Hawkeye is only days away from hitting Disney Plus, yet Marvel just keeps building up the hype for the series to new levels. We keep getting things like new posters and teases from producers about what will take place. Now, we’ve got a fresh new clip that shows Clint Barton and Kate Bishop in action.

The newest clip (which you can watch above) shows the two heroes taking on “The Tracksuit Mafia” which involves some incredibly precise archery and Hawkeye himself deftly catching, and then tossing back, a flaming Molotov cocktail.

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It looks like the new Disney+ series will be featuring tons of little Easter Eggs too for the most dedicated MCU fans. The show’s lead writer Jonathan Igla discussed them recently in an interview.

“It was a constant balancing act. It kind of became a case-by-case basis. If something was good enough and worth calling back, and felt like it was going to resonate with the show, and not just something I would enjoy as a fan to call back and revisit, that guided it over the line.”

With things like Rogers: The Musical and more to look forward to, it’s no wonder fans can’t wait to see Hawkeye hit Disney+ on Nov. 24.

Pop star Jason Derulo’s music career may not have been as monumental as it once was during his peak, but thanks to TikTok, the artist is experiencing a major resurgence. Since he began posting on the platform in 2019, Derulo has managed to go from 6 million to more than 33 million followers. He is now one of the app’s top creators alongside Will Smith and TikTok’s top star, Charli D’ Amelio. Thanks to collaborations involving short skits and popular dance routines with fellow creators, Derulo is quickly becoming a TikTok staple.

According to Billboard, he’s become even more successful on the app thanks to his latest song, “Savage Love.” Produced by 17-year-old Jawsh 685, the song has landed Derulo his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 since 2015, making him one of 10 artists to accomplish the feat in each of the first three decades of the 21st century.

Released in the latter part of the summer, “Savage Love” has registered as No.1 on the Spotify Global Top 50 chart and is still topping song charts in Canada, Australia, and many countries across Europe. Currently, “Savage Love” is one of TikTok’s biggest viral hits, drawing in 750,000 TikToks a day and more than 43 million total views. It’s just another day in the life of a famous musician, but for Jawsh 685, this is all a new experience.

According to Variety, the 17-year-old high school student from Auckland derives his sound from his Samoan and Cook Island heritage, utilizing the New Zealand trend of creating beats to play through siren speakers usually attached to cars and bikes. The island sound, known as a “siren jam,” incorporates elements of dembow and reggae, all while providing a cultural vibe that celebrates heritage. Reminiscent of Jamaica’s dancehall scene and Latin America’s use of reggaeton, it’s pretty much an ethnically musical point of pride. 

Prior to “Laxed”, Jawsh 685 has released many other siren jam tracks on his Tik Tok and garnered major attention from music labels. Thanks to his TikTok success, the teen is currently in the final stages of negotiating a deal with Columbia Records. Of course, getting Jason Derulo to sing on your track doesn’t hurt, either.

However, Derulo has been under fire for using Jawsh 685’s siren beat “Laxed” to create and advertise “Savage Love” without providing credit to the young producer. While Jawsh was busy dealing with record execs, momentum for “Laxed” continued to build, leading the producer to speak with many artists about possibly jumping on the track. 

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Derulo happened to be one of those artists, but apparently, he was not about to wait in line while the song’s fate was being decided. It is reported that Derulo did not wait for a sign-off from Columbia Records because he wanted the beat to be a Jason Derulo song with Jawsh as its producer. But it seems that even the producer himself had no idea that Derulo was planning to release “Savage Love.”

After first releasing the video to TikTok, Derulo faced fan outrage for not compensating or at least crediting Jawsh 685 for the “Laxed” beat, which led to Derulo getting dragged on TikTok, Twitter, and even YouTube.

“Give credit to the NZ producer that made the original beat,” wrote one Twitter user.

“I just hate how jason derulo didnt give credit to you man,” added another YouTuber. “Our Pacific Islanders and other islands should be thanked for showing this sound especially jawsh 685.”

Due to the initial backlash, Derulo took down his original “Savage Love” post on TikTok and replaced it with another crediting the New Zealand producer:

“Had fun remixing @jawsh_685 siren beat #SavageLove 🔥🔥🔥 summer vibes,” wrote Derulo, who also tagged Jawsh in response to a fan on Instagram, writing, “@jawsh_685 killed this beat.”

However, fans were still quite unhappy with Derulo and saw the attempt as a weak attempt to dodge criticism.

