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Facebook’s Instagram app will reportedly launch a new service in the coming weeks that copies the wildly popular features of the controversial TikTok app. Instagram Reels — which, like TikTok, allows users to make 15-second video clips set to music — will make its global debut soon as TikTok faces growing scrutiny over its Chinese …

She’s issued a Myka culpa. Myka Stauffer, the controversial YouTuber who gave up her adopted son Huxley, who has autism, has broken her silence and apologized “for all the hurt I’ve caused” in a lengthy Instagram post. Written on the Notes app of her iPhone, the 33-year-old influencer, who previously worked with the likes of …

Billie Eilish can’t be seeing much on her Instagram feed these days. The Grammy-winning star, who boasts nearly 65 million followers on the social-media platform, appears to have unfollowed every account she previously kept her eye on. As of Thursday morning, she has a follower count of “0.” It’s unclear why the 18-year-old singer took …

Vanessa Bryant and her family are taking the time they need to mourn Kobe and Gianna “Gigi” Bryant. In a message to followers on her Instagram Story, the NBA star’s widow explained that she had to block all Kobe and Gigi fan pages on the platform because they were too difficult to see. “Thx so …

George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter is Disney’s newest stockholder, thanks to a generous gift from singer Barbra Streisand. Gianna Floyd thanked Streisand on her Instagram account on Saturday, and posted a series of photos displaying the Disney letter and certificate she received in the mail from the 10-time Grammy award winner. “Thank You @barbrastreisand for my …

Instagram playboy Dan Bilzerian is surrounding himself with more bookish types these days. The gun-toting, babe-flanked, private jet-flying “King of Instagram” has officially finished penning his autobiography. Now, he’s offering $5,000 to the person who comes up with the most clever title — an opportunity his followers have taken to absolutely roast him. Bilzerian, 39, …

Influencer culture as we know it is over. Kylie Jenner, the youngest and most popular member of Instagram’s first family and the pioneer of the Instagram influencer business model, cannot keep up with it herself. This Insta-business model that Jenner perfected is based on two primary revenue streams: sponsored posts and branded products. Once an …

Instagram was roasted at “the first ever Instagram approved DJ set” on Monday. Brooklyn artists Donwill and Jean Grae produced the event after Page Six reported on Instagram’s crackdown on DJ sets that stream over the platform due to music rights. The company posted a set of guidelines last week that reminded users it has …

All holds barred. There’s little hope for top ropes anytime soon, so these wrestling fans are trading leg drops for laptops while in quarantine. Unemployed bandmates Jimi Riddle and Casey Hopkins have been filling their time in coronavirus lockdown by running their Instagram-based Isolation Wrestling Federation, which bills itself as “the first ‘NO CONTACT’ wrestling …

Twenty years later, Stan has a direct line. Rapper Eminem has released his cell number to legions of fans, who call themselves “Stans” after his 2000 hit single, inviting them to text 313-666-7440. The Real Slim Shady wrote, “text me, ill hit you back” in Instagram and Twitter posts, both of which quickly went viral. …