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nba 2k has lost their minds bring back live

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@SaycheeseDGTL Deff catching a charge ... mans is a menace.. bet 5 more come forward, minimal

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@DWallDestroyer @CallowayScott NO SUCH THING AS ACCURATE IN A MADE UP STORY

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@TheBHentel His English is still prettty poor.. u think this is why it came out like that.. and he's not the smartest lol

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@KeyboardMonkey3 sounds like a low IQ take

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@BeholdPaleH0rse The fact that there are SO many people out there that will eat this nonsense up .....

absolutely baffles me

[Achilleas @achilleas_ghost]

High cortisol steals 5 years from your life.

It tanks testosterone, stores dangerous visceral belly fat, and literally shrinks your brain.

Here are 10 cheat codes to lower cortisol according to science:🧵

1. Stop working out after 7PM

[Rohan Das @rohaninvestor]

If you are serious about options trading, this 1-hour Yale lecture is non-negotiable.

60 minutes lecture can teach you more about options trading than 99% of options trading courses.

Save this and watch it without distractions. 📌

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

You can watch this full conversation here: https://t.co/2X0qAL1CHO

[Adam Koffler @AdamKoffler]

Here’s Dave Ramsey’s advice on buying a house in the year 2026:

- Have 20% for a down payment to avoid private mortgage insurance (PMI)
- Do a 15-year fixed rate loan
- Make sure your monthly payment isn’t more than 1/4th of your take home pay

Let’s put that math to the test 👇🏼

[Noisy @noisyb0y1]

A regular American student bought an iPad and Mac Mini for $2,200. Connected them to his MacBook.

Three computers on one desk - dorm roommates thought he was mining crypto.

He just set up the automation and went to sleep.

In the morning the system had already processed hundreds of leads, written personalized emails to each one and filled the CRM without a single touch.

The team that did this before him- cost $7,000 a month

He paid $2,200 once.

There are 360 million companies in the world. 310 of them still pay people for what a machine does better.

And only 100,000 people on the planet know how to set this up.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

GTA 6 is about to create more millionaires than crypto has ever done

If you're locked in on release, you could change your life in just a few weeks

STEP 1 — Pick your lane now. Content creator. Modder. Server builder. AI tool builder. You cannot do all of them. The people who pick one and go deep for 6 months will own launch week.

STEP 2 — Start posting GTA 6 content today. Trailer breakdowns. Map leaks. Economy speculation. You do not need the game to build the audience. The audience is what monetizes at launch.

STEP 3 — Study what happened to GTA 5 creators in 2013. The YouTubers who posted in the first 90 days built audiences still monetizing today. The modders who built tools for GTA Online became full time developers. The window at launch was everything.

STEP 4 — Position on the custom server economy. GTA 5 FiveM roleplay servers ran 10K concurrent players on monthly subscriptions. GTA 6 will be bigger. Developers who are ready on day one will charge whatever they want.

STEP 5 — Use Claude to move like a team. Content at launch is a volume game. Whoever posts the most clips, guides, and breakdowns in the first 30 days wins the algorithm. AI lets one person do what used to take five.

STEP 6 — Build the tools the community will need. Stat trackers. Economy calculators. Mission guides. Companion apps. GTA 5 spawned entire businesses around these. GTA 6 will need all of it again. Build it before launch. Launch it at launch.

STEP 7 — Sell shovels not gold. The streamers make money. The people who build tools for the streamers make more. Courses. Server setups. Mod packages. Custom AI builds. The ecosystem is the opportunity.

The biggest media event of 2025 is coming.

You want to be in position before the wave hits.

Not scrambling when it does.

Bookmark this.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

MrBeast: "If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers in six months"

"Your videos suck. You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make good, great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you'll get views."

MrBeast shares his early reality:

"When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren't, they were terrible. To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you think your content's great. But also, if you have sub-1,000 subscribers, there's a good probability your videos just suck. They just do."

He explains what to do about it:

"You need to make hundreds of videos. Improve something every time. And just get to the point where they don't suck. When you make good content, you'll blow up. It's not the algorithm. It's not anything. Most people who are in my position just made terrible videos, and that's okay. Because you've got to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great."

MrBeast uses an analogy:

"You don't just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many, many years. YouTube's kind of the same way."

On analysis paralysis:

"A lot of people get analysis paralysis. They'll sit there and plan their first video for three months. If you have zero videos on your channel, your first video is not gonna get views. Period. Your first 10 are not gonna get views. I can very confidently say that. So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end. Just get to work and start uploading."

