We did

30:40

not spend six, seven months of our lives

30:44

dedicated to trying to do something

30:46

cool, right? To do something different,

30:48

not dumping on you, not bundle snipes.

30:51

These meme coins, these are just here

30:53

for fun, right? Whatever you assign

30:56

value to it, whatever. Right. What we're

30:59

doing here is not giving a [ __ ] about

31:02

all the same [ __ ] I've been a

31:04

holder of a lot of these meme coins. The

31:07

reason why they're cool is because

31:08

there's zero promises. It's just a

31:11

community. And that's exactly what we're

31:13

trying to build here. We're trying to

31:14

build a community. You only need one

31:16

token to be in this community. And

31:18

listen, most of you, we don't want you

31:20

in the community. Let's be real, right?

31:22

You're not great people. I don't know

31:23

y'all, right? Some of I see some

31:25

friendly faces in this audience. Some

31:28

people I like here. Yeah. Love to have

31:30

you. No pressure. I don't care what

31:33

anybody says. She has really great

31:35

intentions. [music] And this is not a

31:37

celebrity token. This is an actual meme

31:41

that has I don't know 100 billion

31:43

[ __ ] impressions on all the different

31:45

platforms that like normal people. If

31:48

you walk down the [music] street, I'm in

31:50

I'm in Hollywood right now, right? Guess

31:53

what? You walk down the street, you ask

31:54

10 people, do you know what Hakua is?

31:57

Right? Nine out of 10 people will

31:59

[ __ ] know what that is. If you want

32:01

to be part of this meme community, dope.

32:05

If not, if you want to just, you know,

32:07

you got I'm gonna say y'all, you guys,

32:10

right? There's a lot of negativity in

32:12

the space. I think crypto brings the

32:14

[music] mentally ill into this thing,

32:17

right? Most if you guys are in crypto,

32:20

you're most likely mentally ill. And I'm

32:22

going to I'm going to count myself as

32:24

mentally [music] ill for even being here

32:26

right now, right? I'm definitely

32:28

mentally ill. We're trying to actually

32:29

have fun. I'm trying to do something

32:30

cool. We're trying [music] to give meme

32:33

tokens away for free to people who have

32:35

never had any crypto before, any meme

32:38

token. And you guys should be kissing my

32:40

[music] [ __ ] ass because I'm trying

32:42

to do something dope and give meme

32:44

tokens to people, [music] right? That

32:46

have never ever ever had ever had meme

32:49

coins before. Because maybe when we

32:51

onboard tens of thousands, hundred

32:53

thousands when we [music] talk about

32:54

this [ __ ] on national television, right?

32:57

Maybe they might [music] be interested

32:59

in these other memes and these other

33:01

NFTts that are in [music] this community

33:04

because if you like Hua, you might like

33:07

Dog with Hat. If you like Hua, right,

33:10

you [music] might you might like Mog.

33:12

You might like, you might like all these

33:14

other memes that are amazing. Over here,

33:18

which is a this is their first launch,

33:21

right? [music] Um, this is really cool

33:23

what they're doing. I'm going to pass it

33:25

off to over here. And I [music] think

33:28

like what we're doing here, this is day

33:30

one. Yeah, it was a rough day. Yeah, we

33:32

got sniped to [ __ ] but guess what?

33:34

Moving forward, you know, over here and

33:37

and we have a lot of fun stuff and fun

33:39

stuff [music] planned. And this is the

33:41

beginning. So, uh over here, take it

33:43

from here.

33:45

>> Uh thanks, Doc. Um hey guys, like I

33:47

think um yeah, uh Doc may be a little

33:49

bit um exub over exuberant.

33:51

>> Doc Hollywood spoke in the space for 11

33:54

minutes uninterrupted. He then passes it

33:56

on to over here, though more coherent.

33:59

Over here discusses his and to that

34:02

extent the team behind the coin's vision

34:03

for it and how they plan to integrate

34:05

Haley's audience. After around 10

34:07

minutes of speaking, Coffeezilla, a

34:09

critter known for investigating

34:11

cryptoreated schemes, chimes in.

34:13

>> We're really happy to answer any

34:14

questions.

34:15

>> I have questions. I I have questions.

