{"id":2067138,"date":"2025-10-03T17:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2067138"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:50:34","slug":"tiktok-gossip-accounts-are-shaking-up-the-media-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tiktok-gossip-accounts-are-shaking-up-the-media-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok gossip accounts are shaking up the media biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"hs_cos_wrapper_post_body\">\n<p>Hot tip: If you want to run into your favorite TikTok star in the wild, head over to BOA Steakhouse in Los Angeles. According to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the eatery is a \u201chot spot for Gen Z influencers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-post-body-featured-image\"><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also where you\u2019re likely to find <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/25\/style\/hollywood-fix-influencer-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fletcher Greene<\/a> \u2014 a 38-year-old paparazzo who has landed more exclusives with TikTok stars than <em>Us Weekly<\/em> could dream of.<\/p>\n<p>With 1.5m followers, his YouTube channel, The Hollywood Fix, is like TMZ for the TikTok generation.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s part of a wave of new media companies that are out-gossipping the former titans of gossip.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>They\u2019re rewriting the rules of media\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/07\/famous-birthdays-wikipedia-gen-z\/594682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Famous Birthdays<\/a> has become TikTok\u2019s Wikipedia, with explainers and deets on all the platform\u2019s up-and-comers.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theshaderoom\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Shade Room<\/a> (20m+ followers) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/influence.co\/nofilter\/tiktok-room-instagram-creators-interview-gossip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok Shaderoom<\/a> (1.5m) are several of dozens of so-called \u201ctea rooms\u201d \u2014 gossip-centric Instagram accounts filled with screenshots of deleted posts and leaked texts from celebs.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube channels like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2020\/2\/12\/21127014\/famous-birthdays-charli-damelio-chase-hudson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DramaAlert<\/a> (5.6m followers) report on juicy \u201cnews\u201d like the FBI raid on Jake Paul\u2019s house.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/commentsbycelebs\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments By Celebs<\/a> (1.5m+) is an Instagram media company that sleuths out provocative statements left in the comments section. It recently launched a TikTok-specific spinoff, @CommentsByTikTok.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>The gossip world hasn\u2019t seen a shakeup like this since the 1910s<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Back then, a flurry of new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utpjournals.press\/doi\/pdf\/10.3138\/utq.73.4.947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tabloids<\/a> \u2014 like <em>Broadway Brevities<\/em>, <em>Town Topics<\/em>, and the <em>Tattler<\/em> \u2014 made an art form out of urban socialite gossip.<\/p>\n<p>That skewering tabloid voice we know so well? You can trace it to the original scandal kingpin, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2010\/07\/very-recent-history-the-scandal-sheet-proto-blog-empire-of-stephen-g-clow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen G. Clow<\/a>, who owned <em>Brevities<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re seeing now is another revamp. These Insta publishers are using influencer drama to build out their own media empires \u2014 ones with the followers and personality to rival some big-name newspapers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thehustle.co \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot tip: If you want to run into your favorite TikTok star in the wild, head over to BOA Steakhouse in Los Angeles. 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