#not that I regularly watch mr beast it was just the one video. where he put people in boxes and made them compete for money

[bloodymary83]

The “Cows” are Racist!

I’ve recently finished reading “Cows” by Matthew Stokoe. There are blogs and post singing praises of this book. Saying how “well-written” the story is. Most readers claim “Cows” is so brutal they can’t make it past the first three chapters. If you do make it past the first three chapters then you are in store for DISAPPOINTMENT!! Spoiler Warnings/Trigger warnings. Do not read past this point if you are under 18 years of age or triggered by animal abuse, beast***lity, SA, child abuse, mental illness, misogyny, coprophagia or, graphic depictions of violence. “Cows” begins with an incel named Steven. Steven lives with his abusive Mother and is in love with his neighbor Lucy, who he’s never talked to. Steven’s only friend is his dog named “Dog” who is crippled. Steven knows little of the outside world except what he has seen in sitcoms. Steven spent most of his life inside due to an illness which was actually caused by his Mother regularly poisoning his food. Steven decides to get a job at a slaughterhouse owned by a man named Cripps. Cripps is a morally apprehensible person who hires young naive employees so he can groom them for his “Beast****ty Cow Cult” but, wait it gets worse. Cripps feels like it is his manly duty to teach Steven how to be an “Alpha Male”. Cripps does this by kidnapping and tying up one of his employees and fellow cult members Gummy. Cripps takes Steven to a shed where he has Gummy hidden under a tarp. Cripps tells Steven to k!ll Gummy. Which Steven does by gutting Gummy from his anus to his genitals no hesitation whatsoever, he just does it. Apparently this act of alpha male violence gives Steven a confidence boost. Steven asks out his neighbor Lucy who says yes and, asserts himself to his Mother by insisting on doing all the cooking from now on. Stephen takes this opportunity to start putting pieces of his feces into all the meals he makes for his Mother because, why not? Steven feels like he is living his sitcom dream, only the girl next door is just as insane as he is. Lucy feels like there is a “posion” trapped inside of her. She binge watches medical documentaries and dissects animals to see if she can find out how to “remove” this “posion” but, the answer has completely evaded her so far. Lucy is timid and subservient to Steven in their relationship and only does what will make Steven happy. Things start to progress at the slaughterhouse where Steven discovers that he can speak with the cows. No reason is ever given, he’s just the “SA Cow Whisperer” for some reason. One of the cows tells Steven that they are tired of being graped and turned into hamburger, in that order. So the cows have started a secret underground “Cow Coalition” but, end up committing the same atrocities that the human “Cow Cult” did. When Steven points this out the cow calls Steven the N word. Yeah just flat out calls Steven the N word. I mean the cow has been through a lot but, there’s no need for that language Mrs. Cow! Fleeing from the cow’s weird racism fueled anger, Steven returns home. Where his Mother is intending to “unalive” him. Steven’s loyal pet Dog the dog attacks his Mother before she can pounce saving Steven. In a rage from her plan being spoiled, Steven’s Mother lashes out at Dog the dog unaliving him. Steven seeing his only friend being unalived before him pushes him to brutally unalive his Mother. Steven then flees to Lucy’s apartment only to walk in on a horrific scene. Lucy has become pregnant with Steven’s child but, believes her symptoms to be a part of the “posion” that lives inside her. After binge watching autopsy videos Lucy finds a solution. She takes a knife and cuts herself from her V to her A so that she can insert her hand up inside herself to pull out the “posion”. Steven witnesses Lucy self aborting their child this way before succumbing to blood loss. Do I recommend this book? NO!!! It’s a poorly written shock value monstrosity! Go read Dracula again instead!

[barbiegirldream]

i hope this won't make your demons wake up ready for chaos but i thought it was funny and i wanted to share

so i watch this brazilian youtuber saiko regularly, he has that satirical humor that i like, hes kind of an mcyt as well, but his mention of dream in one of his collab videos caught me so off guard i just sat there staring at my screen. the context is that they were looking at stupid thumbnails and video titles from youtube kids ig? or rather just videos aimed at kids, and one of them was made in the manhunt style (someone staring from the bottom and a group at the top ik what it is), so he brought up where it couldve came from, dreams channel. and he just went off on it with his friend. the first video they saw was the mr beast one, so he started with "the man has almost 30 million (ig the recording was a bit older, even if it was posted like yesterday) and only had 13 million views?? he fell off lmaooo" and it was such a sudden thing, felt like a jumpscare. its not like he hates dream either, he used a lot of his mods and the manhunt video style while crediting him nicely. ig its just funny. kinda want to be a flop with 13 million ngl

well not everyone can be on top like Dream. if anyone was doing better why was it number one trending for days yawn

[honklore]

would you please consider doing maybe a soulmate au where anything you write appears on your soulmate with karl? i just love the idea of maybe doing little doodles all over your skin and it appearing on his and he likes talking about it on stream which is maybe what brought you two together? one of your friends who watches mcyt saw a clip of him talking about a specific flower they remember you drawing and this lead you to maybe writing out a small message for karl during a stream that made him super giddy? sorry if this was very confusing and i totally get it if you don’t wanna write it, thank you for your time! :)

sincerely yours | karl jacobs

(gn reader, soulmate au, chat is supportive, karl’s lil doodles like he shows on his priv but he draws them on his skin instead)

listen to: make you feel my love (cover) by jj heller

karl jacobs my beloved !!!!!

the sweetest romantic when it comes to the soulmate bond

counted down the days until his eighteenth bday when he could finally communicate with you

okay i’m going to switch your request to where karl is the one constantly doodling if that’s okay !!!!

with all my heart i believe karl would doodle every single day!!! never misses a day to the point where jimmy is like. bringing cleansing wipes to mr beast filming like,,,, dude i’m sorry but you can’t have squiggly marks up your neck while we’re filming we are ~professionals~

a total romantic,,,, like. downloads reddit and reads thru r/soulmatestories before he goes to bed,,, scrolls soulmatesuggestions blogs on tumblr

he’s just so in want of that close bond that he does everything he can to get into contact with you

tries to join late bloomer groups before they tell him that 22 years old isn’t late and he’s still extremely young

he’s just v impatient okay !!!!!

once he begins streaming regularly instead of a tattoo check chat asks to see whatever doodle he drew or received that day !!!!

worries a lot bc he hears a lot of rejection stories and he’s scared of being rejected

so sometimes when he’s rlly anxious or insecure he’ll scrub all of the writing off in the shower and wear long sleeves to avoid looking for your scrawl