“I’m sad Josh didn’t get the recognition he deserves,” wrote one fan. “A shoutout in a comment section and in a caption is shit.”

“You not slick Jason Dorito, we seen you delete it the first time cos it was getting flooded with hate,” wrote another. “Make sure you give love ($) to jawsh365 for the beat you ripped.”

As it stands, Derulo has not responded to the hate directly and there haven’t been any details as far as a contract agreement between him and Jawsh 685 for “Savage Love.” But being that the beat was already a smash before Derulo got his hands on it and Jawsh 685 is now officially a part of the industry, there’s a good chance that Columbia may get involved if the song gets any bigger. Hopefully both parties can come to an agreement and get it all straightened out before that happens.

Bill Cosby has been staying pretty quiet since his release from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned. So he must have been just as surprised as everyone else to see his name trending on Twitter today for something he didn’t even do.

on Nov. 18, News2Share’s editor-in-chief Ford Fisher posted a video to social media showing a man who was counter-protesting outside the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. In it, the man says the N-word before claiming to quote Cosby. “Why don’t black people stop smacking their kids, quit saying motherf**ker, and quit calling each other n*****r?”

You can see the video, which has now gone viral, below.

While we were unable to find the source for this quote, Cosby has previously expressed some similar controversial opinions in what is now known as the “Pound Cake Speech.” Cosby gave the speech during an NAACP Legal Defense Fund awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. back in 2004. The speech was highly critical of the Black community in the United States though the line the man “quotes” in the video is not from there.

Many were outraged by the video, with one user wondering how the man in it was “not getting sucker punched.”

Another user pointed out the potential irony of someone using Bill Cosby as a moral compass.

Another user thought the only reason Cosby’s name should trend at all is “he’s either been re-arrested or unless he’s left this mortal plane.”

Another user used an SNL sketch to point out just how wild it was that Cosby and OJ Simpson were trending at the same time, given they were both Black men accused of serious crimes.

While Bill Cosby himself has not publically commented on the trial in any way, many other celebrities have chosen to do so including Marvel stars Mark Ruffalo and Dave Bautista.

What do you think of the controversial viral video? Tell us in the comments.

Sony Pictures Entertainment dropped a new clip for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City on Friday, and it showcases more of Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield.

The clip starts off with Redfield inside a house staring at a balding woman rubbing her bloody fingers along a glass door and then another door shutting on its own.

“Hello?” Redfield says as she walks through the spooky house.

Something crawls under a table. When she goes to look she finds a young child.

“Hey,” she asks. “You need help?”

“You need help,” the kid says, and things get crazier from there. You can see the clip above.

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Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City is a video game-true telling of the first two Resident Evil games. It’s directed by Johannes Roberts and everything we’ve seen so far matches up fairly closely with the games. In an interview with EW, Roberts said what made this version interesting for him was being faithful to the source material. The older movies with Milla Jovovich, he said, were “never really about the games.”

“I’m a horror guy. I’m a Stephen King guy. I’m a John Carpenter guy. All those things are sort of built into the fabric of this movie,” he explains. “I was just like, ‘Let’s make a scary movie again.’”

What really set the ball in motion was Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2 in 2019, the filmmaker said.

“I remember playing that second game and going, ‘This is the movie. This is it,’” Roberts said. “It just blew me away completely. The aesthetics of it, the tone, the mood. I was like, ‘This is the cornerstone of what we’re going to do.’”

He also said it’s important that he stick to the subject matter and lay down a good base for potential sequels.

“I think [Welcome to Raccoon City] sets everything up really well, an origin story for each of our characters,” he said. “I think it would be really important to me that we don’t just use this as a springboard to then just go off into our own crazy world. I think there’s so much in the games that is so fascinating and exciting that I would really love to continue to explore that.”

How excited are you for when Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City premieres on Nov. 24? Sound off in the comments.

If you’re an aspiring influencer or are just very active on social media, then more than likely you already have a TikTok. Even if you don’t, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard your friends or family talk about it. They’ve probably even tried to persuade you to join them in a video to try out a new dance routine or come up with a comedy skit.

Regardless of how you first heard about it, there’s no denying that TikTok is talked about more nowadays than Facebook, and thanks to the app’s popularity, it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere anytime soon.

