Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - This BLEW UP up in their faces !!

00:00:00.000 Funny enough, People Magazine did a big blunder, revealing that this story is planted.

00:00:11.660 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sashty Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:16.340 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:21.140 And just after Justin Baldoni was ordered to pay the New York Times $171,000 in attorney's fees,

00:00:28.740 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds call the paparazzi to show off their expensive Armée bags.

00:00:36.380 Funny enough, People Magazine did a big blunder, revealing that this story is planted.

00:00:44.020 Also, after 10 women came out against Jared Leto in a BBC documentary,

00:00:50.420 accusing him of a lot of really serious things,

00:00:54.880 his agency, WME, has decided to keep him as a client.

00:01:01.140 And yes, that's the same agency who fired Justin Baldoni

00:01:06.080 after that New York Times article. 0.99

00:01:08.400 Talking about New York Times, let's look at how Megan Sui,

00:01:11.800 the reporter who wrote We Can Bury Anyone,

00:01:14.960 reacted to my comment on her Instagram yesterday.

00:01:19.360 This says,

00:01:20.420 everything you need to know. Also I looked into that New York Times article once again

00:01:26.260 and guess what? They did some very interesting changes to that article after it was published

00:01:34.460 and what about that follow-up article that they published five days before Blake Lively and her

00:01:41.860 team subpoenaed 107 journalists and content creators. Okay so let's get into it. So People

00:01:49.240 magazine published another article about Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, painting them as this

00:01:56.880 perfect, rich, beautiful couple that we all should look up to. The headline goes like this.

00:02:05.100 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds steps out with coordinating her Maybags worth over $100,000.

00:02:13.640 The couple was spotted out and about in New York City.

00:02:18.820 Okay, as you know, Justin Baldoni was just ordered to pay $171,000 to the New York Times.

00:02:25.260 And as you know, Blake Lively is asking for $8 million in attorney's fees.

00:02:32.220 And that is why I believe her and Ryan felt the need to go out and flash their fortune.

00:02:39.540 So these two are mailbags.

00:02:40.880 according to People Magazine, is worth more than $100,000 combined.

00:02:47.600 It just reminds me again of what Blake Lively's PR attorney, Sigri McCowley,

00:02:53.460 told us about a month ago outside the courthouse,

00:02:57.060 saying that we will see so much more from Blake Lively in the near future,

00:03:01.940 doing good with her celebrity status, helping young women and girls,

00:03:07.800 young victims out there.

00:03:09.940 And yeah, we're still waiting for that.

00:03:12.640 But in the meantime, as People Magazine is saying here,

00:03:16.660 Lively is wearing an oversized blue and white striped button-down shirt and jeans,

00:03:22.760 accessorizing it with a pair of blue heels and a small magenta suit bag by the luxury French retailer.

00:03:31.140 It's not clear which style the actress was toting, but it appeared to be the brand's size 25 option.

00:03:38.660 A similar style is available for resale for $68,000.

00:03:46.800 Yeah, Blake wants us all to know that she and Ryan has a lot of money.

00:03:52.680 Reynolds went for the khaki overalls over a white t-shirt and sneakers.

00:03:58.280 He carried what appeared to be the Hermes Togo leather Birkin in size 50, which is priced at $56,800 for resale.

00:04:10.240 Interestingly enough, though, I do remember this outfit that Ryan Reynolds is wearing here.

00:04:15.840 He was wearing the same pants at Comic-Con where he was dressed up as Deadpool or Jean-Pool.

00:04:23.280 And I don't believe that Blake Lively was with him.

00:04:26.320 There was no sign of her in San Diego, which is where Comic-Con is at.

00:04:31.100 It looks like he does have another shirt underneath.

00:04:34.180 So I don't know if he keeps wearing this outfit over and over again,

00:04:38.540 or if this is actually from San Diego.

00:04:40.960 And in that $56,800 Hermé bag, he has his jean pool costume.

00:04:48.540 So why weren't they pictured together?

00:04:50.460 This subtitle says the couple was spotted out and about in New York City.

00:04:54.560 And look at Blake's friendly smile to the paparazzi.

