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I don’t get why people are still spending weeks building online stores manually. This girl does the exact same thing in a minute, the AI builds the site by itself. It used to take a designer, a developer, a copywriter, and a couple of weeks to launch a product landing page. Now, that entire workflow has shrunk down to a single input field, and here is how it looks in practice: → Find a trending product on TikTok Shop, one with proven demand (in the video, it's a silicone face mask strap that’s been sold over 57,000 times). → Copy the product link. → Paste it into an AI landing page builder and within a minute, it generates a complete one-page site: description, images, and reviews. → Publish it to Shopify with a single click. → The same tool automatically generates ad creatives for Meta and Google, all that's left is to launch them. You don't even need to buy the inventory upfront: the supplier ships it directly to the customer. But here is the honest truth that these kinds of videos usually skip. Building the website is no longer the bottleneck -> now, everything hinges on product selection and advertising, which are actually the hardest and most expensive parts. AI eliminated the technical hassle, but it didn't eliminate competition or the need for an ad budget. That’s why a "store in a minute" is real, but "money in a minute" is not. 57,000 sales is a verifiable demand metric from TikTok Shop, so I kept it. There are no income claims in the post and there weren't any to begin with. Bookmark this 💾

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A 17-year-old is making $120,000/month on TikTok Shop with $2 ad creative. Not $2 per ad. $2 total. That's his entire monthly creative budget. Pause at 0:26. The screen recording opens on what looks like a normal high school bedroom. A backpack on the floor. A pair of soccer cleats next to the door. A whiteboard on the wall that says "WEEK 47" in red marker with a list of product launches underneath. The MacBook on the desk has Spotify playing in the corner and three Chrome tabs open across the top. Tab 1 is TikTok Shop Seller Center. Tab 2 is a custom Lovable dashboard. Tab 3 is Claude. The Seller Center shows today's revenue ticking up in real time. $3,847 by 11am. $4,210 by noon. The product being sold is a $42 ergonomic kitchen tool - specifically, a magnetic spice rack that mounts under cabinets. He's never held one in his hands. He doesn't know the supplier. The supplier ships directly from Yiwu, China to customers in the US. He never touches the inventory, the fulfillment, or the customer service. His job is the ads. He uploaded 1,847 TikTok product videos in the last 11 months. He didn't film a single one. He didn't pay a creator. He didn't rent a studio. He didn't buy props. The 1,847 videos cost him exactly $24 to produce. Here's the play. The TikTok Shop algorithm rewards volume over polish. A product with 50 different videos posted by 50 different "creators" outperforms a product with 5 highly produced ads every time, because TikTok's recommendation engine treats each video as an independent shot at the algorithm. More shots = more chances at virality. Most operators in the niche cap their video output at 30-50 per month because that's the labor ceiling for hand-edited content with paid UGC creators. He doesn't have a labor ceiling. His pipeline is fully synthetic. The workflow: Product selection. He uses a Claude-powered scraper that pulls TikTok Shop's top 500 products by daily revenue and filters for SKUs in the $25-$80 range with under 12 active sellers. The sweet spot is products with proven demand but undersaturated supplier competition. He picks 1-2 new products per week. Creator generation. He has 47 AI "creators" built in Higgsfield Soul ID. Each one is a different persona - gym girl, mom, college student, dad, grandma, teenager, finance bro. The personas don't get their own accounts. They're used as faces in product demo videos. Different faces in different videos to prevent the algorithm from clustering his content as "same creator." Script generation. Claude writes 15-25 script variants per product. Each script is 18-22 seconds, hook in the first 1.4 seconds, demonstration in seconds 2-12, call to action in seconds 13-22. The hooks rotate - "wait until you see this," "I cannot believe this works," "my mom has been using this wrong for 30 years." Video generation. Higgsfield Seedance generates the video. He drops in the product image (pulled from the supplier's Alibaba listing) and the AI creator persona. Higgsfield composites them - the persona "holds" the product, demonstrates it, reacts to it. Generation time per video: 3-4 minutes. Posting. He posts each video to 11 different TikTok accounts - one main TikTok Shop seller account, 10 "burner creator" accounts that all link back to the same Shop product. The 10 burners are seeded with 50-200 followers each over 8 months of slow account warming. They look like real creator accounts. Boosting. TikTok Spark Ads on the top 3 videos per product per week. Boost budget: $30-$200 per video. The boosts are the only real cost. Ad creative is free. The "$2 total monthly creative budget" line refers to the creative cost - the synthetic video production. The $30-$200 boost spend is paid ad amplification, which is separate. He spent roughly $14,000 in TikTok Spark Ads last month. The creative inside those ads cost him $2 total - the marginal cost of Higgsfield credits for the videos he eventually ran as paid ads. Compared to the industry standard - agencies charging $400-$1,200 per UGC video and DTC brands spending $20K-$60K/month on creative production - his cost structure is functionally an arbitrage on production cost. Last month's TikTok Shop revenue: $342,000 GMV. His take after platform fees, supplier costs, ad spend, and platform commissions: $124,000 net. The month before, $108,000. The month before that, $94,000. The month before that, $73,000. His Stripe payouts since January: roughly $740,000. His total fixed costs: $190/month - Claude API, Higgsfield Pro, the Lovable dashboard, his TikTok Shop seller account fees, and the supplier coordination tool that auto-fulfills orders from China. His variable cost is the ad boost spend, which scales 1:1 with revenue. Effective gross margin on the operation: 41%. Net margin after all costs: 34%. He's been doing this since January. Here's where the post earns its real insight. Most TikTok Shop operators get stuck at $5K-$15K/month because they hit the labor ceiling. Hand-editing 30 videos a month with paid UGC creators caps them at one or two products and prevents them from scaling horizontally. The kid's edge isn't a better product, a better supplier, or better ad targeting. His edge is the production volume that AI unlocks. He runs 6 active products simultaneously. Most TikTok Shop operators run 1-2. His total monthly video output is 168 videos. The industry average is 22. He's not winning at the product level - he's winning at the throughput level. The math on a per-product basis is identical to what any operator can do. He just runs the math 6 times in parallel with 8x the creative volume. Someone in the replies asked the obvious question - what happens when TikTok cracks down on AI-generated UGC? He responded: "They already did. 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"A Clueless Donald Lu with a double love story" (A write up by a patriotic overseas Pakistani about the congressional hearing at the US congress 03/20/24) "There is one thing that you need to do. The American ambassador needs to visit Imran Khan in prison and make sure that he lives to tell tale how wrongfully he was jailed through selective prosecution". (Congressman Brad Sherman ) This one statement made today at the US congressional meeting is clear and loud enough to highlight the fairness of the Pakistani elections 2024. Congressman Brad Sherman was loud and clear telling the world that not that the prosecution of Imran Khan was wrongful and selective, but his life is also at stake as this has been the custom and a norm in Pakistan. Imprisoning and even murdering the political opponent in Pakistan through a “judicial” process” is not unprecedented. But what is unprecedented is this congressional hearing. It was the first time that such a hearing at the US congress was heard regarding the aftermaths of a Pakistani elections. There has been no such example in the past after any Pak elections. It is as unprecedented and remarkable as the passion of the Pakistani American diaspora to restore the democracy in Pakistan. Before I go further in the highlights of the hearing, I want to raise big round of cheers and applause for the Pakistani Americans who have been a constant torch bearer of democracy, rule of law and human rights in Pakistan. You proved that patriotism has no boundaries. Special thanks to Dr. Shahbaz GiLL Dr. Asif Mahmood Atif Khan Sajjad Burki Moeed Pirzada and Ryan Grim for making this actually happen. After 2 hours of hot and spicy questions which left Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu stunned and clueless at times, one thing has been stamped, proved, highlighted, and solidified. The Elections 2024 in Pakistan were a FARCE. 1. “Can you call the elections 2024 of Pakistan free and fair by any means?" asked Congressman Fluger Rep. August Pfluger . “We never used this term of free and fair for the Pakistan elections” Replied Donald Lu. "There have been flaws in all previous elections, BUT the flaws in 2024 elections were the greatest". (Congressman Brad Sherman What a spicy slap on the cheeks of the Election Commission of Pakistan who have been filing FIRs against the bureaucrats like Commissioner Rawalpindi who was the whistle blower and exposed the rigging. 2. The US response to this blatant rigging and unfair election was very generic. Congressman Greg Casar Greg Casar very objectively mentioned example of Venezuela and highlighted hypocrisy of State department Department of State for giving a different response for the Pakistani elections where they were more rigged than ever before.….A spicy slap on the State department - the pseudo torch bearers of democracy. 3. The hearing stamped the general impression that Imran Khan is being victimized politically through selective prosecution. The congressman Brad Sherman raised this point and highlighted how the Judiciary snatched the bat symbol from PTI. He also questioned the efficiency of the judiciary that this was the same judiciary who jailed D. Afridi for 14 years for spying on Bin Laden, how come you would expect any work done by them. A new hall of fame for Pakistan supreme court who is only busy in giving justice to Late Bhutto but not to alive Imran Khan. 4. The hearing raised concerns about filing of false cases against political opponents after 9th May and trials of civilians in Military courts. Donald Lu accepted this fact and stated the US condemns this. The congressmen also questioned the interference of military in Pakistan politics. A moment of embarrassment for the Pakistani establishment who made 9th May as the “9-11” of Pakistan. 5. During the same hearing, Donald Lu denied all the allegations of being involved in derailing the Imran Khan government and said that there was no such cipher delivered. While saying so, he forgot that the ex-Prime minister and foreign minister of Pakistan have been sentenced a10-year prison on charges of exposing the same cipher that he is testifying that it does not exist. 6. The funniest part of the hearing was the love story of Donald Lu Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) that how he met his wife while he was in Pakistan. By the way, same Donald Lu has met the same wife for the first time in Nepal in 1993 as well. (You do not believe me! See his video in which he expresses his love story with the people of Nepal while addressing in Nepal). I am confused if Mr. Lu has married two wives as it is illegal in the USA to have two wives. Next time if he visits Ukraine, his wife will be a blue-eyed Russian speaking Ukrainian. What a blatant liar. And we heard this chants today as well " Liar, Liar" So, this is the story of so called “Free and Fair” 2024 elections in Pakistan. Did you hear any where the word “free and fair”? Absolutely Not. Did use hear the terms “fair trials”? Hell No ! All you heard is rigging, internet shutdown, false cases, military interference, judicial bias, selective prosecution, and persecution. This is the power of the Pakistani Americans! How ironic is the fact that such hearing happened just one day after the defense minister of Pakistan Khawaja M. Asif mocked at the Pakistani American communities that “you should not feel any pain of Pakistan as you do not have any stake in Pakistan”. And how face-reddening and teeth breaking answer the Pakistani Americans have given back today to this product of form 47 by arranging this hearing. The answer is very loud and clear. We feel the pain of the common Pakistani people who were humiliated and whose mandate was robbed because we are not Numb like you. We have lived in the best democracies, and we want the same democracy in Pakistan. We will be a hard nut for you to crack and we have proved that. The case is an open and shut for the rest of the democratic world. I wish such a strong democracy may prevail in Pakistan one day that Mr. Sikandar Raja (the Election Commissioner Pakistan) would be asked such questions live in the Parliament and held accountable before the 240 million people of Pakistan. The very people whose mandate was robbed in day light, who slept feeling relieved and accomplished on 8th Feb and woke up shocked, mocked and robbed on 9th Feb. Afterall, it these people because of which this country is called “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”. Hail democracy !! Long Live Overseas and Pakistani Americans ! Long Live Imran Khan. Long Live Pakistan #ReleaseImranKhan #MandateThieves ------------------------------------------------------- Imran Afzal Raja Moeed Pirzada Azhar Mashwani Jibran Ilyas Sami Abraham Sabir Shakir Dr. Asif Mahmood M Azhar Siddique Waqar Malik @drfaranahmad Zartaj Gul Wazir

