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Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe, now with different words in different orders.
Most people would say that they have a new episode, but it's more fun to say it this
way.
We are your word-friendly hosts, Taylor and Chelsea, and today we are following up from
last week's episode on what's going on with Britney Spears.
So where we left off, she had been freed from her conservatorship, correct Chelsea?
It was basically where we left off.
No?
We went a little further?
No, she wasn't free.
Where we left off, I think I'll talk about it.
Okay.
Well, otherwise you're going in blind.
There's a conservatorship involved, and I will get out that other part so that it's
just a conservatorship that she is still under.
I say right here.
So last week, we looked basically at the conservatorship itself that Britney Spears
was in.
A couple key points to bring forth with you into this episode.
You probably listened to that a week ago.
So first point, there is someone in charge of her conservatorship that she had expressed
that she did not want in charge multiple times and had shown extreme control over her, even
abuse over her corroborated by many other people.
That was her dad, Jamie Spears.
Time out for a second.
Taylor?
Is that an Instagram login?
I do not know.
Can you see if you can figure out the journey to the fringe login?
I sent you the link to her Instagram.
I'm pretty sure I could see it if I go there.
You just need the first couple of posts anyway.
Okay.
Second point, there are questions about whether or not a conservatorship was an extreme option
for her situation.
Eardley, secretively being checked into a mental health facility for months with no end in
sight until the free Brittany movement came about.
And TMZ releasing a story with a lie about how long she was in that mental health facility.
That's all very vague, but hopefully that refreshes your memory from the last episode
and we continue on from there.
So basically we learned a lot of troublesome things in that last episode.
We left off with posts being made on Brittany Spears' Instagram by someone else to kind
of set up that mental health state on her social media.
And it's now coming under a magnifying glass being her social media.
And her fans are now worrying about her safety and what's going on because posts are being
made on her behalf to make it seem like she just checked into this mental health facility
last week when she's been there for months with no end in sight.
Especially that we see someone else posting on her Instagram.
That's clearly not her.
Here's as good as places any to say that there's a lot of information on this out there.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole in order to get through this in a nice timely episode
for you, I had to pick and choose and summarize just like all of our episodes.
By all means, if you really want to go down this rabbit hole yourself, I did rely on some
Tik Tokers for this.
So there's one called it's Brittany Glitch.
Her handles Ali Nastin.
Then there's I Detective and not Brian Fallon.
So those are what I use going down the rabbit hole.
Feel free if you want to spend hours looking into this and seeing the actual videos, which
you're not going to see on a podcast.
Oh, check those ones out.
Highly recommend.
Now, what the mental health facility fans are concerned, Brittany put on a pretty good
face through many years of her conservatorship and kept pretty low key doing her biggest
residency.
She was on TV shows.
She looked amazing.
Her Instagram with normal for a while.
In 2021, she's doing like a Q&A on her Instagram.
And one of the questions she answers is, are you okay?
And her body language is totally off on this.
She's shifting back and forth totally anxious.
And she says in quotes, I'm totally fine.
I'm extremely happy.
I have a beautiful home, beautiful children.
I'm taking a break right now because I'm enjoying myself and I'm okay.
Body language totally off.
That was an end quote, not with the body language, ending with I'm okay.
She later confessed that she was lying about that and obviously forced to say this.
She said, quote, I've lied and told the whole world I'm okay and I'm happy.
I've been in denial.
I've been in shock and I'm traumatized.
End quote.
That admission combined with the post about her mental health stay led many fans to believe
that Spears have been sending secret messages to them all along, specifically through her
social media, which at the time were unsure if she's even controlling.
So a couple months later, she posts a video thanking her LGBTQ fans in the video, a concerned
fan comments, quote, if you need help, wear yellow in your next video.
End quote.
Do you remember hearing about this?
This was huge.
I do.
Yes.
It was.
If you're familiar at all with any Britney Spears conspiracies, it's probably this one.
It's the yellow.
Yeah.
