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Charli & Dixie D’Amelio mocked over “painful” Jingle Ball performance

TikTok sensations Charli and Dixie D’Amelio are being criticized online after performing together at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball, with people calling their performance “awkward” and “painful.” The D’Amelio sisters are two of the most popular stars from TikTok, with a combined follower count of 180 million. Charli is even the most-followed account on the app, proving just how huge their fanbase really is. Charli is best-known for her dancing, having gone viral on countless occasions with her take on TikTok’s most viral dances.

LoL legend Uzi leaves LPL team Bilibili Gaming

Bililbili have announced the departure of storied League of Legends player Jian ‘Uzi’ Zi-Hao on June 1. The organization announced from their Weibo account on March that Uzi would be taking a step back from professional competition to focus on his health. Uzi, whose last LoL match was on March 14 against Ultra Prime in the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), only played nine games for Bilibili and finished his time on the team with a 4-5 match record.

New World reinstates the Trading Post following gold exploit fix

After a long couple of days without it, New World devs have finally reinstated the Trading Post, claiming the gold duplication exploit is fixed. New World, despite its impressive player count and being developed by Amazon Games, has had a laundry list of issues since its release. Starting with server wait times, moving to PvP and invincibility exploits, and finally rounding it out with a massive gold duplication exploit that caused the Trading Post to be taken down, the game seems to move from one issue to the next.

Best TikTok songs: Top 30 ft. Olivia Rodrigo, Doja Cat & more

TikTok and music are two things that go hand in hand, and now more than ever the charts are being influenced by what’s popping off on the app. Here are our picks for the best TikTok songs of all time. Music has been a fundamental part of TikTok ever since the app began, with ‘Sounds’ acting as the fundamental basis for most of the content on the app. A lot of the early content on TikTok focused on dancing and lip-syncing, and that’s something that prevails to this day with popular creators like Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae continuing to gain followers at a rapid pace for their content.

Overwatch fans disappointed after "stupid" Battle.net code giveaway

After the official Overwatch Twitter account dropped a series of Battle.net codes to redeem free items, players have been less than impressed with their rewards. If there’s one thing everybody loves, it’s free stuff. A whole host of games introduce swathes of content over the winter period that don’t require wracking up hefty credit card bills, and Overwatch is one of them. The Christmas Winter Wonderland event added five new Legendary skins into the mix, as well as three new Epic skins, all of which didn’t cost a dime.

Pokimane under fire after blasting sponsor of anti "simp" YouTuber

Twitch star Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys is getting called out by many content creators after she attacked the sponsor of YouTuber ‘It’sAGundam’ for making a video criticizing “simps.” It’sAGundam is known for making videos critical of modern online culture, such as “simping.” The term “simp” popularly refers to men who overvalue women and do or say things they may not agree with because they believe a woman would want them to do so.

2K streamer IShowSpeed smashes 1 million YouTube subscriber goal in just one week

IShowSpeed is best known for streaming NBA 2K, but now he’s becoming known for speed-running YouTube. In under a week, the streamer went from under 500,000 followers to… 1.5 million. If you’re in the NBA 2K community, you’ve probably heard of the emerging streamer IShowSpeed. If you’re not in that community, you still may know him by face — as he’s had videos go viral on Twitter and TikTok.  While earlier jump-scare videos were big on the web, IShowSpeed’s recent growth didn’t happen until a TikTok video showed how devastated he was by a trolling fanbase.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons gift guide for villagers

Gifting to your villagers is a complicated affair in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, especially if you want to reach best friend status. You’ll need to know which present is the best to give to what villager, so use our gift guide to ensure you don’t end up in the doghouse. Sending gifts to villagers in Animal Crossing can be a pain, especially when you’re unsure of what it is that they love.

Call of Duty player kicked off college esports program over viral trash talk clip

After intensely trash-talking his opponents, a local Call of Duty player was banned from their collegiate esports program. Competitive gaming ventures are driven on the foundations of passion and determination, and because of this, competitors often engage in trash-talking. Whether that be to get inside their opponent’s head to knock them off their game or to big themselves up, the passion-filled rhetoric has become a staple in competitions of all kinds.

Weird CSGO bug makes defusing bombs on Mirage a total nightmare

A visual bug in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive makes bomb defuses on B-site Mirage a nightmare for the CTs. Multiple players are reporting a bug that occurs when a Counter-Terrorist gets on the bomb to defuse. The wires of the bomb defuser glitch out to extend far beyond their intended radius, giving T’s a huge advantage in tense situations. Forms of this bug have appeared since Valve gave the diffuser an animation for wires back in a controversial update in 2015.