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Netflix‘s Wednesday is the latest TV show to break streamer records, dethroning Stranger Thingswith 341.2 million hours streamed worldwide in a week. As the global buzz continues, Jenna Ortega, who plays Wednesday Addams in the series, is seeing immense growth in her social media following.

The 20-year-old had roughly 9.39 million Instagram followers when the series just hit Netflix last month, and gained more than 10 million followers in a span of 10 days. She now has 24.7 million followers as of writing. According to a chart detailing the daily growth in Ortega’s following, there were multiple days when the star gained over 1 million new followers in 24 hours.

Prior to the much-anticipated premiere of Wednesday, Tim Burton’s take on the Addams Familyseries, Ortega starred in slasher movies like X and Scream earlier this year. The star started her career as a child actor, gaining traction for her role as the young Jane in Jane the Virgin and Harley Diaz in Disney’s Stuck in the Middle later on.

Since its premiere, Wednesday has become much talked about in the beauty and fashion spaces with fans embracing “Wednesday-core” in black-and-white outfits. Viewers have also been rushing to MAC stores to get their hands on the lip color Ortega wears in the show.

Wednesday is now available to stream on Netflix.

SZA has been unveiling details of her sophomore album, S.O.S., ahead of its release. Most recently, she talked about the process of having features on the LP, unveiling she almost had more.

When Hot97 asked her how the collabs came to be, she said, “DMs and like begging people.”

She added, “And a lot of people just like did not turn in their verses, but I’m grateful for who did.” SZA also revealed she can’t take it personally. “For a lot of these people, I didn’t turn in my verse, so I can’t be too mad,” she explained.

According to the tracklist, S.O.S. consists of four features — Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Travis Scott.

She has also teased the possibility of having The Weeknd appear on the deluxe version of S.O.S. if they finish and release their collab for the “Die For You” remix. “We talked about it, it wouldn’t be really hard ’cause there’s a scaffolding of one that already exists so I need to just finish it,” she told Z100. “If he is on the deluxe of my album, I will turn in the ‘Die For You’ verse.”

S.O.S. drops on December 9.

PASS, the creators of the adult industry sexual wellness standard testing policy, have called for a hold on the production of NSFW content due to a rise in sexually transmitted infections.

Here’s everything you need to know.

In August of 2022, Hypebae reported the call of an STI epidemic in the United States. The news broke after the year-long trend of decreasing condom use, and the government’s inadequate sexual wellness funding.

Since the news broke, the STI epidemic has worsened with the porn industry having to cease operations. As you can imagine, this puts sex workers in more harm than they usually face. For context, most sex workers join the industry due to a lack of resources such as money, safe housing and food. The STI epidemic already put Americans in harm’s way, but now its harmful effects have tripled.

Read the official statement below.

PASS is calling a seven-day production hold on adult content after a reported increase in STIs among adult performers and content creators. All producers and performers should abstain from non-solo adult content production until after December 12, 2022.