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Pinterest has a new CEO, who has one job: to build the internet’s shopping mall
Ben Silbermann is out, Bill Ready is in
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The DIY issue
The crafts and movements people are making for themselves in 2021
Creators
YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud, and other online platforms are changing the way people create and consume media. The Verge's Creators section covers the people using these platforms, what they're making, and how those platforms are changing (for better and worse) in response to the vloggers, influencers, podcasters, photographers, musicians, educators, designers, and more who are using them. The Verge’s Creators section also looks at the way creators are able to turn their projects into careers — from Patreons and merch sales, to ads and Kickstarters — and the ways they’re forced to adapt to changing circumstances as platforms crack down on bad actors and respond to pressure from users and advertisers. New platforms are constantly emerging, and existing ones are ever-changing — what creators have to do to succeed is always going to look different from one year to the next.
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How Creators Get Paid Online
From building branded Fortnite worlds to devising new crowdfunding techniques
Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
It started as a blogging platform. Then it became the counterculture to the mainstream behemoth of gaming.
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How scientists scrambled to stop Donald Trump’s EPA from wiping out climate data
Their work isn’t done yet
The archnemeses of war rugs
War rugs are a traditional Afghan art — how’d a guy in Brooklyn end up with their copyright?
Searching for the dankest iPod knockoffs of the mid-2000s
DankPods has turned finding old MP3 players into a hit YouTube show
Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people
The world’s largest social network is internally grappling with an existential crisis: an aging user base
This backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation
The man behind an alleged crowdfunding scam wants you to know he isn’t a scammer
The Twitch streamer behind Tfue’s custom $3,500 mechanical keyboard
Inside the burgeoning world of custom keyboard making
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The Creators Issue
The people who make our favorite things and the platforms that enable (and exploit) them
The archive saving home sewing history from the trash
Sewing patterns are meant to be trashed — or not
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Maangchi, the internet’s Korean mom
YouTube’s most beloved home cook on online gaming, immigrant timewarp, and her new book
