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Kenshin

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Real companies just use an AI-created rip of creators voice to promote products

We all know scams that have been doing this. What strikes me ...

How to get other people to share your stuff

Relationships are everything. It's greatto invest in other pe...

Thinking about hashtags

Most of us end up chasing visibility. We want our work seen, ...

Studios embrace ‘creator and meme culture’ as movies like Twisters, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice memeify marketing

But doesn't it concern anyone that movies are now becoming th...

Ask CBX: Is it possible to create "authentic" work if it’s purely for external approval or commercial success?

Throughout history, many artists worked primarily for patrons...

Actors demand action over 'disgusting' explicit video game scenes

There is a difference between pushing boundaries and blindsid...

People Aren’t Posting: What happens when people revolt against social media just becoming media?

Yeah, until they get bought out or just become echo chambers....

100,000s of copyright-free images

These are some beautiful images. Thanks for sharing.

YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts

If they learned anything from the ArtStation debacle, they wo...

AI is complicating plagiarism

yes, it's frustrating when a technology enters a space and th...

Shares > Everything else on Instagram

I understand why sharing would be considered a good metric, b...

Instagram limits political content

If I was into the subject, I would hope that I could find wha...

Freelancers face stiff competition from AI

I've noticed this in my own business. People have absolutely ...

Why ‘chronically online’ memes will destroy the internet

I probably understand about 4/5 memes that I see today. Somet...

MrBeast Aims to Dethrone Prime Hydration? Lawsuit Docs Reveal Beverage Ambitions

It's clear to me that Jimmy is trying to monetize his audienc...

All three game console makers have now abandoned Twitter integration

Honestly, the Twitter integration was pretty useless anyway. ...

YouTube lets some creators try new tool, "Dream Screen" for AI shorts backgrounds

Me just hoping that the training set is not youtube users the...

Paying creators based on engagement encourages harmful collusion

Reminds me of what is happening in the Music streaming (Spoti...

Creators are speaking out against shady brand deals

It's really hard to police. Without proof the platforms are j...

How to escape the feeling of "posting into the void"

Good advice. Most people expect social media to just give the...

Streaming is remaking itself into the new cable

Pay for Cable (a collection of channels) -> Cancel Cable b...

Screenshot = the ultimate curiosity hook

From my own experiences, these type of chat screenshots alway...

Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter

Why not just endorse Mastodon then, Mr Dorsey? It’s basically...

Disturbing AI nonsense recipe channel with millions of views

Aside from the recipe being horrible (is this satire? Lol), i...

Let's talk about Drake

The whole concept of winning and losing is pretty funny. This...

Watcher, known for their Ghost Hunting and Mystery Files are moving to streaming

Exactly this. They more so insulted the fans and the busine...

Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model

Wow, this is just plain wrong. It's a slap in the face to the...

Every celebrity has an alcohol brand now

Alcohol marketing is tough, it makes sense to get all the hel...

Spending time alone is really, really important.

For me it's the judgement free environment of being alone tha...

200 Musicians (including Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry) sign letter against irresponsible AI

The fact that data is being used and trained without the arti...

OpenAI Can Re-Create Human Voices—but Won’t Release the Tech Yet

Smart for them to take their time with this one. This type ...

OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood

This was to be expected. OpenAI wants to start getting adopti...

How the porn bots took over Twitter

The moderation drop coupled with the concept change of the ve...

A new TikTok ban gains steam

It would probably be a company that has that desire to buy th...

Apple terminated Epic’s developer account

Looks like they reinstated the decisions [0] likely from push...

Audience building: how long can you keep up the charade?

There has been this general trend of large creators quitting ...

Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To

Both can be true. I think we have come a long way in being ab...

The biggest songs on TikTok could soon disappear

Many of my music industry friends had concerns this was going...

YouTube is the latest part of Google to be hit with layoffs

My guess is economic hardship is leading to cuts (and its usu...

Microsoft Cuts 1,900 Jobs in Gaming, Including at Activision

Gaming and Tech layoffs are having an awful time. Hoping the ...

MrBeast reportedly signs Prime Video deal for new YouTube x TV series

Regardless of what you think of either Prime or Mr beast, thi...

A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro [video]

The workspace stuff is pretty cool, I like the idea of being ...