00:04:58.560 Ryan Reynolds with his back to the camera.

00:05:01.440 Yeah, no waving from Ryan here.

00:05:03.520 Remember that video I showed yesterday where Ryan was trying to get out of the photo?

00:05:08.080 Looks like he's doing the same thing here.

00:05:10.320 What is with that outfit, by the way?

00:05:13.360 He's been mocking Justin Baldoni for his man bun and then he shows up in that.

00:05:19.120 And then People Magazine continues this article talking about how

00:05:23.040 Blake and Ryan was celebrating Father's Day and they're quoting her Instagram story.

00:05:28.760 No one I've ever known is greater than this man.

00:05:31.280 And then they're also mentioning here that she shared an excerpt from her November 2022 speech

00:05:37.580 introducing Reynolds at the Beverly Hilton during the 36th annual American Cinematic Awards

00:05:43.200 where Reynolds received an American Cinematheque Award.

00:05:47.540 In her speech, Lively sang the actor's praise for being a devoted father and husband.

00:05:53.040 Can you believe they're actually writing about this?

00:05:56.380 And then they also added that video clip

00:05:59.180 that you can watch further down in this article.

00:06:01.440 Then they're showing more post selfies of the couple.

00:06:05.340 And then they're saying here that Reynolds donned a plain white t-shirt

00:06:09.240 in this other photo that they posted a month ago

00:06:12.780 and cream sneakers while Lively stepped out in a light gray tank top

00:06:18.060 with blue fitted jeans, tan boots, and an Hermes Birkin bag. No mention of the lawsuit here. What

00:06:26.740 I found very interesting, instead of mentioning the lawsuit, they're mentioning what movies Ryan

00:06:33.860 Reynolds is coming out with in the near future. Reynolds' next movies are Mayday, which opens on

00:06:40.560 September 4th and Avengers Doomsday which hits theaters on December 18. No one else knows for

00:06:51.480 sure if Ryan Reynolds is in Doomsday except People Magazine. It's not on his IMDb and it's not been

00:07:00.100 revealed anywhere. Marvel has not confirmed it yet. He did crash the Avengers panel at Comic-Con

00:07:08.140 this week. But there's been no confirmation. But according to People magazine, they got that

00:07:14.920 confirmed. How did that happen? Did Ryan Reynolds tell them? That is why I think we can definitely

00:07:21.300 conclude that this story is planted by Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' team. What a blunder

00:07:29.420 from People magazine that they didn't check the press release written by Leslie Sloan before they

00:07:34.440 just printed it thinking why would we be the only ones who got this confirmed before it actually is

00:07:40.900 and they didn't do any story prior to this saying that it is confirmed okay so let's jump to jared

00:07:48.040 letter here for a second so as you know when that new york times article hit we can bury anyone it

00:07:55.160 took less than 24 hours before Justin Baldoni was fired from his agency WME. What were the

00:08:05.520 accusations against Justin Baldoni? Well that he called Blake Lively's 1C a sexy on one occasion

00:08:11.840 and that he asked how much he weighed and here you have a man who has 10 women coming forward

00:08:19.720 four of them being underaged and wme is like that's fine we still want to represent him

00:08:28.520 so the new york post did this story actually reaching out to wme asking why they decided to

00:08:34.920 do this and they're saying here after reaching out to them that they told page six that he remains a

00:08:40.980 client and that doesn't appear to be changing anytime soon when asked if the agency's client

00:08:47.800 advisory committee was reviewing the very serious essay allegations made in a documentary by a

00:08:54.620 premier broadcaster the BBC an agency spokesperson said no so they have a committee that is

00:09:03.660 investigating these kind of things when it comes to their clients and they're just deciding not to

00:09:10.180 do anything about it I mean after all it's just BBC and it's just 10 women coming forward so it

00:09:16.740 says here even that in the wake of the Me Too movement in 2017, WME created a committee of some

00:09:24.460 20 staffers to evaluate and determine the fate of clients who are accused of misconduct and

00:09:31.700 promptly tossed everyone from Brett Ratner to Armie Hammer from their client roster. They forgot

00:09:38.000 to mention actually Justin Baldoni here. They're mentioning also here that he has a project that's

00:09:43.420 still in the works and according to a spokesperson at Searchlights, there's been no change in the

00:09:48.800 status of the project and they declined to further comment on this. Yeah, so why did they kick out

00:09:54.620 Justin Baldoni? I mean, the answer is so simple because Ryan Reynolds told them to. And this is

00:10:00.800 all the proof we need. We already knew that he put pressure on them. We've seen the text messages.

