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on process

[Nora❦ @hiscoraline]

i was shocked to discover that there are some people who actually can't visualize images when reading a book coz for me, an entire movie is playing out in my head with the perfect cast

[𝒱𝐸𝒩𝐼𝒞𝐸 𝐵𝐼𝒯𝒞𝐻 @yourvenicechick]

taylor swift mentioned all her albums except evermore again

[raincey @tayenthusiasst]

my town was a wasteland, full of cages, full of fences, pageant queens and big pretenders.

[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.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 China to Trump: You created a global crisis for no reason.

[l̶i̶m̶a̶ ̶☆ harris dickinson's pr manager @favdickinson]

if musical films have haters, i'll clearly be on the opposite side

[heart 💌 | rivals s2! window’s bay @filmesdarcy]

imagine watching this and not feel happiness

[clara @leclercsletters]

"you just got a podium, just got married, do you sometimes have to pinch yourself?"

🆑️: i do!! not for the podium, more for alexandra. i mean, the podium is nice, but i would rather have a victory or a championship

😭

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Funny how there’s always $100B for war, but never enough for chemo, cancer research, world hunger, clean water or mental health

[sara @intomahoran]

it’s like watching the mona lisa being painted

[. @emmasarchivee]

This monologue will always be so iconic they could NEVER make me hate you amy march

[æri | BRB 🙃 @foreverwjho]

Yep, first heard this sa kanya then did some research about it.

[stanshine ☆ @stanshinedizon]

PUTANG INANG MGA LALAKI

[Ak @thevioi]

She only said it once, just ONCE

[mimi @mariasrainer]

most beautiful film ever made

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

uni is draining
staying home is boring
going out is tiring
Idk wtf I like anymore

[v. Jatin @JatinTweets_]

The Actor is so GOATed that Marvel actually changed their intro for him 🐐🎬

[Eren 💋 @erenfromtargets]

it’s sad because the next generation genuinely won’t know how BIG she used to be

[ana @shivlestat]

bring back white romcom posters

[mimi @mariasrainer]

literally changed my life