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☆ Top tech and business trends face off in our March Madness bracket
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. In today's big story, we're looking at results from our business, tech, and innovation bracket and voting on the semifinal matchups . In case you missed it, we created a bracket with eight of the biggest topics in business, tech, and innovation . But social media has been around so long, it's truly embedded in our DNA. Former employees are suing the social media agency that manages OnlyFans accounts for top influencers like Tana Mongeau and Abby Rao.

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Nine former staffers are suing the social-media management company Unruly Agency. The lawsuits contain allegations of wrongful termination and unjust imprisonment. Unruly's lawyer said the claims "have been meticulously reviewed and found to be without merit." AdvertisementA company that manages OnlyFans accounts for top influencers, including Tana Mongeau and Abby Rao, has been hit with nine lawsuits from former staffers this year. The lawsuits against Unruly Agency include allegations of wrongful termination, retaliation, and unjust imprisonment.

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☆ Brooke Schofield's star is rising with the 'Cancelled' podcast — and it's teaching her to deal with hate and scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-20 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Brooke Schofield and Tana Mongeau on their "Cancelled" tour. But Schofield's confidence grew once her podcast with Mongeau, "Cancelled," launched in July 2021 and showcased her comic timing, fashion sense, and life stories. Schofield and Mongeau are also now taking their show on a US tour, which ends on June 2 in Oakland, California. "She's gotten hate for so many things and she's just really good at not taking it in," Schofield said.

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☆ Norfolk Southern proxy fight draws heavyweight politicians and regulatory scrutiny a year after derailment
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Norfolk Southern' has underperformed both its peers and the broader market over the last year. Norfolk Southern responded on Monday, rejecting that slate and announcing it would nominate former Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson and former U.S. For Ancora, which has a successful track record as an activist investor, the proxy fight at Norfolk Southern would be its largest ever. EdgePoint controlled 3.4 million Norfolk Southern shares as of Dec. 31, or about 1.5% of shares outstanding. Norfolk Southern has yet to set a date for the annual shareholder meeting.

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☆ Like it or not, influencers are probably here to stay on the red carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But the truth is, Hollywood loves influencers — and they're probably here to stay. AdvertisementAt the People's Choice Awards on Sunday, Billie Eilish inadvertently brought discourse about influencers at awards shows and on red carpets to a boiling point. Outrage — or minimally, discomfort — with influencers and TikTokers on red carpets and awards shows isn't new. But now, influencers have become even more entrenched in the celebrity world, cropping up frequently as guests, presenters, and content creators at awards shows and premiere events. If it didn't, awards shows wouldn't be inviting them.

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☆ Creator merch startup Fanjoy has filed for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Creator merch startup Fanjoy has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a court filing showed. Creator merch startup Fanjoy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month, according to a court filing viewed by Insider. Then around 2017, Fanjoy pivoted its business model to selling merch for YouTube creators and other internet stars . Fanjoy isn't the first creator-focused merch company to face challenges in recent months. Creators told Insider at the time that Spring had struggled with its business, including with shipping delays and late payments.

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☆ This Gen Z founder made an OnlyFans rival that has no nudity and sold it for $65 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He said it sold for $65 million after sites including TikTok "failed" to help creators make money. The 22-year-old certainly doesn't need to live with his folks: He became a millionaire last year after his company, Fanfix, sold for $65 million, according to Crunchbase. It's a model broadly similar to OnlyFans, but with a major difference: it doesn't allow nudity. When SuperOrdinary bought Fanfix, Insider's Geoff Weiss reported that there were plans for product collaborations with the platform's creators. And they took advantage of the creators, and so a massive gap opened up for platforms like Patreon, platforms like us."

“I was just so thirsty to get a BBL,” Velasco said. 7Q Spa also has positive reviews on Yelp and Google, where it averages a 4.5 star rating. The front door of 7Q Spa is side-by-side with Vitality Medical Center, which, according to California business registration documents, has the same CEO as 7Q Spa. After the surgery, Velasco said she felt great and, at first, she couldn’t feel her stitches at all. The California Medical Board revoked her license as part of the settlement, but stayed the revocation and granted her a 35-month probation.

☆ Inside a secretive management firm for OnlyFans stars, where former staffers say they catfished fans to dupe them into paying to sext: ‘You're basically a professional scammer’
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-16 | by ( Amanda Perelli | Kat Tenbarge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Even for account managers like Emma, the money could be "life-changing," she said, adding that she sometimes earned more than $10,000 a month off just 2% commission. Many OnlyFans models (including Unruly clients) offer a free feed of photos. They can add a larger "tip" to be added to an influencer's VIP area to get unlimited chatting (often between $100 and $200 for Unruly models). For instance, it's free to subscribe to Rao's OnlyFans account, but she charges between $5 and $99 for fans to "unlock posts." At the time, Gathrite was dating Jessica Sunok, a model who started an OnlyFans account in May 2019, and who he began to manage.

☆ YouTuber Anna Campbell sells a lifestyle of sex, drugs, and drama. Her exes say she's a danger to teens.
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-10 | by ( Kat Tenbarge | Charlotte Colombo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

In her YouTube videos, Campbell says the money goes toward drugs and gifts for one girlfriend after another. Campbell acknowledged in a YouTube video that she had sex with Pendergraff while Pendergraff was "black out" drunk. Kaylee Jade said Campbell abused her repeatedly throughout their relationshipDuring her on again, off again relationship with Pendergraff, Campbell started to date Kaylee Jade, too. According to Jade, Campbell DM'd her on Twitter in 2019 when she was 18 and experiencing homelessness. In a since deleted YouTube video, Campbell said she got "physical" with Jade, including throwing her to the ground.

☆ YouTuber Tana Mongeau's new manager discusses his plan to take her from internet star to mainstream celebrity, among clients like Scott Disick and Ray J
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-26 | by ( Kat Tenbarge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After parting ways with her longtime manager, YouTuber Tana Mongeau signed with David Weintraub. Tana Mongeau's new manager is ready to make millions. "Tana is still a 23-year-old young lady but she is extremely savvy," Weintraub told Insider. Tana Mongeau is "Cancelled" on her new podcast produced by David Weintraub Entertainment and the Paragon Collective. According to Weintraub, Mongeau was in a "dark place" before they met, in large part because of what Weintraub described as exploitative management.

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