Welcome back to Hot Takes & Deep Dives and I am here with a Brandon Ward who is, as I've

been telling my friends, this Boston Gay I'm about to do a deep dive on Provincetown

Hello everyone. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. This is going to be so much fun.

Now, listeners of this show may actually know you because you have a Bravo Meme account, which is not how I know you by the way.

We're going to get into our box story, which I'm not sure you even recall, but we do have a bit of one.

But you're gathering, you're getting all these followers through this Bravo Bottoms Meme account.

And then now you've done like a spin off podcast, which I want to talk about also how quickly did the account, like,

Garner all these followers and what do you attribute the blow up to?

Two things. One, we hit our first amount of following was probably like 3000 followers in a weekend was a Bravo Con.

My roommate Mike who also runs the account with me went to Bravo Con met a ton of people and that's where we gained a lot of following.

But where we actually gained the most following was we were one of the first people to break scanned of all after TMZ broke it.

So even though it was a shitty situation for Ariana, we always have to thank her and Tom because we gained so many followers.

We hit 10,000 the week that broke. So we were around like 5000 and then we gained probably like 5000 after that, which was back in March.

And now today we are a few followers shy of 20,000, which is insane.

Well, also a lot of people.

I think the entire little cottage industry of Bravo businesses, whether that be a Meme account or Bethany's podcast as of last week,

I think everyone except for Raquel one.

I agree and I do feel bad for her now because I feel like she's being exploited through Bethany's podcast last week, certainly.

And you know, Bethany's claiming that Bravo is the one that's exploiting her win reality. That's not the case at all.

But everyone else has been winning. I mean, they're filming their season right now and it seems like they're all having a great time and Raquel's back a home alone.

But I mean, we even were able to get a huge, like I said, a huge amount of followings, but then we started doing live shows because of because the sand of all we would host trivia with like 50 people every single week here in Boston to watch each episode.

And then the reunions just people were just showing up out of the woodwork just to come see the show.

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