i don’t know how i missed the fact that David was a pedo in the game… that was a shock to me once i watched tonight’s episode oml ouch my heart i simultaneously love and hate the last of us so much
“baby girl” SHUT UP MY HEART 😭🔫
“all these girls are beautiful but they’re not her”
“the first day my choice was trinity and i opened the door and she picked me”
“she makes me feel special”
“she makes me feel like im enough”
“i think about her every second”
“im just missing her right now”
#loveislandusa
I will say this about Bad Bunny. He had the opportunity to turn that into a "Fuck Donald Trump and everyone who supports him" type of show, which in turn just would create more division. Instead he turned it into a celebration of his culture, lifting his people up, and ended it by calling for more love in the world. For that he has my upmost respect. I can't say it was my favorite halftime show of all time (far from my least favorite though either, I'd say middle of the pack) but him taking that approach gives me so much respect for him.
If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too unrealistic.
A 28-year-old Vietnamese developer living with his parents programs a game over a single holiday weekend in his bedroom. He uses free ad monetization because he hopes to make a few hundred dollars a month. The game sits untouched in the App Store for eight months.
Then something inexplicable happens. With zero marketing spend, the game goes viral. Within weeks it tops the charts in 102 countries, hits 50 million downloads, and starts generating $50,000 per day in pure ad revenue. He’s making $18 million annualized from a game he built in three days.
So what does he do? He kills it. Not because Apple forced him. Not because Nintendo sued him. Not because a competitor acquired him. He kills it because he felt guilty that people were too addicted. The guilt was ruining his sleep. He tweeted “I cannot take this anymore” and pulled it the next day.
Within hours, people listed phones with the game on eBay for $99,900. Fans sent him death threats demanding he put it back. His only response was “And I still make games.”
The part nobody talks about: he turned down every acquisition offer afterward. A game generating $1.5 million per month, and a solo developer in Hanoi said no to everyone because he refused to compromise his independence.
Every founder in Silicon Valley talks about “mission over money.” Dong Nguyen actually did it, and the internet tried to destroy him for it.
As a gen Z kid raised by gen Xers I have such a specific memory of my dad chastising me for being on my ipad giving me the whole “when I was a kid I would spend all day outside unsupervised” spiel and I thought that sounded really fun so I asked if I could do that and he said no
so I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I just accepted a job at hbo as an editor making trailers and promos 😭😭😭 this has been my dream for so long and I never thought I’d get here. it’s wild how much heated rivalry and editing in fandoms changed my life and I’m so grateful
it’s funny how everything that goes viral on tiktok y’all try to ruin. ao3 existed for years without ads or algorithms and it worked perfectly. if your first instinct is to monetize or police it, just proves you don’t understand fandom spaces and you’re not the target audience
Dude found a lost phone and held it up until the owner came to unlock it with Face ID. Everyone holding their breath while he tries to unlock his phone. When it finally opens, crowd erupts in cheers. 🥳
Wholesome humanity in seconds. ❤️
Genuinely the best advice i’ve ever gotten regarding trauma is from Mike in BCS
“One day you’ll wake up, you’ll brush your teeth and go through all your usual stuff. When you get home you’ll realize that you didn’t think about it once. That’s when you’ll know”
“Why are you bitches getting hysterical about a globally organized pedophilic rape ring that murdered little girls chill out” is genuinely what some of you sound like rn