I Feel Vibeless: Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
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Good morning, girlies, it's the toast. It's Jackson, Claude, and we're your host. It's your favorite show, the fast five things you need to know. We'll start your day off swirly, it's The Toast.
They sound amazing. Welcome back to The Toast and happy Tuesday? Yeah, okay, Tuesday. I hope everybody's having a great week so far. A little slow.
A little slow, given that it's only Tuesday.
It's kind of crazy.
Yeah, well, I feel like now, like, summer's really a swing, isn't it?
Totally. The novelty has worn off. Also, like, now that my birthday's over and it's, like, kind of this, like, amazing day is behind us. Like, yeah, we can just settle into real life. Yeah, so that's what we're doing. I felt down such a fear. Felt down. fell down such a fia rabbit hole. There's obviously a community of women who care as much about this as I do, and it's actually way worse. So there's two things. The first is that this incident, which they say they didn't know about, where they were stealing money from, like, literally influencers. if I give you an affiliate, they, their bug, like it was on iPhone only. So basically this little period of time was only over the course of the 2025 holiday season, which is like the highest time for online shopping.
But also it was then they cut it off in like January, 2026. And that's when they pitched all those investors, those celebrity investors with those numbers. So like literally that's also fraud to your investors. Like, shopping around fake numbers yeah so like I wonder what Mindy Kaling Alex Earl has to say about it you know yeah it's really crazy and then also like of course Alex Cooper's involved so basically T thank you to this girl who recapped I'm so sorry I forgot your name but she did like a full like she's like a real like tech founder content creator basically this woman who was like the president of Honey you know Honey the browser extension which I love also went through a little bit of a scandal where they were like stealing influencer affiliate links like a bunch of influencers actually sued them like a bunch of YouTubers and
It's still an ongoing court case, according to my TikTok recapper. But the woman who was the president of Honey at the time, she's now with Unwell. And she introduced the burnouts. And she was the reason why they had a podcast on. So literally all roads lead back to Alex Cooper. But they're saying it's very nefarious. She was there. How do they know that? It was a big headline, by the way, when that Unwell executive was hired. Okay. Because she's like this big way. Her name is Joanna. I actually remember the headline about it. I'm like, oh, that's cool. But how do they know they introduced to Phoebe? Oh, I think it was mentioned in an article. It's not a secret. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. And she's also on the board of FIA.
Sorry, I forgot that. So she's on the board of Fia.
What is the viral FIa influencer-affiliate scandal they open the episode with?
She's a new president. Well, she connected them. So there's like a lot going on over there. It's very interesting.
So, because when I was thinking about it, I was like, this is just like a blip on the radar.
No, actually what the girl in my recap video said, not only it's like such a big deal, it's actually a bigger scam than what Honey went through. And Honey's is still inactive. Yeah. Because actually a judge threw out the YouTuber's claims being like, listen...
No, but also if I remember correctly with Honey, like they would find you codes. So they would find influencer codes and actually.
Okay, so what the lawsuit was is that like this YouTuber realized he was like, I'm sending people to an affiliate link. And if those people have the Honey browser extension and then also click like, yeah, sure, give me a code. The influencer's affiliate gets wiped out. Honey is the last person to affiliate. And so the judge was like, listen, that sucks. But the user is actively making the choice to click on Honey. So you're just kind of getting screwed. So the YouTubers who had sued are now suing again for just like, Not for money, but like for wrongful whatever.
They should have split commish.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–2:35
2
What is the viral FIa influencer-affiliate scandal they open the episode with?
2:35–12:52
3
How do the hosts define being 'vibeless' and why do they blame not owning a home?
12:52–23:12
4
What is the controversy around AI-generated porn and deepfakes mentioned in Dear Toasters setup?
23:12–56:34
5
How did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s mystery dog make headlines in Florida?
56:34–1:07:38
Speakers
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