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For many creators, social sitcoms are becoming a way to build audiences, test characters and demonstrate production capabilities before potentially expanding into traditional television and streaming platforms.
Some brand deals for scripted social shows reportedly range from $10,000 to $100,000, depending on the show's audience and deliverables.
Several brands are also developing their own sitcom-style content for Instagram and TikTok.
Monetisation remains a challenge. Short-form videos generate less revenue than traditional long-form content, pushing creators towards brand partnerships, sponsorships, merchandise and paid content.
The trend is attracting attention from streaming platforms.
Tubi has partnered with TikTok creators to develop 10 shows, while Netflix has debuted βMinimum Wage,β a sitcom that originated as a short-form web series.
The number of episodes released monthly also tripled, from 44 in October 2025 to 136 in October 2026.
The format allows viewers to jump into almost any episode without following an entire series.
...featuring recurring characters, familiar settings and standalone storylines.
According to @BusinessInsider, 34 scripted short-form shows on Instagram have collectively generated more than 1.4 billion views since 2023.
Instagram is seeing a growing wave of short-form scripted comedy shows, with creators adapting the traditional TV sitcom format for vertical videos.
Shows like βThe Ick,β βBrooklyn Coffee Shopβ and βSecondhand Exchangeβ are gaining millions of views through short episodes... π§΅
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#OnThisDay in 2014 (12 years ago), Twitter launched Twemoji 1.0 as an open source project π¦π
Many of these designs are still in use across various platforms today, despite some major upheavals, as we discussed as part of #WorldEmojiDay 2025 ππ
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ALT A grid of Twemoji 1.0 designs in Twitterβs flat, bold style, mostly yellow smiley faces showing a range of expressions from grinning and winking to crying and screaming. The final rows include red and purple angry faces, a pile of poo, an ogre, a goblin, a ghost, an alien, a pixelated alien monster and some smiling cat faces.
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YouTube also says it will use the investigation to strengthen and improve its systems.
However, the company has not explained how the songs bypassed age restrictions and parental controls or why its recommendation system promoted them.
Responding to the investigation, YouTube says it has terminated the channels for violating its Nudity & Sexual Content policy, which applies to AI-generated content as well.
NDTV also found that YouTube created playlists containing more than 50 similar tracks and recommended them after users played certain songs.
Some videos had thousands of views, with one exceeding 3.2 million.
The investigation found that these songs appeared in YouTube recommendations and search results, including on supervised accounts for children under 13.
Even accounts with the strictest available setting for older kids (9+) received such recommendations.
NDTV found hundreds of explicit AI-generated songs in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Punjabi.
Some contained graphic descriptions of sexual acts, incest and the sexualisation of schoolchildren. Many were available without age restrictions.
