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u/YungManJones
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[LeBron James] Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾♂️
Well it looks like Bron isn’t a fan of the new Twitter updates spearheaded by Elon Musk. Talking into consideration that he still uses the free version of Spotify, it’s not surprising that he would have this take lmao
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u/2789334 Raptors Mar 31 '23
Bron haters gonna create fake accounts and tweet the most foul shit known to mankind
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u/DirtyMoneyJesus Supersonics Mar 31 '23
That little episode when people were making fake company accounts and tweeting out shit like Mario doing 9/11 or whatever was the most enjoyable twitters ever been
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u/el_pinata Pelicans Mar 31 '23
Watching that pharmaceutical company take a 20bil hit has left me with an erection lasting far longer than is safe.
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u/bigted41 Mar 31 '23
If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours, you need to call more ladies
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u/HighBeta21 Mar 31 '23
Watching shitty corporate juggernuts get destroyed is my kinda spank bank.
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u/11shrimp Suns Mar 31 '23
Didn’t you hear me? It gives you a boner!
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u/bigted41 Mar 31 '23
Every other drug: YOU DON’T WANT NONE OF THIS SHIT DEWEY!!!
Viagra: You really do want some of this this Dewey!!
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u/Pandamonium98 [DAL] Jason Terry Mar 31 '23 edited Apr 01 '23 •
That one was bullshit though. No stock is going to drop like that due to a fake tweet. The entire pharma sector was down that day, and stocks of big companies go up and down all the time
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u/pBeatman10 [NYK] Eddy Curry Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Correct. And watching this parroted line become canon has taught me how much of my "knowledge" is really just some total bs I read on the internet
edit - even on this thread, the correction has 4x fewer upvotes than the original (incorrect) comment
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u/tgaccione Knicks Mar 31 '23
Do not ever treat something you see on reddit as a fact no matter how many awards and upvotes it has unless you are dealing with an actual expert like on /r/askhistorians. People will upvote literally anything that confirms their world view no matter how incorrect it is, and any experts trying to correct it get downvoted in the replies. It's eye opening when you become knowledgeable in a field and realize how much absolute garbage is spewed across this site, and it's especially bad on stuff like /r/worldnews or /r/politics.
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u/OmniscientwithDowns Huskies Mar 31 '23
This guy calls cops on parties
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u/Pandamonium98 [DAL] Jason Terry Mar 31 '23
Parties are fine, but I draw the line at inaccurate financial commentary on anonymous forums
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u/iButtflap Hornets Mar 31 '23
i know it’s fun to shit on twitter now but you’re either a super boomer or giga zoomer if you think that little 5 day thing was anywhere close to how lit twitter after dark and real trending topics used to get like 8-10 years ago. twitter was unironically the best social media back before social media became all about algorithms and business
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u/Ladnil Nuggets Bandwagon Mar 31 '23
The day Yahoo misspelled their tweet about the US government's plans for a bigger Navy was the best day Twitter, and possibly the internet itself, has ever or will ever have.
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u/MonteBurns Mar 31 '23
My god. I was like “just say what they said.” But really, if you don’t know already, the shock of the google results loading is worth it. Just try “Yahoo Twitter typo” and you’ll see.
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u/ManicManicManicManic Suns Apr 01 '23
In case anyone’s too lazy,
Trump wants a much bigger navy:..
They transposed the B in bigger to possibly the worst letter possible
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u/Christianmustang Lakers Mar 31 '23
Thank you so much for this comment because it made me look this up. Fucking amazin
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u/Coltand Jazz Mar 31 '23
Quote:
"Trump wants a much [word that rhymes with "bigger"] navy: Here's how much it will cost"
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u/Ambitious-Dealer6273 Mar 31 '23
Man, I just looked that up and holy shit that was a massive typo. Fuckin dead
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u/Tyre77 [GSW] James Michael McAdoo Mar 31 '23
when Shinzo Abe was shot, that was a day
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u/big_mustache_dad Timberwolves Mar 31 '23
When he got shot with a doohickey and the country was like “the shooter was right” lol
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u/Tyre77 [GSW] James Michael McAdoo Mar 31 '23
TFW you get whacked by a thingamajig and the internet’s like, “yeah you deserved to be the last step in that dude’s Do It Yourself project”
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u/deemerritt Hornets Mar 31 '23
Do you have any idea how mad you have to be to build a gun?
