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We Need to Talk About YouTube Meet and Greets

As online video creators look more like celebrities, figuring out how to allow fans to meet them — and them to meet fans — gets harder. What we have now isn’t working for anyone

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
Published in
8 min readJul 18, 2019

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Thousands of fans of online video’s biggest names made their way from across the United…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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