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YouTube is jumping into the short-form video game by pitting its users to compete against the popular video app TikTok.   “The Shorts Fund is just the first step in our journey to build a long-term monetization model for Shorts on YouTube,” the company said in a blog post. YouTube …

Will Smith announced he is partnering up with YouTube to document his journey back to health after snacking his way through the pandemic.  CNN reports that the six-part unscripted series is tentatively titled Best Shape of My Life. It will show Smith working on his body and “getting his groove back.” Smith’s Westbrook Media …

TikTok star Justine Paradise said that YouTuber Jake Paul sexually assaulted her in 2019. Paradise posted a 20-minute video to YouTube on Friday accusing Paul of forcing her into a sex act at his Team 10 house in California. The Los Angeles mansion is where several content creators live and …

YouTube personality JoJo Siwa opened up to People about being pansexual and happy. The social media star is dating 18-year-old Kylie Prew. The two met on a cruise ship. “I still don’t know what I am. It’s like, I want to figure it out. And I have this joke. Her …

After nearly a week of deliberation, YouTube has agreed to pull YG’s controversial video for “Meet The Flockers.” The move comes as hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders are on the rise in the United States, especially among the elderly, as people scramble to find someone to blame for …

Twin brothers Alan and Alex Stokes, known as “The Stokes Twins,” with more than six million followers on YouTube, have pleaded guilty after a bank robbery prank went wrong. According to TMZ, the twins pled guilty to false imprisonment and reporting false emergencies, both misdemeanors, for their prank bank robberies …

An Italian mafia fugitive blew his cover after police found him making cooking videos on YouTube. Marc Feren Claude Biart’s “love for Italian cuisine” cost him getting arrested after being on the run for seven years. According to NBC News, police arrested a mafia fugitive in the Dominican Republic, and …

For the second time in two months, YouTube has suspended Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal counsel, for wrongly alleging the 2020 election was rigged. Bloomberg News announced that the former mayor of New York, who led Trump’s attempts to reverse November’s outcome, would be barred from posting new videos for …

Singer Demi Lovato said she suffered three strokes and a heart attack following her overdose. The 28-year-old singer reveals it all in her upcoming YouTube documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil.” The four-part project will detail private details about her life, including when she was found passed out in …

Two-time NBA champion, Lamar Odom, signed a deal with Celebrity Boxing. According to TMZ, Odom will have his first fight at Showboat Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on June 12. At the moment, Odom doesn’t have an opponent. Odom spent seven years playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, where …

YouTube has officially taken action by banning Donald Trump from its video-sharing platform. Just one week after pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol, the video-sharing platform removed videos from Trump’s YouTube channel and suspended his account for at least seven days. In a statement, YouTube said, “After review, and in …

Singer JoJo Siwa took to Instagram and TikTok to address the controversy surrounding the ‘JoJo Juice’ board game. The game, which is targeted towards children ages 6 and up, features inappropriate questions. “Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that …

As the year 2020 comes to an end, we asked a few of our Twitter followers who/what were their favorite YouTubers/Channels and Podcasters they enjoyed the most; here is the list that we came up with: Joe Budden Podcast (@thejoebuddenpod) – With more than 800k subscribers on YouTube and over 400 …

Justin Bieber opens up about being suicidal and urges others to know when to get to help. Bieber, 26, has open about been dealing with mental health issues for some time. In a new YouTube series called “Next Chapter,” the singer comes to the very platform that made him famous …

YouTube has announced a global initiative dedicated to highlighting Black voices. On Tuesday, YouTube’s Vice President of Learning, Impact, Family, Film, TV & Health, Malik Ducard, explained that the lineup will include stories focused on racial justice, jail expansion, colleges, and family dinners in an effort to build empathy and …