Creator “retirement” has been something of a trend this year, with stars on Twitch and YouTube stepping back from the content grind. The latest person to join their ranks is
Remember a few years ago when YouTube started aggressively throwing money at some of Twitch’s golden-egg-laying-est geese, leading to widespread speculation that YouTube might supplant Twitch as the internet’
If you only caught the highlights, last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago looked like a glamorous, four-day-long coronation for Kamala Harris. But outside the United Center, protests raged,
Chinese action-RPG Black Myth: Wukong is officially a hit, breaking Steam’s concurrent single-player record within hours of release. It’s also embroiled in a culture war that, unlike a
It would not be unfair to call Tom Walker a madman. It would probably be more fair to call him an Australian comedian who streams games on Twitch – because that’
Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson is in the news lately, following a report from The New York Times alleging negative treatment of participants in his upcoming Amazon competition show. This comes on
You may or may not remember Farscape, an Australian sci-fi show that ran from 1999 to 2003. It featured a mis-matched cast fleeing space authorities aboard a living ship, a
Last week, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm saw his career implode following tweets from an ex-Twitch employee saying that he’d been banned from Twitch in 2020 for exchanging inappropriate messages
In 2020, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, near the height of his fame, suddenly got banned from Twitch. At the time, the livestreaming giant did not provide a reason. The Twitch
Recently, one popular Twitch streamer, QTCinderella, issued a challenge to others in her male-dominated field: name 100 women. Via a statistical analysis performed by another content creator, Xenoxygene, here is
Over the years, YouTube and Twitch have given us too many trends to count, but the latest is one that will be difficult for parasocially-minded fans to imitate: retirement. The
Confusing mobile game ads are basically a meme now, with perhaps none quite so notable as Hero Wars. For years, we were taunted by auto-playing ad rolls of logic puzzles
