#vidcon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vidcon, aggregated by home.social.
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Markiplier Wants to Be a Matchmaker: ‘You Can’t Tax Loyalty’
#IndieWire #Features #InterviewsCelebrityInterviewsInsiderTakes #Creatoreconomy #Film #Interviews #Markiplier #VidCon #YouTube -
ICYMI: YouTube at 7 events this season: VidCon, DreamCon, and what it means for ads: YouTube announced a seven-stop creator event tour for 2026, starting at VidCon Anaheim on June 25, with panels on AI, brand deals, and the platform's algorithm. https://ppc.land/youtube-at-7-events-this-season-vidcon-dreamcon-and-what-it-means-for-ads/ #YouTube #VidCon #DreamCon #CreatorEvents #AI
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The Secret of Hit Movies? Compression.
#IndieWire #Analysis #News #Film #FutureofFilmmaking #InDevelopment #VidConhttps://www.indiewire.com/news/analysis/hollywood-needs-creators-compression-1235201289/
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⏳ Eleven years ago, Past Liam and Jade embark on a journey towards a local park for a marshmallow picnic, and reflect on his trip to VidCon the year prior. 🧺
https://rumble.com/v6x4mhu-past-liam-marshmallow-picnic-august-4th-2014.html #VidCon #date #girlfriend #picnic #northvancouver
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Ugh... I'm trying to write a script for my #vidcon 2025 recap and review, but I'm really struggling to come up with pros to balance out all the cons 😭
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Mashable: Haliey Welch recorded ‘Talk Tuah’ in front of a live audience at VidCon. It got messy.. “Haliey Welch, better known as ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, continues to be followed by controversy at VidCon 2025. During a live recording of her podcast Talk Tuah Thursday night, which she co-hosts with her friend Chelsea Bradford, Welch and guest Whitney Cummings quickly lost the attention of the crowd.”
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Mashable: VidCon 2025: YouTube legends Hank Green, Rosanna Pansino, and Dr. Pimple Popper reflect on how the platform has changed. “YouTube isn’t the same website it was 20 years ago, and creators Hank Green, Rosanna Pansino, and Dr. Sandra Lee (aka Dr. Pimple Popper) know that better than most. The three creators, who have been on the platform for 18, 15, and 14 years, respectively, […]
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The View From VidCon: 11 Influencers You Need to Know
#Business #Digital #VidCon #VidconPreviewhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tech-science-influencers-vidcon-2025-1236293126/
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VidCon’s New Owner Has Big Plans for the Creator Economy’s Flagship Convention
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Hahaha these MFers really decided to take 30% off industry passes in the last hour 🙃 fuck those of us who bought early, right? #vidcon
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Just adding to the ten or so lifetime results for #vidcon in a feeble attempt at finding anyone else who might be going to ask if y'all want to meet up while there...
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Logged into #vidcon in time to schedule meet-and-greets for #DanielThrasher and Aphmau (for the kids, idc myself) ✊ We only get two chances each, and I'm saving my last slot for #GraceHelbig (since we have so much in common) 🤞 I would have liked to meet #HankGreen as well so we could reminisce about OldTube and talk about cancer (given we both have experience with it...) but alas. Maybe I'll be able to somehow schmooze into getting a "Creator Pass" like I did in 2022, but I doubt it, since Vidcon has made getting into the hotel impossible even for high profile Influencers™️ unless they had Industry passes or invite-only Special Guest 😩
(I also hate that FanExpo, the new owners of Vidcon, made the M&Gs a "first come first serve" scramble...continuing the lottery system would have been a lot more fair, except they either needed to be stricter about staying within time limits (I gave up on both MamaTot and Chad Chad last year even though I "won" a lottery spot because the sessions ended without me ever getting up to the front, because the creators are too nice and would spend way too long with each person) or just let fewer people "win" so the lines weren't 200+ people long.
At least it's not the "camp out overnight" model like San Diego Comic Con...which sorry, there is not a celebrity in the world that I would be willing to sleep on cement overnight just in the hopes of getting an autograph, lulz.
(What's also funny is that I bought creator badges for my husband, SIL, and her partner so they can help me chaperone the kids, but I didn't bother signing them up for M&Gs because there are no featured creators they watch/care about, lol) (well...Matthew also watches Daniel Thrasher, but he doesn't care about meeting creators. He'd rather just play dumb games on his phone 😏)
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so uh...turns out Grace Helbig, a very OG youtuber, is one of #Vidcon's "featured creators" this year (one of like, five not-tiktokers, lol) so I went to her channel for the first time in years and...she's a breast cancer survivor who gives away sex toys at the beginning of her videos?? So, like...interviewee maybe? (she does have 2.6 mil followers, but most of her videos seem to get under 30k views, so she MIGHT not be as unattainably famous as most of the other featured creators...either way, worth a shot I guess?
