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• TikTok’s testing sleep reminders
• The businesswoman behind Pinterest’s top account is teaching creators how to pitch on Skillshare

  Joy Cho is the most-followed creator on Pinterest. Now the designer is launching a Skillshare class to teach artists how to pitch to brands.

  
• There’s an AI VTuber now and it has 70,000 followers on Twitch

  Neuro-sama is an AI program with a VTuber avatar. The character streams on Twitch and has gained 70,000 followers.

  
• On the Podcast: My oven took this photo

  If Instagram photos of well-plated, ready-to-eat dishes are the final product for consumption on our social media food chain (which something like 40% of IG users post), Samsung wants to capitalize on what happens a step or two before that.

  
• Getting lost in longer TikTok videos? A new feature will help.
• Andrew Callaghan goes from ‘All Gas No Brakes’ to HBO
• FailArmy is known for user-generated content. Can it strike a chord with puppets?
• YouTube Millionaires: JKrew’s channel started as a way to keep in touch with family. Now it’s what their family does.
• OnlyFans boosts its safe-for-work platform with a second round of cook-offs
• IMDb wants TikTok users to talk up their favorite movies and shows
• Vimeo makes the “hard decision” to lay off 11% of its workforce
• The co-owner of FaZe Clan wants to be the first person to beat KSI in an influencer boxing match
• MatPat brought YouTube’s trend gurus onto his podcast. Here’s what they foresee in 2023.
• TikTok’s 18-and-up videos have arrived. Don’t get the wrong idea about what that means.
• YouTube has a new monetization policy regarding profanity. Creators are unhappy with the rollout.
• Creators On The Rise: Joshua David McKenney wasn’t allowed to play with dolls as a kid. Now he makes his own—and they’re show-stopping collectors’ items.
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• The “Bespoke AI Oven” will stream your food as it cooks
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 1/1/2023
• Mizkif has been suspended from OTK’s board for “lack of empathy and ignorance”
• Race car driver, entrepreneur, and ‘Gymkhana’ star Ken Block dies at 55
• Here’s how sweeping legal changes will affect content creators in 2023
• Blippi eyes Latin American market with Brazilian spin-off character Juca
• Spotify touts its LA office as a “state-of-the-art music- and podcast-recording facility”