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Byline: Taylor Lorenz Cody Ko, a YouTube star with 5.7 million subscribers, found himself in a pickle in May. Two different start-ups wanted to give him stock, and he was [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Marissa Meizz, 23, was out to dinner with a friend in the East Village in mid-May when her phone started buzzing. She tried to silence it, but [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Fueled by Gen Z, text-heavy meme posts, often paired with nonsensically unrelated pictures, are turning the photo and video app into a destination for written expression. LOS [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Fed up with the imbalance between online influencers and brands, Lindsey Lee Lugrin and Isha Mehra created a platform to change that. LOS ANGELES - Six years [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Ellie Zeiler, 17, a TikTok creator with over 10 million followers, received an email in June from Village Marketing, an influencer marketing agency. It [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz 'Calling all recruiters!' Makena Yee, 21, a college student in Seattle, shouted into her camera in a recent TikTok video. 'These are the reasons why you should [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz and Erin Woo The online influencer culture is starting to draw serious interest from big venture capital firms. But the real money could be in digital tools, [...]

Byline: Mike Isaac and Taylor Lorenz The social network is aiming to be a destination for creators and their viral memes. But TikTok and YouTube got there first. SAN FRANCISCO [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Many people who have found fame on TikTok are struggling with mental health issues. Lately, it's been hard for Jack Innanen, a 22-year-old TikTok star from Toronto, [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Eitan Bernath, a 19-year-old TikTok star with more than 1.6 million followers, began posting cooking content to the platform in 2019. Like many Generation Z TikTok chefs, [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Jimmy Donaldson, 22, a YouTube megastar better known as Mr. Beast, operates six YouTube channels with names like MrBeast, MrBeast Shorts and Beast Reacts that together have [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz These huggable, collectible plush toys have cultivated a fandom in a year of grief, isolation and uncertainty. Over the last few months, bulbous and brightly colored plush [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform. Audio creators are a new kind [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Some are calling David Dobrik's new photo app, Dispo, the next Instagram. Dispo, a new photo-sharing app that mimics the experience of using a disposable camera, is [...]

Byline: Erin Griffith and Taylor Lorenz SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Van Winkle, who is better known as the rapper Vanilla Ice, held court online last week with more than 1,000 [...]

Byline: Matt Phillips and Taylor Lorenz GameStop shares have soared 1,700 percent as millions of small investors, egged on by social media, employ a classic Wall Street tactic to put [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A perfect metaphor for a year of giving up and giving in. For years, sleep experts have held one piece of common wisdom above all else: that [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Top performers are raking in cash as the company seeks to compete against TikTok and similar platforms. In late November, Cam Casey, a TikTok star with over [...]

Byline: Sapna Maheshwari and Taylor Lorenz Merchandise with phrases like 'Battle for Capitol Hill Veteran' could still be purchased on major e-commerce sites, a sign of how the platforms have [...]

Byline: Kellen Browning and Taylor Lorenz A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Business, entertainment, news, activism and social connection will never be the same. It's been well over two years since TikTok arrived in the United States in August [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz After years of being passed over by brands and management companies despite driving the internet's biggest trends, Black influencers in Atlanta are working to shift the paradigm. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Peter Eavis and Matt Phillips Time to learn about reverse takeovers, kids! A business trying to make money off mansions full of TikTok influencers has gone public [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz YouTubers, influencers and streamers popularized Among Us, a multiplayer game. Now it's everywhere. When an indie game company created Among Us in 2018, it was greeted with [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok's top creators are taking 'Triller money' to bring their content over to the app. When talk of a possible TikTok ban began in July, the leaders [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A group of young tech enthusiasts are carving their own path on Discord. For young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry - or any industry, really [...]

Byline: Mike Isaac and Taylor Lorenz Six weeks ago, as TikTok grappled with escalating tensions between the United States and China, the social media app's top executives huddled together to [...]

Byline: Brian X. Chen and Taylor Lorenz TikTok might not be winning over President Trump, but it sure beats its Instagram copycat for making and sharing short videos. Millions of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Omegle, a precursor to Chatroulette, has grown in popularity during this indefinite period of social isolation. First there was the Zoom boom, followed quickly by Zoom fatigue. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Welcome to the viral world of hyper-realistic cake slicing videos. Over the past week, social media has been flooded with videos of knives slicing into ordinary objects [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Beauty YouTube as we knew it may be over as two major influencers face the next generation. This weekend, the YouTube beauty world erupted into drama. Shane [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Teenagers on the platform have inherited the legacy of Weird Twitter and Weird Facebook, posturing as multinational corporations and posting about beans and frogs. As multinational corporations [...]

Byline: Erin Griffith and Taylor Lorenz For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another. SAN [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Ricky Dillon started his channel in high school, when video creators were niche entertainers. A lot has changed in 10 years. ORLANDO, Fla. - For the past [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz, Erin Griffith and Mike Isaac Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days. On Sunday afternoon, Eleanor Dolan celebrated her 17th birthday in [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LURKING How a Person Became a User By Joanne McNeil In her first book, 'Lurking,' Joanne McNeil charts the history of the internet through the experiences of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz A 14-year-old in Atlanta created one of the biggest dances on the internet. But nobody really knows that. FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - Jalaiah Harmon is coming up in [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Open up TikTok and there's a good chance you'll be confronted by a teenager in the bathroom. Most home bathrooms are well lit and have nice, bright [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Wall Street wants you to stay ignorant. @MrsDowJones is here to teach us financial literacy. Haley Sacks, 28, doesn't just want women to save; she wants them [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Taylor Lorenz, who writes about internet culture, explains how she keeps her finger on the pulse. How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Paton, Taylor Lorenz and Isabella Kwai Three young women shoppers in three countries talk about what they buy, where they buy it and why. For every Greta Thunberg [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz TikTok says it's ready to help its stars get rich. TikTok has released the TikTok 100, a year-in-review list that names the top videos, genres, creators and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Now it's war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality. In a viral audio clip on TikTok, a white-haired man in a baseball [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun? WINTER GARDEN, Fla. - On the [...]