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Diddy Explosive New Documentary, and TikTok's Freedom Fight: Industry Power Misuse, Community Voices, and Social Media Battles...Will Unity Triumph Over Corruption?
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Flo Me
The thoughts, views and opinions shared on the Flow show no Filter are for educational and entertainment purposes only. I am not a professional. I am just good. Happy, happy mother. Monday, Monday. This gonna be one of those Monday. If a Monday. Every Monday before. It's gonna Monday today. I don't know what that means, but, you know, Mondays have your brain all scribbled and scrambled up. And we back to the Flow show no Filter with your boy, your host, Flo Me. A lot to talk about today. It's somewhat of a. I don't want to say gloomy Monday, but it's. I don't know if y'all following the Tick Tock band, but it's a sad situation with Tick Tock. I'll fill y'all in on that a little bit later in the show. It's sad with our country to do, but it all falls in line with the elites and the powerful trying to control us. Don't want the truth and don't want us to see us happy for real. They want to see us up and broken and. And with no hope. But a lot of Diddy, a lot of Diddy to talk about. We got that bad making of a bad boy documentary dropping. Actually, tomorrow I'm gonna do a special show on that too. But the documentary from the clips I've seen and from inside sources that have seen the whole thing that told me about it, this is by far the most detailed documentary about the Diddy freak off stuff and what he did to his artists and women are speaking out. We're gonna talk about that. The woman with the remote that. That said she was raped by him with a remote control. She gave a tearful interview on there. Also, I'm gonna get into all the conspiracy with the fires and update you on Diddy's part of it because, you know, he's mixed in it. And then we'll go from there, y'all. But my mind is really, really, really, really in a different place today just because that. That Tik Tok kind of pissed me off. I'm kind of sad because I was okay with it. But then when y'all hear some of the stories of. Of how Tik Tok changed a lot of people life, my life. And they're just on there crying and posting and. And hoping that it don't get that they don't uphold the band, we'll talk about that. But it. It's sad. And I. And I wasn't even that I wasn't sad about it for real. Like, I mean, I was mad. I Don't like the way our country does. Does things. But I wasn't sad until that last night. I just got to watching everybody's video on Tick Tock and they were reminiscing. And so we gotta go into that. But I just want to tell y'all before I started to the, the Diddy stuff with the, with the documentary, that shit's crazy. And this conspiracies with the fire, that crazy. But with all this going on and I just want to give y'all a quick, quick, just even a rant just when you, when you out here working, anybody out there that's working, you got a goals or whatever your goals are. Like, my goal is to be one of the top podcasters, content creators in the world. I mean, that's my goal and that's what I work hard for. I always want to be the best at whatever I put my energy in. So whatever your goal is, your goal could be anything, any type of job, any type of building a relationship with certain people, any of that. But whenever you have a goal, don't let nothing, no event, no party, no get together, no, no, no, no, no, no, no trip, none of that. Don't let that get in between you and your goal. And let me tell you, my Uncle Jim, you probably heard me talk about Uncle Jim quite a few times. Uncle that he would, He. He was one of. One of those people that showed you by example. He would tell you, but he would also show you. You know, a lot of times growing up, a lot of adults want to tell you, but they don't really show you. And it don't hit hard as. It don't hit as hard when they show you. And one time, I remember I was. Y'all know I'm a big Browns fan. I was probably about, I don't know, 20, 22, 23, 24 years old. I don't know, something like that. I was in my low 20s and the Browns were coming on. It was a Sunday, and so I went to. I was driving my uncle. I was in Cleveland Heights, which is a suburb in Cleveland, and I was driving. I just happened to see my uncle. My uncle did, and rest in peace. Uncle Jim is no longer here. But he was, he was all. He was the best bricklayer construction guy in, in the. In Cleveland by far. He had been in the business forever. Everybody loved him. So I was riding, I was on my way to go to one of my friend's house to watch the Browns game, and I saw my uncle laying bricks for somebody's Porch in Cleveland Heights. I just happened to see him. So I pulled over. You know, I was happy to see my uncle. I pulled over, I said, hey, what's up, Uncle Jim? Hey, what's going on? He said, hey, what's going on, nephew? I said, what you doing? I said. I said, what you doing? You ain't. You out here working, you ain't gonna watch the. And. And mind you, this was his own business. I need to add that in there. He was. He did. He was an entrepreneur, as all. Most of my family on my mother's side is all entrepreneurs anyway. So I said, uncle Jim, the Browns on you out here working? I said, I'm about to go to watch my friends. I was watch the game. They about to. I said, the Browns about to put on the show. This was way back. You know how long ago it was. If I'm saying the Browns about to put on the show, this is when they actually was decent this year, these years. And I'm thinking my uncle came back with a response that I didn't even see coming. And that's why it hit me so hard to this day. He said, man, I ain't. I'm not worried about going to watch. Now, mind you, my uncle Jim did watch the Browns, so let me add that in before I. Before I continue. So he does. He watched the Browns just like anybody else. He was a Browns fan, but he said, man, I ain't worried about no Browns. He said, if it's any. Anything I could do to progress what I'm doing in my life and make my money, I'm putting that first. And then he went on to say, and as a matter of fact, the Browns need to come watch me lay these bricks because I'm putting on a show. And he went back to. And he laughed and went back to, you know, laying his bricks. And I'm sitting there feeling stupid. Not because, of course, I went to go watch the Browns, and not. Nothing wrong with watching