NEW INFO 5 Results from share redemption are posted. Less than .2% redeemed. Very bullish as investors are showing extreme confidence in the future of PLBY.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/playboy-mountain-crest-acquisition-corp-120000721.html
NEW INFO 4 Definitive Agreement to purchase 100% of Lovers brand stores announced 2/1.
https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Playboy+%28MCAC%29+Confirms+Deal+to+Acquire+Lovers/17892359.html
NEW INFO 3 I bought more on the dip today. 5081 total. Price rose AH to $12.38 (2.15%)
NEW INFO 2 Here is the full webinar.
https://icrinc.zoom.us/rec/play/9GWKdmOYumjWfZuufW3QXpe_FW_g--qeNbg6PnTjTMbnNTgLmCbWjeRFpQga1iPc-elpGap8dnDv8Zww.yD7DjUwuPmapeEdP?continueMode=true&tk=lEYc4F_FkKlgsmCIs6w0gtGHT2kbgVGbUju3cIRBSjk.DQIAAAAV8NK49xZWdldRM2xNSFNQcTBmcE00UzM3bXh3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&uuid=WN_GKWqbHkeSyuWetJmLFkj4g&_x_zm_rtaid=kR45-uuqRE-L65AxLjpbQw.1611967079119.2c054e3d3f8d8e63339273d9175939ed&_x_zm_rhtaid=866
NEW INFO 1 Live merger webinar with PLBY and MCAC on Friday January 29, 2021 at 12:00 NOON EST link below
https://mcacquisition.com/investor-relations/press-release-details/2021/Playboy-Enterprises-Inc.-and-Mountain-Crest-Acquisition-Corp-Participate-in-SPACInsider-ICR-Webinar-on-January-29th-at-12pm-ET/default.aspx
Playboy going public: Porn, Gambling, and Cannabis
!!!WARNING READING AHEAD!!! TL;DR at the end. It will take some time to sort through all the links and read/watch everything, but you should.
In the next couple weeks, Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp is taking Playboy public. The existing ticker MCAC will become PLBY. Special purpose acquisition companies have taken private companies public in recent months with great success. I believe this will be no exception. Notably, Playboy is profitable and has skyrocketing revenue going into a transformational growth phase.
Porn - First and foremost, let's talk about porn. I know what you guys are thinking. “Porno mags are dead. Why would I want to invest in something like that? I can get porn for free online.” Guess what? You are absolutely right. And that’s exactly why Playboy doesn’t do that anymore. That’s right, they eliminated their print division. And yet they somehow STILL make money from porn that people (see: boomers) pay for on their website through PlayboyTV, Playboy Plus, and iPlayboy. Here’s the thing: Playboy has international, multi-generational name recognition from porn. They have content available in 180 countries. It will be the only publicly traded adult entertainment (porn) company. But that is not where this company is going. It will help support them along the way. You can see every Playboy magazine through iPlayboy if you’re interested. NSFW links below:
https://www.playboy.com/
https://www.playboytv.com/
https://www.playboyplus.com/
https://www.iplayboy.com/
Gambling - Some of you might recognize the Playboy brand from gambling trips to places like Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Cancun, London or Macau. They’ve been in the gambling biz for decades through their casinos, clubs, and licensed gaming products. They see the writing on the wall. COVID is accelerating the transition to digital, application based GAMBLING. That’s right. What we are doing on Robinhood with risky options is gambling, and the only reason regulators might give a shit anymore is because we are making too much money. There may be some restrictions put in place, but gambling from your phone on your couch is not going anywhere. More and more states are allowing things like Draftkings, poker, state ‘lottery” apps, hell - even political betting. Michigan and Virginia just ok’d gambling apps. They won’t be the last. This is all from your couch and any 18 year old with a cracked iphone can access it. Wouldn’t it be cool if Playboy was going to do something like that? They’re already working on it. As per CEO Ben Kohn who we will get to later, “...the company’s casino-style digital gaming products with Scientific Games and Microgaming continue to see significant global growth.” Honestly, I stopped researching Scientific Games' sports betting segment when I saw the word ‘omni-channel’. That told me all I needed to know about it’s success.
“Our SG Sports™ platform is an enhanced, omni-channel solution for online, self-service and retail fixed odds sports betting – from soccer to tennis, basketball, football, baseball, hockey, motor sports, racing and more.”
https://www.scientificgames.com/
https://www.microgaming.co.uk/
“This latter segment has become increasingly enticing for Playboy, and it said last week that it is considering new tie-ups that could include gaming operators like PointsBet and 888Holdings.”
https://calvinayre.com/2020/10/05/business/playboys-gaming-ops-could-get-a-boost-from-spac-purchase/
As per their SEC filing:
“Significant consumer engagement and spend with Playboy-branded gaming properties around the world, including with leading partners such as Microgaming, Scientific Games, and Caesar’s Entertainment, steers our investment in digital gaming, sports betting and other digital offerings to further support our commercial strategy to expand consumer spend with minimal marginal cost, and gain consumer data to inform go-to-market plans across categories.”
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tMDAA1
They are expanding into more areas of gaming/gambling, working with international players in the digital gaming/gambling arena, and a Playboy sportsbook is on the horizon.
https://www.playboy.com/read/the-pleasure-of-playing-with-yourself-mobile-gaming-in-the-covid-era
Cannabis - If you’ve ever read through a Playboy magazine, you know they’ve had a positive relationship with cannabis for many years. As of September 2020, Playboy has made a major shift into the cannabis space. Too good to be true you say? Check their website. Playboy currently sells a range of CBD products. This is a good sign. Federal hemp products, which these most likely are, can be mailed across state lines and most importantly for a company like Playboy, can operate through a traditional banking institution. CBD products are usually the first step towards the cannabis space for large companies. Playboy didn’t make these products themselves meaning they are working with a processor in the cannabis industry. Another good sign for future expansion. What else do they have for sale? Pipes, grinders, ashtrays, rolling trays, joint holders. Hmm. Ok. So it looks like they want to sell some shit. They probably don’t have an active interest in cannabis right? Think again:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2020/09/24/playboy-gets-serious-about-cannabis-law-reform-advocacy-with-new-partnership-grants/?sh=62f044a65cea
“Taking yet another step into the cannabis space, Playboy will be announcing later on Thursday (September, 2020) that it is launching a cannabis law reform and advocacy campaign in partnership with National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), Last Prisoner Project, Marijuana Policy Project, the Veterans Cannabis Project, and the Eaze Momentum Program.”
“According to information procured exclusively, the three-pronged campaign will focus on calling for federal legalization. The program also includes the creation of a mentorship plan, through which the Playboy Foundation will support entrepreneurs from groups that are underrepresented in the industry.” Remember that CEO Kohn from earlier? He wrote this recently:
https://medium.com/naked-open-letters-from-playboy/congress-must-pass-the-more-act-c867c35239ae
Seems like he really wants weed to be legal? Hmm wonder why? The writing's on the wall my friends. Playboy wants into the cannabis industry, they are making steps towards this end, and we have favorable conditions for legislative progress.
Don’t think branding your own cannabis line is profitable or worthwhile? Tell me why these 41 celebrity millionaires and billionaires are dummies. I’ll wait.
https://www.celebstoner.com/news/celebstoner-news/2019/07/12/top-celebrity-cannabis-brands/
Confirmation: I hear you. “This all seems pretty speculative. It would be wildly profitable if they pull this shift off. But how do we really know?” Watch this whole video:
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/playboy-ceo-telling-story-female-154907068.html
Man - this interview just gets my juices flowing. And highlights one of my favorite reasons for this play. They have so many different business avenues from which a catalyst could appear. I think paying attention, holding shares, and options on these staggered announcements over the next year is the way I am going to go about it. "There's definitely been a shift to direct-to-consumer," he (Kohn) said. "About 50 percent of our revenue today is direct-to-consumer, and that will continue to grow going forward.” “Kohn touted Playboy's portfolio of both digital and consumer products, with casino-style gaming, in particular, serving a crucial role under the company's new business model. Playboy also has its sights on the emerging cannabis market, from CBD products to marijuana products geared toward sexual health and pleasure.” "If THC does become legal in the United States, we have developed certain strains to enhance your sex life that we will launch," Kohn said. https://cheddar.com/media/playboy-goes-public-health-gaming-lifestyle-focus Oh? The CEO actually said it? Ok then. “We have developed certain strains…” They’re already working with growers on strains and genetics? Ok. There are several legal cannabis markets for those products right now, international and stateside. I expect Playboy licensed hemp and THC pre-rolls by EOY. Something like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/842996758/10-playboy-pre-roll-tubes-limited?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=pre+roll+playboy&ref=sr_gallery-1-2&organic_search_click=1 Maintaining cannabis operations can be costly and a regulatory headache. Playboy’s licensing strategy allows them to pick successful, established partners and sidestep traditional barriers to entry. You know what I like about these new markets? They’re expanding. Worldwide. And they are going to be a bigger deal than they already are with or without Playboy. Who thinks weed and gambling are going away? Too many people like that stuff. These are easy markets. And Playboy is early enough to carve out their spot in each. Fuck it, read this too: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2020/10/20/playboy-could-be-the-king-of-spacs-here-are-three-picks/?sh=2e13dcaa3e05
Numbers: You want numbers? I got numbers. As per the company’s most recent SEC filing:
“For the year ended December 31, 2019, and the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s historical consolidated revenue was $78.1 million and $101.3 million, respectively, historical consolidated net income (loss) was $(23.6) million and $(4.8) million, respectively, and Adjusted EBITDA was $13.1 million and $21.8 million, respectively.”
“In the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Licensing segment contributed $44.2 million in revenue and $31.1 million in net income.”
“In the ninth months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Direct-to-Consumer segment contributed $40.2 million in revenue and net income of $0.1 million.”
“In the nine months ended September 30, 2020, Playboy’s Digital Subscriptions and Content segment contributed $15.4 million in revenue and net income of $7.4 million.”
They are profitable across all three of their current business segments.
“Playboy’s return to the public markets presents a transformed, streamlined and high-growth business. The Company has over $400 million in cash flows contracted through 2029, sexual wellness products available for sale online and in over 10,000 major retail stores in the US, and a growing variety of clothing and branded lifestyle and digital gaming products.”
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tSHCF
Growth: Playboy has massive growth in China and massive growth potential in India. “In China, where Playboy has spent more than 25 years building its business, our licensees have an enormous footprint of nearly 2,500 brick and mortar stores and 1,000 ecommerce stores selling high quality, Playboy-branded men’s casual wear, shoes/footwear, sleepwear, swimwear, formal suits, leather & non-leather goods, sweaters, active wear, and accessories. We have achieved significant growth in China licensing revenues over the past several years in partnership with strong licensees and high-quality manufacturers, and we are planning for increased growth through updates to our men’s fashion lines and expansion into adjacent categories in men’s skincare and grooming, sexual wellness, and women’s fashion, a category where recent launches have been well received.” The men’s market in China is about the same size as the entire population of the United States and European Union combined. Playboy is a leading brand in this market. They are expanding into the women’s market too. Did you know CBD toothpaste is huge in China? China loves CBD products and has hemp fields that dwarf those in the US. If Playboy expands their CBD line China it will be huge. Did you know the gambling money in Macau absolutely puts Las Vegas to shame? Technically, it's illegal on the mainland, but in reality, there is a lot of gambling going on in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierhasse/2020/10/19/magic-johnson-and-uncle-buds-cbd-brand-enter-china-via-tmall-partnership/?sh=271776ca411e “In India, Playboy today has a presence through select apparel licensees and hospitality establishments. Consumer research suggests significant growth opportunities in the territory with Playboy’s brand and categories of focus.” “Playboy Enterprises has announced the expansion of its global consumer products business into India as part of a partnership with Jay Jay Iconic Brands, a leading fashion and lifestyle Company in India.” “The Indian market today is dominated by consumers under the age of 35, who represent more than 65 percent of the country’s total population and are driving India’s significant online shopping growth. The Playboy brand’s core values of playfulness and exploration resonate strongly with the expressed desires of today’s younger millennial consumers. For us, Playboy was the perfect fit.” “The Playboy international portfolio has been flourishing for more than 25 years in several South Asian markets such as China and Japan. In particular, it has strategically targeted the millennial and gen-Z audiences across categories such as apparel, footwear, home textiles, eyewear and watches.” https://www.licenseglobal.com/industry-news/playboy-expands-global-footprint-india It looks like they gave COVID the heisman in terms of net damage sustained: “Although Playboy has not suffered any material adverse consequences to date from the COVID-19 pandemic, the business has been impacted both negatively and positively. The remote working and stay-at-home orders resulted in the closure of the London Playboy Club and retail stores of Playboy’s licensees, decreasing licensing revenues in the second quarter, as well as causing supply chain disruption and less efficient product development thereby slowing the launch of new products. However, these negative impacts were offset by an increase in Yandy’s direct-to-consumer sales, which have benefited in part from overall increases in online retail sales so far during the pandemic.” Looks like the positives are long term (Yandy acquisition) and the negatives are temporary (stay-at-home orders).
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921006093/tm213766-1_defa14a.htm
This speaks to their ability to maintain a financially solvent company throughout the transition phase to the aforementioned areas. They’d say some fancy shit like “expanded business model to encompass four key revenue streams: Sexual Wellness, Style & Apparel, Gaming & Lifestyle, and Beauty & Grooming.” I hear “we’re just biding our time with these trinkets until those dollar dollar bill y’all markets are fully up and running.” But the truth is these existing revenue streams are profitable, scalable, and rapidly expanding Playboy’s e-commerce segment around the world.
"Even in the face of COVID this year, we've been able to grow EBITDA over 100 percent and revenue over 68 percent, and I expect that to accelerate going into 2021," he said. “Playboy is accelerating its growth in company-owned and branded consumer products in attractive and expanding markets in which it has a proven history of brand affinity and consumer spend.”
Also in the SEC filing, the Time Frame:
“As we detailed in the definitive proxy statement, the SPAC stockholder meeting to vote on the transaction has been set for February 9th, and, subject to stockholder approval and satisfaction of the other closing conditions, we expect to complete the merger and begin trading on NASDAQ under ticker PLBY shortly thereafter,” concluded Kohn.
The Players: Suhail “The Whale” Rizvi (HMFIC), Ben “The Bridge” Kohn (CEO), “lil” Suying Liu & “Big” Dong Liu (Young-gun China gang). I encourage you to look these folks up. The real OG here is Suhail Rizvi. He’s from India originally and Chairman of the Board for the new PLBY company. He was an early investor in Twitter, Square, Facebook and others. His firm, Rizvi Traverse, currently invests in Instacart, Pinterest, Snapchat, Playboy, and SpaceX. Maybe you’ve heard of them. “Rizvi, who owns a sprawling three-home compound in Greenwich, Connecticut, and a 1.65-acre estate in Palm Beach, Florida, near Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, moved to Iowa Falls when he was five. His father was a professor of psychology at Iowa. Along with his older brother Ashraf, a hedge fund manager, Rizvi graduated from Wharton business school.” “Suhail Rizvi: the 47-year-old 'unsocial' social media baron: When Twitter goes public in the coming weeks (2013), one of the biggest winners will be a 47-year-old financier who guards his secrecy so zealously that he employs a person to take down his Wikipedia entry and scrub his photos from the internet. In IPO, Twitter seeks to be 'anti-FB'” “Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia looks like a big Twitter winner. So do the moneyed clients of Jamie Dimon. But as you’ve-got-to-be-joking wealth washed over Twitter on Thursday — a company that didn’t exist eight years ago was worth $31.7 billion after its first day on the stock market — the non-boldface name of the moment is Suhail R. Rizvi. Mr. Rizvi, 47, runs a private investment company that is the largest outside investor in Twitter with a 15.6 percent stake worth $3.8 billion at the end of trading on Thursday (November, 2013). Using a web of connections in the tech industry and in finance, as well as a hearty dose of good timing, he brought many prominent names in at the ground floor, including the Saudi prince and some of JPMorgan’s wealthiest clients.” https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/technology/at-twitter-working-behind-the-scenes-toward-a-billion-dollar-payday.html Y’all like that Arab money? How about a dude that can call up Saudi Princes and convince them to spend? Funniest shit about I read about him: “Rizvi was able to buy only $100 million in Facebook shortly before its IPO, thus limiting his returns, according to people with knowledge of the matter.” Poor guy :(
He should be fine with the 16 million PLBY shares he's going to have though :)
Shuhail also has experience in the entertainment industry. He’s invested in companies like SESAC, ICM, and Summit Entertainment. He’s got Hollywood connections to blast this stuff post-merger. And he’s at least partially responsible for that whole Twilight thing. I’m team Edward btw.
I really like what Suhail has done so far. He’s lurked in the shadows while Kohn is consolidating the company, trimming the fat, making Playboy profitable, and aiming the ship at modern growing markets.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-ipo-rizvi-insight/insight-little-known-hollywood-investor-poised-to-score-with-twitter-ipo-idUSBRE9920VW20131003
Ben “The Bridge” Kohn is an interesting guy. He’s the connection between Rizvi Traverse and Playboy. He’s both CEO of Playboy and was previously Managing Partner at Rizvi Traverse. Ben seems to be the voice of the Playboy-Rizvi partnership, which makes sense with Suhail’s privacy concerns. Kohn said this:
“Today is a very big day for all of us at Playboy and for all our partners globally. I stepped into the CEO role at Playboy in 2017 because I saw the biggest opportunity of my career. Playboy is a brand and platform that could not be replicated today. It has massive global reach, with more than $3B of global consumer spend and products sold in over 180 countries. Our mission – to create a culture where all people can pursue pleasure – is rooted in our 67-year history and creates a clear focus for our business and role we play in people’s lives, providing them with the products, services and experiences that create a lifestyle of pleasure. We are taking this step into the public markets because the committed capital will enable us to accelerate our product development and go-to-market strategies and to more rapidly build our direct to consumer capabilities,” said Ben Kohn, CEO of Playboy.
“Playboy today is a highly profitable commerce business with a total addressable market projected in the trillions of dollars,” Mr. Kohn continued, “We are actively selling into the Sexual Wellness consumer category, projected to be approximately $400 billion in size by 2024, where our recently launched intimacy products have rolled out to more than 10,000 stores at major US retailers in the United States. Combined with our owned & operated ecommerce Sexual Wellness initiatives, the category will contribute more than 40% of our revenue this year. In our Apparel and Beauty categories, our collaborations with high-end fashion brands including Missguided and PacSun are projected to achieve over $50M in retail sales across the US and UK this year, our leading men’s apparel lines in China expanded to nearly 2500 brick and mortar stores and almost 1000 digital stores, and our new men’s and women’s fragrance line recently launched in Europe. In Gaming, our casino-style digital gaming products with Scientific Games and Microgaming continue to see significant global growth. Our product strategy is informed by years of consumer data as we actively expand from a purely licensing model into owning and operating key high-growth product lines focused on driving profitability and consumer lifetime value. We are thrilled about the future of Playboy. Our foundation has been set to drive further growth and margin, and with the committed capital from this transaction and our more than $180M in NOLs, we will take advantage of the opportunity in front of us, building to our goal of $100M of adjusted EBITDA in 2025.”
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005404/en/Playboy-to-Become-a-Public-Company
Also, according to their Form 4s, “Big” Dong Liu and “lil” Suying Liu just loaded up with shares last week. These guys are brothers and seem like the Chinese market connection. They are only 32 & 35 years old. I don’t even know what that means, but it's provocative.
https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1832415.htm
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mountain-crest-acquisition-corp-ii-002600994.html
Y’all like that China money?
“Mr. Liu has been the Chief Financial Officer of Dongguan Zhishang Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd., a regional designer, manufacturer and distributor of LED lights serving commercial customers throughout Southern China since November 2016, at which time he led a syndicate of investments into the firm. Mr. Liu has since overseen the financials of Dongguan Zhishang as well as provided strategic guidance to its board of directors, advising on operational efficiency and cash flow performance. From March 2010 to October 2016, Mr. Liu was the Head of Finance at Feidiao Electrical Group Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese manufacturer of electrical outlets headquartered in Shanghai and with businesses in the greater China region as well as Europe.”
Dr. Suying Liu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp., commented, “Playboy is a unique and compelling investment opportunity, with one of the world’s largest and most recognized brands, its proven consumer affinity and spend, and its enormous future growth potential in its four product segments and new and existing geographic regions. I am thrilled to be partnering with Ben and his exceptional team to bring his vision to fruition.”
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201001005404/en/Playboy-to-Become-a-Public-Company
These guys are good. They have a proven track record of success across multiple industries. Connections and money run deep with all of these guys. I don’t think they’re in the game to lose.
I was going to write a couple more paragraphs about why you should have a look at this but really the best thing you can do is read this SEC filing from a couple days ago. It explains the situation in far better detail. Specifically, look to page 137 and read through their strategy. Also, look at their ownership percentages and compensation plans including the stock options and their prices. The financials look great, revenue is up 90% Q3, and it looks like a bright future.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1803914/000110465921005986/tm2034213-12_defm14a.htm#tSHCF
I’m hesitant to attach this because his position seems short term, but I’m going to with a warning because he does hit on some good points (two are below his link) and he’s got a sizable position in this thing (500k+ on margin, I think). I don’t know this guy but he did look at the same publicly available info and make roughly the same prediction, albeit without the in depth gambling or cannabis mention. You can also search reddit for ‘MCAC’ and very few relevant results come up and none of them even come close to really looking at this thing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOvAd6lebs452hFlWWbxVjQ3VMsjGBkbJeXRwDwIJfM/edit?usp=sharing
“Also, before you people start making claims that Playboy is a “boomer” company, STOP RIGHT THERE. This is not a good argument. Simply put. The only thing that matters is Playboy’s name recognition, not their archaic business model which doesn’t even exist anymore as they have completely repurposed their business.”
“Imagine not buying $MCAC at a 400M valuation lol. Streetwear department is worth 1B alone imo.”
Considering the ridiculous Chinese growth as a lifestyle brand, he’s not wrong.
Current Cultural Significance and Meme Value: A year ago I wouldn’t have included this section but the events from the last several weeks (even going back to tsla) have proven that a company’s ability to meme and/or gain social network popularity can have an effect. Tik-tok, Snapchat, Twitch, Reddit, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter. They all have Playboy stuff on them. Kids in middle and highschool know what Playboy is but will likely never see or touch one of the magazines in person. They’ll have a Playboy hoodie though. Crazy huh? A lot like GME, PLBY would hugely benefit from meme-value stock interest to drive engagement towards their new business model while also building strategic coffers. This interest may not directly and/or significantly move the stock price but can generate significant interest from larger players who will.
Bull Case: The year is 2025. Playboy is now the world leader pleasure brand. They began by offering Playboy licensed gaming products, including gambling products, direct to consumers through existing names. By 2022, demand has skyrocketed and Playboy has designed and released their own gambling platforms. In 2025, they are also a leading cannabis brand in the United States and Canada with proprietary strains and products geared towards sexual wellness. Cannabis was legalized in the US in 2023 when President Biden got glaucoma but had success with cannabis treatment. He personally pushes for cannabis legalization as he steps out of office after his first term. Playboy has also grown their brand in China and India to multi-billion per year markets. The stock goes up from 11ish to 100ish and everyone makes big gains buying somewhere along the way.
Bear Case: The United States does a complete 180 on marijuana and gambling. President Biden overdoses on marijuana in the Lincoln bedroom when his FDs go tits up and he loses a ton of money in his sports book app after the Fighting Blue Hens narrowly lose the National Championship to Bama. Playboy is unable to expand their cannabis and gambling brands but still does well with their worldwide lifestyle brand. They gain and lose some interest in China and India but the markets are too large to ignore them completely. The stock goes up from 11ish to 13ish and everyone makes 15-20% gains.
TL;DR: Successful technology/e-commerce investment firm took over Playboy to turn it into a porn, online gambling/gaming, sports book, cannabis company, worldwide lifestyle brand that promotes sexual wellness, vetern access, women-ownership, minority-ownership, and “pleasure for all”. Does a successful online team reinventing an antiquated physical copy giant sound familiar? No options yet, shares only for now. $11.38 per share at time of writing. My guess? $20 by the end of February. $50 by EOY. This is not financial advice. I am not qualified to give financial advice. I’m just sayin’ I would personally use a Playboy sports book app while smoking a Playboy strain specific joint and it would be cool if they did that. Do your own research. You’d probably want to start here:
WARNING - POTENTIALLY NSFW - SEXY MODELS AHEAD - no actual nudity though
https://s26.q4cdn.com/895475556/files/doc_presentations/Playboy-Craig-Hallum-Conference-Investor-Presentation-11_17_20-compressed.pdf
Or here:
https://www.mcacquisition.com/investor-relations/default.aspx
Jimmy Chill: “Get into any SPAC at $10 or $11 and you are going to make money.”
STL;DR: Buy MCAC. MCAC > PLBY couple weeks. Rocketship. Moon.
Position: 5000 shares. I will buy short, medium, and long-dated calls once available.