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How strong is Xiao Zhan at carrying dramas across three genres? The three dramas he currently has lined up for release are the clearest answer to why platforms and investors are willing to back him. Today, let’s not look at this from a fan perspective. Let’s talk from an industry point of view and talk about the three upcoming dramas Xiao Zhan currently has: “SpyING” “The Infinite 10 Days” “A Small Town Remedy” A lot of people only see a top star dominating the screen, but what I see is another signal. Genre dramas paired with top-tier actors are reshaping market expectations. First, let’s look at what lanes these three dramas fall into: spy, suspense, and medical. Have you noticed that all three of these genres have a built-in audience base, but at the same time depend heavily on word of mouth? Spy dramas tend to attract slightly older viewers. They require solid logic and strong acting. Suspense dramas mainly target younger audiences. They’re highly plot-driven, with fast pacing and frequent twists. Medical dramas have the widest reach. From students to older viewers, anyone might watch them, because they deal with life and death, human nature, and social issues. One actor, Xiao Zhan, spans all three lanes. That means when his dramas are scheduled, they won’t compete within the same genre. Spy dramas draw from the spy audience. Suspense dramas draw from the suspense audience. Medical dramas draw from the realistic drama audience. Three audiences, three tables, with no overlap or competition. That’s the strategic value of pairing a top-tier actor with genre dramas. You use the actor’s broad public appeal to raise the ceiling of these genres, and then use the quality of the genres to feed back into the actor’s versatility. Next, let’s talk about what it means to “carry a drama.” It’s not about fans inflating the numbers. It means that once a drama airs, it can attract casual viewers, bring a relatively niche genre into the mainstream, and drive new user growth on the platform, while ad deals and overseas distribution also move up a level. Xiao Zhan’s past works have already proven this ability. “The Youth Memories” brought new life to period dramas. “Legend of Zang Hai” gave costume political dramas a different feel. Now platforms are handing him these three key projects. At its core, this is essentially an investment in certainty. In today’s film and TV industry, where everything is generally more cautious, whoever can offer that kind of certainty is the scarcest resource right now. And there’s one detail worth noting: none of these three dramas are what you’d call “safe choices.” Spy dramas haven’t had many big hits in recent years and can easily end up feeling dull. Suspense dramas are fiercely competitive. Hundreds are released every year, but only a few stand out. Medical dramas are where things most often go wrong. If the medical details aren’t accurate, they’ll immediately get criticized online. But it’s exactly these genres that are hard to pull off that need an actor who can make people want to click. Xiao Zhan is that entry point. Audiences are willing to trust him. From a business perspective, the ability of these three dramas to attract sponsors is hardly in doubt. Xiao Zhan’s commercial value has already been proven time and again. Even before airing, his dramas can lock in multiple brand partnerships. And product placement in genre dramas is much more flexible than in costume dramas. Medical dramas can feature healthcare, pharmaceutical, and insurance brands. Spy dramas can include cars, alcohol, and menswear. Suspense dramas can feature tech products and energy drinks. There’s a lot of room for brand placements. Not to mention overseas distribution. Xiao Zhan’s dramas have a stable audience in Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and even Europe and the US. “The Untamed” opened the overseas market, and every project since then has consistently sold well overseas. These three different genres actually match different regional preferences. Suspense dramas perform well in Korea. Medical dramas have a market in Japan. Spy dramas have steady demand among overseas Chinese audiences. So I’d say, these three upcoming dramas in Xiao Zhan’s hands are not just something for fans to get excited about, but also a bellwether for the industry. They show that truly capable actors aren’t limited by genre, and that platforms with vision are willing to give the best scripts to actors who can truly deliver. Three dramas, three genres, three possibilities. As a viewer, what I’m most looking forward to is not which one will be a hit, but whether Xiao Zhan can use these three works to make another leap, from a top traffic star to a leading force in genre dramas. As for the answer, we’ll find out when they air. Cr. 刘大可来了 #XiaoZhan #肖战 #TheInfinite10Days #SpyINGtheDrama #ASmallTownRemedy

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(long post on going from pre-product to post-product as a founder) We're swiftly approaching launch, so I thought I'd take some time to reflect. The accompanying video is of the first graphical implementation of Onflow (on Android) for a demo we did at Devcon. Barebones (a bit rough around the edges compared to today's visuals) from exactly a year ago. Onflow might prove to be the most complex protocol engineered thus far within the ZK/MPC/privacy space. ~2 years of work, 13 employees, expertise, refining, rebuilding, consulting, re-writing, auditing, novel research in MPC and ZK constructions. What goes into what we're building? First I'll outline what the scope for the initial release of Onflow is (skip to next section if this isn't interesting to you): - Be an SDK, not a standalone monolith. While we do have Onflow ID (our Onflow implementation), we never want Onflow to be centralized around 1 app. This also makes our user-by-default system so much more stronger in garnering network effects. If you've used Onflow even once, as soon as you open another app a few months later that requires compliance, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that the magic of the protocol has auto-submitted exactly what the service provider is looking for and there is no-to-little user interaction required on your end. - Privacy, privacy, privacy. My background, and a 90% of the development team at Sundial has a solid background in complex privacy schemes, zero-knowledge, academia and practical implementations. We believe compliance/KYC breaches are some of the most dangerous (both physically and virtually) data leaks that can occur, and so Onflow was built to be virtually impossible to leak any meaningful data from, even if you're delegating work to overseas staff, due to how data is stealth-schematized so support agents only see *exactly* what they need to solve your case, and nothing else. - Privacy, again. So what does privacy entail? Well. For Onflow we're utilizing so many new primitives in one, that all come from different departments. From the zero-trust infrastructure for our compliance dashboard, our never-before-seen quantum-resistant QuantMQ data dispatch protocol that is pervasive throughout the entire Onflow ecosystem, to complex routers for oracling and verifying proofs onchain (EVM and SVM initially, as recently announced). We also have our TDE, or "Trusted Data Enclave", which allows you to easily port your credentials to a new device, whether it be your laptop, or another phone, it'll all get transferred over seamlessly through a bespoke mesh-based distribution system (think Signal-type), again through QuantMQ tunnels. Now the true beauty of all of this? Some of the most senior software engineers, protocol engineers, system administrators, applied (& research) cryptographers alongside amazing visual artists, and our incredible CPO (ex-Disney, Apple, AOL and many more) all worked on their individual bits of the protocol. All with a shared love, and deep respect for privacy and great UX, came together to build the behemoth that is the inner workings of Onflow and distill it down to an SDK that takes just a dozen lines to implement, whether in an app, on a website, or in a cryptocurrency setting. One simple SDK that encapsulates hundreds of bespoke, novel and battle-tested MPC, ZK, QP protocols, and productized it into something that will make onboarding and compliance in general a one-click action going forward (for the most part), and will only be more and more normalized as more and more apps adopt this. Who is interested in using Onflow? We're very fortunate to have an exceptional product, which traditional finance, fintech and digital assets immediately recognize the importance of. Therefore, we're proud to announce that alongside our joint announcement with our day-1 deployment to Circle's Arc network, we're also entering traditional finance. Soon, users will be able to create bank accounts for short-stay overseas work solely using Onflow. We're actually surprised at the extremely positive reception from traditional finance, as you can quickly convince yourself words like "zero-knowledge" will scare what's often seen as arcane institutions, but our experience has been the polar opposite. Banks understand the importance of privacy. Banks understands utilizing privacy-enhancing tools to make the onboarding UX more convenient, and save them money and risk assessment staff when it comes to compliance. What's coming up? More privacy, more convenience. Soon you'll be introduced to the full product offerings of our initial release of Onflow. We plan to open-source every part of the stack that we're able to and provides a benefit to proliferating privacy online (such as our QuantumMQ library with bindings for C++, Rust, C#, Swift and Typescript). We plan to prove that all of the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars spent on solid cryptographic, privacy-oriented research has not gone in vain, and we've employed and improved upon under-explored breakthroughs to make Onflow happen. What took you so long? Perfect is the enemy of (progress/good/etc.), however, being a product that de-risks businesses and transmits PII (even over quantum-proof tunnels) still require extreme rigor and a lot of systems and novel infrastructure to make sure that there is no central breach point. Version one of Onflow will support 147 jurisdictions, and we soon plan to add support for Aadhar 2.0 as well, to include India (even though they just got biometric passports, they're not as ubiquitous). We support thousands of passports and IDs and have the most comprehensive coverage out of any compliance provider with over 15,000 documents covered. Novel things take time. Onflow is truly a novel, never-before-seen approach to the full compliance stack, with inherent digital ID features as an essential part of the protocol, giving it endless possibilities. We wanted to make extremely sure that what we're releasing here in a couple of months is as solid as can be, and will offer hefty bounties to people who can successfully find a way to disrupt the protocol (one can never do too much manual review, fuzzing, external audits, etc., and we firmly believe in rewarding solo auditors for findings). Lastly. Thank you to everyone building in, researching, contributing to or otherwise promoting, privacy. Privacy is not reliant on financial turmoil, it is the first question a start-up should ask itself when making a new product class. And we're super fortunate to say that in the difficulties of navigating novel privacy, we've found extremely satisfying solutions to extremely complex problems we otherwise never would've discovered. Do not fade privacy. Privacy is a moat, and there are so many markets that are begging to be disrupted if someone with a privacy-oriented view decided to take a pragmatic look at them. Thank you.

SIGNAL

21,702 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce

The Future of Commerce Is Being Rewritten Right Now with Interlink and LinkersMap 🚀 Digital commerce is changing rapidly, and the connection between crypto payments, real-world businesses, and global consumers is becoming more important than ever. 🌐 InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 is taking a major step forward by expanding crypto payment utility across 50+ global brands, helping bring digital assets closer to everyday use. This is an important move towards practical adoption, where crypto is not only held or traded, but also used in real economic activity. 💳✨ From shopping 🛍️ and entertainment 🎮 to travel ✈️, technology 💻, hospitality 🏨, education 🎓, services 🧰, and global retail 🌍, digital payments are becoming part of the modern customer experience. The future of commerce is not just online. It is global, connected, mobile, and increasingly powered by digital assets. 🔥 💜 LinkersMap: Building Real-World Utility for the InterLink Ecosystem LinkersMap is emerging as a powerful marketplace and geo-commerce platform designed to connect businesses, entrepreneurs, communities, and customers in one trusted digital environment. It is built to support verified InterLink Stores, product listings, payment points, and real-world services, giving users a simple way to discover where digital commerce is active. For businesses, LinkersMap is more than just a listing platform. It is a gateway to greater visibility, stronger customer access, and future-ready participation in the growing digital economy. 🏪🌍 🏪 What LinkersMap Offers to Businesses Businesses can use LinkersMap to create a stronger digital presence and connect with customers beyond traditional local limits. Through the platform, businesses can: ✅ Register and display their store on the map ✅ Showcase products and services to a wider audience ✅ Improve brand visibility within the InterLink community ✅ Reach both local and global customers ✅ Build trust through verified store listings ✅ Position themselves for future crypto payment adoption ✅ Connect directly with users looking for real-world businesses ✅ Participate in a growing digital commerce network Whether it is a restaurant, retail shop, hotel, service provider, education centre, wellness brand, tech business, or Web3 project, LinkersMap gives businesses a practical way to become more discoverable. 📍✨ 🌍 Why This Matters for Real-World Adoption One of the biggest challenges in crypto has always been real-world utility. 💵 People need places to spend. 👪 Businesses need customers. 🏪 Communities need trusted platforms. 💳 Ecosystems need practical use cases. This is where LinkersMap plays an important role. By connecting physical businesses, digital listings, products, and payment visibility, LinkersMap helps bridge the gap between crypto users and real-world commerce. 💳🏪 As the InterLink Network grows, more businesses can join, more users can discover services, and more value can move through the ecosystem. This creates a stronger cycle of adoption: 🔁 More businesses join 🔁 More users discover them 🔁 More transactions become possible 🔁 More utility is created 🔁 The ecosystem becomes stronger 💳 Strengthening Utility for $ITL The expansion of InterLink payment utility helps support the long-term usefulness of $ITL within real-world commerce. As more stores, brands, and services become connected to the ecosystem, $ITL gains more practical relevance. This is important because strong digital assets are supported not only by community interest, but also by actual use. LinkersMap helps make this utility more visible by giving users a place to discover businesses, products, and services connected to the InterLink Network. 🌐💜 ✨ Key Benefits for the Community The growth of LinkersMap creates value for different parts of the ecosystem. For Businesses 🏪 ✅ Increased online and map-based visibility ✅ Access to a growing Web3-focused community ✅ Opportunity to attract new customers ✅ Stronger digital presence ✅ Future-ready payment positioning ✅ Better exposure for products and services For Customers 🛒 ✅ Easier discovery of verified businesses ✅ Access to InterLink-connected stores and services ✅ More real-world use cases for digital assets ✅ Simple map-based search experience ✅ Greater confidence through store verification For the InterLink Ecosystem 🌐 ✅ Stronger real-world utility for $ITL ✅ More payment points and business listings ✅ Better connection between online and offline commerce ✅ Community-driven growth ✅ Increased merchant adoption ✅ A clearer path towards mainstream use 🚀 A New Chapter for Digital Commerce The next generation of commerce is not only about payments. It is about creating a complete ecosystem where businesses can be discovered, customers can connect, communities can grow, and digital assets can be used in practical ways. LinkersMap supports this vision by making real-world business participation easier, more visible, and more accessible. It gives entrepreneurs, merchants, and service providers a platform to be part of the digital economy while helping users find businesses that are ready for the future. 🌎✨ 💼 Register Your Business Today If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, merchant, or service provider, now is the time to join the growing LinkersMap ecosystem. 📍 Add your store 🛍️ Showcase your products 🌍 Reach more customers 💳 Prepare for crypto-powered commerce 💜 Connect with the InterLink community 🌐 Register here: 💜 One Ecosystem. Unlimited Opportunities. 🌎 Global Reach. Real Utility. Future Growth. 🚀 LinkersMap is helping connect businesses, communities, and digital commerce for the future. LinkersMap Dr Altcoin ✝️ Arif Ahmed Core Ambassador | Interlink Labs InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 KV InterLink Foundation ITLX Wallet #Interlink #ITLG #ITL #Linkersmap #business #ecommerce #globalgrowth #onlinestore

Tekkaus® | InterLink • MOD • T2 Community Builder

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Congresswoman Fakes Code Pink "Assault", And Other Notes Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna falsely reported that antiwar activist Medea Benjamin “smacked” her during a confrontation on Thursday, subsequently calling the police in an effort to get the Code Pink leader charged with assault. If you watch the video of the so-called “assault”, it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in your life. The 73 year-old activist barely grazes the clothing on Luna’s arm with her hand while speaking, after which the US Air Force veteran Luna collapses into a pile of blubbering victimhood. Benjamin reports that she was briefly detained by Capitol Police after the incident, but was released without charges after officers reviewed the video footage. Luna had already been on a crusade against Code Pink that same day, falsely suggesting the organization is funded by the Chinese government while questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. She then took to social media to reiterate her false claim that “Code Pink is a CCP-funded op” and insisting the activist “hit my arm”. Everyone in the US government is a manipulative warmongering psychopath. Capitol Hill is swamp full of lying mass murderers. ❖ Asked by the press to define the word “ceasefire” on Wednesday, President Trump came up with an answer you just know was fed to him by his handlers. “It’s a different part of the world, you know; I’d say in that part a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner,” the president said. That might be the Hebrew definition of the word, but everywhere besides Israel the word “ceasefire” is understood to mean that both sides cease firing. The IDF has continued hammering Lebanon and Gaza amid so-called ceasefire agreements on a daily basis, and the president has plainly been groomed to regurgitate the correct lines in defense of this policy. ❖ More people have been burned to death by Israeli strikes in Gaza. People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with the full backing of the western world. The abuses and atrocities people defend using “antisemitism” accusations are orders of magnitude more dangerous than antisemitism. ❖ The Smotrich parade scandal really highlighted how many mental contortions liberal Zionists are performing in order to separate Israel and its government; they spent the whole next day in narrative management mode bloviating about how Israel’s finance minister does not represent Israel and had no business being in the Israel Day parade. They like to pretend there are fairy fantasyland versions of Israel in other dimensions ruled by magic Jewish elf queens who ride candy unicorns and treat Palestinians as equals, and it is only by some freakish and unforeseeable twist of fate that our dimension’s version of Israel wound up being governed by genocidal racists. That’s how they maintain their view that it’s legitimate to criticize specific actions of this one specific government sometimes, but it’s antisemitic to oppose Zionism or say Israel shouldn’t exist. They pretend that the genocidal apartheid state we see before us today is some sort of fluke that is only one of the many possible iterations of what Israel could look like, and that any minute now it could agree to a two-state solution and become a virtuous beacon of truth and justice for the entire world. This is of course ridiculous. Everything that Israel is today is the result of everything it has always been. All this war, genocide, apartheid and abuse is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is all the inevitable fruit of the decision to plant a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization whose inhabitants do not belong to the privileged group. There is no alternate reality version of Israel. Its government is inseparable from everything it is as a state. Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu are the product of everything Israel has been from its very inception, and when they leave power they will be replaced by psychopathic fascists with different names and faces. Genocidal apartheid states should not exist. To oppose genocide and apartheid is to oppose Zionism, because there is no material manifestation of Zionism put into practice which does not include those things. Saying “anti-Zionism is anti-semitism” is just saying you support genocide and apartheid and want those things to continue. ❖ It’s easy to point at Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem. The thing about Segal and all these “antisemitism advisors” they’re setting up in western governments is that they’re just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They’re not experts, they’re just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel. Which wouldn’t normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly absurd Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding obscene levels of influence; left to their own devices they’d just be harmless idiots. They’re only harmful because they’re being given the power to do harm. ❖

Caitlin Johnstone

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Donchaab’s CEO: How the brand was born and where it’s heading 🍌 #OFFROAD #offroad_KTP #ออฟโรด โดนฉาบ The Origin of DonChaab 🚗: It started when my mom came to visit me from our hometown. She brought snacks I like, and one of them was banana chips. At first, I didn’t even know where she bought them. At that time, P’Ou was visiting too, and we finished all of them. Later, I told my fans about it, and they suggested launching pre-orders for the banana chips — probably around two years ago now. Back then, they were just in these clear plastic packages, without FDA approval or Halal certification. The goal was simply to support the auntie who made them. She was supporting her grandchildren and her disabled husband. So every time we opened pre-orders, it felt like we were giving hope to that family. In return, we felt fulfilled as givers. When the fans learned about this, they realized they were helping support the family too. I kept it going without thinking much about profits. Looking back, I think it was such a beautiful beginning. 🚗: Later, I decided to continue building on it and named the brand DonChaab. The inspiration for the name partly came from the song “Chaab,” which has a fun and cute vibe. I continued selling to fans until demand exceeded supply. They couldn’t produce enough, and orders fell behind. So I thought, let’s start this properly — and that’s how this was born 🍌✨ (shows the current DonChaab) — Nong DonChaab. The mascot’s name is Jao Chaab, proposed and voted on by the fans. (turns the package) And this is Nong’s back. From those clear plastic bags… to this ✨ today. 🚗: On the package, it says “Local Farmers Supported,” because Thailand is an agricultural nation. Many fruits are exported from Thailand, and I thought it would be really cool if Thai traditional fruit snacks could also reach overseas markets. Look — it even says “Product of Thailand” on the back, which I’m really proud of! 🚗: I launched the brand not long ago, and I’m still learning as I go — adjusting the packaging, the service system, the toppings, and everything else. That’s how the brand came to be — expanding from supporting one local farmer to supporting many. In general, not just for DonChaab, when you buy processed agricultural products like this, you help reduce waste. When supply exceeds demand, produce might go to waste. By turning them into processed products, they can instead be distributed to consumers. 🚗: The brand will definitely implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, but that depends on your support. A portion of the profits will be allocated toward CSR. As I said in one interview — as someone who has received so much, if one day I feel that I’ve received enough, I want to start giving back. Through this brand, fans get to enjoy the snacks, and I get to run the business my way — building my own team, creating opportunities for recent graduates and people of all ages, and shaping the kind of work environment I’ve always envisioned. 🍌// Currently, DonChaab can be ordered online at and is shipped domestically only. Orders are released in rounds, and the most recent one just closed. So keep an eye out for the next round! In the near future, international shipping may also become available. T/N: I skip some parts where he talks about the products, visit the website for more specific details!

Be~nyaa 💫

11,876 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

1968, The Moody Blues, and the Moment Everything Changed The studio lights of the 1960s flick on, the colorful geometric backdrop comes alive, and The Moody Blues dive straight into “Ride My See-Saw” with an energy that catches me completely off guard. Those clear, bright harmonies ring out, the rhythm pulls me in, and within seconds I’m fully immersed in the free-spirited, joyful atmosphere of 1968. “Ride My See-Saw” is the song that opened a new era for The Moody Blues. Written by bassist John Lodge, it appears on the 1968 album In Search of the Lost Chord. The album is a concept piece centered on the theme of quest and discovery. On the record, the track is preceded by Graeme Edge’s spoken-word piece “Departure,” creating the feeling of stepping into a brand-new world. Released as a single in October 1968, it reached number 42 in the UK and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It was also one of the first singles recorded on 8-track multi-track tape, reflecting the technical advances of the time. The story of how it was written is pretty interesting. Justin Hayward recalls that it began as a studio jam. Graeme Edge laid down that distinctive snare pattern, a guitar riff locked in, and the band sat with it for a while until John Lodge returned with the lyrics and the basic structure of the song. The words talk about leaving school, stepping out into the world, and realizing that life is bigger and more complicated than what you were taught. The “see-saw” metaphor stands for the ups and downs of life—the constant rising and falling—and the need to find balance. John Lodge has said the song is about growing up, carrying the tools you learned in school but having to discover reality for yourself. Before that, The Moody Blues had been an R&B band with the 1964 hit “Go Now.” In 1966, after some members left, Justin Hayward and John Lodge joined. There’s a great story behind their transformation: during a cabaret gig, an angry audience member told them they were the worst band he’d ever seen and that they’d ruined the entire evening. On the drive home, Graeme Edge admitted the guy was right. They decided to ditch the blue suits, stop doing R&B covers, and play only their own material. The 1967 album Days of Future Passed marked the real turning point with its rich Mellotron textures and layered harmonies. In Search of the Lost Chord and “Ride My See-Saw” continued to solidify their inventive progressive-rock sound, blending driving rock energy with a sense of wonder. Watching the video, I’m drawn in by the perfect blend of melody and harmony. Close-ups of their faces while singing and the way they glance at each other reveal genuine joy. This isn’t a big-stage concert—it’s a television studio performance—yet it still radiates the vibrant energy of 1960s rock. I always think of that golden era as a special time. Music was expanding its boundaries, moving from psychedelic into progressive territory. The Moody Blues stood at the forefront, using multi-layered harmonies and storytelling melodies to take listeners on inner journeys. “Ride My See-Saw” has a lively, foot-tapping groove, but underneath it carries a quiet reflection on life. That’s why it became one of the band’s most beloved live songs, often saved for the encore with an extended instrumental section before the full group comes back onstage. My own feeling when I rewatch this video is a mix of nostalgia and pure excitement. You can see the camaraderie in the way they look at each other and smile while singing. The melody isn’t complicated, yet it has real pull; the lyrics are simple but touch something universal. Those 1960s TV performances still captivate because they feel so authentic—no heavy effects, just the music, the colorful lights, and the human energy. For me, “Ride My See-Saw” isn’t just a fun rock song. It marks the moment The Moody Blues truly found their own identity, moving from their R&B years into a new era of exploration. This video feels like a small window into that world, where melody and image together tell a story that still holds up all these years later.

Music over time🎻

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🚨 EXPOSING NOSTRA. AI 🚨 We have exposed some pretty nasty grifts in this space, but Nostra reigns supreme above all others (by a fair margin). Since we have >30 min video and an intensive Notion document (linked at the very bottom of this post) I am going to just highlight the key areas below. For those who don't want to watch it all - here's some time stamps that cover the most important/most hilarious parts of the video. 1:08 - Site Speed Scamming 101 4:20 - Beginning of the actual findings of what we caught Nostra doing. 5:25 - Nostra CEO tweets about how vitally important it is to have your most critical information above the fold on your site. Then we show that they almost exclusively marketed their fake site speed scores above the fold. 6:37 - The 'before and after' that shows how radically different the Nostra team made their site after they realized they were being investigated (perhaps my favorite part) 11:05 - Before: YOUR SITE PERFORMANCE SCORE MATTERS ..... 1 day later, Nostra CEO: "Yeah page speed scores are pretty useless" 😂 12:07 - "Nostra clients are 8x more likely to pass core web vitals compared to non Nostra clients" *Lukas then shows how every single one of their 'success story' case studies are failing almost all core web vitals on their home pages.... 15:10 - Jake dives into the technical shortcomings of the Nostra product, from them using a deprecated form of rendering and claiming (falsely) that Google still endorses it, to showing that any visitor logged into any Nostra-enabled site is not fed the cached pages... meaning that many of their highest LTV clients are being given a drastically worse browsing experience.... + lots more! 29:47 - Lukas shows all of the deleted tweets from the Nostra CEO. Suspiciously, all of them just so happen to be based on page speed scores... hmm. The main points: - Nostra uses site speed cloaking tactics to artificially inflate performance numbers on Google's Page Speed Insights. There is no ethical reason to do this. It is a tactic used exclusively by site speed scammers. *A few people may point to the fact that Meta uses Lighthouse scores as one of many contributing factors to showing ads, so certain sites MAY see an uptick in paid performance on Meta while having these fake scores. This is a horrible basis to justify attempting black hat scams on Google tools. I'll be doing a whole separate video for this topic alone, but for now, just understand it is shortsighted and unbelievably stupid. - They then used those artificially inflated performance scores as the central focus of their entire marketing strategy. *They have released some hilariously inaccurate/misleading blog posts in the past week that try and claim they don't use cloaking and that their methods are totally ethical... you better believe we are doing a follow-up video that dismantles these blog posts paragraph by paragraph. - Various current and former clients of Nostra have confirmed that one of their central selling points when convincing them to pay for Nostra (often quoting/charging thousands a month) was that their Google performance numbers were going to go up, which meant a faster site, which meant more revenue. A blatant, irrefutable lie. - As we dug into their code, we found even more issues. Most notably, their 'crawler optimization' was stripping down pages for both Lighthouse (Page Speed Insights) as well as Googlebot, which means that the contents of any page 'client-side rendered' by Nostra in this way was almost entirely invisible to Google, as it saw basically nothing to crawl and index. - All of our findings were confirmed by over a dozen well-respected developers in the Shopify space, including high-ranking engineers at Shopify. - Before we notified Nostra of our investigation into them, Jake Casto (partner in this report) met directly with the Nostra team, including their Chief Lead Architect (?) and asked every question he could to gain as much context as possible. This meeting further confirmed all of our findings and even pushed some further. - Hours after we notified the CEO of Nostra about our investigation into them and the impending report we would release, their entire site changed.... like... CHANGED. Nearly every mention of 'page speed' or 'performance score' was stripped from the site, including all of their case studies. Additionally, they renamed an entire product. Their 'Crawler Optimization' tool became 'Bimodal Dynamic Rendering'.... - That same night, the Nostra CEO then deleted all tweets insinuating performance score as a benefit of using Nostra (proof shown in the video) and began publicly talking about how useless speed scores are. A metric they had long lauded as the single-most important aspect of what their tech improves was now "pretty useless" just a few hours later. - It is imperative to know that we did not mention ANYTHING about our interest in investigating their focus on performance scores as a key marketing strategy. All of these changes were made by them without knowing anything about what in particular we were investigating. Not shockingly, the main scam we were highlighting in our investigation is what was wiped entirely (within literal hours) from their site/their founders personal messaging. * go look at their site now and try to find any claims about performance scores on their home page. They even took them off the top of all their case studies. (we show this all in the video as well). - Nostra has since continued to modify their code, resulting in some of their 'success story' clients seeing a 50+ point drop in performance scores (shown in the video). More current and former clients continue to reach out and share more stories about the many sketchy happenings at Nostra. - Nostra also released a very weak response in the form of 2 blog posts that aim to justify their actions/tech. They have been sharing this with their clients and attempting to patch over the MANY inconsistencies and blatant lies they were caught in. As I said earlier, we will be doing a video dedicated to dismantling these blog posts in detail. Moral of the story. No SaaS is going to plug in to your Shopify store and drastically increase your performance scores in a matter of moments. Any tool or dev or agency, no matter how fancy they look and how much venture backing they have, will be able to get your Shopify stores' mobile performance scores into the 80/90's under any normal circumstances. If someone says they can... You are 100% being scammed. Site speed optimization is a complex development process that takes highly-skilled devs dozens of hours to do properly. No tool can replace this. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise. For a deeper look into the technical side, check out the link below.

Lukas Tanasiuk

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💛 ทุกวินาทีในวิดีโอนี้…คือความตั้งใจที่เราอยากมอบให้ทุกคนได้สัมผัส JANUA LIMITED BOX SET ตัวเต็ม พร้อมแล้วสำหรับทุกคนที่รอคอย 💛 เตรียมตัวให้พร้อม! พบกับการเปิดขายในวันที่ 3 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เพราะ “เซอร์ไพรส์ในกล่อง” คุ้มค่าแก่การรอคอยมากจริง ๆ ✨ ⸻ หมายเหตุ : 1.รายละเอียดสินค้าภายในกล่อง Mine Wish Limited Edition 50ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 490.- Mine Wish Festive Design 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 290.- Mine Wish Festive Design 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 290.- Dreamy Cloud Festive Design 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 290.- Kiss Me More Festive Design 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 290.- Passion Love Festive Design 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 290.- Juicy Mallow New Collection 15ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 219.- Cotton Cloud New Collection 15ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 219.- Sugar Bunny New Collection 15ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 219.- Memory of Sunrise The Exclusive Comeback 30ml – 1 ชิ้น มูลค่า 239.- 2. Unreleased Postcard จำนวน 2 รูป โดยมีรายละเอียดดังนี้ Unreleased Fix Card 1 Unreleased Random Card 1 (สุ่มจากจำนวนทั้งหมด 2 รูป) ระยะเวลาร่วมกิจกรรม: 3 – 10 พฤศจิกายน 2568 ประกาศผลผู้โชคดี: 15 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เริ่มจัดส่งสินค้า ตั้งแต่วันที่ 30 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เป็นต้นไป ⸻ กติกาการร่วมกิจกรรม “WE MAKE THE PHENOMENON – JANUA X RENJUN” CAMPAIGN 2 : JANUA LIMITED BOX SET 📌 รายละเอียดและกติกาแคมเปญ 1. การได้รับสิทธิ์ลุ้นที่นั่ง ทุกการซื้อ JANUA LIMITED BOX SET ราคา 1,990 บาท / 1 กล่อง = 5 สิทธิ์ (ปรับเพิ่มจากเดิม 1 กล่อง = 1 สิทธิ์) สินค้ามีจำนวนจำกัดเท่านั้น ราคานี้ยังไม่รวมค่าจัดส่ง การลุ้นสิทธิ์ขึ้นอยู่กับจำนวนสิทธิ์ที่ได้รับ ไม่ได้พิจารณาจากยอดซื้อมากที่สุด ไม่จำกัดจำนวนการสั่งซื้อต่อคน และไม่สามารถยกเลิกคำสั่งซื้อได้ทุกกรณี ⸻ 2. ระยะเวลาแคมเปญ สามารถสั่งซื้อสินค้าได้ตั้งแต่ วันที่ 3 พฤศจิกายน 2568 – วันที่ 10 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เวลา 23:59 น. คำสั่งซื้อที่อยู่ภายในช่วงเวลาดังกล่าวเท่านั้นที่จะได้รับสิทธิ์ลุ้น เพื่อลุ้นสิทธิ์ที่นั่งโซนหมายเลข 001–250 หมายเหตุเพิ่มเติม: สินค้าจะถูกวางจำหน่ายจนกว่าสินค้าจะหมด แต่สิทธิ์ในการ “ลุ้นที่นั่งเข้าร่วมอีเวนต์” จะนับเฉพาะคำสั่งซื้อที่เกิดขึ้นในช่วงวันที่ 3 – 10 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เวลา 23:59 น. เท่านั้น ⸻ 3. ช่องทางการสั่งซื้อ สั่งซื้อได้ผ่าน 2 ช่องทางเท่านั้น 1. LINE MY SHOP : 2. DM Instagram : janua_thailand (สงวนสิทธิ์สำหรับต่างชาติเท่านั้น) 👉 วิธีชำระเงินที่เข้าร่วมรายการสำหรับ Line My Shop ช่องทางการชำระเงิน 1. PromptPay QR: ลูกค้าสามารถสแกน QR Code เพื่อชำระเงินได้ 2. Mobile Banking: รองรับการชำระผ่านแอปพลิเคชันธนาคาร เช่น K PLUS และ SCB Easy 3. LINE Pay : 3.1 e-Wallet: ชำระเงินผ่านกระเป๋าเงินอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของ LINE 3.2 บัตรเครดิต/เดบิต: สามารถผูกบัตร Visa, Mastercard, JCB และบัตรเครือข่ายไทยที่รองรับ 👉 วิธีชำระเงินที่เข้าร่วมรายการสำหรับ DM Instagram : janua_thailand • ชำระตรงผ่านเลขที่บัญชีบริษัทเท่านั้น 👉 สถานะคำสั่งซื้อ • จะพิจารณาเฉพาะคำสั่งซื้อที่มี หมายเลขคำสั่งซื้อ ขึ้นโชว์เท่านั้น ⸻ 4. ชื่อผู้รับสินค้า ชื่อ–นามสกุลผู้รับสินค้าต้องตรงกับชื่อจริงในบัตรประชาชนหรือพาสปอร์ต เพื่อใช้ยืนยันสิทธิ์เข้าร่วมกิจกรรม ที่อยู่ในการจัดส่งสินค้าไม่จำเป็นต้องตรงกับบัตรประชาชนหรือพาสปอร์ต ⸻ 5. ระยะเวลาและการจัดส่งสินค้า การจัดส่ง JANUA LIMITED BOX SET จะเริ่มตั้งแต่วันที่ 30 พฤศจิกายน 2568 เป็นต้นไป โดยจะจัดส่งตามลำดับคิวของคำสั่งซื้อที่เข้ามาก่อน–หลัง เพื่อให้ทุกกล่องถูกจัดส่งอย่างครบถ้วนและปลอดภัยที่สุด ⸻ 6. ระบบบันทึกสิทธิ์และการตรวจสอบ สิทธิ์ของผู้สั่งซื้อจะถูกบันทึกโดยอัตโนมัติ ไม่ต้องลงทะเบียนเพิ่มเติม สามารถตรวจสอบจำนวนสิทธิ์ได้หลังคำสั่งซื้อสำเร็จภายใน 2 วัน ผ่านทางเว็บไซต์ 👉 วิธีตรวจสอบสิทธิ์: 1. เข้าเว็บไซต์ 2. กรอกเบอร์โทรศัพท์ที่ใช้ในการสั่งซื้อสินค้า (ต้องเป็นเบอร์เดียวกับในที่อยู่จัดส่ง Box Set) 3. ระบบจะแสดงข้อมูล ชื่อ, ที่อยู่, และจำนวนสิทธิ์ที่ได้รับทันที ⸻ 7. วันที่ประกาศผลผู้โชคดี วันที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน 2568 ผู้โชคดีจาก Campaign 2 จะได้รับสิทธิ์ที่นั่งในโซนหมายเลข 001–250 โดยจะประกาศผ่านทาง เว็บไซต์ X : 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀 Instagram : janua_thailand ⸻ 8. การยืนยันสิทธิ์ ผู้ได้รับสิทธิ์ต้องยืนยันสิทธิ์ของตน ผ่านทาง LINE Official: Janua ภายในวันที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน – 21 พฤศจิกายน 2568 หากไม่ยืนยันสิทธิ์ภายในเวลาที่กำหนด จะถือว่าสละสิทธิ์โดยอัตโนมัติ และทางแบรนด์จะประกาศรายชื่อผู้โชคดีสำรองขึ้นมาแทนในวันที่ 22 พฤศจิกายน 2568 ⸻ 9. หลักฐานที่ต้องใช้ในวันรายงานตัว ผู้ได้รับสิทธิ์เข้าร่วมอีเวนต์ ต้องนำเอกสารต่อไปนี้มาแสดงเพื่อยืนยันตัวตน : 1. ใบเสร็จการสั่งซื้อสินค้า (ฉบับพิมพ์จากระบบออนไลน์) 2. บัตรประชาชน หรือพาสปอร์ตตัวจริง ที่ตรงกับข้อมูลการลงทะเบียน ⸻ 10. จำนวนสิทธิ์ต่อผู้เข้าร่วม 1. จำกัดสิทธิ์ผู้โชคดี 1 คนต่อ 1 หมายเลขบัตรประชาชนหรือพาสปอร์ตเท่านั้น ไม่สามารถโอนสิทธิ์ให้ผู้อื่น หรือใช้หมายเลขเดียวกันลงทะเบียนซ้ำเพื่อรับสิทธิ์มากกว่า 1 ที่นั่งได้ 2. หากผู้ได้รับสิทธิ์ได้ที่นั่งทั้งใน Campaign 1 และ Campaign 2 จำเป็นต้องสละสิทธิ์ใดสิทธิ์หนึ่ง โดยแจ้งความประสงค์มาที่ LINE Official: Janua ก่อนวันที่ 21 พฤศจิกายน 2568 และทางแบรนด์จะประกาศผู้โชคดีสำรองขึ้นมาแทนในวันที่ 22 พฤศจิกายน 2568 ⸻ 11. เงื่อนไขการยกเลิกและคืนเงิน • ไม่สามารถยกเลิกคำสั่งซื้อหรือขอคืนเงินได้ในทุกกรณี ยกเว้นกรณีที่สินค้าเกิดความเสียหายจากการขนส่ง ซึ่งหากสินค้าเกิดความเสียหายจากขนส่ง ทางแบรนด์จะจัดส่งสินค้าชิ้นใหม่ให้ โดยไม่ให้ยกเลิกคำสั่งซื้อในทุกกรณี • การพิจารณาการคืนสินค้าจะเป็นไปตามเงื่อนไขของแบรนด์เท่านั้น ⸻ 12. การคุ้มครองข้อมูลส่วนบุคคล (PDPA) ข้อมูลส่วนบุคคลของผู้เข้าร่วมกิจกรรม เช่น ชื่อ–นามสกุล หมายเลขโทรศัพท์ และบัตรประชาชนหรือพาสปอร์ต จะถูกเก็บรักษาอย่างปลอดภัย และใช้เพื่อการยืนยันสิทธิ์เท่านั้น โดยจะไม่ถูกเปิดเผยหรือใช้ในวัตถุประสงค์อื่น ⸻ 13. ข้อสงวนสิทธิ์ของแบรนด์ แบรนด์ JANUA ขอสงวนสิทธิ์ในการเปลี่ยนแปลงเงื่อนไข รายละเอียดกิจกรรม หรือกำหนดการต่าง ๆ โดยไม่ต้องแจ้งให้ทราบล่วงหน้า หากเกิดเหตุสุดวิสัยหรือเหตุจำเป็นทางเทคนิค ช่องทางติดต่อสอบถามเพิ่มเติม หากมีข้อสงสัยเกี่ยวกับการสั่งซื้อหรือการร่วมกิจกรรม สามารถติดต่อได้ที่ 📩 LINE Official: Janua 🌐 เว็บไซต์: --------------------------- 💛 Every second in this video represents our passion that we wish everyone could feel. JANUA LIMITED BOX SET (Full Version) is now finally ready for everyone who has been waiting 💛 Get yourself ready! The official sale begins on November 3, 2025. Because the “surprise inside the box” is truly worth the wait. ✨ ⸻ Remarks : 1.Product Details Inside the Box • Mine Wish Limited Edition 50ml – 1 pc (Value: 490 THB) • Mine Wish Festive Design 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 290 THB) • Mine Wish Festive Design 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 290 THB) • Dreamy Cloud Festive Design 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 290 THB) • Kiss Me More Festive Design 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 290 THB) • Passion Love Festive Design 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 290 THB) • Juicy Mallow New Collection 15ml – 1 pc (Value: 219 THB) • Cotton Cloud New Collection 15ml – 1 pc (Value: 219 THB) • Sugar Bunny New Collection 15ml – 1 pc (Value: 219 THB) • Memory of Sunrise The Exclusive Comeback 30ml – 1 pc (Value: 239 THB) 2.Unreleased Postcards (2 pieces) as follows: • Unreleased Fixed Card (1 piece) • Unreleased Random Card (1 piece, randomly selected from a total of 2 designs) ⸻ Campaign Duration : November 3 – 10, 2025 Winner Announcement : November 15, 2025 Shipping Start Date : From November 30, 2025 onward ⸻ Campaign Rules and Conditions “WE MAKE THE PHENOMENON – JANUA X RENJUN” CAMPAIGN 2 : JANUA LIMITED BOX SET ⸻ 📌 Campaign Details and Rules 1. Lucky Draw Eligibility Every purchase of JANUA LIMITED BOX SET (1,990 THB per box) = 5 Lucky Draw Entries (Increased from the previous condition of 1 box = 1 entry) The amount of product is limited quantities. This price does not include shipping fees. The number of entries will determine your lucky draw chances. It is not based on the highest total purchase amount. There is no purchase limit per person, and order cancellations are not allowed under any circumstances. ⸻ 2. Campaign Period Customers can place their orders from November 3, 2025 – November 10, 2025 (until 23:59). Only orders placed within this period will be eligible for the lucky draw for seat numbers 001–250. Additional Note: Products will remain available until sold out. However, eligibility for the “Lucky Draw to join the event” will apply only to orders placed between November 3 – 10, 2025 (until 23:59). ⸻ 3. Sales Channels Available through 2 official channels only: 1. LINE MY SHOP: 2. Instagram DM: janua_thailand (for international customers only) 👉 Payment Methods for LINE MY SHOP: 1. PromptPay QR: Customers can scan the QR code to make payment. 2. Mobile Banking: Supported through major Thai bank applications such as K PLUS and SCB Easy. 3. LINE Pay 3.1 e-Wallet: Payment via LINE electronic wallet. 3.2 Credit/Debit Card: Supports Visa, Mastercard, JCB, and Thai-issued cards. 👉 Payment Method for Instagram DM (Janua_thailand): • Direct bank transfer to the official company account only. 👉 Order Status: Only orders that display an “order number” will be eligible for participation. ⸻ 4. Recipient Name The recipient’s full name must match the official name on their National ID or Passport for event verification purposes. The shipping address does not need to match the identification document. ⸻ 5. Shipping Schedule Shipment of JANUA LIMITED BOX SET will begin from November 30, 2025 onward, following the order queue chronologically (first come, first served) to ensure that every box is carefully and completely delivered. ⸻ 6. Entry Recording and Verification All purchase entries will be automatically recorded — no additional registration is required. Customers can verify their total entries within 2 days after completing their order via the website 👉 How to check your entries: 1. Visit 2. Enter the phone number used in your order (must be the same as the shipping address). 3. The system will display your name, address, and total number of entries. ⸻ 7. Winner Announcement November 15, 2025 Winners from Campaign 2 will receive seats in Zone Numbers 001–250. The announcement will be made through the following official channels: • Website: • X (Twitter): 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀 • Instagram: janua_thailand ⸻ 8. Confirmation of Rights Winners must confirm their participation via LINE Official: Janua between November 15 – 21, 2025. If the confirmation is not submitted within the specified period, the right to participate will be automatically forfeited. Replacement winners will be announced on November 22, 2025. ⸻ 9. Required Documents on the Event Day Winners must present the following documents for identity verification: • Printed purchase receipt (official online version) • Original National ID card or Passport that matches the registration details ⸻ 10. Number of Seats per Participant 1. Each winner is entitled to only 1 seat per National ID or Passport. Rights cannot be transferred or duplicated for multiple entries using the same ID. 2. If a winner receives seats in both Campaign 1 and Campaign 2, they must choose one campaign to attend and notify LINE Official: Janua before November 21, 2025. Replacement winners will be announced on November 22, 2025. ⸻ 11. Cancellation and Refund Policy • Orders cannot be cancelled or refunded under any circumstances, except in the case of product damage during shipment. If damage occurs during delivery, the brand will resend a new product, but order cancellations will still not be accepted in any case. • All product return evaluations will strictly follow the brand’s policy. ⸻ 12. Personal Data Protection (PDPA) Personal information of participants, including full name, phone number, and national ID or passport number, will be securely stored and used solely for verification purposes. No personal data will be disclosed or used for any other purpose. ⸻ 13. Brand Reservation of Rights JANUA reserves the right to amend campaign conditions, details, or schedules without prior notice in the event of unavoidable circumstances or technical issues. ⸻ For Inquiries or Further Information If you have any questions regarding your order or participation, please contact: 📩 LINE Official: Janua 🌐 Website: #JANUAXRENJUN

