, Calif.—Last night, YouTube hosted its annual VidCon party, in one of the Anaheim Convention Center’s large halls, and YouTube executives, top influencers, and industry professionals mingled about the cavernous space, sipping beer and eating vegetable skewers and salad in cups as a DJ on a large circular platform in the center blasted pop hits. The party felt like a generic corporate-sponsored event. Probably because the real party was 1.9 miles down the road, at a private event hosted by TikTok.Unlike YouTube’s event, TikTok’s party, at Bowlmor Lanes, was for creators only. Marketers and...…, Calif.—Last night, YouTube hosted its annual VidCon party, in one of the Anaheim Convention Center’s large halls, and YouTube executives, top influencers, and industry professionals mingled about the cavernous space, sipping beer and eating vegetable skewers and salad in cups as a DJ on a large circular platform in the center blasted pop hits. The party felt like a generic corporate-sponsored event. Probably because the real party was 1.9 miles down the road, at a private event hosted by TikTok.Unlike YouTube’s event, TikTok’s party, at Bowlmor Lanes, was for creators only. Marketers and...WW…

When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017, he’d never heard of the before. But the post piqued his interest, and he wanted to know more. So he did what your average teenager would do: He followed several accounts related to it on Instagram, searched for information on YouTube, and read up on it on forums.A year and a half later, Alex, who asked to use a pseudonym, runs his own Gen Z–focused QAnon Instagram account, through which he educates his generation about the “I was just noticing a lack in younger people...…When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017, he’d never heard of the before. But the post piqued his interest, and he wanted to know more. So he did what your average teenager would do: He followed several accounts related to it on Instagram, searched for information on YouTube, and read up on it on forums.A year and a half later, Alex, who asked to use a pseudonym, runs his own Gen Z–focused QAnon Instagram account, through which he educates his generation about the “I was just noticing a lack in younger people...WW…

Updated at 2:48 p.m. ET on June 20, 2019.On Tuesday, Marissa Casey Fuchs, a fashion influencer known on Instagram as @, shared a video to her 160,000-plus followers. In it, her boyfriend, Gabriel Grossman, professes his love and tells her that she’s about to embark on “an extraordinary adventure.”“I have the most important question of my life to ask you,” he . “The problem is, we’re not really into traditional weddings. It’s not really our style.” But, he adds, he figured out how to provide “something to experience, enjoy, and, you know, capture for the ’gram so we know it happened.” The...…Updated at 2:48 p.m. ET on June 20, 2019.On Tuesday, Marissa Casey Fuchs, a fashion influencer known on Instagram as @, shared a video to her 160,000-plus followers. In it, her boyfriend, Gabriel Grossman, professes his love and tells her that she’s about to embark on “an extraordinary adventure.”“I have the most important question of my life to ask you,” he . “The problem is, we’re not really into traditional weddings. It’s not really our style.” But, he adds, he figured out how to provide “something to experience, enjoy, and, you know, capture for the ’gram so we know it happened.” The...WW…

Travis Hawley was scrolling through the of LeBron James’s Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.“Dm me to buy verification badge,” wrote Dmitry Orlov, a player for the Washington Capitals. “Dm me to buy verification badge! Paypal, Zelle, Cashapp,” Malcolm Grant, an American professional basketball player in Lithuania, commented repeatedly.Other athletes joined in. The Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson, the Cincinnati Reds third baseman Jonathan India, the San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide...…Travis Hawley was scrolling through the of LeBron James’s Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.“Dm me to buy verification badge,” wrote Dmitry Orlov, a player for the Washington Capitals. “Dm me to buy verification badge! Paypal, Zelle, Cashapp,” Malcolm Grant, an American professional basketball player in Lithuania, commented repeatedly.Other athletes joined in. The Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson, the Cincinnati Reds third baseman Jonathan India, the San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide...WW…

Listen12 minCommentGift Share, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, “When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?”Libs of TikTok reposts a steady stream of TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from LGBTQ+ people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate outrage....…Listen12 minCommentGift Share, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a “predator.” The next evening, the same clip was featured on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News program, prompting the host to ask, “When did our public schools, any schools, become what are essentially grooming centers for gender identity radicals?”Libs of TikTok reposts a steady stream of TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from LGBTQ+ people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate outrage....WW…

