Showing posts with label influencers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label influencers. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Washington Square Park sounds like that city in Miracleman where all the spies are imprisoned

Gothamist:

In Washington Square Park, everyone has main character energy.

On any given day, dozens of young people scour the downtown park with smartphones and microphones, looking for people to interview. Buskers and dog walkers increasingly compete for space with tripods, even in corners of the park with well-earned reputations for grittiness.

The park, which for decades was known as a hub of counterculture and an anchor for protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers looking to go viral.

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“They'll come up to you and you can't see it. There'll be someone from afar, like, filming you. It's stressful”

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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

An influencer sued another content creator for allegedly duplicating her TikTok, Instagram and Amazon Storefront posts

Everything from using the same "neutral, beige and cream aesthetics"  to posting "nearly identical videos"
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Thursday, February 22, 2024

An interesting throwaway line in Casey "Swole Woman" Johnston's latest newsletter

The article's about signing up for a deluxe massage without doing much research, and then realizing it had bizarre wellness elements like "lymphatic drainage." But a line not elaborated on as to why she wanted a massage:

My muscles are so sore at this point that some of them are sensitive to the touch 

And the morning after the (thoroughly and disturbingly-described) massage:

the next day, I woke up, and every single limb was heavy. I dragged through the house from bed to desk, slumped in my chair. I felt like I’d run a marathon. Every muscle felt exhausted, as if I were trying to move through deep water. It was a physical tiredness I hadn’t felt in a long, long time, maybe ever. The attendant texted me via the spa’s business account to ask how I was feeling. Extremely tired, I said. “Yes, it’s the lymphatic drainage.

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Monday, January 9, 2023

OK, I have some unsatisfying guesses, but I don't know why they're streaming to so many phones

From a thread of various behind the scenes clips of streamers:

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Friday, February 4, 2022

"Steroids are rampant among fitness influencers"

Insider:

"People would come into my office and talk without hesitation to me about all the cocaine that they used or all the opiates that they took or all the marijuana they smoked," he said. "But then I will have somebody who walks into the door of my office and it is immediately obvious upon even looking at him that he has used large doses of steroids. He'll then deny to my face that he has ever used these drugs."

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Instagram vs Reality

@asasteinars

Proof that Social Media is fake 😆 #Japan #socialmedia

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Sunsets in Santorini 🌅 #santorini #santorinigreece #greece #instagramvsreality #travel #traveltok #fyp

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Sunday, January 10, 2021

"A fashion model since the age of 17 with no formal scientific training...might seem an unlikely nuclear energy advocate"

Mel Magazine:

it’s hard to imagine a minute-long video titled “How Does A Nuclear Reactor Work?” standing out. But 30-year-old Brazilian model Isabelle Boemeke is an expert marshal of your focus, and she’ll make sure you watch it. “Imagine that these aliens with cowboy hats are uranium atoms,” she instructs against a night-sky background, donning futuristic wrap sunglasses and a neon pink cutout bodysuit. 

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This is Isodope, Boemeke’s internet persona, who serves as the world’s first “nuclear energy influencer,” as she puts it. Active across TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube with a combined audience of more than 60,000 followers, Boemeke produces informational videos about climate change with a focus on nuclear energy.

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After watching her videos, for example, you’ll never forget that uranium pellets are roughly the size of a gummy bear, and you might also find yourself harboring a protective fondness for the Diablo Canyon power plant in California.

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

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Friday, January 17, 2020

"The Owners of Two Portland Celebrity Llamas Are Feuding"

WWeek:
"And because he is a normal llama, and lives a normal llama life, I will never dress him up in costumes, hats, blankets or other coverings," McCool wrote on Facebook. (Rojo often appeared at events wearing a top hat and other accessories.) "So please do not ask me or him to perform these circus acts."

Joy says she made note of the remarks, but chose not to respond. Months later, though, tensions reignited when a resident of Peacock Lane decided to dedicate her holiday display to Rojo, who died in November. On opening night, McCool showed up outside the house with Caesar, posing for photos and speaking to local news. To Joy, it was a slap in the face that could no longer be ignored.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

"TikTok Street" in India

LiveMint:
India is the biggest market for TikTok with over 200 million users

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B Block’s back lane—with colonial white pillars on one side and crumbling office buildings on the other—is like any other 250m stretch in the Capital city, full of vehicles and pedestrians.

