stephanie☯️

[🪽 @justtfiddy]

Sydney is so weird like bitch wtf #loveislandusa

[kie @criminalplaza]

if i send you this it means i want to go home

[d 🪬’s love island @girlidkusername]

he’s like a friend i worry about

[tyris ✰ @TYRISPRINT]

that episode was MESSY AS FUCK, i’ve never been so stunned to speak

[juwon★ @_xxiel]

Real ones clocked kenzie was weird from that Zach situation

[Jas @cpfbestie]

I’m supporting everything Melanie does right or wrong tonight #loveislandusa

[dai @vietbaddie]

sincere kissing sol 3 times outside a challenge and talking about “love at first sight” with her but then proceeds to downplay everything to melanie while she pours her feelings to him. and THATS why i can’t ever respect him. this is 1000x worse than anything melanie’s done

[🐦‍🔥 @kyriewolves]

Everyone who was bumping Not Like Us in 2024 cannot listen to Iceman cause this is for us only

[Burner @NotaBurnerr007]

How I’m moving this summer #OVO

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

This is why you can't impress me with that Sydney Sweeney shit. I know what a real bad white bitch looks like

[Makabe Tsolo 🇿🇦 @Tsolomm]

Day before Drake drops always feels like Christmas Eve😭

[PEPE @soyunargento]

Salir caminando por estos pasillos a la vida real después de haber estado dos horas viendo una película y no estar ubicado en tiempo y espacio. Placeres de la vida

[Yamis🤍 @yamirootz15]

Si yo tuviera el poder de elegir entre la paz mundial o ser la One Less Lonely Girl, les avisaría con tiempo para que se refugien bien

[𓂃۶ৎ ash ✧˖°. @baessari]

this bieber fever shit runs so deep i genuinely feel so sick i can’t i love him so much

[B @itgirIb]

would’ve had to get me off the floor if he pulled this one out. https://t.co/bhQSHx96gh

[kay 🪷 @poproyaIty]

I can’t believe Justin still has this affect on me at my big age

[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.

[throwbacks @solelynostalgia]

hannah montana performing ‘this is the life’ 20 years later

[⋆missy⋆ @malibuwmiley]

How do I recover after this?