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VidCon’s Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductees Include Rhett & Link, Hank Green, Smosh Founders, Grace Helbig and More
#Variety #News #RhettLink #Smosh #TylerOakley #VidCon -
Tubefilter: YouTube’s 20th anniversary celebration will include a title sponsorship at VidCon Anaheim (Exclusive). “YouTube’s programming at the 2025 iteration of VidCon Anaheim will include a creator game show, a live ‘Roblox Hunt,’ and an outdoor experience adjacent to the Anaheim Convention Center. A keynote from YouTube Head of Culture and Trends Kevin Alocca and VP of Creator […]
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Lol wow, #vidcon is really shaping up to suck even more this year! Looks like they're going back to "first come first serve" timed meet-up sign ups, instead of a period of time to enter a "lottery" that was a far more sensible system. God help you if you can't take a day off work just to try to sign up with your favorite creator 🙃 I most likely won't even bother, since there are no creators on the list I care that much about to go through all that. Their lottery system was jacked up in that they had too many people as "winners" so unless you showed up to your meet and greet hours in advance (which you weren't supposed to do) then you'd still never get to the front in the queue--but "first come first serve" is not the solution! I heard that a big convention owner with a penchant for making conventions terrible had purchased vidcon, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least if vidcon manages to be even worse this year than last, I can officially never go again with no regrets 🙃.
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I hate that I'm excited to go back to #vidcon in June, even though every year they screw over small-to-mid-level creators like me more and more, pandering exclusively to the super famous influencers du jour and their obsessive preteen fans. Vidcon just assumes we'll come anyway because there are no real #contentCreator convention alternatives, and for the most part they're right.
It's like I keep getting back together with an emotionally neglectful ex because my only choices are them, or being utterly alone 😭
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I had a hard time falling asleep last night because I was daydreaming about what it would take to start my own #contentCreator convention in the #PNW (similar to #VidCon but with way more focus on networking and collaboration between small creators than enticing really famous people to come and selling merch and tickets to their adoring preteen fans).
It's an idea I've had for a while and it's still very Pie in the Sky but I just keep thinking about the steps I'd have to take to set it up, and also what I could possibly do to try to get other content creators to show up. I don't even live in Seattle, I live in Portland but I figure Seattle is a larger city and we'd have a better chance of getting people to show up maybe in the next couple of years, as I find more time to work on content as my kids get older and now that my dad is dead. I can have a better chance at befriending some content creators, maybe even some with some clout who can pull people that I can't as attendees, and see if it is actually possible to put something together by the year 2027 or so.
I have a history of signing myself up for too many projects and not having the spoons or time to fulfill them, but I really think this would be an awesome opportunity to connect small creators in a way that we haven't been able to online (every time I've joined some Discord or subreddit or whatever that's supposed to link small creators, it's just Minecraft and Roblox players dropping links to their own content without ever checking out anyone else's).
Anyway I know mastodon's not really the place to talk about this since I don't think anyone on here even watches YouTube videos, let alone makes their own, and who knows what social media platforms will even still be around in 2 years. But anyway it's just something I've been dreaming about for a while.
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Gonna be real awkward at #vidcon when all the Tiktok starlets don't have a famous social media presence to point at as their justification for getting all-access "featured creator" passes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Fj5uLivLM looking through the #vidcon featured creators and this is the first video for this guy that popped up. I mean, he seems a little funny, but I'm sure the fact that he's a topless hot guy in his videos isn't at all a contributor to his 7.7mil subscribers. Sure wish I had the exact same right to topless online and in public like men do!
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just bought tickets and reserved a hotel for me, my husband, my kids, and my sister in law and her girlfriend to meet up with us for #vidcon anaheim in June. It's gonna be expensive, but it'll be worth it to hang out with what's left of our family, now that everyone close to me on my side is dead. I'm hoping they'll be able to take the kids to disneyland one of the days while I'm at vidcon, and then I'll go with them to knotts berry farm the day after vidcon ends, but I want to wait until they can for sure get the days off work before I buy tickets to disneyland since they're nonrefundable (: everything else can be canceled with full refund up to the end of may though, so that gives us some months to plan ahead.
