IT総合 How FYPM used Instagram Stories and thirst traps to raise $275K
Lindsey Lee Lurgin took an unconventional route to becoming a founder, so it’s only fitting that her fundraising strateg...
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IT総合 IT総合 Spotify’s astrology-like Daylists go viral, but its micro-genre mastermind was let go last month
Is it a “fearful vocaloid wednesday morning,” a “yearning cottagecore thursday afternoon,” or pe...
IT総合 The creator economy is ready for a workers’ movement
Erin McGoff has 3 million followers on social media, but with the money she gets from Instagram and TikTok, she wouldn’t...
IT総合 Amazon-owned Audible lays off 5% of staff
Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook company, is laying off 5% of its staff, according to a leaked memo obtained by Busin...
IT総合 The World Cruise on TikTok is an unintentional online reality show
“New characters unlocked on the nine month Ultimate World Cruise TikTok channel!” says an older man as pink letters fly ...
IT総合 Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed ...
IT総合 SpaceX wrongly fired eight activist employee, US labor board alleges
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint alleging that SpaceX illegally fired eight employees who wro...
IT総合 Public Domain Mickey Mouse is the first meme of 2024
The new year marks the nerdiest holiday you maybe didn’t know about: Public Domain Day. But this year’s cele...
IT総合 The internet moments that defined 2023
Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne? Sometimes, the internet’s most viral...
IT総合 Pornhub owner pays US government $1.8M to resolve sex trafficking probe
Pornhub’s parent company Aylo Holdings will pay $1.8 million to the U.S. government to resolve a charge of profiti...
IT総合 The new American Dream is to get MrBeast to pay off your debt
A woman in a blue tracksuit is on the floor of a bright asylum-like room, stretching in a pigeon yoga pose when she turn...
IT総合 Spill is now in open beta on iOS and Android
It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, yet we’re still seeing the reverberations of t...
IT総合 Why videos of $500 beauty advent calendars are flooding TikTok
Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? Dior sells an advent calendar for $4...
IT総合 MrBeast’s analytics platform ViewStats is out in beta
The top YouTuber in the U.S., MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) co-founded the new analytics platform ViewStats, which is now av...
IT総合 TikTok car confessionals are the new YouTube bedroom vlogs
YouTube’s first viral scandal took place in what we believed was a 16-year-old girl’s bedroom. In 2006, home...
IT総合 BeReal adds private groups and Live Photo-like features; Pew estimates 13% of US teens use app
The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. N...
IT総合 Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs despite Dungeons & Dragons thriving
Hasbro is laying off 1,100 employees, according to an SEC filing. The company behind franchises like Dungeons & Dra...
IT総合 The animated VTuber Ironmouse won Content Creator of the Year at the Game Awards
This year at the Game Awards, the coveted Content Creator of the Year award went to Ironmouse, a fan-favorite VTuber. It...
IT総合 Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie
It seems like the writing is on the soundproofed wall: The podcast boom is over, and this week’s news is evidence. Spoti...
IT総合 Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI
Elon Musk is looking to raise 1/44 of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX an...
IT総合 Grand Theft Auto VI trailer breaks MrBeast’s record for most YouTube views in 24 hours
In just 22 hours, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI has racked up 85 million views, breaking a MrBeast videoR...
IT総合 The best kitchen gifts for techy chefs in 2023
The kitchen is a sacred place. Some chefs insist on keeping things low-tech — Christine’s favorite purchase of the...
IT総合 Elon Musk says ‘go fuck yourself’ to advertisers leaving X
Your move, Linda. Elon Musk said “go fuck yourself” to advertisers who recently paused spending on X after h...
IT総合 Something’s up with Spotify Wrapped and Burlington, VT
Happy Spotify Wrapped Day! It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graph...
IT総合 Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits
In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that th...
IT総合 This virtual garage sale lets you haggle with AIs to buy Tesla stock, a PS5 or a toilet magazine
Cyber Monday is upon us, but the hottest deals in town are at the AI Garage Sale, where you can try to convince an AI to...
IT総合 How to talk about the OpenAI drama at Thanksgiving dinner
You’ve just landed in Dayton, Ohio after a long, overnight journey from SFO. While you were waiting in Denver on a...
IT総合 What does a Harry Potter fanfic have to do with OpenAI?
Have you ever puked and had diarrhea at the same time? I have, and when it happened, I was listening to a fan-made audio...
IT総合 Omegle’s death is the end of an era for anonymous online connection
After fourteen years online, Omegle shut down as part of a settlement in a $22 million sex trafficking lawsuit. If anyth...
IT総合 Apple, Disney, Comcast among X advertisers pausing spending after Musk endorsed antisemitic post
After X owner Elon Musk amplified antisemitic conspiracy theories on the platform, numerous high-profile advertisers hav...