I made a list of every Unus Annus video name. Posting this here because someone wanted to see it and a comment doesn't allow more than 1000 characters.
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November 15th - Unus Annus
(note- The Very Start.)
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November 15th - Cooking with Sex Toys
(note- 365 Days Left)
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November 16th - Purging Our Sins with a Net Pot
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November 17th - Hot Dog'd to Death
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November 18th - Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank
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November 19th - The Good Kind of Cupping
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November 20th - The Bad Kind of Cupping
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November 21st - The Worst Kind of Cupping
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November 22nd - Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls
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November 23rd - Doing Each Other's Makeup in the Dark
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November 24th - Baby Hands Operation
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November 25th - Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost
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November 26th - 2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition
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November 27th - Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surpise...)
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November 28th - Play-Doh Thanksgiving
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November 29th - Helium Therapy
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November 30th - Drawing Memes From Memory
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December 1st - 1 Man 100 Accents
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December 2nd - An A.I. Predicts How We're Going to Die
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December 3rd - Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond
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December 4th - The Cubby Gummy Challenge
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December 5th - We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React To It
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December 6th - Mark and Ethan Attempt and Escape Room
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December 7th - Ethan Destroys Mark's Van with a Bat
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December 8th - There's Still Hope...
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December 9th - Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral
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December 10th - The Great Meat Mistake
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December 11th - Acupuncture Is NOT Painful
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December 12th - Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank
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December 13th - Mark Reviews The Impossible Burger But There's a Looming Sense of Impending Doom
(note- Paintball gun)
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December 14th - We Made Nude Pictures of Eachother
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December 15th - You made Beautiful Music for The Barrel... But Only One Could Win
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December 16th - We Had To Drink Each Other's Pee
(note- The first of the Pee Trilogy)
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December 17th - Ethan Explores Mark's Haunted Basement
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December 18th - Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button
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December 19th - Ethan's Relaxing and Totally Normal Naul Salon
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December 20th - Taped and Afraid
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December 21st - What Was The Most Painful Thing We've Ever Endured?
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December 22nd - Donating Toys to charity w/ JackSepticEye
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December 23rd - Harnessing Our Dogs' Unlimited Energy
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December 24th - Santa's Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog)
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December 25th - Forcibly Turning Mark Into Santa Claus Against His Will
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December 26th - Preserving Ourselves In Wax
(note- JackSepticEye was also here!)
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December 27th - Beating Inanimate Objects to Death
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December 28th - Emotional Pain vs Physical Pain... Which is worse?
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December 29th - Duct Tape Crusifixion (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video)
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December 30th - You Blink You Lose
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December 31th - 2 Grown Men Attempt the Presidential Fitness Test
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January 1st - We Took The Polar Plunge
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Janurary 2nd - Hiding Out Sins from Amy's Holy Peepers
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January 3rd - We Eat Bugs
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January 4th - DIY Bungee Jump (Please don't try this)
(note- Disclamer Song Origin)
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January 5th - We Have The BEST Thumbnails on Youtube and No One Can Tell Us Otherwise
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January 6th - Who Can Make Themselves Taller?
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January 7th - The Sensory Overload Tank
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January 8th - Recreating Ourselves as a Cursed Mannequin
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January 9th - We Took an IQ Test
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January 10th - Ethan Fianlly Becomes a MAN
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January 11th - Mark and Ethan Go Casket Shopping
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January 12th - We Take a Lie Detector Test to Uncover Our Darkest Sins
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January 13th - Learning to Breathe Underwater
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January 14th - Fixing Mark's Hole with Ramen but Every Time We Add Glue We Get 5% Closer to God
(note- The hole made in the video where Mark punched a hole in the wall)
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January 15th - Mark Steals Ethan's Face
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January 16th - You Breathe You Die
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January 17th - 2 Absolute Beginners Experience the Dancing Glory that is Salsa
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January 18th - DIY Geriatric Simulator
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January 19th - This Is How We'll Die...
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January 20th - We Cryogenically Freeze Ourselves
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January 21st - This is What Being Tased Feels Like
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January 22nd - What Happens When A Youtube Channel Dies?
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January 23rd - Bad Bad Beans
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January 24th - We hired a Real Hypnotherapist to Analyze Our Darkest Dreams
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January 25th - We Turned Our Bodies Into Art
(note- painting each other naked)
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January 26th - Mark and Ethan Lean About The Human Body
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January 27th - Mark Punishes Ethan
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January 28th - Strange (and legal) Things You Can Do With Your Body After Death
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January 29th - DIY Cheese
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January 30th - Hacking The Very Fabric of the Universe
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January 31st - Looking at Long Lost Memes
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February 1st - Discovering the Secret to Eternal Life
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February 2nd - Turning Mark Into an E-Boy
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February 3rd - Ethan Redefines Male Beauty
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February 4th - Professional Fire Cupping (Going Even Further Beyond)
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February 5th - An Extremely Sour, Not-at-all Sour Meal
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February 6th - Literally Eating Fire
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February 7th - Unregulated Axe Throwing
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February 8th - Literally Laying On Broken Glass
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February 9th - Making an Indoor Tornado to Flex on Mother Nature
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February 10th - Nutball: The Most Dangerous Game
(note- First of the Nutball Trilogy)
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February 11th - Becoming a Master of Mime
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February 12th - Discussing the Idea of Murdering Each Other bit It's Just a Joke and Definitely Not Serious Haha
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February 13th - Are We Already Dead?
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February 14th - Our Perfect (and last) Valentine's Day
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February 15th - Drunk College Party Simulator
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February 16th - 10 Strange Amazon Paroducts Ethan Bought Mark Because He Doesn't Know How To Spend Money Responsibly
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February 17th - Chickens Teach Us About Life and Death
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February 18th - 3 Big Boys Attempt the Kings Royal Fitness Test
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February 19th - Being Attacked by a Fully Trained Bodyguard Dog
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February 20th - Learning the Ancient Art of Chinese Archery
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February 21st - The Ultimate Trolley Problem
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February 22nd - Goat Yoga
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February 23rd - Edible Slime was a Mistake
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February 24th - Granting Acces Into Heaven's Sweet Gates
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February 25th - Long Hair, Do We Dare?
(note- With Marks Quarintine Hair, yes, he did dare)
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February 26th - We Wrote a Hit Pop Song in 30 Minutes
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February 27th - Mark and Ethan go on a "Drum Date"
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February 28th - Blowing Our Souls Into Some Hot Glass
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February 29th - Top 10 Worst Things Your Friend Could Possibly Spend Their Money On
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March 1st - Nutball Extreme: Taser Edition
(note- Second of the Nutball Trilogy)
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March 2nd - REAL Ghost Hunting at an Abandoned Zoo
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March 3rd - We Bought a Camera That Can Look Inside Us
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March 4th - Becoming the World's Greatest DJs
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March 5th - Who Can Teach Their Dog a Trick the Fastest?
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March 6th - Middle School Science Experiment Teaches Us About Life and Death
(note- Owl pellets)
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March 7th - DIY Chiropractor
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March 8th - Mark and Ethan Get Into a Fight
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March 9th - The Barrel - Offical Music Video
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March 10th - We Got Pepper Sprayed
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March 11th - We Give Each Other Tattoos Blindfolded
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March 12th - What Does Astrology Say About Our Friendship?
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March 13th - Mark and Ethan Get a Full Body Scan to See What Secrets Lay Hidden Within (and learn their body fat)
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March 14th - Mark Needs To Rub Ethan and Only His Mom Can Help Him
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March 15th - 2 Idiots Get Crushed by 18-Foot Giant Snakes
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March 16th - Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna into a Portable Hell
(note- The video where Pee Sauna was first mentioned)
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March 17th - Mark and Ethan Hunt The World's Most Wanted Criminals
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March 18th - Unus Annus Carves the Roast Beast
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March 19th - 5 Weird Apps That Predicted Our Death
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March 20th - We Tried a Labor Pain Simulator
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March 21st - Recreating the Miracle of Childbirth
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March 22nd - Mark and Ethan Are Now Fathers
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March 23rd - We Force James Charles to Run a Military Obstacle Course
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March 24th - Desperately Trying To Not Touch Our Faces
(note- Start of Quarintine videos)
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March 25th - Reddit 50/50: Two Player Edition
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March 26th - Going on an Internet Scavenger Hunt
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March 27th - Having an Adventure In VR Chat Becuase We Can't Go Outside
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March 28th - Amazon Shopping for the Apocalypse
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March 29th - Whom Would Eat Whomst First in a Zombie Apocalypse?
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March 30th - Ultimate Youtuber Boxing Showdown
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March 31st - The Deep End of Omegle: Risky Boogalo
(note- This video was deleted for an unknown reason)
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April 1st - Where in the World is Unus Annus?
(note- Timer was at 401 days)
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April 2nd - Mark Builds a Pillow Fort for the Very First Time
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April 3rd - Mark's 1 Weird Talent Leaves Ethan Absolutely Speechless
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April 4th - Wikifeet: A Tale of 2 Tootsies
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April 5th - We Made Every YouTuber Battle in the Hunger Games
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April 6th - We Google Each Other to Find Our Darkest Forgotten Sins
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April 7th - We Played Mad Libs and Ran It Through Google Translate
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April 8th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Try and Nae a Single State in the USA
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April 9th - Speed Reading 1000+ WPM To Gain a Complete Understanding of All Human Knowledge
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April 10th - What is the Least Viewed Video on YouTube
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April 11th - We Found Websites That The World Forgot About
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April 12th - The Scariest True Stories on the Internet
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April 13th - How to NOT be the Perfect Boyfriend
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April 14th - Mark and Ethan Find The Lost City of EL Dorado
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April 15th - Mark and Ethan Bet Everything on a Wikipedia Race
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April 16th - The Creepiest Videos on Youtube
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April 17th - Help Us Break a YouTube World Record
(note- The birth of Norbert Moses. The video was called "Subscribe to Norbert Moses")
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April 18th - 2 Men 200 Accents
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April 19th - The Illuminati... Do They Really Exist?
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April 20th - Using Google Maps to Find the Lost City of Atlantis
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April 21st - Reading YOUR Scariest True Stories
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April 22nd - Mark and Ethan Take a Personality Test
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April 23rd - Will AI Soon Take Over Humanity As We Know It?
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April 24th - Running Internet Drama through Google Translate
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April 25th - The Secret Unus Annus NO-Touchy-Touchy Hand Shake
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April 26th - Two Male Men Judge Female Women on Their Beauty
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April 27th - Bored? Press This Button.
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April 28th - Don't Go in the Ocean... Ever.
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April 29th - We Explore the Most MYSTERIOUS Mysteries of our Wildy Mysterious Mystery Moon of Mysteries
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April 30th - We Looked at Unus Annus Memes
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May 1st - Is Mark a Masochist?
(note- yes.)
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May 2nd - What the Hell is a Pink Trombone?
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May 3rd - Professional Fetish Scientists Rank the Best/Worst Fetishes of 2020
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May 4th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Attempt to Feel Something
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May 5th - An A.I. Generates Out Worst Nightmare
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May 6th - Are Reptilian Humanoids Living Among us?
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May 7th - Like It or Not... This is What The New Human Looks Like
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May 8th - Eating Only Onions for 24 Hours: How Many Onions Does it Take to Kill a Man?
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May 9th - Unus Annus ASMR
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May 10th - We Attempted to Create THICC Water
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May 11th - Making Our Own Gravestones to Prepare For Our Inevitable Demise
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May 12th - How Tall Can A Human Get?: An Impartial Review by 2 Average Height Men
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May 13th - Mark Teaches Ethan Korean
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May 14th - Bigfoot is Real and It Ate My Friend
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May 15th - The End of Unus Annus is Almost Here...
(note- The Halfway point)
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May 16th - We Explore the Unus Annus Subreddit for Your Delicious Memes
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May 17th - How Big Can a Nuke Get?
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May 18th - How Much Caffeine Does It Take to Kill a Man?
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May 19th - Drinking Real THICC Water... How Bad Does It Taste?
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May 20th - We Played Strip Poker
(note- Mark lost so badly. Ethan also cheated on the first game)
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May 21st - Harnessing Our Yodeling Power to End the World aAs We Know It
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May 22nd - Mark Cooks Blindfolded While Ethan Guides Him Through FaceTime
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May 23rd - We Played the Newlywed Game While Consuimg That Which Will Kill the Other
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May 24th - DIY Boob
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May 25th - We Have the Best Bellies on Youtube
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May 26th - The Unus Annus Confessional Booth
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May 27th - DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2080
(note- Mark will be 90 and Ethan will be 83)
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May 28th - Only UNUS-es May Watch This Video
(note- Unus vs Annus. Most Likes to Win.)
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May 28th - Only ANNUS-es May Watch This Video
(note- Annus vs Unus. Most Likes to Win.)
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May 29th - Only Watch from 2:15 to 6:11 --- DO NOT WATCH ANY OTHER PART OF THE VIDEO
(note- Annus Won)
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May 30th - DIY Wine
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May 31st - Tearing a Phone Book in Half with Our Huge Manly Muscles
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June 1st - 2 Complete Amateurs Enter a Body Building Competition
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June 2nd - BLACK LIVES MATTER. Resources and How You Can Help in the Description.
(note- This video was 8 Minutes and 47 seconds of silence)
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June 3rd - Crushing Watermelons Betwixt Our Mighty Thighs
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June 4th - Morphing Our Bodies Into Superhero Poses
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June 5th - Reacting to Your Hilarious Green Screen Memes
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June 6th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Read with Hooked on Phonics
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June 7th - Ethan Roasts Mark of 15 Minutes Straight
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June 8th - There's Something Horribly Wrong with This Picture...
(note- When they made their own creepy photos)
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June 9th - Attempting to Build IKEA Furniture Without Instructions
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June 10th - Mark and Ethan Become United State Citizens
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June 11th - We Made Fanart for Each Other
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June 12th - Our Fans Try and Scare Us with Their Homemade Creepypasta
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June 13th - Recreating Childhood Photos
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June 14th - Will We Break the Boards... Or Will They Break Us?
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June 15th - Finding the Most Cursed Image on the Internet
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June 16th - Learning to Cry on Command to Increase Our YouTube Views
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June 17th - Pee Sauna
(note- The end of quarintine videos. Second of the Pee Trilogy)
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June 18th - Building IKEA's Hardest Piece of Furniture Without Instruction is Impossible
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June 19th - Becoming One With the Horse
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June 20th - The Ultimate Paper Airplane Showdown
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June 21st - Creating Mark FISHbach
(note- Origin of Mermer
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June 22nd - Leaning How to Lock Pick (FBI Please Don't Watch)
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June 23rd - The Most Dangerous Shave
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June 24th - Ethan Traps Mark's Soul in the Palm of his Hand
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June 25th - Bear Trapping 101: An Elegant Knot For An Elegant Beast
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June 26th - 2 Men In a Trench Coat Teach You How to Save Money at the Movies
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June 27th - Building the World's First IKEA Boat
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June 28th - Ethan Teaches Mark How to Swim
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June 29th - 10 Miracle Products to Give YOU the Thiccest Jaw on Planet Earth
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June 30th - 2 Dirty Boys Wash Their Filthy Mouths Out with Soap
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July 1st - Mark is Guilty. Ethan Has the Proof.
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July 2nd - Recreating Mark's Childhood
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July 3rd - We Put an Apple Watch in a Rock Tumbler
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July 4th - Dummy Thicc for Dummies | A Tale of 2 Butts | Pushing Our Butts Even Further Beyond
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July 5th - Reverse Engineering a Kite to Steal the Idea of Electricity From Benjamin Franklin
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July 6th - The Candy Bra Challenge
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July 7th - Mark and Ethan Look at a Puppy for 10 Minutes
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July 8th - Unus Annus Try Pole Dancing
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July 9th - This Is Hiding On Your Body RIGHT NOW.
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July 10th - Tasting Weird Food Combos: Pickles and Chocolate? Ice Cream and Soy Sauce?
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July 11th - The Unus Annus Space Program
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July 12th - The Egg Smashing Game
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July 13th - Can You Bake a Cookie from Cookie Dough Ice Cream?
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July 14th - Bleachus Annus
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July 15th - Dunking Oreos In Literally Anything But Milk
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July 16th - Preparing a 5-Star Meal for Our Youtube Famous Dogs
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July 17th - DIY Teeth
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July 18th - How to Escape from a Hostage Situation
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July 19th - Does This Magnetic Skincare Routine Really Work?
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July 20th - DIY Bed of Nails : OH GOD, PLEASE DON'T EVER TRY THIS
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July 21st - The Human Mop
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July 22nd - Can Sound Therapy Heal All Wounds?
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July 23rd - This Is The Most Dangerous Children's Toy Ever Made
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July 24th - Would Chica Save Us From Drowning?
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July 25th - We Do It Better Than Icarus Ever Could
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July 26th - The Beginning of The End
(note- 110 days left. Start of the Desert videos)
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July 27th - The Annual Unus Annus Dunk Contest
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July 28th - Ultimate Horseshoes
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July 29th - A Serious Conversation Under the Stars
(note- Last of the Desert videos)
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July 30th - Recharging Our Phones Using Only Brute Strength
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July 31st - 5 Products to Grow Your Patchy Beard
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August 1st - Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet
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August 2nd - Playing Cards: The World's Deadliest Weapon
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August 3rd - We Lubed Our Floor For a Sliding Competition
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August 4th - Breaking Glass With Our Screams
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August 5th - This is Goodbye
(note- 100 Days Left)
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August 6th - Mark and Ethan Share a Drink
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August 7th - The Wubble
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August 8th - Mark and Ethan Shave Chica
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August 9th - DO NOT TRY THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
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August 10th - Judging Your Terrible Unus Annus Ideas
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August 11th - Hydro Dipping a Baby
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August 12th - Popping Popcorn with a High-Powered Laser
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August 13th - Puberty Simulator
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August 14th - Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner's Butler for a Day
(note- Ethan "won" but Mark never became his Butler)
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August 15th - Transforming Mark into the 8th Wonder of the World
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August 16th - Momiplier Teaches Self-Defense
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August 17th - Playing Children's Games in Total Darkness
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August 18th - We're Better Than Dogs
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August 19th - The Koala Challenge: TikTok's Intimate Couple's Trend
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August 20th - 1 Gallon of Jello Nearly Broke Us
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August 21st - Too Many Pickles
(note- The Video before the start of Camp Unus Annus)
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August 22nd - Pitching a Tent in the Woods But There's a Bear 15 Feet Away
(note- Start of Camp Unus Annus. Mark was Blind while Ethan was Deaf)
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August 23rd - How to Rescue a Cat from a Tree
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August 24th - A Bear Attacked Us in the Middle of the Night
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August 25th - How to Safely Bury Your Friend
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August 26th - Team Building for 2: Trust Fall, Tug-of-War, and More!
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August 27th - How to Start a Fire (except don't...)
(note- The infamous video where Unus appears at the window before Mark kills Ethan)
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August 28th - Mark's Outdoor Escape Room
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August 29th - Hunting HeeHoo
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August 30th - Was 2020 a Bad Year for Unus Annus?
(note- End of Camp Unus Annus)
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August 31st - Mark Gives Ethan a HOT (stone) Massage
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September 1st - We Smell Every Smell
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September 2nd - How Many Slaps Does It Take to Cook a Chicken?
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September 3rd - 2 Boys 2 Poops
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September 4th - Mark Teaches Ethan How to March in a Marching Band
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September 5th - We Finally Drank Our DIY Wine
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September 6th - 2 Adults Take a 4th Grade Math Test
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September 7th - Making Snow Cones With Literally Anything but Normal Flavors
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September 8th - We Attempts Pottery Without Amy's Help
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September 9th - Can Plants Feel Pain?
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September 10th - How Far Can We Chuck a 16lbs Rock?
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September 11th - We Pierced Each Other's Ears
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September 12th - We Ate Dog Treats So You Don't Have To
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September 13th - We Accidentally Made an SCP While Amy Was Away
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September 14th - BEYBLADE NUTBALL
(note- The Finale of the Nutball Trilogy)
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September 15th - Making the Ultimate Unus Annus Burger
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September 16th - Making Soda With Literally Anything But Soda
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September 17th - Pee Soda
(note- The Finale of the Pee Trilogy)
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September 18th - Learning to Use The Force
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September 19th - Brick Soccer
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September 20th - We Attempt to Make Holy Water
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September 21st - Amy Sent Us a Mystery Box
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September 22nd - Mark Knows What Ethan Did...
(note- Ethan cheated on the Grip Test Video)
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September 23rd - This Video Will Never Make Sense
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September 24th - We Attempt to Make UNHOLY Water
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September 25h - We Will Churn Thy Butter
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September 26th - Ethan Teaches Mark Gymnastics
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September 27th - The Great Ice Cream Cake Race
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September 28th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Wrestle
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September 29th - Ethan Watches as Mark Achieves the Impossible
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September 30th - Consuming the World's Hottest Chip
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October 1st - This Video Went Completely Out of Control
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October 2nd - The 1000 High Five Challenge
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October 3rd - Bobbing For Apples But the Water Keeps Getting Thiccer
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October 4th - Mark Breaks His Nose On An Aerial Hoop
(note- Was the second time in one week)
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October 5th - Mark and Ethan Milk a Goat
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October 6th - Shooting Archery ON A HORSE
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October 7th - DIY Minesweeper
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October 8th - Literally Finding a needle in a Haystack
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October 9th - Drawing on Each Other's Backs in Total Darkness
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October 10th - This is For FUN and NOT a Fetish
(note- They were in black bags with a vacuum to such out the air)
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October 11th - Mark Conquers His Fear of Night Swimming
(note- Birth of the Gongoozler)
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October 12th - The Painful Wolrd of Aerial Silks
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October 13th - We Bought Every Grinch Costume on Ebay
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October 14th - Pumpkin Taste Tier List
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October 15th - Learn to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds
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October 16th - Bobbing for Literally Anything but Apples
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October 17th - This Video is Completely Unedited
(note- This is the video where they shoved Wax up their nose and Marks got stuck)
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October 18th - Momiplier Tells Us True Scary Stories from Korea
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October 19th - Pumpkin Spice "Challenge"
(note- Similar to the Cinnamon Challenge excpet with Pumpkin Spice and don't do this please)
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October 20th - Mark and Ethan Build a Scarecrow
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October 21st - Preassure Waching Our Sins Away
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October 22nd - We Force Mark to Swin in the Ocean (HIS GREATEST FEAR)
(note- First of the Two Boat videos)
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October 23rd - Fighting Fish to the Deathin in the Deep Blue Sea
(note- Second of the Two Boat Videos
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October 24th - Cryptid Olympics
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October 25th - Phasmophobia in Real Life
(note- Ghost hunt time)
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October 26th - Edward Pumpkin Hands
(note- First Video in big spooky house)
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October 27th - Blood Bath
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October 28th - The Unus Annus Annual Costume Contest
(note- Second Video in big spooky house)
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October 29th - Ethan Turns Mark into a Werewolf
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October 30th - Ethan Kidnapped Mark
(note- Third Video in big spooky house. Ethan made Mark an escape room)
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October 31st - The Truth of Unus Annus
(note- Final Video in the big house. They open the Custom Coffin and change from their clothes into their suits. 13 Days Left)
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November 1st - Accepting the Truth
(note- They Accept they are going to die. They remain in their suits from this point onward)
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November 2nd - The Unus Annus Last Supper
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November 3rd - Being Brutally Honest with Each Other
(note- Mark cries)
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November 4th - Recreating Every Single Unus Annus Video
(note- 45 minutes and 11 seconds. Longest video)
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November 5th - All Our Video Ideas That Never Happened
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November 6th - Who's Cutting Onions In Here???
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November 7th - The 1st Annual Unus Annus Roast
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November 8th - God's Fitness Test
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November 9th - Saying Goodbye to All Our Guests
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November 10th - Everything's Legal If You're Dead
(note- Cooking with Sex Toys 2)
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November 11th - 7 Minutes in Heaven | 7 Minutes in Hell
(note- Ethan got heaven, Mark got hell)
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November 12th - The Unus Annus Annual Sleepover
(note- The final video.)
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November 13th - Goodbye.
(note- The final livestream.)