00:10:06.500 How incredibly embarrassing for WME. Anyways, talking about Hollywood and we can bury anyone.

00:10:12.880 As I mentioned yesterday, I did leave a comment on Megan Thewey's post

00:10:19.120 where she was bragging about what an accomplished journalist she is

00:10:23.300 and that she's worked for the New York Times for 10 years

00:10:26.420 and she's so lucky to work for an institution who's known for their fact-checking.

00:10:32.580 Anyways, this is the comment that I left on her Instagram.

00:10:36.220 It wasn't rude, it wasn't aggressive in any way.

00:10:39.680 I just simply asked her as one of the people you're reporting publicly insinuated was part

00:10:45.040 of a coordinated smear campaign without ever contacting me for comments I have a very different

00:10:50.340 view of what a good journalist looks like or good journalism looks like accuracy doesn't end when a

00:10:56.360 story fits the narrative it begins with giving the people you're writing about a chance to respond

00:11:01.760 as you know she didn't reach out to me to respond to this conspiracy theory that she planted in the

00:11:08.840 New York Times and as I mentioned yesterday I would talk about her response here on my channel

00:11:15.660 so this is what happened I was blocked by Megan Thuy when I looked at her Instagram yesterday

00:11:23.880 all of a sudden it was private then I asked my dog Oscar who also has an Instagram if he could

00:11:30.820 take a look at her profile and Oscar said that her profile is still public so I went and looked

00:11:37.320 and guess what? She deleted my comments and this morning I checked out her Instagram again

00:11:45.280 and guess what? She removed it. Her Instagram is gone. I googled her Instagram account and it shows

00:11:54.280 up in Google but when you click on it, it takes you to this page saying, sorry this page isn't

00:11:59.820 available. The link you followed may be broken or the page may have been removed. She either

00:12:06.780 deactivated her Instagram for now or she deleted it. So that is how she reacted to me reaching out

00:12:13.880 to her to give her a chance to explain why she added me to that article and spread this conspiracy 0.92

00:12:19.920 theory about me. Anyways, this made me look into that New York Times article again and I went into

00:12:26.320 to the Wayback Machine or whatever it's called I don't know if this is actually the Wayback Machine

00:12:30.960 but it allows you to go and look at all the times a an article have been changed or edited and if

00:12:39.120 you look at this from the New York Times they did a lot of updates on this article so I looked at

00:12:45.680 the first one and then I looked at the last one and then I started seeing that there were some

00:12:50.400 interesting changes here. First they change the subtitle of this from a legal complaint lays out

00:12:57.180 an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the

00:13:03.600 set of events with us. They change that very quickly to private messages detail an alleged

00:13:11.400 campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of events

00:13:17.840 with us. So they're changing it from a legal complaint to private messages. Maybe they thought

00:13:25.440 if we put private messages it's going to look even worse than that we're just referring to a legal

00:13:31.600 complaint that she filed. This makes it look even more credible. Private text messages. Then I also

00:13:39.440 noticed that they added information here to strengthen their narrative. So they added after a

00:13:47.060 few days talking about WME, they added this information. On Saturday, however, after this

00:13:54.320 article was published, the talent agency William Morris Endeavor stopped representing Mr. Baldoni,

00:14:01.620 said Ari Emanuel, chief executive of Endeavor, the agency parent company. They added as much

00:14:09.440 fuel to this fire as they possibly could. And I noticed something else as well. So the first time

00:14:15.540 they published this article that was a 10 11 a.m on December 21st we're talking eastern time here

00:14:23.960 and in that first version there were no photos of me no photo of Melissa Nathan Justin Baldoni's

