X announced a new long-form post format called Articles today. The feature, which is only available to Premium+ subscribers and verified organizations, lets users publish posts with text […]
Borderlands Movie, Nintendo Direct, & More Big News This Week
As yet another week passes, we get more proof that 2024 is shaping up to be a very busy year in gaming—if not for game releases, then certainly for big stories around game exclusivity, adaptions, and, as always, streamers. This week we got our first look at the highly anticipated Borderlands movie (lol), learned about…
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MrBeast Is Visiting Stores & Forcing Them To Restock His Candy
James Donaldson, aka MrBeast aka that YouTuber who does weird charity videos aka that guy who sold me a terrible burger, is apparently visiting Walmarts and forcing employees to let him explore their storage areas and then making them restock his candy bars.
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YouTube bests Netflix, Disney+ as the top streamer of 2023
Viewers spent more time watching YouTube in 2023 than on Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+, or any other streaming service, according to Nielsen data.
Mark Zuckerberg defends teenage creators’ right to public Instagram accounts
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Meta, commented in today’s Senate hearing on children’s online safety that teenagers should be able to be creators and share their content […]
Wait, wasn’t layoff season meant to be over?
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Lego Fortnite’s first big update squashes bugs and adds a launch pad
Epic’s standalone survival crafting game saw its first update on Tuesday, smoothing out some of the new game’s rough edges and adding a flurry of quality of life […]
MrBeast made $263K from a video on X, but calls the payout ‘a bit of a facade’
MrBeast made over $263,000 in ad revenue from posting his latest video on X, but the YouTube icon says he thinks this number is “a bit of a […]
MrBeast Nearing $100 Million TV Deal With Amazon
James Donaldson, aka MrBeast aka that YouTuber who does weird charity videos aka that guy who sold me a terrible burger, is reportedly close to signing an estimated $100 million deal with Amazon to create a competition series on the company’s Prime Video streaming service.
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MrBeast earns more than $250,000 on video uploaded to Elon Musk’s X
MrBeast just made a quarter of a million dollars from one X video upload. But, here’s why you can’t repeat his success.