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The Video Breakdown - #LaineyLui Confessional
(or how we can justify #LaineyGossip horrible past).
The bizarre McIntosh/DiAngelo lexicon used is intentionally meant to obfuscate and craft their own narrative.
I'll go through the video and translate what is going on...
The Video Breakdown - #LaineyLui Confessional
(or how we can justify #LaineyGossip horrible past).
The bizarre McIntosh/DiAngelo lexicon used is intentionally meant to obfuscate and craft their own narrative.
I'll go through the video and translate what is going on...
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At 1:00 pm the show goes on as "RECORDED EARLIER"
i.e. All Questions and #LaineyGossip Answers are carefully written out ahead of time.
This allows for many takes to get a perfectly crafted interview.
(hypothetical conversation in brackets below)
At 1:00 pm the show goes on as "RECORDED EARLIER"
i.e. All Questions and #LaineyGossip Answers are carefully written out ahead of time.
This allows for many takes to get a perfectly crafted interview.
(hypothetical conversation in brackets below)
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Melissa Grelo: At The Social, we do not shy away from difficult conversations....
[Holy crap, we have to do this because everyone now knows what a two-faced terrible person #LaineyGossip is.]
Melissa Grelo: (Lainey, go ahead and read your scripted statement.)
![3/Melissa Grelo: At The Social, we do not shy away from difficult conversations....[Holy crap, we have to do this because everyone now knows what a two-faced terrible person #LaineyGossip is.]Melissa Grelo: (Lainey, go ahead and read your scripted statement.)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZLdwFWsAI7aFN.png "3/Melissa Grelo: At The Social, we do not shy away from difficult conversations....[Holy crap, we have to do this because everyone now knows what a two-faced terrible person #LaineyGossip is.]Melissa Grelo: (Lainey, go ahead and read your scripted statement.)")
Melissa Grelo: At The Social, we do not shy away from difficult conversations....
[Holy crap, we have to do this because everyone now knows what a two-faced terrible person #LaineyGossip is.]
Melissa Grelo: (Lainey, go ahead and read your scripted statement.)
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Lainey Liu: I wrote many posts that were,
Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic.
Lainey Liu: They were ugly, they were shameful.
[Yep, Those are her words. She admits it. Once again.]
Lainey Liu: ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ด๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ, ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฐ.
#FireLaineyLui
![4/Lainey Liu: I wrote many posts that were,Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic.Lainey Liu: They were ugly, they were shameful.[Yep, Those are her words. She admits it. Once again.]Lainey Liu: ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ด๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ, ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฐ. #FireLaineyLui](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZL52SWoAA4uUT.jpg "4/Lainey Liu: I wrote many posts that were,Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic.Lainey Liu: They were ugly, they were shameful.[Yep, Those are her words. She admits it. Once again.]Lainey Liu: ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ด๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ, ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฐ. #FireLaineyLui")
Lainey Liu: I wrote many posts that were,
Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic.
Lainey Liu: They were ugly, they were shameful.
[Yep, Those are her words. She admits it. Once again.]
Lainey Liu: ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ด๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ, ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฐ.
#FireLaineyLui
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Lainey Liu: So, I'm here to be accountable.
Lainey Liu: (Ya, I thought my #LaineyGossip past was safe. But, unfortunately, social justice caught up to me. I forgot that when you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Ok, let's get this embarrassing interview over with.)
Lainey Liu: So, I'm here to be accountable.
Lainey Liu: (Ya, I thought my #LaineyGossip past was safe. But, unfortunately, social justice caught up to me. I forgot that when you live by the sword, you die by the sword.
Ok, let's get this embarrassing interview over with.)
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Marci: (Let's stick together #TheSocialCTV friends. Our critics are going to ask these questions as well. Here goes.)
Marci: Lainey, how do explain writing those (horrific) posts in the first place?
Lainey Lui: That's the way it was back in celebrity culture in 2006.
Marci: (Let's stick together #TheSocialCTV friends. Our critics are going to ask these questions as well. Here goes.)
Marci: Lainey, how do explain writing those (horrific) posts in the first place?
Lainey Lui: That's the way it was back in celebrity culture in 2006.
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Lainey Lui: (Yes, I definitely wrote homophobic and racist content.)
Lainey Lui: That popularity was self gratifying.
Lainey Lui: (I loved the attention that #laineygossip got.)
Lainey Lui: I wanted to continue being popular.
