@jacksonhinkle Native spanish speaker here - he says nothing of the sort in this clip. Germany doesn’t even get mentioned. I suggest people unfollow @jacksonhinkle and report this post for misinformation
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.
sorry as someone that doesn’t watch these streamers, from all the clips i’ve seen (and the bit of speeds stream i did watch), there’s no way screaming like a teenage boy for 30 days was better than travelling and showing the entirety of america and the culture of each city/state.
Khabib says beating Conor McGregor was like a vacation for him 😭
“I was waiting this moment so long. I cannot only fight, I can talk too. I used this moment to enjoy.
Like the way how you go to Maldives and enjoy, same thing. It was my vacation.”
(via YT / s khalil)
🚨🇮🇱 🇺🇸 BREAKING: Charlie Kirk 48 hours before his death:
"Jewish donors play into all the sterotypes. I cannot and will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the Pro Israel cause"
@HarrisonHSmith They would.
If Charlie turned heel on Israel, they would have someone shoot him at an open-air event and they have some idiot groyper with a genetically anomalous issue there to be the patsy/fall-guy.
Part of why you never make the deal with the Devil in the first place.
JD Vance confirmed that Charlie Kirk called him in fear the U.S. was being steered into a never-ending war with Iran.
Tucker Carlson went further, claiming Kirk was under crushing pressure from his Israeli donors.
Vance concluded that Charlie Kirk kept his integrity until the very end.
According to multiple reports, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offered Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA $150 million in cash to adopt an even more ardently pro-Israel stance.
Kirk refused the money.
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The great and powerful @elonmusk.
If it wasn't for him we'd be fucked. He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you'll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.
For the record, yes, that's an endorsement of Trump.
Enjoy the podcast
BREAKING: Kentucky voting machines are REFUSING to let voters select Donald Trump’s name, automatically selecting Kamala Harris instead. https://t.co/iAayuxKEnG
JUST IN: Early voter line in Quakertown, Pennsylvania cut at pm, police officer tells voter the process is "slow and grueling" so they are refusing to let people vote.
Voter: We have the right to vote until . Why is it closed?
Officer: Let me explain it to you. This process is very slow and grueling.
Voter: That doesn't matter if we're in line by , we have the right to vote.
Officer: We had to close because of a high volume of people... they had to cut the line at .
Video: @kellyannelu