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Gizzi and Lannum are known for not breaking character or answering questions until their task has been completed (Cristian Martinez)

AreYouKiddingTV Visits UMKC

Ellen Beshuk, News Editor
September 5, 2023

  Despite the heat, dozens of students gathered outside UMKC’s Swinney Center today around 2 p.m. to see the popular YouTube duo.   A sign taped to Joey Gizzi’s shirt read, “The first person to bring us a football, kick a field goal through our arms and then dump...

UrinatingTree, YouTube

Q/A with UrinatingTree

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
August 25, 2022

UrinatingTree is a sports-based Youtube channel founded by Steve Linkowski in 2010. Starting as an unknown video game reviewer and bartender, Linkowski’s historical videos on sports franchises and weekly uploads that cover the NFL season jolted him to over 500,000 subscribers....

Tom Grossi

Q&A with Tom Grossi

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
August 25, 2022

The Packast is a channel rising rapidly on the YouTube platform, created by former comedian and teacher Tom Grossi. In anticipation of my upcoming article series, Grossi provides some backstory to some of his most popular video/streaming concepts and the future of his show. The...

UrinatingTree, YouTube

Q&A with Urinating Tree

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
August 25, 2022

UrinatingTree is a sports-based Youtube channel founded by Steve Linkowski in 2010. Even though he started as an unknown video game reviewer, his historical videos on sports franchises and weekly uploads that cover the NFL season jolted him to over 500K subscribers. During...

Former President Donald Trump with logos of various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Tik Tok, and Shopify.

Who’s Moderating Who?

Caleb Robbins
February 4, 2021

Earlier this month Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube, and Amazon-owned Twitch banned former U.S. President Donald Trump either permanently or indefinitely following his comments on the U.S. Capitol riots.  Shortly after, conservative social media app Parler was...

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