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[KIKI @leanwdafanta]

Dolly Parton you changed my life when you picked a lock with your acrylics in Hannah Montana #RIP

[k @ysljennii]

I’m lowkey really concerned about how stupid everyone is getting..

[Annie O’D ❤️‍🔥 @sweetannieod]

I would be so honored to get this card

[WHAM ひ @Charlie_1fr]

i would have fucked up every villain and thug in nyc dat night i dare a nigga to rob a bank

[Kia 🩷 @xevekiah]

i’ve never met a man who had an abortion so i’m tryna figure out why y’all got so much to say

[tif 🐘🇵🇹 @fxckook_]

Once a Belieber, always a Belieber.
Since 2009 and forever.

[astrid ❤️‍🩹 @defnotastridd]

my parents: “who sold the house?”
me at justin bieber’s swag tour:

[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.

[bri @bribrisimps]

what’s funny in all of this is justin bieber used to come down from the rafters in angel wings made of music speakers and do full choreography and backup dancers with pyrotechnics and fake rain on stage but y’all don’t know this because you all still hated him 10-15 years ago LMAO

[fery🪩🏎️ @ferlpzg_]

Amigas si querían ver a Justin bailar hubieran sido fans antes del 2016

[kya @djokingg]

i was born in the right generation. i love pinterest and joe keery.

[tide @yoovol]

being politically informed while simultaneously trying to not go mad as a woman really is something

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If your child’s teacher were mentioned dozens of times in the Epstein files, you’d demand they be fired.

The presidency shouldn’t be exempt from that standard

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.
The sitting US president raped kids.