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u/luck_panda Kings Mar 31 '23
My favorite was all the people shitting on orientalists with, "In Japan it's very disonhonorable to murder."
God it was so good.
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u/-KFBR392 Raptors Mar 31 '23
Better have their emoji game right or they not foolin me!
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u/mecon320 Cavaliers Mar 31 '23
LeBron being cheaper than George Costanza never stops being funny.
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u/IllAlfalfa Pacers Mar 31 '23
This is like when MLB Pitcher Zack Greinke, career earnings $338 million, claimed he would never get guac at Chipotle again after they increased the price from $1.50 to $1.80.
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u/talknojutsu312 Rockets Mar 31 '23
A third of a BILLION jeeeeez. I can’t even imagine that
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u/MeatTornado25 Mar 31 '23
That might be the least weird thing Greinke's ever done.
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u/rorank Apr 01 '23
If you know anything about Greinke, this is probably the least bizarre thing about him lol
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u/lopea182 Heat Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Musk boosted LeBron’s tweets only for him to give Twitter Blue the kiss of death.
That’s beautiful.
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u/Phuddy [SEA] Shawn Kemp Mar 31 '23 •
A true man of the people
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u/Avant-Garde-A-Clue Nuggets Bandwagon Mar 31 '23
LePopulist
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u/Exhibit5 Knicks Mar 31 '23
LeWeThePeople
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u/Chemistry_Lover40 Mar 31 '23
I like this take but I'm guessing he boosted his tweets to get more interaction from users to boost ad revenue
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u/dawgz525 Heat Mar 31 '23
Yeah obviously that was the reason, but their was a select and random list of users chosen. Lebron was one of them.
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u/db117117 Mar 31 '23
Musk also supported Scott Adam’s racist rant that white people need to stay away from black people. Said Adam raised good points
LeBron is a king, ain’t falling for Musk manipulation
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u/doordaesh :sp8-1: Super 8 Mar 31 '23
a white south African thinks there should be distance between the races ??? 🤔🤔🤔
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u/ienjoybasketball24 Lakers Mar 31 '23
he doesnt know wtf hes doing besides trying to turn a profit
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u/underscoreftw [PHI] Jahlil Okafor Mar 31 '23
"try" is the key word here
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u/pythonesqueviper Knicks Mar 31 '23
Especially since Twitter has never seen a profit
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u/zzbzq Cavaliers Mar 31 '23
They made profit a few times, like 4 or 5 years ago
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u/Xdddxddddddxxxdxd Bulls Mar 31 '23
Before advertisers realized it’s a shit platform for ads
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u/binger5 Rockets Mar 31 '23
$44 Billion? Sold!
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u/Millionaire007 [DAL] Dirk Nowitzki Mar 31 '23
this will go down as one of the worst business deals of all time.
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u/Bruch_Spinoza Nets Mar 31 '23
It’s number 2 behind AOL merging with Time Warner and losing a combined 300 billion of market cap in like 3 years
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u/NormalAccounts San Francisco Warriors Mar 31 '23
I too remember when Justin Frankel (dude who invented Winamp) sold his company Nullsoft to AOL for millions. Fairly certain that acquisition netted AOL $0 in revenue.
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u/Xdddxddddddxxxdxd Bulls Mar 31 '23
Remember when Tumblr got bought? It’s the business version of “I can fix them”
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u/North_Atlantic_Pact Mar 31 '23
Even more than that, they sued Musk to make him keep his commitment to buy at that price!
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u/Lower_Fan NBA Mar 31 '23
He just didn't say "I'll give you 54.20 per share for Twitter lol". He actually put a formal offer as a board member. They were right to force him to buy it.
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u/CmonTouchIt Lakers Mar 31 '23
i mean hes fucking bad at that too seeing as how over half of the advertisers have fled due to his insistence that neo nazis keep a platform
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u/ienjoybasketball24 Lakers Mar 31 '23
yes, to be clear, he is not doing a good job at that either
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u/The_Dotted_Leg Mar 31 '23
Yeah those people are far more valuable to Twitter than any amount of money Elon could gain from charging them.
