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Bryce “Brycent” Johnson has joined forces with the gaming lifestyle organization XSET. Backed by Lil Wayne’s Young Money, Ozuna, Tee Grizzley, and Swae Lee, XSET has been looking for a way into the Web3 gaming ecosystem, accomplishing the organization’s objective through its partnership with Brycent, the first of its kind in the esports gaming industry. “For me, being part […]
Either DatPiff’s website and/or app are shutting down, or reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. As tributes were taking flight on Twitter on Monday evening, the official DatPiff account wrote, “Despite the rumors, we are happy to report that we will still be supplying you with all the mixtapes you love. We’re working through […]
A New Jersey man admitted he paid a hitman $20,000 in bitcoin to kill a 14-year-old boy in an effort to prevent him from testifying in his child sex abuse case, NBC News reports. 31-year-old John Michael Musbach pleaded guilty in Camden federal court last week to an indictment that charged him with hiring a killer online. He […]
Iggy Azalea kicked off a new chapter on Friday with the launch of an official OnlyFans page as part of her plans for a “mixed media project” she’s calling Hotter Than Hell. A subscription to the page, available here, costs $25 per month and provides fans with what’s billed as unparalleled access to Iggy as […]
Keenan Cahill, who gained fame in the early 2010s with his lip syncing videos on YouTube, has passed away at the age of 27. According to TMZ, Cahill had open heart surgery earlier this month. Following a series of complications, Keenan was put on life support. He passed away Thursday afternoon in a Chicago hospital after he […]
San Jose, California police have arrested a man in connection with the “sextortion” suicide of a 17-year-old boy in February 2022. Per NBC Bay Area, Los Angeles authorities arrested 25-year-old Jonathan Kassi of Reseda on Thursday, Dec. 15. He was later transferred to the San Jose police department, which booked him on charges of extortion and attempted […]
Twitter has taken aim at prominent journalists. According to CNN, the social media platform has suspended the accounts of well-known reporters who have provided critical coverage of the company and its new CEO Elon Musk. The removals reportedly took place on Thursday afternoon, shortly after Twitter banned the account of Jack Sweeney, a Florida college student who used publicly available […]
Nearly a decade after former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s infamous catfishing scandal took over social media in early 2013, Netflix on Tuesday released a new documentary chronicling the story, Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist. While making press rounds ahead of the doc’s release, Te’o—who was drafted in 2013 and has since played for the Chargers, […]
The nominees for the 26th annual Webbys Awards have been announced. Voting is open until Thursday, April 21, with the show set to happen on May 16. “The Webby Awards has been honoring the very best in digital innovation and creativity for 26 years,” said Webby Awards president Claire Graves. “This year’s Nominees represent more than innovation. They […]
It may come as a surprise to her over 300 million Instagram followers, but Selena Gomez hasn’t used the app herself in over 4 years. In a new interview with Good Morning America, the superstar spoke about her decision to step away form social media, and the internet itself, for 4 and a half years […]