In the next TikTok video, sure as shit, Britney is wearing a yellow top and even mentions
the yellow top in her caption, which immediately blew up the internet.
What next?
Well, to be sure, her fans asked her to wear a blue shirt in her next video.
You know, test the theory, coincidence or no.
Next video, blue shirt.
Then there's another one where they say blink three times or something like that if you
need help.
Next video, three blinks.
Now people are looking at every single post she's making of Scrabble board.
She posts like a picture of a Scrabble board.
People are trying to decode what it is saying in this Scrabble board and she's making posts
such as a shot of herself wearing a sheer black lacy top alongside the caption, twisted
elegance, introducing all caps, red exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation
mark.
Now you go and look at Britney's Instagram right now that I told you to take a look at
just to show you she definitely hides things in there for people to decode and people could
be like, well, this is just like how many people are commenting on her videos.
Like why would she go comb through and pick just one comment?
If you're being so controlled, I mean, I can see it from a couple different views like
one, of course, that's preposterous.
Who would ever do that?
But if you're so controlled as we have seen with Britney Spears being controlled through
her conservatorship and you're looking for anything to send a sign that you need help,
I don't put it past.
I can't completely knock it.
So if you go look at her Instagram, you'll see that her name and I'm bringing this up
now because of the quote that I just read, she says, twisted elegance, introducing red,
no red at all in the shot.
What's Britney Spears' name there at the top on her bio?
Maria River Red.
And then if you go through the fourth post, is that the red piano?
Yeah.
Can you read the caption?
It says, I've never played on red exclamation mark red all caps.
Yeah, go to the next one.
Remember Rose?
Three year old, never seen before photos of Rose.
Time flies.
Geez.
Do you see a hint of red or Rose or anything in that picture?
No, she's wearing a white top, necklace, no color, and it's background trees.
Yeah.
So she hides things like this in her Instagram all the time.
No context or anything with the red.
It's referring to something.
I just wanted to point that out because this is all on her Instagram now.
She's famous for deleting posts and stuff like that, reusing posts.
So I just wanted to point that out on there.
The one with remember Rose.
This is an old photo of her under her conservatorship, but I just wanted to point this out to you.
I'm not going to go in.
I don't know what red means anyhow.
Britney doesn't clarify what the red is at all.
She just keeps referring to it.
Like I said, she uploads this one of her in a sheer black lacy top alongside that caption,
with elegance introducing red.
She doesn't clarify.
Instead, she uploads a video of herself in the same outfit, captioning it, no lipstick,
blush, or foundation, because I was in a rush, but you get the idea.
Red.
So everyone's trying to scramble to find out what the red is meaning.
And she's not even wearing red in the video.
The only thing, there's nothing red in the one that I just showed to you.
She's changed her name to Maria River Red.
There is red on the piano one.
Literally so many of her posts are cryptic like that.
And that's just what I'm trying to drive.
It's the cryptic point of these.
These are a few examples.
It goes on and on.
Fans are convinced Britney Spears is trying to reach out to her fans via social media
to convey hidden messages in her cryptic posts, convinced that she's otherwise silenced.
And this is the only way she's able to communicate that she needs help.
Might I just say I'm going through a bit of her posts and there's some weird stuff in
here.
Oh, it's off the hook.
Yeah.
There's a book called Doctor and Ritual of High Magic, a new translation, and she wrote
something in another language as the caption on that.
Oh, right here.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
This is not even resembling anything like what we saw her doing under the conservatorship.
And a lot of people will say this is because she's free.
She's trying to find herself.
She's trying to figure it out.
She's off her meds.
She's, you know, having mental problems.
And if we look at it in the way of she's not in control of her Instagram or she's trying
to send messages through this thing, if you look at it through a different filter, it
kind of changes the context in which you're taking in her Instagram.
So just something to think of.
Because if you're looking at through Britney's Mentally Ill or something like that, you're
like, wow, this is off the hook crazy.
