Benny

lakers and sneakers

[Benny @bennylee_]

@ItsaMeCooper Which sites? In the US

[Parks And Cons @ParksAndCons]

To kickoff our #SDCC season, we have our 1st giveaway! Just RT (repost) & be a follower to enter!

This season, we’ll have videos & campus updates coming to @SD_Comic_Con and our weekly live show will return on 6/17!

We will also have online giveaways (like this one), con prize drops & more coming! We’ll announce the winner for this one on our next #ComicCon livestream & right here afterwards!

Also, note that this one contains one of those signed Battle Beasts copies from @NowOrNeverComic 😍 (continued big thanks to them!)

[Benny @bennylee_]

@ComicKing007 Dm me

[Benny @bennylee_]

@ComicKing007 I got a signed deathnote

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him.

For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25.

Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely.

Here's where it gets interesting.

In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past.

Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him.

Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it.

Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube.

He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium.

Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius.

They're both wrong. It was a receipt.

He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine.

The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

[Benny @bennylee_]

@LeagueOfLeaks @BlackSauce__ @AAladaris do we know when the old winter skins are coming back?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@SD_Comic_Con For the panel or for the activation?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@SD_Comic_Con Do we know if Countdown is coming?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@SD_Comic_Con Are we feeling the boys and gen v are coming?

[Benny @bennylee_]

My fav fandom! @getFANDOM #getFANDOM

[Benny @bennylee_]

@ModernNotoriety When and where does it release?

[Benny @bennylee_]

Laker fans right now 😂😂😂

[Benny @bennylee_]

@PokemonRestocks Whats the link?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@PokemonRestocks Is this online only

[Benny @bennylee_]

@PokemonRestocks How many packs an order?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@DarkHorseComics @pattonoswalt @BlumJordan @TheKyleStarks @RyanBrowneArt If we want to attend the barfly friday signing, do we come to the booth early on friday or thurs for wristbands?

[Benny @bennylee_]

@SD_Comic_Con Why so delayed with their pop announcements this year?

[SuperAndrew418 @SuperAndrew418]

Pink is complete! The color wheel is finished!
Thank you everyone for participating and thank you for 20K Followers! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷

[Benny @bennylee_]

@Khallion @kingwolfdaddy @pattonoswalt @TheBearFX Which booth will u be at?

[𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗞𝗼𝘃𝗲 @michael_kove]

Today I learned:

This was a PHOTO.

(and not a computer generated image)