#1997 births

[hubforguys]

HARRISON LUNA MALE

BORN JANUARY 15, 1997 AUSTRALIA

OCCUPATION TELEVISION PERSONALITY

APPEARS ON

HUB FOR SMOKING

[contac]

[ki1ldeer]

Little doodle thing of older Them™️ because I think about them sometimes (and it’s Finn’s canon birthday today. Happy canon birthday Finn)

[transmascutena]

little anthy doodle for her 40th and/or 10th birthday depending on whether or not you only count leap years

[bredforloyalty]

abnormal about liam i see

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔑𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔩𝔪 𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 - 𝔅𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔦𝔫 ℜ𝔢𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰

[larrylimericks]

8Jan23

Oh, Lou, you and Oli are gasses: Seen browsing that Hut for sunglasses! We know that you know That we know (thanks to Joe) — Time to clown as we talk out our asses.

(FWIW, this year’s Sunglass Hut sighting seems to be at the Santa Monica store.)

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[frie-ice]

This Disney Villains crossover collage is of Hades and Lady Tremaine, as part of my crossover collage series of Disney Villains, to mark the countdown to Halloween. The time of year when Disney gives their villains control of the rains.

[hubforguys]

DANIEL JONES MALE

BORN MAY 27, 1997 UNITED STATES

OCCUPATION ATHLETE

[1997thebracket]

Round 1C

Men In Black: Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Men in Black is a sci-fi comedy, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, which would go on to spawn a franchise after the success of the 1997 film. It centers around a secret government agency known as the Men in Black, tasked with monitoring and regulating extraterrestrial activity on Earth; these agents, notably our protagonists Agent J and Agent K, protect humanity from aliens living among us and ensure the world remains oblivious to their existence. The franchise was praised by critics and audiences alike for its unique screenplay, action sequences, and the humor and chemistry of the lead actors. Over the years, Men in Black has expanded to include multiple sequels, an animated series and spin-offs, all contributing to its enduring popularity as a cheekier take on the sci-fi genre.

The MP3 is Leaked: It took a decade to develop the MPEG Audio Layer III– or the MP3– while maintaining the fidelity to make it commercially viable. It took a college student a single night to bring the music industry to its knees forever after. Karlheinz Brandenburg, who worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Germany (pictured) would emerge as the “Father of the MP3” in the 90s. The development of the file codex and software, alongside the developments of competitors and the early marketing of the MP3 is well worth independent research, but ultimately background noise to this entry. Mid-1997, in an international clusterfuck facilitated by the popular internet Warez community, an Australian student used a stolen credit card from Taiwan to purchase professional-grade encoding software from Germany. He successfully cracked the software, proceeded to upload it onto a server in Sweden, and initiated distribution to multiple U.S. universities through an FTP site; within it, there was a read-me file that labeled the program as freeware, with a "special thanks" given to Fraunhofer. Brandenberg would do everything he possibly could to warn his colleagues and label executives, but the toothpaste could never be put back into the tube. You know the rest: Napster, Kazaa, Limewire and numerous others would come to follow. The RIAA would engage in endless lawsuits, as would several big names in music, but the industry would never recover from the change in public perception of/capacity for piracy the stolen MP3 ushered in.

[paramores]

i keep saying "when i'm my 30s" too often now and like it's the realization that 30 is closer than 20 for me now omfg

[darlinhutchence]

michael hutchence talking about his daughters birth. you can see the love in his eyes 🥺

[demonlorddante]

Went on another deep dive for bullyparade and I have learned that season 5 was not on joyn late 2022 but suddenly showed up at the latest in March 2023 and then disappeared again in August/September 2023. What is even happening shit’s been in crazy limbo since bully axed seasons 1-3. Why is season 5 also on the chopping block. Also SOMEONE has got to have all 6 seasons SOMEWHERE I know it but nowhere I’ve searched has had it. The closest was that in 2022 seasons 4 and 6 were posted somewhere for download (the links are dead now) and that was during the time in 2022 where seasons 4 and 6 were all that was available on joyn. The next closest was someone on another site made a post February 2023 asking for the show and someone replied in April(?) saying they could give it a shot but they never got back to it. The most recent post in that thread was from August and it was someone linking an article from 2021 detailing how bully pulled seasons 1-3 from streaming/circulation, which is how I found out about it to begin with. I’d love to add to the thread to like bump it but I’m not confident enough in my German to do it. Okay anyway all of this to say it has to be SOMEWHERE it could be rotting away on tapes in someone’s attic but by god there’s gotta be at least one person in this world (besides bully himself) who has the whole show

[baddawg94]

Steve Austin

1997’s Wrestlemania 13