Celebrity

• Creators Going Pro: Music-Focused Video Essayist Noah Lefevre Has Built A Career On YouTube Despite The “Daily Struggle” To Keep His Content Monetized
• Ninja Ditches Twitch, Will Exclusively Stream On Microsoft’s Mixer

  Twitch’s biggest star is leaving the platform. Fortnite pro Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins -- who made $500,000 per month on Twitch last year thanks to a grueling streaming schedule where he spent more than 3,800 hours live -- has partnered with Microsoft’s streaming service Mixer, and will exclusively stream his content there for the foreseeable future.

  
• Creators Going Pro: YouTube Gets Viewers Into The Mind Of Gamer Rez And His ‘Fortnite’-Loving Family

  Bryan Carti was into Fortnite before it was cool. Back when the battle royale game came out in 2017 -- before YouTuber-led Friday Fortnite tournaments, before it became a major part of FaZe Clan’s success, and long, long before last weekend’s Fortnite World Cup Finals, which handed out esports’ biggest ever cash prize to its 16-year-old champion -- Carti’s friend had to convince him to give his favorite sports games a break and just try Fortnite.

  
• Apparently, More Than 64,000 People Paid $50 To Watch Jake Paul And Tana Mongeau Get Married

  When it comes to Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau’s “wedding,” the real question isn’t whether the pair actually legally got married or whether the whole thing’s a sham to shill Mongeau’s MTV series, No Filter: Tana Turns 21. (Signs point to the latter.) The real question is, Wait, they seriously got more than 64,000 people to pay $50 a pop to watch this thing?

  
• YouTube’s King Of Random, Grant Thompson, Has Passed Away At Age 38
• David Dobrik Snags Celebrity Judge Spot On Nickelodeon’s Upcoming ‘America’s Most Musical Family’
• Creators Going Pro: Married YouTubers ‘Rose & Rosie’ Have Made A Career Of Candid, Clever Content About Their Life Together
• Dude Perfect’s 2016 Collab With Serena Williams Sees Viral Resurgence After Polarizing Survey
• Jessie Paege Joins Hot Topic Creator Program, Releases Second Line Of Internet-Inspired Shirts
• Creators Going Pro: For Musicmaking Duo NEFFEX, YouTube Opened All The Doors To A Full-Time Career
• MrBeast Becomes Part Owner Of VidSummit, Will Keynote At The Annual Marketing Conference (Exclusive)
• Glad Challenges YouTube Vet Grace Helbig To Create An Instagram-Worthy Dish While Offroading