influencers
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Popular Podcaster Lucy Jackson Launches New Planner App: Basic Girls Guide
Influencers are very busy people these days. A few years ago, the trend from influencers was to banish the word “busy” because many felt it made life and work into a competition, a race to have the least amount of free time, and a badge of honour that was ultimately bad for mental health. The new trend…
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Influencers And YouTubers Should Be Among The First To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
There’s a rigorous debate going on about how the COVID-19 vaccine should be rolled out. Each participant in the discourse brings their own expertise: epidemiologists, public health experts, even economists have added their two cents. And now it’s my turn to weigh in: the top Instagram influencers, YouTubers and all types of online content creators…
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TikTok Starts $280 Million Fund to Finally Start Paying Creators
TikTok is an app at the centre of national scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad, an app beloved by witches and convicted felons alike, an app that’s recently been accused of hooking children up with local drug cartels. It’s also an app that recently announced it would be launching a $US200 ($281) million funding pool…
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She Built a Shady Guru’s YouTube Army. Now She’s His Fiercest Critic — But Who Will Believe Her?
It was May 2015, and the Hotel Surya in Varanasi, India, was hosting “Inner Awakening,” the flagship spiritual training program of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. To his followers, he is a god incarnate, “His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam,” the living avatar of Shiva, or, as one devotee put it, “the only reviver of authentic Hinduism…