Every parting gives a foretaste of death.

Every reunion, a hint of the resurrection.

Liza Koshi said that. Isn't that beautiful?

And that is the theme of today's episode of the YouTube News podcast,

Resurrection and New Life, because we have a few stories today

about people who have decided to resurrect themselves

as new forms of themselves.

I don't want to spoil what's coming up,

but we've got some corkers of stories, corkers of stories coming up today.

On the YouTube News podcast with me, Benedict Townsend, thank you so much for tuning in, my friend.

It's wonderful to see you. You're doing a great job of putting headphones on and listening

at a correct volume, I assume. Let's crack on. Here's the headlines.

Marcus Butler has deleted all his videos and tweets and reinvented himself as a brand new

form of Marcus Butler.

Plus, we have an absolutely insane story about a TikTok star who disappeared and came

back possibly as a brand new invented person.

That is such a wild tale.

And I'm actually going to get producer Joe on Mike to hear his live reaction to that story because it is so insane. All that

plus, the YouTube News podcast has been nominated for an award. That's right. We did it,

folks. I want to thank all of you so much for getting us at this point, but we've been nominated

for an award and it's fan voted.

So we can do this, we can win that award.

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