k.

do one good thing for someone a day and you will have a lifetime full of blessings 🍀

[Sean Don @BigSean]

Did u hit da dance?

[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.

[Spider-Man Movie @SpiderManMovie]

Something brand new is coming… #SpiderManDay

[✞ @estherwuff]

SWAG

[ScreenTime @screentime]

Tom Holland was announced as the new Spider-Man 10 years ago today 🕸️

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Full 4K image of The Witcher 4.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at ‘THE WITCHER 4’ tech demo.

Running on standard PS5 at 60FPS.

[Cubert @CubertAcademy]

TENZ IS PLAYING DUELIST

this is not a drill

[Sentinels @Sentinels]

Only one man can save Tier 2

[Cubert @CubertAcademy]

RETURN OF THE KING

@TenZOfficial will be joining Cubert Academy for Stage 2 playoffs

[Sentinels @Sentinels]

god bless anyone queuing ranked rn

[Elisabeth Marchini @ejmarchini]

imagine you're in challengers and you learn that you have to play against 2x masters winner tenz

[Sentinels @Sentinels]

@TenZOfficial always SEN TenZ ❤️

[Maverick @MavWreck813]

@ModernWarzone Close but damn that’s a good clip

[HYPEBEAST @HYPEBEAST]

Suki's Honda S2000 is arriving in LEGO form 👀

[Sentinels @Sentinels]

thanks for coming out to the annual 100T ass whooping

[k. @pdx_ky]

solo leveling episode this week was peak