A mutual took this at the Phoebe Bridgers Madison Square Garden concert tonight. Apparently this was some low-tier influencer who thought she was above the rules.
Steam apologized for a late $99 controller by giving the customer a free $70 game. The customer picked Forza Horizon 6. It’s a new racing game that doesn’t come out until Monday. Steam’s business doesn’t work like the rest of tech.
Steam is the website most PC gamers around the world use to buy and download games. Valve, the private company that runs Steam, employs about 350 people. Steam moved over $16 billion in sales in 2025. That works out to about $46 million per Valve employee, more than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft pull in per employee. After paying game makers their share, Valve itself kept around $4 billion.
Valve isn’t on the stock market. No investors are calling them every three months asking why a support agent gave away a copy of Forza. The founder, Gabe Newell, owns at least half of Valve and is worth $11 billion per Forbes. He doesn’t need to pinch pennies.
Steam’s biggest competitor is Epic Games. Epic only charges game makers 12% versus Steam’s 24%, and they’ve spent years trying to lure developers over with cheaper fees. It hasn’t shifted the market much. Steam still sells about 15 times as many games every year and controls roughly three-quarters of all PC game sales. Epic has 295 million people who signed up for accounts. Steam has 147 million people who actually open the app every month and spend money.
So when a controller shows up late and someone in support hands you a $70 game, that’s pocket change for a company making $4 billion a year. The rep didn’t need to ask anyone above them.
@nikitabier@DailyLoud I have 900k across platforms. Large accounts often repost me on X. I agree you should disincentivize stealing content, but the larger issue is lack of discoverability for video. Without an existing X following, it's not worth the time to make (or even repost) my original content
"The text is a copypasta with an unrelated stock/AI image of a woman." Reaching whole new levels of not being credited for my work. Vibe is "maybe no one made it."
No, this isn't real—it's a viral fake story/meme that's been circulating on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook during the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The text is a copypasta with an unrelated stock/AI image of a woman. No athlete was removed from any team for this (or matches the details). Purely for the Ls.
Hot Girl in NYC Sunday Starter Pack:
– West Village walk in Aritzia matching set that ends in a $84 candle she “needed”
– Iced matcha latte (450 cals), Insta story caption: “💚”
– Speakerphone annoying and loud phone calls with mom, 3 camp friends, and sorority sisters talking about dudes
– Thai food for dinner because “comfort > calories”
– $400 worth of random Amazon orders on the family account
– Left 546 Hinge & insta dm guys on read, but complains she can’t find a man
– Resetting for the week, while stalking her ex’s new girlfriend’s IG and goes to bed crying
they seem equally dressed up to me but she had to put on heels bc the dress was dragging so that's why she seems dressier but honestly everything is ok. even if she was fancier it's ok