ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Will Win the War

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Yahoo senior entertainment reporter Kelsey Weekman, who is fresh off the plane from this year’s VidCon. Unlike past years, when TikTokkers took over the Anaheim Convention Center, VidCon 2025 put YouTubers front and center, inducting the first creators into the VidCon Hall of Fame. With platforms like MySpace and Vine coming and going, how has YouTube stuck around? Why can’t TikTok dethrone it? And who on earth is “jmancurly”??? This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
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0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:29.9	Any dinosaurs too dangerous for the original park. We're left here. Get tickets now for the movie
0:37.1	event of the summer.
0:38.4	Let's go!
0:39.7	That's being called the best Jurassic in a decade.
0:42.7	Time to move.
0:43.3	Scarlet Jo Hansen.
0:44.7	Run!
0:45.3	Mahershala Ali.
0:46.5	This way! Come on!
0:48.7	Jonathan Bailey.
0:49.8	We put ourselves in a place we don't belong.
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