Unus Annus, Cooking with Sex Toys, Purging Our Sins with a Neti Pot, Hot Dog'd to Death, Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank, The Good Kind of Cupping, The Bad Kind of Cupping, The Worst Kind of Cupping, Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls, Doing Each Other's Makeup in the Dark, Baby Hands Operation, Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost, 2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition, Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surprise...), Play-Doh Thanksgiving, Helium Therapy, Drawing Memes from Memory, 1 Man 100 Accents, An A.I. Predicts How We're Going to Die, Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond, The Chubby Gummy Challenge, We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React To It, Mark and Ethan Attempt an Escape Room, Ethan Destroys Mark's Van with a Bat, There's Still Hope..., Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral, The Great Meat Mistake, Acupuncture Is NOT Painful, Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank, Mark Reviews The Impossible Burger But There's a Looming Sense of Impending Doom, We Made Nude Paintings of Eachother, You Made Beautiful Music for The Barrel... But Only One Could Win, We Had To Drink Each Other's Pee, Ethan Explores Mark's Haunted Basement, Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button, Ethan's Relaxing and Totally Normal Nail Salon, Taped and Afraid, What Was The Most Painful Thing We've Ever Endured?, Donating Toys to Charity w/ JackSepticEye, Harnessing Our Dogs' Unlimited Energy, Santa's Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog), Forcibly Turning Mark Into Santa Claus Against His Will, Preserving Ourselves In Wax, Beating Inanimate Objects to Death, Emotional Pain vs Physical Pain... 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Lineup Optimizer is a sports related application which allows the users to see the statistics of each team in every game. It makes your life easier, provides valuable information about the players, and presents data that will help you make an intelligent choice and take decisions for the benefit of your team. Lineup Optimizer will also provide you with the projections on the number of wins or losses made by the team. The good thing about this application is that it is entirely free of cost. The application offers you valuable information such as data on the average number of shots taken per game, average number of fouls taken per game, and the number of goals scored per game etc.
Lineup Optimizer works on the basic premise that there are certain probabilities associated with a specific event. There is an inbuilt algorithm in the software which uses these probabilities to project the future performance of a player. Once, the user inputs data into the system, the software generates the possible lineups based on these inputs. The projections on the number of wins or losses made by the team are provided at the end of the season. This application is very useful for sports enthusiasts, coaches, and managers who need to keep a track of the performance of their team. It provides a unique and valuable service, which is often under utilized.
Lineup Optimizer was launched in the market by Jason Steele and Mark Hassler in 2021. Although it is a simple tool, it is one of the best lineup optimizers on the market. The fact that it is a free program has created a niche for itself. Many daily fantasy (DF) experts consider it as one of the best tools available to DFS managers. It also features a fantasy football news feed so you can stay up-to-date with the latest news on any player's injury or transfer status.
The concept behind the Lineup Optimizer is relatively simple. The software analyzes the data coming from your direct feeds, NFL, college football, soccer, baseball, etc. Once the data is analyzed, the software will generate the possible lineups for you based on these inputs. The program then compares the input data with the official NFL schedule to find the optimal lineup. It does this by looking at the players who played in a game in the same week as your selected player and the team your team plays in the next closest, as well as any other criteria that you specify.
This sports app works by checking all of the public data sets and then sorting through them to find the best possible combination for your current game situation. In essence, it takes the best players in the game and compares their statistics to the NFL schedules to find the optimal lineups. By using the custom options available, you can fine tune the Lineup Optimizer to better take into account the type of sport you are playing and how competitive it is.
While Lineup Optimizer is the best overall resource for NFL picks and predictions, I've found a couple of the free options are just as good. The two free apps I recommend are the Sunday Ticket Pack and the Fan Wagering Picker. Each of these apps provides great information on average points due to injuries and overall team performance, but the Sunday Ticket Pack's projection is particularly useful as it includes team performance by season level. Lastly, if you're really frustrated and need a good betting strategy, check out the Fan Wagering Picker, which gives you the top team statistics for every game this season.