#FireLaineyLui #CancelTheSocial #LaineyLui
Lainey Lui: (Yes, I definitely wrote homophobic and racist content.)
Lainey Lui: That popularity was self gratifying.
Lainey Lui: (I loved the attention that #laineygossip got.)
Lainey Lui: I wanted to continue being popular.
#FireLaineyLui #CancelTheSocial #LaineyLui
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#LaineyLui : (I have no regrets. I got famous. Heck, I even got this garbage gig here on #TheSocialCTV .)
Jessica Allen: (Ok, I have to pretend to ask the hard hitting question that everyone really wants to know..... Got your script ready, Lainey? Here goes...)
#LaineyLui : (I have no regrets. I got famous. Heck, I even got this garbage gig here on #TheSocialCTV .)
Jessica Allen: (Ok, I have to pretend to ask the hard hitting question that everyone really wants to know..... Got your script ready, Lainey? Here goes...)
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Jessica Allen: Lainey, why didn't you take those posts down?
Lainey Lui: Those ugly posts are a part of my history, and you can't erase history. I wanted to leave those posts up to show I was growing.
(Lainey Lui: Unfortunately everyone has screen captures of those posts)
Jessica Allen: Lainey, why didn't you take those posts down?
Lainey Lui: Those ugly posts are a part of my history, and you can't erase history. I wanted to leave those posts up to show I was growing.
(Lainey Lui: Unfortunately everyone has screen captures of those posts)
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Lainey Lui: Did I think of deleting ALL of them?... Sure.
Lainey Lui: Did I start to delete SOME of THEM?... Yes
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ...in that process.... I realized ....self-absolution ....accountability...the posts stay...over time I grew...
#FireLaineyLui
Lainey Lui: Did I think of deleting ALL of them?... Sure.
Lainey Lui: Did I start to delete SOME of THEM?... Yes
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ...in that process.... I realized ....self-absolution ....accountability...the posts stay...over time I grew...
#FireLaineyLui
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Melissa: So you won't take them down?
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ....staying there .... I can't erase them..... part of my shame .... who I was... what I've done to grow...
#StruggleSession #FireLaineyLui #laineylui
![11/Melissa: So you won't take them down?Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ....staying there .... I can't erase them..... part of my shame .... who I was... what I've done to grow... #StruggleSession #FireLaineyLui #laineylui](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZNQPBXQAMPFy6.jpg "11/Melissa: So you won't take them down?Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ....staying there .... I can't erase them..... part of my shame .... who I was... what I've done to grow... #StruggleSession #FireLaineyLui #laineylui")
Melissa: So you won't take them down?
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ....staying there .... I can't erase them..... part of my shame .... who I was... what I've done to grow...
#StruggleSession #FireLaineyLui #laineylui
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Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.
Producer: Lainey, what do you mean, you couldn't erase them?
Lainey Liu:
(People started digging through the #LaineyGossip history. I tried. I tried to delete the posts.)
Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.
Producer: Lainey, what do you mean, you couldn't erase them?
Lainey Liu:
(People started digging through the #LaineyGossip history. I tried. I tried to delete the posts.)
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Lainey Liu: (For example, I've said horrible things about Janet Jackson. I knew the Black community would come after me.
I was about to delete the first post, where I said that Janet Jackson's weave looked awful, like the 1980s metal band Whitesnake.)
#laineygossip
Lainey Liu: (For example, I've said horrible things about Janet Jackson. I knew the Black community would come after me.
I was about to delete the first post, where I said that Janet Jackson's weave looked awful, like the 1980s metal band Whitesnake.)
#laineygossip
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Lainey Liu:
(My husband saw what I was doing and said 'Stop'. Either way, you're f***ed. The Internet remembers everything.
He pulled up the Way Back Machine link to show me my #LaineyGossip article. It is preserved forever. Damn it.) https://web.archive.org/web/20171219000638/https://www.laineygossip.com/Janet-Jackson-Whitesnake-hair/9272
Lainey Liu:
(My husband saw what I was doing and said 'Stop'. Either way, you're f***ed. The Internet remembers everything.
He pulled up the Way Back Machine link to show me my #LaineyGossip article. It is preserved forever. Damn it.) https://web.archive.org/web/20171219000638/https://www.laineygossip.com/Janet-Jackson-Whitesnake-hair/9272
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Lainey Liu:
(I said, what about my Janet Jackson #GhettoTits post?
He said, there's not much you can do to avoid the backlash of that slur.