sports and doing that, but I felt stupid because I didn't realize that you don't never. You. You don't never put any event or anything else over what you gotta do. Like my uncle Jim. My uncle Jim was sitting there laying bricks, making his money better in his life. Like, he also told me in that same encounter, what the hell, I want to push my priorities to the side to go watch them go make their money. They got their money. Well, I'ma go put. Uncle Jim told me, I'm gonna put my money to the side and my work to the side to go watch them make their money. And it just hits home so much. And like I said, don't take. Y'all know, I enjoy sports. I enjoy anything in life. I enjoy leisure time just like the next man. But from that moment on, it made me realize, but if you got something to do, don't ever, ever put something that's important to you, important to your life, to. To the side in order to enjoy some momentary of somebody that somebody else got going on. And I didn't tell Uncle Jim then. I just laughed about it because I had a lot to process. Because one thing about an adult, especially when you say something that really makes sense, that hit me hard. I had to process that. I didn't even know how to respond. Even though it was cool, I laughed and we joked and I was like, all right, Uncle Jim, I see you. And he probably didn't know to, you know, to this day, he's gone to know that that little encounter changed my life. It. It made me as serious as I thought I was about achieving my goals. It taught me it was levels. Like, it's levels to how serious you gonna be, like, if you got shit to do. But you rather. It's so important for you to go watch the Browns instead of handling your business, you ain't locked in. And that's what I learned about myself. And so from that day forward, the different level of locking in is diff. It was. It was different. And I achieved so many goals that I set out that people didn't think I could do just because of having that mindset of, I'm not letting nothing get in front of what my goal. And I'm just saying that because I want y'all out there to do the same thing. Don't let nobody deter you. Don't let nobody talk you down. Do what you need to do for what you believe in and the things you believe in. I, I, I. That's the one thing that I always want to preach. I'm living. I'm a living proof of that. And not only did it get me here, but it's going to take me forward because that's my mentality. I don't give a fuck what's going on. Of course I like to have fun. Y'all see me on my. Sometimes on my Instagrams and this and that and my stories. I'm dancing, laughing. I love to have fun. But if I have a goal or I have a plan, I don't give a fuck what's going on. I don't care about no party. I don't care about no festival. I don't care about no, no, no, no, no, no. No sporting event. I don't give a. Because in my mind, once my goal is achieved or once. Once what I set out to do is done, I can do all of that shit all day long, every day if I want to. And so, just to start off, I just wanted to give you a little motivation on this Monday because y'all been following me. I'm a motivator. Not. Not by. Not because I try to be or even want to be. I'm a motivator because that's just what I am to my core. I motivate myself, and I want to motivate all of y'all. And I don't like when people aren't able to achieve their goals because they let people sidetrack them. Like, don't let people do that. Stay focused. It's going to happen. And the more focused you are and the more you don't worry about what's going on around you, the faster it's going to happen. Now, let's get into this now with the Los Angeles fires, there's so much going on. But before I get into that, let me open up with Diddy, because Diddy been. Diddy, he been getting. He been getting off easy lately because there's been so much crazy going on. We've been giving Diddy a little slack. And real quick, before I forget, if you sign up for a subscription, I appreciate everybody that subscribe, and I'll get to that later, but I want to do this in the beginning of the show. If you sign up for a subscription, if you have any issues as far as, like, trying to figure out how to load the content onto your phone so you can listen to it or whatever, please, please email the host of my podcast, which is Buzzsprout, and. And email them@support buzzsprout.com support buzzsprout.com they are a wonderful company. They re. They respond quick and they get you taken care of. But I see a lot of people will ask me questions in the fan mail about it, and I can't give you the instructions there. And so. And other than that, like I said, you can also send me a email. Flow Daddy, flowmail.com and I will give you the instructions. But it's. I. I can't give you the instructions. It won't allow me to give you the instructions in the fan mail. So when I see people say it in the fan mail, I'm like, shoot, I can't. How can I? I can't give them the directions. So, yeah, just that. Just wanted to let everybody know that because a couple people didn't know how to get the exclusive content once they subscribe onto their phone. It's pretty easy, but it's easier when somebody tells you. So like I said, once again, any problems with any subscriber subscriptions? Supportbuzzspot.com so let's get into it. Welcome to the Flow Show. No filter. I am your host, Flo. This is the podcast where we cut through the noise, we pull no punches, and we serve you the raw truth. Now, today's episode is one that's gonna trip you out. And y'all know we got a big, big week ahead with the this big. This, this. I'm telling you, this documentary is going to be the best coverage of this Diddy situation that's probably been out. So we were diving into the explosive new peacock documentary, which drops tomorrow. It's called the Making of Bad Boy, which includes a jaw dropping, tearful account from a woman accusing Sean Diddy Combs of rape. An allegation so chilling, it's leaving the entertainment world in shock. Can't wait to check it out. Also, y'all, for subscribers only, I am doing a special episode for the Bad Boy documentary. We'll be able to talk. You'll be able to talk me and you will be able to go back and forth and talk about it doing like a panel style, but it'll be, it'll be open to subscribers only. And also I also have a huge interview of a huge case that I should be locking in today. It's one of these surviving Diddy Kelly case. I have a witness that is going