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• Millions of creators make their significant others a big part of their content. So what happens when they break up?
• TikTok, Google, and Meta to face multiple lawsuits related to the mental health effects of algorithms

  A U.S. District Court judge in Oakland ruled that Meta, TikTok, and Google have to face some lawsuits from schools related to algorithms.

  
• VTubers have more exposure than ever. So why is their viewership down?

  Data from Streams Charts shows that overall VTuber viewership declined slightly during the third quarter. There are a few reasons why.

  
• As X fumbles, Bluesky announces $15 million raise and plans for creator monetization

  Elon Musk's dumpster fire of a site has seen yet another mass exodus this month after introducing two much-hated changes: first, it's nuking the block feature by allowing users you've blocked to see your posts anyway, for some reason; and second, it changed its TOS so all material uploaded to X—videos, posts, photos, art, writing samples, anything—is now automatically licensed "for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type."

  
• Chatbot company Character.AI faces lawsuit over 14-year-old’s death
• Ludwig’s Offbrand Games soars to top of Steam charts after publishing its first title
• After bringing STEM feed to teens, TikTok realizes that adults need to learn science, too
• Which emotion is the best for thumbnails? Depends who you ask.
• YouTube is gamifying the creator-viewer connection
• Epic wants people to make more games. It’s creating–and owning–the marketplace.
• Amazon brought ads to Prime so it could fill them with shoppable links
• Reach is the most important metric for influencer marketers, and Instagram Reels is the place to get it