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Digital divas: Can Japan's virtual YouTuber craze crack America?
AFP, Published on 11/04/2025
» TOKYO — Fans waved glow sticks at an animated character on stage, having packed a sold-out Hollywood concert hall to see their virtual idol perform -- showcasing the global ambitions of Japan's "VTuber" subculture.
Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended
AFP, Published on 19/01/2025
» SEOUL - Supporters of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stormed a Seoul court Sunday after a judge extended the impeached leader's detention over his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law.
YouTube patriots? The men backing S. Korea's impeached president
AFP, Published on 09/01/2025
» SEOUL - Fears of North Korea, online conspiracies and unproven claims of electoral fraud -- conservative South Korean men told AFP why they had descended on impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's residence to protect him from arrest.
Right-wing YouTubers back South Korea president's last stand
AFP, Published on 01/01/2025
» SEOUL - Camped on the street winding up to the residence of South Korea's impeached president, protesters direct vitriol at police and echo obscure conspiracies as investigators prepare to execute a warrant for his arrest.
'Overwhelming': S. Korean families' grief compounded by online abuse
AFP, Published on 10/04/2023
» SEOUL - First, he lost his child in Seoul's Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family's once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery.
TikTokers jailed as Iraq targets 'decadent content'
AFP, Published on 16/02/2023
» BAGHDAD - Dancing to Iraqi pop made TikTok personality Om Fahad a hit among tens of thousands of followers, but now she is in prison, caught up in a state campaign targeting "decadent content".
Japan's 'Little Trains that Could' battle for survival
AFP, Published on 29/12/2022
» CHOSHI (JAPAN) - In the driver's seat of a two-carriage train, Katsunori Takemoto puts on his white gloves and checks the antiquated gauges before setting out alongside cabbage fields in Japan's rural Chiba.
'Like a dream': Japanese grandpa draws in following as art YouTuber
AFP, Published on 06/07/2022
» ISUMI (JAPAN) - Harumichi Shibasaki was nearly 70 when he began making YouTube art tutorials from his quiet home in the Japanese countryside. Five years on, he has 1.4 million subscribers.
YouTubers hunt closure - and clicks - in US cold cases
AFP, Published on 12/12/2021
» WASHINGTON - A scuba diver wiped away the algae on a submerged car's license plate and exclaimed: "It's them!" That discovery of two long-missing American teens' apparent remains was the latest tragic find for a subculture of YouTube sleuths.
The foreign legion of YouTubers defending China
AFP, Published on 12/09/2021
» BEIJING: With YouTube videos "debunking" allegations of human rights abuses and diatribes on Western "conspiracies" against China, an unlikely set of foreigners are loudly defending Beijing from its international critics.