YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’

YouTube at 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’

The video is short — just 19 seconds — and not particularly compelling. A viewer would be forgiven for clicking away before it ends. The grainy footage, uploaded on April 23, 2005, of a man standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo — “All right, …

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What’s Next for MrBeast? Class Consciousness.

What’s Next for MrBeast? Class Consciousness.

In the eighth episode of the reality competition show “Beast Games,” released last week, the YouTube superstar MrBeast — the show’s host, co-executive producer and mischief-maker-in-chief — asked the 10 remaining contestants to choose their share of a $1 million split. By this stage of “Beast Games,” which streams on …

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How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It

How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It

There’s a new parlor game on Wall Street: guessing TikTok’s next owner. President Trump signed an executive order in January that delayed enforcement of a law that banned the popular video app. Under the order, the app must now be sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April. Since he …

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