Self-explanatory. Need your best sports betting app suggestions. I’ve been thinking of getting into sports betting for a while because I keep accurately predicting correct results, scores etc so think now would be a good time to actually make some money off this.
Btw I don’t need any betting tips - just the apps please. Also would prefer it if the app is good for soccer and the NBA as those are my favourite sports.
Tyler.

I started betting on the 1X2 markets long ago but I never had much success. Then in 2016 I decided to start playing with available data on the top European leagues. I am a Data Scientist and I was able to apply many of the techniques I use in my day to day job.
I built a model that predicts expected points of each team in the league and I learnt a lot along the way. I applied the model to my weekly bets, had some wins and some disappointments but above all I started to enjoy the betting experience much more and was able to analyze matches much much faster.
I realized that the strength of a model is that it summarizes teams strengths and highlights opportunities in the coming fixtures. It is not an end to itself and I believe the best recipe is to use a model as a support in the match analysis. This approach gives the best results in my experience.
In the last months when there was little opportunity for betting I decided to write down the detailed steps I went through to build my model, together with the working code examples. This naturally turned into a small book. I believe that by learning a little coding anybody can create a model that predicts expected points, expected goals, corners and more, in a short time. The possibilities and applications in the betting market are huge.
You can read here the first 3 chapters of the book for Free.
Hope you enjoy it and if you want to dig a bit more the full book is here.
Best of luck and happy betting!

Several weeks ago I read a piece from Packy McCormick’s great newsletter, Not Boring, in which he wrote, “There are two ways to predict the future: you can call it or you can build it.” He smartly outlined two archetypes of leadership and entrepreneurship: Shotcallers versus Worldbuilders.
To paraphrase Packy:

• Shotcallers are brash and bold. They find a big market, guarantee that they’re going to transform it, and try to spend their way into making that happen.
• Worldbuilders are visionary. They predict something non-obvious about the way the world is moving before others see it, then create a wedge into the market and leverage it into a much larger opportunity - all while outlining their vision in public or for their team.

Muhammad Ali was a Shotcaller; he announced he would knock you out, and then he did. Jeff Bezos is a Worldbuilder; he recognized the massive opportunity in eCommerce, started with books as the “first best product” to sell online, and then ruthlessly executed on his vision until he parlayed a bookstore into an empire of video streaming, grocery stores, cloud computing, and more.
In his essay, Packy crowns the Worldbuilder as the better archetype, particularly in the context of consumer tech. I loved the framework and it got me thinking: who would be on my Worldbuilder list? I started to jot down some names and added examples throughout the week as they popped in my head. When I scanned my list a couple of days later, though, I realized most of them didn’t really fit the Worldbuilder profile, but represented some other persona. I DM’d Packy.
“What do you think about the idea of Worldconnectors?”
“Write it,” he said. Here we are.
I’m introducing Worldconnectors not in opposition to Shotcallers or Worldbuilders, but as another archetype for consideration.

• Worldconnectors are polymaths. Their initial wedge is a unique talent or strain of intellect that attracts an audience, which they then leverage to spread into other interest communities. Their success is not a function of a strategic plan, but compounds over time with their capacity for cross-pollination and consistently great timing.

Why should we care? Where the Worldbuilder accomplishes feats of ambition and engineering, the Worldconnector is a master of authenticity and connection. They find a way to say and create what they want, preserve their independence while doing it, and prosper along the way. I believe that’s important for the culture and society, important for business, important for our wellbeing. And it’s important we see how all of those things are connected too.
Ok, let’s introduce a Worldconnector. Our first example is...John Mayer.
Let me explain. Maybe you love his music, maybe you loathe it. Maybe he frustrates you because he’s a guitar virtuoso who makes straightforward pop tunes. I know people with very strong Mayer emotions. The dude can be polarizing. But it’s undeniable that he possesses a type of genius.
Let’s break it down:
Mayer has Millennial fans who grew up with him, he has Gen Z fans who love his music and his collaborations with emerging pop artists, and he’s got their parents, late Gen X Dead Heads who’ve totally embraced his unlikely role in Dead & Company. The guy who wrote “Your Body is a Wonderland” is now welcomed by the jam band faithful as Jerry Garcia’s successor. That, my friends, is reaching across the aisle.
He collects vintage timepieces and is an authority among the watch-obsessed community. He’s a stealth fashion influencer, suffusing personal style through all of his projects and appearances. He is both a connoisseur of classics and a notorious hypebeast. As my friend @euko noted, the web gets more interesting the further you follow each thread: “Even his fashion interest alone connects him to everything from japanese forms to blockbuster movies. Mayer loves Acronym, a technical apparel brand inspired by functionality and martial arts, whose founder designs pieces for the Fast and the Furious franchise as well as Death Stranding, one of the biggest video games of the last year.”
Mayer is bros with Dave Chapelle and tours with him, performing hybrid concerts and comedy shows. And one of his best friends is Andy Cohen, the maestro of Bravo, which is extremely on-brand as far as friendships go, given Mayer’s lengthy history of tabloid exploits and celebrity drama.
As he settles into his own brand of maturity, Mayer’s most intriguing quality is ambiguity. He has one foot cemented in gossipy, plasticized mainstream culture, while another dances in and out of various niches, most notably the cult of “The Dead,” whose dancing bears and stealie skull are some of the strongest symbols of counterculture in American history. There are four generational cohorts who care about John Mayer. He’s a kind of portal from Gen Z back to the ‘60s, a link from the acid tests to Insta stories.
All of this coalesces in his homespun variety show on Instagram, “Current Mood.” I think it’s one of the most interesting new media projects of the last couple years.
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There are a lot of Mayer data points here. Let’s visualize it:

John Mayer

Wolrdconnector nickname: “The Celeb Everyman”
Network type: Sparse Clustering
Platform of choice: Instagram
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What makes a Worldconnector?