to, that wants to speak. And so I'm putting it together. And this witness is very, very close to this situation. I can't tell you which, which, which story this is, but it's one of the ones y'all care about. We all care about, but it's ones, y'all, that you guys send me in my inbox every day. It's a big interview and I have some exclusives. Some exclusive content of that interview will also be for my subscribers only. So be looking out for that. I will probably have an announcement to lock that in tomorrow after the Diddy thing, but those are two major things. Coming up this week for my subscribers is the. We get the, the panel where I'm do a special episode for the Bad Boy documentary for this Diddy and then also the big interview that I'm telling you about that will also be in the subscriber content. So I appreciate all the subscribers. I'll get to y'all later, but let's. Let's continue now. It's. This is a heavy topic with this Diddy documentary that's coming out, and it's a lot of that's in there, and there's a lot of stuff that they haven't told us yet. I heard it's explosive info from the beginning to the end. So let's give it the attention that it deserves. So let's set the stage, y'all. Let's set the stage. Peacock's latest documentary, it's the Making of Bad Boy, is supposed to be a retrospective look at Diddy's meteoric rise and the music industry. But it's also turned into a public reckoning. In the film, a woman, her identity is still being protected, but this woman shares a tearful account of what she claims happened to her. This woman accuses Diddy of using his power and influence to drug her and then assault her. She even describes it as a remote control rape. Now, I did a story on this way back, and I actually covered it on this podcast, but this would have probably been in the. Within the first 10 to 20 episodes. We are on, like, episode 60 something now. She's alleging that Diddy orchestrated the entire ordeal from behind the scenes. That's very chilling. Sounds very calculated to me. And this is not just an isolated accusation. It's actually part of a growing list of allegations against the Diller. Now, this just isn't just about one man. It's about how powerful people and how controlling these powerful people can be and have. They are weaponizing their power in the music industry, and they've been doing it for decades. Now, we all know that the music industry has a dark side. For years, there have been whispers, stories and allegations, many, many of which never see the light of day. Diddy, with his empire and his cultural cachet, represents the pinnacle of power in hip hop. But as we've seen in Hollywood and beyond, unchecked power often leads to exploitation. Think about it. Diddy has spent decades cultivating an image as a mogul, a gatekeeper, as a icon in Hollywood. The documentary paints a picture of someone who allegedly used that same influence. Not to uplift, not to bring men and women up. But no, no, no, no. He used that influence, according to this documentary, to manipulate, to control, and to silence. Now, this raises the question, how many other stories have gone untold? How many stories have Gone untold because the victims were too afraid to come forward. And why does the industry, this same industry, continue to protect its most powerful players even when the evidence starts piling up? Let's talk about the specifics of these allegations, y'all. We all know this ain't the first time DDS faced accusations of abuse and misconduct. Do I have to remind y'all of the lawsuit of his former partner, Cassie Ventur, who alleged years of abuse, control, and even physical violence? Now, while the details of the settlement remain private, the timing of this new documentary adds fuel to the fire. Here's the thing. When you're accused of something as heinous as sexual assault, the weight of multiple allegations starts to feel like a pattern rather than an exception. You get it? Exception happens one time. But these allegations, there are too many to count, frankly. The documentary doesn't outright condemn Diddy, but it lets the stories speak for themselves. But with these stories speaking, it kind of forces the viewers to confront the question, can we separate the artists from the alleg. From the accusations? Can we separate the artist from the allegations? And should we? Should we separate them? One of the most gut wrenching parts of the documentary is hearing the accuser talk about why she stayed silent for so long. She. And, and I'm paraphrasing here, she said that coming forward felt impossible when your abuser holds all the power. And we all can imagine how hard it would be to. To come forward. On Diddy at the, at the pinnacle, the height of his career, especially knowing the, the, the tactics that he uses. The, the, the, the intimidation tactics. The, the, the, the. The power, influence of sending people to send you messages, all of that. When he's at the top of his career and he's not in prison or in jail or whatever you want to call it, it's nearly, it was nearly impossible for people to come out. So when I hear people say, why didn't they say nothing? Or why you didn't say anything, then it's like, I just know you've never been around anything like this. It ain't, it ain't about saying when Diddy, when, when this stuff was going on, people like Wendy Williams says stuff, look at her. Kim Porter was about to do a tell all. Look at where she is. And I can name more of everybody who was about to come forward and tell or do this or do that are dead. And if they're not dead, they might as well be. So that is the most, like, I know everybody, isn't it? You know, everybody doesn't have the ability to put themselves in someone else's shoes to like really feel where they're coming from. So I understand that. But it just takes a little common sense, a little research, a little thinking, and you can understand why they can come out now and didn't come out then. But as long as Hollywood's one, Hollywood wants to protect their elites. I'm gonna protect the people. I'm gonna protect us. I'm not siding with them. I'm not asking nobody why. Why didn't they say nothing back then? Or I'm not doing anything. If it's a problem with the, with that needs to be handled, we're handling it. After the problem's handled, then we'll go back and worry about who said what when and why didn't they say it then and all of that. So let's continue. This isn't just about Diddy. This is about