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• “It’s maybe the greatest crossover of all time”: ‘Hot Ones’ goes on a ‘Chicken Shop Date’
• Adblockpocalypse: Users uninstall ad blockers in droves after YouTube crackdown

  Some ad blockers are seeing more than 50,000 uninstalls per day as YouTube cracks down on those browser extensions.

  
• Pressure mounts on right-wing account Libs of TikTok after Anti-Defamation League caves to threats

  A Media Matters report looked into Libs of TikTok after Chaya Raichik, the founder of the right-wing account, pressured the ADL.

  
• Want to get your groceries through TikTok Shop? That option may be coming soon.

  TikTok is experimenting with retail partnerships that would allow it to sell perishable groceries through TikTok Shop.

  
• YouTube adjusts recs to protect teens from “repeated messages about idealized standards”
• YouTuber Joey Graceffa seeks $250,000 for film adaptation of mystery series ‘Escape The Night’
• Uncommon Threads Media is translating global children’s videos. Up first: A giraffe named Joze.
• TikTok’s favorite food critic brought “the Keith Lee effect” to Atlanta. Then the complaints began.
• MrBallen Studios picks up original podcast to expand beyond its titular creator
• Amouranth is developing multiple “game show-type concepts” for OnlyFans’ safe-for-work hub
• TikTok’s DistroKid deal invites indie artists to join its standalone music app
• YouTube’s annual Brandcast will return to New York’s David Geffen Hall on May 15, 2024