He said, create a cover story. Use social justice mumbo jumbo words to get out of this mess, like,
Allyโข and do The Workโข )
Lainey Liu:
(I said, what about my Janet Jackson #GhettoTits post?
He said, there's not much you can do to avoid the backlash of that slur.
He said, create a cover story. Use social justice mumbo jumbo words to get out of this mess, like,
Allyโข and do The Workโข )
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Producer: Alright, sounds like you're covered. Let's continue. Recording again....
Melissa: What lessons have you learned?
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ... site has evolved... eat your food... not running away .... grow as a person...continue to work....
#FireLaineyLui
![16/Producer: Alright, sounds like you're covered. Let's continue. Recording again....Melissa: What lessons have you learned?Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ... site has evolved... eat your food... not running away .... grow as a person...continue to work.... #FireLaineyLui](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZOE4EX0AA_Lds.jpg "16/Producer: Alright, sounds like you're covered. Let's continue. Recording again....Melissa: What lessons have you learned?Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ... site has evolved... eat your food... not running away .... grow as a person...continue to work.... #FireLaineyLui")
Producer: Alright, sounds like you're covered. Let's continue. Recording again....
Melissa: What lessons have you learned?
Lainey Lui: [gibberish] ... site has evolved... eat your food... not running away .... grow as a person...continue to work....
#FireLaineyLui
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Jess Allen: I've been reading your blog everyday since 2008 and never found it problematic.
Jess Allen: (I thought the homophobic stuff was funny.)
Jess Allen: I remember a change in tone around 2013. You moved away from 'smut' to social type content. Why was that?
Jess Allen: I've been reading your blog everyday since 2008 and never found it problematic.
Jess Allen: (I thought the homophobic stuff was funny.)
Jess Allen: I remember a change in tone around 2013. You moved away from 'smut' to social type content. Why was that?
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Lainey Lui: [10 seconds of silence]
Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.
Producer: Do you not remember what happened back around 2013? How the social justice Cult started?
TheSocial Hosts: [silence]
Producer: Here's the quick history...
#IdentityPolitics #SJWCult
![18/Lainey Lui: [10 seconds of silence]Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.Producer: Do you not remember what happened back around 2013? How the social justice Cult started? TheSocial Hosts: [silence]Producer: Here's the quick history... #IdentityPolitics #SJWCult](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZOZkBXYAEI7U3.jpg "18/Lainey Lui: [10 seconds of silence]Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.Producer: Do you not remember what happened back around 2013? How the social justice Cult started? TheSocial Hosts: [silence]Producer: Here's the quick history... #IdentityPolitics #SJWCult")
Lainey Lui: [10 seconds of silence]
Producer: Cut. Stop the Recording.
Producer: Do you not remember what happened back around 2013? How the social justice Cult started?
TheSocial Hosts: [silence]
Producer: Here's the quick history...
#IdentityPolitics #SJWCult
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Peggy Mcintosh's #WhitePrivilege Knapsack garbage article had already been around for a number of years.
In 2011, Robin DiAngelo published another rubbish academic paper titled #WhiteFragility.
The University academics and students began to get indoctrinated with this.
Peggy Mcintosh's #WhitePrivilege Knapsack garbage article had already been around for a number of years.
In 2011, Robin DiAngelo published another rubbish academic paper titled #WhiteFragility.
The University academics and students began to get indoctrinated with this.
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The students and profs were now Woke. Everything now was 100% about #Race and #IdentityPolitics
From 2013 onwards this 'cult' of social justice eventually spread to encompass every type of social grievance in both academia and now today throughout all of society.
#SJWCult
The students and profs were now Woke. Everything now was 100% about #Race and #IdentityPolitics
From 2013 onwards this 'cult' of social justice eventually spread to encompass every type of social grievance in both academia and now today throughout all of society.
#SJWCult
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Producer: Lainey, the reason you had to change from your homophobic/racist ways, is because you had no choice.
The woke social justice mob demands it.
Alright. Let's continue and make s**t up as we go.
Here we go. Recording again...
#TheSocialCTV #cancelthesocial
Producer: Lainey, the reason you had to change from your homophobic/racist ways, is because you had no choice.
The woke social justice mob demands it.
Alright. Let's continue and make s**t up as we go.
Here we go. Recording again...
#TheSocialCTV #cancelthesocial
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Jess Allen: We came to #LaineyGossip for the smut and entertainment. But, you've brought your [homophobic] readers, like myself, along the journey with you.
