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'Chicken Shop Date' shares free advice for creators. Here’s how to watch.

Amelia Dimoldenberg celebrated 10 years of Chicken Shop Date over the weekend by digging into exactly what it takes to become one of the major creators shaping digital culture right now. And if you missed it, you can stream every panel for free.

The 31-year-old British journalist, comedian, red carpet favourite, and creator of the wildly popular interview series — not to mention Mashable 101 honoree — hosted a two-day event on Friday and Saturday in London's Protein Studios.

Joined by fellow c...
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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show is already sparking social media discourse

Bad Bunny is headlining the Super Bowl 60 halftime show, and while many of us are thrilled about the performance, people on social media are — of course — giving some mixed responses.

Apple Music announced the Puerto Rican superstar as the halftime performer during Sunday Night Football yesterday, according to NBC News.

"What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It's for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and...
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What does '6-7' mean? Here's why kids are saying 'six, seven' over and over.

Parents everywhere are likely frightened to count to 10 in their own homes, lest they tempt their children by getting to the numbers six and seven.

If that means nothing to you, then you've successfully avoided the 6-7 meme. Congrats to you and your blissfully offline life. That sounds healthy.

But for the logged-on masses, kids saying six-seven to everything has simply become a fact of life. And yes, that is pretty much it: people are just saying six-seven in a particular cadence...and that i...
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Threads is tracking to surpass X in daily active users

Threads is nearing X in mobile user numbers, according to data from Similarweb, a leading web analytics firm. The Twitter alternative from Meta is reportedly growing steadily and appears to be drawing users away from Elon Musk’s platform.

A chart shared by Similarweb shows Threads steadily increasing its daily active users on both iOS and Android. The data suggests Threads has reached parity with X — around 130 million daily active users — and is on track to surpass it globally within days.

It...
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How much would it cost to watch every NFL game in 2025?

Being an NFL fan ain't cheap.

The average ticket to a game will run you $279 — the most expensive being the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles at $475, on average. (Go Birds.) (Editor's note: Go Bills!) But even if you prefer to watch the games at home, it's not exactly a more affordable option.

So, how much would it cost you to watch every single NFL game on TV in the 2025-2026 season? Last year, I estimated that it would cost $891.36 to watch every game, and the situation hasn't improved...
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How to download TikTok videos in 2025

Love a TikTok so much that you want to keep it on your phone and treasure it forever? You can do that with the save video function built right into the app.

"Save video" allows you to save your favorite TikToks to your phone's photo library. Downloading TikTok videos allows you to have access to a TikTok even if the user deletes it, or if TikTok takes it down or removes the sound. Though this seems less likely now with an inked deal, it also preserves your favorite TikTok videos in case the pla...
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Kate McKinnon details angler fish mating rituals while surviving 'Hot Ones'

Comedian, actor, and author Kate McKinnon hit the seitan wings on Hot Ones this week, and reader, "The wings, they are hot."

Running through hot vegan wings of steadily increasing spice level, The Roses star unpacked host Sean Evans' staggeringly well-researched questions about her career on Saturday Night Live, playing screwball protagonists, finding the essence of comedic characters through juxtaposition, doing impressions as a kid, and her book series The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette...
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It's Fat Bear Week 2025! How to watch the livestreams and vote.

It's the happiest time of the year — Fat Bear Week! This year's event takes place from Sept. 23-30, and Mashable will be following all the ursine activity. Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown bears (also known as grizzly bears) spent the summer gorging on 4,500-calorie salmon, and they've transformed into rotund giants, some weighing more than 1,000 pounds. So, the Alaskan park is once again hosting its beloved annual competition to crown the fattest of the fat bears.

Fat Bear Week is off...
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Jimmy Kimmel refuses to stop mocking Trump: 'I don't like bullies'

Jimmy Kimmel has responded to President Donald Trump's comments about the late night host's return to air, ABC having lifted his highly controversial suspension on Tuesday. Trump was predictably unhappy with Kimmel's return, posting to Truth Social, "I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back."

"You can't believe they gave me my job back? I can't believe we gave you your job back!" quipped Kimmel.

Stating that Kimmel "puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democ...
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Jimmy Kimmel returns to air, addresses Kirk comments in emotional monologue

Jimmy Kimmel made his return to late night television on Tuesday, his audience loudly cheering and chanting his name. Calling recent events "overwhelming," Kimmel stated that "everyone [he] had ever met has reached out ten or 11 times," giving shout outs to fellow talk show hosts such as Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert.

ABC pulled Kimmel off air last Wednesday, seemingly bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Federal Communications Commission...
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'Mad at Disney' TikTok parody expresses anger at Kimmel's suspension

While everyone is mad at Disney right now, the company's OG hater has now chimed in as well. Salem Ilese has posted a parody of her viral TikTok hit "Mad at Disney" to protest Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air, rewriting the lyrics to advocate for free speech.

"I am still mad at Disney, and for a different reason this time," Ilese said in a TikTok video posted Monday.

Ilese's original 2020 song was about being disillusioned by the reality of romantic relationships after Disney films elevated h...
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Taryn Delanie Smith on Denise, TikTok fame, and making space for joy

Taryn Delanie Smith is held together with threads of light.

As we stroll to grab coffee on a remarkably perfect September morning in New York, the 29-year-old comedian walks with an ease of confidence that seems to invite joy from strangers.