the, the whole ecosystem of this around him. How many managers, producers, PR teams, record labels, etc. How many of those people have turned a blind eye to this shit? How many contracts include non disclosure agreements that bury the truth? And how many more victims have been silenced because they thought no one would believe them? Well, this documentary doesn't shy away from any of these questions and neither should we. And let's talk about the media. Let's talk about the media. And when I talk about the media, I'm talking about old school mainstream media. Not the new media that, not the truth telling, truth seeking new media that they're actually trying to silence right now. No, we talking about the old school media that paints narratives for the powers that be. So for years, outlets have celebrated Diddy's success. You know, the old school media, his business ventures, his contributions to the music, his larger than life Persona, ensure we'll give credit where credit is due. But how often do we stop to ask, what's the cost of all that success? Who paid the price behind the scenes? The media has a responsibility here. And it's too easy, right? It's too easy to write vanilla fluff pieces about moguls like Diddy for numbers and money. Meanwhile, they're ignoring all the skeletons in their closets. And then in social media, where public opinion, opinion swings like a pendulum. One moment you're a hero, the next you're trending for all the wrong reasons. But somewhere in all of that chaos, the truth seems to get lost. And if we learn anything from the movements like the MeToo movement, it's that no one, not even the most powerful moguls, are immune to accountability. Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein. A list of powerful men who have fallen from grace is growing by the day. So where does all that leave Diddy? What accuses accusations against him aren't just allegations. There's actually an indictment. And the allegations themselves are an indictment of an entire system that prioritizes profit over people. The real question, the real question is whether the industry will finally change or if it'll just find the next Diddy to protect. We will find out. But one thing I will say, this documentary has ignited a conversation, but will it lead to real change? Will more survivors come forward? Will there be more investigations? And perhaps the most important question, will the industry finally start prioritizing accountability over profit? Y'all, Diddy's legacy is on the line in a big way. And not just his legacy. All of Hollywood, and not just Hollywood, the music industry is also on the chopping block. If these allegations are true, then he's not just a bad actor. He is a symptom of a much bigger problem. This documentary is explosive. Tomorrow it's on Peacock and we are doing. I am doing a special show that I'm putting together to go into it to, to cover the whole documentary. One thing about the documentary, I don't know if I told you, I think I did tell you about this on the other episode, but I'm gonna tell you again. Oh, I did tell you about it, but just to say again, D. Wood speaking on this one. I know her personally. We had a lot of fun back in the day around that Danity Kane time when she was an artist, I was artist, I was rapping. But I had never heard her come out and say shit. And she's talking now. And like I said, I know for a fact she not gonna make shit up. Cause she don't even. She's a hard worker. She don't try to use, you know, clout to get to make it. She's. She's still singing in. In plays to this day, even after all of that. So check it out. It's definitely going to be a. A good one. I. I believe so. And so before we get to this fire mess, let me, let me shout out my subscribers. You guys have been great. People have subscribed. If you haven't subscribed, please subscribe. It's very important with. They're taking away or trying to take away TikTok, which is a truth telling app, which is really the birth of all this truth telling at this level. TikTok started all of this. I've been over there. That's where I made my name. And the powers that be don't want y'all having these truths. They don't want y'all. So they trying to take tick tock, they will. They trying to suppress social media. They're trying to do whatever they can to keep people like me from giving people like you the truth. So we need people like me, need people like you to not just listen and not contribute because the powers that be are trying to wipe it out. And in a minute, if we don't support our truth tellers, we won't have them. And most of them won't speak out about it, like me, because they, they are afraid to speak about money. So they tell me their problems and what's going on. And so I tell y'all because I just keep it real. I don't, I don't care who gets, who doesn't feel, who does who, who cares or mad because somebody talking about money or whatever. Look, the bottom line is we all work hard, we all want to give you the truth, but you can't spend 10, $10 on, on. On Hulu and 1020 on Netflix, whatever all this costs and all these subscriptions. But you don't want to contribute to the person who risking their life to tell the truth because Netflix don't give a about us. Hulu don't give a about us. All they care about is our dollars. And so I came into this game letting people know how important it was and is for us to help support the people that we. Now if you don't, you don't talk. If you don't watch the person's podcast, you don't watch the person's YouTube videos, or if you don't re read the person's blogs, then I'm not saying, hey, I'm not expecting you to do anything. But if you listen to people and they mean something to you, just like I, when I listen to people's blogs, I listen. I mean, I listen to people, those podcasts, I enjoy it, I contribute. Whether it's a little bit of money, maybe I might be doing well that particular month and contribute more. But what I'm not gonna do, because I know how sorry this system is and how much they trying to control us. What I'm not going to do is listen to nobody's hard work and not give them a dime when I'm out here paying all these other companies who don't give a about us. That's how they win. Y'all so like I said, a lot of people in my position, they don't want us, they don't speak on this stuff because they are afraid to speak on it because they don't want people to. They don't. They're afraid of the backlash of, you know, people