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Lilly Singh Returns to the Sketch
· New York time
Lilly Singh is returning to YouTube sketch comedy to tell stories freely and build directly for her original audience, according to YouTube’s account of her return. The platform’s own blog presents the move as a renewed connection with the audience associated with her Superwoman channel. It offers a different creator-business direction from a new product line or a larger distribution agreement: returning to a familiar form and relationship. That does not make the creative work automatic, but it gives the work a recognizable meeting place. The audience is not merely an asset waiting to be transported to somewhere with a grander name. Sometimes the next chapter begins by reopening the room where people originally laughed, without first announcing that the room has become a vertically integrated ecosystem.
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