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[☻ @de4navery]

10/10 would marry the baddest @bretmanrock

[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.

[cameron @cambeserious]

their voices just blend so well together

[Mister No 𑣿 @OkMisterNo]

Me shopping for Ariana tickets in New York after finally getting passed the queue #estour #arianagrande

[BINI_PH @BINI_ph]

MikaxMikhcey?! Big winner pati sa Shagidi si @mikslmnc with @bini_mikha and @bini_stacey! 🤩💃

#BINI #BINI_Shagidi #PBBCollab

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

YOU'VE COME SO FAR, TIKTOK! 🥹💗

Remember the helpless dog named Tiktok, which was shot five times using improvised dart arrows in Murcia, Negros Occidental?

This is her now, glowing with love and a renewed life after being rescued by Bach Project PH on February 24, 2025. (Photos/Bach Project PH)

[arianators wildin @arianatorswildt]

need her at the super bowl next year

[ALTStarMagic 💫 @AltStarMagic]

TANGINA MO AC HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[AARON @lidolmix]

this heartbreaking scene💔

[AARON @lidolmix]

little mix as the flying monkeys is killing me

[Mathilda @Mathilda_052001]

Pinupulitika daw ang budget proposal nya eh, pamumulitika nga yung pag publish nya ng libro na tungkol sa kanya eh! 🙄

[‎ً @stakupop]

KATSEYE WITH BINI DOING THE "TOUCH" DANCE CHALLENGE

[MJ Lastimosa @MJ_Lastimosa]

The wit and charm! #Cainta

[☻ @de4navery]

@heyjoshd Happy birthday, Josh! Love youuu

[Dovie Selena @DovieSelena]

Maaasar ka talaga lalo pag hitsura na ang pinag-uusapan bwhawhawhawhawhawhawhawhaw

[☻ @de4navery]

Something good about this song

[ry ᗢ☀️ @arishexiscoming]

say something good about this song: https://t.co/nSyA0BZ1EL

[☻ @de4navery]

@iampaolodomingo Haha

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

When he finally linked up with that IG baddie. 😂