But if you're looking at it in a different way of someone else controlling it or she's
trying to send messages or something like that, you take it in a completely different
context.
Let's move on.
Another thing that kind of adds to this is she never openly came out and said, I hate
this.
I'm being threatened.
I need help.
She was coming out with videos that said, hey, I'm okay.
I'm happier than ever.
And we all know now that it was a lie.
That wasn't the case.
I mean, she very well could have come out and said that she has a huge platform, not
only on social media, but she could have gone on stage one night and said to hundreds of
people, I need help.
Somebody help me right now.
I'm in danger.
And she never did that.
So cut to 2021.
The free Britney movement actually accomplished something.
And that was that the conservatorship is over.
This is a direct result of that mental health stay where somebody else posted on her behalf.
That's kind of what raised the red flags.
And the conservatorship's over.
Britney's free.
So is it because the conservatorship is not actually really over?
And you can only find a little information about this if you specifically know what to
Google.
This was not really in the news.
If you Google Britney Spears conservatorship not really over, you get Britney Spears is
free.
What ended was the conservatorship over her person and Jamie Spears was taken out of the
person in charge of her conservatorship, whatever it's called.
Yeah.
So she still has a conservatorship over her estate and she's moved over from the conservatorship
of her person to a care plan.
And that's to help her kind of acclimatized no longer having someone control of her life,
which usually lasts about 12 months from what is out there.
But it's still ongoing.
She's still under a care plan.
There are some people who speak out about this.
It's really hard to find to see that she's still under a care plan.
And there are actually a lot of loopholes for her to jump through to have the rest of her
conservatorship stop to go through the courts and stuff like that.
Are the obstacles at least known or is that kind of private?
It's private.
Yeah.
So everything that's going on right now is private.
Liz Day, who is a reporter for the New York Times, I believe.
I should have put that in, but that's a memory if memory serves me right.
She covers a little about this after Jamie Spears is removed as a conservatorship.
This is old.
So this isn't going to have all the up to date information, but it really gives you
an idea of what's going on.
So this is just some of the tweets she was putting out just so you can see how this evolved.
So she tweets, Jamie Spears lawyer is asking the court to force whistleblower Alex Vlasov
to hand over evidence of Jamie and Black Fox security surveillance of Britney Spears during
her conservatorship.
Last year, Vlasov went public in an NYT investigation alleging that Jamie and his security firm
ran an intense surveillance operation that spied on Britney's texts in real time and
secretly recorded her in her bedroom.
He shared texts, emails and recordings to back up his claims.
A few days later, Jamie was suspended as Britney's conservator.
Then after the judge terminated the conservatorship completely, a move Jamie had first requested,
but the court case wasn't over.
Both sides are still fighting over money.
Britney's lawyer Matthew Rosengart publicly promised his firm would do a deep investigation
into the conservatorship, including whether Britney's money was mismanaged.
Headlines proclaimed Britney was on a mission to get justice.
Then the general public stopped paying his close attention.
Britney got a new lawyer, Alex Weingarten, who promptly filed for Britney to pay his ongoing
legal fees.
Rosengart filed an objection called the E-Baddy Declaration, a baddy, which summarized Jamie's
misconduct, heavily citing Vlasov's surveillance claims as why Britney shouldn't have to pay.
As part of his investigation, Rosengart filed subpoenas to Jamie and Britney's former business
manager TriStar about potential financial mismanagement and electronic surveillance.
TriStar filed to block the subpoenas.
A court hearing was set for July 2022, nine months later, in response, Jamie filed to
depose Britney to ask about child safety and possible drug use.
Per Make Note of This TMZ.
TMZ is reporting about this.
And they came up before.
They do.
They will come up again.
This set off a flurry of filings as Jamie and Britney tried to force each other's depots.
What's a depot?
Deposition.
Like a statement?
No, depositions are where you get questioned by the other party and their lawyers.
In July, the judge said Jamie must be deposed, not Britney, a big win for Britney.
Oh, okay.
Maybe they mean deposed then.
Sorry.
Not deposition.
They do mean deposed.
Yeah.
It's Twitter, so they're short.
It's not full comments.
Yes.
Jamie also tried to get Britney's investigative files, including Vlasov's recordings from
Kroll, but that got denied too.
Weingarten filed appeals to the court, but the court has not ruled yet.
He also wants to unseal certain records, he said defend Jamie.
Jamie was deposed in August.
Soon after, TMZ reported on settlement talks claiming Rosengart offered to end things
for 7 million, but tri-star in Jamie ball.
Presumably, whatever amount they ultimately settled for would come in exchange for Britney
giving up the right to sue for anything related to the conservatorship.
But to number 24 marked one year since the whistleblower went public and important legal
deadlines expired.
Statutes of limitations for criminal prosecution have essentially passed.
I've asked all levels of law enforcement and there's no indication of an investigation
being pursued.
It was also the deadline for Britney or others to file a separate civil lawsuit against Jamie
slash BBX for invasion of privacy.
California law allows for 5k penalty for each text, which given the huge trove of texts
in Vlasov's evidence could have amounted to many millions.
A few days ago, the judge ruled tri-star execs Lou Taylor and Robin Greenhill must be deposed,
including about surveillance.
But in big win for tri-star, she limited discovery to only be about the 12th accounting, i.e.
how Britney's money was spent in 2019, not any of the 10 years prior.
Britney's team argued tri-star's financial books lacked crucial backups such as invoices
and cash receipts, including to explain why payments were made to tri-star, claims it
still hasn't gotten a direct answer on how much money tri-star made.
They wanted text emails about tri-star's conservatorship work.
Also alleged tri-star produced only the net income of her tours, not gross revenues, i.e.
how much Britney was left after expenses, not how much money her work generated overall.
Cited emails suggesting some expenses may have been paid outside the estate and court
oversight.
However, the judge ruled that Britney can't just reopen the financial books, i.e. how
her money was spent in 2008 to 2018, unless Rosengart raises evidence of extrinsic fraud
in the prior accounting that had been approved by Britney's old lawyers and others.
But a 2019 email suggests Britney's then lawyer, Sam Ingram, apparently may not have fully
known who was making what percent off Britney, which raises the question of how good was
his information.
Limiting discovery to the 12th accounting is a big deal because the amount of money in
dispute that Britney could get back is not a lot.
300k raised to tri-star after Britney went on work strike, 150k in legal fees when Lou
Taylor sued a fan, 80k accounting fee, tri-star got after Vegas was cancelled, 600k is not
a lot, everyone on all sides has almost certainly spent more on legal fees at this point.
Britney could file more objections, but all the current objections of alleged financial
mismanagement during the 12th accounting were found by Sam Ingram, not Rosengart.
Back to Alex Vlasov in August after being blocked from getting them from Britney and
Kroll, Wangart subpoenaed Vlasov for the recordings and other evidence of alleged illegal spying.
Vlasov's lawyer opposed and part invoking his 5th amendment right against self-incrimination.
So Wangart is now asking the court to force Vlasov to hand over all recordings texts to
support his claims and all docs related to Britney or Jamie including any with Britney's
lawyers, Kroll or PR agencies.
So that's a lot of things that were kind of going on legally.
That's after conservatorship was supposed to have ended too.
That was right after, yep.
Yeah, that's clearly not the end of it and there's clearly something else going on with
her money before she actually gets it.
Yep, and not only that, but you're seeing deadlines for things kind of expiring for
her to be able to take legal action and you're seeing-
Yeah, because there's statutes of limitations which are usually about two years from when
an event took place unless, like they said, and sorry, this is, I don't know US law perfectly,
so I don't know the actual limitation periods there, but if it's extreme fraud, like clearly
forgeries and whatnot, then there's a different statute of limitations that would impact it
and that's what they're arguing over.
Now, I don't know where that ever ended.
I couldn't really find it and you would think that I would be?
