Analyzing a controversial podcast interviewfrom @shamelesspodcast

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To, like, take someone in college who's young, impressionable, you know, looks up to you, and then ask them these, like, raunchy questions, which I was, like, definitely a little uncomfortable with. We are gonna play truth or drink. Okay. Get ready to get fucked up, bitch. Okay. Okay? Here we go. How many guys did you fuck your freshman year of college? What is your best skill in the bedroom? Okay. Are you an anal virgin? Part of that was stuff I had to ask to be taken out after the interview. And she was like, oh, like, I think it's so funny, and it's stuff that, like, I didn't necessarily want to live on the Internet forever. So that definitely hurt me or it hurts now. What made me really sad was when Alex Earl said my kids are gonna say this stuff. I I'm embarrassed. Agree. I don't want it to be online. I asked for it to be taken out. I was rank, and I was 22. I find this pretty egregious, if I'm honest. That's awful. Yeah. I think in content, the idea of bringing young people into content, it is absolutely your responsibility to tell them if you share things, you are not gonna be able to take it back. I don't think even when I started in content when I was young, I mean, this this never was even close to something that happened to me at all, but I don't think that was often shared enough with us. And so now, I feel very passionate about this idea of, like, you cannot take this stuff bad, and it is the responsibility of people who've been in content for a while to protect young people coming through. And the idea that she was, she says, plied with alcohol, drunk when she was recording, and when she asked to take them out was refused. I find that pretty questionable behavior. Really questionable. And then there's the dynamic of she's idolizing the biggest female podcaster in the worse, and Alex Cooper is turning back to her and going, no. No. No. It's all funny. This is funny. This is what it takes to do great content is the inference there. Yeah. For that to be the message to Alex Earle when the content we're talking about is worse you an anal virgin? My reading of this situation is Alex Cooper a 100% manipulated Alex Earle and a 100% hung her out to dry. It is a bad faith thing to do to have someone come to you and say, I am not comfortable. Can we remove this from an episode? Especially when it's so so sexual and so explicit. It tells you, like, hey. I said this slightly personal thing, and I wanna take it out. It's like, no. This hypersexualized content I'm no longer happy with. Like, that is it's sad. Like, I'm sad for Alex Earl that she was drunk when she said those things, asked for it to be taken out, and it wasn't. Even on the scale it was then shared is not okay.