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[Link] How ‘Vampire Survivors’ Went From Obscurity to 27,000 People Playing at Once
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
There are, as of this writing, more than 27,000 people playing a $3 game on Steam called Vampire Survivors. That’s more than games like The Elder Scrolls Online, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia, and just below God of War and The Witcher 3.
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[Link] This Guy is Living Your Wildest NFT Dreams, Making $1 Million in Selfie Sales
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Almost every day for the past five years, Ghozali took pictures of himself sitting in front of his computer and looking stoic.
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[Link] Black TikTokers Are Tired of Not Getting Paid for the Moves You Stole
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
But neither of them created that choreography. It was Jalaiah Harmon, who was 14 years old at the time. Neither D’Amelio nor Rae initially gave her credit, and they apologized only after being called out. Influencers like Rae and D’Amelio have turned their stardom into lucrative careers.
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[Link] Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police have launched a wave of investigations against young people, mainly women, in recent weeks for taking partially nude or sexually suggestive photographs next to Russian landmarks.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] Hundreds of QAnon Fans Are Going to Texas to See JFK Return. No, Seriously.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Hundreds of QAnon supporters are currently traveling from all across the U.S. to Dallas, where they expect to see John F. Kennedy suddenly reappear on Tuesday night and ordain former President Donald Trump as the “king of kings.
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[Link] Unbelievable: 'Monkey Jizz' Cryptocurrency Turns Out to Be a Scam
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investors in a cryptocurrency called Monkey Jizz are posting on social media that they’ve been scammed by the project’s developer after a token sale.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] QAnon Influencer Who Calls Democrats Pedophiles Is an Actual Child Abuser
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon promoter David Trent has spent the last four years telling his tens of thousands of followers that the Democrats are pedophiles working as part of a global child sex trafficking ring run by the world’s elite.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Why Does FaZe Clan Think It’s Worth $1 Billion?
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
FaZe Clan, the esports and gaming influencer group, announced plans on Monday to become “the only digitally native, youth-focused lifestyle and media platforms publicly traded on a U.S.
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[Link] A Biracial YouTube Star Disparaged Black Women’s Hair. Now She’s Getting Canceled
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based influencer Briana Monique posted a vlog on YouTube where she discussed a few Black-owned hair products she was using to revive her hair after a few weeks of protective styling.
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[Link] Human remains found in Florida belong to Gabby Petito's boyfriend Brian Laundrie, FBI says
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The FBI says human remains found in a Florida nature reserve belong to Brian Laundrie. Mr Laundrie was being sought as a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple were on a cross-country road trip.
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Right-Wing Radio Host ‘Kept Hugging People’ to Give Himself COVID
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Right-wing radio host and YouTube personality Dennis Prager apparently really, really wanted to get COVID-19. Mission accomplished.
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[Link] MAGA QAnon's 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. And the spat is splitting their supporters down the middle.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] Gabby Petito's Death Ruled a Homicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The cause of death is pending final autopsy results. The FBI has also named Petito’s missing fiancé, Brian Laundrie, as a person of interest in the case.
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[Link] Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts.
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[Link] Facebook: some high-profile users ‘allowed to break platform’s rules’
Read: 14/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.
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[Link] OnlyFans Model Murdered by Man Suspected to Be a Stranger
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police were called to do a wellness check on Morr, whose legal name was Janae Gagnier, on Sunday. When they entered, they found her and a man, Kevin Alexander Accorto, deceased in the apartment.
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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling for $300,000 as NFTs
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
People like to think of NFTs as a recent phenomenon, but many of today’s priciest crypto collectibles date back at least a few years.
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[Link] Arson Suspected After House Of Twitch's Biggest Female Star Catches Fire
Read: 17/8/2021 kotaku.com
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa, the most-watched woman on Twitch, said in a Twitter thread that her house caught fire last Friday. According to Siragusa, investigators haven’t pinpointed a specific cause but “strongly suspect arson.”
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[Link] He Preached Slow Fashion. Then He Collaborated With Fast Fashion Icon H&M.
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
This week, a hyped-up collaboration between Indian couturier Sabyasachi and fast fashion brand H&M dropped amid much media frenzy.
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[Link] #MeToo Hits One of China’s Biggest Celebrities. The State Is Taking Credit.
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
A megastar fell from grace over rape accusations. Now China is scrambling to steer the narrative in its favor. Until recently, Kris Wu was one of China’s most adored pop singers, swamped by screaming fans wherever he went.
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[Link] The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
Read: 28/7/2021 www.bbc.com
A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.
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[Link] Roblox Queen MeganPlays Is Making Millions With a Blocky Digital Empire
Read: 28/4/2021 www.bloomberg.com
In 2018, Megan Letter (then known by her maiden name, Leeds) was making about $400 a month posting videos of herself playing the life simulation game The Sims on YouTube. It wasn’t enough to support herself, and she was thinking of getting an internship as a wedding florist.
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[Link] Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old American poet who drew widespread acclaim for her reading at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, has revealed she has turned down millions in endorsements because the companies do not “speak to” her.