34:16

I'm raising my hand. Hey guys,

34:18

>> what Coffeezilla?

34:20

>> Hey, this is one of the most miserable,

34:23

horrible launches I've ever seen in my

34:25

life.

34:25

>> Okay, then why the [ __ ] are you on?

34:27

>> I've been tracing it on chain for a

34:29

while. You guys generated over a million

34:32

dollars in fees while y'all's fans got

34:36

rugpulled. There was snipers, but there

34:39

was also insider trading directly linked

34:42

to y'all's creator account. What are you

34:44

guys doing?

34:45

>> No, no, no. That's That's [snorts] not

34:47

true. That's not true.

34:48

>> That is true. That's a fact.

34:49

>> It's not.

34:49

>> Well, it's a fact and you can see it on

34:51

chain.

34:51

>> In simple terms, before the launch of

34:53

the token, they pre-sold an overwhelming

34:56

majority of the tokens. These investors

34:58

came in at an immediate advantage.

35:01

Naturally, as the token launched and

35:03

experienced crypto users immediately

35:05

bought a high volume of tokens that were

35:07

available to the public, the prices went

35:09

up as regular users purchased the coin.

35:12

Though they had almost immediately lost

35:14

their money as those who had purchased

35:16

it early were already selling mass.

35:18

Coffeezilla, curious in why the token

35:21

was set up in a way that it only

35:22

benefited pre-sale purchasers and those

35:24

experienced in the crypto space had many

35:26

questions. Primarily, who on Haley's

35:29

side was profiting from trading fees?

35:31

>> Um, we could we can answer that. Uh,

35:34

>> do you know about the insider trading?

35:37

>> No, there's no insider trading. That's

35:39

why we can answer it.

35:40

>> Okay. So, there's tokens going directly

35:42

from the main account.

35:43

>> Coffeezilla, just just chill for a

35:46

second.

35:46

>> And then it's getting sold for 50k. Hey,

35:48

who is that?

35:49

>> Definitely not us. You think we're doing

35:51

this for 50k? Yeah, [ __ ] right.

35:52

Talking to the wrong guy. You're used to

35:54

these [ __ ] scammers out here. Not

35:55

us. Now, we had

35:57

>> That's what everyone says, by the way.

35:58

>> Listen, listen. Doesn't matter. No, no,

36:00

I'm not everyone. There was a strategic

36:02

allocation, right, through a foundation

36:06

for

36:06

>> How much did y'all get doing a pre-sale?

36:08

How much did y'all make?

36:10

>> It's not that

36:11

>> filling out your fans over here.

36:14

>> Hold on. Coffeezilla, take a chill pill,

36:16

brother. You're So

36:17

>> y'all just rugled a bunch of people.

36:19

>> No, no, there's no rug. We're here every

36:21

single day. There's no rug pulled. Not

36:22

and it's not done by us.

36:24

>> You haven't answered the question. Who

36:25

made the money? How much did Haley Welsh

36:27

make of that million? 1.8 million.

36:29

>> Is it two? It's a foundation that is

36:32

running this project.

36:33

>> How much does she own of it?

36:35

>> It's a foundation. She owns zero of the

36:38

foundation.

36:39

>> So y'all found

36:41

>> No, I I don't own the foundation either.

36:43

a foundation in island.

36:45

>> Who profited over a million dollars was

36:48

just made.

36:48

>> I'm telling you, what do you guys think

36:49

exactly is going to happen when your uh

36:52

insiders get sent their tokens? And by

36:55

the way, who made the money from your

36:58

17% pre-sale while you're giving a tiny

37:01

piece of the pie to the public? Like,

37:04

what the hell? This is the worst

37:06

tokconomics I've ever seen. And it is a

37:09

scam.

37:10

>> It's not a scam. The tokconomics are a

37:12

scam. That's my opinion. You can say

37:14

whatever you want about it. You can cry.

37:15

Defamation. That's my opinion. It's a

37:17

scam.

37:18

>> And I only do this for a living. I've

37:20

only seen a million of these projects.

37:23

>> So So who pays you? Coffeezilla. Let's

37:25

let's uh let's track your wall.

