On Sunday March 14, popular Twitch streamer Ludwig started a subathon on his channel with the promise to keep streaming as long as people kept subscribing. The stream has now been live for over two consecutive weeks, and while it’s slowing down a little, it’s still showing no sign of …
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A COVID-19 vaccine site in Northern California will reportedly close this Thursday and Friday to host an anime event, according to The Sacramento Bee. That event will be SacAnime, a gathering for anime enthusiasts taking place at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville, California. County spokesperson Katie Combs-Prichard told The Sacramento …
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Multinational toy corporation Hasbro has announced it’s creating a new role for a Nerf Chief TikTok Officer, a marketing role that’s been recently and nonchalantly listed on the company’s job board. The job description, posted by “Desperate Millennials trying to appeal to Gen Z” strikes an interesting tone that can …
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In January this year, the WallStreetBets subreddit surprised the finance world when its massive user base bought up GameStop shares in numbers that couldn’t be ignored. Now, those users are making a dent again, but this time it’s in the form of $338,000 raised for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. …
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While movie theaters in some markets are making plans to cautiously re-open with restrictions in place, TikTok user thevideobunker is single-handedly trying to revive video stores–kind of. “During quarantine, my husband built a video rental store in our basement,” the account holder explains in a first-person guided tour of a …
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Last year Los Angeles’ Anime Expo was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the organizers shifting focus to a 2021 event. The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation’s Ray Chiang has now announced that the event will not go ahead in LA this year either, with the organization …
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Twitch has released the first Transparency Report of what is set to be many, with the streaming company promising to release the reports twice a year. The report gives a top-down look at Twitch’s safety and moderation systems, before looking into more granular data about enforcement on Twitch. The report …
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A trio of viral deepfake videos of actor Tom Cruise just hanging out, being Tom Cruise, but saying some strange things like repeating jokes told to him by former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev were recently revealed to be the handiwork of Belgian video visual effects specialist Chris …
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Popular preschool animated series Peppa Pig will be getting its own dedicated theme park within Legoland Florida sometime in 2022, according to Hasbro, which acquired the show and its parent company Entertainment One in 2019. Hasbro shared the news on Twitter. According to Yahoo! Entertainment, the park “will feature multiple …
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Artist Butch Hartman, the creator of multiple Nickelodeon shows like the Fairly Odd Parents, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Danny Phantom, is being accused of plagiarizing art by a Japanese artist. Hartman, who charges upward to $200 for a commission, was accused by a Twitter artist simply known as 028ton as tracing …
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