Despite child influencers like eight-year-old Ryan boasting an estimated net worth of €100 million, lawmakers remain sharply divided on the concept of using children to generate money on social media and position themselves as influencers. . When it comes to children, few laws exist, leaving it up to parents to determine whether their children get paid to appear in sponsored posts. In this case, when they still do not have the notions to decide for themselves. Yes, there is one group in the creative economy that has perhaps been left out of the equal pay conversation: children. the wild west.…
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Football and fuel may have little or nothing in common, but they are coming together to make Qatar golden. Rising oil prices due to the war in Ukraine have boosted Middle Eastern producers like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, but the financial and geopolitical rewards on offer for Qatar make it the winner after the invasion of Vladimir Putin has forced Europe to begin to stop importing Russian energy. That has made 2022 not only the year that Qatar will make its mark on the sporting calendar, it has enriched what is already one of the richest countries in the world…
There is a Japanese word for people obsessed with video games and anime: “otaku”. There is also one for the feelings that these characters inspire: “moe”. And now there is a term for people who have decided to unofficially marry these fictional characters and defy Japanese social norms: “fictosexuals”. An increasing number of people openly state that they have fallen in love with anime characters and given up on the idea of romance in the real world. In Japan, thousands of people are in devoted fictional relationships, catered to by a vast industry aimed at catering to the desires of…
The Russian Navy’s marine mammal projects drew global attention when a tame beluga whale turned up in Norway in 2019 with a harness strapped to its body. That whale, nicknamed Hvaldimir, is believed to have escaped from a Russian Navy training program. However, there is another display of marine mammals that you probably haven’t heard of. This time in the conflict zones of Ukraine. Evidence has now emerged that Russia sent trained dolphins to protect its naval base in the port of Sevastopol. The country led by Vladimir Putin has a history of training dolphins for military purposes, using the…
That Primark, the benchmark for cheap fashion, has announced a price increase for the fall-winter collection is no surprise. That it has done so at a time when its sales have increased by 60% compared to last year and its operating profit has doubled by nine, it does make more than one think about what could have motivated this commercial maneuver. No, Primark has also not been able to offset the cost pressures it faces with savings. Same as other companies. The broken distribution chain and inflation are eating into its margins. Let’s see what actually happened. First, the climb.…
Transnistria, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists and permanently home to 1,500 Russian soldiers as well as a large weapons depot, borders western Ukraine. A few days ago, a senior Russian commander said the goal of Russia’s new offensive was to seize control of southern Ukraine and gain access to Transnistria, raising concerns that the small Eastern European country could become a new high point in the growing tensions between Moscow and the West. Now, several explosions have been recorded in the area. Although the idea of an invasion generates skepticism, it seems clear that they could be carrying out…
Over a decade ago, in 2008, Pixar released a movie titled Wall-E. This futuristic film served as a cautionary tale for all of us who were dazzled by it at the time. After Wall-E (a garbage compactor robot) finds a plant, he travels to space aboard the Axiom ship and goes on a mission to protect the plant and return humans to earth. Pixar’s Wall-E painted a grim vision of our future, but how much of it was accurate? There are some things he predicted right (and wrong) about the future. The latest mission of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company,…
As the implications of Elon Musk’s million-dollar deal to buy Twitter are worked out, the world is wondering if the acquisition also opens a door for China to exert indirect control over the social media platform, given Tesla’s reliance on its plant. from Shanghai and local suppliers for profit. Twitter is banned in China, but that doesn’t stop the Chinese government from putting the app to good use to promote propaganda. And now that the social media platform is being bought by the world’s richest man (and CEO of Tesla), the Chinese government may have gained some influence over the…
Learning to breathe properly could literally change a person’s life. It is what many doctors and experts say about health and habits. Yes, breathing is an automatic process. But no, that doesn’t mean we always get it right. “Breath work” can help improve our sleep, digestion, immune, and respiratory functions, while lowering blood pressure and anxiety. There has been a huge increase in interest in breathing in recent years, at least in the Western wellness world (spiritual practices like Buddhism and Hinduism have long known the benefits of breathing well). It’s never too late to learn how to do something…