I'm kinda sad about not showing them more of san diego in october around twitchcon instead, but even though it continues to be shitty to smaller creators, vidcon is kinda our only option to hang out with other people passionate about making online videos/streams/art/etc (or if you're a 14 year old fangirl...to breathe the same air as the influencers you admire 🙄 )
now the goal is (Still) to make better quality content and try to make friends/contacts with other content creators until then, though the chances of any of those creators going to vidcon are extremely low. At least this time my family will be around so I don't have to feel lonely if (when) I can't make friends with any famous people to hang out with in the evenings :) (though it also means I'll feel awkward about staying out late drinking if the situation should arise, heh)
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“Entitled” #Influencer Caught Red Handed #Robbing A #MentalHealth Business At #Vidcon
https://www.boredpanda.com/influencer-steals-small-mental-health-business-vidcon/
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I'm editing a vlog out of all the snippets of video I filmed while I was at #vidcon last month and of course there's copyright music blasting through most of it, because the genius con organizers allow booth sponsors to loudly play such content IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONVENTION BY AND FOR CREATORS, so that anyone who films there gets demonetized or worse 🙃🙃🙃
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just filled out the #vidcon experience survey they emailed me, though of course it was mostly multiple-choice with limited options to type in custom answers. I went to town anyway, though we know they're just going to ignore anything that isn't pro-rainbow capitalism and "ai destroying everything creative is good, actually." I'm seriously considering going to twitchcon instead next year, even though I've been to almost every single vidcon...every year they seem to be even less interested in catering to anyone who isn't an already-famous dancing/makeup/truecrime influencer and their adoring fans, and the only reason I go anymore is just to try to meet other creators.
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Thought I had while waiting for my flight home from #vidcon - I wonder what all these rich and famous influencers who "don't do politics" are gonna do when every social media platform but xhitter and truth social get outlawed for being insufficiently pro-trump 🤔
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Due to the non-magic of my filing two longer pieces earlier and then having two stories break hours apart in the same morning, Wednesday saw more than 3,200 words appear under my byline at two different sites.
Patreon readers got one extra post this week, my recap of what I learned at VidCon from YouTubers, streamers and other content creators without boldface names about making a living and making their way through that industry.
6/26/2024: 1Password CEO on why good online security doesn’t have to be complicated, Fast Company
Jeff Shiner has somehow become the tech CEO I interview at least once a year–for PCMag in 2022, onstage at Web Summit Rio in 2023, and now for Fast Company after a conversation we had at Collision in Toronto.
6/26/2024: Your TV Probably Has a ‘NextGen’ Perk You’ve Never Heard Of, PCMag
The conference at which I did most of this reporting happened two weeks ago, but then being out of town the week after got in the way of my writing it even as I realized I needed a few more details to fill out the story.
6/26/2024: Cheap Netflix? Verizon Adds Streaming Bundles to Home Broadband Plans, PCMag
I had figured that somebody on staff would cover this news, but instead one of my editors asked if I could field it. With some work on our house to be paid off, I quickly said yes, then I realized I could bring another angle to the story by covering a recent stealth rate hike on Fios plans such as my own.
6/26/2024: Supreme Court: The Feds Can Tell Social Media Platforms to Enforce Their Rules, PCMag
The piece that I wrote for The New Republic last summer, in which multiple First Amendment issues critiqued the profound unseriousness of the ruling that kicked off this case, held up very well.
6/28/2024: Could 5G carriers ink a spectrum deal with TV broadcasters?, Light Reading
The other piece that I wrote from the NextGen conference took almost as long to write, with my last interview for it happening the day I got home from Toronto and the last e-mailed response coming Monday..
6/29/2024: Twitter Influencers: The Money Is Terrible, But We’re Not Going Anywhere, PCMag
Looking over the VidCon schedule in advance, this panel seemed the most likely one to yield a story. It did not disappoint, even I was a little disappointed to see that none of the panelists showed any interest in exploring alternatives to Twitter (none of them called it “X” onstage) for their short-form social output.
6/29/2024: White House Social Team Is Fighting the Algorithms Just Like the Rest of Us, PCMag
The journalist who sat next to me at a press breakfast Panasonic hosted Wednesday suggested I check out this panel, and she was not wrong.
#1Password #Anaheim #ATSC30 #BidenSocialMedia #Collision #contentModeration #incentiveAuction #JeffShiner #MurthyVMissouri #NetflixDeal #NextGenTV #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #TwitterInfluencers #VerizonMyHome #VidCon #WhiteHouse
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LAST #LIVESTREAM BEFORE #VIDCON ! Gonna be making more of my hand-made vinyl branded t-shirts to bring with me and hand out to fans! https://www.twitch.tv/cerigotgame