Dillon Persaud

#NYR | Chef Life | BBQ connoisseur 🐖

[Dillon Persaud @dpersaud1195]

BROOKLYN ☁️🗽 @diplo

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

New York is INSANE today

Knicks are shutting down the city 🤯

[WeBleedBlue @WeBleedBlueNYC]

One day…

[MMA On Point @mmaonpoint]

STILL CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS ‼️

[ESPN @espn]

The ultimate Cane 💪🔥

Two decades later, Rod Brind’Amour is bringing the Stanley Cup to Raleighwood ONCE AGAIN! 🏆

[Pretty Cities @PrettyCitiesX]

Congratulations to every New Yorker for winning NBA

[Timeless Sports @timelesssports_]

2016 NCAA Champions.

2026 NBA Champions.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Listen to the moment New York City became on top of the world

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

EVERYONE IN NYC IS SINGING EMPIRE STATE OF MIND

[Dillon Persaud @dpersaud1195]

NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW FUCKING CITY! 🗽 🏀

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

START SPREADING THE NEWS‼️

NEW YORK IS BACK ON TOP 🏆

[ESPN @espn]

VEGAS. CAROLINA. 🍿

Who you got taking Lord Stanley home? 👀

[Dillon Persaud @dpersaud1195]

@NYRLouie What about the weirdos that said she was pretty 😵‍💫

[NHL @NHL]

JOSH ALLEN HAS THE CROWD BUZZING IN BUFFALO!!! 📣 #StanleyCup

🇺🇸: @espn
🇨🇦: @Sportsnet & @TVASports 2

[Beat the Spread @WeBeatTheSpread]

The NHL vs. NBA playoffs debate really isn’t even close anymore.

There’s no discussion left to be had

[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.

[New York Rangers @NYRangers]

SHESTY 😤

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

46 years ago today, Mike Eruzione scored the game-winning goal against the Soviet Union in the 'Miracle on Ice' game to lead the USA to the gold medal game, where they would ultimately win it all.

Today, captain Auston Matthews helped lead the USA to its first men's hockey gold medal since that 1980 team in a thrilling OT victory vs. Canada.

Written in the stars 🌟

[Dillon Persaud @dpersaud1195]

@Laf4MVP_ 3-2 🇺🇸

[BarDown @BarDown]

Will the United States have the same magic exactly 46 years later? 🇺🇸🤔 #MilanoCortina2026

(h/t @espn)

[FanDuel Sportsbook @FDSportsbook]

Feb. 22, 1980 - Miracle on Ice 🇺🇸

Feb. 22, 2026 - USA vs. Canada 🥇

Exactly 46 years apart.