Browsing: Digital Culture

The 16-year-old sitting in her bedroom in suburban Phoenix represents the future of finance. Born in 2008, she has never known a world without smartphones, social media, or digital money. While her parents debate the legitimacy of cryptocurrency, she navigates Discord servers dedicated to NFT trading, completes blockchain programming tutorials for token rewards, and earns…

Fortnitehas confirmed that content from Persona 5will finally be coming to the game with the start of its next season, titled Overdrive. For years, Persona has been one of the most-requested video game franchises that fans have continued to make known that they’d like to see be put into Fortnite. And while such a collab…

Cover Corporation, the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed parent company of Hololive Production, formally acknowledged to its shareholders for the first time that its talents’ everyday streaming hours have declined as a direct consequence of expanding into live concerts and off-platform activities — a candid institutional admission that puts numbers to a trend fans had observed but…

“It’s not gambling, it’s girl math,” is the headline of an article by Nancy Walecki in The Atlantic, in which she reflects on how the gambling industry is trying to win over female audiences with matcha tea memes, girlboss-style advertising, and prediction markets tied to pop culture. On the popular prediction market platform Kalshi, some…