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‘Disaster Girl’ has sold her popular meme as an NFT for $500,000

The Verge

Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.

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Snapchat finally lets all iOS users put music in their snaps

The Verge

Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. Snap doesn’t say how big its music catalog is other than calling it “robust and curated.”

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UK music platform for creators Uppbeat raises $6.15 million Series A

TechCrunch

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. million GBP ($6.15

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun.

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BTS fan Twitter accounts say they’re being targeted by copyright trolls

The Verge

The owner of a fan account with over 233,000 followers, which posts videos, photos, and memes related to the South Korean band, claims that their original header and profile picture, as well as multiple tweets including their own screenshots and memes, have been taken down by the trolls over the past few weeks.

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K-pop’s fandom platforms are changing what it means to be an idol

The Verge

Before the rise of social media accounts and company-run platforms, most fans for Korean artists basically were locked into direct engagement through fancafes — a kind of digital fan club that often required fans to prove their knowledge of a particular artist before gaining access to artists.

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Musicians are hooking up synthesizers to plants for new sonic possibilities

The Verge

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. The results range from scatterings of notes in a strange tempo to fully composed ambient music.

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