Elf Bars & Egos: VidCon 2023

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I’m James Del, the publisher behind the curtain for this here news and community operation we’re spinning up for the creative underclass. Welcome to the party, hope you got the memo about BYOB. And DMCA takedown notices.

I’m filing from the press room of VidCon, the annual gathering of digital video creators and fans in the heart of Anaheim, CA, a city that, until the 1950’s, was primarily farmland and German immigrants (fun fact: the name combines the Santa Ana River with the German “heim”, or home).

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