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Messo

Computer Science, Engineering, and Heavy Metal

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Ask CBX: How could the SAG-AFTRA strike impact future collaborations between gaming companies and voice actors?

As someone who works in game dev, I think this strike could b...

Suno releases new "Covers" feature to reimagine music you love

I am curious how they handle copyright with this. If you up...

Spotify Looks to Pay Video Creators to Put Shows on Platform

They are clearly trying to position themselves as a YouTube c...

Shows that run for several hours are becoming more common

Its like hanging out with someone for hours and getting to he...

Gen Z powers the rise of the corporate influencer

But if companies offer long-term contracts or make the influe...

Fandom Has Turned Everybody Into Emotional Shareholders

As someone who works in game development, I can tell you that...

YouTube announced that creators now have channel QR codes to share their channels on or offline

Wow this is actually a pretty great, surprised they haven't d...

Fashion and Video games

Yep, its not surprising. Gaming is becoming a social platform...

Apple Podcasts Now Available on the Web

This is a welcome change! I have been using embedded links fo...

"We're not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products" - Procreate CEO James Cuda

I’m all for innovation, but not at the cost of artists' livel...

Gen Z’s loneliness crisis may be changing entertainment tastes

yeap exactly. I think this is partially why "The Last of Us" ...

Audible wants to pay royalties for audiobooks

I love listening to audio books, so this is really cool and g...

Ask CBX: Do other creators get the sunday blues?

I totally get what your saying! Sunday blues are definitely a...

Instagram limits political content

I kind of understand this position. Politics on social media ...

DrDisrespect responds to Twitch Ban

His hubris is showing. He truly believes that his audience w...

Why hasn't the press broken the Dr Disrespect Twitch ban story?

Yep! Here's a good summary: commondreams.org/news/noam-chomsk...

Why hasn't the press broken the Dr Disrespect Twitch ban story?

Tons of allegations with no evidence. While it's a narrative...

Video lighting: Everything you need to know

I’ve always struggled with getting my video lighting right, b...

US Surgeon General calls for a warning label on social platforms

What is considered “social media”? Are chat apps like disco...

Database of over 5,000 GIFs representing visual techniques in the world of filmmaking

This is an amazing resource for inspiration or for anyone who...

Cara: DeviantArt and Artstation alternative

Just checked out the platform, and it’s pretty good. Nothing ...

‘All eyes on Rafah’ is the Internet's most viral AI image. Two artists are claiming credit

It's crazy how AI is making it harder to credit artists. Befo...

The Fall of the House of Etsy

Proliferation of Dropshippers This to me has ruined pretty...

Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving

Like anything creative, the copy cats will be effective, but ...

Creators are speaking out against shady brand deals

The amount of hidden sponsorships I've come across is appalli...

OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT

OpenAI needs to strike all sorts of deals like this to get th...

EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak

It’s not even acceptable in a free game imo. Use a different ...

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

My thoughts exactly. Although I think Nostr is a different pr...

Disturbing AI nonsense recipe channel with millions of views

That’s the thing, people will still watch it because it’s tak...

Nobody knows you exist. Now what?

Here's the deal: sustainable self-promotion is where it's at....

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

I think what pissed people off is they said "Anyone can affor...

How Fandom Acts as a "Third Place"

Probably the best example of this was the fans of The Gratefu...

YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with their paying subscribers

I love this update! It’s a big hurdle to move your audience a...

Creators are stepping back from generative AI

I’ve been using AI for very uncreative things, like boiler pl...

Make Millions on Discord: A new distribution channel has opened

Even really large scale chat that is extremely active, like t...

OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood

I think it could be interesting for filmmakers if they could ...

Augmented Reality Use Cases 2024

I think AR gaming could be massive. Imagine Pokemon Go with A...

Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked

It’s weird to me that these payment processors have some sort...

Apple terminated Epic’s developer account

I don’t think people realize just how insane that is. No busi...