get mad sometimes when you charge or whatever. I don't care, I don't know. But I will be the one to speak because I, they tell me. And I know how much they are struggling and I look at it like, wow, this person is all day long helping the community, bringing awareness, risk in their life and they can't even pay their rent because they scared to ask their followers for some type of support even though they are posting and making videos all day long every day helping. I can't do that. So like I said, let me. And that's why I give so much appreciation and shout out the people who do because it means a lot, it does mean a lot. And it means that we will continue to be able to bring truths because there are people who are kind hearted and who do understand. Because this person's name, just because this person's name isn't Netflix or because this person's name is an Amazon prime or peacock, or all these people we give our money to in our subscriptions with no problem, but because the YouTuber or the podcaster isn't them, we won't give them shit. We'll just listen to them and, and, and, and, and, and not contribute or pay them for their hard work. I don't want to be, I don't want us to be like that and I don't want to be like that. So if you're out there doing your thing, if I'm listening to your stuff, if you provide me entertainment or anything like that, you don't ever have to worry about am I going to contribute because I understand the importance of it. So let me shout out those who have supported the podcast and our subscribers because you guys mean a lot to me. You don't have to. Nobody has to pay a dollar. We know how much shit costs, how foul this country and the system is on how they won't bring down the price of groceries, but they are all getting together and figuring out how the fuck they can get rid of TikTok, which isn't doing anything to anybody but giving great memories. And when you hear some of these clips at the end of this show, you might cry because I wasn't even, I wasn't even sad, I was mad. And I was like, this is up that they trying to ban this app. But I wasn't sad until last night when I just started watching all the videos and I'm just like, oh my God, this is terrible. So let me, let me shout out some of the, some of the contributors. Let's go. First of all, Everybody who gave $3 for the subscription, I appreciate you all. Thank you, thank you. Round of applause. You are keeping this the lights on here and keeping allowing me to bring y'all the truth even further. Even though they're trying to take our income away, they trying to take tick tock is a big part of a lot of our creators income. My income. They're just trying to snatch it away. It's just like a job, a big corporation saying hey, your job is we take we firing you. Except we don't get. We not tick tock go to it. We don't get what do you call that, unemployment or anything like that. You're just out. So people contributing means a lot. So but let me shout y'all out and I always shout out the ones who gave a little more just because it's already hard to give three. But if you don't have to give three and you still make you still love the podcast enough and appreciate what I'm doing enough to give more, I'm definitely going to give you a shout out. I for sure. So Patricia Wright, thank you for the $4 subscription. Jessica, Dora, I'm sorry if Dore or Dora. I'm I'm sorry Jessica, but I appreciate you. Julie Coots, Jennifer. Jennifer R. Cron and that's and anybody else, everybody else that gave three but the subscriber of the, the subscriber of the day will be, I believe Ashley for her $8. Her $8 contributed. She contributed $8 and she didn't have to. And and also I also want to give a special shout out to Lisa Lewis and Jennifer R. Cron who gave $5. Subscribers of the day gave $5. Only had to give them three. Get it. Get give them a round of applause. And anybody else that wants to help keep the lights on and keep this podcast going, please subscribe. It's in this the show notes. You'll see the Buzz Spot subscriber link as you're watch listening to this podcast. Go there, go to the link and give And I got a lot of exclusive content. For example, right now everybody is loving or really enjoying the new knowledge from the Ali Carter story. We have part one on the subscriber only content. We have the Jay Z allegedly missed mysterious death of one of his mistresses on there. And then also the mysterious death of Shakir Stewart who was dating Kim Porter. And Diddy didn't like it. And the next thing we know, Shakir supposedly shot himself in the head. Even though Shakir was a successful music exec that had signed Beyonce and worked with everybody and was on top of the world. Didn't make sense. So thank you. Thanks a lot. We are continuing, we will continue to move forward and I'll get into the tick tock stuff in a minute. But another thing, let's, let's go to that tick tock stuff y'all, because y'all gotta listen to this. This is our country. This is it in a nutshell. Basically what's going on is they have the, it's at the Supreme Court now. The, the government has basically banned TikTok and it's supposed to go in effect on the 19th. There are 8 million small businesses, millions of creators like myself that make their income from there. And the government, because they don't want the truth to come out because they're not making any. They're not, they're not able to control it. They just want to ban it which is infringing on our free freedom of speech like crazy. And they don't give a. And their reason for banning the app is because it's. Bite Dance is the company, the parent company to Tik Tok and Bite Dance is based out of China or whatever and their, their, their reason is saying that China conspy on us or, or some. But mind you, they just had the hearing and their government even has admitted, has admitted that they don't have any proof of that. They have no proof. They have. Tik Tok hasn't done anything wrong. Not to mention companies like Teemu Sheen all and there are dozens and millions and thousands of them that, that are, have Chinese parent companies. So you're singling out one company and it's obvious that it's not the reason that you're saying. TikTok has provided the, what was the American dream for a lot of people and it's also been a platform for truth and they don't like that. Listen to some of these people, some of these reactions to, to the TikTok ban and, and, and, and, and you'll get an idea.
