Mukbang, or "eating broadcasts," have been big in South Korea for years, so big in fact that you can actually make a living from streaming your meals. Broadcast jockeys, popularly referred to as "BJs," sit before sprawling feasts, slurping their ramen, smacking their lips, and talking to their fans over huge…

I’m black. I’m a YouTuber. And a little more than a year ago, I wrote about how YouTube rarely promotes its black talent, taking a look at how often the company posted about black creators on social channels and featured black users in marketing campaigns.

In 2011, I was a senior in college. That March, I spent spring break outside the country, with no cell coverage and minimal internet access. I came back to campus on a Friday night and, after unceremoniously dumping out the contents of my backpack in my dorm room, quickly found my way to a party.

Earlier this month, the internet was captivated by the USA Freedom Kids, a group of girls who performed a very…interesting song called "Freedom's Call" at a Donald Trump rally on January 14th.

Guitar Hero is hard! Or it can be, if you're cursed with tiny baby hands like mine. The Ozzy Osbourne song "Bark At The Moon" is particularly hard, even for the normal-handed. But the proprietor of the YouTube channel GuitarHeroFailure is, despite his name, very good at playing "Bark At The Moon" on Guitar Hero, and…

What The Hills did for Los Angeles, The Bedford Stop may do for Brooklyn. The Bedford Stop is a YouTube reality show about four young women living in Williamsburg. The pilot episode shows Brooklyn—a New York City borough with a population of over 2 million—as a gentrified paradise filled with nice apartments, brunch…

There's a song in the movie Mulan, "I'll Make a Man Out of You." You've probably heard it; it begins "Let's get down to business! To defeat the Huns."

Team girl on bicycle vs. team boy who throws basketball at her, causing her to go tumbling over the handlebars: the great gender politics debate of our age!

French can be a lovely language: mellifluous, romantic, and even melodic.

Mornings don't have to be full of dread. That's why this video by Andrew Huang is our new theme music for kicking the day's ass (is that not the translation of carpe diem?)! 

A disturbance in the queendom rattled America's reigning girl group this weekend. And though order has been restored, confusion lurks in the shadows of their throne.

June is LGBT Pride Month. It's celebrated every year to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in NYC that spurred the gay rights movement in America. Many young people choose to come out on social media and in online communities in June. But often, with filmed coming out announcements — and more specifically, coming out…

Yesterday, we wrote about a video showing an Uber driver who went into the backseat of his car and started fondling himself while whispering “you’re so beautiful" to a female passenger. Uber promptly removed the driver from the service. Today brings more information: We now know YouTube pulled down the video for…

Beauty is one of YouTube’s largest verticals — right up there with music, food, and gaming. What sets beauty apart, though, is that the success of a “beauty channel” is largely dependent on the face of the “beauty guru” behind it. To be sure, for the young female audience these channels attract, there's much more than…

Here's the deal: YouTube is a platform for anyone. But YouTube chooses to promote channels and personalities that the company deems worthy of views by pushing them on Twitter, or placing them in prominent spots on the YouTube homepage. The support of YouTube can launch a creator’s career, and turn mid-sized…