Back in the TLO Brah Stool days, we always made sure to keep a close tab on the online gallivants of local news babes. We did this because we watched local news, enjoyed attractive women, and – most importantly – wanted to get a bunch of clicks!
But now that we’ve, uhm, changed with the times and matured, no longer watch local news, and clicks don’t really matter like they used to, we don’t cover that beat with the same vigor or gusto.
In fact, I kind of forget that beat still exists until Glen Powell does something like set his eyes on Emily Sutton, or an Ogle Mole sends us an email like this:
Have you seen this TikTok of the Channel 9 Lacy Swope and Lacie Lowry trying to remain relevant on TikTok? Please call them out for this and make them stop.
Curious and intrigued, I clicked the link to the following TikTok video. I don’t know if it’s part of an annoying Gen Z social media trend – I try my best to avoid that corner of Internet culture.
Outside of my irritation at getting that annoying song stuck in my head, I won’t be too hard on Lacy and Lacie.
As I admitted above, I don’t really get this stuff. Maybe some of the video commenters can explain what they’re doing:
If you were to go back into a time machine to when Lacy and Lacie were in college, dreaming of corporate news gigs, and told them that in 10 - 20 years they’d be making desperate videos for the eager online viewing pleasure of “Canned Fart,” I bet they would have changed majors.
That being said, with TV news going the way of the milkman, typewriter, and newspaper, I still don’t think you can really blame the Lacies for doing stuff like this.
It’s all harmless and good fun. It's not they lied about the S.W.A.T. team crashing the news set or something.
Plus, videos like this will help them remain visible and identifiable enough for when they enter corporate PR in the next couple of years. Like TV news, that’s also a cut-throat industry, and there are only so many local non-profit and public utility communications gigs for unemployed news personalities.
Anyway, if you see any online short-form videos featuring local news talking heads that we should know about, let us know.