Yeah, so that's kind of, I just wanted to bring that up.
You see a lot of names.
I don't actually know if this expired and she never followed up anything on it legally
or what.
Kelsey, do you know the dates that those tweets are actually regarding?
Yeah, let me see if I can find it.
Just because it's not uncommon for lawsuits to go on for years and years and it sounds
like my guess would be at least 2020 or later, likely 2021, which would mean we're still
within the wheelhouse.
Yeah, I think it was 2021.
I thought I had the link here, right here, Liz Day.
Yeah, and that's particularly with like-
October 14, 2022.
Okay, so it's still ongoing.
Okay, still ongoing, like it's less than a year since that happened, so it's likely
still ongoing.
Yeah, so there's all this stuff trying to fight to get her dad on there and they're
obviously fighting it tooth and nail.
So yeah, I wanted you to see that the legal battle is still going on.
The big names in this, this is TriStar, this is Lou Taylor, a lot of money, well not a
lot of money, but in the end they took a lot of money from her.
So yeah, there's a lot with that going on.
Brittany has a lot to be outspoken about and she has said that she was going to make everyone
pay and she was going to do an interview to expose what was done to her, but she hadn't
exactly done that.
As a matter of fact, she's been rather quiet on the subject.
She did get a book deal, which is a whole other thing.
I didn't get the chance to even touch on that.
There are a lot of things going on around the book deal as well.
If you want to look at that, maybe in the future we'll do another follow up on Britney Spears,
but-
I believe October.
There's a lot of talk on it, just to touch on it quickly.
Even the name of it, The Woman and Me, that's a Shania Twain song.
It's not even one of Britney Spears' song.
There's a lot going on with the picture that he used of her on that.
It's wearing very shiny pants and no top, even herself a hug from inside.
It's from a music video and I'm trying to remember what music video they took it from.
It's a young Brittany on there.
The book actually kept getting delayed and delayed to come out.
I have a feeling and a lot of people have a feeling that it's-
It will get delayed again.
It might get delayed again, but it's not going to be probably the story that she wants to
tell.
I have a feeling because if it's the one that she wants to tell, trust me, Lou Taylor and
these lawyers would not be having that book come out if it's the story that she wants to
tell.
I just want to make sure I understand this.
Tristar is an agency, right?
Yes.
I believe Star.
I was looking at Tristar Sports and Entertainment and Lou Taylor is the CEO.
A woman, just so we're on the same page when we're thinking about it.
Oh, is it?
Louise Marie Taylor, yes.
Oh, I thought it was a boy.
Okay.
I guess that doesn't really change anything.
That's just a quick thing on the book.
I mean, there's lots if you want to go check out those Tik Tokers.
They have represented people such as Gwen Stefani, Reba McIntyre.
Yeah, they're huge.
Yeah.
Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler.
They're huge, yeah.
Of course, they're in charge of Brittany Spears.
I'm sure you're wondering, where is this leading?
And boy, was it a long set up, you guys.
This is where it gets good if you're here for the conspiracy theory.
According to new ish conspiracy theories, they're getting on in years now, but fans
believe that Brittany is being silenced and that she is either missing under a psychiatric
hold again or something like that or dead, whether natural causes or not, and has been
replaced by not only AI and deep fake technology, but also has a body double operating with
or without the deep fake technology when public appearances need to be made.
When it's been too long and people are like, we haven't seen Brittany in a while.
Where is she?
They'll send the body double out.
She did say her dad was trying to kill her after all.
I find this one intriguing because some of the so-called evidence of this conspiracy
theory are super creepy and a little compelling, giving the setup that I've given you.
Let's take a look at some points towards why people are thinking these crazy things.
First, this is short and sweet.
Let's take a look at the evidence for points towards Brittany Spears being dead first.
First one is a prepared Brittany Spears obituary that was leaked.
Word leaked out that one of the major press agencies have prepared an obituary for Brittany
Spears.