• Unwavering authenticity. They can’t be anything other than themselves. No employer or brand partnership or single venture could ever sustain their curiosity or potential; their own identity is paramount.
• Social instincts. They understand that conversation sets the conditions for growth. It’s not a matter of extroversion, necessarily, but a need to express deep insights or discoveries, and to receive information in return through a social feedback loop.
• Audience understanding. They have a knack for attracting and consolidating audiences, across a wide range of demographics or interest profiles. And they respect the audience. They understand that, like them, their audience and the individuals that compose it are not one dimensional nor naive. (The same can’t be said of many brands and media outlets.)
• Zeitgeist synthesis. They connect the dots more quickly, or in a more interesting way, than the rest of us. They understand how the latest news or emergent trends link to their work and the cultural moment.
• Polymathism. They do numerous things incredibly well or have a deep knowledge of many subjects. They walk the walk. They can draw on a reservoir of skills or charms when a problem, opportunity, or cultural opening presents itself. In this way, they create their own luck.

Now, let’s look at some other examples.

Sam Harris

Worldconnector nickname: “The mind guide”
Network type: Vertical Integration
Platform of choice: Podcasting
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Working from a background in neuroscience, Harris branches into various intellectual pursuits and commercial projects that all tie back to theory of mind. He publishes books, talks at events, hosts a podcast, and created the Waking Up App. He’s a member of the “Intellectual Dark Web” but speaks to a growing audience of 1.3M Twitter followers right out in the open. In any venue, he can go into politics or spirituality or tech, and it all feels integrated and authentic. For a guy that seems to be in many places all at once, he’s a master of non-duality (must be all the meditation).

Megan Rapinoe

Wolrdconnector nickname: “The Most Vocal & Valuable Player”
Network type: Gradual Grower
Platform of choice: Instagram
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Rewind a few years. When you thought of women’s soccer, you probably didn’t think of politics. When you thought of the LGBTQ community, you probably didn’t think sports. And when you thought of the women’s national soccer team, you probably didn’t think about the next generation of boys idolizing them.
Megan Rapinoe makes you think again.
With her amazing performances on the big stage, her primetime personality, and her activism and irreverence off the field, she’s connected fans across genders and interest profiles. And her ambition and crossover of worlds now leads her into entrepreneurship - she is cofounder of re-inc., a gender-neutral lifestyle brand.

Action Bronson

Worldconnector nickname: “The Cultural Savant”
Network type: Fractal Flywheel
Platform of choice: SVOD
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This guy manages to be all over the map but makes perfect sense while doing it. When you zoom out, his profile seems a bit scattered, but zoom in and you’ll find the connections are pretty tight. You could spend a day with him (IRL or watching Viceland or on Instagram) flicking through vintage records, watching 1980’s action flicks, talking early aughts Yankees, or debating the nuances of truffle species and natural wines. Each one of his interests feeds the next and his audience flywheel picks up speed accordingly.

Worldconnectors are entrepreneurs of the intersection, and intersections are the new mainstream

Whereas Worldbuilders bend the world toward their vision through impeccable planning and execution, Worldconnectors deftly navigate opportunities with a sort of finely tuned echolocation. They send out signals, detect where there’s most resonance, and apply their most compatible talent or knowledge to thrive in those spaces, at least for a while.
Those spaces tend to be cultural intersections: where hippie meets hypebeast, where Michelin stars meet psychoactive plants, where mindfulness meets tech. Conscious or not, the Worldconnector approach is basically a whitespace strategy:

• Cultural intersections are less crowded: find the pockets and overlaps between mass movements, and you just might claim something ownable
• Cultural intersections are more defensible: they require exceptional authenticity, personality, and versatility - a harsh atmosphere for most brands to thrive in. Plus, a career of intersection-hopping gives you a better chance to outrun the AI.
• Cultural intersections are compounding bets: when they payoff and start to get crowded, whoever is directing the traffic benefits from numerous audiences colliding and multiplying.

The mainstream, as we knew it, is gone. That old mainstream, reliant on the mass media model, was killed by the internet. In the new mainstream, we invest much of our attention along the long tail and check back in with the masses when something compelling enough forms a new homepage for the culture. It’s a combinatorial mainstream now, and it seems to shatter almost weekly, then reform with a new mix of components. Algorithms surface deep cuts or pop-adjacent stuff that feels made just for us, and only steer us back toward the Consensus Content™ when there are enough signals that a thing is reaching a critical mass of interest.
A version of the new mainstream might look something like this:
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Or it might feel like this: surf.city
In this mainstream, we enjoy more freedom and fluidity in our consumption identities. Demographics don’t dictate behaviors and tastes anywhere near as much as they used to.
In the old model, saturation was achievable. With the right exposure and enough media spend, one could penetrate a very high percentage of the mainstream. Set a crude plan to reach American women 25-44 and, voila, you’d probably get your money’s worth. But the center could not hold. Now, any given piece of content, cultural event, or celebrity might register with multiple sub-communities - but it’s highly unlikely to capture a majority of public awareness.
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With mass media corroding and audience fragmentation on the rise, the Worldconnector is a force for coherence. They save niche communities from becoming islands and show the rest of us how certain stuff on the fringes is actually hyper-relevant to “the now.” While Worldbuilders and Shotcallers predict the future, Worldconnectors consolidate the present.
How? By reaching people directly and immediately. New media trends make this possible (and scalable).

• Premium social: Attention moving away from general public feeds, more focus on community building, incentives to create high quality or exclusive content
• Direct-to-audience publishing and broadcasting: Rise of podcasting, newsletters, live streaming
• Democratization of eCommerce: Stripe, Shopify, Gumroad, et. al make it possible to sell direct to an audience with near-zero friction
• Diminishing trust in MSM: We don’t want gatekeepers of information and content, we want decentralized expertise and entertainment

Worldconnectors force us to rethink influence

Worldconnectors don’t necessarily set out to build. They set out to think, to create art or synthesize information, to infect others with ideas and feelings. They are highly generative and prolific. But their power is not a matter of top-down impact; they don’t make things go viral at will. Worldconnectors are experts at setting the conditions for organic virality.
Studying Worldconnectors can help shake us free from the lazy assumption that follower counts and impressions = influence. We like these metrics because they are a short cut, an abstraction from the living, breathing, sometimes very messy network that underlies any system where people are involved. But - as the Worldconnector shows us - we’re glazing over a lot of sociological and mathematical meaning by being so obsessed with pure reach.
A quick look at social network analysis and graph theory. Here, Worldconnectors are unique, highly valuable nodes in a network.
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Earlier, we looked at the qualities that make a Worldconnector. What’s cool is that Worldconnectedness is actually measurable, through quantities like density and centrality:
A Worldconnector is super well-connected

• Density refers to the "connections" between participants. Density is defined as the number of connections a participant has, divided by the total possible connections a participant could have. For example, if there are 20 people participating, each person could potentially connect to 19 other people. A density of 100% (19/19) is the greatest density in the system. [Wikipedia]

A Worldconnector is highly interactive

• Centrality focuses on the behavior of individual participants within a network. It measures the extent to which an individual interacts with other individuals in the network. The more an individual connects to others in a network, the greater their centrality in the network. [Wikipedia]

Consider high density and centrality combined with unwavering authenticity and advanced zeitgeist synthesis, and you can start to sense how much magnetism and leverage a Worldconnector has.
Literal thinking might lead you to apply Worldconnector concepts to influencer strategy. But I find it more interesting to use Worldconnector thinking as a mental model to help solve problems around growth, scaling, and branding. How could you transpose Worldconnector qualities from a person to the brand you’re building?
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When you boil it all down, what are Worldconnectors really good at? Closing the chasm. In the new, combinatorial mainstream, someone’s gotta help us connect the dots, and fast.
Honorable mention. Other potential Worldconnectors who came up while brainstorming (in no particular order). Who would be on your list?

• Joe Rogan
• Oprah Winfrey
• Dax Shepard
• Chrissy Teigen
• Donald Glover
• Dev Hynes
• Lena Waithe
• Howard Stern
• Awkwafina
• AOC
• Spike Lee

Packy again. Who’d we miss? Throw your Worldconnectors in the comments.
Link to original post: https://notboring.substack.com/p/worldconnectors-and-the-new-mainstream

Update: Solution solved. Thanks for helping me localize the specific issue. In one part I was not thinking correctly about the imports and depedencies and then once I figured it out, I figured out a typo configuration issue. The solution was to:

• import function into server.ts file

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Specific Question: How do I set up a scheduler like Chron / Node-Scheduler within a pre-launch nodeJS application. First reddit post after 10 years of stubbornly lurking on reddit, so clearly I am very very motivated to solve this problem and desperate for help / advice :)
I may need to set up a scheduler in nodeJS to run certain batch data analytics functions that generate our mongo data collections. If I provided more details than you're interested, feel free to just read the bold which hits the key points. For now I just want to try it out and spend no more than 1-2 days playing around to see if this is a fruitful path.
The technical issue: I can't seem to install a Scheduler in our existing nodeJS project that uses typescript.

• I can't seem for the life of me to install a Schedule Library, import it, and configure it such that I can console.log('hello world') to get to a minimum baseline we can work with.
• I know there are a number of tutorials online that indicate how to setup a demo-app for a scheduler, and these tutorials (helpfully) go through the setup of the entire server side program.
• That said, I'm unclear where those depedencies go in our existing program. I am a startup CEO with more of a business background, and I am hesitant about messing around with our existing server.ts file (until we scale and I hire a full time CTO).
• Ideally, I would like to write all the import statements in its own folder. For Example in the Server FoldeServices/[SCHEDULE FOLDER would go here], and there would be primary file that sets up the basics (so that it's totally encapsulated / and if we don't go in this direction we can remove it without surgery across the codebase).

The business context / issue: the particular way we use a route triggered by a key user action in our workflow to update our key data analytics layers [which are the core of the Product] is proving to be a not useful pattern

• We are "close" to launching a full stack web-application. Stack is Mongo, Express, Angular6, NodeJS. We use typescript.
• The application is gamified betting on the news. Users compete to make predictions on best with links to controversial news stories about what will happen next (sports, politics, etnertainment). The odds / lines on these markets change dynamically as users bet (like any betting market). When bets are settled, we figure out which users are right or wrong, and currently award them payouts of the type points (other payout structures like game currency or real currency could be added).
• The users scores are a critical part of the user experience. They want to see and visualize the scores. The scores a hierarchical. So a user may have a sports score where they won 150 points ==> Sports Score May break down into a Basketball score of Basketball +100, Football + 200, Soccer - 150 [these are the sums of all the points won or lost against that specific topic]
• There are a couple (I think the word is) ONTOLOGIES with various levels of ID Maps, so granular scores like NBA + College Basketball ROLL UP to a more general hierarchy (e.g. Basketball) ROLLS Up to Sports, and so on. The scores will be served to the front end
• FRONT END: in the long term there will be SCORE EXPLORER functionality, so users may click one data visualization (like a sexy bar chart) representing SPORTS POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT MARKETS TECH and if they click one bar chart, they would see the cascading elements underneath the selected element [BACK END IMPLICAITON: when storing the scores in the database, we need to carefully label some of the metadata, so the labels agree with the front end logic and we don't do backflips to convert back end data to the necessary front end models, etc.]

I suspect that setting up a timer to call the functions to build the data analytics layers might be a fruitful way to get the server and database to cooperate.
I've received the feedback - encapsulate and test - but there isn't a specific function that isn't running well in isolation.

• Currently, we've built a number of encapsulated functions that work, but I'm trying to solve the "meta process" that connects these functions to the right API routes / business triggers. It's when we put everything together that we often get promises errors that some process timed out, or later stage analytics layer outputs as an empty collection even though the prior collection (upon investigation - had the expected data we would want to see).
• I think the function we built probably works, and the api triggers work my sense is that we've written encapsulated code that while it works in isolation, might have conflicting assumptions (so back to the drawing board, but to get to launch before time runs out, want to reuse what exists vs. reinvent the wheel)
• Function(s):
  • A Query is sent to MONGO [BETS COLLECTION] == > Update the BETS to an AGGREGATION COLLECTION CALLED PAYOUTS [For now, let's assume there is a 1:1 relationship on a payout]
  • [This step happens several times for each Score Classification Ontology] A Query is sent to MONGO [PAYOUTS COLLECTION from BETS COLLECTION==> GROUPBY so the Payouts turn into Sums of scores segmented By UserID & ScoreDefition [e.g. JOHNNY Scored 55 TOTAL POINTS on the topic called SPORTS-BASKETBALL-NBA] .
    • Final step is an $Out stage that rewrites a collection called [ScoresA or ScoresB, etc. conforming to the hierarchy of score]
  • [For each ontology apply an almost parralel process] A Query is sent to a SUM OF PAYOUTS Collection [Main processing is a lookup + groupBY] ==> outputs to a SUM of SUM of payouts Collection.
  • And So on. Sum of Sum of payouts ==> LOOKUP & GROUP BY & OUT ==> Sum of Sum of Sum of Payouts, and so on.
• API: the current request that triggers these functions a SUPER USER on our MODERATION TEAM completing a form where they select the correct outcome to the BET => this updates the BET information in the database, and it also updates the votes on that bet. THIS CALL also triggers the functions noted above [but maybe that's not the appropriate trigger?]
  • Updating the analytics is the final process that occurs. The way it works is that it calls the first aggregation (including the command to OUT the data to the parent collection) and then it applies the next aggregation to that subsequent collection and so it. Each function uses as a dependency the outputted collection from the prior query.
• My sense is THIS IS A BAD PATTERN (?) but i'm not quite sure how to make it better. That's why I'm investigating Chron Scheduler.
  • It's a bad pattern because the server side is timing. Mongo trying to run each query after the new collection persists, and then taking the next collection and so on, all as part of some trigger controlled by some moderator updating a bet, is probably too much coordination to workout between server and database [or I'm not sophisticated enough at this stage to confidently solve the problem]
  • I suspect if we did the aggregations / group by's off some timed schedule, that would be fine. Like once an hour we could run each query every minute. The data analytics collections could process in the database layer of the application, the server wouldn't be waiting for these processes to resolve and everything would be happy?
  • I'm sure that's not the only way to solve the problem. Another avenue I am investigating is to replace the OUT stage. And to add a match parameter, so each real time update only concerned the very small subset of users and scores related to the resolved bet. and then just upsert that data.