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u/YoungKeys Warriors Mar 31 '23
They already announced yesterday that the top followed accounts won't have to pay
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u/realmadridsupremacy Knicks Mar 31 '23
wait Lebron uses the free version of spotify?
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u/CravingKoreanFood 23 Mar 31 '23
That was a long time ago, surely hes upgraded or his kids shoulda convinced him
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u/i_lack_imagination Mar 31 '23
I'd assume most of these companies would just comp him the paid service, especially if he mentions he uses it, he just got them more exposure.
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u/antwan_benjamin San Diego Clippers Mar 31 '23
Surely an endorsement from LeBron James is worth more than a premium spotify account.
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u/Saucy_Totchie Knicks Mar 31 '23
Plot twist: His kids pay for it and he mooches of their accounts.
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u/Roar_of_Shiva Trail Blazers Mar 31 '23
They say broke mindstate is near unshakable.
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u/KaiserKaiba Mar 31 '23
I don’t blame him lol
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u/SirDiego Timberwolves Mar 31 '23
Well yeah the blue checkmark is absolutely worthless now since it's based on whether you pay or not and not any kind of verification. It has no value, I wouldn't pay a penny for it.
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u/Lithops_salicola Bulls Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Verification is not a service for the verified, it for other user. But because a stupid billionaire who spends most of his day looking at decade old 4chan memes is in charge journalists and academics will not be verified but @dogecoinsimp88 will be.
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u/no_engaging [BOS] Marcus Smart Mar 31 '23
as a guy that uses twitter constantly, the verification checkmark is one of the only useful features on twitter. it's stunning that he's going to take those away in order to cater to weird online nerds who got angry they couldn't have a checkmark too.
the system wasn't perfect before but it had utility. not sure what the point is now.
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u/Dworfe 76ers Mar 31 '23
Elon half assing the verification is the epitome of Elon Musk. If he actually cared about half of the things he was on his soapbox about, he would be more committed to solutions.
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u/NoirPochette
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I see you Bron with that Martin reference
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u/BlakMedik [ATL] Jeff Teague Mar 31 '23
I think it's ridiculous they're increasing the price to $500
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u/theytook-r-jobs [PHI] Clarence Weatherspoon Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
George LeStanza
LeBenezor Scrooge
LeDadFromEverybodyHatesChris
Le. Montgomery Burns
LeThrifty
LeFrugal
LePrudent
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u/Apollo611 Lakers Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Bron is the most frugal billionaire ever lmao
Edit: He actually has a reputation for being cheap
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u/thesch Bulls Mar 31 '23
It's not about being able to afford the $8, it's that Twitter Blue has basically no benefit to it. Even if you're a billionaire there's no point in spending money for no reason.
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Mar 31 '23
for brand reasons it might be better just to publicly announce you are leaving now to prevent impostors
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u/TheOneWithThePorn12 Toronto Huskies Mar 31 '23
what will happen is that Musk will give it to him for free.
LePerks.
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u/guesting Warriors Mar 31 '23
there were the days when everyone used REAL because there were so many fakes. I remember real shaq as one of the firsts
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u/FlashFan124 Vancouver Grizzlies Mar 31 '23
The @RealXYZ era of Twitter is one I completly forgot about lmao
Everybody in middle school had that on their shit. Like sure Ashley, someone really was gonna try to steal your identity on Twitter
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u/RNGcooks 76ers Mar 31 '23
He’s not leavin tho he’s gonna keep @lebronjames and he has millions of followers so it’s gonna be easy enough to know what’s real
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u/JerHat Supersonics Mar 31 '23
You would think, but you still see people getting scammed every day by accounts pretending to be celebrities on a "personal" account begging celebrity followers for money.
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u/Butt_Snorkler_Elite Pelicans Mar 31 '23
I mean, if you’re famous/wealthy there’s the “benefit” that it’ll protect you from random impersonators making an account with your name and saying horrendous shit to give you bad publicity or whatever. Which is exactly why the blue check existed in the first place. Elon pretty much resorting to protection rackets to try to recoup some of that 44 billion, what a fucking barney
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u/Dereg5 Mar 31 '23
That was why it was invented but it came from litigation. They did it to stop being sued and to prove to the courts that they were trying to fix the problem.
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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS Lakers Mar 31 '23
I mean, how is it going to help if any fuckhead with 8 bucks can do the same thing?