He gives the formula:

"All you need to do is make 100 videos and improve something every time. Do that, and then on your 101st video, we'll start talking. Maybe you can get some views. But your first 100 are gonna suck."

How to improve something each time:

"The second video: put more effort into the script. The third one: learn a new editing trick. The fourth one: figure out a way to have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one: study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. The sixth one: figure out a new title. There's infinite ways. The coloring, the frame rate, the editing, the filming, the production, the jokes, the pacing, every little thing can be improved. There's literally no such thing as a perfect video."

On the algorithm:

"What YouTube wants is for people to click on a video and watch it. That's what it is at its core. By studying the algorithm, you'll learn that you're more studying human psychology. What do humans want to watch?"

MrBeast shares a simple reframe:

"Anytime you say the word 'algorithm,' just replace it with 'audience' and it works perfectly. 'The algorithm didn't like that video?' No, the audience didn't like that video. Literally, that's it. If people are clicking and watching, it gets promoted more. The algorithm just reflects what the people want."

On titles:

"Short, simple, and just so freaking interesting that you have to click. If someone reads it, are they like, do they have to watch it? Is it just so intrinsically interesting that it's gonna haunt them if they don't click?"

He adds nuance:

"Keep it below 50 characters. Above 50 characters, on certain devices it goes dot, dot, dot, and that's the worst thing because then people don't even know what they're clicking on."

MrBeast shares the extremity principle:

"The more extreme the opinion, typically the higher the click-through rate. 'Fiji water sucks', that'd do fine. But 'Fiji water is the worst water I've ever drank in my life', way more extreme, would do way better. But then you have to deliver. The more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video."

On the first 5 seconds:

"Before you film a video, what is the thumbnail? What is the title? Then what's the first 5 seconds? Then what's the first 30 seconds?"

He explains why autoplay changed everything:

"On YouTube now, videos automatically play. So many people don't even see the thumbnail because it autoplays so quickly. The thumbnail is irrelevant for them. I have to visually convince you to click on the video in the first 5 seconds. Before, the hook was important because you had to convince people to watch. Now you have to convince people to click and watch at the same time, with the first 5 seconds."

On matching expectations:

"Your title and thumbnail set expectations. At the very beginning of the video, to minimize drop-off, you want to assure them that those expectations are being met. If you click on a video called 'Tether is a scam' and at the very beginning, he starts talking about literally anything else, you're like, 'Oh, this is BS. This isn't what I clicked on.' But if at the very start you go, 'Tether is a scam and I'm gonna teach you why,' then it's like, okay, you match the expectations. Then you want to exceed them."

He emphasizes the importance:

"The thing people undervalue the most is literally the first 10 seconds of the video. That 15% difference in viewership between losing 35% of viewers in the first 30 seconds versus losing 20%, that really does make the difference between 2 million views and 10 million views. You just had a more strategic intro that hooked them."

On removing dull moments:

"You basically want to remove every dull moment. Find the 10 most critical people you know, make them watch the video, and just roast it. If I talk to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut, a lot of people will get bored. Having a B-cam and C-cam three seconds in, cutting to a different angle, now it's more interesting even though it's essentially the same thing."

On keeping viewers watching:

"Give them why they clicked. Tell them why they should watch. Then just stick on topic. That right there isn't even super complex, but I would already put you in the upper echelon of YouTube. A lot of people drag it out. It's like, 'I'm going to eat $100 ice cream, but first...' and then it's them birthday shopping for their mom. That's not why I came here."

On quality over quantity:

"It's much easier to get 5 million views on one video than 50,000 views on 100 videos. A lot of small YouTubers just post videos that aren't bad but aren't great, and none of them ever pop off, so they never get an audience. It might be better to upload half or a third or even a fifth of the videos, but make the videos you upload so freaking good that the algorithm has to promote it."

He warns against the consistency trap:

"When you set a consistent schedule and you're constantly having to upload videos that aren't as good as you'd like because you gotta hit 'Oh, this Monday I said I'd upload', that's a dangerous trap. The viewers notice the quality isn't as good and it makes them less likely to watch. I think it hurts your longevity."

On the real metric that matters:

"A big thing that everyone underestimates, what was your experience with your last video? If people loved the last video of yours that they watched, they're more likely to watch your next one. When people watch your video, you don't want them to go, 'Okay, that was good, but that's enough of you for the day.' What you want is them to go, 'Holy crap, that was crazy! Oh my god, what's that?' and they watch 10 videos. That's how you get high view counts. People watch 10 videos, not one."

