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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Crystal Bell

    Alberta Tech went from YouTube engineer to YouTube creator (opens the original)

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    Alberta Tech didn't start posting TikToks because she was plotting her escape from corporate America. She was bored. Like so many of us, cooped up at home in the early days of the pandemic, she started filming jokes, riffing on the absurdity of her tiny New York apartment and whatever else the For You page happened to hand her. A software engineer by day, she was just looking for a little fun. What she found instead were fellow tech workers, who saw themselves in every short-form bit. By then, s

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Crystal Bell

    What the creators of Tubby Nugget can't work without (opens the original)

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    What does it take to run one of the internet's most wholesome animated empires? Apparently, a lot of spicy chips. Jenine Pastores and Josh Jackson are the creators behind Tubby Nugget, the tiny animated character whose relentless optimism and goofy sense of humor have helped him amass more than 14 million followers online. What started as an inside joke between the couple has since expanded into plushies, music videos, live events, and an increasingly ambitious animation operation. But when Mash

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Crystal Bell

    Taylor Swift's 'Pink Clouding' lyrics, explained: What the title means and who fans think it's about (opens the original)

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    Taylor Swift is looking back, and this time, she has an apology to make. On Friday, Swift released The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded edition of her 2025 album featuring four new songs: "Patient Zero," "Cleveland!," "Pink Clouding," and "Babylon." And while Swifties are already busy parsing all four tracks for clues, "Pink Clouding" has prompted two particularly pressing questions: What exactly does "pink clouding" mean? And who is Swift singing about? The answer to the first questi

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Crystal Bell

    'Resident Evil' turns video game frustration into its best running joke (opens the original)

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    There are plenty of monsters in Zach Cregger's Resident Evil. But perhaps no enemy proves more formidable than the humble padlock. Early in the movie, Bryan (Austin Abrams) is trying to escape a farm when he reaches a gate secured with a massive padlock stamped with a Diamond emblem. He's armed with a rifle, so the solution seems obvious enough: shoot the lock and move on. Except the bullets do nothing. So Bryan tries the next most logical solution and rams the gate with the farmer's truck. The

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Crystal Bell

    Jenny Hoyos wants to be your 'internet best friend.' YouTube wants to make that easier. (opens the original)

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    Jenny Hoyos wants to be your internet best friend. That might sound ambitious for someone with more than 12 million YouTube subscribers. But for Hoyos, the feeling of accessibility is a fundamental part of being a creator. "I don't want to feel like someone that just shows [up] once a week or once a month," Hoyos told Mashable and other journalists during a roundtable at the Made On YouTube event in New York City on Wednesday. "I want them to see, 'Wow, Jenny's accessible 24/7. She is responding

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