So please help me node community!

• How can i get a scheduler for batch jobs up and running (which i'd use to build the data analytics layer, layer by layer, every interim unit of time (daily accuracy or hourly accuracy would be fine). Success would be if i could install the right library, import the right file, run my server and see "hello world" by the minute
• Or... Judging from the overall issue i described, do you think i'm missing something... do you have other suggestions to help me solve the problem quickly and efficiently so we can launch (or that you think would be helpful feedback or advice to take into account next time)
• Startup founder (business guy far deeper in the codebase than he expected to be). Willing to grind / decently competent at coding fundamentals, but keep in mind not a leet-coder and already in-over his skis. Looking for a pattern to get to an MVP launch with the assumption that given data models are defined well, we can refactor the specific queries and server patterns as an entirely new API when we have bandwith / traction and money to hire the next tier of devs and I fire myself out of the job.

Thank you!

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Several weeks ago I read a piece from Packy McCormick’s great newsletter, Not Boring, in which he wrote, “There are two ways to predict the future: you can call it or you can build it.” He smartly outlined two archetypes of leadership and entrepreneurship: Shotcallers versus Worldbuilders.
To paraphrase Packy:

• Shotcallers are brash and bold. They find a big market, guarantee that they’re going to transform it, and try to spend their way into making that happen.
• Worldbuilders are visionary. They predict something non-obvious about the way the world is moving before others see it, then create a wedge into the market and leverage it into a much larger opportunity - all while outlining their vision in public or for their team.

Muhammad Ali was a Shotcaller; he announced he would knock you out, and then he did. Jeff Bezos is a Worldbuilder; he recognized the massive opportunity in eCommerce, started with books as the “first best product” to sell online, and then ruthlessly executed on his vision until he parlayed a bookstore into an empire of video streaming, grocery stores, cloud computing, and more.
In his essay, Packy crowns the Worldbuilder as the better archetype, particularly in the context of consumer tech. I loved the framework and it got me thinking: who would be on my Worldbuilder list? I started to jot down some names and added examples throughout the week as they popped in my head. When I scanned my list a couple of days later, though, I realized most of them didn’t really fit the Worldbuilder profile, but represented some other persona. I DM’d Packy.
“What do you think about the idea of Worldconnectors?”
“Write it,” he said. Here we are.
I’m introducing Worldconnectors not in opposition to Shotcallers or Worldbuilders, but as another archetype for consideration.

• Worldconnectors are polymaths. Their initial wedge is a unique talent or strain of intellect that attracts an audience, which they then leverage to spread into other interest communities. Their success is not a function of a strategic plan, but compounds over time with their capacity for cross-pollination and consistently great timing.

Why should we care? Where the Worldbuilder accomplishes feats of ambition and engineering, the Worldconnector is a master of authenticity and connection. They find a way to say and create what they want, preserve their independence while doing it, and prosper along the way. I believe that’s important for the culture and society, important for business, important for our wellbeing. And it’s important we see how all of those things are connected too.
Ok, let’s introduce a Worldconnector. Our first example is...John Mayer.
Let me explain. Maybe you love his music, maybe you loathe it. Maybe he frustrates you because he’s a guitar virtuoso who makes straightforward pop tunes. I know people with very strong Mayer emotions. The dude can be polarizing. But it’s undeniable that he possesses a type of genius.
Let’s break it down:
Mayer has Millennial fans who grew up with him, he has Gen Z fans who love his music and his collaborations with emerging pop artists, and he’s got their parents, late Gen X Dead Heads who’ve totally embraced his unlikely role in Dead & Company. The guy who wrote “Your Body is a Wonderland” is now welcomed by the jam band faithful as Jerry Garcia’s successor. That, my friends, is reaching across the aisle.
He collects vintage timepieces and is an authority among the watch-obsessed community. He’s a stealth fashion influencer, suffusing personal style through all of his projects and appearances. He is both a connoisseur of classics and a notorious hypebeast. As my friend @euko noted, the web gets more interesting the further you follow each thread: “Even his fashion interest alone connects him to everything from japanese forms to blockbuster movies. Mayer loves Acronym, a technical apparel brand inspired by functionality and martial arts, whose founder designs pieces for the Fast and the Furious franchise as well as Death Stranding, one of the biggest video games of the last year.”
Mayer is bros with Dave Chapelle and tours with him, performing hybrid concerts and comedy shows. And one of his best friends is Andy Cohen, the maestro of Bravo, which is extremely on-brand as far as friendships go, given Mayer’s lengthy history of tabloid exploits and celebrity drama.
As he settles into his own brand of maturity, Mayer’s most intriguing quality is ambiguity. He has one foot cemented in gossipy, plasticized mainstream culture, while another dances in and out of various niches, most notably the cult of “The Dead,” whose dancing bears and stealie skull are some of the strongest symbols of counterculture in American history. There are four generational cohorts who care about John Mayer. He’s a kind of portal from Gen Z back to the ‘60s, a link from the acid tests to Insta stories.
All of this coalesces in his homespun variety show on Instagram, “Current Mood.” I think it’s one of the most interesting new media projects of the last couple years.
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There are a lot of Mayer data points here. Let’s visualize it:

John Mayer

Wolrdconnector nickname: “The Celeb Everyman”
Network type: Sparse Clustering
Platform of choice: Instagram
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What makes a Worldconnector?

• Unwavering authenticity. They can’t be anything other than themselves. No employer or brand partnership or single venture could ever sustain their curiosity or potential; their own identity is paramount.
• Social instincts. They understand that conversation sets the conditions for growth. It’s not a matter of extroversion, necessarily, but a need to express deep insights or discoveries, and to receive information in return through a social feedback loop.
• Audience understanding. They have a knack for attracting and consolidating audiences, across a wide range of demographics or interest profiles. And they respect the audience. They understand that, like them, their audience and the individuals that compose it are not one dimensional nor naive. (The same can’t be said of many brands and media outlets.)
• Zeitgeist synthesis. They connect the dots more quickly, or in a more interesting way, than the rest of us. They understand how the latest news or emergent trends link to their work and the cultural moment.
• Polymathism. They do numerous things incredibly well or have a deep knowledge of many subjects. They walk the walk. They can draw on a reservoir of skills or charms when a problem, opportunity, or cultural opening presents itself. In this way, they create their own luck.

Now, let’s look at some other examples.

Sam Harris

Worldconnector nickname: “The mind guide”
Network type: Vertical Integration
Platform of choice: Podcasting
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Working from a background in neuroscience, Harris branches into various intellectual pursuits and commercial projects that all tie back to theory of mind. He publishes books, talks at events, hosts a podcast, and created the Waking Up App. He’s a member of the “Intellectual Dark Web” but speaks to a growing audience of 1.3M Twitter followers right out in the open. In any venue, he can go into politics or spirituality or tech, and it all feels integrated and authentic. For a guy that seems to be in many places all at once, he’s a master of non-duality (must be all the meditation).

Megan Rapinoe

Wolrdconnector nickname: “The Most Vocal & Valuable Player”
Network type: Gradual Grower
Platform of choice: Instagram
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Rewind a few years. When you thought of women’s soccer, you probably didn’t think of politics. When you thought of the LGBTQ community, you probably didn’t think sports. And when you thought of the women’s national soccer team, you probably didn’t think about the next generation of boys idolizing them.
Megan Rapinoe makes you think again.
With her amazing performances on the big stage, her primetime personality, and her activism and irreverence off the field, she’s connected fans across genders and interest profiles. And her ambition and crossover of worlds now leads her into entrepreneurship - she is cofounder of re-inc., a gender-neutral lifestyle brand.

Action Bronson

Worldconnector nickname: “The Cultural Savant”
Network type: Fractal Flywheel
Platform of choice: SVOD
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This guy manages to be all over the map but makes perfect sense while doing it. When you zoom out, his profile seems a bit scattered, but zoom in and you’ll find the connections are pretty tight. You could spend a day with him (IRL or watching Viceland or on Instagram) flicking through vintage records, watching 1980’s action flicks, talking early aughts Yankees, or debating the nuances of truffle species and natural wines. Each one of his interests feeds the next and his audience flywheel picks up speed accordingly.

Worldconnectors are entrepreneurs of the intersection, and intersections are the new mainstream

Whereas Worldbuilders bend the world toward their vision through impeccable planning and execution, Worldconnectors deftly navigate opportunities with a sort of finely tuned echolocation. They send out signals, detect where there’s most resonance, and apply their most compatible talent or knowledge to thrive in those spaces, at least for a while.
Those spaces tend to be cultural intersections: where hippie meets hypebeast, where Michelin stars meet psychoactive plants, where mindfulness meets tech. Conscious or not, the Worldconnector approach is basically a whitespace strategy:

• Cultural intersections are less crowded: find the pockets and overlaps between mass movements, and you just might claim something ownable
• Cultural intersections are more defensible: they require exceptional authenticity, personality, and versatility - a harsh atmosphere for most brands to thrive in. Plus, a career of intersection-hopping gives you a better chance to outrun the AI.
• Cultural intersections are compounding bets: when they payoff and start to get crowded, whoever is directing the traffic benefits from numerous audiences colliding and multiplying.

The mainstream, as we knew it, is gone. That old mainstream, reliant on the mass media model, was killed by the internet. In the new mainstream, we invest much of our attention along the long tail and check back in with the masses when something compelling enough forms a new homepage for the culture. It’s a combinatorial mainstream now, and it seems to shatter almost weekly, then reform with a new mix of components. Algorithms surface deep cuts or pop-adjacent stuff that feels made just for us, and only steer us back toward the Consensus Content™ when there are enough signals that a thing is reaching a critical mass of interest.
A version of the new mainstream might look something like this:
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Or it might feel like this: surf.city
In this mainstream, we enjoy more freedom and fluidity in our consumption identities. Demographics don’t dictate behaviors and tastes anywhere near as much as they used to.
In the old model, saturation was achievable. With the right exposure and enough media spend, one could penetrate a very high percentage of the mainstream. Set a crude plan to reach American women 25-44 and, voila, you’d probably get your money’s worth. But the center could not hold. Now, any given piece of content, cultural event, or celebrity might register with multiple sub-communities - but it’s highly unlikely to capture a majority of public awareness.
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With mass media corroding and audience fragmentation on the rise, the Worldconnector is a force for coherence. They save niche communities from becoming islands and show the rest of us how certain stuff on the fringes is actually hyper-relevant to “the now.” While Worldbuilders and Shotcallers predict the future, Worldconnectors consolidate the present.
How? By reaching people directly and immediately. New media trends make this possible (and scalable).

• Premium social: Attention moving away from general public feeds, more focus on community building, incentives to create high quality or exclusive content
• Direct-to-audience publishing and broadcasting: Rise of podcasting, newsletters, live streaming
• Democratization of eCommerce: Stripe, Shopify, Gumroad, et. al make it possible to sell direct to an audience with near-zero friction
• Diminishing trust in MSM: We don’t want gatekeepers of information and content, we want decentralized expertise and entertainment

Worldconnectors force us to rethink influence

Worldconnectors don’t necessarily set out to build. They set out to think, to create art or synthesize information, to infect others with ideas and feelings. They are highly generative and prolific. But their power is not a matter of top-down impact; they don’t make things go viral at will. Worldconnectors are experts at setting the conditions for organic virality.
Studying Worldconnectors can help shake us free from the lazy assumption that follower counts and impressions = influence. We like these metrics because they are a short cut, an abstraction from the living, breathing, sometimes very messy network that underlies any system where people are involved. But - as the Worldconnector shows us - we’re glazing over a lot of sociological and mathematical meaning by being so obsessed with pure reach.
A quick look at social network analysis and graph theory. Here, Worldconnectors are unique, highly valuable nodes in a network.
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Earlier, we looked at the qualities that make a Worldconnector. What’s cool is that Worldconnectedness is actually measurable, through quantities like density and centrality:
A Worldconnector is super well-connected

• Density refers to the "connections" between participants. Density is defined as the number of connections a participant has, divided by the total possible connections a participant could have. For example, if there are 20 people participating, each person could potentially connect to 19 other people. A density of 100% (19/19) is the greatest density in the system. [Wikipedia]

A Worldconnector is highly interactive

• Centrality focuses on the behavior of individual participants within a network. It measures the extent to which an individual interacts with other individuals in the network. The more an individual connects to others in a network, the greater their centrality in the network. [Wikipedia]

Consider high density and centrality combined with unwavering authenticity and advanced zeitgeist synthesis, and you can start to sense how much magnetism and leverage a Worldconnector has.
Literal thinking might lead you to apply Worldconnector concepts to influencer strategy. But I find it more interesting to use Worldconnector thinking as a mental model to help solve problems around growth, scaling, and branding. How could you transpose Worldconnector qualities from a person to the brand you’re building?
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When you boil it all down, what are Worldconnectors really good at? Closing the chasm. In the new, combinatorial mainstream, someone’s gotta help us connect the dots, and fast.
Huge thanks to Packy for featuring this piece, I hope it was on brand (Not Boring). And thank you to Paige Geffen, Eugene Ko, and Adam Saewitz for helping to sharpen some of the thinking here.
Honorable mention. Other potential Worldconnectors who came up while brainstorming (in no particular order). Who would be on your list?

