Commentary has existed on YouTube almost as long as the platform has been around. Tea, commentary, and drama channels help shape the narrative about the internet's superstars. But as the designated ...

On May 10, 2019, the famed YouTube beauty influencer Tati Westbrook posted a 43-minute video that forever changed the course of internet culture. The video, titled “BYE SISTER,” was a takedown of ...

Enjoy a web series blending influencer drama, betrayal, and humor while they fight for the YouTube Queen crown. Watch the drama unfold, and don't forget to check the description for all channels and ...

YouTube fame often doesn’t occur until, very suddenly, it does. A creator can spend years drifting around the abyssal undercurrent of the platform, raking in 50 views at a time, until suddenly the ...

In the latest drama surrounding the training of artificial intelligence models, video generation startup Runway AI Inc. is being accused of using publicly available YouTube videos to train its AI ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. It was only a matter of time before the drama channels came for each other.

It’s best to think of YouTube as a series of independent communities living on the same platform — what’s popular to one group might not even be on another community’s radar. There are a few rare ...