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I sing and dance (questionably)

New Jersey Joined on Oct 26, 2023

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Nov 9

No one benefits from you scrolling and feeling sad

https://open.substack.com/pub/sublimeinternet/p/no-one-benefits-from-you-scrolling

TikTok Shop's Black Friday drove $100 million in US sales and users viewed over 30,000 livestreams

This is insane! TikTok has effectively merged entertainment a...

Dec 4

YouTube’s hyperlinked comments could drive valuable traffic for Google Search

Now Google wants to innovate because AI is eating searches lu...

Nov 12

Controversial AI generated video summaries coming to youtube [video]

Yes but...can AI capture the tone of a video? Summarizing a s...

Nov 1

Gen Z media and spending habits

The classics never die :P I still crave playing snake and te...

Oct 20

Adobe Adds AI Video Magic Directly in Premiere Pro

I think its great that Adobe is prioritizing responsible AI u...

Oct 15

A Vtuber Just Became Twitch's Most-Subscribed Streamer Ever

I remember when VTubers were seen as just a niche part of the...

Oct 9

Drowning in Slop

The internet is literally turning into a landfill of AI-gener...

Oct 6

Ask CBX: How could the SAG-AFTRA strike impact future collaborations between gaming companies and voice actors?

I could see the strike shifting the power dynamics. Voice act...

Oct 1

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Oct 12

Zuck wants to be a video game live streamer

https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/10/09/mark-zuckerberg-civilization-stream/

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Sep 19

Snapchat Plans Major Revamp of App In Bid to Rival TikTok

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/snapchat-plans-major-revamp-app-1236004262/

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Sep 13

Rage bait is all the rage on Threads — so I tried it. I'm sorry?

https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-engagement-rage-bait-viral-katie-notopoulos-i-tried-2024-9

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Sep 4

Concord dev expresses gratitude for support: 'For all of you reaching out with love, you are the reason we make games'

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/concord-developer-expresses-gratitude-for-support-following-the-sudden-shutdown-for-all-of-you-reaching-out-with-love-you-are-the-reason-we-make-games/

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Aug 25

Pinterest Shares Rising Trends and Searches in the App

https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/the-pinterest-fall-2024-trend-report/

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Aug 8

Media sees ‘X’ as the ‘Home of Social Media Piracy’

https://torrentfreak.com/sports-leagues-see-x-as-the-home-of-social-media-piracy-240802/

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Jul 28

Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24206120/runway-ai-video-generator-scraped-youtube-videos-report

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Jul 23

Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?

https://tedium.co/2024/07/23/linkedin-complex-linking-schemes/

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Jul 14

Ask CBX: Do other creators get the sunday blues?

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Jul 9

Your merch doesn’t have to suck

https://creatorlogic.com/p/creatormerch

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Jul 3

YouTube Culture & Trends Report

https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/fandom-2024

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Jun 29

TikTok to challenge Amazon Prime Day with its own sales event “Deals For You Days”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/tiktok-to-challenge-amazon-prime-day-with-its-own-sales-event-in-july

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Jun 25

Freelancers face stiff competition from AI

https://futureparty.com/ai-jobs-freelancers/

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Jun 11

YouTube lets some creators try new tool, "Dream Screen" for AI shorts backgrounds

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18138167

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May 29

DeviantArt In 2024 Sure Sounds Like A Sh*thole

https://aftermath.site/deviantart-ai-scam-bots

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May 7

Bill forces shutdown of TikTok by January 19, 2025 in USA

https://www.dexerto.com/tiktok/tiktok-sues-united-states-over-unconstitutional-ban-bill-2698514/

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Apr 28

Typewriter Community Braces for Influx of Taylor Swift Fandom Inspired by Tortured Poets Department

https://www.404media.co/taylor-swift-typewriter-tortured-poets-department/

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Apr 22

Tuesday the US Senate will approve the bill forcing a TikTok sale or shut-down

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jlouderb_its-the-end-of-the-line-for-tiktok-tuesday-activity-7188176088718544896-sd10

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Apr 19

How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/food-industry-influencers

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Apr 14

Movies are back? At CinemaCon, theater owners and studios will make the case

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2024-04-09/wide-shot-cinemacon-box-office-king-kong-the-wide-shot

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Apr 2

The 1 Thing Every YouTuber Needs to Know

https://youtubehowto.substack.com/p/the-1-thing-every-youtuber-needs

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Mar 30

OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices—but Won’t Release the Tech Yet

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/openai-holds-back-wide-release-of-voice-cloning-tech-due-to-misuse-concerns/

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Mar 18

CTO of OpenAI stumbles on where training data for Sora came from

https://youtu.be/W_N6glQPX6s?si=HHhZESnn2ymJWHpE

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Mar 12

Dune Part 2 Video Timeline

https://twitter.com/iamneubert/status/1767464402310115509

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Mar 11

How the porn bots took over Twitter

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/07/1235784919/twitter-x-bots-social-media-elon-musk

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Mar 4

ChatGPT bots account for more than 12% of Upwork

https://www.plusdocs.com/blog/bots-account-for-more-than-12-percent-of-upwork-applications

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Mar 1

Reports show TikTok engagement is down 50% from last year

https://www.rivaliq.com/blog/social-media-industry-benchmark-report/

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Feb 22

How Google is killing independent sites like ours

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

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Feb 16

Sora and the Future of Filmmaking

https://every.to/chain-of-thought/sora-and-the-future-of-filmmaking

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Jan 21

A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0dG-2huJE

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Jan 16

There Is Still No Real Use Case For AI Art

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-digital-equivalent-of-wearing

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Dec 21 '23

Googles Music FX: generate music for free

https://aitestkitchen.withgoogle.com/tools/music-fx#

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Dec 16 '23

How much Hank Green makes from Shorts, Reels, and TikTok [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiT623Ysl80

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Nov 28 '23

Lucy Bella Simkins Built a YouTube Channel with 10,000,000 Subscribers [podcast]

https://tropicalmba.com/episodes/lucy-youtube-channel

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Nov 22 '23

New Kodak Super 8 Film Camera Thought to Be Vaporware Is Actually Coming Out, Costs $5,495

https://www.404media.co/new-kodak-super-8-film-video-camera-thought-to-be-vaporware-is-actually-coming-out-costs-5-495-charges-with-microusb/

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Nov 14 '23

Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division

https://aftermath.site/amazon-lays-off-180-employees-in-its-games-division

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Nov 10 '23

How to make a brand by Virgil Abloh

https://virgilabloh.com/free-game/

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Nov 7 '23

MrBeast Is Upset Again That People Are Weirded Out By His Charity Videos

https://www.garbageday.email/p/new-mrbeast-charity-tantrum-dropped

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Nov 3 '23

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