Mini Scroll

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The biggest stories on the internet from March 6th, 2025.

Timetamps:

1:46 Tana Mongeau, Joey Graceffa, Rosanna Pansino & Trisha Paytas

7:40 Gabby Windey & Robby Hoffman are married

9:33 Hannah Berner facing backlash for Vanity Fair Oscars party red carpet interviews

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

Timestamps:

2:30 Patreon report on the creator economy stats

7:52 Skype is shutting down

10:22 Twitch is expanding its monetisation policies

12:22 Instagram might be launching a separate reels app

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Sources:

https://postingnexus.substack.com/p/everything-that-built-the-creator https://news.patreon.com/articles/state-of-create https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/as-skype-shuts-down-its-legacy-is-end-to-end-encryption-for-the-masses/ ​https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/microsoft-hangs-up-on-skype-service-to-shut-down-may-5-2025/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/28/microsoft-skype/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/twitch-is-letting-more-streamers-access-its-monetization-tools/ https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2025/02/27/what-s-next-in-2025-an-open-letter-from-twitch-ceo-dan-clancy/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwwd09vwzo https://centennialworld.substack.com/p/not-all-kens

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

Timestamps:

2:42 Millie Bobby Brown addresses questions about her "new look"

5:52 Are family vloggers really leaving California over child labour laws?

9:13 Piper Rockelle x Bop House collab backlash

11:45 Oscars red carpet

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

Timestamps:

3:35 Tate McRae’s album review TikTok drama

9:40 Alabama Barker vs. Bhad Bhabie

17:33 Kourtney Kardashian addresses Mason Disick rumours that he has a child

18:25 Colleen Ballinger quits YouTube?

19:05 Corinna Kopf speaks out against Mikayla Testa amid Anna Paul allegations

23:28 Alix Earle "dropped" from Alex Cooper Unwell Network

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In this week's bonus episode (recorded live from Web Summit!), I interview the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, Laura Chambers. In this episode, Laura breaks down big tech topics like data privacy, net neutrality, and "healthy internet" in digestible terms for us and explains why we should care.

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In this episode, I explore  the evolution and ethics of death and dying on social media– from how our online experiences shape parasocial grief to the responsibilities that platforms hold when a user– whether famous or not– dies with a complex (and sometimes profitable) digital footprint. This episode also includes interviews with two grief experts, Candice Mace from Griefline and Michelle Moriarity of Grief Connect.

00:38 Intro

3:34 How grief has evolved: Grief on social media

5:32 Liam Payne

7:38 TaliaJoy18

9:19 Is parasocial grief real? Interview with Candice Mace from Griefline

25:00 Expressing grief online: From the post-death spike to creating community

27:52 Grief-policing in fandoms

31:41 The power of social media connection in coping with grief: Interview with Michelle Moriarty from Grief Connect

56:27 The grief economy & social media platforms

57:39 What happens to our digital footprint and data when we die?

1:00:00 Conclusion

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Sources:

https://edm.com/news/avicii-post-death-follower-spike-larger-trend 

https://researchdiscovery.drexel.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Celebrity-ghosts-in-the-machine-Mourning/991014632244204721 

https://cmci.colorado.edu/idlab/assets/bibliography/pdf/Gach2017.pdf  

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a30766025/celebrity-deaths/ 

https://archive.junkee.com/from-grief-police-to-tragedy-hipsters-the-seven-most-unhelpful-arguments-that-took-over-the-media-after-the-paris-attacks/69619 

https://theconversation.com/liam-payne-the-death-of-a-favourite-celebrity-can-be-painful-but-collective-grief-can-help-242039 

https://shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com/p/how-to-grieve-liam-payne 

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/grieving-death-liam-payne/104461152

https://www.reddit.com/r/GriefSupport/comments/1g5ykuw/anyone_else_struggling_with_liam_paynes_death/ 

https://www.instagram.com/p/b7E-mfMgBt/  

https://help.instagram.com/231764660354188?helpref=faq_content  

https://www.facebook.com/help/103897939701143/?ref=u2u  

https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/contact-x-about-a-deceased-family-members-account  

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/07/10/what-happens-to-your-data-when-you-die

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/the-government-would-like-you-to-write-a-social-media-will/256700/  

The biggest stories on the internet from February 20th, 2025.

Timestamps:

2:43 Twitter-famous tradwife Patriarchy Hannah aka @HarmonizedGrace exposed as being a fraud

16:22 Trisha Paytas to perform at World Pride Music Festival

18:08 Reddit paywall to be implemented in 2025

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The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from February 19th, 2025.

Timestamps:

00:16 Apple Cider Vinegar thoughts

2:34 TikTok is back online in the US app store

5:41 Mexico threatens Google with lawsuit

7:52 Buzzfeed announces new social platform

10:40 Netflix makes a play for podcasters

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The biggest stories on the internet from February 18th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:07 "Reheating nachos" trend

4:05 Morphe seemingly returns to influencer marketing strategy again

8:01 Kai Cenat plans to launch a streamer university

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The biggest stories on the internet from February 17th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:39 Wishbone Kitchen calls out Bon Appetit for similarities in 'Dinner with Friends' series

7:44 Avery Woods faces backlash for podcast episode with Harry Jowsey

13:37 Melanie Martinez update (listener request)

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