The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Daniel Naroditsky, a top American player with an online following, was found dead in Charlotte, N.C., after talking about being accused of cheating by a former world champion.
Category: Social Media
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Why You’re Seeing More Candy Makers Like BonBon on Your TikTok Feed
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Melting in your mouth, they’ve got covered. For today’s candy makers, whether chic or kitschy, high-end or “outrageous,” the new challenge is how to pop on your screen.
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Y2K Kids Were the Last to Really Rage With No One Watching
The New York Times – Music:
The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past.
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Who Is the Dapper Louvre Heist ‘Detective’? And Is He Even Real?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.
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Sea Otters and Museums Are Feeling Taylor Swift’s Midas Touch
The New York Times – Music:
After the release of her latest album, an aquarium in California and a museum in Germany suddenly were thrust into the center of Taylor Swift’s fandom. Just how big is Swift’s cultural reach?
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Stephanie Johnson, Burlesque Dancer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 81
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Her memories of her days as Tanqueray in the gritty New York of the 1960s and ’70s found a new audience in recent years and made her a social media star.
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What Is Group 7 on TikTok? Sophia James Explains Her Exclusive Club.
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
A “science experiment” by the singer Sophia James has people proudly declaring their membership in an exclusive group.
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Mother of Girl Who Fell Overboard on Disney Cruise Will Not Face Charges
The New York Times – Travel:
The incident, in which a girl fell from a Disney cruise ship and her father jumped in to save her, was captured on video and shared widely on social media. A prosecutor said the mother had a lapse in “proper judgment.”
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The Woman Who Livestreamed Her Birth on Twitch
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Cady Hoffman and her husband, Bryan Loyd — Fandy and Adamax, to their Twitch followers — talk about broadcasting their daughter’s birth to almost 30,000 gamers.