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YungBBQ Is The Dancer Social Media Can't Get Enough Of She's using movement to bring joy to her audience. In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we sat in confinement, scrolling on our phones, awaiting uplifting entertainment. Cue YungBBQ, born Alexis Feacher, a 21-year-old who dresses up as Black cultural figures and dances impromptu. She’s worn costumes inspired by everyone from SisQó, to Diana Ross, to Teyana Taylor, and has millions of eyes on her impressions. This moment has been years in the making, Feacher has been taking dance classes since she was a child. “I’ve done...

Instagram is getting an Exclusive Stories feature Jul 02, 2021, 7:07 PM Instagram has been busy with a string of initiatives lately to boost its social media platform and capitalize on monetization techniques. The latest of these is a new "Exclusive Stories" feature, which was discovered by reverse engineer and full stack Android developer Alessandro Paluzzi. The code Paluzzi found shows the layout of the future option to post paywalled content, much like Twitter's upcoming Super Follows feature. This will allow certain Instagram users to deliver paid content to fans who are paying a...

This Week in Apps: WWDC 21 highlights, Instagram Creator Week recap, Android 12 beta 2 arrives Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of liv...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Apple's development IDE, Xcode 13, now includes Xcode Cloud, a built-in continuous integration and delivery service hosted on Apple's cloud infrastructure.