YOU ARE ONE BUSY BEE

between school/job/life/family/friends and whatever else you do or don’t have going on, you often forget to draw notes for your soulmate

you’ve gathered a LOT of things about him tho

he writes his name w a lil smiley almost every week

(hey it’s me karl :))

writes u a Goodnight Drawing before bed

except for him goodnight is just right before whenever he goes to sleep and for you it’s like. 10pm.

so you’ll wake up to pee at 5am and find a drawing of a worm on your leg (goodnight!!)

writes lil notes about his tales ideas except you have no idea what they mean rip

(inbetween segment longer? talk to ranboo)

doodles his favorite cartoon characters (ayo!!!)

has colored markers for when he’s feeling especially creative

let’s say you have a retail job

and you can’t have drawings anywhere noticeable per company policy

so you spend most mornings scrubbing off any evidence of karl

which like,,,, makes karl extremely sad but he’s a streamer AND his friends are streamers so he forgets some people have like. jobs that require dress codes

even when jimmy makes him scrub off his drawings, it’s only if they’re extra distracting

one day you finally get tired of waking up thirty minutes early every morning (can u pls draw somewhere that’s not noticeable in a uniform? thanks.)

karl draws a lil kermit the frog on his tummy and it shows up on yours. the marks are all jagged bc he kept laughing whenever the pen tickled him

but it’s so endearing that he followed ur instructions

he keeps the drawings to stomach, thighs, and sometimes his feet which he thinks is literally the funniest thing ever to your dismay (nice to feet you !!!! haha !!!!)

you don’t have time to watch streams unfortunately, but your best friend does :))

your bsf is on quacktwt so she knows who karl is

in one of quackity’s jackbox streams they make fun of karl’s drawing skills

and your friend is like ಠ_ಠ that is the same worm that is always on my bestie’s shoulder

and you’ve never told anyone that you know your soulmate’s name

so your friend only has a stupid (endearing) worm drawing for reference

she screenshots it and sends it to you like, lol quackity’s friend karl draws worms that look just like ur soulmate’s drawings

and ur like,,,,,, karl? his name is karl?

and bless ur heart that’s how u find out ur soulmate is a minecraft twitch streamer (derogatory)

you do your best to watch his streams and try to figure him out ,,,, like who he is as a person

and he’s just the biggest sweetie pie :((

you drew a rose for him during your lunch break one day and that night he showed his chat and got so excited

“chat i think they’re romancing me 0.0”

you get so thrilled that you draw him another doodle, this one of a lil heart

and he literally squeals and shoves his wrist against the lens so quickly that it blurs and makes you audibly laugh

you continue to draw him stuff throughout the next few streams

until finally he’s doing a chill alt stream, watching some yt vids

you know when karl is wrapped up in his fuzzy blanket and yawning while he tries to focus on the video :(((((((( yeah ://///

and you get so overwhelmed with fondness that you uncap your marker

(i like you karl)

and he doesn’t see it until he takes his arm out of the blanket to grab his can of monster

chat sees it first so they’re spamming

and when he reads it he gets SO red and he literally has to call the stream bc he’s too flustered to think of anything else

like he’s finally getting somewhere with you and he’s so so excited

when the stream ends he writes on his arm this entire anxious essay basically asking if you guys can find somewhere to meet or if he can at least have your number

and you can fill in the rest, but ofc the two of you become quite literally the dynamic duo.

absolutely adorable

your bestie makes you promise you’ll help her meet quackity since she basically made the discovery but that’s another story for another time

thank you for requesting !!!

[goldenpixel]

can u talk more about the feral boys smoking and examples of why u think they do? i’ve Always thought especially sapnap has, and him and dream probably smoke a lot together irl (also the way dream always clears his throat??) but i haven’t had anything to really back it up to other people other than a Feeling. idk if ur the same but .. yeah

Honestly, for the most part it is just a Feeling, I like to call it my Gaydar for Stoners, but Sapnap especially I’m like 100% sure

Other than the time that Sapnap straight up told Tommy he was high (which a lot of people write off as a joke, but I firmly believe he was just a little too high and forgot Tommy was streaming, which would explain Tommy’s “huh? This is weird and strange and has definitely never happened before” type of response), there’s also the time that Sapnap was on Dream’s stream and he lit a Hot n Spicy McChicken on fire with the blowtorch that was in arms reach of his set up (what other reason can you think of for a 19 year old to have a blowtorch in his bedroom - on his desk that he likely spends most of his time at - if not for dabs?), and then there’s also that one time pretty soon after the blowtorch thing that he could be heard igniting a lighter in the background while Dream was talking. And that’s just the things that I can think of off the top of my head

Dream is much more subtle about it, but if we look at his behavior in other people’s streams, especially Sapnap’s since they moved in together & Train’s latenight streams, you can’t count the amount of things he says/does that could very easily be attributed to him being high/a stoner. The big thing that I can think of right now is whenever he asks Sapnap if he wants food or Sapnap brings up their eating habits. I know that this can be explained away by them being young guys living on their own, but that combined with Sapnap being all but confirmed and Dream being very open about his mental health (weed can help anxiety, depression, and adhd among many others), just makes me think that he and Sapnap get absolutely blazed together. (also how he hesitates and giggles a little bit whenever someone asks him if he drinks or does drugs)

I think George used to smoke a ton, and probably still lights up sometimes, but not to the same degree that he used to. George was a party animal in college and statistically, British youth actually smoke more than Americans do, despite it now being legal in America. This one is not based in any fact at all, solely just an observation combined with the vibes, but every single one of George’s outfits that we’ve seen him wearing outside of his home are stereotypical seshfits (comfy outfits for the purpose of being as comfy as possible while high)

Most of my stuff for Karl, like George, could just be because he’s a busy gamer boy, but I’m gonna list them out anyway. First, every solo-Karl alt stream I’ve ever caught, he’s been absolutely schlumped playing some mindless game like slither.io, and idk about any of my fellow weed partakers, but when you’re alone, being slouched and stoned at 2am-5am playing something like that is one of the greatest things ever, especially when you’re listening to the music that he almost always is playing. Then there’s that photo I posted a while ago with Karl and Mr Beast eating the Dream Burger, where Karl looks absolutely blasted, and I’m sure if we were to go back through old photos, videos, vods, whatever, there would be many many more just like that photo. And remember that old photo of Karl when he met Valkyrae? He looks like the epitome of the nerdy kid in high school who everyone thinks goes straight home, does his homework, and then plays video games until school the next morning, but he actually has a major smoke sesh before the gaming starts, and if you’re the lucky one to figure this out, you’ll suddenly have access to the highest quality weed that that school will ever see

