AJ Masters

I have a 299 Wii bowling score & a Tesla model Y

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@SawyerMerritt Hopefully they increase the range a bit too! That would be really nice.

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@KodyKennedyKK I keep walking tbh, kind of shows you how they care for their cards too.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸A YouTuber exposed that Flock Safety, the company with over 90,000 surveillance cameras across the US. is badly compromised.

He discovered many of their cameras are live-streaming directly to the open internet with almost no security...

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

YouTube just crossed $60B in revenue for 2025. $40B from ads. $20B from subscriptions. Both numbers are growing double digits.

The math here tells you everything about how Google actually views its users.

2.7 billion people use YouTube every month. 125 million pay for Premium. That’s 4.6% of the user base generating a third of total revenue. Google’s own executives said on their Q4 earnings call that a Premium subscriber generates “meaningfully higher gross profit” than an ad-supported user.

So YouTube’s real optimization function is straightforward: make the ad experience painful enough that the 4.6% who can afford $14/month convert to Premium, while keeping it tolerable enough that the other 95.4% still watch long enough for advertisers to extract value.

This is a toll booth that charges both directions. Advertisers pay to get in front of you. You pay to make them go away. And YouTube takes a cut of both transactions on the same piece of content, from the same viewer session, off the same infrastructure.

The subscription business alone is now generating ~$20B annually across Premium, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV. That’s bigger than Spotify’s entire revenue. And it grew 25% year over year, adding roughly 2 million new paying subscribers per month through 2024.

The advertisers aren’t getting scammed either. YouTube controls 12.4% of total TV viewing time in the US. Shorts pulls 70 billion daily views. The ad side grew 9% to $40B. Both sides of the market are expanding because YouTube is the only platform where the product being sold to advertisers (your attention) is the same product being sold back to you (your attention, uninterrupted).

That’s a $60B business built on one insight: attention is the only asset you can sell twice.

[𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖎𝖊𝖇𝖔𝖎 @surgieboi]

Today I learned:

1️⃣ In 1985, Ken Goldin was found guilty of committing wire fraud after he was caught "using credit card numbers he had fraudulently obtained by rummaging through garbage".

2️⃣ 90s-2013: Ken Goldin scammed Kobe Bryant. And in 2013, lost a settlement to the Bryant Estate.

To-date, Ken Goldin's forged athletes signatures (ex. Kobe Bryant), illegally obtained and used stolen bank and personal information from "dumpster diving", and now: Logan's Pikachu.

The reason Ken Goldin "sounded off" is because Ken Goldin is a known scam-artist. He's been found guilty of it in the past. Moreover, his lost Kobe Bryant case still riddles the hobby to this day (ie. fake Kobe autographs).

This is the real Ken Goldin. @netflix can we get an updated special? Thank you!

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@CardPurchaser @Hobby_News_Plus @HobbyChamps @HobbyLaw @paullydoughnuts @jaybelleshhb @droolerapp @BabzOnTheMic @PatRyanUC

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@I_AM_WILDCAT It'll never go that low. Get some ball knowledge dog

[Mike @michaelhitack]

. @ChipotleTweets I ordered these burritos 15 minutes apart from the same store today. The one on the left I ordered in person and it’s twice the size as the one on the right (online order). My online order is always significantly smaller. Every time. Stop ripping us off.

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@grifftrade @DaNikePlugs @coinbase @brian_armstrong Yeah it's the first 10k per month

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

its been 3 months i’m sick to my stomach💔💔

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@MikeysRetro What would be the email address we would have to keep an eye out for? I want to make sure it doesn't go to my spam

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Wonder if we can buy just the driver's/passenger seat and install them in an older model 🤔

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@LeonhartYT I think the most important thing to work on next is ensuring the data that the price is reflexing is the most up today and pulled from multiple sources.

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@StockSavvyShay When I worked there and did this same thing, sometimes the little shelves would be so packed full of different products you would almost have to break the strap to get something out. I don't see the robot being about to do that... Yet

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@mnewm7 That felt personal... Some of us enjoy 3 real solid ones

[Positive Side of 𝕏 @positivesideofx]

I didn’t know John Cena was this wise. That was a beautiful speech about purpose ❤️

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@JakeSucky Yeah because he got a bag from YT 3 years ago lol and doesn't care/need money like that anymore.

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@SawyerMerritt Get $1000 off your order ⚡ https://t.co/Hgq2Wtn42F

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@niccruzpatane I need these seats in my Model Y

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@niccruzpatane @Tesla San Francisco California to Columbus Ohio. 2,400 miles with my two dogs 🐶

[AJ Masters @aj_masters]

@BLKMDL3 @CA_DMV I just bought mine this morning too. I get they need to get their tax money but $750 is insane for one year.