37:27

>> Turn it around. Turn it around over

37:29

here. Why don't you tell what we're

37:31

doing? Everyone's here for you. in

37:33

Coffeezilla asking about the core issues

37:35

of the token and talk Hollywood unable

37:37

to provide an explanation outside of

37:39

deferring responsibility to the quote

37:41

unquote foundation. It appears over here

37:43

attempts to regain control of the

37:45

conversation by muting Coffeezilla.

37:47

>> Uh

37:48

>> I just got muted.

37:52

>> Yeah. So I mean like we we as mentioned

37:55

like

37:55

>> over here proceeds by providing nothing

37:57

of value and only sharing the vision of

37:59

the coin and other unsubstantiated

38:01

nonsense. Four minutes later FaZe Bank

38:04

steps in.

38:05

>> Go ahead Faze Banks.

38:06

>> Appreciate it. Um I just heard this guy

38:08

blab about pretty much nothing and

38:11

repeat the same [ __ ] that he said the

38:12

first time around. Haley, I'm going to

38:14

talk to you directly right now because

38:17

if you really own 10% of the supply of

38:19

this token and it's locked up for a year

38:21

and it's vested over three years, you

38:22

got scammed harder than anybody um

38:24

involved. This 100% was a mismanaged,

38:29

mislaunched like this. This is took what

38:32

Coffeezilla said, I would I would label

38:35

this a scam as well. And and I'll wrap

38:37

up here with just whoever whoever guided

38:41

you in this or whoever directed you to

38:43

do this or gave you the advice to do

38:45

this, you should fire them immediately.

38:48

And um yeah.

38:50

>> Yeah. I just want to jump in here.

38:52

>> Yeah, I'm doing the best I can. Thank

38:54

you, FaZe.

38:55

>> The conversation had devolved into an

38:57

aggressive attempt to control the

38:59

narrative. Coffeezilla and Faze were

39:01

persistent in attempting to extract

39:03

answers on why the project was

39:05

structured exactly as a scam. Doc

39:07

Hollywood and over here unable to answer

39:09

these technical questions resort to hype

39:11

man rhetoric and other nonsense about

39:13

memes that would typically work on the

39:15

uninformed and eager. Although this was

39:17

not the crowd that they were now

39:19

speaking to.

39:20

>> The key is just not giving up. The key

39:22

is showing up every single day memeing.

39:24

The key is to actually onboarding her

39:26

real true fans. this might not be for

39:29

everybody. It's not it's not a big deal

39:31

to us. We ain't going anywhere.

39:33

>> Part of the reason um behind kind of

39:35

like the coin and stuff like that has

39:36

been that um you know uh there's been a

39:40

bunch of fake tokens launch right uh off

39:42

the hawk tour meme and IP. I think like

39:44

everybody resonates with with with

39:46

Hawkour as a as a meme. It's like one of

39:49

the most viral memes of all time. uh and

39:51

like you know like I think people have

39:53

been making a lot of money off like

39:54

derivative works and you know people

39:55

have launched a bunch of fake tokens

39:56

which I think kind of speaks to the I

39:59

guess uh inherent memeability of of the

40:02

the meme itself.

40:03

>> Finally after 4 minutes of this a new

40:05

speaker under the alias of Trevor

40:07

understands what the conversation had

40:08

devolved into and attempts to extract

40:11

something coherent. Yes. So, um I think

40:14

I think the audience is very very very

40:15

frustrated listening to this right now.

40:17

And I think it's because

40:19

um people people don't really want to

40:22

know about like the reason for the idea

40:24

or what you're going to do next or the

40:26

vision. They just want to know like

40:28

about the dumping. Like they don't it's

40:29

not about the sniping. Like people want

40:31

to know what you're saying. The bubble

40:33

map is not correct. Like just provide

40:36

the the facts. Like

40:37

>> I think I can explain a lot of this if I

40:39

I keep getting muted. I keep getting

40:40

muted. I think I can explain a lot of

40:42

this.

40:42

>> I'll go to you inside coffee.

40:43

>> With the conversation stagnated and with

40:45

its listeners frustrated over here in

40:47

Doc Hollywood needed a way to get out of

40:49

it. So Haley was instructed to in her

40:52

words make up an excuse to leave.

