Zuckerberg Wants Free Speech for All (As Long As Trump Likes It)
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #304 | Jan. 7, 2025 Mark Zuckerberg wants you to believe he’s a fearless champion of your free speech. The bold crusader for your right to say anything, anytime, anywhere. That is, of course, unless it happens to upset Donald Trump. In what could be described as a frat-bro hostage video, Zuckerberg…
What are you all even doing?
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #303 | Jan. 2, 2025 – James Del, Publisher PLATFORMS AI Bots Are Descending On Meta’s Apps Is this a good or bad thing? By Charlotte Colombo, Passionfruit Contributor → READ THE FULL STORY SPONSORED Meet Your All-In-One Creator Store Stan empowers creators to monetize their skills and expertise through courses, digital products, and services—all hosted within your…
What We Learned From Kai
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #302 | Dec. 26, 2024 – Taylor Lorenz, Passionfruit Contributor PERSONALITIES Kai Cenat Named the Most-Watched Streamer Of 2024 He ranked first by a considerable margin. By Charlotte Colombo, Passionfruit Contributor → READ THE FULL STORY SPONSORED Meet Your All-In-One Creator Store Stan empowers creators to monetize their skills and expertise through courses, digital products, and services—all hosted within…
Our AIM-Era Away Message
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #301 | Dec. 24, 2024 SPONSORED Meet Your All-In-One Creator Store Stan empowers creators to monetize their skills and expertise through courses, digital products, and services—all hosted within your link-in-bio. Start a free trial today to launch your shop and start selling in minutes! CULTURE Weekend Roundup: Here’s What You Missed On Passionfruit The…
A Year End Note From Passionfruit’s Publisher
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #300 | Dec. 19, 2024 – James Del, Publisher PLATFORMS Will YouTubers Opt-In for AI Training? But if they can’t opt out, what does this mean? By Lon Harris, Passionfruit Contributor → READ THE FULL STORY SPONSORED Meet Your All-In-One Creator Store Stan empowers creators to monetize their skills and expertise through courses, digital products, and services—all hosted…
Goodbye, Grace
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #299 | Dec. 17, 2024 Hey everyone, I have an announcement to share. You may have noticed that I’ve been a little more quiet and subdued with my hot takes lately. It’s because I’ve decided to change career paths a bit. Academia is calling. I’m leaving Passionfruit to start a new job…
Another Female Star Is Leaving The Daily Wire
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #298 | Dec. 12, 2024 – Taylor Lorenz, Passionfruit Contributor PERSONALITIES Hawk Tuah Coin and the Wild West of Online Content With platforms yielding control, it’s up to creators to self-police. By Lon Harris, Passionfruit Contributor → READ THE FULL STORY SPONSORED Breathe Easy This Holiday Season Tis the season for everyone to gather indoors (and get each…
EXCLUSIVE: MrBeast Employees Speak Out
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #297 | Dec. 10, 2024 Over the past nine years as a digital culture reporter, writing about the dregs of influencer culture and community, one question has kept coming up from viewers and friends: When are you going to start a YouTube channel? There’s clearly a hunger for the fringes of society…
A Substacker on Covering the Supreme Court
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #296 | Dec. 5, 2024 – Taylor Lorenz, Passionfruit Contributor PLATFORMS When Platforms Fail: A Case Study in YouTube’s Creator Support Gap Why it’s so hard to get “customer service” from video platforms. By Lon Harris, Passionfruit Contributor → READ THE FULL STORY SPONSORED If the above image got you excited, you should read this Sorry, this…
Holding Space for Your Audience
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #295 | Dec. 3, 2024 You know, as someone who works in queer media (ba-dum tss), it’s clear that the Wicked movie has the internet in a fingerhold (booo hisss). Surviving its much-debated melodramatic press tour and Spongebob-themed extramarital allegations, the Wicked franchise has undeniably doused the world in pink and green. As Charlotte Colombo writes this week, even if…
