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MatPat just signed a multi-project deal with Blumhouse. Amanda the Adventurer is first.
Blumhouse signed MatPat to a multi-project deal turning indie horror games and horror YouTube channels into movies, starting with Amanda the Adventurer. The retired Game Theorist's real asset was never the channel. It was his taste.
KSI just quit boxing for good. Then he made himself the boss of Misfits.
KSI retired from boxing, took back the Misfits CEO chair, and signed Michael 'Venom' Page, a fighter who went 5-1 in the UFC before the UFC let him walk. The crowd booed, but the business move is the smartest thing he's done in years.
A Kick streamer built a fake women's prison for content. It went wrong on camera.
NerdBallerTV's 24-hour 'all-girl prison' stream on Kick ended in a contestant's on-camera breakdown, a 3.6M-view clip, and a reported ban. Here's what it says about who really pays for stunt content.
Jack Doherty signed a casino deal without reading it. Now he can't post for six months.
Jack Doherty says a Shuffle.com contract he didn't fully read bars him from posting online, and Shuffle's CEO confirmed a six-month term. A brand just paid a creator for zero reach.
Sony just handed its horror label to a YouTube lifer. Creators are the pipeline now.
Sony named 15-year YouTube veteran Fede Goldenberg head of Screen Gems, with a mandate to turn creators into theatrical filmmakers. After Backrooms, Obsession and Iron Lung, the studio is buying what creators already own: the audience.
Police told a swatted streamer he'd pay $500 per fire truck. He's the victim.
Toronto police warned Kick streamer Tiagz he'd be billed $500 for every fire truck sent to future swatting calls at his Airbnb, while admitting he never made the calls.
Mike Tomlin just became a Minecraft YouTuber. Episode one pulled 3.2 million views in four days.
Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin revealed a Minecraft city he has built for 12 years, and episode one hit 3.2 million views in four days. The hobby beat the highlight reel.
BenDaDonnn got tased outside a Texas A&M bar. Now he says he's suing.
Hours after Texas A&M Football's X account called itself "@BenDaDonnn approved," the Miami streamer was tased and arrested in Northgate. Now he says he was racially profiled and plans to sue.
Madi2Hotty and ReemKnocks just got banned from Twitch. A ComplexCon brawl did it.
Twitch reportedly suspended IRL streamers Madi2Hotty and ReemKnocks for 30 days after two days of brawling with Kick streamer Big Loaf at ComplexCon 2026. The clips went viral. The income went dark.
Kai Cenat says he's going to space. He's hiring astronauts and starting in 2027.
Kai Cenat says he's assembling astronauts and space researchers, with 2027 as the year the project starts. The flight isn't the content anymore. The prep is.
FGTeeV's Duddy livestream exposes the family-channel risk nobody prices in
FGTeeV's Duddy went live on Instagram in apparent distress and turned on his own family. The family is asking people to stop sharing it. The real story is what a 25M-subscriber family business does to a household in crisis.
Grandma Dong just crashed YouTube's growth chart. She's a licensing operation.
Grandma Dong added 340,000 YouTube subscribers in a week and hit #20 on Tubefilter's global chart. The grandma is a character; the channel is a syndication business posting licensed Chinese clips five times a day.
A streamer got swatted inside a Waymo. He had $200K in Pokémon cards.
Austin police pulled over a driverless Waymo mid-stream on a swatting call, then needed Waymo to unlock it before searching Nick White's suitcase of Pokémon cards. Swatting just met the robotaxi.
Dhar Mann just opened Advertising Week as its first chief creator officer
Dhar Mann opened Advertising Week New York as its first chief creator officer and launched a $100 million creator-brand deal target. Big win for creators, but read the fine print.
Nadeshot just posted an AI casino ad. 100 Thieves had sworn off AI a day earlier.
One day after 100 Thieves said "AI has no place in our apparel design," co-founder Nadeshot posted a fully AI-generated Roobet casino ad, then called the backlash "incredibly dramatic."
MoistCr1TiKaL just landed a RuneScape cartoon. His studio is producing it.
Jagex revealed an animated RuneScape series at RuneFest, and MoistCr1TiKaL's Meatier Productions is co-producing it with Lyrical Animation. This is what a creator moving past ad revenue looks like.
MrBeast just sat down in the Shark Tank. Season 18 opened in 'Beast Mode.'
MrBeast and Beast Industries CEO Jeff Housenbold paid $250K for 55% of AI toy Ball 2 on the Shark Tank Season 18 premiere. Distribution, not cash, closed the deal.
TikTok will now chase your brand-deal money for you, and it takes zero cut
TikTok One Pay guarantees creators get paid for brand deals within 30 days of posting, with no TikTok cut. It's a real cash-flow win, and a quiet power grab over who controls creator money.
Ironmouse's Mouseathon just ended. 30 days, about 243,000 subs, and no new record.
Ironmouse's 2026 Mouseathon ran 30 days and pushed her into Twitch's top five, but subs peaked near 243K, about 25% below her 2024 high. Attention came back. Paid conversion didn't.
Twitch is reading every stream now. AI decides who gets the ad money.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says the platform transcribes every live stream and lets AI decide which advertisers' ads run on your channel. Creators can't see, appeal, or audit the call.
Kai Cenat, Druski and Kevin Hart just shadow-dropped a movie, and Twitch was the trailer
Livestream From Hell hit Prime Video with almost no promotion, a year after its teaser premiered live to 550K+ viewers on Kai Cenat's Mafiathon 3. The creator audience was the marketing plan.
Kai Cenat says he's suing Reggie. The allegations went live on Instagram.
Kai Cenat says he will sue former Clover Boys member Reggie for defamation after unverified allegations aired on Instagram Live. As of Oct. 1, nothing has been filed.
Jubilee just booked CNN. A YouTube debate show is co-hosting a Senate town hall.
CNN and Jubilee Media will co-host a live Texas Senate town hall with James Talarico on October 14. It's the network's first partnership with the YouTube studio, and it shows who holds the young audience now.
Hasan Piker just outgrew a college venue. 3,000 people RSVP'd for his UT Austin speech.
More than 3,000 people RSVP'd to see Twitch streamer Hasan Piker at UT Austin. He got a room for about 460, a $20,000 security bill, and a lesson every creator should study.
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