40:55

>> Actual like

40:57

>> I hate to interrupt you, Nick. Hello

40:58

there. But anyh who, I'm going to go to

41:01

bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow.

41:05

>> Okay. um into uh for I guess for talking

41:10

over here.

41:11

>> Doc Hollywood unsatisfied that Haley's

41:14

departure did not bring an immediate end

41:16

to the conversation directly uses it as

41:18

an excuse to end the conversation.

41:20

>> Let's let

41:22

>> It's been a rough It's been a rough day.

41:24

It's all good. We'll come back tomorrow,

41:26

Nick. Um you know, we ain't going

41:29

nowhere.

41:30

>> You You can't You can't just tell me

41:31

what your salary is from this. I'll tell

41:33

you what mine is. It's It's $150,000.

41:36

What's yours?

41:37

>> Okay. I I don't I don't have a salary

41:39

from this. But that's that's cool.

41:42

>> No, I don't. Unfortunately, I'm

41:44

underpaid. Uh but listen, it's all good.

41:47

Uh have fun, guys. Neither of you

41:49

leaving.

41:50

>> We ain't going nowhere.

41:51

>> Doc Hollywood, though he promised to,

41:54

did not return the following day. In his

41:56

place was Charlie's video amassing

41:58

nearly 5 million views and Coffeezilla's

42:00

video, which sits at [music] 6.2 million

42:02

views. Coffeezilla in his video breaks

42:05

down the lengthy Twitter space and the

42:07

tokconomics and reveals messages he

42:09

received from Haley's lawyer and where

42:10

he stated that she has only ever seen

42:12

$125,000

42:14

from when she was paid up front for the

42:16

project. [music] This is why there is a

42:18

rise in searches of Hawk to a girl in

42:20

December 2024. In the end, Haley did

42:23

succeed somewhat in finding the new

42:25

thing she would be known for. The Hawk

42:27

to a girl. Can you believe it?

42:30

>> Did you hear about the crypto thing with

42:31

her? hear about it. She paid me in it.

42:34

>> I guess you haven't seen the news. Her

42:36

coin lost like 98% of its value.

42:38

>> It did?

42:40

>> Yeah, it did.

42:42

>> On Twitter, Over here would attempt to

42:43

distance themselves from the failed

42:45

project, stating that they were not part

42:47

of it officially, largely pinning its

42:49

failure to Doc Hollywood, who now in mid

42:51

December had not commented further on

42:53

the matter. The same could be said for

42:55

Haley, as the internet at large was

42:57

counting up how long her slumber was

42:59

after leaving the Twitter space

43:00

abruptly. Then it became all too clear

43:03

why she was absent. It was because this

43:05

lawsuit was in motion by Burwick Law

43:08

targeting virtually everyone involved

43:09

except Haley. As per this decrypt

43:12

article, quote, "When asked why Walsh

43:14

was not listed as a codefendant in the

43:16

Hawk lawsuit, Max Burwick, managing

43:18

partner at Burwick Law, said the

43:20

decision was intentional and hinted it

43:22

might help make his clients whole

43:24

sooner." unquote. Shortly after, Haley,

43:27

or perhaps her lawyer, made a statement

43:29

through her account on how they would be

43:31

assisting Borwick Law, likely in their

43:33

case against Doc Hollywood, his team,

43:36

and the other major parties involved in

43:37

the coin. After this, there would not be

43:40

any new talk to episodes for some time.

43:42

There would not be much of Haley Welsh

43:44

at all. I also imagine all the parasites

43:47

around Haley that actually control her

43:49

because she has become so big to the

43:52

point where she now has a whole PR team

43:54

and an entire like agency behind her. So

43:57

they are working her like a puppet. It's

43:59

like [ __ ] weakened it at Bernie's out

44:00

there with Haley Welch's body and I'm

44:03

guessing they're telling her to shut the

44:06

[ __ ] up.