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I am the Senior Vice President of Cultural Strategy at Nike. My department does not make shoes. My department makes people say the word "Nike" 4.2 billion times in 72 hours without paying for a single impression. I have a model. We call it the Kaepernick Yield Curve internally. Slide 4. The number. $6 billion in brand value. From one man kneeling. Cost of distribution: zero. The entire internet did it for us. Both sides. At the same time. Sharing the same thirty-second spot. Saying our name while they burned our shoes on camera. We watched them set fire to a product they had already purchased. That was the moment I got promoted. The formula requires what we call a Cultural Tension Index. Every country has fault lines. Not geological. Demographic. Linguistic. Chromatic. We map them quarterly. The Netherlands scored a 94 in February. France was a 91. Japan is at 87 but rising. I have read Geert Wilders' platform. Not for politics. For market research. Every grievance he names is an engagement segment we can activate with a single kit reveal. I have read Le Pen's manifesto. I have read AfD campaign literature. I have a folder on my desktop called "Sentiment Reservoirs" and it contains every populist platform in Western Europe indexed by activatable emotion. Housing crisis. Wage stagnation. Cultural invisibility. The feeling that the country your grandfather built now speaks a language you don't recognize. These are not problems to me. These are market conditions. I'll tell you how the Dutch kit was built. We partnered with Patta. This is the part I'm proudest of. Patta is real. Edson and Gee, twenty years in Amsterdam, genuine street culture, Surinamese and hip-hop roots baked into the concrete of Zuidoost. The community is authentic. The collaboration is authentic. We are not authentic. We are selecting authentic things and placing them at the exact intersection where they will generate the maximum argument. Patta doesn't know they're the match. They think they're the product. Remove: orange. Remove: windmills. Remove: tulips. Remove: every signifier that one demographic considers "theirs." Insert: steel drums. Insert: African prints. Insert: bodies that do not look like the 1988 squad. Not because those bodies don't belong. They do belong. That's what makes it work. The ad is CORRECT. We made a correct ad that generates more outrage than an incorrect one ever could. Because you can't say it's wrong. You can only say it makes you uncomfortable. And discomfort is worth three times what outrage is worth in our model. Outrage peaks at 48 hours. Discomfort cycles for weeks. We don't sell shoes. We sell the argument about the shoes. I have a dashboard. It's called ROAR. Return On Algorithmic Rage. It refreshes every six minutes. I can watch the Netherlands kit travel from right-wing accounts ("demographic replacement") to progressive quote-tweets ("if this bothers you, you're telling on yourself") to mainstream think pieces ("What Nike's Dutch Kit Reveals About European Identity") to late-night monologues. Each handoff multiplies the impression count by 2.3x. We have never found the ceiling. The far-right accounts respond in four hours. We know this because we tested it with the France kit in 2024. The progressive defense takes six hours. The think pieces take thirty-six. The "I'm not racist BUT" accounts — the ones who feel something and don't know what to call it — take seventy-two hours. Those are the most valuable. They share the ad to say "I'm conflicted." Conflicted shares have a 4.1x engagement multiplier over angry shares. Both sides share the ad. Here is what I find interesting. The far-right says elites are replacing them. The left says this is representation. In my budget, both words appear on the same line item. "Replacement" and "representation" are the same P&L entry viewed from different positions in the income bracket. Neither side is wrong about what's happening. Both sides are wrong about who benefits. The answer is in our quarterly filing. Page 114. The workers in Tangerang stitch this kit for $204 a month. Eleven-hour shifts. Factory dormitory built within walking distance so Nike's supplier doesn't have to offer transportation stipends. It costs $3.70 in labor to produce a jersey that retails at €150. The Dutch factory worker in Eindhoven whose job went overseas fifteen years ago and the Surinamese kid in Zuidoost whose grandmother came on the last boat from Paramaribo — neither can afford this jersey. Both will argue about it online. For free. One is a "response cadence" in our model. The other is a "content asset." Neither is a customer. Both are inventory. I mention the wages not because it troubles me. I mention it because it is the one detail that generates zero impressions. No one screenshots a wage slip. No one boycotts a supply chain. They boycott a COLOR SCHEME. They share a thirty-second ad to prove which tribe they belong to while a woman in Indonesia sews the swoosh onto polyester for eleven hours and does not have an opinion about Dutch identity because she is thinking about whether her daughter can attend school this term. The word "diversity" appears in our marketing budget. Not under "values." Under "earned media catalyst." Line item 7. Right between "athlete controversy window" and "geopolitical sentiment farming." We discovered something the sociologists missed. You don't need to give people representation. You just need to show them their own face. Showing is cheaper than paying. A face in an ad costs one production shoot. A living wage costs quarterly, forever, compounding. We replaced redistribution with recognition. The algorithm cannot tell the difference. The quarterly filing can. Both sides share the ad. My team is seven people. The Cultural Tension Mapping unit. We sit on the fourteenth floor in a room called "The Fault Line." There is a world map on the wall with color-coded pins. Each pin represents a national team kit that has not yet been released. Each pin has a number. The number is the projected earned media value of the controversy that kit will generate. The Netherlands pin said $340 million. We came in at $410 million. I got a spot bonus. I need the wound to stay open. If the Netherlands solved its housing crisis tomorrow, our CTI drops forty points. If wages rose. If integration succeeded so completely that nobody felt displaced. That kit becomes just a kit. A pretty collaboration between a sportswear brand and a streetwear brand. No one argues. No one shares. No one says our name for free. We don't need the problem solved. We need the problem shareable. I have a meeting in eleven minutes. We're looking at the 2027 cycle. Japan is interesting. A Harajuku collab with no cherry blossoms. Brazil without yellow. England without St. George. Every country with an identity has an identity fault line and every fault line is a product launch. The kit itself? The kit is beautiful. That's the thing nobody wants to admit. It's a gorgeous piece of work. Patta did extraordinary design. The community it represents is real. The culture is real. The celebration is real. We just noticed it would also generate $410 million in free advertising if we positioned it correctly. Both sides share the ad. The graph goes up and to the right. It has never gone any other direction. I have a 2027 pin for every country with a flag.

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