In 2019, Myka Stauffer was the voice behind a fairly successful family vlogging channel. She posted about her husband, children, and parenting journey to close to 700,000 subscribers on YouTube and with support from major brands like Pampers, Walmart, and Fabletics. No topic was off limits, so when she adopted …
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S hari Franke’s memoir starts, fittingly, with an Instagram story. As police officers forced the front door of her family’s home open with a battering ram, Shari captured the surreal scene, later posting it to her account for her 621,000 followers. “This moment, this climax of my family’s descent into …
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Six months ago, Cody Ko began an unofficial hiatus from his YouTube channel following allegations that he had sex with internet personality Tana Mongeau when she was 17 years old and he was 25. His channel, which boasts 5.76 million subscribers, has laid dormant since July. Now, the YouTuber has …
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Earlier this week, YouTuber Josh Pieters dropped a 47-minute documentary that followed 23-year-old OnlyFans star Lily Phillips as she planned for and completed her goal of having sex with 100 men in 24 hours as a stunt for her OnlyFans page. While she is certainly not the first woman to …
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YouTube personality Logan Paul is once again in the public eye after a New York senator asked the Food and Drug Administration to investigate his energy drink, Prime, for allegedly targeting children and boasting an insanely high amount of caffeine. But as anyone who has spent time on the internet …
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On Wednesday, YouTube commenter @santana4766 was compelled to leave a breathless review on a video uploaded last December. “[T]he storyline, the foreshadowing, the character development, the world building,” they wrote, “this is true peak cinema.” Another commenter asked how to log what they’d just watched on the movie-rating app Letterboxd. …
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Thousands of songs and music videos by hundreds of artists have vanished from YouTube after the video site failed to reach a new agreement with publishing rights organization SESAC. Artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Mariah Carey, Green Day and hundreds more were impacted by the impasse created …
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Breaking records on the pitch must not have been enough for legendary futbol star Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese player, one of the richest athletes in the world and the most followed athlete on social media, is adding another title to his already heavily laden mantle: YouTube star. On Wednesday, Ronaldo …
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WHEN DAN HENTSCHEL, a 28-year-old comedic YouTuber, goes to make a video, he props his phone up on the dashboard of his car, talks for up to 40 minutes uninterrupted, and posts it. “I don’t edit them,” he says of his videos. “The whole reason why people are enjoying this …
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I remember I had a tablet,” 12-year-old Ryan Kaji says, recounting his earliest memory. “I was just clicking, scrolling, watching videos. I was a little kid, maybe three years old.” His father, Shion Kaji, chuckles. “Before you even knew how to type, you had an iPad,” he says. “You don’t …
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