The Streamy Awards, which celebrates the achievements and successes of online media, returned to Los Angeles this year on Sunday, Aug. 27. While the award show began in 2009 to recognize web series, it’s now branched out to encompass creators across platforms and continues to honor digital creators in categories …
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What better place than the 2023 Streamys for Dream — the masked Twitch streamer now signed to Mercury and Republic Records — to do a second face reveal? After struggling to read the teleprompter because of his white, smiley-face mask, the creator let out his wavy hair from behind the …
Read More »He Redefined Internet Fandom — and Created a YouTube Empire
When YouTube game personality MatPat posted his first YouTube video in 2011, he was a recent graduate of Duke University,held a degree in theater and neuroscience, and was struggling to find a job. But what started as an in-depth discussion of quantum mechanics and the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger …
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