Maya Harkavy

[Bracco | Social Sportsbook @PlayBracco]

Tweet of the Year😂😂

[p r i 𝜗ৎ 🇦🇷 @needitbiebs]

entrar a tiktok es una tortura. cómo van a hacer estos edits? cómo si una no hubiese crecido y llorado en cada etapa de la vida de justin bieber, y acá seguimos orgullosas de él

[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.

[Ben Raab @BenVRaab]

Nothing against Purdue men’s basketball, but this board is invalid. Those settlements need to be two spaces apart!

[Wisconsin Basketball @BadgerMBB]

Nick Boyd doing Nick Boyd things.

📺 FOX

[dame @damevercetti]

omg this hard

[Brandon Harrison @brandonharrison]

Bowl season is a reminder of how consistent Wisconsin has been

The last 32 years, UW has more combined bowls and NCAA tourneys than any school

1. Wisconsin 53 (24 NCAAs, 29 bowls)
2. Texas 50 (25, 25)
3. Florida 49 (20, 29)
T4. Michigan St 47 (27, 20)
North Carolina 47 (26, 21)

[Evan Flood @Evan_Flood]

One of the coldest commitment announcements of all time.

#Badgers

Via @OmillioA

[Maya Harkavy @mjharkavy]

@SioliRavioli @kt41618697 was it good i’ve been dying to see

[Maya Harkavy @mjharkavy]

@kt41618697 this is true

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Is the @nytimes serious with this headline? Biggest scumbags ever.

[Maya Harkavy @mjharkavy]

Thankful for my big girls #UWGrad

[Eli Berkovits @BookOfEli_NFL]

Throwback to arguably the most important INT in #Packers history

Thank you, B.J.

[Maya Harkavy @mjharkavy]

@DJojo289 @MorganPaull_ mpaull13 kills the twitter game