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blue ivy turns
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10 and google searches herself for the
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first time while her mother and father
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are away top five search results
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one beyonce pulls off the biggest stunt
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of all time
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fakes pregnancy her baby her baby bump
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well it’s an elevator that picks his
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floor based off of which song she
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performs illuminati blue ivy
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laughs she’s heard this one before she’s
00:26
here so she knows that the pregnancy was
00:28
real too
00:29
jmb named their daughter blue ivy
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what the is a blue ivy illuminati
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um why the why the will they
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name that child
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blue ivy blue ivy opens another search
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tab further
00:43
researches her name blue ivy starts to
00:45
wonder if her name means anything starts
00:47
to become
00:47
more curious about more acceptable names
00:49
wants to know if her name means poison
00:51
wants to know
00:52
if the internet would have went crazy if
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she would have been named something like
00:55
sarah or
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cindy or natasha or something that means
00:58
more common something that you can put
01:00
on a resume in america three
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beyonce’s blue ivy has some nappy ass
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hair
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beyonce don’t ever do to that
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child’s hair
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that baby gonna hate her mother when she
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looks back at her baby picture’s hair
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looking like her parents ain’t rich hair
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looking like her black too rich hair
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looking like her daddy’s blue ivy hands
01:21
turned into a question mark for the
01:23
first time blue ivy
01:24
touches her hair needs answers for the
01:26
first time blue ivy
01:28
looks at a picture of her mother looks
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at a picture of herself wants to know if
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it’s true
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if her hair is nappy if her nappy makes
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her ugly if she has more of her father’s
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features if her father
01:37
is ugly for beyonce
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blue ivy finds a meme made from one of
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her baby pictures
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i woke up like this well
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you should probably go back to sleep
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blue ivy is sad blue ivy
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doesn’t understand the internet is a
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dinner table for predators that these
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people eat our children for amusement
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that these people
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call little black girls ugly and
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and sell out for winning oscars
02:04
and say they and say they say they need
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to start a petition so they can fix
02:07
their hair blue ivy
02:08
doesn’t understand the internet five
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northwest is born blue ivy
02:15
has a new best friend blue ivy google’s
02:17
northwest blue ivy
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carl’s northwest blue ivy has questions
02:21
why did no one question your mother’s
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pregnancy why
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when i search for you they call you
02:26
pretty why did no one say your mother
02:27
was faking her pregnancy why
02:29
does everyone call you pretty northwest
02:32
doesn’t have the answers blue ivy logs
02:36
out of being a billionaire and logs into
02:38
being just
02:39
another little black girl for the first
02:41
time blue ivy
02:42
has questions but both of her parents
02:45
are on tour
02:46
blue ivy has so many questions
02:49
she doesn’t want to google her black
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[Applause]
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anymore
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