She beams with genuine glee when she's approached by a fan on the street and asks them to take a photo together. She taps New Zealand creator Julian Sewell — better known as Paloma Diamond on TikTok — on the shoulder when we walk past one another on 26th S...
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Tefi Pessoa on TikTok, pop culture, and performing womanhood

Walking with Estefanía "Tefi" Pessoa feels a lot like being a kite tugged expertly through the air. I know I'm safe, tethered to the ground in some way, but it still feels like she is leading me, alongside whatever other flurries of nature aid her. Other people pass by us in a blur, glancing up to see what she's laughing at or where she's headed. It could be by virtue of the heels she's wearing — her stride is remarkably long for 5'7" — or her ability to project her voice with the ideal decibel,...
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Tech YouTuber Arun Maini tells us how he got 21 million subscribers

Arun Maini, aka Mrwhosetheboss, says he was a shy, lanky, acne-prone 14-year-old when he uploaded his first video to YouTube. His big brother had just bought him his first phone, and he was geeking out. That first vlog, a shaky, sometimes out-of-focus overview of a long-since-forgotten phone, surprised him (and his skeptical classmates) by garnering tens of thousands of views in short order. It also showed Maini what was possible on YouTube.

To take you back in time to 2011, the most-watched Yo...
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TikTok chef Tini Younger talks mac 'n cheese, Gordon Ramsay, and building a culinary career

Tineke "Tini" Younger is someone my grandmother would call a spitfire. She knows what she wants, yes, but she also has the confidence to fully turn away from what disinterests her. She's hardworking. She's curious. And, as she sits across from me on camera from her house in Augusta, Georgia, she's craving something sweet — a consequence of her pregnancy.

"I noticed I want to eat more sweet stuff than savory. I just sat down and ate half a birthday sheet cake in one sitting," she told Mashable....
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How comedian Morgan Jay turned TikTok clips into sold-out tours

It takes a surprising amount of calculation to become a goofy guy.

You have to do stand-up for thirteen years, even if the response is lukewarm. You have to study acting, music, comedy, and theater. You need a measured belief in the mystical — manifestation plus hard work. You have to go viral and post on social media every other day. You have to be a student of the internet and play into the algorithm with tactical precision. You must tour frequently, do yoga, and eat low-acidity fruits and ve...
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The Mashable 101: These are the creators shaping the internet in 2025

Our lives are inextricably intertwined with what happens in digital spaces — from the news and current events we consume to the TV and music we stream and the viral videos we share in the group chat.

American teens spend about 5 hours a day on social media. Internet users in the U.S. reportedly spend more than 7 hours online daily. Driving it all? The content creators we love (and, sure, some you may love to hate). About 57 percent of Gen Z aspire to be content creators someday. The creator eco...
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Pokémon distances itself from DHS's 'Gotta Catch 'Em All' ICE raid video

The Pokémon Company International is not pleased that President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using its intellectual property to promote the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) raids.

“We are aware of a recent video posted by the Department of Homeland Security that includes imagery and language associated with our brand," said a statement from the Pokémon Company International provided to Mashable. "Our company was not involved in the creation or distribu...
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Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap, actually

In perhaps the most out-of-touch statement since Lucille Bluth priced bananas, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino — the boss of the company that runs Ticketmaster — said that, actually, concert tickets are too cheap. I'd like to see him tell that to literally any non-millionaire American who's tried to see their favorite artist.

The comments from Rapino came this week while speaking at CNBC and Boardroom’s Game Plan conference. They quickly circulated online and, frankly, I thought they had to be f...
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Seth Meyers tells Trump how to stop late night hosts from mocking him

Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday, Disney announcing that the late night host's suspension is being lifted after "thoughtful conversations" with him. Even so, the issues that led to Kimmel being pulled from broadcast are far from settled, with concerns about government censorship and infringement of free speech continuing to dominate.

Late Night host Seth Meyers didn't have much to say about Kimmel's return during the show's most recent episode, noting that he just found out about it m...
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Jon Stewart responds to Jimmy Kimmel's return to air

Jon Stewart has reacted to Jimmy Kimmel's anticipated return to late night television, congratulating everyone who boycotted Disney in support of the late show host.

"That campaign that you all launched, pretending that you were going to cancel Hulu while secretly racing through four seasons of Only Murders in the Building, that really worked," quipped Stewart on the Daily Show. "Wasn't it interesting to try and figure out all the tentacles Disney has in your daily life? It's one thing to swear...
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Stephen Colbert gleefully reacts to Jimmy Kimmel's return to air

Stephen Colbert has responded to the news that Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday, declaring that "our long national late nightmare is over." Well, partially over at least.

"This is wonderful news for my dear friend Jimmy and his amazing staff… I'm so happy for them. Plus, now that Jimmy's not being cancelled, I get to enjoy this again," said Colbert, brandishing his newly won Emmy Award from last week.

Colbert had been up against Kimmel for the award, but understandably found it diffi...
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YouTube slams Biden administration, reinstates conservative accounts banned for COVID falsehoods

YouTube is reinstating the accounts of conservative creators previously banned from the platform for spreading misinformation, after facing a months-long investigation by the House Judiciary Committee.

In a five-page letter sent to the committee's chair Jim Jordan, YouTube's parent company Alphabet said the platform had removed said accounts due to pressure from Biden administration officials in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that it would now commit further to promoting political deba...
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