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Country singer reveals horrific hate comment from follower amid incurable cancer diagnosis

Country singer reveals horrific hate comment from follower amid incurable cancer diagnosis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Country singer Nat Myers has addressed some of the negative comments he’s received from followers one year after revealing his incurable cancer diagnosis. Myers recently posted an Instagram Reel featuring a series of images from his time in the hospital last year after being diagnosed with a sarcoma, or cancer in the bone and tissue. In the post’s caption, he reflected on the support he received from his loved ones. “A year ago today I went into a hospital and nearly never got out,” he wrote. “I learned something had been tryna kill me, but it ain’t trying hard enough. I stood at the doorway of death, and became a brother of Lazarus, and a servant of Janus, the two-headed god of beginnings, ends, transitions, and time. The Lord delivered me I have no doubt. He made me see both the curses and …

“Leader Turned Follower”: Lululemon’s See-Through Legging Fiasco Exposes Brand Drift

“Leader Turned Follower”: Lululemon’s See-Through Legging Fiasco Exposes Brand Drift

Published by Jenni Sidey

Lululemon Athletica has drifted from its core strength in premium, high-quality yoga pants, chasing trends and fast product cycles. Competitors such as Alo Yoga and Vuori are quickly taking market share, while Lululemon has seen quality lapses, culminating in the botched launch of its “Get Low” tights earlier this month. Bloomberg reports that Chief Brand and Product Activation Officer Nikki Neuburger told hundreds of employees at a meeting last week and in a video shared with staff worldwide that customers were not wearing the new $108 Get Low tights correctly. Neuburger said that customers who bought the new controversial leggings, which some customers claim were see-through and “not squat proof,” must size up and wear skin-toned underwear before putting on Get Low tights. Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, was quoted by Bloomberg as saying that Neuburger’s memo to staff blaming customers for the see-through tights fiasco must “honestly be a joke.” “You are selling a premium product, you shouldn’t have to issue instructions to women on how to wear leggings because your product is …

Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say

Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say

Published by skeptic

As social media becomes increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds, creators are navigating a new normal: Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. “I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box told TechCrunch. This isn’t news to creators – Patreon CEO Jack Conte has ardently banged this drum for years – but throughout the year, the industry at large has reacted to this phenomenon in different ways, from the influencers to the streamers. According to the executives that TechCrunch spoke to about the near future of the creator economy, creators are finding new ways to harness and cultivate their relationships with their followers – some acting as a salve to AI slop, while others are flooding the zone with a new form of slop themselves. Box’s company, LTK, connects creators with brands through affiliate marketing, where creators earn commissions on products they recommend. The business model depends entirely on audiences retaining trust in individual creators. Given …