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After two years on hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, VidCon — the annual convention for fans, creators, and online platform industry types — returned to the Anaheim Convention Center last week. But it looked a little different than usual. For starters, the ear-piercing shrieks of fans lining up to meet their favorite creators were just a little quieter. With 50,000 attendees as opposed to 2019’s 75,000, the convention was somewhat smaller than it previously had been. Further, unlike VidCons of years past, some attendees were wearing masks, albeit an infinitesimally small number among the hordes of preteens angling for photo ops with their favorite creators (days later, several attendees of VidCon, which required proof of vaccination or a recent Covid test for entry, began reporting on social media that they had tested positive for COVID after the event). Perhaps most importantly, however, TikTok , the short-form video platform that dominated the app store starting in … [Read more...] about VidCon 2022 Was a Candy-Colored, Covid-Spreading, Content-Creating Extravaganza

Getty UPDATE 8:14 AM PT -- Piquet has been banned from visiting the F1 paddock in the future as a result of his comments, according to multiple reports. Former Formula 1 champ Nelson Piquet is apologizing for the controversial comments he made about Lewis Hamilton in an interview last year ... but claims there was zero racial intent behind his words. Piquet was discussing an accident between the Mercedes superstar and his daughter's boyfriend, Max Verstappen , after the 2021 Silverstone Grand Prix ... when, according to a translation by CNN Brazil , he referred to Hamilton as a "little n*****." The 69-year-old says he would never use such a disgusting term ... claiming the translation was completely inaccurate. Getty "What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defense for it, but the term used has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for 'guy' or 'person' and was never … [Read more...] about F1 Champ Nelson Piquet Apologizes, Denies Lewis Hamilton Comment Was Racist