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BY DC CUEVA
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| Twitter @JuliaRose_33 |
The aforementioned current season of The Challenge features Tori Deal, who made her MTV debut five years ago on AYTO Season 4, and who recently endured a breakup with her ex-fiancé, three-time Challenge champ Jordan Wiseley. On a global level, her season is part of the broad resume across the showbiz industry of Israeli born reality star Asaf Goren, but to another section of the American public it's also the one introduced perhaps AYTO's most tabloid-friendly alumnus.
The journey Julia Rose has been on hasn't followed Tori to the fifth major pro sport, but has surely made a name for herself in the world of online influencers and doing whatever it takes to bring attention to her emerging brand in content not suitable for work or Instagram. And this past week came the latest chapter in this ongoing circus that has taken her from the World Series to getting close with Jake Paul, to one of the biggest landmarks in all the world.
Around the turn of the century, western-based real estate developer H.J. Whitley purchased a nearly 500-acre ranch in what today is the central part of Los Angeles, and began developing a neighborhood there that would become Hollywood by the time it became incorporated in 1903. But by 1912, the appeal of year-round ideal weather conditions compared to other places, as well as a chance to evade patents on that primitive technology held by Thomas Edison, saw major motion-pictures companies move west to the L.A. area on its way to becoming the film capital of the universe.
In 1911, the Nestor Company set up Hollywood's first film studio at 6121 Sunset Boulevard... it was at that same address that CBS started its West Coast operations for the radio and television networks and its local stations KNX and KCBS-TV. And it was also here that Season 20 of The Real World took place, and some of ViacomCBS' digital and cable operations are based there after all these years. And not far away is the lone remaining major movie studio still based in these city limits: Paramount.
On many occasions, the Hollywood Sign has been a site for some unusual events going on: other than for it being illuminated during the 1984 Summer Olympics and the millennium celebrations, any alterations to the sign is expressly prohibited, but has nonetheless put it in the news. Two times has the O's in the sign be replaced by E's owing to the marijuana phenomenon, and in 1987 one L was blocked out when the Pope came to L.A. In February 2010, The Trust for Public Land replaced the letters with "Save The Peak" to protest plans to develop real estate around the sign. And this past week came the latest episode, which has links to AYTO.
Ever since she left Hawaii and Season 4 of AYTO, Julia has certainly made a huge mark on pop culture despite not following Tori and Asaf to The Challenge, but has gotten her in the headlines a bit more often than most who have stepped into the Boom Boom Room. She launched her own adult brand in Shagmag with a magazine and podcast, became one of only two AYTO series alumni to notch 1 million followers on Instagram, and has posted more than her fair share of racy pictures that became too hot to handle for the social app, and it ultimately led to her original account getting suspended.
To those who followed her in the AYTO4 house, Julia fell in love with fellow housemate Stephen McHugh. But those in the broader world who has followed Julia's shenanigans post-MTV know that she is the one who flashed her boobs in front of America at the 2019 World Series that earned her the Pete Rose treatment from the MLB Commissioner's Office. And those who are into the culture of YouTube and social influencers know that Julia is the girl who's been getting flirty with Jake Paul in his music video for "These Days" to ring in the lost year of 2020, among other tabloid-friendly headlines.
According to local media, they did this to -- as Julia did at the World Series -- to help raise awareness of breast cancer, but in reality this stunt was to make a statement to Instagram's owner Facebook for censoring her and other influencers for posting explicit content. Obviously, Julia, YouTuber Jack Tenney and four others were apprehended by the authorities for trespassing, were released from prison later that night and will await future dates in front of the judge facing possible prosecution for this latest act, which is classified as a misdemeanor. But the sign itself didn't get damaged, which won't put into the charges an act of vandalism, as it was for past incidents.
that one time I changed the Hollywood sign to #hollyboob pic.twitter.com/IrIC6DpXHO
— Julia Rose (@JuliaRose_33) February 2, 2021
This was third time's the charm for Julia in trying to scale the top of the symbol of showbiz, coming after two previous attempts to try and pull off this prank got foiled back in October - a year after her World Series flash, which took place during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Julia told leading British tabloid The Daily Mail, "This was to show them that I still have a voice. My business for Shagmag with one million followers also got disabled this year due to nudity, but I'm not doing anything more than what Playboy is doing, so I think they're discriminating against my accounts."
This is in reference to both her brand and her own personal account (which had 5 million followers) getting the boot from IG, and who has some ill will towards them in representing those influencers who feel that the policies of morality on social media outlets have treated them unfairly. And this stunt on the Hollywood Sign was her biggest statement towards Instagram honcho Adam Mosseri, and her pleas to him and top brass there have so far fallen on deaf ears, among a slew of things on their plate when it comes to explicit content and photos & video of a sexual nature. And it comes after the backlash Big Tech have gotten in the wake of the circus that marred the end of a turbulent presidency.
And as Julia told Vice Magazine, "I think (Instagram's policies) affects ALL creators. The more we allow these platforms to censor us, the more they will continue to do so. There needs to be more communication between the platforms and the creators. I believe women should be able to express themselves in a safe and justified way without being censored and shut down because of their body."
While over twenty alumni of this show have gone onto The Challenge, have had representation in every American season of Ex On The Beach and whose presence has stretched to The Real World, Teen Mom and music videos, you can make an argument that Julia Rose is Are You The One's most visible alum. Her being able to stun everyone watching the biggest event in baseball, pull off this mighty stunt and make many headlines and have seen her stock in this world of adult pleasure rise as fast as GameStop.
Will her words influence Instagram and other mainstream social companies to take a deeper look into how they handle those who push the limits of what you can or can't post in a world where the limits of decency in the digital age are being challenged? As we always say here, stay tuned.
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