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An eighty-one-year-old who started playing video games to keep up with her grandchildren now streams to a hundred thousand followers who tune in mostly to hear her commentary. She loses almost every match and says that is the entire appeal. Her grandson runs the camera.
What is believed to be the last DVD rental store in South Africa has reported its best year in a decade, with a waiting list for membership. The owner credits a curated wall of staff picks and the fact that nobody has ever spent forty minutes scrolling his shelves without choosing something. Streaming services have not commented.
A primary school teacher who recorded a chorus on her phone during a lunch break has watched it become one of the most streamed tracks of the season after a dance trend picked it up. She has kept her teaching job for now and says the class helped write the second verse. Record labels are reportedly circling.