Tribeca has spent 25 years celebrating storytellers. This year, some of them came with TikTok followings, podcasts, fashion brands and YouTube shows.
On Monday, June 8, Chronicle's "Emerging Icons at Tribeca" celebration brought a creator-heavy crowd into the mix, with Tinx and Delaney Rowe among the buzziest names in the room.
Tinx, born Christina Najjar and known online as "TikTok's Big Sister," gave her followers a peek inside the night on Instagram Stories. In the photo, she posed with Chronicle co-founders Aaron Sisto and Scott Greenberg while wearing a strapless midi dress with lace detailing, black platform heels and loose waves.
Rowe brought the comedy side of the creator boom. The comedian, who landed on the 2025 TIME100 Creators list, arrived in a cream dress with colorful floral embroidery, a silver bag and her hair pulled into a high bun.
The lineup didn't stop there. Interviewer Davis Burleson ("What's Poppin'? With Davis!") and fashion entrepreneur Jessica Wang were there too, along with celebrity chefs Clinton Kelly and Michael Symon, who have reunited in the food podcast space with “Chewed Up.”
For Chronicle, that crowd was basically the point. Founded by Sisto, Greenberg and Ollie Lewis, the company develops audience-intelligence tools for creators, brands and media companies trying to understand how people discover and engage with content online.
Sisto, a Stanford-trained AI researcher, has put it this way: "Audiences now live in completely different places. They live on these social platforms that the studios don't control, and because of that, the studios are no longer the gatekeepers. The platforms and algorithms are."
Chronicle's celebration landed in the middle of a stacked Tribeca week. The festival's 25th anniversary has already brought out Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, who made their red-carpet debut at the premiere of her Lifetimes Tour concert film.
Chanel's annual Tribeca Artists Dinner brought its own star power, with Robert De Niro, Sofia Coppola, Ayo Edebiri, Keke Palmer, Teyana Taylor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus among the crowd.
