NETFLIX CRACKDOWN AND TIKTOKERS FOR UKRAINE

It looks like the heyday of using our college roommate's ex-boyfriend’s step-mom’s Netflix password might be coming to an end </3. On Wednesday, the platform announced that it is going to start cracking down on members who share their accounts with people outside of their household. The company is rolling out two “new features” for users in Costa Rica, Chile, and Peru. These Netflix users can choose to pay an extra $2.99 for up to two people they don’t live with, or export profiles to a new account, in order to keep their viewing history, watchlist, and personalized recs. This all comes as the streaming competition gets hotter and hotter, and Netflix subscriber growth has started to dip. 

The White House is going to an unlikely source in order to disseminate and amplify content about Ukraine: TikTokers. Knowing that millions of young people get information from the app, Biden officials spoke to 30 prominent creators on a Zoom call last week. They discussed the war, briefed the TikTok creators about the US’s strategic goals, and answered their questions. Meanwhile, anti-war Russians also have been leaning on digital spaces in order to come together, but with social media heavily regulated and shut down, one of the few places left that they can converse is actually Clubhouse. One room has been going for over two weeks, nonstop, with over half a million participants. 

This week I particularly enjoyed this extremely calming video of birds migrating and this one of the most impressive mural I’ve ever seen. And I will leave you with this delightfully dumb magical duo from Germany who have not stopped popping up on my FYP.