Technoblade, a wildly popular Minecraft creator on YouTube with over 11 million subscribers, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 23. Technoblade’s family confirmed his death in a video shared on his YouTube page. In the clip, his father read a message Technoblade wrote before his death, in …
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Wildly popular Minecraft player Technobladedied at the age of 23 following a battle with cancer. Now, the video game that the young streamer devoted so much of his life to is paying tribute to the beloved figure. ”We have been trying to find the words, but all of us here …
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One of Sunny Singh’s proudest moments as a videographer was the night he got punched in the face with his own camera. Singh — who for the past decade-plus has singlehandedly built up one of the web’s most robust and widely admired archives of live-music footage on his hate5six YouTube …
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P erhaps you’ve seen the music video for “Whiteboy,” which currently has more than 22 million views on YouTube and made a minor celebrity of a carpenter turned pro wrestler turned rapper named Tom MacDonald. It’s set in a Southern California classroom where the musician, who is white, wears blond …
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A 90-minute anti-child sex trafficking documentary by a Polish filmmaker promoting various tropes related to the conspiracy theory QAnon has gone viral on TikTok and YouTube, despite both platforms’ purported efforts to halt the spread of viral misinformation. A highly incendiary, sensationalized “documentary,” which Rolling Stone has chosen not to …
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UPDATE (December 16th): Blackpink announced that their livestream has been postponed. The new date is January 31st, but the start time remains the same. “Due to the consistent spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re sure that many of you are going through hard times,” Blackpink said in a statement. “We …
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The Danish singer Maximillian has never been to the Philippines, but he’s wildly popular there. “Beautiful Scars,” a bright pop song preaching self-acceptance, cracked Spotify‘s Top 10 in the Philippines at the end of April, and it’s been hovering there ever since, earning over 150,000 streams a day on the …
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As COVID-19‘s social distancing rules cancel graduation ceremonies around the country, the class of 2020 will likely find themselves at home come the big day, watching the proceedings on their screens. In light of these cancellations, social media giants such as Facebook and YouTube plan to celebrate graduates by hosting …
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YouTube is plunging into the world of unscripted programming (a.k.a. reality TV and documentaries). The video service has greenlit a dozen new projects, according to the Hollywood Reporter, with partners including Justin Bieber and Paris Hilton. For Bieber, the service teased a “top secret” project set for release next year. …
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