Famed podcaster Alex Cooper is at war with a TikToker who blasted the media personality for her display of wealth.
Ali Ambrose, who goes by geniusgirlalert on TikTok, shared a video this month claiming that a recent clip of Cooper’s show ‘Call Her Daddy’ was ‘the craziest recession indicator.’
Ali said that as she watched the video, which featured Cooper and her fellow podcaster friend and New York City influencer Hallie Batchelder, she thought to herself ‘Things are about to get real bad, I think. I think this is a sign.’
In the episode, Cooper spoke to Hallie, 27, about an array of topics, but at one point they discussed how she uses her father’s black card to make purchases.
The conversation appeared to not sit well with Ali as she called out the podcasters for their money-related comments.
‘And like making jokes about using your dad’s black card in the same breath as talking about, laughing about p-i-m-p-i-n-g yourself out to men who are like economically lateral to you, as like a “well bred girl,” as like a “society girl,” I don’t know y’all , yeah, I don’t know,’ Ali said in reaction to the episode.
A few days later, Hallie had Alex on her podcast ‘Extra Dirty’, as the pair addressed the TikToker’s comments, with Hallie saying that ‘anyone who comments’ on the way she spends her father’s money is ‘poor’ as Alex laughed in response.
Ali then hit back and said that the word ‘poor’ isn’t offensive, but the fact that it came from someone ‘born into wealth’ is ‘tacky’ to her.
Alex Cooper is embroiled in an online war after Ali Ambrose, who goes by geniusgirlalert on TikTok, commented on a episode the podcaster shared with her friend Hallie Batchelder
While responding to Ali’s claims, Hallie said that the TikTok only commented because she is ‘poor’
During the original clip, the influencer, who enjoyed dirty martinis with Alex, discussed that her father’s ‘black card hates to see me coming.’
When asked by Alex if Hallie thinks she would ever be cut off from her father’s card, she said no because her father ‘really wants us [her and siblings] to be safe.’
Alex then joked: ‘Ok, so a new bag. Safety. New hair. Safety,’ as the pair laughed.
After watching the clip for herself, Ali said she’s recently seen an ‘uptick in influencers like this’ who depict the ‘leisure class, drunken, sardonic, callous kind of vibe’ that resembles ‘1920s literature.’
‘It’s giving the great depression,’ Ali said, adding that the video of Alex and Hallie told her ‘to buckle up.’
Alex and Hallie soon addressed Ali’s comments, adding more fuel in the fire.
‘Anyone who comments, “This girl sucks,” “It’s not a flex” – you’re poor and I don’t feel bad for you,’ Hallie said in response to Ali’s claims
‘There was a financial conversation… I saw a TikTok, it was too much, I was too hammered, and they were talking about the renaissance,’ Alex said, wrongly referring to Ali’s mention of the recession.
‘I think that they were a little perturbed about the conversation about your dad having money or something,’ Alex told Hallie, who then responded, ‘They’re probably broke.’
‘Anyone who comments, “This girl sucks,” “It’s not a flex” – you’re poor and I don’t feel bad for you,’ Hallie added.
After seeing the podcaster’s response to her initial clip, Ali made her own video labeled ‘Re: Alex Cooper calling me poor.’
‘Yesterday Alex Cooper and Hallie Batchelder posted a clip onto the Extra Dirty podcast TikTok talking about my TikTok, and essentially calling me poor.
‘Personally, I’m not offended by the word poor, I don’t know why anyone would be.
‘Hearing it especially from the mouth of someone who was born into wealth is a little tacky in my opinion,’ she added, referring to Hallie, the daughter of Charles Batchelder, the founder of Wyman Street Advisors, a real estate agency based in Massachusetts.
She then spoke of Alex directly and said: ‘To tout yourself as a big bad boss babe for the last ten years, and you’ve been successful at it.
‘You left Barstool, you made your own company, you cut Sofia out, and you interviewed the vice president like three weeks ago,’ Ali continued.
She then attacked Alex for saying she spoke about the ‘renaissance’ instead of the ‘recession’, and for admitting she was ‘too hammered’ to even understand her initial clip.
Ali said that although Alex has made a name for herself and has become a successful business woman, she tended to ‘mirror the person in front of her’
‘Which makes sense because honestly, I wasn’t bashing them at all. My TikTok was about something that I noticed in society, something I noticed about the general public kind of taking in these exorbitant displays of wealth,’ Ali said.
She added that many people are being introduced to ‘debaucherous, hedonistic characters that are being pushed to us by influencers.’
‘It reminded me of the 1920s – the roaring 20s,’ she said, adding that she commented on the overall personal brands that she believes influencers adhere to.
‘I’m commenting on the brand that you created for yourself. This is the brand that you present yourself on the internet – a rich girl who drinks a lot and parties a lot,’ she said of Alex.
‘I didn’t think I was presuming anything by commenting on that, but hearing your name in that context and immediately jumping to “You’re poor, you’re poor, you’re poor,” I think that’s very ugly,’ Ali responded.
The TikToker added that she originally wrote out what she wanted to say in response, but instead, she chose to speak freely.
‘Alex Cooper, I am so disappointed. You know, whether you like her or not, she is a contemporary woman, she is educated, she is a business woman.
‘I think she’s smart, I think she knows obviously what a recession is, I think she mirrors the person in front of her, and if you’re gonna be that way, you have to be careful about who you put in front of you,’ Ali said.