But on Sundays, it turns into TikTok street. Hundreds of young people throng the street, coming from as far as Moradabad, about 175km from the capital, to make videos

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What’s so special about TikTok street? The light, the white background and the fact that most viral videos were shot here, Thakur says. “It looks like a foreign street."

TikTok street regulars treat their videos like an enjoyable work assignment. They make as many videos as possible till it’s time to go home and edit them. “We all know how to use PhotoShop and Final Cut thanks to YouTube,"

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Their agenda is more than just fun. They want to become TikTok stars, with a fan following of a million or more and a deluge of brand endorsements. “We have to make 60 videos in a day so we stick to a strict schedule," says Sohankar, a resident of east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar, who has over 2,000 TikTok followers. “Also, it gets very crowded on the street."
Related, deciphering the TikTok algorithm:


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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

"The strange case of . . . the influencer who came back as a different person

Sarah Manavis for New Statesman:
In 2015, when he joined Musical.ly, the app for sharing lip-syncing videos that was bought by TikTok in 2018, he posted near-daily clips of himself doing jerky dance moves, acting out scenes with his fiancé . . . and flashing his abs. Within 18 months, [his] seemingly mundane videos were regularly drawing half a million views per clip and he became one of the most popular users on the app. By the start of 2017, [he] had gained an audience of just under a million Instagram followers and a whopping seven million on Musical.ly. These followers then transferred to TikTok when it was bought, giving [him] one of the largest followings on the world's fastest-growing social media platform.

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hundreds of users complained that he had not honoured the promises he'd made to secure these gifts . . . . In the midst of the controversy, he disappeared from social media entirely – wiping his Instagram and YouTube channel of all content.

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That was until late last year, when [he] reappeared with a bizarre post that many claim was an attempt to rebrand himself as a new person, Troy Becker: someone with a different age, job, and identity.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

"The 100 Most Influential People In Influencer Marketing"

Time to feel like a dinosaur.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

"The 15-year-old TikTok star got dazzlingly famous overnight — and even she’s not sure why"

MelMagazine:
In six months, 15-year-old D’Amelio has collected more than 5.1 million followers on TikTok.

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D’Amelio’s popularity is still confined largely to TikTok. While boasting more than 741,000 followers on Instagram, she has a modest 6,500 on Twitter and an inactive YouTube account.

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D’Amelio’s first meet-and-greet, held last week in Norwalk, Connecticut, sold out. But the biggest shock for her fans was the $100 charge to take a photo or TikTok with her.

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Charli’s mother, Heidi D’Amelio, tells MEL this is the first meet-and-greet the family has ever put on. They based the $100 amount off other meet-and-greets they’d researched. “You know, I can’t say that thought might not have run through my head if I if that were someone else. We probably should have worded it differently,” she says. Marc D’Amelio, a prominent Connecticut Republican, wasn’t available for an interview, but he tells me the family is being bombarded with calls and emails.
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

"But her LinkedIn page has an anomaly: A 2016 summer internship [she] landed at a Long Island personal injury firm, a long way from her rural Virginia home"

Internet sleuthing by Roger Sollenberger:
Giuliani runs a global cybersecurity firm, but his technological gaffes have become legendary. After texting me the password, an NBC report revealed that around the same time he’d butt-dialed a journalist and accidentally left a voicemail documenting his discussion with an associate about how to get cash. “You know,” Giuliani says at the beginning of the recording, “Charles would have a hard time with a fraud case ’cause he didn't do any due diligence.”

At the time it was unclear who “Charles” was, but I might have found him. And I found him, through all things, in Giuliani’s attempt to straighten up his media act.

That’s because in late September Giuliani hired a communications director. The new hire — [a] 20-year-old Liberty University Online communications major (’22) []—is currently the most solid connection between the work the President’s private attorney was doing in Ukraine, an ongoing federal investigation into two of his clients, and a Long Island personal injury lawyer who for reasons still unclear reportedly paid Giuliani $500,000 in two lump-sum “loans” on behalf of a scam business in the fall of 2018.

And so, as I thumbed through an Instagram account, I found myself wondering why in the world Rudy Giuliani hired this girl, who can’t help but document everything she does, everywhere she goes, sowing circumstantial evidence across the internet that could impact impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

"Sherman Oaks home invasion victim may be popular YouTube personality"

Daily News:
A popular YouTube personality may have been the target of a home invasion robbery in Sherman Oaks, and the suspects were on the loose Thursday morning.

