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YouTube’s “Hype” feature, which allows fans to help their favorite creators get discovered, is rolling out globally, the company announced Tuesday. First introduced at Google’s Made On YouTube event in 2024, the feature — a dedicated button that appears below the existing “like” button — will become available on videos from creators with fewer than 500,000 subscribers. The feature is …

From streamers and podcasters to OnlyFans models and TikTok megastars, here’s the people shaping the culture of 2025 They used to be a novelty, but creators have infiltrated every part of our lives. TikTokers are no longer bound to TikTok — they’re in our HBO shows and prime-time sitcoms and Spotify playlists. So what makes a creator influential today? For …

Is it a conspiracy? For months, YouTubers have been quietly griping that something looked off in their recent video uploads. Following a deeper analysis by a popular music channel, Google has now confirmed that it has been testing a feature that uses AI to artificially enhance videos. The company claims this is part of its effort to “provide the best …

Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, best known for creating the Netflix juggernaut “Stranger Things,” are officially in business with Paramount. The pair is parting ways with Netflix to enter a wide-ranging, four-year exclusive deal for movies, television and streaming projects at Paramount. The agreement, which is expected to emphasize “ambitious” and “large-scale theatrical films,” will commence following the conclusion of …

The new Paramount has officially made its first big talent deal: Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer are moving to the studio. Paramount and parent company Skydance made the announcement Monday, five days after reports that the brothers were in talks to leave Netflix, where they created the megahit Stranger Things. The Duffers’ deal at Paramount is an exclusive, …

In Hollywood’s cutthroat dealmaking ecosystem, stranger things often happen — like Matt and Ross Duffer moving from Netflix for a rich new overall deal at Paramount. The Duffer Brothers, creators of the Netflix juggernaut “Stranger Things,” are in advanced negotiations to exclusively create film and television — with an emphasis on tentpole movies — at the legacy studio just taken …

Following a campaign against adult video games, Steam and Itch removed or restricted titles that contained material that payment processors objected to. The payment processors were responding to pressure put on them by the group Collective Shout, which campaigns against p*rnography. Many feared that LGBTQ+ content would be included in the bans, and now, we can see that this very …

Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene changed the entire course of gaming in 2017 with the release of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, now known nonsensically as PUBG Battlegrounds. (Plunkbat forever.) Without it–for good or ill–we may not have Fortnite, one of the most successful games ever. PUBG isn’t doing too badly itself, with more than half a million people playing at least once every day. Now, Greene is …

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