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Crime
Chinese influencer arrested for stabbing alleged rival to death during livestream
A Chinese influencer has been arrested for stabbing his alleged rival to death while the latter was livestreaming in a market in Nepal earli...
Bryan Ke
China
Chinese influencer banned from Douyin for eating a live wasp
A Chinese influencer has been banned from Douyin after he filmed himself eating a live wasp, prompting heavy backlash from online users. T...
Rebecca Moon
News
Singaporean OnlyFans creator Titus Low opens ‘Only Creamery’ cafe on ‘6/9’
Titus Low, a Singapore-based influencer who sparked controversy for producing NSFW content on OnlyFans, opened a cafe business on Tuesday. ...
Carl Samson
Social Media
Ulzzang Hong Young-ki, 31-year-old mother of 2, looks so young that middle school boys asked for her number
Hong Young-ki, 31, is currently a wife, a mother of two kids, and the CEO of two online shopping businesses. After starring in a reality s...
Ryan General
Chinese crypto influencer makes over $5 million in 10 days selling her photos as NFTs
Chinese influencer Yuqing Irene Zhao successfully launched an NFT collection with the slogan: “SIMP: Simplicity, Integrity, Meaning, and Pu...
Business
Beauty influencer apologizes for using anti-Asian slur in makeup tutorial video
A video tutorial shared by makeup brand Juvia’s Place sparked online backlash over the use of an anti-Asian slur. In the video, influencer...
Lindsay Ellis quits YouTube months after igniting controversy with a tweet comparing ‘Raya’ to ‘Avatar’
After months of controversy, YouTuber and film critic Lindsay Ellis appeared to announce on Monday that she was quitting social media. Ell...
Sarah Yukiko
Videos
‘I can eat a lot — is that a fault?’: Livestreamer banned from buffet in China goes viral on Weibo
A Chinese food influencer has been banned from attending an all-you-can-eat restaurant in China after he allegedly downed too much food. Eat...
Michelle De Pacina
Blackpink stans call on YG Ent to protect Jennie from Filipino scammer’s billboard date invite
Fans have expressed concern after a self-confessed scammer from the Philippines bought two giant billboards to ask Blackpink member Jennie o...
Viral
Chinese beauty guru and self-titled ‘Wakanda Queen’ sparks outrage over ‘blackface’ tutorial
A Chinese influencer has come under fire after a video resurfaced of her teaching others how to darken their skin with makeup. Going viral: ...
Editorial Staff
One of China’s first influencers gets jail time for selling diet pills containing banned drug
A Chinese social media personality was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for allegedly “selling poisonous and harmful food.” Banne...
New trend sees Chinese influencers head to Shanghai Costco to pretend they’re in the US
Costco is beloved by millions of shoppers all over the world for having just about everything one could possibly need. For some, that includ...
Grace Kim
‘Influencers’ to Get COVID-19 Vaccine FIRST in Indonesia
Social media influencers are among the first in line to get a COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia. The decision, which clumps the group with 1.5 m...
‘Wealthy’ Hong Kong Instagrammer Tied Up and Robbed of $464,000 in Home Invasion
An Instagram beauty influencer and her 6-month-old son in Hong Kong fell victim to a home invasion last week, losing valuables from luxury h...
Influencer Sparks Outrage with ‘Corona Time’ Video at Nail Salon on TikTok
A popular YouTuber is taking some heat for her recent TikTok video in which she apparently ridiculed a nail salon worker. Nicola DeMartino, ...
Godfrey Gao’s Girlfriend Speaks For the First Time on Actor’s Death
Influencer Bella Su has finally broken her silence about her late boyfriend Godfrey Gao, whose sudden death in November shocked fans worldwi...
Vietnamese Influencer Puts Makeup On in the Hospital Before Her Boyfriend Visits
A social media influencer in Vietnam was ridiculed online for glamming herself up while she was at a hospital. Wangmei was recovering at a h...
Landlady Exposes ‘Luxury’ Influencer’s Apartment Covered in Trash and Dog Feces
A Chinese social media influencer, Lisa Li was recently exposed by her former landlady for leaving her former apartment in covered in filth....
Instagram
Swedish Instagrammer Cancels Herself After ‘Shallow’ Caption About Rice Farmer in Bali
A Swedish Influencer generated so much backlash over a post in which she compared her life to that of a Bali rice farmer that she ended up d...
Uncategorized
Influencer Tries to Pay For Filipino Artist’s $300 Portrait With a Shout-out
A budding artist in the Philippines has expressed his frustration on Facebook after a local social influencer allegedly sought his services ...
Asia
HK Instagrammer Deletes 95 Posts After Followers Discover She Got Them From Google
A fashion model and social media “influencer” in Hong Kong hoped to save face by deleting Instagram posts which her followers discovered to ...