44:06

>> Even by 2025, Haley was nowhere to be

44:09

seen and her disappearance was not

44:11

universally detested. quote, "Nobody

44:14

warned her that making a joke on camera

44:16

might ruin her life. And she didn't warn

44:18

anyone when she took all that money and

44:20

disappeared. I love it. Even some of the

44:22

quote unquote reputable crypto has

44:24

turned out to be scams. Why the [ __ ]

44:26

would anyone spend money on this type of

44:28

[ __ ] I'll tell you why. They hope they

44:30

can get in and get out so they can be

44:32

the ones screwing others, and they're

44:34

just too stupid to pull it off. I have

44:37

zero sympathy. She and the Logans should

44:39

still be ashamed, though." unquote. In

44:42

February, what was reportedly caused by

44:44

the incompetence of Haley's team was

44:46

leaking of the new episode of Talk Toua

44:48

and where she spoke about the coin with

44:49

Faze Banks in place of Coffeezilla who

44:52

was unwilling to appear on the show. Um,

44:54

it was a very long nap. I would say

44:57

that's what sucks about it too. I had to

44:59

read that off a phone and like put it in

45:00

my words and I was like, um, anyh who,

45:02

I'm going to bed. Thank you to all my

45:04

true fans and all the people that

45:06

actually watch my stuff and they keep up

45:08

with me. Um, we're trying to sort out

45:10

all the pieces and stuff to like get all

45:12

this figured out and make everything

45:14

right. Oh my god, I'm going to cry.

45:16

>> No, [laughter] don't cry. Don't cry.

45:18

>> Don't cry. Everything's going to be

45:19

good.

45:19

>> Haley would go on to state that the

45:21

revenue from this episode would be

45:23

donated. Yet, that is possibly just

45:25

pennies to the money she received up

45:27

front from the crypto venture.

45:28

>> Well, see, that's how it got brought to

45:30

me. It was supposed to be done the right

45:31

way. Like, it was going to be good.

45:33

Like, half the money, it was supposed to

45:34

go like into my charity. That's really

45:36

why I agreed to do it, just for the

45:38

simple fact putting money into that.

45:40

>> Looking back at Haley's contract, she

45:42

was entitled to 50% of all the profits.

45:45

This lines up with what she should have

45:47

donated to her fund. Yet, there is a

45:49

massive issue with this statement and

45:51

what is being discussed in the leaked

45:52

talk to episode. If you took all the

45:55

money that you made from the deal,

45:57

whatever, and just like bought back the

45:59

coin and then locked it up, I feel like

46:01

that's a very like clear action that you

46:03

can make. uh you know back to the

46:06

community and I think that would just

46:08

like stamp it and the community can run

46:10

with it. So that's like the idea that we

46:12

were talking about

46:12

>> as far as narrative goes in a gesture. I

46:14

mean you just [ __ ] nailed that by the

46:16

way. And that would you you mentioned it

46:18

earlier 125,000

46:20

>> plus 100,000 or what did I hear?

46:22

>> Yeah. So

46:23

>> how much total money has been received

46:26

due to this?

46:27

>> 125,000 has

46:29

>> been received.

46:30

with her buying in right now with what's

46:34

on the market is there's 80%

46:36

>> yes

46:36

>> that's not available

46:38

>> what does that mean

46:39

>> the question brought by this question is

46:41

why is it even being considered that

46:43

Haley could feasibly pump her own coin

46:45

with the money she made from it when

46:47

Haley will later make it very much clear

46:48

that her earnings not exclusive to the

46:51

50% of the coin's profits were meant to

46:53

go deposits across America

46:55

>> and then Haley we're going to take your

46:56

cut and we're going to donate it and I

46:58

was like that's fine like let's do It is

47:00

possible that the money was donated and

47:02

Haley is just oblivious to practically

47:04

everything. In the lawsuit by Burwick

47:06

Law, it is stated that Haley's manager

47:07

was in control of all aspects of her

47:09

commercial operations, including

47:11

facilitating her involvement in the

47:12

token's launch. Haley on Adam Cura's

47:15

podcast also stated she was not aware of

47:17

her own finances, or at least those

47:19

involved in the podcast.

47:20

>> And the podcast, we making any money

47:22

with that?

47:23

>> Um, I don't really know.

47:26

>> Okay. Well, you should get a little more

47:27

into your finances.

47:28

>> Yeah, I definitely should. I [laughter]

47:30

should keep up with it better.

