There are only 11 days standing between now and the official start of summer. With the new season quickly sneaking up, perhaps your to-do list is now racing through your mind. Haven’t confirmed a room yet for an upcoming wedding? Don’t wait much longer. Still planning a weekend trip to the shore with your friends?…
There’s not much that influencer Victoria Tyler doesn’t post on social media about her nearly four-year journey living with the autoimmune disorder known as ulcerative colitis. She posts about the good times, the bad times and the absolutely ugly days of her life, garnering her over 400,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok combined. Her experience…
Getting Dressed A series exploring the many ways we define and create “personal style.” Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Pickle For a few years, I’ve heard whispers about Pickle, a peer-to-peer clothing-rental app that every influencer in New York seems to use. Launched by Julia O’Mara and Brian McMahon, the app started as a social…
Hong Kong will offer “any possible help” to social media influencers who want to promote the city through live streams, the chief executive has said after YouTube star IShowSpeed’s visit, which some saw as a missed opportunity to highlight signature local features. John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday that he paid close attention to IShowSpeed’s…
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – An Omaha native is looking to squash social media safety concerns with his own app that he said prioritizes security. The safety of online social media apps continues to be called into question, most recently with concerns surrounding TikTok. While the app is back now, its future access in the U.S….
EMILY Calandrelli could barely contain her delight about what was to come. The YouTube host and Netflix show star, known on social media as Space Gal, sat down with The U.S Sun at MIT, her alma mata, to talk about her forthcoming November 22 trip to space aboard one of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ rockets….
A man in China became the target of ridicule on mainland social media after spending over 4 million yuan (US$550,000) on tipping a live-streaming anchor, all in a desperate attempt to hear her call him “brother”. He resorted to eating plain steamed buns to survive amid his financial ruin. The man, whose surname is Hong,…
The past month has been disastrous for some of China’s leading influencers, including the top-earning KOL Crazy Xiaoyangge, who boasts 100 million followers. They have inadvertently tarnished their reputations by selling fake products or attacking strangers during live-streams, inciting online outrage and jeopardising their lucrative careers. The Post examines these cases to illustrate how, to…
This is the second episode of Citizen Elon, a miniseries within the Elon, Inc.podcast. Listen to the first episode and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, iHeart and the Bloomberg Terminal. Elon Musk announced his support for Donald Trump on July 13, minutes after the attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania. Since then, the…
Prolific poster and world’s richest man Elon Musk constantly interacted on his social network X with right-wing influencers paid by a Russia-funded company. Two employees of Russian state-controlled media operation RT allegedly funneled $10 million into Tennessee-based Tenet Media, with the goal of supporting Russian objectives, according to an unsealed indictment in the Southern District…