Bea Bewitched

💜 BTS

[Bea Bewitched @BTSbewitched]

Shane rides Ilya so hard he breaks his neck.
https://t.co/L9GWFgKyKi

[Bea Bewitched @BTSbewitched]

ilya rozanov coming out on twitter:
81 = BI 💖💜💙

[frog 🏒 @skipbint]

using gay porn on ao3 as my light to the bathroom at 3am

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[Bea Bewitched @BTSbewitched]

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[Sana ⁷ | 🪭 @boysswithluv_]

say hi to BTS or have terrible year end.

[Liz⁷ 🪭 @arirangliz]

If there’s anything valuable I can pass on from my 30s, it’s this: the counter to loneliness isn’t romance. It’s community.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

REPOST if you’re PROUD of Greta Thunberg for what she does for Palestine✊🏻

[nissa⁷ @mninissaa]

jin has never hesitated once when it came to us. not a single time. he’s always loved us so openly 🥺

[🎀 @daintysjimin]

a legend once said: “jimin is basically medusa but instead of turning you to stone, he makes you gay”

[lala⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ @fkubluehouse]

oh it is the 3/4 elite of south korea

[Insie @mooncatxie]

one is shocked that he got impregnated, the other is shocked that he impregnated someone 😭😭

[zoo @yoonhoneyboy]

Just finished reading this insanely well written and heartbreaking book and you’d never believe who’s mentioned in the acknowledgements

[Alma🎀AU - Cinta Sang Arjuna Book Coming Soon! @AlmatiarAU]

At least let's make it more educational 😌

That cephalic vein tho 🧎‍♀️

[coldties @__coldties]

this 'can we start all over?' parallel 😭

#ShineFinalEP

[࣪ @mahoneythv]

this taehyung with ponytail.

[jimin’s eye smile @pjunngkook]

im serious dont talk to me unless you get it.. theres a vision here bts listen to me

[bri @fqiralys]

older gen z are progressive, younger gen z arent. simple

[douglass fern🌲🏕️ @douglass_fern]

husband woke me up, slipped my phone into my hand and whispered "i think jungkook is live."

[Absent Ma'am @sleepinginsilk]

this never gets old