Microdramas are booming. AI could make it even harder to stop binge-watching
They’re dubbed duanju, or microdramas – and they’ve become big business.
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Swipe, Repeat, Cash In: Inside China's Vertical-Video Takeover of Entertainment — 'Micro-dramas'
China's vertical micro-drama industry has outgrown the domestic box office and gone global — but AI is now upending the actors who built it.
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France’s fast-fashion 'kill bill': Green move or penalty for the poor?
In a bid to combat the “fast-fashion” and “ultra-fast-fashion” brands that have taken France by storm, a young lawmaker from the conservative Les Républicains party has proposed slapping an extra €5 on every fast-fashion purchase in the name of the environment and the French textile industry. But criticism of the…
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