Lainey Liu: [gibberish] ...I've heard that ... readers are still with me....I'm trying to do that Workโข
Jess Allen: We came to #LaineyGossip for the smut and entertainment. But, you've brought your [homophobic] readers, like myself, along the journey with you.
Lainey Liu: [gibberish] ...I've heard that ... readers are still with me....I'm trying to do that Workโข
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Melissa: I came to know #LaineyLui as a coworker. I didn't know that [horrid] Lainey back then.
Melissa: [S**t, I don't know what else to say.
These social activist issues are way over my head.
Usually they just tell me what the latest issue is.
Think....think...]
![23/Melissa: I came to know #LaineyLui as a coworker. I didn't know that [horrid] Lainey back then.Melissa: [S**t, I don't know what else to say. These social activist issues are way over my head.Usually they just tell me what the latest issue is.Think....think...]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZPwXZXQAAOrMd.jpg "23/Melissa: I came to know #LaineyLui as a coworker. I didn't know that [horrid] Lainey back then.Melissa: [S**t, I don't know what else to say. These social activist issues are way over my head.Usually they just tell me what the latest issue is.Think....think...]")
Melissa: I came to know #LaineyLui as a coworker. I didn't know that [horrid] Lainey back then.
Melissa: [S**t, I don't know what else to say.
These social activist issues are way over my head.
Usually they just tell me what the latest issue is.
Think....think...]
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Melissa: ...wow, some of the stuff we said back in Season 1, really isn't acceptable now.... [starts rambling something about Monica Lewinsky.] ..Ya, she was a homewrecker.
Melissa: [That will help Lainey that I admitted that we all slut-shamed everyone back in the day.]
![24/Melissa: ...wow, some of the stuff we said back in Season 1, really isn't acceptable now.... [starts rambling something about Monica Lewinsky.] ..Ya, she was a homewrecker. Melissa: [That will help Lainey that I admitted that we all slut-shamed everyone back in the day.]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZQcMwXYAASOwd.jpg "24/Melissa: ...wow, some of the stuff we said back in Season 1, really isn't acceptable now.... [starts rambling something about Monica Lewinsky.] ..Ya, she was a homewrecker. Melissa: [That will help Lainey that I admitted that we all slut-shamed everyone back in the day.]")
Melissa: ...wow, some of the stuff we said back in Season 1, really isn't acceptable now.... [starts rambling something about Monica Lewinsky.] ..Ya, she was a homewrecker.
Melissa: [That will help Lainey that I admitted that we all slut-shamed everyone back in the day.]
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Marci Ien: [I'm pissed.
Now I have to try to cover for Lainey's past misdeeds.]
Marci Ien: I also didn't know you before and didn't read much of your site at all.
Marci Ien: [Obviously, I can't admit that I knew what was on her hateful web site.]
#FireLaineyLui
![25/Marci Ien: [I'm pissed.Now I have to try to cover for Lainey's past misdeeds.]Marci Ien: I also didn't know you before and didn't read much of your site at all. Marci Ien: [Obviously, I can't admit that I knew what was on her hateful web site.] #FireLaineyLui](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZRgdDWAAAkGxH.jpg "25/Marci Ien: [I'm pissed.Now I have to try to cover for Lainey's past misdeeds.]Marci Ien: I also didn't know you before and didn't read much of your site at all. Marci Ien: [Obviously, I can't admit that I knew what was on her hateful web site.] #FireLaineyLui")
Marci Ien: [I'm pissed.
Now I have to try to cover for Lainey's past misdeeds.]
Marci Ien: I also didn't know you before and didn't read much of your site at all.
Marci Ien: [Obviously, I can't admit that I knew what was on her hateful web site.]
#FireLaineyLui
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Marci Ien: [rambles] ....but, if someone is willing to change....put The Workโข in...
[rambles on] ...then they deserve the grace to continue...... #Lainey has apologized and grown
[rambles on] ... she has been an Allyโข... and several WOC in this media industry know that.
![26/Marci Ien: [rambles] ....but, if someone is willing to change....put The Workโข in... [rambles on] ...then they deserve the grace to continue...... #Lainey has apologized and grown[rambles on] ... she has been an Allyโข... and several WOC in this media industry know that.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZRpRyXYAQwL45.jpg "26/Marci Ien: [rambles] ....but, if someone is willing to change....put The Workโข in... [rambles on] ...then they deserve the grace to continue...... #Lainey has apologized and grown[rambles on] ... she has been an Allyโข... and several WOC in this media industry know that.")