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Community Member 1
Do you guys remember when a small one man mowing company started a TikTok account and began going around in his community to people who had really overgrown yard yards and taking care of all of their landscaping for free because not only is that an act of community work, but it's also a great promotion for his business and over years built a community of millions of people and then successfully fundraised for an old woman in his community. Just today I looked at the GoFundMe. It's like 285k in there right now. A life changing amount of money raised by people. And do you guys also remember last year when an incredible creator who makes filters figured out that you could take the money that you make from your filters and donate it to wherever you wanted. And so she created Filter for Good and then Filter for Good too. And then all of these other filter creators started doing that as well. And then there were little games you could play with watermelons in them that actually helped in some way from where we were all feeling so helpless. Do you remember that a platform exists where people can do collective action for good? Because these are just people helping people. These are people using their skills, using their creativity, using their labor to help other people. And then thousands, tens of thousands, millions of other people saying, yeah, I really appreciate what you're doing and I want to help. The way that we have all been connected on here is something that I don't want us to lose. I don't want us to lose the memory that there are so many ways to fix things. There will always be new platforms, There will always be new networks. There will always be something else. But people will always be here. And people just in communities can innovate with each other. Really, really creative ways of helping people out. That's just. I want us all to take that with us to whatever's next is just this spirit of community. That's all I wanted to say. I'm really emotional about it. That video is so good. Okay, bye.
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Flo Me
Do you guys remember, y'all, who cutting up onions in here? Y'all hear that? There are thousands of videos like that. Thousands of videos like that.
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Community Member 2
We need to keep this app. We need to keep this apple because this app changes people's lives. This app allowed me to meet someone a city over for me who we started doing community organizing together. And then we met a community organizing group. And then we met another person. And then I learned about a book club, but going there regularly and through them, I met people who run two different food not bombs in my community that I didn't even know about. This app changes people's lives. I have never been on an app before that actually made me get out of the house and start doing things in my community. And let's be real. That's why politicians want to get rid of this app, because they don't want.
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Community Member 1
Me to do that.
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Community Member 2
But that is why we need to save that. This app. And that's why I made this video we need.
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Flo Me
Yeah, I could go on and on, but it's just sad, y'all. Like I said, it's so many people just crying and posting and. And. And I ain't never seen nothing like it for app. I never seen nothing like it. It's. It's so many people who. Who have. Who. Who.
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Community Member 3
People are always asking me, why you always yelling in these videos, man?
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Flo Me
You want to know why I'm yelling?
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Community Member 3
I'll tell you why I'm yelling. I'm yelling because 32,000Americans who fought for this country don't have a home. But our government's worried about an app. I'm yelling because around 40,000Americans die every single year because they can't afford fucking health insurance, but our government's worried about an app. But more than anything, I'm yelling because I believe that this app gives every one of us a voice to bring awareness and real change to these issues and the chance to bring a sense of unity to a country that fucking needs it. And I think you should be fucking scared that it's your government's highest priority to take that freedom away from you. I'm not a lawmaker. I'm not a politician. I didn't even graduate college. I'm just a musician who's trying to do my part, trying to write songs that actually matter and at the very least, make people feel less alone. Because I don't know what it looks like to you, but to me, it's looking pretty ugly out here. So the next time you see one of my videos and you ask yourself, why are you always yelling? Ask yourself this instead. Why aren't you?
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Flo Me
People are sad. People are pissed. It's. It's. It's just. It's just unbelievable. Like I said, I had no clue. I had no clue. And this is the. And this is. And this is. You have to hear this lady. I had no clue. But this lady said something to this congressman. Man. Listen to this.