Quackity is the one that I’ve got the least proof for, just because he’s always so Quackity. Like, if that boy is smoking regularly, it’s gotta be pure sativa, or he’s just timing it perfectly that he’s rarely high on stream, and probably never on his own streams. I’ve actually been meaning to go back through his vods and see if I can find any substance to it other than vibes and the fact that I firmly believe the feral boys have had smoke sesh calls more than once

If anyone wants to add or refute anything, feel free!! I love discussing this stuff, cuz it’s almost certain that we’re never going to get clear answers cuz they need to keep up their mostly family friendly images. Swearing and sex jokes are one thing, but if parents were to find out that they openly smoked weed a lot of kids would 100% be banned from watching them

[pub-lius]

A Debunking and, in my Humble Opinion, Superior Version of Weird History’s “Hardcore Facts About Alexander Hamilton”

I haven’t updated my blog in quite some time, and that is due to my schedule being primarily dominated by school. So, I decided my first step into posting semi-regularly once more shall be a more casual, more fun endeavor. 

If you have not heard of the Weird History youtube channel, good for you. It is yet another social media platform that misconstrues history to appeal to the public’s enjoyment of extremes and strangeness. I saw The Historical Fashion Queens make a video responding to their highly misinformed documentary on corsetry on Miss Abby Cox’s youtube channel, which I highly recommend. This intrigued me, and I decided to find a video I could dissect off my expertise, at first only for fun in my own time. This resulted in the production in a very long bullet list in the notes app of my phone. So here is my informal destruction of this godforsaken video.

Disclaimer: I am not at all excusing any of the awful things Alexander Hamilton did during his lifetime. I am absolutely the last person who would even come near to claiming that many of the things he did were justifiable in the slightest. Although, he might be the only historical figure which I have a very strong interest in the life of, as he was incredibly complex, and the part of me with a love of psychology finds him absolutely fascinating. There is also something to be said about the way we consider moral standards of historical figures. We are quite lucky to believe in the time that we do, and not all of our standards can apply to historical figures. This does not mean they should not be held accountable. I find that a way to criticize people while also praising them where it is due is by judging them based upon their intentions. In my opinion, Hamilton’s intentions were not to harm anyone in most situations, so I don’t think he was a terrible person, nor do I think he was a particularly good one. Then again, I don’t think either of those things about a mass majority of people, so let us proceed without further delay. (Note: I will also be referring to the collective Weird History channel as the Narrator to avoid any mental gymnastics, and all of my knowledge is coming from my memory of Hamilton’s writing and some biographies.)

Automatically, the video starts with mention of the musical, but that just reminds me that many use Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton as a basis of their statements about him without utilizing much critical thinking, so I am slightly nervous. 

The Narrator then refers to Hammy Ham man as “...one of America’s most undervalued founding fathers...” Now, it is debatable whether or not Mr. Hamilton is undervalued per se, but when it comes to the founding fathers, they are usually undervalued or overvalued. At this point, Hamilton is both.

I shall not subscribe, thank you for the offer though, Mr. Narrator.

Now for the first fact: “Historians don’t know when Hamilton was born.” Yes, this is correct, but I don’t believe this should be labeled as “hardcore”, but perhaps that is just me. One early document indicates that Hamilton was born in 1755, while all later ones point to 1757 as his year of birth. We know Hamilton was not always a completely honest man, so it is possible that he lied.

Also, they show an image of a baby, and I do not know if this is actually Hamilton, but they use a lot of strange imagery, which I found humorous.

“A self-made man born out of wedlock.” Now, this fact could indeed be “hardcore”, if this was not colonial America we are discussing. Hamilton actually wasn’t really special in this regard. Yes, his rise to fame was impressive considering his circumstances, but this wasn’t unheard of.

The Narrator then says that Hamilton’s mother, Rachel Faucette, was “estranged from her husband.” This caused me some confusion as it is a vast understatement. Her ex-husband was absolutely awful to her. 

Additionally, they claim that James Hamilton left his family behind for some reason that I did not write in my notes, but the most likely reason that he actually left was because of his awesome debt. James Hamilton also had a history of ambitious pursuits for money, so it would not be extreme to claim that he moved to another island to attempt to make a fortune in some trading endeavor.

They also cease to mention the Stevens family, who housed young Alexander while he was working for Beekman and Cruger, and had a great influence on him, but I digress.

“A college dropout who joined the Revolution.” Once again, this isn’t special. Many rowdy young Whigs left behind their careers and educations for pursuit of military fame in the Continental Army. They also do not mention anything of Hamilton’s expansive military career, which aside from being indicative of primitive research, but would produce more “hardcore facts.”

Although, they do discuss his application to Princeton college, which is interesting enough I suppose, although everyone who has heard the first two songs of the musical knows this story. His proposal for an “accelerated course of study” was likely inspired by Aaron Burr, as claimed by Chernow and Miranda, or James Madison, as supported by evidence provided by author Noah Feldman in his novel, The Three Lives of James Madison, which is an excellent read. Young Madison, having already completed a course, decided to do so again, but compacting a usually three year course into a shorter period of time. He hardly slept during this period, which was stressful upon his health, making Princeton more disinclined to allow a similar course to be taken.

The Narrator then claims that Hamilton “formed his own militia of 25 men.” Technically, yes? But not exactly. Hamilton joined a paramilitary group called the Hearts of Oak, and they drilled in Trinity Churchyard. This became ironic later. He then became a captain in the New York Artillery Company, and enlisted his own men, which was at one time around thirty or so, if my memory serves me correctly.

“Founded a bank that existed for over two centuries.” Ah, yes, a very hardcore fact indeed. Yes, Hamilton did establish the Bank of America, but Robert Morris was the one who inspired him to do so. Though, I do think the financial plan is a product of his own genius, but I will get into that much later.

I got an ad. :(

The Narrator also says that the misfortunes done to the New York shipping industry by the Articles of Confederation were the most prominent, if not sole, motivation for Hamilton to concoct his financial plan. He first recognized the need for a sound financial plan when he was in the army. You know, when he was watching men die of inadequate supplies because the government couldn’t tax the states.

