Fired Server From Awful ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ Restaurant Sounds Off On Reddit
The cycle of cringe-worthy bad press for arguably the best/worst “Kitchen Nightmares” participants ever continues to roll along. Days after the owners of Amy’s Baking Company had a total threat level-5 meltdown via Facebook, which included such hits as: “Come to here, I will fucking show you all,” recently fired server Katy Cipriano sounded off [...]
Ex-Pimp & Rapper Kreayshawn Brings The Real Talk Against Teen Pregnancy In Tumblr Post
There is a long list of people who I believe, for the betterment of society, should not reproduce: Charlie Sheen, Michael Vick, my tenth grade biology teacher, Lindsay Lohan, most of my coworkers, Amanda Bynes, Carrot Top, clowns, Mischa Barton, Courtney Love, Verne Troyer (Mini Me from “Austin Powers”), the Kardashians and Kreayshawn. You remember [...]
California Teen Saves Girl’s Life After Finding Her Suicide Note On Tumblr
18-year old Jackie Rosas from Cathedral City, CA is a hero. On May 6, Rosas was reading through Tumblr when she noticed an alarming post from a 16-year old girl she followed. The post read, “I am going to kill myself, there is no other option.” Over the past year, Rosas had noticed the girl’s [...]
Fashion Brand Becomes First to Post Lookbook on Tumblr, Uses Bloggers as Models
This week, Club Monaco, the Ralph Lauren-owned fashion brand, released its fall lookbook onto Tumblr, and, instead of using models from the traditional fashion world, chose prominent fashion bloggers to model the looks. The book features popular bloggers such as Julie Sarinana from Sincerely Jules, Betty Autier from Le Blog De Betty and George Lewis [...]
Google+ Update Includes Cleaner Layout, Enhanced Photo Features
Google+ has struggled to compete with other social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, but some important visual updates from Google’s annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco may change that equation. TechCrunch reports that the social network has announced 41 updates to its platform, including a newer layout, improved Google+ Hangouts features and probably [...]
Nintendo Claims Copyright, Takes Ad Revenue Away From YouTubers
Some YouTube video game vloggers are complaining that Nintendo is enforcing copyright on their material on YouTube and claiming their ad revenue, IGN reported. Copyright owners are able to allow, block or monetize their content featured on other videos thanks to YouTube’s ContentID program. Instead of the ad revenue going to vloggers that feature Nintendo [...]
How Much Do YouTubers Make? The Top 20 Earning Creators’ Adsense Salaries Revealed [Infographic]
In recent years, hundreds of YouTubers have earned fame and fortune — million dollar fortunes — solely through their work on their YouTube channels. For those on the outside, it seems so simple: create and upload YouTube videos ranting about life or of pranks being pulled on innocent bystanders, have people tune in to watch [...]
Hank Green Gives The Best Advice You’ll Ever Hear About Signing To A Network [VIDEO]
I think it’s safe to say that Vlog Brothers Hank and John Green are much smarter than most of us. Between writing New York Times best-selling novels, starting the largest YouTube convention in the world and co-creating “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,” the Greens have life on lock. To add to their list of accolades, in [...]
Sam Tsui, Kurt Hugo Schneider, Alyssa Bernal & AJ Rafael Battle In YouTube Music Challenge [VIDEO]
In Glendale, Calif. today, The Grove shopping center was alive with the sound of YouTube music as three of YouTube’s most prominent musical performers competed in a YouTube music challenge on the entertainment television show “Extra.” Performers Alyssa Bernal, Kurt Hugo Schneider and Sam Tsui shared with “Extra’s” host Maria Menounos how YouTube has changed [...]
NMR Responds: ‘The Jenna Marbles Paradox’ is F*cking Lousy
This piece is intended as a retort to Betabeat.com’s article: “The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?” by Ryan Holiday. No animals were harmed in the making of this response. “Ryan Holiday — [Jeff raises his arms to indicate the vast coliseum that one needs to suspend disbelief in order to imagine [...]