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Nat Lejeune
This is for the congressmen who are trying to save Tick tock. And for the millions of people whose lives have been changed by this stupid app. My name is Nat Lejeune, but I was on TikTok for six months before I felt safe to give anyone even my first name. I made a TikTok account in 2020, sitting on the floor of my bedroom, terrified that someone would hear me. My husband had just moved out six days before, and I'd been a stay at home mom all my life, and I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought this app was going to be just like the others. I could post something anonymously, quietly, and no one would ever know it was here if I didn't tell them. I thought I could just rant and share my thoughts and feelings without anybody really listening. And then I Learned about the TikTok algorithm when one of my videos blew up overnight. A half a million people had seen a video in which I was describing abuse in my marriage that I didn't know yet was abuse. I had been brainwashed for 20 years to believe that I was the abuser. I was convinced that I was abusing my husband by not having sex with him often enough and making him angry at everyone. It was here on TikTok that I learned that that wasn't the case. As I started to wake up to this reality, I continued talking about it. Hundreds of thousands of women gathered around me to hold my hand and to tell me that it was going to be okay, and then to tell me that they were going through it too. Millions of people saw these videos. Thousands of men clobbered me in the comments. Abusive men who were also abusing their wives in the same way were yelling at me. It was hell for a while, but it made me stronger. TikTok gave me a voice when I had no one. No other app would have given me that voice. If I had posted to Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, no one would have ever seen it. Or if they did, the women wouldn't have had the courage to say anything, and the men still would have clobbered me. And I would have slunk back to my bedroom floor alone and quiet. And I have no idea where I would be right now. Because it wasn't just this app. It was the people on it. The people here on TikTok are different than the people out there. I don't know if it's this app that made us this way, gave us this freedom to be this way, or, you know, if it's just who we are and we didn't have a home on other apps, this is where we found our home. People who are loving and kind and funny and free and authentic. The people here have made me laugh and made me feel heard and have given me so much hope that I wouldn't have been able to find anywhere else in four years. I'VE built a platform, a website. I've written two books. I'm working on a third and a fourth. And I have a future that I didn't think I'd ever have fell in love again. I had a spiritual awakening and I shared it all here with people who are just like me now. I'll still be able to do this somewhat outside of this app. I could make videos on YouTube, but their interface sucks and who knows if anyone would see it there either. I want nothing to do with meta because we all know they're behind TikTok coming down. They're hoping everyone's going to run to Instagram and Facebook. So I'm on the edge of shutting down all of my accounts. Everywhere else I'm writing on substack and working on my books. But this community that we built here is days away from gone. The way we've interacted here was so unique. It can't be replicated, not easily and not quickly. And that's just my story. Hopefully you'll have thousands more just like this. There are other authors and housewives and abuse victims. There are singers and dancers and comedians. There are activists, teachers, pastors, people way smarter and more driven than me that are doing real good work in this world. The days when all I can do is repost something they've posted, but they're the ones doing this work and if I'm not reposting their stuff, at least I don't know a dozen people that wouldn't see it. There are small businesses in small towns using TikTok to advertise to get people to see them who would never know they're there otherwise. And there are small time influencers, not the rich ones, but the small ones that still have nine to five jobs who are making a little bit of extra money to feed their families in this awful economy. So tell all your friends in Congress that we know who's against Tik Tok, because they're not just against Tik Tok, they're against all of us too.
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Flo Me
Just sad, y'all. Like, very sad. I'm talking about. I watched so many, I mean, so many of those videos and we know that they don't care. But I think this is one of the biggest glaring opportunities for us to show and know they don't give a. And let me give you a. I don't want to get too technical on it or get into too much of the X's and O's because I don't have time. I don't want to be here all day. I don't want to tie up all of y'all time. But they the, the Tick Tock, they're banning it because they not only want to control us, but look how shady they are. Meta, which is Facebook, Instagram threads and all that. Meta used millions of dollars to lobby and to put money in politicians pockets for them to ban TikTok because tick tock was whooping Facebook's ass, Instagram's ass, all of those other apps, right? And so not only that, those same politicians now just tell me how corrupt our, our government is. The same politicians who voted to ban Tik Tok also purchased and own stocks in Meta. So I don't have to, I don't have to be the one to tell you if Tick Tock is banned and gone, that helps Meta and that boosts Meta's money. So if you are on, you are in Congress and you are in a part of this government and you also own shares. How can you own shares of one thing and then put and ban a whole nother your ban your competition. That's fucking crazy. And so because of that, the call to action is everybody is deleting their Instagram and Facebook. Now. It's supposed to be on the 19th, but people are starting now. And the more pissed off I get, don't be surprised if y'all don't see my Instagram or Facebook. I might deactivate it today or tomorrow. I'm gonna talk to a few more of my creators, but of my creator friends. But I am definitely, I support my, my fellow podcasters, my fellow truth tellers, my fellow creators, that's who I support. And if, if that's what we're doing.
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Community Member 4
This is easily going to be the craziest Tick Tock video I've ever made. And I'm going to ask you right now to like share, repost, interact, I don't know.
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Flo Me
This is the call to action.
