On dating apps you have to be a top 10% man to have the match rate of the bottom 25% of woman.
You have to be a top 1% man to experience the app as an average woman.
But remember; for pretty much all of human history, a woman choosing the wrong man could be fatal.
@LotusFlameSword If you’re attractive and you dress differently, people think you have a unique sense of style.
If you’re ugly and you dress differently, people think you look even more strange than they would have otherwise.
Star power is not what it used to be. Plot/concept has always been the only thing that truly matters.
For James Bond, nobody talks about unknown actors. But really, does it matter that Bond is played by an unknown? Bond himself is famous enough.
a horror movie made for $750,000 is about to become one of the most profitable films ever made.
Obsession - shot in 20 days in Alabama by a 26-year-old YouTuber with no stars in the cast - is now eyeing a $250 million+ box office finish. that's a return north of 300 times its budget. it's already the highest-grossing release in Focus Features history.
now look at what the industry spent that same money on:
- Joker: Folie a Deux - ~$200 million budget. a punchline.
- Mickey 17 - ~$118 million. forgotten in a month.
- The Mandalorian & Grogu - $165 million, 7 years, the entire Lucasfilm machine. it's currently losing the weekday box office to... Obsession.
Hollywood keeps insisting you need $200 million, a pre-sold IP, and a marketing budget the size of a small country to make a hit. then a guy with a camera, a wish-granting toy, and three weeks in Alabama outearned all of them on a rounding error of their catering bill.
the most profitable movie of the year cost less than a single second of screen time in the average blockbuster. turns out audiences never wanted the budget. they wanted a good movie.
To create something beautiful, you need to stare at its ugliness for a while. The more ugliness you can bare to look at, the more beautiful the end result will be.
Ladies - you wouldn’t say “as you should” to your mum for feeding you when growing up. So why are you saying it when your man makes an effort?
Just because there’s requirements within a relationship, that doesn’t mean you can replace a grateful attitude with an entitled one.
Do you ever get it where sometimes you like an influencer and then as time goes on you realise they have beef with everyone, no loyalty, can’t keep friends. And then you think why the fuck am I even listening to this person, they’re probably an asshole.
Not being original kinda repulses me. I’ll uncover some wisdom but then hear someone else arrive at the same conclusion and then I’ll realise I’m not ready to be a great teacher yet. Only truly unique and difficult life experience can lead to 1 of 1 insights.
It’s only funny to make fun of something seriously wrong with someone if their own continuous stupidity led them there.
People inherently know this. In general, people in a comments section will clown an obese person but then be super positive and respectful to a burn victim.
People misunderstand “accept yourself” and think it means it’s okay to be fat or something.
What it really means is: accept you’re not morally perfect. Yes, there’s bad in you - but for most people it’s a tiny part of an otherwise good person. Don’t hate yourself for that.
The sooner we can all get over this “ooo sorry I exist” mindset, the sooner we can get the fuck on with life. I’ve been there, I get it. But at some point it really does boil down to making a conscious effort to man up.