ChatGPT bots account for more than 12% of Upwork

Sad but not surprising, the freelance marketplaces have alway...

PlayStation Laying Off 900 Across Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, And More, Closing London Studio

More bloodshed for the gaming industry. Such a shame. It lo...

Almost half of adults on TikTok have never posted a video, research shows

For tiktok specifically The top 25% of U.S. adults on TikTo...

How Google is killing independent sites like ours

There's a possibility that AI-driven platforms could potentia...

How to do the slow, hard, good work of staying put.

Staying cultivates resilience, fostering personal growth and ...

Attention Ecology

So much information out there yet people seem to get scammed/...

Steve Jobs' 3-Part Hook

The second part, where Jobs invites everyone to be part of so...

YouTube thumbnail strategy: When the title & thumbnail are in conversation.

Yea totally, seems almost like a “double take” kind of thing....

Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy

To say it’s not at the very least inspired by pokemon would b...

Anime is a $25 billion industry that pays its animators pennies

It always blows my mind that the creative industries pay so l...

How LinkedIn became creator-first

The fact that LinkedIn was able to turn things around is shoc...

39k+ creators on TikTok have more than 1M+ followers. In the last 7 days 7198 of them were selling on TikTok Shop

7198 stores with 1M built in LOYAL customers! I wouldn’t c...

How rewards can demotivate [video]

This is so good, thanks for sharing. I never understood the r...

Women Creatives Thought Hollywood Could Change. Were They Wrong?

The industry's "commitment" to diversity seems performative, ...

Twitch to shut down in South Korea due to high costs

This is humongous news considering the impact South Korea has...

Lucy Bella Simkins Built a YouTube Channel with 10,000,000 Subscribers [podcast]

Pretty interesting listen. She seemed to grow quickly by gett...

Thief of creativity and focus

Pretty interesting statistic consider how many uploads it ...

Influencers earn more money on sexy sponsored posts — here’s how much they’re paid

“Sex sells” But seriously, it does. And it’s probably the mo...

VRChat Begins Open Beta For Paid Creator Subscriptions

For those who don’t know what VRChat is: VRChat is a virtua...

The Pokimane Cookie Controversy Is So Dumb

I largely agree with the author, this is straight up none sen...

Why We Often Sabotage Ourselves

I stumbled into the Echo Chamber trap, especially with friend...

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

This is one of those subtle changes that will dramatically ef...

Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division

Bummer news about Amazon's games division – another round of ...

Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades

More from another article: theverge.com/2023/11/8/23945647/ho...

How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content

This has got to be the worst application of AI in the creator...

TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund is shutting down

So the new Creativity Program is mostly a way to incentivize ...

Lemon8, the Instagram rival from TikTok parent ByteDance, fails to gain traction in US

I posted some videos on there, and the reach was non-existent...

ApeFest attendees report vision problems and ‘extreme pain’ after event

Yikes. I would be extremely pissed if this happened to me. I ...

Ask CBX: What are your favorite apps, software, and equipment for content creation?

For CS/Engineering: Visual Studio Code and Python for softwar...

Why YouTube feels boring [video]

Pretty much the main reason people coined the term "Beastific...

The Unspoken Reason You Need Creative Community

Very true. When I started out, I had no friends who were crea...

The “Niche” Newsletter That’s Grown to Almost 700k Subscribers

The GIST journey is super motivating! Their tricks like givea...

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

A bit concerning to be cut out of the video's top 3 . I am t...

A study claims that 48% of Gen Z feel that “sex and sexual content is not needed for the plot of most TV & movies.”

Seems like a generational over-correction from what we had in...

Instagram Tests New ‘Nearby’ Feed for Stories

I wonder if this will gain any momentum. I don’t usually care...

Launching a book looks extremely different in 2023

Great article on something I really never stopped to think ab...

Instagram features that US says ruin teens’ Mental Health

Its no question that they prioritize addictive behavior. I me...

Ask CBX: What got you into content creation in the first place?

It all started out with making little code scripts and hacks ...

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