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Kick banned Lavlune over a dog video. Doja Cat and Charlie piled on.
Kick streamer Lavlune (FoidElf) lost her channel after a viral clip showed her appearing to toss her dachshund to the floor. MoistCr1TiKaL and Doja Cat piled on, and her defense made it worse.
Kai Cenat got four Streamer Awards nominations and zero for Streamer of the Year
The two-time Streamer of the Year is off the 2026 flagship ballot while Jynxzi, CaseOh and three others made the cut. Here's what the snub says about showing up versus being famous.
Bryce Hall faces a felony domestic violence charge in Las Vegas
Bryce Hall faces a felony coercion charge and a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas over an alleged July incident with his ex-girlfriend. He denies the allegations. Here is the timeline, what happens next, and what the case shows about creator business risk.
Asmongold says he turned down $20 million in gambling ads. He's already rich.
Asmongold says he rejected more than $20M in gambling sponsorships and explained the real deal math: casino sponsors pick streamers by how many viewers they can turn into losing bettors.
Druski is hosting SNL. No online creator has done it before.
Druski hosts Saturday Night Live on November 7, the first online creator to get the job in the show's 52 seasons. 30 Rock coming to a creator is a pricing signal for everyone else.
Dude Perfect just signed with all of Disney. Parks, ESPN, Star Wars, the works.
Disney signed Dude Perfect to a company-wide creative partnership spanning entertainment, ESPN, consumer products, and the parks. Studios aren't buying creator videos anymore, they're buying creator franchises.
MrBeast's 202-day grocery store video just beat his own first-day record
MrBeast's 202-day, $1M grocery store challenge pulled 70M+ first-day views, the best start of his career. Here's what that number means for creators, and what it doesn't.
OhnePixel pays people to clip his streams. His own subreddit just called it clip farming.
OhnePixel broke down live on Twitch after his own subreddit accused him of clip farming for TikTok. The post had 40 upvotes, and it still exposed the hidden cost of paid clipping.
Gracie Bon posed in Panama's earthquake rubble. 11 million followers pushed back.
Gracie Bon posted a six-photo carousel of herself in the wreckage of Panama's magnitude 7.7 earthquake, got torn apart for it, and refused to apologize. Here's what her blowup teaches every creator about crisis content.
MatPat just signed a multi-project deal with Blumhouse. Amanda the Adventurer is first.
Blumhouse signed MatPat to a multi-project deal turning indie horror games and horror YouTube channels into movies, starting with Amanda the Adventurer. The retired Game Theorist's real asset was never the channel. It was his taste.
KSI just quit boxing for good. Then he made himself the boss of Misfits.
KSI retired from boxing, took back the Misfits CEO chair, and signed Michael 'Venom' Page, a fighter who went 5-1 in the UFC before the UFC let him walk. The crowd booed, but the business move is the smartest thing he's done in years.
A Kick streamer built a fake women's prison for content. It went wrong on camera.
NerdBallerTV's 24-hour 'all-girl prison' stream on Kick ended in a contestant's on-camera breakdown, a 3.6M-view clip, and a reported ban. Here's what it says about who really pays for stunt content.
Jack Doherty signed a casino deal without reading it. Now he can't post for six months.
Jack Doherty says a Shuffle.com contract he didn't fully read bars him from posting online, and Shuffle's CEO confirmed a six-month term. A brand just paid a creator for zero reach.
Sony just handed its horror label to a YouTube lifer. Creators are the pipeline now.
Sony named 15-year YouTube veteran Fede Goldenberg head of Screen Gems, with a mandate to turn creators into theatrical filmmakers. After Backrooms, Obsession and Iron Lung, the studio is buying what creators already own: the audience.
Police told a swatted streamer he'd pay $500 per fire truck. He's the victim.
Toronto police warned Kick streamer Tiagz he'd be billed $500 for every fire truck sent to future swatting calls at his Airbnb, while admitting he never made the calls.
Mike Tomlin just became a Minecraft YouTuber. Episode one pulled 3.2 million views in four days.
Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin revealed a Minecraft city he has built for 12 years, and episode one hit 3.2 million views in four days. The hobby beat the highlight reel.
BenDaDonnn got tased outside a Texas A&M bar. Now he says he's suing.
Hours after Texas A&M Football's X account called itself "@BenDaDonnn approved," the Miami streamer was tased and arrested in Northgate. Now he says he was racially profiled and plans to sue.
Madi2Hotty and ReemKnocks just got banned from Twitch. A ComplexCon brawl did it.
Twitch reportedly suspended IRL streamers Madi2Hotty and ReemKnocks for 30 days after two days of brawling with Kick streamer Big Loaf at ComplexCon 2026. The clips went viral. The income went dark.
Kai Cenat says he's going to space. He's hiring astronauts and starting in 2027.
Kai Cenat says he's assembling astronauts and space researchers, with 2027 as the year the project starts. The flight isn't the content anymore. The prep is.
FGTeeV's Duddy livestream exposes the family-channel risk nobody prices in
FGTeeV's Duddy went live on Instagram in apparent distress and turned on his own family. The family is asking people to stop sharing it. The real story is what a 25M-subscriber family business does to a household in crisis.
Grandma Dong just crashed YouTube's growth chart. She's a licensing operation.
Grandma Dong added 340,000 YouTube subscribers in a week and hit #20 on Tubefilter's global chart. The grandma is a character; the channel is a syndication business posting licensed Chinese clips five times a day.
A streamer got swatted inside a Waymo. He had $200K in Pokémon cards.
Austin police pulled over a driverless Waymo mid-stream on a swatting call, then needed Waymo to unlock it before searching Nick White's suitcase of Pokémon cards. Swatting just met the robotaxi.
Dhar Mann just opened Advertising Week as its first chief creator officer
Dhar Mann opened Advertising Week New York as its first chief creator officer and launched a $100 million creator-brand deal target. Big win for creators, but read the fine print.
Nadeshot just posted an AI casino ad. 100 Thieves had sworn off AI a day earlier.
One day after 100 Thieves said "AI has no place in our apparel design," co-founder Nadeshot posted a fully AI-generated Roobet casino ad, then called the backlash "incredibly dramatic."
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