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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."
MoistCr1TiKaL just landed a RuneScape cartoon. His studio is producing it.
Jagex revealed an animated RuneScape series at RuneFest, and MoistCr1TiKaL's Meatier Productions is co-producing it with Lyrical Animation. This is what a creator moving past ad revenue looks like.
MrBeast just sat down in the Shark Tank. Season 18 opened in 'Beast Mode.'
MrBeast and Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold paid $250K for 55% of AI toy Ball 2 on the Shark Tank Season 18 premiere. Distribution, not cash, closed the deal.
TikTok will now chase your brand-deal money for you, and it takes zero cut
TikTok One Pay guarantees creators get paid for brand deals within 30 days of posting, with no TikTok cut. It's a real cash-flow win, and a quiet power grab over who controls creator money.
Ironmouse's Mouseathon just ended. 30 days, about 243,000 subs, and no new record.
Ironmouse's 2026 Mouseathon ran 30 days and pushed her into Twitch's top five, but subs peaked near 243K, about 25% below her 2024 high. Attention came back. Paid conversion didn't.
Twitch is reading every stream now. AI decides who gets the ad money.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says the platform transcribes every live stream and lets AI decide which advertisers' ads run on your channel. Creators can't see, appeal, or audit the call.
Kai Cenat, Druski and Kevin Hart just shadow-dropped a movie, and Twitch was the trailer
Livestream From Hell hit Prime Video with almost no promotion, a year after its teaser premiered live to 550K+ viewers on Kai Cenat's Mafiathon 3. The creator audience was the marketing plan.
Kai Cenat says he's suing Reggie. The allegations went live on Instagram.
Kai Cenat says he will sue former Clover Boys member Reggie for defamation after unverified allegations aired on Instagram Live. As of Oct. 1, nothing has been filed.
Jubilee just booked CNN. A YouTube debate show is co-hosting a Senate town hall.
CNN and Jubilee Media will co-host a live Texas Senate town hall with James Talarico on October 14. It's the network's first partnership with the YouTube studio, and it shows who holds the young audience now.
How to Run a Memorabilia Auction on Fanvault
Fanvault Memorabilia auctions let creators sell signed items, stream-worn apparel, and one-of-ones to their highest bidders, with proxy bidding, reserve prices, and anti-snipe protection built in. Here's how to list your first auction and keep 92% of the final bid.
Hasan Piker just outgrew a college venue. 3,000 people RSVP'd for his UT Austin speech.
More than 3,000 people RSVP'd to see Twitch streamer Hasan Piker at UT Austin. He got a room for about 460, a $20,000 security bill, and a lesson every creator should study.
Kane Parsons just sat next to the Oscars boss. YouTube is taking the ceremony.
The Academy sold its Oscars move to YouTube with a YouTuber at its side. Kane Parsons, whose $10M debut Backrooms passed $400M worldwide, joined Bill Kramer in Zurich, and creators should read it as a power shift.
MrBeast said his $10 million video probably wouldn't perform. It passed 51 million views anyway.
MrBeast predicted his nearly $10M Ghana village video would underperform. It passed 51 million views, and it proves fans will follow a trusted creator into formats the algorithm supposedly punishes.
Kyedae just set her Twitch comeback. October 20 ends an 18-month exit.
Kyedae updated her bios with a date: she's back on Twitch October 20, ending an 18-month break she took because she'd come to resent streaming. Her return is a live test of whether an audience waits.
YouTube pulled the MrBeast Files at 3 million views. The internet reuploaded it anyway.
InternetJanitor's "The MrBeast Files Are Really Bad" hit roughly 3 million views in four days before a copyright takedown. Reuploads, Shorts, and TikTok edits made it bigger. Here's what that means for creator income.
Lucan Pevidor just held YouTube's #1 growth spot for a fourth straight week.
Brazilian Shorts creator Lucan Pevidor added 1.6 million subscribers and topped Tubefilter's Global Sub Top 50 again, out-growing MrBeast and a flood of AI channels. Here's what his run means for creators.
Ironmouse is 26 days into her comeback subathon. Mouseathon ends October 1.
Ironmouse's Mouseathon Returns hits its final week, with half the revenue going to the Immune Deficiency Foundation. The real story is who holds the money when the timer stops.
Neal Mohan just told Meta no. YouTube won't sign on to the $18 billion teen-safety deal.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube won't join Meta's $18 billion teen-safety settlement. Meta designed that deal to pull YouTube and TikTok in, and it puts a two-hour teen cap on the table for the platform teens use most.
Logan Paul promised a 24/7 shiny hunt. He tapped out at 34 hours.
Logan Paul's nonstop Pokémon shiny hunt pulled 997K unique Twitch viewers and 2.1M YouTube views, then stalled at 34 hours with no shiny and a growing ModRetro ad backlash.
YouTube just cut off the mukbang money. Tzuyang says she'll eat less.
YouTube is enforcing its eating-disorder ad rules against Korea's food creators, and one diet YouTuber deleted 339 videos to save her channel. Tzuyang's promise to eat 'a reasonable amount' is a joke, but the lesson for creators isn't.
Sam and Colby just took Hell Week to Netflix. YouTube's scariest tradition streams October 1.
Sam and Colby's Hell Week streams worldwide on Netflix from October 1 under a non-exclusive deal. It shows that a franchise a creator owns is now something Netflix will pay to license.
Like Nastya just signed with Disney. 450 million subscribers are heading to Disney Jr.
Like Nastya, a YouTube kids' brand with 450M+ subscribers, signed its first development deal with Disney. Here's what it means for creators: a studio is now paying for an audience and a catalog that a creator built and owns.
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