This video, like Chernow’s biography and Miranda’s musical, claims that Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were friends when, in actuality, they weren’t really. Yes, they knew each other, and they didn’t hate each other until the end of Hamilton’s life, but they really didn’t think about each other much before the Election of 1800.

“Hamilton authored over half of the Federalist Papers.” Indeed, he did! I enjoy this fact. It isn’t very “hardcore” but it is very impressive. The Federalist Papers were arguably Hamilton’s greatest accomplishment, as he organized the entire thing and, as previously stated, authored much of them. I very much enjoy the Federalist Papers, as they give some insight as to Hamilton’s political and philosophical theories, as well as how he thought of the world. It makes for an interesting read if you have something you’re looking for.

Now, this may be a hot take, but Madison’s essays are by far more effective, as they were better organized. Hamilton and I share a common flaw, and that is the lack of brevity. 

“Involved in America’s first sex scandal.” Yes, we all know. I’ll get into the Reynold’s affair later because it’s its own beast to conquer. Basically what you need to understand information I shall provide later in this post is that James Reynolds extorted money from Hamilton, and if Hamilton failed to pay, Reynolds would expose the affair Hamilton was having with his wife, Maria. Hamilton paid, but when Reynolds was arrested for something else, he exposed Hamilton anyway.

“He worked with Aaron Burr to defend a man.” Once again, this isn’t very surprising. They were both capable lawyers in the same area, so it was basically inevitable. Though there was this one instance where Hamilton and Burr were working on a case together and Hamilton, being himself, insisted upon having the last word. Well, Burr was tired of him, and I can’t say I blame him, so he made every possible argument in his finishing speech, leaving Hamilton with virtually nothing. 

The Narrator also mentions Hamilton’s opposition to slavery, but he didn’t really outwardly oppose it as much as you would think listening to the musical or reading Chernow’s biography. Far from being the “fervent abolitionist” Chernow and Miranda glorify, Hamilton didn’t really do much for the enslaved. He helped John Laurens in his Black Plan and joined the Manumission Society, but other than that, he never made any attempt to progress the abolition of slavery. He also “purchased” slaves for his in-laws, and some argue that he “owned” some himself, but there is no contemporary evidence to support this that I have seen. The enslaved and servants that were in his household likely belonged to his wife.

“Founded a newspaper that still exists.” Ok.

“Died by duel.” I swear, this fact is by far the most unnecessary. They mention the duel so many times that it is already redundant. I completely skipped over this part, and the video ended, so I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

Well, seeing as this post is already longer than my attention span, I shall save you the pains of having to read any more in just one post. I shall make a follow-up to this where I give my own facts, which I believe are far more hardcore than “he founded a newspaper.” I hope you have enjoyed and this isn’t too terribly boring. I hope to get back to posting soon.

[rev-pirate]

Which yter?

The reactor? RuffSenpai! There was actually a hot minute around Christmas after his schlatt rammie plush finally came in where he immediately featured the plush front and center in his videos as his emotional support while reacting. he would also regularly threaten him with a knife for subs lol. It took me tf out when it first happened KEKW i opened a video and just BAM jschlatt taking up a whole corner of the screen lol

that’s how it all started 😔 first it was a jschlatt plush, then a one off patreon request to watch a mr beast minecraft build challenge video and admits he’s completely under a rock when it comes mcyt, then he buys Minecraft and starts up a recreating the world of one piece in minecraft build server, and now i sense he’s about to be reacting to a lot more minecraft lmao

[ethanalter]

How to make a sexy sea monster and other 'Shape of Water' secrets revealed! (exclusive)

Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fairy tale The Shape of Water represents a breakthrough in human-fish relations. That’s not just because this lovingly crafted homage to classic ‘50s creature features is up for 13 Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. It also pushes the envelope well past love stories like Splash and The Little Mermaid, where men and mermaids enjoyed relatively chaste romances. In contrast, The Shape of Water’s lovers — mute janitor, Elisa (Sally Hawkins, a Best Actress nominee) and South American river god (Doug Jones) — get hot and heavy during the course of the film, instantly making them one of the most memorable interspecies couples in movie history.

Del Toro recognized early on in the production process that his love story hinged on audiences finding the Fish-Man as attractive as Elisa does. So, he devoted more than a year — and hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own funds — towards sculpting a version of the creature that was, to put it bluntly, a total stud. “It needed to be very attractive, a creature you could fall in love with,” the director remarks in this exclusive behind-the-scenes clip that Yahoo Entertainment is premiering today. (Watch the video above.) Del Toro handed that challenge off to top creature designer, Mike Hill of Legacy Effects, who built a suit for Jones that was further enhanced in post-production by Dennis Berardi, head of the visual effects company Mr. X, which oversaw the effects work for The Shape of Water.

Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones as the lovers in ‘The Shape of Water’ (Photo: Fox Searchlight/Courtesy Everett Collection)

The technique was pure hybrid,” Berardi explains to Yahoo Entertainment in a separate interview. “Generally speaking, when you see the body and head movements of the Fish Man—or the asset as we called him — that’s Doug Jones in a suit. But whenever you see him underwater, then he’s animated. I would also say that every single shot where you have the creature onscreen, the eyes and brow area are digital, because the way the mask worked, the eyes were a thick resin plug that didn’t articulate. Our methodology was to work from the eyes out, preserving as much of Doug’s performance as possible. But every single shot has varying degrees of visual effects in it, from micro-expressions like eye blinks to full-body animation.”

Unfortunately for Berardi, visual effects was one of the few Oscar categories in which The Shape of Water missed out on a nomination, with nods instead going to Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, Kong: Skull Island, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and War for the Planet of the Apes. But he and his team absolutely share a role in the movie’s success, infusing the creature’s costume design (which is up for an Oscar) with additional life. Having collaborated with Del Toro on both Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak, Berardi has regularly enjoyed a front-row seat to the director’s creative process. Read on for additional trade secrets behind The Shape of Water and its strapping Fish-Man.

It started with a sketch. Berardi’s first glimpse of The Shape of Water‘s aquatic heartthrob was as a two-dimensional sketch in one of the notebooks that Del Toro always has on hand to jot down ideas and images as they pop into his brain. (Some of those notebooks have been published in anthology collections.) “He showed me a sketch of their embrace,” the effects supervisor remembers, referring to an early version of the clinch between Elisa and the “asset” that appears on the movie’s poster. “It was such a romantic image, and he told me, ‘This is a movie that’s in love with love.’ You had a creature that had to be a leading man that Elisa had to fall in love with and that the audience had to fall in love with. He told us right at the beginning that this wasn’t a monster — it’s an intelligent being with a soul, and eyes that had to be soulful and deep.”

The creature also had to be a top-notch swimmer whose movements read as pure poetry in the water. To aid with that, Berardi had his team study Olympians like Michael Phelps as a starting point. “Those guys are powerful and swim somewhat gracefully, but nothing as graceful as what Guillermo really wanted. So then we looked at dolphins, sea lions, otters and seals, and settled on this hybrid of a humanoid swimming, with a bit of a dolphin kick. Seals actually became a lot of inspiration as well, because they move slipstream through the water very gracefully.”

Junk in the trunk In one of The Shape of Water‘s standout sequences, Elisa and her lover act consummate their powerful attraction in a bathroom that she transforms into a makeshift water tank. It’s an erotically-charged moment and del Toro takes full advantage of his R-rating, allowing the two to see, and touch, each other’s naked bodies like any homosapien couple would. Boundary-pushing as this scene may be, it stops just short of the final frontier: merman genitalia. And that’s just fine for Berardi, who would have been responsible for helping imagine what the creature’s junk might look like. “Guillermo’s got too much taste for that,” Berardi remarks with a laugh, pointing out that Elisa and her friend Zelda (Octavia Spencer) instead discuss her lover’s size after their intimate encounter. “His inspiration for the movie was when he was six years old watching Creature from the Black Lagoon and hoping that the creature gets the girl.”

That’s a note that del Toro passed along to Hill as well. “This thing has to be attractive to a woman,” the creature designer remarks in the above clip. “My directive was that I wanted to make him handsome.” For his part, Jones clearly appreciated the matinee idol physique that Hill crafted for his aquatic alter ego. “My lips are a little fuller, there’s a strong jawline and the body they sculpted on me is very athletic. He’s handsome in a fish-like way.”

Hawkins and Jones in an embrace in The Shape of Water (Photo: Fox Searchlight/Everett Collection)

The shape of (digital) water If the Fish-Man was a hybrid of practical and digital effects, the water he calls home is almost entirely digital with one notable exception — the aforementioned love scene in Elisa’s bathroom. “That’s the only scene where we had the actors in water, ever,” Berardi reveals. “We had a water tank that we built and submerged the bathroom set, with the actors, in the tank. It was done in such a safe way that they could just be hovering around the surface with footholds and handholds. They’d film for 20 or 30 seconds, and then come back up easily because the water level was just above their heads. Sally and Doug were both game.” Everywhere else, though, the H20 was all CGI, and even with all the advancements that have been made since The Perfect Storm — the movie that Berardi cites as a breakthrough for digital water effects — simulating water is still one of the most difficult jobs for an effects house.

Interestingly, the most challenging shot involved another tank of sorts, the iron lung capsule that serves as the creature’s prison as he’s transported from South America to the Baltimore research facility where the film’s events unfold. “There was no water in that capsule,” Berardi says. “It would have been way too unsafe to have Doug in there. But we had to see water sloshing around through the glass while the asset is in there. The creature also had to slam his hand on the glass, so his digital hand would have to come through the digital water and hit the glass. All of that is 3D and volumetrically rendered. That was the shot that kept me up at night.”

Richard Jenkins and Jones in The Shape of Water (Photo: Fox Searchlight/Everett Collection)

Here kitty, kitty Cat fanciers will be happy to hear that no real felines were harmed in the making of The Shape of Water. The same can’t be said for the computer-generated cat that the creature chows down on while hiding out with Elisa and her friend, Giles (Richard Jenkins). And the Fish-Man is a messy eater, too, getting blood all over the floor and himself. That may sound like a big turnoff, but del Toro felt it was crucial to showcase his hero in his less glamorous moments. “Guillermo didn’t want to make a traditional Beauty and the Beast-type story where the beast can’t really be himself. He’s eloquent, strong and heroic, yes, but he also needs protein!”

For the first part of the scene, Jones worked with an on-set cat wrangler to provoke a flesh-and-blood feline into a hissing fit. When the time came for the creature to open the cat’s head like a Pez dispenser, Berardi’s team took over. “We put a green sock puppet in Doug’s hands, replaced that with a digital cat and then severed the head. We went through about 25 iterations about what the cross section of the neck needed to look like, and showed Guillermo the grossest ones we could devise — anatomically correct with the spinal cord, nerve endings and all that stuff. We totally went there with it. That was also a moment where we took over Doug’s head and did it digitally: we fluttered the gills and had water spray off of them. That was probably one of the most fun things for us to animate.”

The Shape of Water is currently playing in theaters and available on digital services. The film arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 13.

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Mr Beast Net Worth [year]

Net Worth: $6 million Age: 21 Born: 7th May 1998 Country or Origin: United States of America Source of wealth: Social Media Entrepreneur Last updated: 2020

Introduction

MrBeast is a famous American YouTube SuperStar and a social media personality. As of December 2019, MrBeast’s YouTube channel has 27 million subscribers with more than 4 billion YouTube video views. 

He began his YouTube journey with his Worst Intros video series. MrBeast was nominated at the 11th Shorty Awards as the vlogger of the year. MrBeast is widely known for donating a lot of money to Twitch Streamers, the homeless and random strangers too. 

MrBeast started the TeamTress initiative in October 2019 and according to the video he made on his YouTube channel, he will be planting 20 million trees.

Early Life

Jimmy Donaldson popularly known as MrBeast was born on May 7, 1998, in Greenville, North Carolina. MrBeast attended Greenville Christian Academy. While in Greenville Christian Academy, MrBeast played both baseball and basketball. To focus more on his YouTube career, MrBeast dropped out of college. 

He is 6ft 3in tall and he is a Taurus. MrBeast has an estimated net worth of $6 million. Some of his videos are sponsored in the likes of Quidd, War Robots, Honey, TikTok, World of Tanks Blitz.

MrBeast also sells online merchandise like t-shirts, hats, hoodies via ShopMrBeast. He resides at Greenville, North Carolina. MrBeast is in a relationship with Maddy Spidell, an Instagram model.

Career

MrBeast launched a YouTube channel in February 2012. In the early days of his channel, his uploads were mostly on popular video games. These games are the likes of Minecraft, Pokemon, Call of Duty and Battle Pirates. Later on, he premieres his “Worst Intros” series. 

