Sofia Franklyn's Daddy Issues Review: Is Honesty The Same as Accountability?

Lauren Meisner (0:00)

Coming up today on Mini Scroll, I'm bringing you an opinionated review of Daddy Issues by Sofia Franklyn. Hi everyone, welcome to Mini Scroll, the daily internet culture podcast, bringing you the biggest stories from social media, the creator economy and the digital space every Monday through Thursday, and sometimes Fridays like today.

I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the Australian youth digital media brand, Centennial World. Welcome back to Mini Scroll everyone.

Oh my God, this is an emergency episode. If you listen to the most recent Mini, you'll know, I said I wasn't going to be podcasting for the rest of the week because I was away with Adobe in Miami and I will tell you guys about that next week, but we don't have time. Daddy Issues has absolutely blown up so much. I listened to the whole book while I was away and I was like, I need to get an episode out ASAP. So I flew in to my parents' house yesterday and I spent the last six hours prepping for this episode. I have so many notes and I'm so excited to bring you guys this comprehensive review. Also, it started snowing here, so I'm two hours north of Toronto. My parents retired, as we know, at the cottage, so welcome back cottagecore era for the next week.

So yes, I'm two hours north of Toronto and it's just hovering above zero today. And I was prepping the episode downstairs in the living room and I saw it sort of snow a little bit. It was kind of more like slush because it's not quite below zero. And I was like, oh my god. So I wore my mom's cute little snowflake sweater because I thought it was like festive. I haven't seen snow since 2021 because every time I've come back to Canada, it's always in the summer. So yeah, it's been so many years since I've seen snow. So it was really exciting. I hope I get to see it again while I'm here. Okay, before I get into it, though, reminder, our Discord link is in the description. We've opened a Discord and a lot of you guys have joined, which is really exciting and it's getting lively in there. So go join us. You guys can chat with us. You can chat with other people that love Mini, that love internet tea and let's just get into it. Also rate, review and subscribe, of course, of course. Okay, so I am going to divide this episode into like, what is the history of the OG call her daddy?

What was the narrative that we were fed back then when everything fell apart and like what we have quote unquote believed over the past several years. And then of course, I will get into what Sofia says has happened in her book and how I feel about her book. And my opinions will be kind of like woven through the entire episode. So first, what is Daddy Issues? So Daddy Issues is a nonfiction recount by podcaster Sofia Franklyn. It primarily focuses on the formation and dissolution of the original Call Her Daddy podcast, which Sofia was one half of alongside the current Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper. The book also gives us the story of her childhood and her teenage years, which I think gives us a pretty good picture of her motivations in life and also helps us understand how both her friendship with Alex and their breakup happened. Okay, so the OG Call Her Daddy, let me get into that. Call Her Daddy launched in 2018 It was created and hosted by Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn. The two met in New York through a mutual friend when Alex was looking for another roommate. At the time, Sofia was working at Morgan Stanley as a client services associate, and Alex was working in media at a publisher. Alex was also dating professional baseball player Noah Sindergaard when they met. So she did have a level of micro fame already. Alex was made redundant from her media job, and that's when she went all in on vlogging and social media, and then she eventually approached Sofia about starting a podcast together. The premise of OG Call Her Daddy was essentially two young, hot 20-something girls who were living in New York, dating, having tons of sex, and it was completely unfiltered. They were talking about dating, sex, men, hookups, but it wasn't like sex in the city. Like it was raunchy, okay? Like they kind of framed it as like locker room talk, but I would argue it was more like red-pilled content before we had the language to describe that. I don't know if that's controversial, but the original Call Her Daddy was really, really, I'm going to say disgusting. It was really raunchy.