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u/neobowman Raptors Mar 31 '23
Dude doesn't pay for spotify. Twitter Blue is useless but that's not why he's not paying.
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u/NandoDeColonoscopy Mar 31 '23
I agree with this, but he also still uses Spotify with ads, so I'm thinking yeah he's pretty frugal
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u/ObliteratedChipmunk Mar 31 '23 •
Anytime LeBrons frugalness comes up, this is the only reference I see. LeBron literally bought a home in Beverly hills for $37M a few years ago, and it's not his only house. Frugal would be driving a Prius and owning a moderate home. The dude can certainly joke about being frugal, but if anything he just spends wisely.
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u/IMakeMyOwnLunch Mar 31 '23
It’s just part of building an image. But people eat it up whenever athletes/celebrities/uber rich act like normal people because it makes them more relatable.
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u/thelaziest998 Lakers Mar 31 '23
Yeah he literally drives a Porsche 918, something that costs over a million dollars. Not exactly frugal. Not paying for pandora or Twitter is just a principle thing not a frugal thing.
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u/drc56 Knicks Mar 31 '23
Yeah frugal isn't the way to describe it. I think Bron just spends his money on stuff he thinks is worth it and otherwise he doesn't. It's just hilarious when it's things that won't make a dent in it, he definitely falls more into the line of "cheap" but not in a bad way, just when it comes to certain things.
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u/YellowBaboon Warriors Mar 31 '23
Well kinda.. I mean he still comes into games with outfits that cost tens of thousands
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u/ChampagneSyrup Mavericks Mar 31 '23
He has every brand on earth giving him free clothes
One of the biggest reasons athletes are filmed in their pregame fits is for the exposure of the various brands they're wearing
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u/finester39 76ers Mar 31 '23
What I always found confusing about this is that I’m sure LeBron could have gotten a free subscription if he wanted, famous people get perks like that all the time. The marketing value of someone like LeBron using their app would be far more valuable than the cost of an annual subscription 😂
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u/medievalmachine Knicks Mar 31 '23
Soon we will all be Lebron. On Twitter, at least.
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u/annoyingrelative Lakers Mar 31 '23
Eloy is the greatest businessman ever taking Twitter from 44 Billion to 20 Billion in months
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u/Count_Bloodcount_ Mar 31 '23
And if I'm not mistaken, the 20 billion was his own* valuation.
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u/StoneColdAM Lakers Mar 31 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
Elon Musk announced the checkmark change for April 1st so if it flops badly, he can play it off as an April Fool’s joke and undo the change.
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u/euripideseumenides Raptors Mar 31 '23
"I like the guacamole," Greinke said. "Now, I don't really love the guacamole. So I get it when I feel like it. They changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $1.80. I mean, $1.50 is already pretty darn high. So they changed it to $1.80, and I'll never again get guacamole."
-Zack Greinke
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u/FamousChex 76ers Mar 31 '23
Kevin Love and Dwyane Wade have said LeBron is notoriously cheap. Richest athlete in the world will settle for shitty WiFi rather than turning on his data roaming lmao
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u/Haunting-Amount1750 Mar 31 '23
I love thé lebron being cheap stories so much. I’m excited for when he retires and more of the fun stories can come out
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u/SoberWill [SAC] Jason Williams Mar 31 '23
It comes out he would wear socks till they fell apart just to avoid buying more
He would show up to the teams facility and fill up gallon jugs of water and take them home so he would lower his water bill
Has the team bus pick him up at home so he could save on gas
Owns an Ebay account selling all the free shoes he gets and squirrels away the funds
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u/NoWayNotThisAgain Mavericks Mar 31 '23
Bron has officially crossed over into dad territory. “$5 for a bunch of blue pixels? Do they think I’m stupid??? I ain’t paying for that shit”.
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u/chromebook1 Knicks Mar 31 '23
Nah, you can't be having that free Spotify. That's a quality of life upgrade right there. Definitely worth the 10 bucks. Plus, mine came with a free Hulu subscription.
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u/Roar_of_Shiva Trail Blazers Mar 31 '23
The irony of trying to charge the people that make your platform popular….
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u/brosephsmith21 Jazz Mar 31 '23
Bron listening to ads during his workout 💀