IT総合 Twitch launches stories for streamers
Ahead of TwitchCon Las Vegas, Twitch is launching stories for streamers to connect with their audience even when they ar...
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IT総合 IT総合 Blue checks aren’t protecting sex workers from X’s porn crackdown
When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that...
IT総合 Twitch adds anti-harassment features to stop banned users from watching streams
Twitch streamers can finally block banned users from watching their streams, thanks to a recent update to the platform&#...
IT総合 Fearing AI, fanfiction writers lock their accounts
Kinktober. Whumptober. Kisstober. Flufftober. Goretober. October is a bacchanal of fanfiction, from romantic one-shots a...
IT総合 ‘TikTok whisperer’ Annie Wu Henry on social media and 2024
Connecting with the youth is a craft that has long eluded the Olds — a demographic that’s less defined by age than it is...
IT総合 Republicans still don’t know how to talk to young voters online
In an appeal to younger voters, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — who proposed raising the voting age ...
IT総合 Kick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator st...
IT総合 Betweened wants to teach kids how to use social media, not shut them out of it
Keeping kids off social media is idealistic at best, and giving them access to it opens a Pandora’s box of privacy conce...
IT総合 Vivek Ramaswamy is in his TikTok era, with Jake Paul’s endorsement
Vivek Ramaswamy is on TikTok now, thanks to Jake Paul. In the week since he joined the platform, Ramaswamy has amassed a...
IT総合 A new creator’s guild aims to protect online content creators
Content creation is work, but in such a rapidly shifting social media landscape, creators face an uphill battle fighting...
IT総合 Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent
Reddit is launching the “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators, along wi...
IT総合 MrBeast’s Olympics video is a geopolitical nightmare
MrBeast stumbled into the heated discourse of global affairs in his latest stunt.
The billionaire creator inadvertently ...
IT総合 Zepotha is huge on TikTok, but it’s no Goncharov
The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok.
Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user...
IT総合 Reddit’s menswear hub is the latest casualty of its battle with moderators
The widespread protests against Reddit’s API changes reached a boiling point last month after the company forcibly reope...
IT総合 Bluesky sends some users personalized apologies after racism controversy
Bluesky, which has been embattled with moderation issues since its launch earlier this year, appeared to apologize for f...
IT総合 Leave sex workers out of your NPC TikTok discourse
Every time a woman monetizes the absurd, she’s accused of making fetish content. It’s a symptom of the anti-sex moral pa...
IT総合 Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs
Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in accoun...
IT総合 Colleen Ballinger’s toxic gossip train won’t stop chugging on
The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not r...
IT総合 Twitch is launching a discovery feed and other short-form video features
Twitch is finally rolling out a Discovery Feed, after years of complaints from its creators about the lack of growth opp...
IT総合 You can’t post ass, Threads is doomed
Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter clone that launched this week, will always be hindered by its own content guidelines. Th...
IT総合 Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox usher in the new era of Smosh
In their first YouTube video together in seven years, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla summoned a demon to score Taylor Swi...
IT総合 Kick lures disenchanted Twitch streamers, for now
In wake of Twitch’s seemingly unattainable Partner Plus program, which grants a 70/30 subscription revenue split on the ...
IT総合 Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier strains an already tense relationship with creators
Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier, which will grant qualifying streamers a 70/30 revenue split, has been hailed as a win fo...
IT総合 Thousands of subreddits go dark to protest Reddit’s API pricing
Over 8,000 subreddits went dark or read-only in protest of Reddit’s API pricing, which will shut down many third-party a...
IT総合 Bluesky’s growing pains strain its relationship with Black users
Bluesky, the decentralized social network and frontrunner alternative to Twitter, has been hailed as a wonderland of fun...
IT総合 Blush, the AI lover from the same team as Replika, is more than just a sexbot
The team behind the AI friendship bot Replika is launching another AI companion — one that’s made to flirt.
Users can m...
IT総合 While parents worry, teens are bullying Snapchat AI
While parents fret over Snapchat’s chatbot corrupting their children, Snapchat users have been gaslighting, degrading an...
IT総合 For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter
In the months since Elon Musk took over, and subsequently tanked, Twitter, people have been desperate to find an alterna...
IT総合 Bipartisan Senate bill would ban social media algorithms for minors
In a bipartisan effort to “protect kids from harm,” an unlikely cohort of senators introduced a bill that would restrict...
IT総合 Meta Verified is under fire in sex work circles for revealing users’ legal names
With Meta Verified, users can pay for an enviable blue check next to their name. But the feature also requires users to ...