47:30

>> As for the fallout of the leaked

47:32

episode, Coffeezilla made a video

47:34

covering it. Besides showcasing Haley's

47:36

lawyer, stating that Doc Hollywood was

47:38

not so bright and discussing the

47:40

contract between Haley and Doc, was a

47:42

discussion about how this leaked episode

47:44

affected the coin. When this podcast

47:47

went live, I thought maybe things went

47:49

well. Turns out it didn't because Banks

47:53

released this. He said, "I agreed to do

47:55

our first podcast back. I had heavy

47:56

stipulations of not letting the market

47:58

get manipulated. I think that's basic.

48:00

Uh her team finding a real solution

48:02

regarding the money she made. Those were

48:03

non-starters.

48:05

These people leaked or insighted insider

48:08

traded the token. We noticed a random

48:10

spike in volume on the coin the day we

48:13

did the podcast along with random

48:15

messages asking if we did the podcast.

48:18

But today the episode got leaked.

48:22

Apparently there was an agreement. The

48:23

podcast is never going out. today. It

48:25

got leaked. FaZe Banks canled the

48:28

episode. Are you guys getting that? He

48:30

He was like, I c I can't be a part of

48:33

this. And they posted the clip. I can't

48:36

believe it. With every step a misstep,

48:38

so was the attempt of Haley's management

48:40

to attempt to sail a sunken ship. As

48:43

better and Haley had split ways, the

48:45

responsibility would be on Haley's team

48:47

to produce the podcast. First was the

48:50

video of her comeback on her Instagram

48:51

and Tik Tok late March. very little if

48:54

any of the comments were enthusiastic

48:56

with her return. Even so, a new episode

48:58

of Talkua was posted April 8th. The

49:01

guest was worldclass influencer KSI, one

49:04

of the faces and part owner of the

49:06

lucrative sports drink Prime. This

49:09

episode was the worst performing in the

49:11

entire catalog until the next episode.

49:14

Episode 18, uploaded April 22nd and also

49:18

episode 18 uploaded April 29th performed

49:21

similarly terrible. Though these two

49:23

episodes are distinct, they inexplicably

49:25

are fighting for the episode 18 title.

49:28

If the views were combined on these two,

49:31

they would still far underperform even

49:33

against the KSI episode. Episode 19 did

49:36

little to bring in viewership. And

49:38

finally, the last episode in the talk 20

49:40

series, the infamous episode 20.

49:43

Normally in this setting, as is the case

49:45

with some podcast, a guest is being

49:47

interviewed and the conversation is

49:48

edited down to be around an hour in

49:50

length. This episode had no guest and it

49:53

was only 20 minutes long. In all of

49:55

Talkua, the conversations tend to lack

49:57

any depth, any greater narrative or

49:59

conversation. Yet, this episode tried to

50:02

not because they were trying to improve

50:04

on the quality of the podcast, but

50:05

because this was in its entirety a drawn

50:08

out PR statement to address the coin.

50:10

The questions are preloaded and

50:12

delivered via Haley's friend, who at

50:14

points throughout is quite clearly

50:16

holding a sheet of paper likely with the

50:18

questions she is meant to ask. On Tik

50:20

Tok, this episode was promoted and even

50:22

dramatized with police sirens and other

50:24

misplaced sound effects.

50:26

>> Meds come to Granny's house and knock on

50:28

her door and they're like, "Oh, you're

50:29

not in any trouble. We just want to ask

50:30

you questions about everything." And

50:32

then they wanted to see my phone. So, I

50:34

was like, "Okay, well, that's not a

50:35

problem." Interrogated me asking me

50:37

questions and everything else related to

50:39

crypto. They went through my phone, so

50:41

they cleared me. I was good to go. And

50:43

then the SEC picked it up and then they

50:46

didn't want to talk with me, but they

50:47

wanted my phone. So, I sent my phone off

50:49

to them for two or three days and then I

50:51

guess they cloned my phone, copied it,

50:53

something, but they went through my

50:54

phone. I was cleared from them and I

50:56

wasn't named on the lawsuit either.

