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Brother. Do you get pissed when like someone steals your memes
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because I get pissed.
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I mean, it's ok to like credit or ask for permission
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but yeah, like freaking take the time with the I do
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get upset or like when it's like credit unknown,
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I'm like, you literally went to my page and took the
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video and you're like credit.
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It's like, but you know,
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you know, so yes to answer your question,
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a little upset. I'm sure you've seen the Veronica skits.
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Those are hilarious. Hr and like,
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these cartoons are actually not her content.
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Like these are knockoffs.
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Wait, what do you mean?
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Yeah. So the audio is actually hers,
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like the actual skits and look at how long it takes to
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get to actually get to her face.
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So that's Veronica Veronica,
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the face, the cartoons are literally ripping her off and stealing
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her audio from her actual videos and they're animating cartoons with her
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audio without her permission or credit.
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Yeah. And is taking money out of her pocket.
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That sounds like a mess.
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It sounds complicated because it's so complicated.
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We want to talk to Veronica herself to,
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you know, help us break down what's going on and how
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she's dealing with all of this.
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Hi, Veronica, welcome to the show.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Thank you for coming on.
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We're big fans by the way of yours.
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Oh, thank you so much and yeah.
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No, you're absolutely right.
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It's challenging, you know,
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in the beginning I thought they were super cute.
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I would get them all the time.
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My friends would send them,
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family would be like,
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hey, I saw a cartoon and I'm like,
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oh, I hadn't seen them for a while and then suddenly
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they were everywhere and I'm like,
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we were all surprised to hear that the Veronica cartoons were not
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your own work. What was your reaction when they started coming
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out using you, your voice without your consent?
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I started realizing that people didn't know that there was an actual
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human behind it. Like they thought the cartoons were me.
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because people would recognize my voice as I was out and about
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and they're like, but I've never seen your face.
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I love your cartoons.
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I'm like, I don't have cartoons.
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it, it's kind of disheartening because like you were saying they
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know where they got it from.
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Like you can credit me.
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It takes one quick little,
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this is Veronica's Audio.
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And they don't do it.
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And it's unfortunate because I do put a lot of brain power
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into making those skits and I take time out of my day
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and I post them to help people learn.
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And with my philosophy,
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I'm really trying to help people learn how to defend themselves in
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the workplace and how to,
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you know, kind of chill when it comes to working in
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a call center because it's the worst possible work ever.
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And you know, I think,
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I think I give something more to it that the cartoons can't
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but they don't know who I am.
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So it, it's kind of sad actually,
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Now in the beginning it was kind of cool.
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And it's like, dude,
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that's what you said.
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A simple like credit and actually going back to your job experiences
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like your storytelling in your videos is so good.
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Like what shitty jobs have you worked in the past?
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That kind of like encourage because again,
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we've all worked customer service and like,
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I work in a call center too.
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It just some of the shit you deal with is just like
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So again seeing your videos,
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I'm like, how does she know that we've all had that
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customer, we all have that.
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The meeting one got me.
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I know that's trending on tiktok right now.
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OK. So thank you so much for attending the meeting.
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I'll be sure to update you all on all the questions that
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you had. Does anyone have any other questions?
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Veronica, I actually had a question about the report you were
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supposed to send over.
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Can you give me some updates on that?
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I haven't received it.
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I actually turned that into Jamie last week.
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She hasn't gotten it over to you.
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Let's go ahead and take that offline.
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All right, everybody.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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hold on. Why do we need to take it offline?
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I would just prefer to have this conversation offline and that's,
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you were prepared to call me out right now in front of
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everyone. So, are you not calling Jamie out just because
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she's your team lead and you don't want it to look bad
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or why? Why aren't you willing to ask her on camera
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the same way you were asking me?
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I've worked in tons of industries.
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I've worked in leasing,
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I've worked in banking.
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I've worked in most recently,
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an airline call center.
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I've worked in the hospitals.
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I've worked in law enforcement.
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So when people ask me,
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where do you get your content from?
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I'm like life experience.
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Like literally every job I've had has given me enough content for
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a lifetime. It's so relatable like everyone goes through it and
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we're going back to the issue.
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So this seems like an easy solution for the social networks
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to fix or what are they doing to crack down on these
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content thieves? You're shaking your head.
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Have you reached out to me?
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You're not doing anything because I actually report a lot of them
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myself., my followers report tons of them.
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My followers actually get muted sometimes when they keep tagging me because
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you know, the social media sites are like,
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no, this is not a violation.
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ok. I haven't gotten muted but I've definitely gotten the feedback
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nothing's wrong here. And I'm like,
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Nothing's wrong here? Make it make sense because I'm telling you
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I'm linking the original video showing you when the copyright was
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actually filed because since it's digital,
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it has an automatic copyright because it has the date and time
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stamp on it. That's crazy because it's like,
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dude, like they're on top of the whole,
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like, if you use music for longer than a few seconds
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they'll tell you they'll take down that.
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But what's the difference between music and someone's like your voice?
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Like, what the hell,
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I mean, you know what I think it is money.
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It's like universal say,
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hey, they better not use it.
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OK. Universal. Hey Warner music.
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Like meanwhile individual creator,
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that's what it comes down to.
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It's always money. It's so unfortunate,
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like you so much freaking talent and like these,
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your ideas, your stories are going viral.
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Obviously what's the best way to find your actual content?
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Well, I have one tiktok and one Instagram.
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That's it because there's a million fake pages out there too,
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which is super annoying.
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But my Instagram is the real Veronica underscore and that's Veronica
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with A K and then my Tik Tok is VXO 13.
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Super simple. Thank you.
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Thank you Veronica. You take care,
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