00:14:33.460 crisis manager and there were no photos of Jennifer Abel his publicist then two and a half

00:14:40.140 hours later they add pictures of all of us. Of course these photos don't add any new evidence

00:14:46.840 to the case but as a reader you get three new faces to attach this new narrative to and as you

00:14:54.140 can see from the article they chose the photo of me a screenshot from my viral interview with Blake

00:15:00.220 Lively. So why didn't they just post a regular photo of me? They have photos of me in their

00:15:07.020 archive because they've written stories and interviewed me in the New York Times prior to

00:15:12.140 this. But they chose that photo because they knew so many people watched that viral interview so

00:15:19.160 they would recognize me instantly. That is not a random editorial choice, if you ask me. And as a

00:15:25.220 reminder, this is how they presented me in this article. On August 10th, Sjæstiflo, a Norwegian

00:15:30.900 entertainment reporter, uploaded to YouTube a 2016 interview with Miss Lively, in which Miss Lively

00:15:36.840 snapped back when Miss Flo commented on her baby bump and remained testy for the rest of the

00:15:42.020 conversation. Testy, not rude, just testy. Miss Flo entitled the Blake Lively interview that made 0.99

00:15:48.200 me want to quit my job and told the Daily Mail that it's time that people behaving badly in

00:15:53.440 Hollywood or anywhere else, for that matter, gets called out for it. Then they added my statement

00:15:58.960 where I said I had nothing to do with this, but that was added, as I mentioned so many times

00:16:03.760 before after 24 hours after everyone basically had read this article then they said here which

00:16:10.720 is when they basically accused me saying it wasn't the first time she talking about me had posted a

00:16:17.640 video aligned with a client of miss nathan in 2022 in the midst of mr depp's legal battle with miss

00:16:26.100 heard miss flo posted clips of her interviews with the actor and tagged it justice for johnny

00:16:33.480 isn't that amazing from the new york times that that is the evidence that they're presenting here

00:16:39.440 that i posted an interview with johnny depp with a hashtag so to me it's obvious that the new york

00:16:45.120 times was determined to do as much damage as possible on the people that they were exposing

00:16:52.720 in this article anyways after this they continued on this narrative and this is really interesting

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00:18:24.260 so let's get back into it. Remember this story? I've spoken about this story before, but I never

00:18:28.500 connected the dots. So the New York Times published this opinion by Kat Tembodge on July 7th of last

00:18:39.420 year, July 7th, 2025. They called it Blake Lively versus their misogyny slop ecosystem. So this is

00:18:47.520 seven months after their original article we can bury anyone someone on reddit actually brought

00:18:54.560 this up so kudos to that person because as i said i'd never connected the dots here so this story

00:19:00.340 is as you could hear from the title here a complete pro blake lively story the author here

00:19:06.720 is explaining that there is a harmful ecosystem and these people who are criticizing blake lively

00:19:13.580 content creators and journalists, they're all part of this harmful ecosystem that they call

00:19:21.080 the misogyny slop ecosystem. Interestingly enough, there's only two people mentioned in this article

00:19:27.220 and that is me and Perez Hilton. So we are part of this ecosystem and a lot of other people on

00:19:34.700 Reddit, TikTok and YouTube, no mentioning of names there, are all part of this predefined category.

00:19:40.620 My interview with Blake is mentioned again, but they don't spend any time explaining what actually happened in that interview.

00:19:47.180 And here's where this article gets really nuts.

00:19:49.300 They're using a source here called Ofi Doki.

00:19:51.860 I've spoken about her before.

00:19:53.680 She made, I don't know how many videos about me, a lot of them, to call me out for telling the truth, basically. 1.00

00:20:01.000 And they're saying here a feminist YouTuber who goes by Ofi Doki calls this the misogyny slop ecosystem. 0.97

00:20:07.920 She made this up, actually. 0.99

00:20:09.480 this random youtuber who doesn't have many followers and they're saying here that she's 0.69

00:20:15.380 calling it the misogyny slump ecosystem in which pop culture sleuths on tiktok and reddit gossip 0.99

00:20:21.460 hounds like paris hilton and even the press junket reporter shashti floh whose awkward 2016 interview

00:20:29.400 with lively exploded on youtube last august pump out weekly or even daily anti-live like lively

00:20:35.860 content that nets millions of views. We are in a culture that rewards misogynistic thinking

00:20:41.380 that is baked into everybody. Ofidoki told me, says this reporter. Anyways, this source,

00:20:48.400 one of her most streamed videos is where she calls me a mean girl. Is Shastiflo a mean girl?

