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Toy Unboxings and other kid videos like Nursery Rhymes like the Finger Family or live action skits with characters such as Elsa and Spiderman are a very weird class of videos on youtube. They can sometimes get hundreds of millions of views and it seems pretty baffling, but even this phenomena can be explained. Some…
GIF GTA V is rated M, meaning it is intended for people aged 17 and above. And yet, on YouTube, some people use GTA V to make shows for children, some of which get millions of views per episode. Kids are big business on Youtube, and many of the largest channels on the service cater…
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By Kerry Flynn2016-10-27 16:18:32 UTC Vine, as we know it, is over. Twitter announced on Thursday that it will shut down the Vine mobile app in the coming months. “Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the…
Hyperpartisan political Facebook pages and websites are consistently feeding their millions of followers false or misleading information, according to an analysis by BuzzFeed News. The review of more than 1,000 posts from six large hyperpartisan Facebook pages selected from the right and from the left also found that the least accurate pages generated some of…
How do you make a recipe exciting? BuzzFeed figured it out. “The world of recipes had not been reinvented beyond a list of text and an image forever,” BuzzFeed Entertainment Group President Ze Frank said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka. Chocolate Chip Banana Monkey Bread FULL RECIPE: http://bzfd.it/2d4aeeN Posted by…
Walt Disney Co. decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter Inc. partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company’s wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management’s thinking. The producer of family fare like “Finding Dory” had gone so far…
Dive Brief: In a blog post Tuesday, Facebook announced Live API, a new tool that allows publishers to schedule Facebook Live streaming video broadcasts in advance. The blog post explained the tool was added to Facebook Live following publisher demand. TechCrunch points out that the ability to schedule live streams eliminates the frustration of announcing…
As the final weeks of the presidential campaign devolve into accusations of conspiracy and fraud, the most talked-about Trump supporter might be a poll-hating Twitter pundit who has no official role with the campaign. Bill Mitchell is here to win the ground game in our hearts. Charlie Warzel BuzzFeed News Reporter posted on Oct. 18,…
If you are among the 73% of American adults who don’t log in to Twitter at least once a month, you can be forgiven for viewing it primarily as a place where presidential candidates launch broadsides and celebrities embarrass themselves. Twitter Inc.’s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow…