RayStone — last batch UPDATE! Last batch will open... on Monday, April 8th — 3 PM UTC / 8 AM PT Yesterday's unpause showed it's physically impossible to release small batches. Next one will mint out. Just 420 RayStones left. Meanwhile, look for giveaways and raffles on Discord and X! Brace yourselves! Get ready! Do some stretching and stay hydrated! Let it RAYS!show more

LAST RAYSTONE BATCH 🙌 Monday, April 8th — 3... PM UTC / 8 AM PT Total supply: 3333 / 420 RayStones left 🟠 FREE mint! secondary at 0.0085 BTC 🟠 WL based on snapshot (2024.04.02, before release): — holders of any of my Ordinal collections — holders of unlisted Runestones and/or 🧙🏽‍♂️ The Wizards of Ord ⚡️ (thanks to lifofifo ◉) 🟠 WL closed — no exceptions 🟠 1 mint per wallet — addresses that minted already won't be eligible MINT WEBSITE: LET IT RAYS! 🔥show more

The final mint for ARC Stellars. ⏳ We've always... looked at building ARC from a community-first approach. Today, as part of those efforts, we are announcing our final batch of minting for ARC Stellars as we look to close the mint at 888. ➡️ Why 888? In the last 2 years, we have learnt a lot about what is needed for a community to grow and thrive. Building a community involves constantly optimising for connections, relationships and emotional bonding. In addition, ensuring that it thrives requires a huge amount of work to constantly deliver value to each and every member. Keeping our community small, close-knit and maintaining our curation principles will put us in a better place to achieve the above. ➡️ Who are we looking for? We are on the lookout for builders and investors in Web3 and Web2, based in growing and developed crypto/tech hubs all across the world, including Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Dubai, US and beyond. Our priority is to ensure that every new member is able to bring fresh, added value to our community. Therefore, please spend time on your application and help us understand more about you and what you could bring to the collective as a member and contributor. Please share any relevant information that could be helpful in verifying your profile, such as links to your company website, resume, portfolio, etc. Also, link your strongest social media profile and ensure it's public. ➡️ What are the dates that I should look out for? Applications will start on 15 Aug, 2PM (UTC+8) here: To apply, you will need a referral link from an existing Stellar. Successful applicants will be informed via email, starting from 2 Sep, 2PM (UTC+8). You will then be provided with information on how to mint your ARC Stellars NFT and Fyrian, our curation token. If you do not hear from us, it is likely that your application lacked the necessary information to proceed to the next stage. ➡️ Things to note: ✨ The mint will be on a FCFS basis. Once we hit 888, we will close the mint ✨ Ensure that there is at least 3ETH + gas fees in your allowlisted wallet ✨ Add [email protected] to your email provider's 'Safe Senders' list ➡️ What happens after 888? There will be no more direct mint at 3ETH. You can choose to purchase any listed Stellars on the secondary market, but you'll still need to apply and be reviewed to mint Fyrian and join our community. If you have any other questions, reach out to our ARC Helpdesk volunteers like NFT_Unker 🇸🇬, 0xSteamboat, LegallyBullnde, 852luk.moca 🇭🇰, etc. 😊show more

Brace yourselves & get ready for the upcoming $G3... token airdrop! Let's dive into the details: 👀 What airdrop? We've allocated 50M $G3 tokens (5% of the total supply) towards our airdrop campaigns, which will be broken down into 3 phases. - Phase 1: Rewarding early users & supporters, 15M tokens will be distributed, fully unlocked, with no vesting, on the listing day (keep reading for eligibility criteria) Phases 2 and 3: Focused on upcoming launches, 35M tokens will be allocated to future major features to incentivize new platform users and activations. 🤔 Why airdrop? We wanted to express our appreciation to our dedicated community and partners, who have been integral to our journey over the past two years and will continue to help us build the home of web3 gaming. 🔍 Who airdrop? • Users: Registered users ranked from Iron to Diamond are eligible for the airdrop, which has increasing allocations in ascending order. • GAM3RS NFT Holders: all 333 holders will be eligible for the upcoming $G3 token airdrop. Make sure you apply for the free mint at Magic Eden 🪄 on March 29. • $POLS Holders: To honour our early community days, we're including holders of Polkastarter's token in our upcoming airdrop based on holding tiers. • Partners: Select communities & partners will also be included in our upcoming airdrop. Stay tuned to our socials for official announcements. 📍 Where airdrop? Eligibility checker and claiming portal will both be directly on our official website please stay safe and verify the website domain to avoid fake links or scams. ⌛ Wen airdrop? Phase one will go live on the listing day (April). Each user will be able to check their eligibility directly on our platform and must claim their allocation within 30 days of listing day. For more information, check out our full airdrop breakdown here:show more

Today we visited Power at 3 PM. The vets... informed us that she didn't eat anything during the night, so they started an intravenous drip with fluids (saline/water) to keep her hydrated. Even during our visit she did not wanna eat anything, but we did manage to give her a solid 45 minutes of pure cuddles. We also received the three invoices covering the Operation that she will get on monday, daily hospitalization costs plus the full ultrasound they gave her. (and I'll upload them to the main GoFundMe page). The Veterinary confirmed that the operation will be an exploratory laparoscopy with a micro camera to see what's going on and there will be no actual removal of the mass just a biopsy of a small part of the tissue and lymph node to get analized. and that they will need to make a second surgery when her clinical situation get more clearer to get the mass removed and start the chemo. Sadly we have not yet a quote for those. Power will also get a gastric tube to make feeding her easier. With that, she will be able to come home to us wednesday while we wait for the removal surgery. She relaxed a lot during our visit and of course we will continue to update on her conditions daily! thank you so much to all the people that decided to help Power with the donations you have no idea how gratefull I am.show more

This Dallas mom grosses $1m/year in 4 months of... work. What does she do? Decorate porches with pumpkins in Dallas and Houston. Here’s how the business breaks down: Orders open in July and she sells out in August. Last year she did 900 jobs for $300 - $2,000+ each. She also charges extra for removal. She has 15 drivers, 10 delivery guys and a warehouse staff. She’s been in business for 4 years. No niche is too small! I will die on that hill. Hat tip to my friend Barrett Linburg for pointing this out to me. He’s a great follow and real estate expert savant! I’m hopefully having her on my podcast to dissect this business even more. I just posted about her on IG and it’s looking like it may go viral so hopefully that’ll get her attention. 😂 Look up the Koerner Office on YT or any podcast platform to watch when it goes live.show more

ALPHA BY NEARWEEK, PAY ATTENTION NEAR HUNTERS! Here's the... alpha you need! 🔽 NEAR Protocol's Thread Contest has been extended! Content creators can still submit their content for a chance to win $500 in $NEAR. More details in the NEAR Protocol Discord: Edge Video AI's 100K points per day competition will officially go live on Monday, but the system will be fully operational over the weekend for early access by players. To participate, scan the QR code and join both single and multiplayer quizzes. Accumulated points can be converted into $FAST tokens. More details at trisolaris 🅣 has launched new farms to support #NEAR native stablecoins with the help of Aurora. Users can now deposit USDC-USDC.e or USDT-USDT.e for a 34-37% APR. Rewards will be in $TRI & $AURORA. Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤ $FRAX collateral and borrowing is now open on CoffeeDAO with a supply APY of 23.43%. Users can now supply or borrow at Meta Pool has launched the $mpDAO token to empower users through a transparent, inclusive, community-driven governance system within Meta Pool, where token holders vote and earn from protocol fees. SWEAT💧 is launching the Arabic version of Sweat Wallet and will be ready for mass adoption in the Middle East region. This will enable users to do transactions with $SWEAT token. Pumpopoly.com, the virtual property simulator on NEAR has just received a $5000 grant from Near Gaming DAO. The grant will be used to reward active users on Near Tinker Union | NTU has received 1.4B $LONK from Lonk 🐲 on airdrop day! The team will soon commence distribution through their flagship product, Meteor Wallet. Airdrop will be exclusive to all 3333 Tinker holders. UNIFAT - The first batch of ranking rewards will be distributed on April 22nd, followed by the second batch, which will consist of four sub-ranking rewards. Check out ranks: Playible has just launched its point system where users can compete and win weekly cash prizes. In the future, points will also offer additional benefits. More details at NFT is ART will be the next NFT collection to launch on NEAR, following the previous collection's success. lilcrow💜, a well-known artist on #NEAR, will lead this collection. Rogues has revealed Season 2 Leaderboard prizes. 6 Legendary Lootboxes will be distributed to the top 3 on the leaderboard. That's it for this week's ALPHA by NEARWEEK, but don't think we're out of intel! 🔮 Here's one more: the recap from this week's NEAR ALPHA SHOW with :show more

People often ask what a normal week at a... dog rescue looks like, and the truth is, it’s rarely glamorous. One day you’re climbing headfirst into a drainage tunnel at 9 AM, and the next you’re out feeding street packs in a rainstorm. Sometimes it means showing up to work feeling completely unwell but refusing to quit, or relying on 10-minute car naps between rescues just to keep your eyes open. The exhaustion is real, and some weeks completely drain you but then you look at that last photo. Seeing Tina’s Hospital finally coming together makes every single rainstorm and brutal day completely worth it. This is exactly what we are working so hard for, and we wouldn't trade it for the world. ❤️show more

And with that, the US Open dream is over... 😞 Just wrapped up U.S. Open local qualifying at Medford Village Country Club Didn’t quite have my best stuff off the tee today—and on a course this tight, that’s a problem. When I did find fairways, I couldn’t get it close enough to give myself real chances. Greens were absolutely rapid if you were out of position… borderline terrifying at times 😅 but I did hole some really good putts to grind out pars and keep the round alive. Only one birdie all day though, and that’s never going to get it done at this level. Finished +3 (75) — currently 37th out of 120 (top third of the field), so there are still some positives to take. Battled well, stayed patient, and didn’t let it completely get away from me—which is something I’m trying to get better at in these events. One qualifier down, one more to go in June for The Open Championship. Plenty of work to do before then—tighten up the driver, sharpen the wedges, and turn a few of those pars into birdies. Another opportunity coming… and I’ll be ready to give it a proper run 👊 Thanks as always to Shot Scope for the wonderful stats!!show more

OFFICIAL: EASTER EGG GUIDE FOR TOTENREICH: Wonder Weapon: 1.... Head to The Drydocks and lower The Crane, this will allow you to wall jump and interact with the tip of the ship to pick up the Chain Link 2. Next, Head to Storm Bridge and pick up Chili Chunks behind the truck next to Deadshot 3. Place Chili Chunks on the table in the middle of the Skalen Market 4. Next, Head to Burial Grounds left-side door and interact with the keyhole. 5. Interact with the door again and hold it to open the door and to unlock the underground area. 6. This will spawn a Zursa Bear during a special round (starting the second special round) you need to kill him and he will drop The Lantern 7. Place The Lantern in the center of the Underground Room in Burial Grounds. 8. Constellations will appear around the wall. Interact with them as they’re shown on the table in this order: left, right, back, front. 9. Once completed, Astrid will appear and talk, she will then travel to different areas of the map. She will occasionally stop and you will need to kill frost zombies next to her. 10. Once all the Soulboxes are completed an Obstacle Course will form on the outside of The Lighthouse, climb to the top by Jumping / Wall Jumping up 11. Once you reach the top, Listen to the Astrid talk and pick up The Jotunn Star Wundersignal: 1. After completing Jotun Star Quest Head to The Lighthouse and inside on a shelf there will be a Crowbar 2. There are Multiple Wooden Boxes around the map with red IDs on the bottom right corner of the front of the box in red (for example III-6) use The Crowbar on the Wooden Box that has the Roboterteile ID (the IDs are on the shipping manifest in the War Factory Admin Room), this will give Flak Gun Round War Factory Core Foundry Fjord Road Dry Dock 3. Head to Turret Gun beside The Lighthouse and place Flak Gun Round then melee with Jotunn Star 4. Next, Head to The Robot Head in spawn and interact with it to search broken piece to get The Transmitter 5. Go to Tyr’s Head and place it inside the Wall Machine thingy at the top of the Ladder 6. Next, whilst inside of Tyr’s Head underneath the balcony there are 3 white lights, 2 of these lights will blink, count how many times it blinks -Both lights will remain on, There is the sound of a light turning on to indicate the start of a new light flashing cycle where both lights will flash at the same time to a certain count (for example left 2, right 5). Both lights will be on and then it will flash another set (for example left 6, right 4). (Unsure if these 2 combos have to be put into console in order but correct entry will give two different voicelines.) After entering one correctly you will be kicked out to hear voiceline and can re-enter console to input the 2nd shortly afterwards. 7. Now head to Core Foundry, and use a molotov to burn the ascender to access the consoles. 8. Ascend and interact with the consoles, The next part is timed and has a cooldown if you fail - you need to Calibrate the Amplitude and Frequency using the flashing light code. 9. Once this has been done head to the room Next to the Radio Tower and pick up The Wunderbarrage Controller Atomkraft Core 1. Find three uraniums: Uranium #1 Find the Fishing Rod (Olaf’s Personal Item) locations: - Dry Dock - Storm Bridge - Fishery Island - Beacon island Look for a Glowing Green Fish jumping around the water at each Fishing Location and use the Fishing Rod at that location once you see it Fishing Locations: Eidskallen Landing x2 Beacon Island x2 Eidskallen Square x2 Dry Dock (found one so far) Fishery Island x2 Tyr’s Foot (found one so far) Once the fish is caught it will spawn an Irradiated Ravager (HVT) that will disappear and respawn somewhere else, chase it down and kill it (check your map to see its location, it shows up as an HVT). It will drop a Uranium. Uranium #2 Next, Craft an ARC-XD (there is one for free in Eidskallen Square on top of a box near the flame trap, you can get it by fishing as well) and melee the vent at Core Foundry to the left of the zipline to open the Secret ARC-XD Course. Blow up the boat full of barrels. Once the course is completed the 935 Genetic Lab room will be open and another Uranium x2 will be inside a Prison Cell There are several Jars with Heads inside in this room, all labelled A,B,C,D,E Look down the Hallway inside the Lab and note which numbered rooms have Nuclear Symbols 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, 4 = D and 5 = E Take one Jar at a time that corresponds with the Numbers next to Nuclear Symbols and place them on the machine to the right of the cell door, once the correct jars are placed the Jar on the left side of the machine will glow purple and you can pick up acid There is a Big Chunk of Meat on a desk next to multiple drawings in the same Room, interact with it, then Pick up The Necrospike Once you have The Necrospike, use it on the Prison Cell Door, this will trigger a lockpick mini game. Spin the lockpick until the lock turns white 3x to unlock the cell, then pick up the second Uranium. Uranium #3 Next you need to craft or obtain the Glocke Drop, once you have one call it in, then shoot 20 mid-air zombies it throws up. This will drop the third and final Uranium. 2. At the Dry Dock, you need to call a WunderBarrage (unlocked by completing Wundersignal steps) in on the “02 Building” at Dry Dock (where there’s debris on the stairs), this will open the stairs to the Machine Workshop. 3. Inside The Workshop there is a Claw Machine which you can place all of The Uranium inside of and play a mini-game. -Have a big group of 7 cores and a small group of 2 cores. 4. Once you complete the Mini-game you will be able to pick up The Atomkraft Core (Note: you drop if you zipline, and cant sprint with it) 5. Head to Quick Revive and place The Atomkraft Core on generator next to quick revive. Go into the shed behind quick revive and turn on the generator. You must now defend the The Atomkraft Core until it’s charged. In interrupted you must turn on the generator again to continue. 6. Take the The Atomkraft Core to the barrel on the Storm Bridge and a Mini-Cutscene will play between the Giant and The Robot. Vegvisir 1. After the cutscene finishes, The Dravakar Shard will spawn at Tyr’s Foot, pick it up 2. Pick it up and place the Shard inside the Bloodheim Hall on the bonfire 3. Use WW range attack to light the fire 4. Use Disciple Injection (there should be a free one around the map) and throw zombies into the bonfire (I only had to throw four) 5. A lockdown will start. Kill the boss zombie and pick up the Sunstone from the bonfire 6. Put the Sunstone in the church and do a range WW attack on it. 7. Around the map, there will now be floating rocks and runes. Above the church there will now be a compass with runes and arrows. -Shoot the floating rune rocks with the ranged WW in the order of the arrow lines. If an arrow has 1 line, then that's the first one. If an arrow has 2 lines, that's the second one, etc. 8. Go into Tyr's Head and interact with the console to start the boss fight. Credit to Callum and the ZoneX discordshow more

🚨 WARNING: MONDAY COULD BE THE WORST MOMENT OF... 2026!! Make sure to take a look at this before June 8, that’s tomorrow. The $SPCX IPO is coming on June 12. And markets open this Monday, June 8. This is the first real trading week before one of the biggest IPO events in market history. SpaceX is expected to go public at around $1.75 TRILLION to $2 TRILLION valuation. That one number explains everything. Because money does NOT appear from nowhere. If funds want to buy $SPCX, they need cash. And where does that cash come from? They sell what they already own. Stocks will dump. Crypto will dump. High beta tech will dump even harder. This is NOT just an IPO. This is a liquidity drain. Everyone sees the Elon hype. Almost nobody sees the forced selling. There are only a few ways this goes from here, and they are NOT equal. - LIGHT SHOCK: funds sell small positions, stocks get hit first, crypto follows, then markets try to stabilize. - HEAVIER SCENARIO: funds raise cash before June 12, high beta tech dumps, Bitcoin loses support, and retail gets trapped. - WORST CASE: everyone rushes into $SPCX at the same time, liquidity disappears from crowded trades, stocks dump HARD, crypto gets hit first, and people get liquidated. That last one is the REAL danger. Because none of this is happening in a vacuum. Stocks are already crowded. Crypto is already weak. Liquidity is already getting worse. And now one of the most hyped IPOs in history is about to absorb even more money. Now connect the dots. If everyone wants $SPCX, they need dollars. To get dollars, they sell assets. And when everyone sells at the same time, markets do NOT dip slowly. They dump. This is NOT a theory. The $SPCX IPO is June 12. Markets open Monday, June 8. And this is when positioning starts. Markets are NOT pricing the liquidity drain now. But they will. I usually do the opposite of what the masses are doing. Reminder: I’ve called all the market tops and bottoms for the last 15 years, including the Bitcoin bottom at $16,000 and the top at $126,000. The next call will be even more important. When I exit the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do. Turn notifications on. If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.show more

Conducting an EVA is a complex operation that requires... months of planning, choreographed technical checkouts, individual and group preparation, and distinct checkpoints. In the NASA world, we call this the “road to EVA,” or around here, simply “road to.” One of the events on the “road to” is the on-orbit fitcheck. Did you know we can grow up to 2 inches in space? While that is a pretty cool space fact, it's also a pretty big pain if you are the one responsible for ensuring the suits fit. So, after we have had some time on orbit to grow, we get in our suits and make any needed adjustments. We also take the time to translate around, check out the airlock, and handle tools and tethers – in this video, you will see us crawling around inside. While it is as fun as it looks, it's an important check to ensure we will not encounter issues when we crawl around outside. This is also a big day for our IVs, the two astronauts who will get us suited up. Their job is intense, as they run multiple procedures, all of which must be done perfectly and on time. 大西卓哉 （JAXA宇宙飛行士）Takuya Onishi is our suit IV for the upcoming EVA – he is like our quarterback in the airlock. He tells us when to arrive, and what to do next. Unlike other activities on Space Station, Nichole “Vapor” Ayers and I will not be looking at procedures inside the airlock or even when we are outside. We rely on Tak to get us out the door, where we will transition to talking to Marcos Berríos in Mission Control during the EVA. Things to look for in the video: Tak and Jonny Kim double checking one another, Nichole and I seeing if we can reach to fist bump, and Don Pettit making an appearance for some group photos.show more

Pest Control “secret” for those small annoying flies that... bug you while watching tv (feel free to repost since we’re moving into bug season in many areas): As we move into late spring/early summer months in US, many people like to leave doors open. Sometimes you’ll get an influx of small flies. There are 3 main species of flies that buzz around your head while sitting on the couch. The fruit fly, the phorid fly and the fungus gnat. If you see a small fly just “sitting” on your wall or a few small flies hanging out on the wall near your garbage can, it could be the fruit fly. I won’t go into boring details of how to tell various species apart, but will share one trick that can help reduce their population. First, keep your doors shut as much as possible. They gain entry usually that way, then find a source to breed in. To help reduce the breeding adults, 1) Grab a clear bowl or glass and place some red wine (or a few pieces of banana) in the glass. 2) Put some clear Saran Wrap or cling wrap on top fairly tight. 3) Next grab a pencil or pen and poke 4-6 holes in the wrap. This will allow the aroma of the fruit or wine to be strong as it comes out of the glass and will attract the flies 4) The flies will be immediately attracted to the bowl/cup and make their way into the holes you poked. Once in, they’ll drink the wine, or feed on the bananas and can’t get out. I prefer wine since they get drunk and drown. Bananas won’t kill them. Wine will. 5) Discard every 7 days and repeat. The best approach is to find the source of their breeding. Garbage disposal? (Bleach doesn’t work by the way) Garbage can? Debris under refrigerator? Also, re the fungus gnat species. This will not work. They feed on fungus, generally from overwatered potted plants inside or doors left open near extremely damp exterior area. One other method that is highly effective are the small plug in light traps. A combination of the above along with a plug in light trap will keep most fly issues at bay.show more

I need to explain something to those followers that... don't get my recent X feed. No altcoin made me $2.5 million in 3 weeks. $RAT did. That's why I focus on it. Bitcoin remains important and I will cover it more in the future. However, right now, there is nothing interesting about BTC moving up and down around 100k. On the other hand, RAT will soon be listed on 8 centralized exchanges. Do you know what that means for a token with a $10 mil market cap? If you don't, that's fine. The TLDR is this. RAT will pump. Simple as that. 10x or maybe 100x. We will find out. This is more exciting than watching ETH crash 20% the other day. Or seeing Solana drop under $200 after I told everyone to sell it at $260. I lost all interest in altcoins. My only altcoin focus is MY OWN TOKEN. The one my community and I love. Because it is OURS! It's not owned by some VC. It's owned by OUR community. Do you understand what I am writing here? Believe in something! RAT Escape is that for us. If you can't see the alpha in this post. I can't help you.show more

One last post before bed: We have a state... to save and we cannot do that with our globalist leader, Greg Abbott. It's time for a change. If Texas rises up, then other states will rise up. It's time to take back our state and our country! That begins with "making it too big to rig" by going out and voting for Doc Pete Chambers! Texas Independence Day is right around the corner. The spirit of 1836 is still alive in the hearts of real Texans who refuse to let globalists, open borders, and corporate sellouts turn our state into another failed experiment. Abbott has had over a decade to put Texas first, but he has shown who he truly is! Doc Chambers is different. He's a man of God, a proven fighter, and a true grassroots patriot who will actually do what he says. No more excuses, no more half-measures, no more betrayal. Vote like your children's future depends on it because it does. Get to the polls, bring friends, bring family, overwhelm the system. Make it impossible to ignore or rig. God First. Texas First. America First. Let's finish what the heroes of 1836 started. #GodBlessTexas DocPeteChambersForTexasshow more

‼️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT‼️ On April 27th I filled my expanders... to 9000 cc.. bye the following week, I noticed it was beginning to lose volume. Last Monday we determined it must be the port. So last Friday (two days ago) I underwent surgery to remove and replace the port on my left expander…. The following is a video proving that the expander itself is leaking and the port is not. we have no idea where the leak is coming from or how it started, but I’m left with one option: remove and replace the entire expander. I’m currently in a good deal of pain, following list surgery. And the next one is going to be fairly brutal. I had a falling out my best friend, after caring for her during her recent breast augmentation surgery…. I do anything to repair that relationship, especially now. I need help after surgery… Surgery is planned for Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon, but it all depends on how soon we can get my replacement shipped. To all of my onlyfans subscribers, your support means everything during these times. These surgeries cost a tremendous amount of money. Without y’all, I would cease to exist. All I want is to be able to share my love of big boobs with the world. Please do not abandon me right now, if all goes well, I will be back on my feet in two weeks. Thank you for all the prayers and good vibes, donations and continued support and faithful following! I love you all. McKearbear, if you were reading this, I’m sorry, please call meshow more

