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Nicholas “Nickmercs” Kolcheff smashes the classic stereotype of a video game addict. Rather than laze on his mom’s couch, covered in Cheetos dust, the 30-year-old is winning at life with a successful gaming career and happy marriage. But for all of the time he spends online, we can’t help but wonder how the live streamer got with his better half (or how he even found time to get hitched). Here’s everything we know about Nickmercs’ wife and her marriage to the eSports star. Nickmercs Is A Popular ESports Gamer Nickmercs, 30, is one of the most popular eSports gamers today. The Detroit native got his start streaming video games on Justin.tv (now Twitch) in 2010; a little more than a decade later, he boasts 5.5 million followers on the platform. According to Forbes, he was the 10th highest-earning gamer in 2020. Nickmercs pulled in approximately $6 million that year and was the 10th most-watched streamer in 2019. But financial success was the last thing he expected from his personal obsession. “The failures in life just kind of push you to where we are today,” he said in a June 2020 interview with Pardon My Take. “I tried a lot of…

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Many on the social media app TikTok have been up in arms this week after some users claimed a group of six men recently created a video where they encouraged others to commit sexual assaults on April 24.However, TikTok has since stated there is no evidence of the alleged video. Valley News Live could not find any either.The video has also sparked concerns from parents who are once again worried about the content and people their children are interacting with online.For Grand Forks School Resource Officer Corporal Jason Kaiser, social media is the biggest issue he deals with every day.“It is amazing how trusting these kids are with adding people that they don’t know,” Kaiser, who is currently an SRO at Grand Forks Central High School said.From inappropriate photos, to talking to strangers, to believing whatever someone says in a viral video, Kaiser says he has seen it all.“The level of trust is unreal with some of the people that they believe things from,” he said.Kaiser says he hears from many parents who say they don’t feel comfortable, or feel like it’s wrong to look through their child’s devices.“Parents have every right in the…

What comes to mind when you think of the year 2014?If you’re anything like me, you immediately associate the year with its distinctive online aesthetic…that is, after getting past the initial tidal wave of horrific middle school flashbacks.From Arctic Monkeys’ timeless “AM” blasting from every teen’s speakers to the massive, somewhat confusing hype around American Apparel tennis skirts, 2014 was a truly iconic year for Gen Z. At the time, though, it didn’t seem nearly as pleasant as it does in hindsight.Personally, I remember spending just about every angsty moment of the early 2010s anticipating the future. I fully embraced Tumblr’s soft grunge aesthetic, indie-music-obsessed peak, of course, but I can’t promise you I was any happier because of it.I’ve found that one’s middle school experience and early teenage years tend to hold a universal sore spot in our life stories — something we’d rather forget about than ever come close to reliving.I was in the seventh grade all those long, arduous years ago, right in time for the heavy influx of low-contrast pictures of denim jackets and Doc Martens on my social media feeds, nearly all of them captioned with pretentious John Green quotes.The Internet’s angst matched the energy…

If you are streaming on Twitch, you always want to look your best. While most of the elements on your stream are under your control, such as what your overlays show and how you look, the settings that your stream software uses will determine how smooth your broadcast is. The quality aspect of your feed can make a difference to new visitors seeing your stream for the first time. If it looks good, viewers are more likely to come back. However, knowing what settings are ideal for your stream set up can be daunting, especially to those who are new to streaming, or without a level of technical know-how. It doesn’t need to be, and so here are all the settings that you need to worry about in OBS Studio and Streamlabs OBS.  Output In the settings of your software, head into the Output settings and then onto the Streaming tab. Encoder If you are using a computer that contains a recent Nvidia graphics card, you may have access to the NVENC encoder, Nvidia’s protocol which can help to offload much of the work that OBS does to your graphics card rather than your processor.  When the option is available,…

This week in social media news, Snapchat research highlights users’ excitement about returning to the movies, TikTok launches a creative hub to help guide business accounts, Twitter’s latest study reveals users’ financial optimism about the year and Facebook may soon launch campaign budget optimization across multiple platforms, not just ad sets.  Snapchatters Plan Their Return To The Movie Theaters As movie theaters start to reopen, the top activity Snapchatters are most excited about doing post-pandemic is going to the movies, shows the platform’s latest research. Another 81 percent say they’ll watch movies in theaters as much or more often than before the pandemic. Why it matters: Snapchatters are 1.7 times more likely to see a movie on premiere weekend compared to non-Snapchatters, giving studio advertisers an opportunity to boost opening box office sales by running native Snapchat ads like AR Lenses, Story Ads and Filters leading up film releases. Snapchat’s findings come as large movie chains including AMC and Regal Cinemas have reopened some of their locations nationwide in recent weeks. The details: Nearly all of Snapchatters (96 percent) say they heard about a film they watched in theaters from an ad, usually weeks before they ended up seeing it.…

