Kids with smartphones have better mental health, study finds. Inside the Bop House, Tariffluencers, Gen Z's safe space, the latest meme stock, Grok dunking, India's Netflix, Ashton Hall and the rise of isolationist masculinity, and MORE -- all in today's newsletter

Kids with smartphones have better mental health, study finds

+ Inside the Bop House, Tariffluencers, Gen Z's safe space, the latest meme stock, Grok dunking, India's Netflix, and Ashton Hall and the rise of i...

"We tend to assume the reason to use social media is to try to be an influencer, either you're Joe Rogan or you're a failure. But that's the wrong way to think about it," said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the University of Massachusetts' Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

The secret side of YouTube

+ Christian YouTube drama, robot coworkers, inZOI > the Sims, NYC guy posters, AR porn, White House's Podcast Row, and an IG account and 2014 talk ...

Viralflation comes to YouTube, Dora the Explorer feet mukbang, IShowSpeed takes China, Big Balls cybercrime ring, 'influencer accent', IvyTok, AI-fueled fan fiction, Ghiblification, and a great new podcast on Section 230 -- All in today's newsletter!!

Viralflation comes to YouTube

+ Dora the Explorer feet mukbang, IShowSpeed takes China, Big Balls cybercrime ring, 'influencer accent', IvyTok, AI-fueled fan fiction, Ghiblifica...

Remember “the #Resistance”?! I did a deep dive into 2017-2020 internet, the rise of the movement, its major figures, the resistance’s ultimate downfall, and why it crumbled.

I need to log off for a while and sleep and stop getting upset over the internet.

Idk how to QT this person but a big fuck you to everyone who treats independent creators like this. Every single social app is a Nazi bar & I cannot afford to operate on ghost, which also doesn’t offer many of the features I need. Subscribing to me directly so Substack doesn’t receive a cut has ALWASY been an option, but to punish an independent creator for the platforms they’re forced to rely on by refusing to share their reporting that holds power to account is DEEPLY fucked up and disgusting

I wrote about Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar who was suspended by Yale Law School after an Israeli AI-generated news website known for spreading disinfo, claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization.

We're doing AI generated smear campaigns now

Yale University has suspended a law school scholar after an AI-generated news website claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization

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Viral claims about family influencers fleeing the state of California are completely false. TikToks and YouTube videos have amassed millions of views pushing this conspiracy. My article debunking it only has.... 2 shares. Journalism feels so fruitless sometimes.

No, family vloggers are not fleeing California over a child labor law

A viral TikTok conspiracy theory claims that family influencers are moving because of a new law that claims to protect child influencers. It's not ...

I just need 300 more subscribers to get to 40k on YouTube, which is 40% of the way to my ultimate goal of 100k! I spend hours every week making videos about tech and online culture. YouTube is the platform I'm most focused on this year, so SUBSCRIBE TODAY!! https://www.youtube.com/@TaylorLorenz