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• Sidemen soccer match raises £6.2 million, draws 2.2 million concurrent viewers during 20-goal thriller
• Minecraft is bringing life-sized biomes to TwitchCon Rotterdam–plus a Tubbo competition, community hangout, and more

  Twitch has partnered with developer Mojang Studios to offer an entire dedicated Minecraft area and a slate of programming. Attendees will be able to walk through a life-sized version of Minecraft with different interactive biomes, plus see a live rendition of Tubbo's speedrunning tournament, The Midoffs, presented by the man himself.

  
• Have you heard? Sykkuno’s bad behavior, Mamdani’s Sidetalk inspo, and a Tax Day surprise.

  Sykkuno's streaming career fell into disgrace, Zohran Mamdani gave Sidetalk a shout-out, and Yonna learned when Tax Day is.

  
• deviantART says artists made $23 million on its platform last year, boasts that it was “100% right” to embrace generative AI

  Back in the very early 2000s, deviantART was a tentpole of digital fandom. All sorts of fans--from Fullmetal Alchemist enjoyers, Harry Potter lovers, and Star Trek enthusiasts to Transformers aficionados, Supernatural brethren, and even the early Marvel Cinematic Universe stans--gathered there to share, see, and discuss fanart (and sometimes fanfics, too, though those had more of a home over on Fanfiction.net and LiveJournal).

  
• YouTube reshuffles clipping by removing viewer options while bringing Clips to Shorts
• Jesser makes moves off the court to turn his sports content empire into a business
• Reed Hastings leaves Netflix, which says it “really built our M&A muscle” during failed deal with Warner Bros. Discovery
• TikTok is turning ByteDance’s AI video generator into a brand’s best friend
• Former OnlyFans CEO’s new platform goes softcore to become “the HBO of social media”
• Nas Daily’s AI ecom biz just closed a $27 million round led by Vinod Khosla
• Sick of slop? YouTube now has a workaround that effectively turns off Shorts.
• Courts and governments say social platforms harm teens’ mental health. Here’s what the teens think.