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Fitness influencers morning routine goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Mashable Tech

Over the weekend, the internet was captivated (read: deeply confused) by a resurfaced video from fitness influencer Ashton Hall, whose morning routine might be the most unhinged one to grace our feeds. Social media has been lit up with memes, stitches, and general bewilderment. This Tweet is currently unavailable. The reactions?

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The NFT Bay asks if you would steal all the JPEGs

The Verge

As a site, it seems to do what it says on the tin, but as a statement it could spark an interesting discussion around what it means if you claim ownership over something on the internet. He also gives a much more in-depth explanation behind the influences for The NFT Bay in an FAQ on his GitHub and in an excellent interview with Motherboard.

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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

Some sections of Zikoko’s website still revolve around this coverage, but the publication has evolved to become a chronicler of a lot more serious stuff — telling stories about the everyday life of young people in Nigeria via content, video, images and memes. The publication’s newsletter has an audience of more than 100,000 readers monthly.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

As much as he had benefited from the rise of the mobile internet, he thought there was a far bigger opportunity building a consumer brand and applying the lessons he learned from programming to the manufacture of tangible products. In addition, the quick turnaround allows agile brands to take advantage of that most ephemeral of IP, memes.

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Payments remain the darling of the fintech space

TechCrunch

The company will soon be “rolling out an influencer campaign where creators will dive into #dolltok by building narratives around their #shoppergangers (dolls customized to their own unique shopper personas) in their miniature worlds,” according to the spokesperson.

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Inside the cryptocurrency scam vortex

The Verge

According to Maren Altman , a TikTok influencer with over a million followers who creates videos about cryptocurrency and astrology, there are three kinds of risk that crypto holders should be wary of: bad investments, collapsing projects, and outright scams. Musk’s tweets have also been blamed for this month’s massive market downturn.

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Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture

The Verge

Crowder, who is widely known as the face of the “change my mind” meme, has challenged people to debates in the past, including college students on campuses all across the country. The whole fiasco raised serious questions about debate culture online and how platforms like YouTube and Twitch are influencing politics at large.

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