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In brief: The average influencer with around 10,000 followers can regularly command $200 per sponsored post. For celebrities with millions of followers, that figure can easily swell to $500,000 or more for a single endorsement. "Online influencer" wasnt on …

A new The Sims 4 expansion pack has popped up online ahead of a formal announcement. We've seen a number of The Sims 4 packs release lately, most recently the supernatural world of Realm of Magic, and rumour of a University expansion did bubble up a few week…

Have a friend who thinks their dog is a star?  Well, your friend is right. All dogs were born to be celebrities. (If they don't want to be one, don't make them, though.) And this holiday season, you can get in on the ground floor of the fabled dog influencer…

This Is Fine. is a weekly newsletter from VICE about the personal tactics people use to make the world feel less harrowing. In this edition, Katie Way learns to focusand make time for herselfby watching anime. Sign up here to receive an essay about a dealing-…

I spent my formative years frying my attention span with video games, audiobooks, and Tumblrs sweet, infinite scroll, so I have roughly the same ability to focus as the dog from UP. The fact that Im always consuming, favoring breadth over depth, is actually f…

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is headed into a couple of very tricky earnings reports to end financial year 2019. Twelve months ago, most analysts felt that Tesla would turn the corner and post an annual profit this year. To say that theyre falling short is a polite un…

We live in a culture that values coupledom and biological families over anything else. This is especially true for women, who are seen as more relationship-oriented than men. We hold romantic relationships up as the ultimate end goal, the prize, the be-all an…

(CNN) Call three friends, jump in the bubble gum pink Jeep, and hop on the Pacific Coast Highway. The Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse is available to rent. It is beachy and dreamy, and it is very, very pink. Better yet? It's only $60 per night on Airbnb. Panor…

Posted: 10/14/19 | October 14th, 2019 When I was growing up, my family didn’t “travel.” Like most modern, middle-class American families, if we went anywhere, it was because we were on vacation — short leisure trips with a fixed start and end, tied to the cal…

Ian Glidewell almost died while in the middle of developing a visual novel titled When the Shutter Stops.About a year ago, Glidewell came down with a severe stomach ache, bad enough to be treated at the emergency room. Glidewell then slipped into a three week…