Druski Brought His 35 Million Followers to ‘SNL’ As First Creator Host

Druski’s turn as host of “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 7 came with an audience attached, roughly 35 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube who know him from sketches he writes, shoots and posts himself. The booking made him the first digital creator to host in the show’s 52 seasons. “SNL” has hired from the internet since Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island arrived in 2005, and both of this season’s new featured players, Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie, came up making content. Quinta Brunson and Issa Rae started online too, but they hosted after crossover hits had already

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Druski Brought His 35 Million Followers to ‘SNL’ As First Creator Host

Druski’s turn as host of “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 7 came with an audience attached, roughly 35 million followers across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube who know him from sketches he writes, shoots and posts himself. The booking made him the first digital creator to host in the show’s 52 seasons. “SNL” has hired from the internet since Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island arrived in 2005, and both of this season’s new featured players, Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie, came up making content. Quinta Brunson and Issa Rae started online too, but they hosted after crossover hits had already

TikTok Shop’s new standalone app starts where it already does $45.6 billion in sales

TikTok quietly gave its shopping business an app of its own this week, putting a standalone TikTok Shop app on iOS and Android in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines with no announcement and no word on whether the U.S. is next. The app store listing reads like a pitch to anyone who has closed TikTok mid-scroll to go buy the thing on Amazon instead. It promises personalized picks, live streams and short videos that show products in action, in-app checkout, order tracking and round-the-clock support, plus “app-only deals,” free shipping offers and first-order perks designed to pull shoppers out