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One day at a time.

[☀️ @farerax]

If you’ve got [one-sided] beef w me, dont follow me.

[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.

[Azad Penaber ☀️ @azadpenaber_EN]

Many Kurdish restaurants and kebab shops in Europe promote gastro Turkish nationalism, either unknowingly or for convenience.

Erasing your own identity and presenting it under another name is a disrespect to yourself and to collective memory.

[ʎ @suxsfulrecovery]

He is above the superbowl headliner, the biggest boy band and the best selling artist of the century. He did this effortlessly.

[m @jdbredeye]

I feel like a giddy teenager again justin bieber really is for life

[alex @hatesthiscity]

THIS WHOLE PERFORMANCE REVOLVING AROUND YOUTUBE BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE IT ALL STARTED😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[☀️ @farerax]

Why did our favs stop touring now that we’re adults with money????!!!

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Teach girls that not wanting kids isn’t selfish, lazy, or broken. People need to stop acting like women exist only to reproduce.

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

A man who cooks, cleans, and washes the dishes is just a functional adult, not a special being.

[Sara_Sarwar @sara_Sarwar_]

Fun fact: This girl speaks kurdish much better than the Arabs who live in Erbil.

[Karwan Faidhi Dri @KarwanFaidhiDri]

Aso Hasanzadeh, a representative of the Iranian Kurdish opposition party KDPI, tests the level of racism within the Iranian opposition during a multi-ethnic conference in London by carrying the Kurdistan flag and speaking in Kurdish.

Video in first reply 👇

[Ashti Waissi @ashtiwai]

It’s ironic that Persians once mocked Kurds as “fire worshippers,” using it as an insult. Now those same people turn around and claim that culture as “Iranian.”

This pattern isn’t new. Kurdish traditions are constantly stolen, repackaged, and relabeled as Persian or Iranian.

Chwarshama Suri, including the tradition of jumping over bonfires, has always been Kurdish. No matter how much they try to steal it or claim it as Persian, it will never lose its Kurdish roots.

[Ƹ̵̡⁠Ӝ̵̨̄⁠Ʒ @_badtakebarbie]

me after telling everyone i'm busy

[✧ @cessonmute]

remember that men's baldness is studied more than endometriosis and PCOS

[سوورین @Poetiken1]

When it comes to Kurds everyone is suffering from historical amnesia.

[Haks ☀️ @iAmHaks]

Why is Fox News spreading fake news? Kurds from the South of Kurdistan (“Iraqi” Kurds) are not crossing the border. If and when it does happen, it will be the Kurds of the East of Kurdistan (“Iranian” Kurds). Really poor reporting and dangerous to say the least.

[T @hxrdlyrkived]

Ever since that false report about Kurdish groups working with the US and Israel in Iran was released, western leftists and Arab, Iranian, and Turkish nationalists have used that as a cover to post the most vile, dehumanising and historically illiterate posts about Kurds.

[Michael Rubin @mrubin1971]

Kürdistan Cumhuriyeti’nin başkenti Sanandaj, Mahabad, Mardin, Urfa ya da Diyarbakır mı olacak?

[Gözde G @bibiaunti]

Kurdish separatist? You divided a nation of more than 50 million people across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. For centuries, these people have been oppressed, killed, and massacred. Just a minute ago, I was insulted and disrespected by someone in Turkey for just being a Kurdish. So who is the real separatist?