In this series, he made fun of intros used by popular YouTube Channels. This strategy worked well that it resulted in thousands of new followers flowing in. One of his most popular video in the “Worst Intros Ever” has been viewed more than 23 million times. 

MrBeast moved his YouTube channel towards more real-life videos after the huge success of “Worst Intros”. His new strategy has no clear formula and some videos take a huge amount of time to complete. In 2018, MrBeast launch ad campaign to support a fellow YouTuber, PewDieDie. He bought TV ads, radio and billboards among others. One of his videos, “I Gave A Homeless Man A Home” got 7+ million views in a day. 

Jimmy aka MrBeast utilises an attention-grabbing donation and charity stunts. In one of his videos, he opened a car dealership where he gave out cars for free. He is also known to have given out thousands of dollars to small streamers on Twitch and YouTube as well. He didn’t end there, MrBeast has extended his charity to waitresses and Uber drivers too.

Highlights

He has been described as “YouTube’s biggest philanthropist,” and frequently vlogs about his extreme acts of charity which include:

he has donated money to ”Attractive Twitch Streamers”;

he has donated $30,000 to a Fortnite Twitch streamer, known as SpaceLyon;

he had donated $30,000 to Ninja (an American YouTuber, eSports Gamer, and Twitch streamer who is mostly known for playing and streaming Fortnite on Twitch) to help the Suicide Prevention Center;

he gave $100,000 worth of items to homeless shelters in December 2018;

he tipped a waitress $10,000 for serving him two glasses of water;

he tipped a pizza deliveryman $10,000;

he has donated to a random homeless guy $10,000;

he has donated 3 million pennies ($30,000) to his 3 millionth subscriber;

he has donated $50,000 to Ninja to help St. Judes Cancer Research Charity.

Favourite Quotes

“One of the reasons I like giving away money is I just like to see how people react.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

”If you’re not giving away $100,000, people aren’t watching your videos.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

“I’d rather be poor than doing anything beside YouTube.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

“If you want the special secret, if you want to know where it all came from — my parents aren’t that rich.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

”I’m only 20 years old, every dollar I’ve ever made came from YouTube, and YouTube just pays better than you think.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

“I genuinely enjoy helping people. It’s something I’ve had an issue with, I’m that much of a nice guy.” – Jimmy Donaldson (Mr Beast)

Life Lessons

How does Jimmy do it all? What is the secret to his success, and can we learn something from his success? Of course, we can, here are some life lessons that we can all use.

Start Wherever You Are With Whatever You Have

Jimmy did not have this type of success from the first day he started. He started making YouTube videos at the age of 13, and it took him six years to go viral and grab a lot of attention.

He used to make Let’s play-type of videos, where he recorded himself playing Minecraft a few years ago.

Those were his first videos, which only got around 1,000 views per month back at the time.

Now he usually gets more than 11 million views per video in the first two to three days after they’re published.

He started his channel on February 19, 2012, and got 20 million subscribers on June 18, 2019. This represents seven years, three months and 20 days.

Keep Experimenting Until You Find What Works

His content has changed over the years. From Let’s play-type of videos, he experimented with super-long videos with challenges like saying Keep Net Neutrality for ten hours straight and counting to 200,000.

Some of the rare challenges that he has done to start his virality series were:

Spin a fidget spinner for 24 hours straight

Say Pewdiepie 100,000 times non-stop

Count to 100,000, which took 48 hours

Watch paint dry for an hour

Read the entire dictionary in one sitting

He explains in a video that after donating $10,000 to a homeless man, he realised he liked helping people, so he continued doing it.

Keep Improving Your Craft

No matter how much success you have reached so far, you must continue learning, investing and improving. Mr Beast is an example of that.

“I used to make a dollar a day, so I didn’t even have a microphone. My mindset was just ‘reinvest everything I make’ — every time I got a paycheck, that was the month’s budget,” he says in an interview with the other popular YouTuber, Casey Neistat.

“So I saved up a dollar a day to buy a microphone. When I made a few thousand, I just spent a few thousand. When I made ten thousand, I just spent ten thousand. As I made more videos, I was like ‘I want to spend it on videos somehow.’”

Help Others As Much As You Can

He has helped many people so far, including his family, friends, and random strangers.

In September 2018, as a 20-year-old, he even managed to give his mother $100,000 and called this the “proudest day of my life”:

Enjoy the Process

Mr Beast also does seem to enjoy the process. At least, in the last few months, we could say, as he switched from doing seemingly weird challenges like Watching Paint Dry to arguably more interesting ones, like Last To Remove Hand, Gets Lamborghini Challenge.

This is also because he gets to work with his friends and does these entertaining challenges with them.

Be Consistent

You may be able to take a few lucky shots here and there, but the real challenge is to keep the consistency. 

If you want to keep getting such a large number of people following your content, you need to put in the work and keep producing.

He has been uploading regularly, putting out multiple videos per month, and getting more than 11 million views in all his videos in a matter of days.

This is pretty impressive. even when you compare him with PewDiePie, who is the second most subscribed YouTube channel, with 99,638,751 subscribers.

The more content he produces, the more likely it is for him to increase his exposure to new people from YouTube recommendations, social media shares, etc.

Summary

From the information gathered about Jimmy and his YouTube Channel, it is fair to say that Jimmy made his money via his YouTube Channel. MrBeast promotes the products of companies like TikTok, Lotto, Quid and others. YouTube pays between $2 to $5 for each 1k views. MrBeast gets about 7 million views per day. 

After doing the maths, MrBeast banks $14k to $20k daily from YouTube ads showing on his videos alone. That is a lot of money for the young creative YouTuber who create content that goes viral.

By December 2018, MrBeast had given out $1 million through his outlandish stunts, earning him the title of “YouTube’s biggest philanthropist.” MrBeast is a product of his viral content: He’s only able to give out these thousands of dollars thanks to six-figure brand deals to fund in-video ads.

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10 things you didn’t know about your old pal Bender from ‘Futurama’

Bender Bending Rodriguez may be a fictional robot from a canceled sci-fi cartoon show, but to fans, he’s so much more than that. This misanthropic, lovable antihero has anger issues and every sort of vice, but under the filth is a heart of gold. Before you start your next binge-watch of Futurama, take a gander at these fascinating facts about Bender.

