X Has Parted Ways with Scooter Braun

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About

X Has Parted Ways With Scooter Braun is a phrasal template meme that arose out of the news that various artists were leaving Scooter Braun's management in August 2023. After entertainment reporter Matthew Belloni made a post on X that pop star Ariana Grande is rumored to be leaving Scooter Braun's talent agency and news about more artists (including Demi Lovato and Justin Beiber) parting ways with Scooter emerged, various X users began posting parodies using the snowclone "X Has Parted Ways With Scooter Braun As (Their) Manager."

Origin

On August 22nd, 2023, entertainment reporter Matthew Belloni made a post^[1] to X that read, "NEWS: Ariana Grande has parted ways with Scooter Braun as her manager. 👀👀" The post was reshared by the X media pages Pop Base^[2] and Pop Crave^[3] on August 22nd using similar phrasing, with both posts gathering over 80,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Spread

Various X users began posting parodies of the aforementioned headlines as the story spread online, with X^[4] user @gayparanoidpark making a post on August 22nd, 2023, that read, "Lydia Tár has parted ways with Scooter Braun as her manager, Billboard reports," gathering over 4,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on August 22nd, X^[5] user @BaSingSeUpdate made a post that read, "Chong has parted ways with Scooter Braun and is no longer managed by him," gathering over 1,8000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

On August 23rd, X^[6] user @LolOverruled made a post using the phrasal template, writing, "The dancing old man Six Flags guy has parted ways with Scooter Braun and is no longer managed by him," gathering over 2,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on August 23rd, X^[7] user @gordonramashray made a post that read, "Himesh Reshammiya has parted ways with Scooter Braun and is no longer managed by him," gathering over 2,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).