Notes App Apologies
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4.5 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
When Ariana Grande apologized for licking a doughnut in a doughnut shop display ten years ago, she had no idea she would be changing the world forever. Using the familiar notes app, Ariana broadcasted to her fans both disappointment in her own behaviour, an expression of patriotism, and a PSA about healthy eating in a more intimate way than ever before. Soon to follow were a slew of other notes app apologies from naughty celebs like James Charles, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift. But is the notes app apology really as sincere as it appears to be, or is it a carefully curated mending of one’s own self image? Do we really care about celebrities becoming better people, or do we just enjoy throwing tomatoes? In this episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the notes app apology for what it really is: a come-to-Jesus moment performed by celebrities who have been coerced by their publics into saying they did a bad bad thing. Tangents include: loved ones getting got by AI, and Hannah delivering her own personalized, oral notes app apology to Maia.
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| 0:00.0 | My sister sent me a photo of like Selena Gomez in the bathroom of her wedding with Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. |
| 0:08.4 | And I deadass was like that's AI. |
| 0:10.5 | Like I just didn't. |
| 0:11.2 | It just looked so no. |
| 0:12.9 | Like I think it was real. |
| 0:14.6 | I've not seen it. |
| 0:16.0 | Like I haven't, I didn't even really realize she got married until I went to a pub quiz. |
| 0:20.0 | And that was one of the questions. |
| 0:21.8 | Let me send you the photo so you can see. Because that does sound like an AI committee. Like, I can't |
| 0:27.8 | imagine. It fully looked like AI. So my sister sends it. She goes, Teen Girl Squad. My mom goes, |
| 0:33.2 | nice to see there's still a squad heart. They don't hang like they used to. What are you talking about? So funny. I mean, my parents are like way more tapped in on celebrity culture than I am. Wait, but I also like love your mom's investment in this like non-existent friend group. She's not. I was like, you're capping. She doesn't care about this at all. I was like, what are you talking about? You're capping. This is like not a group of people who historically have like been known to hang out with each other also, |
| 0:58.4 | which is really funny. Doesn't it look AI? That's fake. It's definitely fake because Ariana Grande is like half the height of these women. |
| 1:06.1 | And like Miley Cyrus is taller than, I'm pretty sure she's, and like Taylor Swift would be towering over them. |
| 1:10.4 | That's also Ariana Grande's hair from like 2017. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, I think this is AI. |
| 1:17.6 | That's not Miley Cyrus's face. |
| 1:19.5 | Like that looks so weird. |
| 1:21.0 | They wouldn't all be bridesmaids. |
| 1:23.4 | Like they're all in the same color. |
| 1:25.5 | Also, it's from Facebook and everything on Facebook is AI these days. |
| 1:29.8 | Literally, Facebook doesn't let you scroll down very far anymore. It'll just be like, okay, that's enough for today. And so... |
| 1:36.8 | You're scrolling on Facebook? Yeah, because I was using Facebook Marketplace. And then, you know, you'll open up Facebook and then you're like, oh, this random person is married. That's crazy. And then I'm like, I wonder who else is randomly married that I don't have on Instagram. So you'll scroll down your feed. Half of it is like stuff like this, this AI-ass photo of Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande at Selena Gomez's wedding. It's hard to watch your parents |
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