Joshua 🩶

[Dr. Foxtrot, Afro-Namekian @ArUMadScum]

Imagine meeting Jesus when you were 16 and now 7 years later he calls you on your work phone mid-shift talking about some "Pull up to my house, bring some cheetos"

[ReplyGuy @ImTheReplyGuy]

Every horror game is scary until you have a shotgun

[Epic Clip Vault @EpicClipVault]

Homeless man shocked to find out Social Services got 97k to care for him and he only saw about fifty dollars worth.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pepsi paid $2 billion for the rights to market the Star Wars prequels. They went all-in on this first film. The toys ended up making more money than the tickets. All of it was built on a poster with no actors, no plot, and not even the movie's full name.

On November 10, 1998, an ad agency called New Wave Creative, working with two Lucasfilm employees, Ellen Lee and Jim Ward, put this image into theaters. It just said "Star Wars Episode I" at the bottom. No subtitle. A kid walking in the desert casting Darth Vader's shadow. Star Wars hadn't released a new film since Return of the Jedi in 1983. This one image had to sell the comeback.

Pepsi's deal covered everything. Pepsi cans, Frito-Lay chips, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC. They printed 8 billion cans featuring Star Wars characters. Guinness World Records listed it as the largest brand partnership deal in history. Lucasfilm's own ad budget was just $20 million.

When the teaser trailer dropped a few days later, it only played in a handful of U.S. theaters. Fans bought full-price tickets to a 3-hour Brad Pitt movie called Meet Joe Black, watched the 2-minute Star Wars trailer, and walked out before the film started. Some theaters started replaying the trailer after Meet Joe Black ended so people would actually stay in their seats. That trailer got 35 million downloads online, which in 1998 meant waiting an hour on a screeching dial-up modem to watch a pixelated rectangle on your monitor.

The Phantom Menace opened May 19, 1999. A workplace consulting firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, estimated that 2.2 million Americans skipped work that day, costing employers about $293 million in lost productivity. In one day. The movie made over $1 billion at the box office. The merchandise made roughly $2 billion, nearly double the ticket sales. Lego's Star Wars toy line blew past its own sales forecast.

I looked up what happened to the people behind this poster. Ellen Lee went to Pixar. Jim Ward became president of LucasArts (Lucasfilm's video game company), ran for Congress in Arizona, and then became CEO of the Phoenix Symphony. New Wave Creative went on to design the posters for Borat and Shaun of the Dead. And Drew Struzan, who painted the theatrical Star Wars posters (the colorful painted ones you probably picture when you think "Star Wars poster," not this minimalist teaser), died last October at 78 from Alzheimer's.

The Star Wars franchise has generated an estimated $46.7 billion in total revenue. Pepsi bet $2 billion on a franchise that announced its comeback with nothing but a boy and a shadow on a wall.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Btw this is why

[Bug!! 🪴🌿🌹 || c0mms closed @END3RBOY_]

got the most insane youtube feed lineup

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

WHY AM I WORKING 40 HOURS A WEEK IF I STILL CANT AFFORD MY RENT. WHAT IS THE POINT ANYMORE

[tippity ➡️ @AnimeNYC @tippity]

the pedophile elite backed AI trillion dollar Ponzi scheme has made it impossible for me to buy storage/RAM and by proxy any consumer tech because theyre using all of its current and future supply to (maybe) make unlimited superprofits from an idea that doesnt even exist yet

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

-Life of a millenial
-Recession at the age of graduation
-Pandemic at the age of independence
-AI layoffs at the age of career growth
-Housing crisis at the age of home ownership

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

How it feels to be unemployed looking for a job knowing that if it lasts too much longer you won’t ever be able to get a job because of the time gap on your resume…

[Funhouse @BackAftaThis]

The scene that Robert Duvall always said he was most proud of. He was thrilled that he delivered this line perfectly.

"They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead."

[Joshua 🩶 @PrinceNomad29]

@monimilkers Jeskaiiii

[sea @neverlie]

Kai Cenat was surprised when a motivational speech turned into a diss on him taking viewers from smaller streamers 😭😭

[autist @litteralyme0]

How I expect a single glass of water to perform against the 20 beers I had earlier

[Certified Boogeyman @blackiiingout]

Shit didn’t even end Rick Ross and A$AP Rocky 😭

Just hot air

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

[Joshua 🩶 @PrinceNomad29]

@Kaikilai Just weigh your bags out first 💀

[Joshua 🩶 @PrinceNomad29]

@Kaikilai He better not be British 🙄

[Joshua 🩶 @PrinceNomad29]

@Kaikilai Use your words and ask him Kai 💀

[Joshua 🩶 @PrinceNomad29]

@Kaikilai Just cuz you’re cute don’t mean you didn’t deserve it whatever it was 😭