00:20:55.000 And then she has a ton of videos about Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. And on top of that,

00:21:02.120 I just have to mention that she streamed five hours directly from all my interviews on my

00:21:08.500 YouTube channel. And when I threw her a copyright claim for it, she emailed me and said that she's

00:21:14.880 disabled. So I couldn't do that because she's a victim. Anyways, it's so interesting to me that 0.91

00:21:20.940 the New York Times chose to give her a platform. Of course, this journalist, and I mean, this is

00:21:26.880 an opinion after all. So of course, she doesn't need to investigate the other narrative here

00:21:31.440 that maybe Blake Lively wasn't telling the truth.

00:21:34.000 But my main point here is that this article was published on July 17th of last summer.

00:21:45.340 And guess what happened just four days later?

00:21:48.300 July 11th, Blake Lively and her team sends out subpoenas to 107 content creators and journalists.

00:21:57.120 Isn't that quite a coincidence that this article of this ecosystem of all these Blake Lively haters

00:22:04.960 are published just a few days before Blake Lively's team goes after all of us?

00:22:12.460 Do you think the New York Times reported on that?

00:22:15.040 Of course not.

00:22:16.520 This looks like a pattern from the New York Times just continuing to double down on Blake Lively's narrative. 0.91

00:22:23.460 And it almost looks like they were assisting her legal team in opening up this door because we could read in the New York Times that there was this misogynistic slop ecosystem out there. 0.82

00:22:37.920 So, of course, Blake Lively's lawyers had to investigate that. 0.86

00:22:42.580 And that's what they did.

00:22:44.740 And, you know, the rest of that story that we were forced to hire attorneys to defend ourselves against this.

00:22:50.180 And of course, we don't have the rights to get our attorney's fees covered.

00:22:53.920 Anyways, let me know what you think about that.

00:22:55.780 Do you think it's a coincidence that Blake Lively went after me

00:22:59.420 and 106 other people here on the internet

00:23:02.820 just four days after the New York Times published this article?

00:23:06.620 Let me know in the comment section.

00:23:08.520 I wanted to end this episode with a funny clip.

00:23:11.020 Big kudos again to all those amazing people that are posting things on Reddit.

00:23:15.280 So this is from, I think this is on Bravo TV.

00:23:18.500 it is a reality tv series called house of stassi i think this is a spinoff from vanderpump's i'm

00:23:26.940 not following these reality shows i did watch a few episodes here and there a while ago but

00:23:31.040 anyways this clip was posted and it is from a theme party that i think stassi was organizing

00:23:40.260 and her friend i think her name is taylor showed up dressed like blake lively from that infamous

00:23:48.840 picture of her and taylor swift at the super bowl when blake was wearing this track suit

00:23:56.140 and she made her hair frizzy and big and this person showed up as blake lively and she said

00:24:04.100 this it's insane i have no idea good right i know it's bubonic plague but like blake lively is like

00:24:10.680 the bubonic plague of our time so i decided that i am on theme so the theme so the theme of the

00:24:16.720 party was bubonic plague and she said blake lively is the bubonic plague of our time so i decided

00:24:23.720 that i'm on theme i love that big shout out to this girl who dressed up as blake lively i'm now

00:24:32.140 thinking that it might be a big thing for this Halloween to dress up as Blake Lively. And there

00:24:38.280 are so many amazing outfits to choose from, from It Ends With Us. And all you need to do for that

00:24:44.200 look is get a wig and dress like a five-year-old who's allowed to dress herself for the first time.

00:24:51.360 Anyways, that's it for me today, you guys. Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it.

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - August 01, 2026

This BLEW UP up in their faces !!

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