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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from November 5th, 2025.

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00:00 Intro

1:29 Xania Monet becomes the first AI artist to make Billboard airplay chart

7:06 Universal Music strikes a deal with AI Music platform, Udio

9:07 New report reveals a majority of top news creators are men

16:08 Are AI browsers a security threat?

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Sources:

https://www.billboard.com/lists/ai-artists-on-billboard-charts/

https://www.tiktok.com/@zauey/video/7568329227766910263?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7540547991460906503

https://www.nme.com/news/music/xania-monet-becomes-first-ai-artist-to-chart-on-us-billboard-rankings-3904887

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/01/entertainment/xania-monet-billboard-ai

https://apnews.com/article/udio-universal-music-settlement-ai-song-downloads-774138b81d73f0652fcd1c19af165057

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ai-music-universal-music-group-settlement-udio-1235457945/

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/Newman%20et%20al%20Mapping%20News%20Creators%20and%20Influencers%20FINAL.pdf

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creators-influencers/2025/mapping-news-creators-and-influencers-social-and-video-networks#five

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/11/18/americas-news-influencers/

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/serious-new-hack-openai-ai-browser

https://www.theverge.com/report/810083/ai-browser-cybersecurity-problems

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-browsers-comet-openai-hacked-atlas-chatgpt-rcna235980

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The biggest stories on the internet from November 4th, 2025.

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00:00 Intro

1:25 Diarrha N'Diaye appointed head of Skims Beauty following Ami Cole closure

4:30 Teen Vogue to be folded into Vogue dot com

7:40 Xandra Pohl opens up about Alix Earle friendship breakup

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The biggest stories on the internet from November 3rd, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

1:37 Billie Eilish update

3:04 TikToker's viral series documenting Business Insider travel reporting

6:00 Huda Mustafa's Love Island racism scandal against Olandria Carthen

10:03 Celebrity Halloween

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The biggest stories on the internet from October 31st, 2025.

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00:00 Intro

4:21 Halley Kate defends relationship against TikTok users

11:15 Hallie Batchelder condom-gate

13:27 Billie Eilish vs. billionaires

15:10 UMiami microinfluencer drama

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The biggest stories on the internet from October 30th, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

2:13 Brittany Broski reveals she's releasing an album

3:20 BookTok vs. Matthew & Paul vs. Ingram

15:11 Dr. Valentina Pumpin's viral marketing

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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from October 29th, 2025.

Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro 

1:44 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches

10:03 Meta introduces ghost posts on Threads 

13:57 Albanian AI-generated minister Diella is pregnant 

18:03 Female founder interview w/ Freesia Gaul 

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Sources: 

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-grokipedia-is-online-after-it-briefly-crashed-out-231108836.html 

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales 

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/ 

https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/27/grokipedia-wikipedia-musk-/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yd90g0q43o 

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/introducing-disappearing-posts-on-threads/ 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/threads-adds-ghost-posts-that-disappear-after-24-hours-and-responses-go-to-dms/ 

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The biggest stories on the internet from October 28th, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

2:04 Danielle Bernstein accused of stealing her engagement party speech

5:06 The Swiftologist vs. Adam McIntyre

11:18 Welsh 5 Adventure scandal

15:41 Row sample sale

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The biggest stories on the internet from October 27th, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

2:25 QTCinderella joint stream backlash over comments

6:13 Rare Beauty seemingly posts heart eyes on video about Justin Bieber

9:19 Cami Mendes is engaged

10:26 Kim & North viral Halloween costume + viral TikTok video shows woman being harassed by group of men while trying to do her job

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In this episode, we dive into why fan-fiction remains a central part of pop culture. To help unpack the intricacies of this space, we turned to some experts. We first spoke to Alessandra Ferreri, Head of Content at Wattpad — and then we asked you, our listeners, to share your own experiences and opinions. From these conversations, we explored two questions: Is fan-fiction positive or negative for fandom culture? And how does Gen Z perceive fan fiction?

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

3:47 Fan-fiction definition and its origins

6:16 The modern era of fan-fiction: the rise of fanzines & pastiches

7:51 Fanfiction goes mainstream: Digital fan-fiction platforms

9:10 The rise of Fanfiction.net (FFN)

11:12 The popularity of AO3 and Wattpad

13:45 Interview with Alessandra Ferreri, Wattpad's Head of Content

37:04 How fan-fiction impacts young people and how they perceive it

38:58 The positives of fan-fiction

43:36 The negatives of fan-fiction

46:49 Conclusions

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The biggest stories on the internet from October 23rd, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

2:47 Brooke Schofield x Viall Files

5:39 Bella Hadid responds to fan concern over VS show

8:30 Jillian Webber engaged

10:05 Justin Bieber joins Twitch and says he'll stream "every day"

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