Marci Ien: [rambles] ....but, if someone is willing to change....put The Workโข in...
[rambles on] ...then they deserve the grace to continue...... #Lainey has apologized and grown
[rambles on] ... she has been an Allyโข... and several WOC in this media industry know that.
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Marci Ien: [In other words, us Woke activist media types will always protect each other.]
Marci Ien: I don't believe people are born with hate in their heart.
If hate can be learned, it can be unlearned.
Are you willing to continue to learn, Lainey? Ya, you are
![27/Marci Ien: [In other words, us Woke activist media types will always protect each other.]Marci Ien: I don't believe people are born with hate in their heart. If hate can be learned, it can be unlearned.Are you willing to continue to learn, Lainey? Ya, you are](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZRws5WoAAS3gq.jpg "27/Marci Ien: [In other words, us Woke activist media types will always protect each other.]Marci Ien: I don't believe people are born with hate in their heart. If hate can be learned, it can be unlearned.Are you willing to continue to learn, Lainey? Ya, you are")
Marci Ien: [In other words, us Woke activist media types will always protect each other.]
Marci Ien: I don't believe people are born with hate in their heart.
If hate can be learned, it can be unlearned.
Are you willing to continue to learn, Lainey? Ya, you are
28/
Lainey Liu: [She thanks everyone. Then continues to ramble on script about social justice dogma and how everyone is, of course, racist]
Lainey Liu: (In other words, I want everyone to forget about my own bigotry and let me keep my job.)
[Scripted Interview ends]
![28/Lainey Liu: [She thanks everyone. Then continues to ramble on script about social justice dogma and how everyone is, of course, racist]Lainey Liu: (In other words, I want everyone to forget about my own bigotry and let me keep my job.)[Scripted Interview ends]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbZR9whXQAAs2Pf.jpg "28/Lainey Liu: [She thanks everyone. Then continues to ramble on script about social justice dogma and how everyone is, of course, racist]Lainey Liu: (In other words, I want everyone to forget about my own bigotry and let me keep my job.)[Scripted Interview ends]")
Lainey Liu: [She thanks everyone. Then continues to ramble on script about social justice dogma and how everyone is, of course, racist]
Lainey Liu: (In other words, I want everyone to forget about my own bigotry and let me keep my job.)
[Scripted Interview ends]
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Producer: Cut. and Done.
Producer: Lainey, nice job pretending to have reformed from your past racist and homophobic ways, LOL.
Gullible viewers will buy it.
That should satisfy the #SJWCult mob rules.
Lainey Liu: Thanks.
Producer: One more thing before I go..
Producer: Cut. and Done.
Producer: Lainey, nice job pretending to have reformed from your past racist and homophobic ways, LOL.
Gullible viewers will buy it.
That should satisfy the #SJWCult mob rules.
Lainey Liu: Thanks.
Producer: One more thing before I go..
30/
#LaineyLui, you are so self-centered and full of yourself.
Look at your social media channels.
Everyone look at me!
You refuse to follow one-single person.
You don't follow your friends and co-workers.
You don't even follow your own family members.
#LaineyGossip
#LaineyLui, you are so self-centered and full of yourself.
Look at your social media channels.
Everyone look at me!
You refuse to follow one-single person.
You don't follow your friends and co-workers.
You don't even follow your own family members.
#LaineyGossip
/31
I hope you enjoyed my satirical look at the #LaineyLui confession video.
Her 100s of Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic #LaineyGossip posts were conscience choices.
She knows what she's doing.
In my opinion, the only things she cares about is,
- Herself and
- Power
I hope you enjoyed my satirical look at the #LaineyLui confession video.
Her 100s of Racist, Misogynistic, Homophobic #LaineyGossip posts were conscience choices.
She knows what she's doing.
In my opinion, the only things she cares about is,
- Herself and
- Power
/32
Head over to the YouTube video to see the bogus apology that #LaineyGossip offers.
Make sure to give the video a big thumbs down
And don't forget to add a comment, to tell
#Lainey what you really think about her apology.
#FireLainey
Head over to the YouTube video to see the bogus apology that #LaineyGossip offers.
Make sure to give the video a big thumbs down
And don't forget to add a comment, to tell
#Lainey what you really think about her apology.
#FireLainey