VTubing is for everyone! I don't like to bring... this up, but recent events in the VTuber community made some people really vile. I had my M&G at HolMat last week and had people come up and just yell at me for being a girl in the "womans world", that is VTubing, no idea about who I was, or why I was there. I had the same group return to my handler multiple times, I felt really worried about the person carrying me around having to deal with this repeatedly and tried to steer them away from the group. It seems they found my YT and left me a handful of the same comments, luckily all caught by moderation tools. While I will refrain from M&G's for a little until this calms down I want to say this; I have been managing for over 1.5 years now, I deliberately take on male VTubers to show them that they can still do it. I take on people that have babiniku accounts, those that are changing from one gender presentation to another and want help, and those that have no gender presentation in their avatar. A lot of male VTubers struggle to find a manager because the stereotype is that all male VTubers are evil and it perpetuates a stereotype that extends beyond entertainment industry subcultures like streaming. VTubing has always been a medium, while character and marketing matters, it's about what makes you happy, YOU are the person that makes the content. Use whatever you want as an avatar, use a voice changer if that's what you want to do. Every month I have a male client bring up they can't do it the same way, that it's easier if jiggle physics or a cute voice is the answer to fast growth. And I tell them yeah, I can also do ASMR, I can do drama content, collab with a larger person, and get to x amount of viewers. There are shortcuts in every entertainment profession and subculture. Does it last? Do quick fixes for anything ever last? Yes, great physics and an expensive model can get people in, but if your value, your way of interacting with people, your content plan and marketing is ass, you can pack up. Most of us start on a small budget, premade or resold models, and it's the same in the big league entertainment industry too. Can I take out a loan and put myself on a billboard tomorrow, can I pay the most expensive model artist and rigger and get in along corporate VTubers tomorrow? Sure. Will it last, will it be genuine, will people trust me? Hell no. Genuine communities and growth build trust. I think streaming, creative industries, entertainment, are full of people, regardless of gender, that will see success and call it "easy", because of what they see as the end product. They don't see most VTubers working a second job, they don't see the managers, they don't see 100+ hours a month going into content production, years invested in singing and voice lessons, model redebut after redebut. I think a lot of male VTubers get a bad rep, because so many boys are raised without putting emphasis on empathy and creativity, watching my brothers be told they should not pursue art, that theatre class is a waste of time, and that they needed to go study x or y to make money for their families in the future was heartbreaking. Nobody should have to look at others and feel so much hatred for society they turn against a whole group of people. If you want to pursue entertainment, please do. If you want to grow and try and make a name for yourself, you should start there, not with yelling about how you already failed. "Oh but I can't", "Oh but the odds are stacked against me", look at the big streamers, look at Ironmouse who overcame everything with hard work, look at Kiara who rose from the ashes, look at everyone that fights against their odds every day and give it your all. If you already think you lost, then you have nothing to lose. Don't give up on your dreams because others tell you to.show more

A 22-YEAR-OLD IN CHINA SOLD HER VIRAL AI REELS... TO 6 LOCAL BUSINESSES AND CLEARED $11,900 LAST MONTH She never filmed a thing. She tracked 40 faceless channels in one sheet and scored every clip that beat its own channel. One line ran the sort: views over the channel's median. Anything past 30 was a format she could reskin that week. The AI-video look was blowing up on Douyin, so she took the shape and ran it in english first. For $50 a month in apps she found the format on Monday and shipped by Wednesday. Claude prompted each format into 30 shot lists. CapCut generated the whole clip, a photoreal AI girl in a full scene, with AI voice and captions. Make posted to 3 platforms and fed the numbers back into the same sheet, so her own hits fed the next batch. She walked into a boutique with a phone and a page of outlier scores. She left with a retainer for 20 AI videos a month. A studio needs a model, a crew, and a shoot day for one clip. She generated hers overnight. Every prompt and the scenario are in the article.show more

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 5:42 PM PDT: All systems... are a go for a cold and unseasonable Gulf of Alaskan April storm. Strong thunderstorms have already developed near Redding, California, and a series of embedded impulses are rotating around the main low axis off the coast of Humboldt County this afternoon. This storm system will undergo a brief 12 to 24-hour intensification process before hitting San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento late Thursday afternoon. It will bring isolated strong to severe thunderstorm conditions. A large surface cold front will develop late Friday morning as the low axis trajectory slides down the coast towards Pismo Beach, California by Friday at dawn. Severe Weather Risk In Central And Southern California on Friday. The atmospheric conditions will become increasingly unstable, giving way to thunderstorms from central California to San Diego. The cold pool of air aloft, at minus 28 Celsius above 25,000FT, will create volatile weather conditions with the possibility of pea-sized hail and brief heavy rainfall in some areas. The air mass will be very cold, supporting a dusting of snow near the Grapevine and Cajon Pass. Temperatures will drop into the 40s and 50s, and the 30s near the mountains by Friday midday. As snow levels have been trending downward and hit rock bottom, there may be some isolated areas at 2,000-foot elevation along the San Gabriel’s and parts of the San Bernardino mountains that could see a dusting of snow. Even some dusting of snow in the high desert cannot be ruled out. There is a high confidence of elevated water spouts developing from San Luis Obispo to San Diego coastal zones, especially since one of the embedded disturbances will arrive on Friday from 11 AM to 7 PM. This is also the best opportunity for ample early April sun angle, which will give way to stronger convection across our region. I'm closely monitoring this developing situation in the next 24 hours. #Californiastorms #ElNiño #April2024show more