• Joe Rogan
• Oprah Winfrey
• Dax Shepard
• Chrissy Teigen
• Donald Glover
• Dev Hynes
• Lena Waithe
• Howard Stern
• Awkwafina
• AOC
• Spike Lee

Packy again. Who’d we miss? Throw your Worldconnectors in the comments.
Link to post: https://notboring.substack.com/p/worldconnectors-and-the-new-mainstream

Sports betting website development services have taken leverage in the past one year. The task of predicting results of sports matches and the way to place bets on the outcome of any sports match or events is a great way to accomplish revenue followed by a huge fan base. While sports betting games like cricket and football include people earning their bread and butter, however, it also includes people who bet for entertainment. You can provide millions with the platform to bet using the right sports betting API.
A bet has two possibilities. Either you win, or you lose. Bookmakers or bookies are the companies that provide sports betting services for the betting agency. Betting exchange is the service provider who offers a marketplace. The customer or the candidate who places a bet is called Punter.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A SPORTS BETTING API

API is an application programming interface that is set between two websites to fetch data from the other. The website provides an application programming interface that creates flexibility for the other site. Ones the application programming interface is implemented to one website, the website that is executed will have access to all market odds.
Also Read: A GUIDE TO AN ADVANCED MULTILEVEL BETTING EXCHANGE PLATFORM

NEED A SPORTS BETTING API

The entrepreneurs have taken sports betting to a new level by providing a common platform to all the sports lovers. This concept of best sports betting API has provided wagers to sports lovers and service providers, through which the customers are also benefitted and earned a significant profit in the market.

WHICH ARE THE BEST SPORTS BETTING API PROVIDERS?

A number of sports betting API has made entry to business and some have become the leading sports betting API provider in the market. Here are some of the list:

• Bet Fair- The Betfair API, is the only platform that is the torch bearer to this world as they are the ones who introduced the online betting exchange and still stand as the big fish of the ocean. They are the largest platform of the world for online betting and by using Betfair API exchange, developers can create the best betting tools and interface to use with sports exchange and generate great revenue. Some features like finding markets, current bet details, bet placing, checking history are the key aspects of Betfair API.
• SharkScope- The best service provider with all information on poker tournament results. Through this developers can add real money to the games without any hassle. They have the possibility of having data about players and their playing streak over time. The SharkScope API offers the developers to integrate the information into their developed apps. Developers can develop apps on SharkScope tracks using the company’s comprehensive API.
• Pinnacle Sports- Pinnacle Sports API provides the clients, and its participants access to an XML API that provides live odds and enables the clients to place bids directly. The sports betting API is an online service that includes all the information on betting on various sports like football, soccer, baseball, rugby.
• eODDMakers- eODDMakers analyze services using Odd makers engine with the necessary information that keeps them updated with market sports. Through this API developers get access to integrate the database with the respective applications. With the help of eODDmakers , get JSON and XML betting feeds that prove beneficial pre-match and live in-play betting odds.
• Betable- With the help of Betable’s, the developers can add real-money legally to the games without the hassle of the cumbersome and costly processes of obtaining a gambling license. Betable API enables developers to get legally formatted a platform to bid using real money on the respective applications. Therefore, making it possible for the developer to add a variety of games to bid using this API.

SPORTS BETTING API PRICE

Please do not consider the cost as the deciding factor while you invest in sports betting API. The owners do not generate revenue when they lose a bid but also get a commission when they win and the adds that appear on the website give another fixed income.

HOW TO INITIATE PAYMENT FOR A SPORTS BETTING COMPANY FOR SPORTS API?

The primary area of concern is the cost and flexibility of the mode of payment when one decides the project. Depending upon the policies of different best sports betting website development company in India, either you are asked to take things digitally or use currencies.
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Please read at your discretion. Some topics that are discussed here may be triggering so please read at your own risk. The thing is, I don’t know what can be triggering or not. So, I would rather be safe than sorry. I will let you know before the paragraph starts if I think it could be triggering in whatever way it may be. Also, all names mentioned here are fictional to keep the integrity of my social life and others who are mentioned here. This was created in March 2020. Some information may be outdated.

My Birth

I was born on June 27th, 2001. My due date was October 4th, 2001. I was born 14 weeks early (which is 3 months) and weighed 1lbs & 11oz. I was told that if I were to be born one more week earlier, I would have not made it. So I am extremely grateful to be alive and well, and I do thank the doctors at the time for getting me through this as a baby. I was in the hospital for 5 months. Because I was born so early, I had to be on ventilation and was given tons of medication which could be the reason as to why my sight and hearing is impaired. I have profound hearing loss, so yes, I am hard of hearing. I do wear hearing aids on both sides. At one point, 1 of my lungs collapsed which of course influenced my breathing to this day. My Mom was telling me that I was a fighter since I pulled out the tube that was attached to me. I am currently 5'2 (158 cm) and 110 pounds (59.89kg).

My Family

I have 1 older sister named Hannah, and 2 younger brothers: Paul and Joel. Hannah is 21, Paul is 17, and Joel is 15. We all are 2 years apart which I find interesting. Most people always say that my brothers and I look alike. I’m like, how? We all look fundamentally different, yet people think we are alike. I, of course, have my parents too. We all somewhat get along, but I get along with my Sister the most. My Mom is in the nursing field, and my Dad runs his own business for landscaping, and is an electrician during the winter season. We also have 3 cats too. We did have a dog at one point, but we were unable to keep the dog, so we gave it to our Cousin who happily took care of him until he passed away. (Not sure what it was, but I think he did pass away.) He was a good boy.
Paul and Joel always find small reasons to insult me. Like for example, Paul asked me if I was going to get braces, I said no, then he was like, well no girl will ever love you because of your crooked mouth/smile. Another one is both calling me “the destroyer of the internet” because as soon as I walk into the door at home (when I’m back from college for the weekend/reading week) their ping in Fortnite goes up. (For those of you who don’t know what ping is, it’s the latency between them and the game servers, so lower the number is, the smoother the gameplay is without lag.) I have been growing my beard out lately, and it seems like they don’t like it at all since they keep asking me when I will shave it off and also saying that I look like a pedo. They also seem to have a habit of gossiping about me around their friends (maybe not gossiping per se) but the one time, they told one of their friends that I slept in bed naked. And I was like, why does he need to know that?
My brothers are those typical horny boys. When we went to Myrtle Beach one year, we were in the hotel room, and I went to take a bath, also so I can jack off. After I got out, Paul hand gestured jerking off, and mouthed “I know what you did in there”. And I was like, smh whatever. They seem to be in those typical mindset of “hot girls” since it’s all they really talk about in that regard. When I went to Emily’s party, they asked me if I banged her (she would fall under a typical hot girl). I was like, for one, she was dating someone, and for two, she’s my best friend, I wouldn’t do it if she was dating someone to begin with.(Plus, she told me that she wasn’t interested in me romantically, and I respected her for that.) I don’t think I could ever have a conversation anything sex related with my brothers given how awkward they tend to make it. They tend to make moaning noises too when they are with their friends, and/or me too. Joel recently changed his username in Fortnite to “Kumm_shot69”, and I was like, really dude? I really don’t know what goes on in his mind.
Me and my Sister get along well since we never really have anything between us. If she needed help with anything, (usually computer related) she would ask me for help. But aside from that, we don’t really talk much in general. She is in university going towards the physiological field or law.
I don’t really talk much about my parents that often because for the most part, you either had a loving, supportive parent, or the opposite of that. My Mom was somewhat more supportive than what my Dad was. But both were not that supportive overall. They both were on my tail in terms of academic standings since it wasn’t perfect, (In which I didn’t care about). My Dad just has high standards when it comes to life in general. He’s always “go, go, go” trying to be as productive as he can for work too. He would expect you to get 90s on tests and exams. Like the one time when he picked me up from school after my math exam. He asked me how I did on the exam, and I was like, I think I did good for the most part, and he was like, “What do you mean? You didn’t get a 100 on it?” And at the point, I was like going mentally insane at the fact that he has such high expectations when I’m not a fucking God at everything. Math wasn’t really my strong suit at all when Grade 10 happened. But yeah, it’s really for me to be open with my parents since they don’t understand our generation, and what’s it like to have online friends.
I would always be clacking away late at night talking with my online friends, and they are always asking what/why am I typing so much, and I was like “I help others with computer issues on a server.”, which of course to cover up more of the fact I talk with my online friends and do other stuff that I wouldn’t really want them to know, or else shit would probably hit the fans by then. I do way more stuff (more so in a good way) than what they would have realized just from looking at the surface of what I do. I’ve probably helped quite a few people to make a difference in some way, hopefully for the better. And of course, I will continue to help others for as long as I can.

My Childhood

I don’t remember a whole lot of my childhood and younger years. But my Mom told me a few stories of when I was younger. When I was in preschool, we only had 1 or 2 computers at the time. But if there was someone on the computers, I would crawl under the desk and turn off the power bar. Of course, they would be confused and just leave, then I would turn it back on and get on the computer myself. (I would never do this at this age at all) She also noted that it could also be because that my Beppe had an old Macintosh, and that’s how she would turn the Mac on/off.
When I was 5 or 6 years old, I went to the Netherlands, to see our family (second cousins) and I don’t remember much at all about this trip, but that’s my first trip that I’ve been on. Sucks that I don’t remember much at all.
Also went on another trip to Disney World (the one in Florida) when I was like 11 or 12? Barely remember much but it was fun. I remember those yellow plastic surf boards that came with alcoholic drinks that my parents bought. I loved those, and my one brother broke it. I cried, and it forced my parents to get another one the next day or something. I felt so bad now about my parents when they were placed in that situation. But when you are kids, you lack empathy, and I would also say that most kids at that age aren’t self-aware either.
I’ve also been to Disney world for the 2nd time in 2015, Been to Myrtle Beach at least 4 times in the past 5 years. Went to Alberta during the summer of 2017 to visit some relatives there. All of the trips that I’ve been on were fun for me. Nothing much else to say about it other than the fact that I do want to travel more often within the next few years.
Overall, I was more of the outgoing type of kid prior to grade 6, in which I will explain in the next section about School.

School

School overall wasn’t that bad for me. I went to a private Christian school from Kindergarten to grade 5. During that time, I was more of the hyper kid, outgoing. It was a small school too, so everyone knew each other by name or whatever it was. It was about 90–100 students in that school and classes were split too (i.e.: grade 1 and 2, then 3 and 4, etc.) I remember having a crush on these twin girls, they were cute (They were a year younger than me I think). I was friends with their brother who was the same age as me (in the same class). I’ve also met the family too, and they were good people, but they left the school the same time I left the school in grade 5. They moved away to another city, then lost contact with them. Kindergarten was fun and barely much work that you do there anyways. Grade 1 and 2 was alright, 3 and 4 was good for the most part. Grade 5 wasn’t too bad. Overall, my grades were up and down in which I never really cared about.
Around this point in time, my personality changed from being outgoing to shy and reserved (I do think it’s for the better in my opinion). We switched from the private school to a public school (which was in fact closer to our house) and of course, new school, new teachers, and I was shy. I didn’t have many friends at all. I would often hang out with Paul and his friends. Thinking about it, it was cringey to say the least, but what do you do when you don’t have much, or any friends for that matter. I mean, I did have a few friends, but I rarely hung out with them. Grade 7 and 8 was not too bad. I don’t think I would consider any of my elementary years memorable. I didn’t go to any school dances nor went on the Quebec trip that my school was offered to take every 2 years (which was offered when I was in grade 7, I think). So, in general, I never really interacted with my peers or did anything outside of that during my years in elementary school.
High School was better than elementary school in every way. Even though I was shy, it was still better for me that way. Grade 9 was good. Grade 10 was better, though I did join the soccer team and we played well for the most part. Grade 11 was better than 10, but I failed math, so I re-took the course again in grade 12. I did pass it thank god. Grade 12 was probably the best year of all simply because it’s your final year and then you were either doing gap year or going off to college/university in the fall. Throughout my school years, I had an Individual Education Plan (IEP) which laid out what I needed in my classes to be able to succeed. I was exempted from French during Grade 1 to 5 because they thought I wouldn’t be able to do it due to speech impairment that I have (at the time) and the hearing loss that I had as well. I could have done French if I wanted to, but learning another language is hard when you’re not able to hear properly and be able to distinguish between pronunciations. I was told to try French in grade 6, I had to start at the basic level while doing French with the class at their level. It was hard since I struggled to understand everything really. (which is also the reason why I didn’t go on the Quebec trip knowing that you had to communicate in French during some parts and I knew that I wouldn’t be able to because I never grasped the language at all.) So, in grade 6, I was given an iPad to help with French. It kind of did help, but I used it more for Facebook, and playing games. I had the iPad till grade 8. Then when I went to high school, the iPad also came with me. In Canada, French is mandatory in grade 9 that you would take. However if you had reasons to be exempted from it, in which I was able to, (I was so glad that I did, or else I would probably have failed the course anyways) and I was able to take Learning Strategies. It was an easy course, and I knew most of the course material anyways. Most of my peers in that class had a learning disability of some sort. (it wasn’t a class that anyone can take, it was more for people that were exempted from French, and/or exempted from another course for whatever reason.
Anyways, I got exempted from French and took Learning Strategies. So that’s why I don’t know French, and even if I did, I would still struggle. Another aspect of my IEP was an FM system. This was probably the most influential aspect of my education that made the difference between being able to learn and not. For those of you who do not know what an FM system is, it’s a radio transmitter that the teacher wears so that I can hear them better. It’s as if they were in a room one on one, that I would be able to hear betteclearly. The best part is, I can be anywhere in the class, and the teacher can get my attention (without yelling across the room or something) and they could ask me to get something or do this, which I enjoyed doing. But without the teacher wearing the FM system, I would have struggled to hear them clearly most of the time. It’s worse when the class is noisy too. The only downside to it is that when the teacher is talking through the FM, I would not be able to converse with a peer beside me or if someone in the class is trying to get my attention. But overall, having the FM system really makes a huge difference for me, and I am extremely fortunate that it was covered by the school board too. (When I went to private school, my parents had to pay for it since the school doesn’t cover it). I also had few other accommodations that were in my IEP that didn’t really make much difference.
I am currently in college now. I am taking Computer Systems Technician. College is honestly much better than elementary and high school in every way. You’re on your own, you have more responsibilities, in which you have more freedom too. College/University does test your self-control, and whether you attend classes, doing your work or handing assignments in. They often are worth big chunks of your grades too, so either way you would need to do them or else you would fail the course. I do enjoy the courses that I’m taking in my program. The only courses that I really dislike is programming. I absolutely despise programming in every way. I do enjoy the hardware/software side of things and troubleshooting and setting computers up. The bigger chunk of the program that I’m taking is networking, and it gets harder each semester if you don’t get a good understanding of what the course material is. As what it is with most college/university programs are, is building upon fundamental information and depending on what it is, each semester would be building on top of what you learn the semester prior to that. Of course, grades are just one thing in terms of college/university. There is also campus life too, and sports that you can take, etc. I am currently not doing any of that, however I may join a club or sport next year. I will be looking into joining the school’s eSports varsity team and do Rainbow Six Siege on PC.
Life after college is something I have roughly planned out, which is to get a job in IT which I would enjoy, getting a small house, or apartment, and just enjoy life with my partner (if and when I do get one 😊)

