Top Creators Bring Mental Health Campaign to NYC Subway for Awareness Month

Commuters in New York City will see something different on their morning rides this May. Messages of affirmation and encouragement from some of the internet’s most-followed creators are taking over transit screens across the city, part of a new partnership between OUTFRONT Media and Creators 4 Mental Health timed to Mental Health Awareness Month. The campaign features five creators whose combined reach tops 40 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Vivian Tu, Doctor Mike Varshavski, Nimay Ndolo, Frankie Grande, and Shira Lazar are lending their voices to a series called Moments by OUTFRONT, which will run on Liveboards, Urban

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Jack Antonoff Calls Musicians Who Use AI “Godless Whores” in Instagram Post

Jack Antonoff has a name for musicians who use artificial intelligence to make art, and he is not softening it for anyone. The 13-time Grammy winner and Bleachers frontman posted a journal entry to Instagram on Wednesday titled “Update #13,” in which he called out AI in music with unfiltered language and framed traditional songwriting as a “holy process.” “What we do has become an ancient ritual,” Antonoff wrote. “You don’t have to write music anymore, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring the band out and play it. And yet for us, the idea

At VidCon 2026, Creators Are Being Treated Like Small Companies

VidCon released its 2026 lineup Thursday, and the speaker list reads like an industry conference. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, Pinterest’s Malik Ducard, Tubi’s Rich Bloom, executives from Snap and Spotify. This year’s title sponsor is POP.STORE, a creator monetization startup that will use the Anaheim stage to launch ECHO-ME, an agentic AI commerce platform built for creators. For 15 years, VidCon’s top slot has gone to platforms with massive ad businesses or legacy brands buying Gen Z reach. Giving it to a monetization startup and letting that startup set the AI narrative is a tell. The center of gravity at