50:57

>> Haley here claims she has been cleared

50:59

by the SEC. TMZ attempted to reach out

51:02

to the government agency, but they

51:04

refused to comment on the matter and

51:05

Haley was not named in the Burwick Law

51:07

lawsuit. So, at minimum, that much was

51:10

true and perhaps she was constrained by

51:12

ongoing investigations as to not be able

51:14

to comment about the coin. In this

51:16

episode, she claims beyond the money she

51:18

received up front, she did not make

51:19

anything from it.

51:20

>> I did not make a dime from the coin

51:22

itself.

51:22

>> So, you got paid for promoting it or

51:25

>> just promoting it and putting all the

51:27

work into it, like the videos and stuff

51:28

that I do for him to post, that's what I

51:30

got paid for.

51:31

>> But the coin itself, like anything that

51:33

was raised from that coin,

51:35

>> I did not make a dime off of it. But at

51:38

this point, like everything I paid for

51:39

like PR crisis, a new lawyer, stuff like

51:42

that.

51:42

>> All that money went to that.

51:43

>> Every bit of it went to that. So, I

51:45

mean, I've really come out with nothing.

51:47

>> Damn.

51:47

>> All that trouble for nothing.

51:49

>> Yeah.

51:49

>> Haley fails to mention that she made

51:51

$125,000 from this deal. Though, in

51:54

listing her expenditures, she does

51:55

verify none of it went to her charity,

51:57

but rather attempts to save her legally

51:59

and to salvage her image. This episode,

52:02

in revealing even more of Haley's

52:04

qualities in that she needs a PR team

52:06

and that she was entirely oblivious in

52:08

what she was promoting, it reveals or

52:10

more so confirms she does not have it.

52:13

She is a figurehead meant to sell

52:14

products who is being puppeteered by

52:16

various teams who even now steer her

52:19

wrong. So then what is she without this

52:21

team? On her Tik Tok, there were signs

52:23

that she was acting without the filter

52:25

of such a team yet attempting to apply

52:27

what she learned through them. On June

52:29

6th, Haley released this Tik Tok where

52:31

she states her opposition labels her as

52:33

a scammer, a likely response to the

52:35

building frustration of being hated

52:37

online. And in July, Haley, as she had

52:40

done several times in the past, released

52:42

a new video of her purchasing a cart

52:43

full of supplies for an animal shelter.

52:46

In isolation, this would have been

52:47

universally wellreceived. But with the

52:49

knowledge that $100 in supplies is

52:52

incomparable to the $125,000 that could

52:54

have been donated, it looks as if this

52:57

is her Skinner box or that she has the

52:59

learned behavior that posting her

53:01

donations means good PR. The majority of

53:04

comments are not so convinced. quote,

53:06

"This ain't going to work again." Though

53:08

she would not upload another video of

53:10

donations, she would still make videos

53:12

dissatisfied at the hate comments she

53:14

was receiving.

53:15

>> So, why would I give a [ __ ] what a

53:16

dumbass rat thinks about me? I don't

53:20

care. Everything I say is right.

53:22

>> Roses are red and the only thing that

53:24

quack is a duck. I never gave a damn and

53:26

I sure don't give a [ __ ] Hello,

53:28

somebody.

53:29

>> How do you sleep at night knowing people

53:31

don't like you with no underwear in case

53:33

they want to kiss my ass? Haley would

53:35

continue to post about being mad or

53:37

dissatisfied for months. During this

53:39

period, Haley on her fan fix, her safe

53:41

for work version of Only Fans, posted

53:43

quote, "I missed y'all so much. Little

53:45

surprise for you in your DMs. Monkey

53:48

heart cherry feet emoji."

53:51

To access even just the information of

53:53

what she was hinting at, one has to be

53:55

subscribed to her fanfix. Fortunately,

53:57

this Reddit user was. They received this

54:00

message from her account. Quote, "Only

54:02

you get to see how ticklish this cowgirl

54:04

really is. Winky face. Feet emoji. Just

54:07

can't stop giggling. Giggling face. Feet

54:10

emoji."

54:11

The price of what is presumably a

54:13

picture of her feet is $200. This price

54:16

point could have been done to supplement

54:18

the loss in revenue from her podcast.

54:20

The same could be said for her newest

54:22

venture. Haley wanted to become a gaming

54:25

streamer, a space she is not at all

54:27

familiar with.

