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Hey! I’m just a samurai without a sword. Digital products and services. And sometimes drawing.
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The Influencer Lawsuit That Could Change The Industry
the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic is a widespread trend. It’s challe...
In an age of endless entertainment, why is boredom on the rise?
It’s paradox of choice in action. Theres so much to choose fr...
Controversial AI generated video summaries coming to youtube [video]
People already skim through videos or click off after 30 seco...
The internet is obsessed with watching pretty girls eat
Its so true that female influencers, especially in the food s...
Google now highlights content creators as trusted sources in search results
Thats a prettty big shift for SEO, and it really shows where ...
Admitting What Is Obvious
This reminds me of something my therapist said about cognitiv...
Rage bait is all the rage on Threads — so I tried it. I'm sorry?
I get that its effective for engagement, but provoking outrag...
2024 Video Content Trends Report
The rise in longer short-form videos is interesting! It feels...
No one’s ready for this
Sure, but the stakes are higher now. Back in the day, it took...
Instagram is adding a Myspace-like ‘song on profile’ feature
This is such a throwback! I was all about Myspace back in the...
Apple Podcasts Now Available on the Web
Interesting that this comes right after Apple Maps got a web ...
Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
Companies need to learn how to work with the creator economy,...
Bytedance introduces Jimeng AI, its new AI-powered text-to-video generator in China
The price is fair, but also I’m skeptical that this was train...
Why are so many car YouTubers quitting?
PE pretty much ruins all industries, so it's unsurprising tha...
YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts
Have you noticed all the lawsuits flying around the creator e...
Coffeezilla finally speaks on Logan Paul lawsuit against him [video]
Always felt like Logan was trying to cover up even more than ...
SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against Major Video Game Companies
It's going to be a rough battle here. I feel empathy for the ...
Creators made $741 million on Roblox last year
with some individuals making up to $23 million each Some o...
TikTok Launches New Image Sharing App Called “Whee”
I'd be willing to at least see how they did it and try it. I ...
Everyone's talking about taste
This was true even before AI. A lot of automation tools are t...
Have good taste
Not to mention if you do one of these things for them, they e...
BeReal is being acquired by mobile apps and games company Voodoo for 500M
I think Voodoo is definitely eyeing the data BeReal has on it...
Influencer's $82,000 demand exposes 'wild' industry: 'The audacity'
Right?! We always praise posts like "charge what you are wo...
YouTube Rolls Out In-App Games to More Users
Not a terrible idea, but I'm unsure if I would ever actually ...
Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving
I actually LOVE this. I find that extremely click baity stuf...
Spam, junk, slop. The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’
It's going to be increasingly important to cut through the no...
AI-generated spam is starting to fill social media. Here's why
The problem is that some people are genuinely being tricked, ...
‘Hunt For Gollum’ fan film restored to YouTube after Warner Bros. slammed by angry LOTR fans
I understand that this story was somewhat referred to in the ...
Twitch’s TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users this week
They really were killing the platform for any new faces to ma...
US Senate Approves TikTok Sell-off Proposal
It seems pretty likely that TikTok will end up being sold to ...
‘Time is running out’: can a future of undetectable deepfakes be avoided?
The scams unleashed by AI are evolving at a rate that even te...
LinkedIn is testing a TikTok-like video feed
I am seeing a lot more videos being posted on LinkedIn alread...
200 Musicians (including Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry) sign letter against irresponsible AI
I believe major tech figures did an open letter like this not...
OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood
Related: Sam Altman is trying to convince Hollywood that Sora...
How Kyla Scanlon Grew Her Audience to Over 640k Followers in Just 3 Years
I liked the idea of testing out content subjects first in low...
Threads has entered the fediverse
I know there is a lot of criticism from the Mastodon folks us...
Nintendo’s marketing playbook
Don’t forget Lego. Especially since they started making adult...
YouTube Create, a new, free app for video editing
I always wondered why YouTube didn’t get into video editing s...
How to improve any type of writing [video]
I struggle with the “Personal” aspect of writing the most. So...
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men
Everyone involved in this is terrible. This is the evolution ...
Our company is doing so well that you’re all fired
Key word is “continue”. Perhaps they needed you at one point,...
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
This bias in search engine algorithms towards big media publi...
Sora and the Future of Filmmaking
Models like Sora are impressive, but it comes with some serio...
How To Approach Online Culture
There is a lot of noise from analysts and creators alike abou...
Go big, even when you're small
This is the main reason you hear stories of people who have l...
How Isaac Newton and the “salience network” can unleash your creativity
Whenever I get an artist block, the best way to jumpstart cre...
How YouTube's algorithm works, Beehiiv's State of the Newsletter, and what everyone gets wrong about social media.
We can start to recognize that algorithms our partner too. E...
TikTok is limiting users from viewing data trends via its Creative Center, a hub for the platform’s popular hashtags.
Not a terrible move, tbh. As a platform that can spread misin...
Bing’s GPT-4-powered Deep Search takes its time with AI questions
All those people who tried selling “prompt tips and trick pla...
Pilot who crashed plane for YouTube clicks is headed to federal prison
Never thought 'crashing a plane for YouTube clicks' would be ...
Influencers earn more money on sexy sponsored posts — here’s how much they’re paid
Interestingly, sexy photos earn people more money but it seem...
The Pokimane Cookie Controversy Is So Dumb
While the author dismisses the Pokimane cookie controversy as...
YouTube to Require Creators to Disclose AI-Created Content
This is a really good first step for YouTube. It’s one thing ...
Has It Ever Been Harder to Make a Living As An Author?
The image of authors living off book sales alone seems outdat...
Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades
Props to SAG-AFTRA for securing not just compensation increas...
Adapting Your Strategy After Failure
Failure has been a constant thing on my journey as a solo cre...
Landing a spot on the New York Times best sellers list
I heard Eric Thomas admit to this on a podcast – he basically...