10 things you never knew about Bender

1) It’s canon that Bender is a Mac

In the season 1 finale, the Planet Express crew takes a tour of the Slurm Factory where we get to see them hang out with good ole’ Slurms McKenzie. Earlier in the episode, Professor Farnsworth scans Bender with a new device called an F-Ray, whereupon we discover that our dear friend Bender is powered by a 6502 microprocessor, the same processor that was used to power the Apple II. In an interview with Vulture, writer David X. Cohen explained why. “This is straight from me,” Cohen said. “When I was in high school, I spent many of my teen years until five in the morning programming video games of my own invention, so I became extremely and intimately familiar with this chip. It ran at 1 MHz—we’re used to hearing GHz nowadays—and so you had to be a nimble programmer to get it to do what you wanted it to do.”

Screenshot via Vulture

2) Apple was all over Bender’s funeral

In season 7’s “Forty Percent Leadbelly,” the world briefly believes Bender has been killed by a train. Apple funded Bender’s funeral, though apparently in the future, the company barters for ad space. During the funeral, folk artist Silicon Red sings Bender a Mac-themed eulogy, including the lyrics:

“Then the steel driving man ran his train through the wall, and crashed him flatter than a MacBook Air, lord. Crashed him flatter than a MacBook Air.”

Screengrab via Pixa

3) Bender has a John Hughes connection 

Bender was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club. Played by Judd Nelson, John Bender was a tough bully from the wrong side of the tracks who hid a soft and sensitive side underneath his gruff demeanor. We have no idea how that inspired Bender. 

Photo via Giphy

4) Bender’s antenna is a multitool

Bender’s antenna is more than just a transmitter. Over the course of the series it has been a beer tap, a popcorn butter pump, a flusher, a snooze button, a timer, a voice mail notification system, a voicemail deletion button, an audio tape dispenser, a pager, an unintentional cable signal blocker, and a timer for Bender’s internal digital camera.

Screengrab via Ann Marie Jukic/Pintrest

5) Bender came off the assembly line like this

Bender was built in the year 2996 in Tijuana, Mexico, by Momcorp, and he came off the assembly line as an adorable little tyke, though one with attitude. His first words as a baby were, “Bite my shiny metal ass,” spoken as he enjoyed his first beer.

Screengrab via Reddit

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6) Bender is mortal

Unlike other robots, Bender does not have a backup unit to house his data in case his body is destroyed. Momcorp saw this as a defect and had Bender ordered to be destroyed, but he was saved by Hermes. This also means if his hard drive is destroyed, he will die once and for all.

Screengrab via YouTube

7) Despite being born in 2996, Bender is one of the oldest beings on Earth

In the movie “Bender’s Big Score,”we learn that Bender is actually millions of years old thanks to his use of the Time Sphere. Time travel through the Time Sphere is one way, so each time Bender is sent back in time he’s forced to wait thousands of years in the limestone cave under Planet Express. There is no exact accounting of how old Bender currently is on the show.

Photo via The Infosphere

8) Bender has a soul

Although he lacks a backup unit, Bender apparently does have a soul. In “Ghosts in the Machines,” he is killed by Lynn, an ex-girlfriend and suicide booth. His ghost haunts the Earth, only able to communicate by possessing other robots until he proves himself worthy of resurrection by saving Fry’s life. Apparently, his soul left his body without his hard drive being destroyed. At least he had fun as a ghost.

Photo via Tenor

9) Don’t assume you know Bender’s family history

Bender’s grandmother was a bulldozer. We learn this fact in “The Beast with a Billion Backs,” when Leela is trying to shame him into trying harder during a game. Leela shouts, “Come on, Bender, your grandmother could push harder than that!” Bender says, “No crap! My grandmother was a bulldozer.” Way to gender shame, Leela.

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10) Bender’s most common words are only partly what you’d expect

Although his character is known for a wide range of profanity, it isn’t until “War is the H-word” that we officially learn Bender’s most frequently uttered words. They are:

1. Ass 2.Daffodil 3. Shiny 4. My 5. Bite 6. Pimpmobile 7. Up 8. Yours 9. Chumpette 10. Chump

Photo via YouTube

Editor’s note: This article is regularly updated for relevance.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-old-pal-bender-from-futurama/

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10 things you didn’t know about your old pal Bender from ‘Futurama’

Bender Bending Rodriguez may be a fictional robot from a canceled sci-fi cartoon show, but to fans, he’s so much more than that. This misanthropic, lovable antihero has anger issues and every sort of vice, but under the filth is a heart of gold. Before you start your next binge-watch of Futurama, take a gander at these fascinating facts about Bender.

10 things you never knew about Bender

1) It’s canon that Bender is a Mac

In the season 1 finale, the Planet Express crew takes a tour of the Slurm Factory where we get to see them hang out with good ole’ Slurms McKenzie. Earlier in the episode, Professor Farnsworth scans Bender with a new device called an F-Ray, whereupon we discover that our dear friend Bender is powered by a 6502 microprocessor, the same processor that was used to power the Apple II. In an interview with Vulture, writer David X. Cohen explained why. “This is straight from me,” Cohen said. “When I was in high school, I spent many of my teen years until five in the morning programming video games of my own invention, so I became extremely and intimately familiar with this chip. It ran at 1 MHz—we’re used to hearing GHz nowadays—and so you had to be a nimble programmer to get it to do what you wanted it to do.”

Screenshot via Vulture

2) Apple was all over Bender’s funeral

In season 7’s “Forty Percent Leadbelly,” the world briefly believes Bender has been killed by a train. Apple funded Bender’s funeral, though apparently in the future, the company barters for ad space. During the funeral, folk artist Silicon Red sings Bender a Mac-themed eulogy, including the lyrics:

“Then the steel driving man ran his train through the wall, and crashed him flatter than a MacBook Air, lord. Crashed him flatter than a MacBook Air.”

Screengrab via Pixa

3) Bender has a John Hughes connection 

Bender was named after John Bender from The Breakfast Club. Played by Judd Nelson, John Bender was a tough bully from the wrong side of the tracks who hid a soft and sensitive side underneath his gruff demeanor. We have no idea how that inspired Bender. 

Photo via Giphy

4) Bender’s antenna is a multitool

Bender’s antenna is more than just a transmitter. Over the course of the series it has been a beer tap, a popcorn butter pump, a flusher, a snooze button, a timer, a voice mail notification system, a voicemail deletion button, an audio tape dispenser, a pager, an unintentional cable signal blocker, and a timer for Bender’s internal digital camera.