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Community Member 4
You have the power to stop the Tick Tock ban in its tracks right now, but it's going to require something crazy. See if you're a far right or a far left, you can't stand the other side. I get it. We both think the other is immoral, but that's what politicians rely on at this point in the game. I have a video at the end of this TikTok that is going to show you that both Democrats and Republicans have their hand in the Meta pot. Yes, that's right. They own a lot of stock in it and you'll see who it is. Both Democrat And Republican. I am asking for us to come together for literally less than 48 hours. I am calling for a mass exodus from Meta. And I am not just talking about deleting the apps off your phone or deactivating your accounts. I am talking about by tomorrow. Monday, January 13th at 11:59pm have all of the content you had on those apps pulled off if you want to keep it and delete your accounts. There are about 170 million Americans on this app. And imagine if we all completed this task officially. Delete them. Because what's going to happen is we are going to absolutely empty the pockets of people like Mark Zuckerberg and any politician on either side of the aisle who has stock in it. That's what this whole ban is about. It's about Mark Zuckerberg's money and the money of politicians.
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Community Member 1
Let's.
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Community Member 4
Let's get radical. Remember when all those people in the 1700s got super upset about the tax on tea and threw all the tea in the harbor? Let's do it. But in a digital age. Here's the list of politicians that own stock as proof. I'm going to go right now and start pulling things off my Meta ass. That includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp threads. Make sure you cover your bases and look at all of the apps that this applies to, because I know I'm missing some.
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Nat Lejeune
Could we do it?
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Community Member 4
I. Prove me right.
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Flo Me
So you heard the call to action. If you're not on Tik Tok or haven't been on Tik Tok, I can't even explain it to you. But if you are and have been on Tik Tok, you understand the community that we built over there. It's. It don't matter how your color don't matter. Your. Your. How much money you got, don't even matter what country you from. It don't even matter if you public, Republican or Democrat, we all support each other. And it's like no judgment over there. I mean, you got your few trolls that you have in there everywhere, but as you can see, those are. There are thousands of messages and posts like that on Tick Tock right now about what is done for people. I'm talking about, if you will. If you go down that rabbit hole, grab you some. A box of tissue. A box of tissue and be prepared to cry your eyes out because you ain't never seen nothing like it. And it's just. It's just showing that the country don't give a fuck and radicalizing us in a way that I don't think they expected, but I'm gonna be a part of it, y'all. And so I, I, if I do that, are you only gonna be able to catch me on the podcast? And that's the only place you'll be able to support me if you want to support. Like I said, I don't know. I'm gonna make some. Cause I support my people. If they, if they, that's what we doing, then Facebook and Instagram, I will delete that shit. I don't give a fuck. And I got like 300, 000 followers on there. But to be honest, I don't like the way this country is doing. And if it just, if I, if I just, if it, if I have to just go to straight to my podcast for a while because they want to ban TikTok and my and whatever, then so be it. But I don't. Like I said, I'm the type of person, you can do anything to me. And for some reason I don't, I can take it. And I don't really have a big problem with it. But when I see my peers crying, when I see my peers feeling helpless, that's what pisses me off the most. Now I'm pissed off because I was cool with it as far as saying, you know what the country, we know, they don't care about us. I'll just figure out another way, you know, that's what we do. We, we all, anybody listen to this podcast, we are a strong and mighty group and we are resilient, all of us. And so we're gonna figure out a way. But then once last night, when I got to listening to all these people's videos, like just a few that I let you hear, it just pissed me off, man. And it just made me say no, that we got to do whatever we got to do. Check into it, y'all. It's just a crazy situation. But there are take. They are basically taking a lot of people's income for selfish reasons, no good reasons at all. And to watch our country operate like that, I ain't gonna lie. I, I, in the last couple years, I've never been so ashamed of this country. And I wanna, I'm so close to getting the out of here, y'all. To be honest, it's getting that bad because it's so obvious now, like, and I want to go into the fires, the diddy part of it, not the actual fires. We prayed prayer to all the victims. And the fire, you know, what y'all going through is worst is is 10 million times worse than some Tick Tock ban or some social media app or any money or whatever. So let me pray. Prayers to the people in the fires. But what I was covering today was the Diddy rumors around it. So I'm gonna push that. I'll be talking about that tomorrow. But basically, spoiler alert, there are a lot of people, a lot of different stories going around, and I want to get to the bottom of them. And one of the stories was talking about Diddy's house. There were some reports that his house burned down. And then there were some reports that his house was one of the houses that didn't. That only one of the only houses that didn't burn down in that neighborhood. So I wanted to cover that. But I'm gonna let you know now as far as from what I've seen, Diddy's home is still intact. So I don't know. And I'm gonna look into that and dive into that and a lot of the other conspiracies tomorrow on tomorrow's episode. But as far as today, please support everybody who is supporting or, or, or, or, or protesting against the government for protesting, I mean, for banning Tick Tock. I'll be watching. I think the hearing for the Supreme Court, I think they start again today at 9 or, I mean, well, maybe like between 10 or 11am I don't know, somewhere around there. But they're having a hearing today. Please check it out. As always, I appreciate y'all. I'm a little pissed off today seeing all my, my peers and my fellow creators bawling and tears everywhere. I don't feel good at all. Oh, this week, before I forget, subscriber only content, we got a Aaliyah, a special edition. We're gonna be talking about Aaliyah. We got the Whitney Houston still coming. 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