For as long as Jules Hoffman can remember, they’ve been surrounded by music. After growing up with musical grandparents and a piano-playing father, Hoffman says they’ve always felt like music was a calling. But it wasn’t until their sister had children, three kids Hoffman lovingly refers to as niblings — …
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You may know 24-year-old Jimmy Donaldson — a.k.a. MrBeast — as the YouTuber behind such elaborate stunts as a real-life Squid Game reenactment and “I Spent 50 Hours Buried Alive.” His videos across several channels have netted him hundreds of millions of followers and billions of views. But Donaldson has …
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Disgraced former YouTube star Onision has been accused of using his popular YouTube channel to “recruit, solicit, and groom” underaged children into having sex with him, according to a civil lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. Wednesday’s case is the first known legal action to be taken against the YouTuber …
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Far-right YouTuber Steven Crowder has kicked off a public feud with The Daily Wire after the right-wing news outlet approached him with a measly four-year contract offer worth a pitiful $50 million, and some fiduciary obligations on his part. What began as a private contract proposal has devolved into a …
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On his YouTube channel Channel 5 and in his recent HBO Max documentary This Place Rules, 25-year-old Andrew Callaghan has amassed millions of fans as a goofy, deadpan interlocutor, highlighting the absurdities of modern culture. His straight-faced interviews with fringe members of contemporary society — prepubescent MAGA heads, QAnon influencers, …
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Nature is healing: Phoebe Bridgers doesn’t want to kill her dad anymore. The sadcore queen skipped all of the first date pleasantries on her outing with Chicken Shop Date’s whimsical host Amelia Dimoldenberg and jumped straight into existential oversharing, starting with a sprinkle of familial trauma. The worst thing Bridgers …
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On Thursday, Netflix dropped the final three episodes of Harry & Meghan, their six-part limited documentary series detailing the couple’s love story, marriage, and transition from full-time British royals to semi-normal California family. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a variety of shocking claims in the series, including their …
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Which would you rather do in front of a massive audience: lose a board game, or get knocked unconscious? If you’re down for either, you can always accept a chessboxing challenge. YouTuber Ludwig Ahgren — big enough to simply go by “Ludwig” — on Sunday broke his own viewership record …
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In a video posted to TikTok, a user called Truecrimecam told their followers the bombshell news from the YouTube community: Jared Leisek, creator of a popular scuba-diving missing persons team, is facing serious criminal accusations. “The founder of Adventures With Purpose was just charged with two counts of child ‘R,’” …
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Sammy Gravano is reflecting on the old days. “I grab him in a bear hug, the [van] door comes flying open, guys come running out,” he says, sitting back in a leather armchair, his voice gravelly. But Gravano isn’t reminiscing about some rough-and-tumble prank from his youth; he’s recounting the …
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