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A study published Monday suggests that Black content creators make significantly less money than their white counterparts. The report, titled “Time to Face the Influencer Pay Gap,” looked at issues of annual income, size of followings, the amounts influencers were offered for deals and more. It was published by the…

It might be a slow December Friday night in America but Stephen Colbert had a cute gag to get the weekend started, reimagining the beloved (and heavily memed) keyboard cat as a QAnon conspiracy theorist secretly controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. The joke was inspired by a New York Times report…

Old Man Yang can barely contain his excitement as he tries out the racing video game Gran Turismo Sport. The 86-year-old has hooked up a steering wheel and set of pedals to his PlayStation 5, and is now fighting to keep a Volkswagen sedan from swerving off the track. As…

When you have adult acne, it’s easy to feel alone, as if you’re the only one getting breakouts past the age of 18. However, anywhere between 12% and 22% of women ages 26 through 44 experience acne, and that number is increasing by the day (on the other hand, only…

Influencer marketing continues to grow in the United States, with 2021 witnessing a 26.7% increase in sponsored Instagram posts. Meanwhile, sponsored stories increased by 33.5%, with influencers creating an average 16 sponsored stories a week. The growing demand for this type of endorsement advertising was unveiled by the ‘2022 The…

It’s been nearly a year since Hilaria Baldwin, the yoga influencer and wife of Alec Baldwin, was caught in the slightest of scandals. Many months before the tragedy that befell her husband’s movie set, she was revealed to have been born in Boston, despite using a Spanish accent for much…

The sentencing hearing was attended by several members of Lhamo’s family. Her older sister Droma later told the Beijing News (in Chinese) that she had hoped Tang would get the death penalty, and that she would fight to gain custody of Lhamo’s two sons, who are currently under the care…

In an Uber on a rainy Saturday morning in Brooklyn, passing brownstones and cafes in a slow crawl through one-way, car-lined streets, I saw a sign that confused me. It read “Delta 8 Sold Here!” in hand-written chalk letters. I happened to glance at the store’s sign before the traffic…

A woman is praying to a Buddha statue. Another one has parts of the Buddhist scriptures painted on her nails. A third sits writing religious texts but in the wrong sequence. The women are all so-called online influencers, part of the growing community using Buddhism to boost their social media…

HMP Oxford was re-opened as the Malmaison Oxford boutique hotel in 2006, where guests are able to stay in preserved prison cells, but some social media users feel it is in bad taste Influencers have been sharing snaps of their stay at Malmaison Oxford, which was converted in 2006 (Image:…