The robbery occurred about 10 p.m. Wednesday on the 4500 block of Tyrone Avenue, between Milbank Street and Hortense Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Up to five suspects made their way into the home, tied up the victims, then made off with cash and jewelry.
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Monday, November 4, 2019

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Friday, November 1, 2019

"On YouTube, palettes are grounds for fan wars in 2019, and the stakes are high: for the YouTubers behind them, there’s big money to be made"

Verge:
James Charles’ primary palette sells for $39, and he claimed to sell out of the initial run in five minutes when it debuted in November 2018. Dawson and Star’s palette is even more expensive. The full 18-shade palette will sell for $52 when it goes on sale Friday, November 1st, and a nine-shade palette will sell for $28. They will also sell a $90 bundle of six lipsticks. Fans who want the entire collection, which also includes lip gloss, lip balm, and a bag, can get it in a package for $210.

Their “Conspiracy” palette could generate $17.5 million through in-store revenue sales and another $17.5 million on Star’s website, according to Morphe executives who talk about potential sales in the documentary series, as well as Star’s own calculations. Those figures sound huge, but Dawson and Star have a combined 39 million YouTube followers.

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Fans of Dawson and Star flooded Charles’ YouTube page to insult his work, including his palette and videos.

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Nearly every major beauty vlogger and guru has a makeup palette these days. And for several top beauty YouTubers, those palettes are made by the same company: Morphe, a decade-only brand that describes itself as being “created for the creators.” The company has partnered to distribute palettes with YouTubers including Jaclyn Hill, Charles, Star, and now Dawson. That means, regardless of who wins this season’s palette battle — Charles or Dawson — Morphe gets a slice.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

There’s a second YouTube inside the YouTube that everyone knows

NYT wrote about PewDiePie:
One crucial thing to understand about YouTube is that there are really two of them. The first YouTube is the YouTube that everyone knows — the vast reference library filled with sports highlights, music videos and old Comedy Central roasts. But there’s a second YouTube inside that one. It is a self-contained universe with its own values and customs, its own incentive structures and market dynamics and its own fully developed celebrity culture that includes gamers, beauty vloggers, musicians, D.I.Y.ers, political commentators, artists and pranksters. The biggest of these personalities have millions of subscribers and Oprah-level influence over their fandoms. Many Inner YouTubers never watch TV and develop elaborate parasocial bonds with their favorite creators. For people who frequent Inner YouTube — generally people under 25, along with some older people with abundant free time — the site is not just a video platform but a prism through which all culture and information is refracted.

I started hanging out on Inner YouTube in earnest a few years ago, and its scale and insularity was jarring at first. Imagine a genetic mutation that gave everyone born after 1995 the ability to see ultraviolet light. Imagine that these people developed an identity around UV light, started calling themselves “UVers” and became suspicious of any media product made exclusively on the visible spectrum. As an old person with normal eyes, you would experience this change as a kind of slow cognitive decline. Every day, as more and more of the world played out in UV, you would struggle to catch glimpses of it. All of a sudden, people would be talking about Area 51 or eating Tide Pods, and you’d have no idea why. This deep chasm of understanding between Inner YouTube and the rest of the world has proved to be the defining problem of Kjellberg’s career.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019

"Angry Parents Are Demanding Refunds For YouTube Star Blippi’s Live Show"

Katie Notopoulos continuing to own the Blippy beat:
Blippi, a wildly popular YouTube star for the preschool set, announced on Tuesday a live tour of shows throughout the US. But Stevin John, the man who created Blippi and plays him in videos that routinely get over 20 million views, won't be there. Instead, an actor will be play the “character” of Blippi, an adult man in tight jeans and orange bowtie who delights in learning about fire trucks and tractors. And the only way you'd know that is if you bothered to read the fine print on the Blippi Live website.

Parents are pissed.

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“I called Ticketmaster and argued with them as they were equating it to Disney on Ice and him being a ‘character,’” said a mother who spent $460 on tickets and meet-and-greet packages for her family of four, and who ultimately got a refund. “But I argued that he IS the character and it would be like the Wiggles touring with replacements!”
(Did the Wiggles not have standins?)
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