How LinkedIn became creator-first

The author is spot on that a lot of the content has become or...

Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video

despite paying over $1 billion to streamers in 2023, Twitch ...

Insane Creator Scam [video]

This is absolutely insane. This is a lesson to all creators w...

South Park mocks Logan Paul & Prime

Hahaha this was good. Crazy how far Logan Paul has come. Usu...

Krea Open Beta , a design tool with AI inside

Pretty cool. I like the idea of Ai tools that do a specific f...

Tucker Carlson Is Launching His Own Streaming Service

While it's interesting to see Tucker Carlson venture into his...

A Year on YouTube: The Trending Topics that Defined 2023

These creators saw the greatest growth in US-based subscribe...

TikTok’s top trending videos reveal a fractured culture

Culture seems like has always seemed to be homogeneous until ...

How Jubilee made a $50M channel that forever changed YouTube

Usually I see hackathons done in the engineering/software bui...

YouTube rolls out Shorts ads

The video format of the ad is going to be key here. With su...

Pilot who crashed plane for YouTube clicks is headed to federal prison

These edgy creators are not new, but they are more extreme. ...

Pika may become Next Hollywood Nightmare

Nice, looks pretty cool. I added myself to the waitlist, than...

Steals content and Tiktok still pays him for it

I had to do a triple take to make sure this wasn't satire. W...

Squid Game Contestants Considering Lawsuit Over Reality Show Injuries

Reality TV shows seem to care more about shock value than the...

VRChat Begins Open Beta For Paid Creator Subscriptions

Second life does a good job of this kind of thing, which make...

Trends don’t happen like they used to

The Tim Robinson meme formats, I am sure you have seen it som...

How Reece Feldman Became Hollywood Studios’ Gen Z Whisperer, One TikTok at a Time

This guy seems to have built his career by blatantly breaking...

YouTube Copyright ID Scammers Must Pay Artists $3.3m Restitution

This situation is infuriating; these scammers exploited artis...

Tiktok is now allowing users to save songs to music streaming platforms.

This is massive news. I already tend to find new music on tik...

Over 100 UK TikTokers joined forces to protest the app after a creator it repeatedly promoted was convicted of rape

An extremely reasonable reaction by users/creators of the pla...

You didn't read that, you saw it on TikTok

The problem I see is that people get lazy about research. My ...

Artists Lose First Round of Copyright Infringement Case Against AI Art Generators

Half the people talking about AI in the legal proceedings don...

Lapse, a new photo-sharing app

So basically they are trying another spin on BeReal. Interest...

Landing a spot on the New York Times best sellers list

Wow. It’s was such a cutthroat world for authors trying to ma...

YouTuber Rosana Pansino claims MrBeast ‘lied and edited her out’ of video

Jimmy needs to respond. It's looking real shady. The fact t...

The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy

I kind of understand where they are coming from, but authenti...

Smosh’s “Dickipedia” t-shirts are a response to Elon Musk’s comments about Wikipedia

No one can out-troll content creators online, this is absolut...

Snapchat grew 12% since last year

This is actually quite surprising, had no idea this many peop...

When should creators launch “real” products? When’s the right time?

If you’re launching a new product, you’re really launching a...

Launching a book looks extremely different in 2023

I noticed this, too, and BookTok is something my wife is abso...

Spotify is making major changes to its royalty model

In this scenario, a track would have to earn 5 cents per mon...

Controversial SAG-AFTRA Halloween costume guidelines

This is really silly. Was SAG-AFTRA pressured to say somethin...

How Does a Post-Modern World Affect Creativity?

a post-modern world produces a creative drive that primarily...

The Anti-Anti-Adblocker to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

Pretty neat. Looks like you need to be a bit technical to set...

Tell people they inspired you

This is extremely underrated advice for people in the media i...

Teens love LinkedIn

It will be interesting to see how their opinion changes as th...

Man Fakes an Entire Month of His Life Using AI Generated Photos On Social Media

And can you imagine the possibilities that scammers can unloc...

Videos depicting “steroid-like drugs” have received 587 million TikTok views over the past three years

There is a reason why most countries (besides USA) don’t allo...

Digital Creator Serena Kerrigan to Launch “The Future of TV”

You have to admire the hustle and the ability to remove gatek...

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