I don't find too crazy because with technology these days, most outlets will have obituaries
ready to go for big stars, especially ones acting crazy.
They want them out there the second they catch it.
And like you've seen before, like this isn't even a new thing, but celebrities, like as
soon as they die, having their obituary out or mistakenly have been identified as dead,
having their obituary out and it's really weird.
Their famous quotes from Mark Twain, tales of my demise have been greatly exaggerated,
was because that there was an obituary out there of him.
And the Nobel Prize was created because Alfred Nobel read his obituary because people thought
he had died and he created dynamite.
So they basically said the death merchant has finally died.
So he felt terrible about his legacy and created the Nobel Prize.
That's some good facts right there.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
So that one I don't find too crazy because they don't want to waste time.
You're behind if you're even hesitating a second with an obituary and someone has died,
especially with social media.
One that's a little more compelling, I'm going to send you this link.
It's a legal document that says deceased.
And who might be deceased?
It is a legal document showing Britney Spears deceased.
That her conservators labeled her as deceased in court documents.
That's kind of where the proof of where people point to that Britney Spears is dead.
That's all I got for Britney Spears is dead, but I mean that she's labeled deceased on
court documents is not nothing.
It's also a screenshot of a document.
You don't even see the whole document unfortunately.
That's just one place you can find it.
If you Google, you can find it other places.
Okay.
That was just for the sake of me being able to send these.
I don't actually know if you can see the whole document anywhere else on the internet.
But like there's many things that are apparently wrong with this document.
Like there's.
Oh really?
Well, just look at it.
The case number is crossed out as being mentioned as incorrect.
Something is crossed out as void in the bottom right.
The judge has been crossed out.
Yeah.
I never.
There's a bunch of things that are weird about this document.
Oh, here's the whole document.
Here's the whole document.
Oh yeah.
There's a lot.
It's void.
It was filed October 9th.
Okay.
Void.
I assume it's not normal that all these things are crossed out in void.
No.
And if you read the court document was labeled Britney Spears is deceased was a copy from
a Michael Jackson case based on the case number in the corner.
Huh?
Yeah.
So it appears that it's a, I would say that that's a mistake on the printing where it
just seems to like mesh two things together.
So it's not even for breaking a court document that once labeled Britney Spears is deceased
was literally copied from Michael.
What?
Yeah.
That's super weird.
Copied from Michael Jackson's.
I'm leaning towards based on the information in here that there's an error inherent to
this document.
There's so many things crossed out and it's saying that this is a cross between a Michael
Jackson case that leads me to believe that this isn't factual in many ways.
Okay.
Let's just move on then.
Yeah.
I'm glad we have someone able to really look at this though.
So those are what we have for Britney Spears being dead.
I'm not convinced of Britney Spears being dead after looking into this.
She's probably alive.
She's probably in trouble based on what I'm going through.
But yeah, let's move on.
Those are the points for the dead.
So make your own decisions based on that.
But dead or alive.
People think Britney is missing or in trouble.
Just what is compelling people to ask where is Britney?
So I'm going to start with my own wonderings.
If you go back, I don't know if you still have Instagram open.
I do.
Yes.
Just click on the third post, the video.
This person looks not like the Britney Spears I remember.
Britney Spears had like perfect teeth.
This looks shocking.
First of all, when I started seeing her come out on this Instagram.
I am just going to say because I haven't outside of these episodes thought about Britney Spears
much in the last 20 years or so.
Which is perfect to get your weighing in on this.
Yeah.
I would say like, I don't know.
I don't know the way she looks like.
She looks like she's aged.
I would definitely say that.
But I wouldn't say that it wouldn't be Britney.
If I was just come across Britney Spears on Instagram and to see this, I'd be like, okay,
Britney's dancing.
And there's no real non-movement parts to actually say like, down and analyze if that's
a different person, nor would I unless you were actually to bring this up to me.
So I don't know.
I would say it's Britney, but I'm going to share this one to you.
This one I find to be a very creepy video.