54:28

>> What What all do you know about Twitch

54:29

prior to this?

54:32

Um, not much. I figured out how to turn

54:34

my computer on and everything and get it

54:36

ready, but otherwise, uh,

54:38

>> so you didn't even know how to like

54:40

utilize the computer.

54:42

>> Yeah,

54:43

>> that's pretty cool.

54:44

>> The production value in Haley's streams

54:46

are not very high, and Haley has no

54:48

schedule for them.

54:50

>> What do you mean, what the [ __ ] are we

54:51

doing? We're sitting here bullshitting.

54:53

We had to redownload uh, Fortnite. Haley

54:57

through her management was placed in

54:58

various spaces and promoted various

55:00

products she knew nothing about. Now

55:02

through what appears to be on her own,

55:04

she is doing the same thing only with

55:06

gaming content on the live section of

55:08

the talk to a channel. On November 3rd,

55:10

creator gamer for Mars on Twitter posted

55:13

an image that showed Haley and now we're

55:15

into one of her streams was sitting at

55:16

an active base of nine. Without the

55:19

social media management machine behind

55:20

her, this is where she is. where most

55:23

successful game streamers opt to stream

55:24

on Twitch and stream daily for eight

55:26

hours, Haley was on YouTube, utilizing

55:29

her podcast-based channel to promote an

55:31

entirely different genre, one where she

55:34

streams infrequently and for an average

55:35

of 2 hours at a time. This is likely the

55:38

truest variant of Haley Welch. It has

55:40

taken her just over a year to lose all

55:42

momentum. She went from someone being

55:44

entirely unknown to being viewed as the

55:46

all-American woman, [music] a factory

55:48

worker who was given fame she never

55:49

asked for and supposedly utilized it for

55:52

charity. Then almost immediately

55:54

everything flipped when she began

55:55

promoting the most lucrative yet

55:57

deceptive products. The woman who was

55:59

praised as a counter to the worst parts

56:01

of social media has fully embodied them.

56:03

And as of November 2025, she has been

56:06

delivered a future far more grim. The

56:08

Borwick Law lawsuit which she toted

56:10

being excluded from has now included

56:12

her. Quote, "Defended Welsh, while less

56:15

technically sophisticated than the other

56:16

actors, played a critical operational

56:18

role by providing the trust vector

56:20

through which millions of retail

56:22

investors were induced to participate.

56:24

Although Welsh did not design the fraud,

56:26

her participation materially advanced it

56:28

by leveraging her parasocial influence

56:30

and directing her fans towards the token

56:32

at the precise moment insiders were

56:34

preparing to extract liquidity. For this

56:36

reason, Welsh is properly named in the

56:38

unjust enrichment claim, even though she

56:40

is not alleged to have participated in

56:42

the technical manipulation."

56:45

Even her obliviousness could not save

56:47

her, though it is her intuition that

56:49

should have. This is why the story of

56:51

Haley Welsh, the small town girl, and

56:53

her crypto scam, is not a story of the

56:55

girl, but the blank slate and what it

56:57

can become when fully exposed. when

56:59

etched upon everpresent corrupt

57:01

individuals seeking to extract rather

57:03

than improve all while waiting to find

57:06

their next slate. Oh, you got to give

57:08

him that hawk too and spit on that

57:10

thing. You get me?

Interactive Summary

This video details the rise and fall of Haley Welsh, who became an internet sensation after a viral street interview where she uttered a memorable phrase. Initially seen as an "all-American woman," her life quickly transformed as the clip spread, leading to widespread recognition and subsequent attempts to monetize her fame through various ventures including cryptocurrency, merchandise, and a podcast. The narrative explores how her initial viral moment was amplified by social media and later manipulated by managers and associates pushing questionable products like a failed cryptocoin. Despite initial success and a period where she was lauded for resilience, her involvement in these ventures led to legal trouble and a significant decline in public interest. The video concludes by highlighting how her story evolved from one of unexpected fame to a cautionary tale about exploitation and the pitfalls of viral internet culture, ultimately resulting in a lawsuit that implicated her despite her apparent lack of deep involvement in the fraudulent schemes.

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