Tag: Social Media
Russel Brand Demonetized on YouTube, Dropped by Media
If you’ve been anywhere on the internet over the last few days, you know that Russell Brand, the British comedian, provocateur, and social commentator, is being accused of various forms of sexual assault and harassment by several women. Well, the fallout is happening right on schedule, as accordin...
Read MoreYou Might Have to Pay to Use Twitter Soon
Twitter might come with a fee soon. While speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an AI discussion, Twitter (or whatever it calls itself now) CEO Elon Musk suggested he wants to make the social media platform come with “a small, monthly payment” because it’s the only way to ge...
Read MoreTrump Returns to Twitter
President Donald Trump has returned to Twitter. Trump was banned from the platform on January 8, 2021, while he was the sitting President of the United States, for allegedly inciting violence, or having the potential to incite violence. Since then, Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter (which he now ca...
Read MoreLil Tay Alive After All
Lil Tay is alive, after all. The child internet celebrity, now fifteen years old, was thought to be dead yesterday when a post on her Instagram account said that she and her brother had died. There were irregularities in the story, though, such as her father being unwilling to confirm her death and ...
Read MoreDan Slott Goes After She-Hulk Detractors on Twitter
She-Hulk, the TV show, is getting help from the comics. Dan Slott, comic book writer and unhinged social media personality, tweeted a tirade against people who didn’t like the Disney+ series. He began by arguing that it was comics-accurate – the most comics-accurate MCU series of all – but seg...
Read MoreJames Gunn’s DC Movies Won’t Have Studio Interference
DC Studios has no leash, according to a comment James Gunn made on Mastodon, a social media site I only heard of because Gunn joined it. (It appears he feels safer there than on Twitter, where he was compelled to denounce fans who disagreed with him about firing Henry Cavill; has anyone ever lost th...
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