I don't know if you can actually watch it.
I'm just going to Google Britney Spears.
Not even Britney Spears young.
Let's go Britney Spears Las Vegas residency.
You have that video there?
Oh yeah.
No, that is.
That's a creepy video, right?
Yeah.
It looks like it's been like a two week bender of some kind that she's been on.
She's not looking great.
No, she's not.
Now look at this.
And she also labeled this one Maria River Red.
Oh, she did.
It's creepy.
Does it not give you the creeps?
Yeah, it does.
But there is something off about that.
There's something wrong.
Look at her teeth.
She looks disheveled.
Something's definitely wrong, right?
This is a post made July 4th.
She's dancing.
The comment on it is Maria River Red.
This video gives me the creeps.
So if you look at this next one I sent you, you obviously has her makeup done.
This to me does not look like the same person.
The teeth are different.
Does she have a lower back tattoo?
Yes.
And the two front tattoos?
Okay.
Yeah.
And then she'll come up.
So yeah, that to me, and I'm just talking about my own personal experience.
And to me, I go, I've seen people age.
Yeah.
I think she's a better dancer than this too.
This person's not that great of a dancer.
I thought I always thought too.
I know aging can affect things.
Drugs can affect teeth.
Those are really weird shoes.
I know.
She was on lithium.
I'm sure that can change your appearance if you're on for long enough.
But this to me, this is not the natural course of how looks change.
It doesn't look like Britain.
Like the teeth have completely changed.
I don't know.
Just that's only my comment on it.
I always thought something was off.
So next point.
She has not been seen in public in a while.
What do you mean you may ask?
Because I wrote this before she was just seen getting backhanded by a basketball player security
in Las Vegas.
But even with that, the point still stands.
My reply to you asking that would be yes, you're technically right.
She did just get backhanded by a basketball player security in Las Vegas.
I myself said the same thing.
That being said, remember in the last episode when Britney Spears was being hounded by the
paparazzi before she went under the conservatorship?
They were getting incredibly high definition pictures of her.
There was no doubting back in the day that that was Britney Spears.
However, photos of Britney Spears in public now are grainy.
If you zoom in, you cannot make out any definition on it.
She's in sweaters with hoods up.
I would have to agree that there is a huge difference between what was being produced
before versus now.
And not only are there still paparazzi, but there are also fans now with cell phones which
have really good quality.
Might I add probably better quality than the ones that Britney Spears herself are using
to upload her videos these days.
Anyway, no one is getting very good pictures of her in the wild.
And you cannot zoom in on these photos without getting pixelation.
Let me just send you the picture of her just now.
This is the best picture they have of her when she got backhanded by this player.
I feel like people would have their cameras out for this kind of event too.
Yep.
There's that one.
Oh wow.
Are you compelled to say that as Britney Spears?
Can you confirm it?
She's moving too fast.
And this one.
These are her in Las Vegas just recently of the security guard backhanded her.
She did come out and make a statement about it that she was there and did get backhanded.
Oh, it's a video.
Yeah, I'm just looking at this video.
It's only 20.
Oh, it's just going over the same thing over and over again.
Yeah, it's a video of her with a hood up.
You cannot tell it's her at all.
You can't tell it's her.
This is normal.
So you can't actually confirm it's her.
This is pretty much anything being put out right now of Britney's ratings.
And again, those are TMZ.
TMZ has come up multiple times now because they were getting leaked information beforehand
during the conservative trip.
They'll come up more.
Yeah, okay.
I'm glad you're drawing the connections though.
So it's believed that large kind of scenes like this, like this was on the news.
It's believed these are set up just when people are like, we haven't heard from Britney in
a while and then she goes and makes a big spectacle like this, but you can't actually
confirm that it's her at all.
So yeah, that's another point in their favor.
Chelsea, this is running a big long, so I think we're going to have to extend this to
a three parter at this point.
In the meantime though, I have been Taylor here with Chelsea.
We are Journey to the Fringe.
Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next week.
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