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a "Free Expression" award from the Freedom Forum Institute in a virtual ceremony last week — sponsored by YouTube, incidentally — and observers mercilessly mocked the gesture given YouTube's notorious track record of crushing free speech. What are the details? As part of the ceremony posted to YouTube, Wojcicki sat for an interview in which she lauded the concept of free expression. "I've just seen the real benefits that freedom of speech has, as well as representing people of all different backgrounds and all different perspectives, and that the freedoms we have, we really can't take for granted," she said. "We really have to make sure that we're protecting them in every way possible." But Wojcicki also emphasized YouTube's community guidelines and that there are "limits" to what the platform can allow. Yeah, you might say that: In 2019, Wojcicki admitted that YouTube took down hundreds of ads for then-President Donald Trump yet claimed the purge was done without political bias. Last year, YouTube removed a viral video featuring frontline doctors calling for an end to the quarantine and comparing COVID-19 to the flu. Earlier this month, YouTube removed a video of a public health…

Video Marketing Software Market To See Huge Growth By 2026This press release was orginally distributed by SBWireEdison, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/21/2021 -- The research emphasizes elaboration of the Global Video Marketing Software market strategy of the industry players in the precision of import/export consumption, supply and demand. The study starts with an introduction about the company/manufacturers profiling stating strategic concept behind business using methods to assess and analyze market. It also describes Video Marketing Software player/manufacturers strategy in the light of Porters, Value Chain & SWOT analysis, and based on that recommendation on players is derived like Lyceum Technologies, Left Stuff, Restream, StoryTEQ, Contentflow Livestreaming, Vimeo, Wistia, BombBomb, Vidyard, Geronimo Systems, Coolix, Magisto, Videolinq, Brightcove, RawShorts, Roxio, ThankView, VideoPeel, vidIQ, Locustware, AiBUY, Brandzooka, CarFilm, EditMate & Vidizmo.Get the inside scoop with Sample report https://www.htfmarketreport.com/sample-report/3231777-global-video-marketing-software-market-growthMajor Players covered in this study: Lyceum Technologies, Left Stuff, Restream, StoryTEQ, Contentflow Livestreaming, Vimeo, Wistia, BombBomb, Vidyard, Geronimo Systems, Coolix, Magisto, Videolinq, Brightcove, RawShorts, Roxio, ThankView, VideoPeel, vidIQ, Locustware, AiBUY, Brandzooka, CarFilm, EditMate & VidizmoPorter's 5-Forces model is a powerful tool that combines five competitive forces that stop any industry acceleration or growth against external factors. The report brings clarity about the market key players…

Kali Uchis has teamed up with 1800 Cristalino Tequila to present an immersive virtual concert experience, Sin Miedo: La Experiencia.The free virtual concert will feature Uchis performing hits including “Telepatia” and “Te Pongo Mal” from her most recent album, Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios), for the first time since its release in November 2020.Uchis created a cocktail kit with 1800 Cristalino, so fans can make her custom drink, the Por Vida Paloma, to enhance their viewing experience. Fifty percent of proceeds from each kit sold will benefit the Human Rights Initiative, a charity that provides free legal and social protections for immigrant communities in need.NYLON caught up with Uchis ahead of the performance to chat about her connection with her fans and how she’s been prioritizing her mental health as of late.It's your first time actually getting a chance to perform songs from this album — are you excited?Yeah, I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm really excited to see how my fans like it. I know that they'll be happy no matter what because we're doing it for free anyways, so, it's like a little present to them.How have you stayed connected with…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Facebook said Wednesday it has broken up a hacker network used by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ intelligence service in an attempt to keep tabs on journalists, human rights activists and government critics.The report by the social networking giant threatened to deal another embarrassing blow to Abbas’ Fatah party weeks ahead of parliamentary elections. Fatah, plagued by infighting and public malaise, already appears poised to lose power and influence if the vote takes place next month.In its report, Facebook said that elements linked to the Preventive Security Service “used fake and compromised accounts to create fictitious personas.” Posing as young women, journalists and political activists, they then sought “to build trust with people they targeted and trick them into installing malicious software.”The malware, disguised as chat applications, would give the security agency access to targets’ phones, including contacts, text messages, locations and even keystrokes, Facebook said.It said the ring, based in the West Bank, targeted people in the Palestinian territories and Syria, and to a lesser extent in Turkey,  » Read More

Isabel Díaz Ayuso sends a voice note. (Photo: VÍCTOR LERENA-EFE) Election Day … a day to share tons of viral content on WhatsApp. Aware of the bombardment of messages that an electoral appointment supposes and that many of them are not truthful, the instant messaging application will limit the forwarding to prevent hoaxes from circulating in the face of the Madrid 4-M elections. The Facebook-owned app began exploring these limitations in 2018, and in 2020 it further tightened the rules, so that a message can only be broadcast to five chats at a time, and not to 20 as before. In the event that it is identified as ‘highly forwarded’, it can only be forwarded to one. They have managed to reduce this content by 70% since last year, according to Europa Press. For now, in the weeks leading up to the elections, WhatsApp has not detected a growth of hoaxes about politics, although it takes its precautions. The application detects messages that come from a single user and are repeated until abnormal figures are reached, an indicator that they would be being sent in an automated way, contrary to what is allowed by the platform. With this ‘anti-hoax protocol’…