All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:
Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18
Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28
Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18
Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489
We are witnessing history.
Many men carry burdens they never speak about. They keep showing up, providing, and supporting others, yet too often, they suffer in silence. Sometimes, all someone needs is to know that they are not alone.
So for International Men's Mental Health Day, @teslimcodes and I built something simple, personal, and human.
Bro, You Matter.
A platform where men can anonymously share encouragement, receive support, and read messages from other men who have been through difficult seasons. No generic AI quotes. Just words from men who understand.
And because protecting mental health matters just as much as promoting it, we intentionally designed the platform to reject harmful, abusive, or negative messages. This space is built for hope, support, and encouragement, not toxicity.
If one message can help one man keep going, then it's worth it. You can start encouraging and be encouraged with the link below.
And if this interests you, we would truly appreciate your repost so that it can reach more men who may need to hear that they are not alone.
Happy International Men's Mental Health Day. ❤️
Bro, you matter.
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Spotify has released personalised user data for the app’s 20th anniversary. Users can now view:
• Which day they joined Spotify
• Their total amount of songs streamed
• The first song they streamed
• Their most-streamed artist
• A playlist of their most-streamed songs
Sony hired over 1,000 animators to make the second Spider-Verse movie. More than 100 of them quit during production, burned out by schedules that ran seven days a week. The film made $328 million in profit. More than Oppenheimer.
Sony bought the rights to make Spider-Man movies in 1999 for $7 million. Every Spider-Man film since has made over $11 billion at the box office combined.
The animated Spider-Verse films are the most profitable of all of them, dollar for dollar. First film: $90 million to make, $384 million back. The sequel cost $100 million and brought in $690 million, and Deadline calculated its profit at $328 million. Christopher Nolan's three-hour atomic bomb film made $201 million by the same math, $127 million less.
There's a simple reason why: Sony keeps all the money from the animated films. When Tom Holland makes a live-action Spider-Man, Disney puts up 25% of the budget and takes 25% of what it earns. The animated films have no such deal.
A 2023 Vulture report found animators pulled 11-hour shifts for close to a year on Across the Spider-Verse. Phil Lord, one of the producers, reportedly insisted on personally approving every shot, overruling the film's three directors and sending scenes back for up to five rounds of changes.
Beyond the Spider-Verse was supposed to come out in March 2024 and is now arriving June 18, 2027. The release date changed four separate times. At a movie industry event last year, the directors said they refused to "run it back" and needed the time. An animator told Vulture back in 2023 that the third film hadn't even started while the second was still being finished.
When this movie opens, the trilogy will have taken eight and a half years. The first film came out in December 2018. The original Star Wars trilogy took six. Sony scheduled Brand New Day (Holland's live-action Spider-Man) for July 2026 and pushed the animated film to 2027 so the two wouldn't steal each other's audience. They've also approved a Spider-Women spin-off and a Spider-Punk film that Daniel Kaluuya is co-writing.
Two animated films cost $190 million to make and earned $1.08 billion back. Sony gave this team four years because every number on the spreadsheet said to.
I knew a guy exactly like this in my 200L 2nd Semester. He lived in the self-con adjacent my compound off campus, and from Monday to Sunday, it was an endless conveyor belt of absolute top-tier women walking into his room. Sometimes they came at 7 AM and sometimes they came in the evening. Our entire street reached the conclusion that this boy was either using juju or doing male hook-up because no amount of money will make you bring those kind of women everyday without going poor!
We held a boys’ meeting under the mango tree in front of my compound. Serious analysis, diagrams were drawn, theories were proposed. Because the sheer volume of top-tier women entering and leaving that small room was simply defying the laws of engineering, physics, biology, and every known principle of “how boys in 300 Level are supposed to move.”
The matter got infinitely worse the day I saw my own area crush stepping into his house. I violently needed to know what was going on. One day, my roommate and I finally walked up to his door, using the classic Nigerian excuse of asking if his phase had NEPA light so we could see things in 8k.
When he opened the door halfway. We braced ourselves for impact. But, we were instantly hit by a thick cloud of Got2b glue, smell of burnt edge control and hot pressing iron.
This our supposed BABA for the GIRLS was standing there in a salon apron, holding a hot comb, and violently melting a 36-inch bone-straight frontal into my crush's scalp.
Baba was just a wig installer💀