Dating Life

To be honest, I never had a girlfriend. I just never did. I was the shy, more reserved type of guy during school. Not once did a girl come up to me or want to hang out with me, etc. during the 4 years of high school. I wasn’t really expecting anyone to anyways, so it never really bothered me. What is more ironic though is that I seem to have a strong understanding of how relationships work and how to fix most relationship issues. Though as with most relationship issues, they are often logical rationale behind it which usually makes sense.
Since I am in college now, I have more freedom and privacy of course. So, I tried out Tinder, and only got a few matches. I had one tinder girl over, and it went well after meeting up, but later (few weeks later) she told me that she was asexual. And I was like, well to be frank with you, it won’t work out at all if we moved forward with it because I wanted sex within the relationship, and she doesn’t. So then sent me a toxic message saying I don’t need sex, and pretty much invalidating my needs in a relationship. I was like, well I dodged a bullet there.
Then I also had another date with a different girl, and it went alright. We got a bit touchy. After that, she ghosted me, which sucked, but oh well. However, that date really hit me hard and I keep having flashbacks of how awkward I made it into, and how I could have done it better. The other reason as to why could be because when I walked her back to the bus stop, she looked upset or something, so I’m not sure what happened there if I did something wrong or not. But I don’t think I will ever forget that night of how bad it went afterwards.
I am currently seeing a 3rd girl now, been chatting via text since Dec 2019 and haven’t met up yet. I do plan on meeting up with her soon for sure. I do really like her, so hopefully things work out well, and maybe get into a relationship with her if that does happen. :)

Emotional incidents that I’ve faced in recent years.

Warning: some parts below could be triggering. Please read this at your own discretion.
In the past 3–4 years, I have noticed that I’m more emotional like I get the chills every time I hear sirens going by on the road whether it’s an ambulance, fire truck, or police. It always gets to me…. Last year Joel was in a ATV accident, and I was working that day, it was just such a coincidence that my Dad told me to go to town (I took his truck) and do work while he was working at his property (building a house), and my Dad NEVER leaves his truck at all, that was the only time that he just didn’t have his truck with him. Luckily though, the accident was near where he was and he had to call his Dad to pick him up, and then Joel was taken to the Hospital (one was 45 mins out since that one was better equipped than our local one) and that’s where he was for like 2 weeks, he was in the hospital during my birthday which was unfortunate. It was kind of hard for me to visit him in the hospital knowing that I’m too emotional, but I did see him once during his stay there. — he is better now and all good but has a screw in his arm and pinky I think, and something with his spleen being weaker now or something, not sure but yeah there’s that.
There was this girl — it was towards the end of Sept 2018, she got hit by a car when she was biking on a road, and unfortunately passed away. It was really unexpected, and I had her in my one class… and when the teacher told us of her passing, the class was dead quiet and literally nobody talked… (the class was often chatty too…) but that really hit me hard even though I didn’t knew her personally, I just knew of her just by name. My locker was to her right, and people put stuff on her locker and a flower was placed on her lock too. She was a good girl, she was a dancer too, I bet she was good at too.
Then another one was in May 2018, Paul and Joel’s best friend’s dad passed away in a motorcycle accident. and it really hit hard with his family, like it was sad. Even though I never knew his Dad, it still hits me in a way that I have sympathy for it. I honestly don’t think I could attend any funerals for anyone because it’s just too emotional for me, but yeah. This is obviously something I rarely talk about because it’s something that nobody wants to talk about, to say the least.
Oh, I will never forget this one too… In June of 2019, it was like the 2nd week of June. Some asshole called my high school and said a bomb threat, and at the time, we were placed in lockdown, around 12:40pm. we all thought it was a drill, but we weren’t told that, so 15 min become 1 hour then 2 then 3 hours, etc. and we are like, wtf is going on, since information about the situation was severely limited, and the only way we could find out was through the local news online. so the police and also the SWAT team was there too, they brought K9s as well. They swept the whole school the first time, then each classroom was escorted out one by one. and holy shit, was it ever scary (well for me it kinda was) because all you saw were officers guarded at each corner and guns ofc, there were a lot of officers there. and we were let out after 5pm-ish Then they swept the school again then we were allowed back in. So really you could either get your stuff the next day or go back after they swept the school which took another 1 hour or something. Then the next day, we were placed into lockdown again but only for like 20 mins, then they basically shut the school down and told everyone to go home. (that was Friday) But yeah, they finally caught the dude that did the call, he was a minor too. But like we never had a bomb threat in YEARS, that I could remember. I even asked my teacher and he said something that it’s been a long time too, so it was crazy that it was that. But to imagine if it was something, and how different it could have been is frightening indeed.

My Social Life

I was that typical shy guy who was usually alone, didn’t participate in group work, didn’t have many friends, etc. I ate lunch in the hallway during my 4 years of high school just minding my own business. Very rarely do I do anything else aside from that, or when someone does come up to me. I do have a few real life friends. Longest friend would be my best friend Emily. I’ve known her since Grade 6 or 7, through a mutual ex-friend that she was dating at the time. I do have few other IRL friends as well, but I rarely talk with them unless otherwise.
Most of my friends are online friends. I’ve met so many amazing people online and I do wish that I could meet every one of them that I met, but unfortunately most have drifted away. There were a few that I felt that I got close with, but they just disappeared soon after. I currently have 4 online best friends. One is from Eastern Europe, Southern USA, Western Canada and Eastern Canada. I plan on trying to meet those 4 when I can.
I know having online friends removes the physical limitation of it. However, by having someone to talk to, someone who you can be open and honest to, someone who you can rely on, someone who’s there for you, someone that you can be there for, etc. can really make a difference. I find that having online friends really helps me a lot in a way that I can have someone to talk to and be able to relate to while being in solitude.
I’ve come to accept that it’s better to see online friendship as being a short term companionship (between a few days to a few months) and if it happens to go for longer, then that’s good. Of course, you don’t want to give too much trust at the start either.
I used to have Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. I have recently deleted all of them in the past year or so since I found them to be a time waster, and mentally draining. I deleted Facebook last February in 2019. I felt so much happier after it was deleted. I used to go on Facebook so much during high school, which led to failing Grade 11 math. Next, I deleted my Twitter account since I rarely used it. Then Snapchat (I do have an alt account now, but only a few people know it and I don’t use it that much) I also deleted because it was just streaks and not so much about conversations from others since I would spend a lot of time on there with little to no real interactions. Instagram followed suit shortly after since I rarely used that too.
I currently use email, Reddit and Discord. Discord is my main preference of communication considering how flexible the application is. I can switch between my devices at ease without needing to relog every time. I could be on my PC, then switch to my laptop or phone when on the go.

Past Experiences

I don’t really have much experience in the past to say, “I’ve been there.” I was never once bullied throughout my education for whatever reason that may be. I really do feel of those that currently are and have been bullied in the past. I never had abusive parents, yet I know how exactly it was like to have parents controlling some or most aspects of your life, etc. I never had a relationship (yet) but I was able to relate to it on many levels. I never had to move houses when I was younger, but I do know how stressful and daunting it can be for most people.
I do have a few notable experiences in the past that I will never forget. When I was in grade 9, I would ask girls on Instagram for nudes. I was going through my horny phase as what usually happens with most teens anyways. So, I asked this girl for nudes, (who was a neighbor girl down the road) and it didn’t turn out well at all. She threatened to call my parents and tell them about it since she knew our landline number. I got paranoid and had to get an ex-friend of mine to tell her to brush it off. Ever since, I never did it again. I’ve learned (as it’s obvious nowadays) that asking for nudes from the get-go is likely never going to happen. So, I just never brought up NSFW topics until the friendship was close/personal, and/or if they brought up the topic, if else, I just don’t openly talk about it. Which is also another reason why I’m not good with flirting in general too. I’m always hesitant going into these areas even though it’s something that I do enjoy. But yeah, it’s something that I have regret doing in the past, but nothing I can do about it other than change the way of how I behave in the future.
I’ve failed 2 courses in the past, one was math in grade 11. Got a 41 final, which of course my parents weren’t happy about. I got lectured by my parents, which is never fun. Then the other course that I failed was in college, 1st year, 1st semester. I failed Data Communications I which is network, with a 49. I had missing marks that could have made it to a passing mark, however I was told that it was a better idea to retake the course simply because it’s a prerequisite for Data Comm II, as well III and IV. Data Comm III was the hardest one of all, so it would only be harder if I didn’t fully understand the course material. Again, I got lectured by my parents, and they pretty much threatened me to stay home to take college locally and have them “watch over me” to make sure I do my work. ;-; — Like that’s gonna end well… I am doing much better in my 2nd semester now, but it’s just the matter of doing my work and asking for help when I need it. I just couldn’t care less what my marks are in the class if I pass, since the paper saying I graduated the program is all they care about.
I have been in a few toxic friendships. One of them was more emotional/mentally toxic, and it did take me quite awhile to figure that out. Another was just not trusting, and I couldn’t bear to be their friend given what they do to others. But it’s something that most of us learn overtime anyways. It gets to a point where who do you trust
I never do well in groups. I would always be unnoticed, or just tagging along with no value, or contribution to the overall group. When I started college, I was in a group for a brief time, met like 5 others, but I fell out quickly after that. I was always doing my own thing and nobody else really cared about me to be honest, which was fine since I was used to being alone and just entertaining myself. It’s also often that I’m shy too unless I happen to know everyone well which I never do.
All I really need is a few good/close friends and I’m set. And that’s also what everyone needs too, is a few good close friends that they can rely on and have someone who they can talk to without judgement. I do have good friends that I am happy with, and that I am forever grateful to have in my life.

What Have I learned Thus Far.

Deaths of a loved one is hard for most people, unfortunate and tragic indeed. My Aunt told me that everyone experiences grief in many ways. Yes, we all have times where you have experienced a passing of a loved one, but to say that you’ve been there, or you know what exactly it feels like. You;re basically lying to that person who’s grieving of a loved one, since everyone experiences and copes with grief in different ways. The most you can do is be there for them and listen to them, as well as offer support/help to them as well.
When it comes to friends and friendships, you need to understand that nobody is obligated to be your friend, nor are you obligated to be their friends. Having a few close friends is all you really need (IRL and/or online) I know having no friends, or a few can be lonely at times, but as long as you have one or two friends, then that’s all you really need anyways.
When someone on Snapchat or Instagram posts those anonymous messages on their stories, I always think they are seeking validation. Why? Any positive posts they get there are well received by that person. And if not, they go on a rant, or they feel hurt or offended by it. And I’m like, what do you seriously expect from that? We don’t live in a fairy tale at all. Of course you will get negativity from it, there are mean people out there, and by using anonymous messaging apps, it gains them more control with words and just hurt them even more. If you are someone that uses those apps to gain validation. Just stop it. You gain nothing from it other than butterflies that are short lived, or raging wildfire that takes longer to put out and usually causes damage to you mentally and emotionally. Not sure which is worse. You tell me.
The other thing that I’ve learned in that regard is people posting on their snapchat stories such as “Snapbox to keep friends, or deleting people, snapbox to stay.” You are effectively allowing others to dictate your friendships. Is choosing your friends that hard? Are you not able to differentiate between who’s your real friends or not? If you’re someone that does this too, just don’t do that. Remember, you’re not obligated to be anyone’s friend, and neither are they to you. If you don’t consider them as friends, then just push them out of your life, it’s simple as that. It honestly frustrates me when people do that and just allow others to dictate their friendships between them. It’s not how friendships work at all.
Dating is simple yet so complicated. As someone who is a virgin, I always fear of having a shitty turn out when it comes to being laid for the first time, but then again, it will happen one way or another regardless if the outcome was good or not. It’s how life is anyways. But, the one thing that I always see is others sticking around in a relationship for too long, and it gets to a point where they hurt themselves even more by doing so. If you know the relationship is not going to work out, why are you still in that relationship? You’re dating someone for long term, if things aren’t gonna work out, why bother staying in it? I know that some have fears of being alone or abandoned, but I really don’t know what other way that could be done (or have said) when it’s the same thing? I will also never understand why most guys cheat on their partner. It kinda proves how most guys lack communication skills. It was hard for me to watch my best friend going through like 5 different guys, and I was like, I hope she finds the right person at that point, and it seems like she has now, so that’s something. Communication, honesty, and trust is crucial for any relationship to work, or else it’s hard to keep it afloat. Also, relationships are a 2-way street, if else it will not work. Just keep on looking if you haven’t found the right person. You will find someone who will be the love of your life sooner or later, you need to have that determination to find that person, and also have patience too.
Growing up with siblings can be fun, but also a nightmare. One thing you must remember is that you are not obligated to give back to your siblings and family if they never treated you the way they should have growing up. If you have amazing siblings and/or parents, that’s awesome! Be grateful for that. It’s something that not many people are fortunate to have. My family was never the greatest in general, but it also never bothered me that much either given how I isolated myself from them. But I do feel your pain if you have grown up with annoying siblings or strict parents. Life truly does get better once you are out of the house and away from them.
Life is never easy for anyone. The people that you are friends with, most often, you only know them of what they tell you. There is a good chance that there are more to it than what you know, (unless you are really close friends.) Having those thought provoking/ deep conversations with someone can really shed light about themselves and it’s a great way to learn more about yourself too. Life is short, life everyday to the fullest. Be productive if you can, it can really make a huge difference on how you appreciate things in life. Worry about today and tomorrow, and the future when the time comes. It’s what I live by and for me, it works wonders. You can’t predict the future anymore, things fluctuates for the better or worse. You can only go with the flow and hope for the best.
Writing a biography about myself was honestly a fun experience and it gave me a chance to self reflect on my life, and the events that occurred in my life. If anything, I would encourage you to do the same, and share it with others (or whoever you trust) and just be open with yourself. Even just writing it can help you self reflect too.
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