Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?(preethamrn.com)

36 points by xmprt 1 year ago | 54 comments

How Jeff Geerling almost broke MrBeast's 1-100 video [video](youtube.com)

68 points by shalmanese 3 years ago | 35 comments

Blizzard Changed Their Mind, Then GOG Humiliated Them [video](youtube.com)

15 points by chii 1 year ago | 1 comments

Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube(chaserensberger.com)

28 points by ChaseRensberger 1 year ago | 8 comments

Firing Myself(backintyme.substack.com)

98 points by banzin 2 years ago | 60 comments

The Demise of the Flynn Effect(cremieux.xyz)

7 points by smnthermes 1 year ago | 0 comments

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.

The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community(afterbabel.com)

684 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 627 comments

An After Babel Substack essay by Seth Kaplan arguing that the loss of community is the upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)

418 points by mrjaeger 7 months ago | 201 comments

New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband(themomoftheyear.substack.com)

406 points by minimaxir 1 month ago | 168 comments

A Substack essay by the mother seen in a viral San Francisco Giants game clip, giving context about her husband and family that night.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.