Facebook CEO kicked off the first of his two-day on Tuesday afternoon, when he was grilled by 44 senators on his company’s practrices. The tech billionaire was brought to Capitol Hill to answer for his company's massive data breach by , which improperly gathered personal information on up to 87 million Facebook users ahead of the .This is Zuckerberg's first time back on the Hill since 2010 and the CEO, who is notoriously press- and camera-shy, was forced to awkwardly answer questions from lawmakers, not all of whom had a great understanding of how the social network or broader internet...…Facebook CEO kicked off the first of his two-day on Tuesday afternoon, when he was grilled by 44 senators on his company’s practrices. The tech billionaire was brought to Capitol Hill to answer for his company's massive data breach by , which improperly gathered personal information on up to 87 million Facebook users ahead of the .This is Zuckerberg's first time back on the Hill since 2010 and the CEO, who is notoriously press- and camera-shy, was forced to awkwardly answer questions from lawmakers, not all of whom had a great understanding of how the social network or broader internet...WW…

You’re not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying.There are the Dolan Twins, a pair of square-jawed 19-year-olds who have amassed more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube and millions more on Instagram. They are joined by the , t, , and —massive YouTube stars, all. At this point, every up-and-coming YouTube star seems to have a body double, and every category of influencer has its own set of famous twins: who , who create exercise videos, . The popular YouTuber Jake Paul just welcomed a new set of twins, the , into Team 10, his YouTuber collective; they replaced the Martinez...…You’re not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying.There are the Dolan Twins, a pair of square-jawed 19-year-olds who have amassed more than 10 million subscribers on YouTube and millions more on Instagram. They are joined by the , t, , and —massive YouTube stars, all. At this point, every up-and-coming YouTube star seems to have a body double, and every category of influencer has its own set of famous twins: who , who create exercise videos, . The popular YouTuber Jake Paul just welcomed a new set of twins, the , into Team 10, his YouTuber collective; they replaced the Martinez...WW…

Skip to ContentThis post may contain affiliate links which I earn a small commission from and are at no additional cost to you. See my disclosure policy for details. Thank you for supporting this small business.Loneliness is a tough emotion and one that is not usually welcome. The good news is that being alone is not the same as being lonely, so even when it’s just you and yourself, it’s still possible to get out of loneliness all on your own. The bad news is that loneliness can strike even when around people. That just means it’s on you to figure out why you’re lonely around those people...…Skip to ContentThis post may contain affiliate links which I earn a small commission from and are at no additional cost to you. See my disclosure policy for details. Thank you for supporting this small business.Loneliness is a tough emotion and one that is not usually welcome. The good news is that being alone is not the same as being lonely, so even when it’s just you and yourself, it’s still possible to get out of loneliness all on your own. The bad news is that loneliness can strike even when around people. That just means it’s on you to figure out why you’re lonely around those people...WW…

Supported byLOS ANGELES — , the physical location of a new content creator collective, is a Spanish-style mansion perched at the top of a hill on a gated street in Los Angeles. It has a palatial backyard, a pool and enormous kitchen, dining and living quarters.Four of the group’s 19 members live in the house full time; several others keep rooms to crash in when they are in town. And all day long, a stream of influential young internet stars come by to pay homage to the new guard.Hype House was formed in December by some of TikTok’s most talked-about stars. They introduced themselves with...…Supported byLOS ANGELES — , the physical location of a new content creator collective, is a Spanish-style mansion perched at the top of a hill on a gated street in Los Angeles. It has a palatial backyard, a pool and enormous kitchen, dining and living quarters.Four of the group’s 19 members live in the house full time; several others keep rooms to crash in when they are in town. And all day long, a stream of influential young internet stars come by to pay homage to the new guard.Hype House was formed in December by some of TikTok’s most talked-about stars. They introduced themselves with...WW…

Skip to ContentThis post may contain affiliate links which I earn a small commission from and are at no additional cost to you. See my disclosure policy for details. Thank you for supporting this small business.Self love is such a personal journey and one that can begin and change directions many times. It can also have many different directions or focus such as a self love body image journey, a self care self love journey, a health self love journey, even a spiritual self love journey, and more.Regardless of why you’ve chosen to focus on self love, I believe that yoga is a generous...…Skip to ContentThis post may contain affiliate links which I earn a small commission from and are at no additional cost to you. See my disclosure policy for details. Thank you for supporting this small business.Self love is such a personal journey and one that can begin and change directions many times. It can also have many different directions or focus such as a self love body image journey, a self care self love journey, a health self love journey, even a spiritual self love journey, and more.Regardless of why you’ve chosen to focus on self love, I believe that yoga is a generous...WW…