You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

THE WORLD OF MICROCELEBRITIES
 
�       A micro­celebri­ty is some­one who gained fame on the inter­net. Due to
the nature of their fame, they are some­times referred to as “eCelebs.”
 
�       Video shar­ing and social media site ‘YouTube’ launched on Feb­ru­ary
14, 2005. It’s since become the main plat­form for micro­celebri­ties,
who are also known as “YouTu­bers.”
 
�            Many micro­celebri­ties court con­tro­ver­sy to increase clicks. On
Decem­ber 31, 2017, Logan Paul uploaded a video to his YouTube
video of a sui­cide vic­tim in the Aoki­ga­hara of Japan. Paul was
tem­porar­i­ly removed from YouTube.
 
�            “Viral videos” have made many peo­ple famous in the inter­net era,
but they’ve been around for some time. The TV show Can­did Cam­era
is an ear­ly exam­ple.
 
�       The late Kim­bo Slice got his start by upload­ing his street fights to the
inter­net. The web­site became pop­u­lar, allow­ing him to segue into a
semi-suc­cess­ful MMA career.
 
�       “Con­tent cre­ation” refers to the process of cre­at­ing some­thing for the
inter­net. The def­i­n­i­tion can fit many things, but since it fits all
micro­celebri­ties, they are often called “con­tent cre­ators.”
 
�       “Mon­e­ti­za­tion,” where­by YouTube cre­ators charge sub­scrip­tion fees
for their chan­nels, began in 2013. In 2018, the mon­e­ti­za­tion rules
were changed to require 1,000 sub­scribers who watch at least 4,000
hours of con­tent.
 
�            Chi­nese social net­work­ing site, Tik­Tok, launched in 2017 and has
since become pop­u­lar with younger con­tent cre­ators who focus on
video edit­ing.
 
�       Swedish YouTu­ber PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjell­berg) cur­rent­ly
has the fourth-most sub­scrip­tions to his YouTube chan­nel with over
111 mil­lion. The chan­nel was pri­mar­i­ly gam­ing ori­en­tat­ed at first but
evolved into com­e­dy.
 
�            Jake Paul is the younger broth­er of Logan Paul. Although Jake has
had a suc­cess­ful act­ing and con­tent cre­ation career, he’s more recent­ly
fought as a pro­fes­sion­al box­er.
 
�            The social media site for beau­ti­ful peo­ple, Insta­gram, was launched
in 2010. It was acquired by Face­book in 2012 for $1 bil­lion.
 
�            North Korea blocks access to YouTube, Insta­gram, and Tik­Tok. In
fact, North Korea blocks access to most of the world wide web and
only allows access to gov­ern­ment work­ers.
 
�       The band, Sons of Maxwell, made the video “Unit­ed Breaks Gui­tars”
for their YouTube chan­nel to protest the destruc­tion of one of their
instru­ments, but it made them famous, tem­porar­i­ly.
 
�       Patre­on is anoth­er site fre­quent­ly used by con­tent cre­ators. Fans can
pay reoc­cur­ring charges or per spe­cif­ic releas­es of con­tent.
 
�            Indi­an-based YouTube chan­nel, T‑Series, tops all oth­ers with 213
mil­lion sub­scrip­tions. T‑Series began in 1983 by pirat­ing pirat­ed
Bol­ly­wood music but became a music label in the 1990s.
 
�       Sam Hyde is a con­tro­ver­sial come­di­an from Rhode Island who’s best
known for pulling pranks and trolls and post­ing them online. He’s
also been mis­tak­en­ly asso­ci­at­ed with mass shoot­ings.
 
�            Although Tik­Tok is a Chi­nese com­pa­ny, the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment
blocks the over­seas ver­sion, tiktok.com, on the main­land.
 
�            Plen­ty of women have made lots of mon­ey and gained lots of fame
sell­ing sub­scrip­tions to their Only Fans chan­nels. The Lon­don-based
com­pa­ny planned to ban porn and adult con­tent in 2021, but after
back­lash from con­tent cre­ators, the deci­sion was reversed six days
lat­er.
 
�            YouTube acknowl­edged the impor­tance of its con­tent cre­ators on
June 28, 2012, through the YouTube Cre­ator Awards. Awards are
giv­en based on the num­ber of sub­scribers: Sil­ver, Gold, Dia­mond,
Cus­tom, and Red Dia­mond.
 
�            Amer­i­can teenag­er Char­li D’Ame­lio has the most fol­low­ers on
Tik­Tok with 139.4 mil­lion and has a net worth of approx­i­mate­ly $12
mil­lion. Her old­er sis­ter, Dix­ie, is tenth with 57.8 mil­lion fol­low­ers.
 
�       Mr. Beast (Jim­my Don­ald­son) has col­lect­ed mil­lions of clicks on his
YouTube chan­nel for his stunt and sur­vival chal­lenges. He’s also
known for donat­ing much of his prof­its to char­i­ty. He has a net worth
of approx­i­mate­ly $25 mil­lion.
 
�       Iran blocks most social media inter­net sites, includ­ing those pop­u­lar
with con­tent cre­ators, such as YouTube, Snapchat, and Only Fans.
Some­what sur­pris­ing, though, Insta­gram is not blocked.
 
�            After West­ern coun­tries placed sanc­tions on Rus­sia for its Feb­ru­ary
2022 inva­sion of Ukraine, Rus­sia respond­ed by block­ing Insta­gram
and some oth­er West­ern-based social media sites.
 
�       In 2011, Amer­i­can teenag­er Rebec­ca Black’s life changed when her
low-bud­get YouTube video-son, “Fri­day,” was released. A month
after it was uploaded, it had one mil­lion views, launch­ing Black’s
career.
 
�            Feuds between con­tent cre­ators are com­mon. In 2017, cre­ators
iDubb­bz and RiceGum released hip hop “diss tracks” against each
oth­er. iDubb­bz also released a video for the song, “Asian Jake Paul,”
that has more than 85 mil­lion views.