It’s a raw February morning in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and YouTuber Jeremy Sides is preparing to extract a Honda CVCC hatchback from Melton Hill Lake. He’s here with fellow video creator Adam Brown, who will soon gear up in his scuba suit. “We should have no issues, it’s not that …
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“Sorry for my Buffalo Bill moment,” says Benito Skinner when he first logs onto Zoom. He’s referring to the mannequin heads behind him in his Los Angeles apartment: a pink-pastel number that would fit Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans days; a brunette Jackie O pageboy complete with pillbox cap; and a Marilyn …
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I n an undisclosed location in North Carolina, Jimmy Donaldson is about to show me a million dollars in cash. Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is the biggest YouTuber in the country and possibly, by the time this story is published, the world. Rangy at six feet two and clad in a …
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Rolling Stone and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will host two days of panels and artist showcases devoted to highlighting influential voices and emerging talent during SXSW in Austin, Texas, later this month. These first “Creator House” events on March 18 and 19 will be the first …
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