On thumbnails:

"You want it to be simple. When they're scrolling, you want them to instantly understand what you're conveying and feel some type of emotion. Make it so interesting, or spike their curiosity so much, that if they don't click it, they'll wonder before they go to bed what happened?"

He gives an example:

"If you uploaded 'I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people on it', and people are falling off the side, it's about to go off a big ramp if you don't click that, you're gonna be so curious. Later in the day, when you're daydreaming, you'll think, 'What happened to those 1,000 people on that skateboard?' That's the mindset you should have when making thumbnails."

On knowledge being the only barrier:

"It's all knowledge. It really is. I could start a new channel tomorrow without using my face or my voice, without ever promoting it, and in six months have 20 million subscribers. I just could. It's purely knowledge. If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within six months."

He addresses the skeptics:

"90% of the people watching don't agree with that. Everyone has excuses. 'Nah, YouTube just doesn't work like that, Jimmy.' But I mentor a lot of people. I see it all the time. It is possible. It is simply knowledge. The second you accept that it is knowledge and you start your journey of learning figuring out what makes a good video, what does my audience want, how can I elevate and then you take that knowledge and just assume 'I will never understand what the perfect video is' and every single day be devoted to learning and improving as much as possible there you go."

On money not being the barrier:

"There are tons of viral ideas that don't require money. It does not require money to go viral. One of my most-viewed videos was spending 24 hours in a desert, we just grabbed a tent and some stuff and went to the desert. It got 60-70 million views. People say, 'I could be MrBeast if I had money.' A, I didn't start off with money; I was poor, I had no money. It took me seven years just to buy a camera saving up from YouTube. And B, some of our most-viewed videos literally anyone can do."

On why no one will outwork him:

"No one's ever gonna do what I do better than me. It's just not humanly possible. I reinvest every penny I make. I work every hour I'm awake. I devote every atom in my brain to solving this. I hire the best people on the planet. I've been doing this for 14 years. And I think in decades, not years. I'm gonna be doing this for another 20-30 years. If I thought someone was doing better than me, I'd just start sleeping less so I could work even more."

But he doesn't recommend it:

"I don't have a life. I don't have work-life balance. My personality, my soul, my being is making the best videos possible. That is why I exist on this planet. And I don't recommend it. You should have work-life balance. You should not devote your entire life to this one thing. I have a mental breakdown every other week because I push myself so hard. I don't recommend it."

The only question that matters:

"Subscribers don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do. But everything you want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible and thumbnails. The video part's the hard part. Ask: 'How can I make my videos better?' Do that every single day for years. And then you'll probably get views."

[Patrick's AIBuzzNews @AIBuzzNews]

I deleted my entire digital footprint.

You can too.

Here's how I did it:

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

If you use a phone, a laptop, or anything that uses software at all, watch this.

[Bryce Hall @BryceHall]

To the people who don’t hate me, here is your chance to make it in life

Literally go create content and distribute it at scale

Money is literally waiting for you ( don’t be fat n poor )

[Dumb Money @DumbMoneyTV]

You Can Build a $500K Business Doing This

[Joseph Tsar @joseph_tsar_]

Full Course On How To Speak Brilliantly

[Sarvesh Shrivastava @bloggersarvesh]

call me crazy but..I genuinely believe I could take ANY local service business and get them to $100k/month using Claude Cowork for SEO.

here's exactly how I'd do it in 90 days (STEAL the exact playbook):

[The Iced Coffee Hour @TheICHpodcast]

Grant Cardone reveals how to make $32,000/month with social media management👀

"I'll handle your LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, short and long content... I'll handle all of it"

$32,000 x 12 months = $384,000 per year

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched.

One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words.

Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.”

You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing.

Now you open it to watch strangers.

You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you.

It tested your friends against optimized strangers.

Your friends lost. Every time.

A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you.

So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met.

And you watched the cooking video.

That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed.

The second one is already underway.

If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself.

The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out.

Every word calibrated.

Every frame tuned.

Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving.

A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press.

The economics are not even close.

A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation.

The machine needs electricity.

When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist.

Voices that feel familiar.

Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust.

Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years.

You will not know when the switch happens.

That is the point.

The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay.

And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could.

This is not a warning. Half of it already happened.

You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice.

You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends.

Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see.

Not because they stopped sharing it.

Because you stopped being where it was.