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[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

why is there never an outbreak of something nice

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Disney paid a 13-year-old $15,000 an episode while selling $100 million in merchandise with her face on it. She never saw a dollar of the merch money.

Hilary Duff made $975,000 total for 65 episodes of Lizzie McGuire. The show's dolls, sleeping bags, notebooks, and Kohl's apparel line generated over $100 million in revenue for Disney. Her cut of that: reportedly zero. The movie grossed $55.5 million worldwide. She got $1 million.

Then Disney tried to lock her in. They offered a primetime ABC spinoff at $35,000 per episode and a sequel for $4 million plus 4% of gross. When her mother pushed for better terms, Disney gave them 24 hours to accept and then pulled the entire deal.

Her mom's quote: "Disney thought they'd be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise."

She was 16. Most child stars who walk away from their franchise at 16 don't come back. The list of early-2000s Disney kids who maintained stable careers, stable finances, and stable public lives is brutally short.

Duff did seven seasons of Younger. Wrote novels. Raised three kids. Stayed out of tabloids for a decade. Then in late 2025, she dropped a comeback single. Her "Small Rooms, Big Nerves" warm-up shows sold out instantly, marking her first headline concerts in over a decade.

The Lucky Me Tour starts June 2026. Seven countries. 47 North American cities. Madison Square Garden. Red Rocks. The O2 in London. She added second nights in LA, New York, Toronto, and London because the first dates sold out too fast. Her husband produced the album.

The math that sticks: Disney made $100 million off a teenager and paid her less than $2 million total. Twenty-five years later she's headlining MSG and they're still selling Lizzie McGuire reruns.

That hallway walk on JHud's set is 25 years of receipts arriving at once.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

I've never found a windshield wiper setting that truly satisfied me.

[sarah @heavenbrat]

idk girl sometimes you need to crash out and be a bitch so you dont get an auto immune disease

[d r i a @Dria_Nelson]

https://t.co/OSUkpV3ylY

[les @infusionbieber]

world tour??? take my money hallelujah @justinbieber

[Peaches 🍑 @_KingArii]

I watched Lamar Odom documentary about being on crack just to learn that the nigga still on crack smh lmaoo

[Lowkeyhurt @uhtriad]

Driving to my 9-5 job while drug dealers and 8 year old YouTubers are buying their third property

[Asa @xAsamoahx]

If gas prices keep going up it will be cheaper to snort cocaine and run everywhere.

[ana folklore ❤️‍🔥 @behindthemall13]

actual footage of how I felt leaving the stadium when my eras tour show finished

[` @Evadivalore]

The way the background is playing her old clips from the Hannah Montana era, and knowing this is probably Miley Cyrus’s last song as Hannah… it’s honestly so emotional. It feels like we’re meeting our childhood one last time, just to say goodbye forever. No one talk to me rn

[culture @notgwendalupe]

I actually thought my life was over when this aired

[Hana 🧡💙 @HanaHoops]

Imagine the NFL canceled a teams season every time a player got caught committing domestic violence

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

What a boring planet.... no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no werewolves… just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people.

[☁️ @starxylightt]

remember when life looked like this

[uMARAZOR @zizithebadgal]

& for the lady, perhaps a day off?

[Bailey @bailey4047]

Just a reminder…@taylorswift13 I’m begging you to put this one on the re-record. 13 year old me didn’t put a virus on the family computer downloading it from limewire just to miss out on I’d Lie (Taylor’s Version)

[flame ⸆⸉ ❤️‍🔥 @theflameofanas]

At least it gave us folklore, evermore and eras tour