Ihear them before I see them. A hundred-plus 20-something women clamoring along a Tribeca Film Festival red carpet tucked by New York’s West Side Highway. They wear outfits recommended to them on TikTok: jeans and floaty tops, silk boxer shorts under blazers, little black dresses and big sunglasses. Their hair is styled, their makeup done to look undone. They are the #DaddyGang, and they are here for the premiere of the Hulu documentary Call Her Alex and to be in the presence of the highest-paid woman in podcasting: Alexandra Cooper, the 30-year-old Call Her Daddy star turned media macher who calls herself their Founding Father.

Cooper, petite and blond, arrives in a tight, corseted Roberto Cavalli satin dress and stiletto sandals to a trumpeting scream from the crowd. She cups a hand

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