Just like its social media predecessors, TikTok started as a fun way for teenagers to post 15-second videos that usually involved comedy skits and dance routines. Over the past few years, however, the platform has grown to include users of all ages and has turned into a social marketing tool with a reach in the millions. Thanks to that, many TikTok stars have reached levels of fame and financial stability that have prompted entrepreneurs and aspiring artists to hop on the bandwagon in the hopes of achieving similar results. 

The users who are creating content on TikTok are luckily seeing lots of views and are easily going viral overnight, opening the door for many of them to monetize their channels in various ways. Naturally, this has put everyone in a frenzy to stake their claim on this new gold mine and make some money.

Alas, as with everything in life, not every marketing strategy that you use is guaranteed to make money on the platform, and for some people it could take years of tinkering to find the best way to monetize your space. Of course, if you’re interested in figuring out how to monetize your account, there are plenty of “influencer gurus” out there who are eager to help the next generation of TikTokers reach their financial goals.

One such guru is Elise Darma, a content marketer who offers resources on how to grow your business on various platforms like Instagram and YouTube. If you’re a content creator looking to make some money on TikTok, Darma currently runs a website and a YouTube channel that offers classes to help you reach your monetization goals. So far, she’s pinpointed six different ways that you can make money on the platform.

1. Growing accounts and selling them

According to Darma, the first way people are making money on TikTok is by growing accounts and then selling them. Basically, you start by choosing a niche that you’re interested in and creating entertaining content that will ideally go viral and attract a following, which then ideally translates into customers for your product. Even if you don’t have anything to sell, using this practice will help you reach out to brands in your niche’s industry, and if you can sell your TikTok profile to them, there’s a good chance that you can make some money that way.

You could also sell your products on TikTok Live. Simply put, you can launch and/or sell products while you’re live streaming and even hold an auction. This practice is perfect for creators who just want to grow a following around a certain topic and build a community while providing the potential to sell that account to brands looking to reach your established following.

2. Donations

Donations are another great way to monetize your channel. Just like Twitch, you can also go live and collect donations from viewers. In terms of monetization, the format will usually go as follows: TikTok users can go into your profile and purchase something called coins. For the low price of $1.39, you usually get about a hundred coins. When a creator goes live, their followers can actually send them coins as a way of giving thanks for all of their hard work in creating the content. A creator can then take that coin and turn it into a diamond, which can then be converted into cash via PayPal.

3. Manage influencer campaigns

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Just like Instagram, managing a campaign for an influencer can be just lucrative as having a channel of your own. In this situation, you’re basically the middleman or broker between a TikTok creator and a brand who wants to work with them. Just for being a coordinator, you can charge a decent service fee to manage these campaigns. If you build your resume up enough to manage multiple campaigns, then eventually all of those service fees are going to add up to a reasonable income that you can add to your wallet.

4. TikTok’s ad platform

The other way you can make money on TikTok is by making use of its ad platform. Similar to Facebook and Instagram ads, you’re basically running paid traffic to attract followers to your channel, which will hopefully lead them to purchase products from your business. Keep in mind that like any other advertising campaigns on TikTok, this will require money to launch, so you may want to create a large enough budget first to allow for flexibility when you’re experimenting with this to find what will work for you.

5. Management services

Another way to make money on TikTok is by offering management services to creators on the app. Though it may not seem like it as you view them from the other side of the camera, there are some creators on TikTok who gain millions of followers very quickly and are overwhelmed when they seemingly become business owners overnight.

This is a good time to step in and offer your services to help them with their content and creative strategies while also managing the offers and deals that come their way. If you have any experience in management, marketing, or both, management services is certainly a worthwhile endeavor to think about if you’re trying to make some money on TikTok.

6. Consulting

Once you become a pro at using TikTok and fully understand how to turn a video with a hundred views into a viral hit with 100,000 views, then you can start offering consulting services. This method is all about site authority. You’re basically leveraging your expertise on the platform to help people who want to be TikTok famous by providing strategies that will get their videos seen by millions of people. This is why it’s absolutely necessary to have the background and experience required to be truly knowledgeable before offering this as a service in the first place.

Once you prove your worth, consulting a TikTok creator can be one of the easiest ways to get paid reasonably well. If you help users procure deals and influence agreements, you can even negotiate a percentage or a cut of that deal just for being the consultant and helping them go viral on TikTok. 

If you’d like more tips and tricks on how to build your business on social media, you can follow Elise Darma on TikTok at @EliseDarma. Don’t forget to loop us into all of the fabulous content you create!