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Issue 4 · Friday, October 16, 2026 · see the latest

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#ai-video#memes#spotify

The "Losercore Playlist" becomes a meme over its AI-animated promos

How an elaborate campaign for a Spotify playlist turned into a target.

A TikTok account began promoting the "Losercore Playlist," a Spotify playlist of moody alt-rock, in the summer, and by September and October had moved to retro-styled AI animations with recurring characters, including a couple inspired by the band TV Girl. Know Your Meme says users on X mocked the AI visuals, questioned the effort spent on a playlist, and accused the creator of using another artist's work without permission.

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#memes#TikTok

TikTok's "Boo Trend" turns a cross-eyed face into a prank

Know Your Meme traces where it started and how it became a way to trick boyfriends on camera.

The Boo Trend has people say "boo" while crossing their eyes and moving toward the camera, copying a video that started circulating in late September. Know Your Meme says it spread through recreations and pranks in which creators coax partners or family members into doing it.

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AIAI #ai-music#deezer#streaming#youtube-music

Deezer will let listeners filter out AI music; YouTube Music labels it instead

Two big streaming services picked opposite answers to the same flood of AI-generated tracks in the same week.

Deezer said it is building a toggle, due before the end of the year, that removes AI-generated tracks, albums and related artists from a listener's search results. The company says more than 50% of its daily uploads, about 90,000 tracks a day, were AI-generated as of July, and cites a survey in which about 45% of customers wanted a way to remove them.

YouTube Music took a disclosure approach: a new label on the player page, also shown in the main YouTube app, marks songs as Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI or No Gen AI, based on what partners declare and YouTube's own detection. AI involvement alone doesn't make a track ineligible for monetization on YouTube.

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CVCommunity Views #AI#community#hollywood#reddit

r/technology on Nicolas Cage refusing an AI waiver for Spider-Noir

An actor's refusal that Reddit treated as a stand for the craft.

The post links Variety's report that Nicolas Cage told a New York Comic Con panel he did not sign an AI waiver for Amazon's "Spider-Noir" and is "probably not" working with the studio again: "I am not an AI-friendly actor." Amazon cancelled the series after one season despite 11 Emmy nominations. The top reply, with about 8,900 upvotes, praised Cage for standing up for his craft. About 45,000 upvotes on the post.

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MMMarket Movers #layoffs#netflix#streaming

Netflix lays off about 1,000 employees

Where the cuts land, and the competition Netflix says it is preparing for.

Netflix confirmed it is laying off about 6% of staff, close to 1,000 people, mostly in product, tech, legal and HR, while saying it will keep investing "aggressively in high impact areas" and remains on track for its full-year forecast. It had 16,000 full-time employees at the end of last year. The Wall Street Journal first reported the cuts from a memo by co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters. The layoffs follow Netflix losing the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming businesses to Paramount Skydance earlier this year.

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MMMarket Movers BMBL +133.5% #acquisitions#bumble#dating-apps

Bumble agrees to a $1.3 billion take-private deal

Five years after a $14 billion IPO, the women-first dating app goes private for less than a tenth of that.

Bumble agreed to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings for $1.3 billion, which would take the company private. It went public in 2021 at a valuation of about $14 billion; its second-quarter 2026 revenue was $211 million, down 15.2% from a year earlier, and paying users fell 16.4% to about 3.2 million. An independent board committee recommended the deal; founder Whitney Wolfe Herd did not take part in the vote and says she will stay involved alongside Ithaca's Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman.

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