Stark Slate

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Stark Slate

Stark Slate

@StarkSlate

I’m just here so I don’t get fined…

United States Katılım Ağustos 2017
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Maxx Crosby
Maxx Crosby@CrosbyMaxx·
Like 4 Songs In… Yeah Drake Is GOATED. 🧊
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Stark Slate@StarkSlate·
@JWIMYS Drake crashed Spotify, Apple Music, and every other streaming service but made no noise. Sure bub
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Lee Elms
Lee Elms@JWIMYS·
These Drake albums made no noise im crying lmfaooo
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Nate Esparza
Nate Esparza@Nate_Esparza·
hot take: Drake is highly overrated
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@moneyspread·
i love drake but im not listening to 40 songs man
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Dr. Allison Wiltz@queenie4rmnola·
Drake lost on every front. The charts, the public, the awards, the critics. He sued over a rap battle, but two years later, he keeps mentioning Kendrick. When will he let this go?
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Elliott Wilson
Elliott Wilson@frelliottwilson·
How bout you just give us one good one?
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Ess@Barbfromthe6ix·
Drake should be embarrassed asf ngl
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METRO
METRO@1youngmetro·
i see right through fake love
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Stark Slate
Stark Slate@StarkSlate·
@alt_w_v_g Yeah during Covid when people were buying toilet paper on eBay 🤣🤡
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Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks@alt_w_v_g·
One thing left out of the post. When Jamie Iannone took over as CEO in 2020, eBay had 183 million active buyers. Today it has 135 million. He has been paid $144 million to lose 48 million customers. The math is also credible.
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Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks@alt_w_v_g·
You used to sell stuff on eBay. Maybe an old camera. Maybe Beanie Babies. Maybe a coat that didn't fit. You paid a small fee. The buyer got the thing. Everyone went home. That eBay is gone. The website looks the same. The logo is the same. The 135 million buyers are still there. But the company isn't really a marketplace anymore. It is an advertising business with a marketplace attached for distribution. Last year, sellers paid eBay $2 billion just to make sure their own listings showed up. Read that again. The board calls this growth. A Canadian who runs a video game store called it something else. Here is what actually happened. In 2020 the board hired a new CEO. His name is Jamie Iannone. He arrived with a strategy called focused categories. In plain English, that means leaning into the stuff people pay extra for. Sneakers. Watches. Trading cards. Auto parts. The everyday seller, the person with the camera and the coat, was no longer the customer. The customer was now the seller who would pay to be seen. In 2025 eBay did $80 billion in transactions. They kept $11 billion of that as revenue. Of that $11 billion, $2 billion came from advertising. Sellers paid them $2 billion to promote listings on a website those sellers already pay fees to use. That is the growth story. In the same year, the number of enthusiast buyers, eBay's own term for their best customers, was 16 million. It was also 16 million the year before. And the year before that. And the year before that. Four years. Zero growth. They mention this on every earnings call without mentioning it. So what does a company do when growth stops? It buys back its own stock. In 2025, eBay returned over $3 billion to shareholders. Most of that was buybacks. In February the board authorized another $2 billion on top. Buybacks shrink the share count. Earnings per share goes up even when earnings stay flat. The stock price follows. The stock was $68 a year ago. It is $108 today. The company did not improve. The denominator got smaller. Then a man from Canada noticed. His name is Ryan Cohen. He runs GameStop. He started his career selling pet food online and sold it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion. He looked at eBay. 135 million buyers. $80 billion in transactions. Real margins. Real cash flow. A board harvesting the business instead of running it. He bought 5% of the company through derivatives and stock. Then on May 4, he offered to buy the rest. $125 per share. $56 billion total. On May 12, the eBay board rejected the bid. They called it not credible. The math is credible. What the board means by not credible is we would have to explain why we sold. Then Cohen went on Piers Morgan. He said eBay is run by a bunch of losers with perverse financial incentives. He pointed out that eBay's CEO has been paid $144 million over six years. He pointed out that he personally takes no salary and has put $128 million of his own money into the company he runs. You do not have to like Ryan Cohen to notice he is making a point that is hard to argue with. eBay used to be a place where regular people sold things to other regular people. Now it is a $48 billion company whose largest growth driver is charging its own sellers to advertise to a buyer base that stopped growing four years ago, while spending billions a year buying its own stock to make the chart go up. The board calls this strategy. A video game CEO from Canada called it what it is. The market is now waiting to see who else agrees. Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone
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Josie Marcellino
Josie Marcellino@JosieMarcellino·
Gun-owner and daughter of a gun instructor here. You can’t legally shoot someone for punching you one time in the face. Especially after intentionally trying to incite violence.
FearBuck@FearedBuck

ChudTheBuilder shot a man who attacked him outside a courthouse in Clarksville & accidentally grazed himself in the process. Before it escalated, he asked the man if he was going to “chimp out” the man then walked up & sucker punched him. It is unclear if the man survived.

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Angela Rockford
Angela Rockford@angie_goodwood·
So is Paige better than Caitlyn. Let’s settle it. No more debates. Just Yes or No!! Answer now 🫵🏾🫵🏾
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JustJamie21
JustJamie21@Carter_Jamie21·
He keep dissing Lebron like Lebron give a fuck… He has whole cities that hate him.. who the fuck is you?? lol just another rapper…
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kendrick fans lining up at 12am to listen to the entirety of iceman just to hate on it
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J Nolan
J Nolan@realJNolan·
@Okdamnbro Got more than your whole page for the past year too, crazy right?
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J Nolan
J Nolan@realJNolan·
Only 1 rapper I know that makes boring diss songs and the streak continues 😂
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