Burning Down The Hype House with Chaz May and Brendan Sagalow | 97
The Big Flop
Audible
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, a group of TikTok stars thought they'd cracked the code to social media stardom: live together, dance together, get rich together. But when the Hype House turned into a pressure cooker of teenage drama, shady business deals, and pandemic parties, these content creators learned that going viral doesn't always pay the rent – or the lawyers.
Chaz May and Brendan Sagalow (Thin Lips) join Misha to discuss what all the hype was about.
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| 0:47.2 | Thank you. Do you all remember the days of dreaming of having a tree house built in your backyard, a place where all the neighborhood kids could come and hang out? |
| 0:50.3 | I'm afraid to say it, but I think those days are long gone. |
| 0:53.8 | Because today, we have hot young influencers who aspire to buy multi-million dollar mansions with floor-to-ceiling windows that give the best light for their content. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, mansions full of teenage content creators. |
| 1:10.0 | What could go wrong? |
| 1:11.6 | You have TikTok, you're probably familiar with the hype house, |
| 1:14.6 | a group of influencers who rent big, expensive homes, live together and create videos like this. |
| 1:19.6 | People in his house are afraid to speak up and to stand up for what they believe in. |
| 1:24.6 | Trying to have fun and bring people together, that was the whole concept of it. |
| 1:28.1 | And then quickly I realized, like, you have to have a business in place. |
| 1:32.0 | We are on a sinking ship. |
| 1:40.2 | My name is T.J. Raphael. |
| 1:42.6 | I'm the host of Liberty Lost, a new podcast about who gets to be a mother and the control of young women hidden behind the veil of faith. |
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| 2:10.1 | From Wondery and at Will Media, this is The Big Flop, where we chronicled the greatest flubs, fails, and blunders of all time. |
| 2:16.4 | I'm your host, Misha Brown, social media superstar, and currently in my middle-class white woman ukulele era, |
| 2:17.8 | at your bestie Misha. |
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