listen, I hate yucking people's yums about spotify wrapped
but everything the company does is actively hostile towards musicians like me and it really sucks to see it paraded around with free marketing. Look at this shit!
A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.
Scenario: A musician has paid a distributor to put their music on Spotify. People (subscribed or ad-based) are listening to it - but Spotify has deemed it's not listened to enough for their threshold and therefore will not pay out for streams.
Full stop, Spotify is profiting off that music without paying the artist.
'but it's so easy to listen to any music I want at the push of a button' really fucking screwed us all.
Fit talking about him and Pac "sitting on grass" in a park in Rotterdam
Fit: So anyway, I spent the whole morning just bummin' around. Waiting for Pac to get there. And in the afternoon, Pac finally arrives, right? Pac fi— Pac finally arrives, right. And you know, we chit-chat a little bit, we catch up… And then since it's pretty much just us, and then, uh. Pac was going to introduce me to some of his Brazilian friends and some content creators later in the day. We had some time to kill. We had some time to kill, and we are in the Netherlands, right?
So... We… found a public park with a lot of grass. And we sat down and we enjoyed the grass. It just— they got a lot of public spaces, beautiful public parks… It was, um. It was great! It was very relaxing.
This is 11pm, by the way. (laughs) This picture was taken at 11pm, because the sun never goes down in the fuckin' Netherlands this time of year. No no, this was actually like, I think this was at… five pm, this photo was taken? Yeah, like 5pm. Yeah, but we touched the grass, it felt very good. It felt very good.
Yeah no it was good, it was good, like I said, we are family friendly Christian Minecraft streamers, we were just sitting, on grass. I don't know what you could possibly be insinuating. By us sitting on grass for multiple hours and not getting bored. You know? I—I don't know what— I don't know what you're insinuating, stream chat, you know, that just sounds like a little bit of silliness.
Monaco GP '24 // Carlos & Naomi preview Monaco from the air
"[Monaco] was my first podium with Ferrari. And you feel special, you feel something really different... [The podium]'s nearly level with the mechanics. You're closer to everyone. You've seen, for so many years, drivers standing on that podium. For me, if I would have to choose three races to win, it would be Monaco, Monza as a Ferrari driver (or Imola), and my home grand prix."
"Ferrari just needs a track that suits us to win... Let's see - if we nail a good weekend and the stars align, it could be a Ferrari chance here."
berkly catton's post-game interview after tallying his first career hat trick for a five point night, ft. the spokane boys
[ID: a series of gifs featuring Spokane Chiefs player Berkly Catton in a post-game interview. He stands by the benches on the ice still in full gear, sans helmet. The interview is proceeding as normal, until suddenly several of Catton's teammates burst in from off-screen to dump water from cups and bottles all over him. The host of the interview steps away. The camera pans out, and Catton recoils, laughing as more and more of his teammates join in. One of them steps out onto the ice to chase Catton as he tries to skate out of range, grabbing him and shaking him. Finally, the host and Catton come back together to resume the interview, until one last teammate runs up to empty his waterbottle over Catton. /. End ID]
did u guys know that.. genderbending and even transfem-ing your favorite male characters... doesn't actually mean you care about female characters. just some food for thought.