Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Edmonton-focused social media outlet YEGWAVE launched in 2020 and has since amassed hundreds of thousands of followers — and ...

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It has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers with videos of car crashes, crime scenes and local weirdness. “YEGWAVE is run from Russia,” declared a Reddit post late last year. “An account that ...

The episode might seem a minor social media spat were it not for YEGWAVE’s outsized role in Edmonton’s social media ecosystem. The page has 515,000 followers on Instagram and 94,000 on X. When it ...