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The livestream must go on

OR 365 DAYS AND COUNTING, SOPHIE Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern, better known as the Grammy-nominated electronic act Sofi Tukker, stuck to a routine. At 1 p.m., they suit up—sometimes in sweatpants, sometimes in tropical-print shirts and funky robes—and descend to the living room of their Miami home; flick on the cameras for their livestreams to Instagram, Facebook and Twitch; and begin playing a DJ set. The livestream sessions average thousands of viewers. There’s an always-on Zoom room where their fans, who call themselves the Freak Fam, congregate. Viewers have met up, started dating, worked through health crises together, gotten married. Carly Reeves, a 20-year-old college student in Florida, made new best friends in the Zoom room: in

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