Screengrab via Ann Marie Jukic/Pintrest

5) Bender came off the assembly line like this

Bender was built in the year 2996 in Tijuana, Mexico, by Momcorp, and he came off the assembly line as an adorable little tyke, though one with attitude. His first words as a baby were, “Bite my shiny metal ass,” spoken as he enjoyed his first beer.

Screengrab via Reddit

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12 magical facts about ‘Gravity Falls’

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6) Bender is mortal

Unlike other robots, Bender does not have a backup unit to house his data in case his body is destroyed. Momcorp saw this as a defect and had Bender ordered to be destroyed, but he was saved by Hermes. This also means if his hard drive is destroyed, he will die once and for all.

Screengrab via YouTube

7) Despite being born in 2996, Bender is one of the oldest beings on Earth

In the movie “Bender’s Big Score,”we learn that Bender is actually millions of years old thanks to his use of the Time Sphere. Time travel through the Time Sphere is one way, so each time Bender is sent back in time he’s forced to wait thousands of years in the limestone cave under Planet Express. There is no exact accounting of how old Bender currently is on the show.

Photo via The Infosphere

8) Bender has a soul

Although he lacks a backup unit, Bender apparently does have a soul. In “Ghosts in the Machines,” he is killed by Lynn, an ex-girlfriend and suicide booth. His ghost haunts the Earth, only able to communicate by possessing other robots until he proves himself worthy of resurrection by saving Fry’s life. Apparently, his soul left his body without his hard drive being destroyed. At least he had fun as a ghost.

Photo via Tenor

9) Don’t assume you know Bender’s family history

Bender’s grandmother was a bulldozer. We learn this fact in “The Beast with a Billion Backs,” when Leela is trying to shame him into trying harder during a game. Leela shouts, “Come on, Bender, your grandmother could push harder than that!” Bender says, “No crap! My grandmother was a bulldozer.” Way to gender shame, Leela.

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10) Bender’s most common words are only partly what you’d expect

Although his character is known for a wide range of profanity, it isn’t until “War is the H-word” that we officially learn Bender’s most frequently uttered words. They are:

1. Ass 2.Daffodil 3. Shiny 4. My 5. Bite 6. Pimpmobile 7. Up 8. Yours 9. Chumpette 10. Chump

Photo via YouTube

Editor’s note: This article is regularly updated for relevance.

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As a smiling Paul Pierce walked off the NBA hardwood for the last time, he said farewell to the fans by making peace signs with his raised hands while they chanted “The Truth” and “We Love You, Paul.”

The future Hall of Famer completed his NBA career by scoring six points in 22 minutes for the Los Angeles Clippers during a season-ending 104-91 loss to the Utah Jazz in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series Sunday.

Pierce was the 2008 NBA Finals MVP after joining Kevin Garnettand Ray Allen in leading the storied Boston Celtics to their first title in 22 years. The 10-time All-Star is 15th all-time on the NBA career scoring list with 26,397 points.

Not bad for the 10th pick in the 1998 NBA draft who wasn’t the best at anything but did everything very well.

“It was going to be the last time that I hear the roar of the crowd,” Pierce told The Undefeated. “Well, maybe not the last time. There will be the 10-year anniversary [NBA championship] team [reunion]. As a player, it was awesome just being able to appreciate the crowd night in and night out.

“The cheers. The boos. The player camaraderie. That’s the stuff I’m going to miss most.”

Before Pierce’s swan song with the Clippers, his career included stops with the Brooklyn Nets and the Washington Wizards. But in five years, when he enters the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, there is no question the star small forward nicknamed “The Captain” and “The Truth” in Boston will go in as a member of his beloved Celtics.

Only John Havlicek scored more points for the Celtics than the 17,630 points Pierce scored from 1998-2013. Pierce’s All-Star appearances were in a Boston uniform. Even after fellow All-Stars Garnett and Allen joined forces with him in 2007, Pierce was still the face of the Celtics as they won the franchise’s first championship since 1986. The Celtics have 21 retired jerseys. Expect the 22nd to be Pierce’s No. 34. The New England Patriots fan is proud of the impact he made doing charity work in Boston.

“In 15 years in Boston I was able to leave a lot of great memories on the court,” Pierce said. “I think a lot of people will remember Paul Pierce as embodying what Celtic pride was all about. I wore the jersey each and every day with pride and respect for the organization. I not only gave them everything on the court, but I think they will also remember what I was able to do through my foundation. I was able to inspire a lot of kids in the community who didn’t have a lot of the same opportunities as some other kids.

“When you walk into [TD Garden] that first day and you see all those banners and you see all those [retired] legends [jerseys], it is a constant reminder each and every day that is what you play for. And to finally win that was like gratification and a weight off your shoulders. I was a franchise player who played for ‘the franchise’ for so many years.”

Pierce was also one of the most competitive, confident, coolest and cocky characters to ever play in the NBA.

He had no problems talking trash regularly to superstar Kobe Bryant. The 6-foot-7, 235-pounder thought he was casket sharp when he confidently wore a loud, Steve Harvey-like suit to a Celtics home game that had a large “P2” patch stitched on it for “P-Squared.” In his prime, there was a stretch where Pierce was the only NBA player who would regularly go toe to toe triumphantly against LeBron James. Hoping to help a Celtics video attendant impress a girl he was fond of, Pierce told him he could stretch him out on the floor before a game in Boston to wow her. That’s the truth about “The Truth.”

And who could forget an injured Pierce leaving Game 1 of the 2008 NBA Finals in a wheelchair and then eventually returning to play?

Pierce was a Dennis Eckersley-type closer in his prime who made the big shot or a series of shots to shut down a game in pressure situations.

“Paul Pierce just means the world to me,” said Clippers coach Doc Rivers, who also coached Pierce in Boston. “I love him. He allowed me to coach him without question. We won a world championship together. He means the world to me. He is one of the great ones. He is one of the great winners. One of the more clutch players. Paul is about as clutch as any player that I’ve ever been around.”

Said Garnett to The Players’ Tribune: “I thought I was over the top until I saw him. And then I was like, ‘OK, this is what a beast is.’ ”

Pierce grew up about 10 miles away from Staples Center in Inglewood, California, where Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers used to dazzle and win titles in The Forum. The 1995 McDonald’s All-American and Mr. California basketball starred at Inglewood High School before going on to Kansas, where his jersey was retired. While it certainly would have been sweeter for Pierce to end his career in Boston, he came back home to retire while playing for his beloved Rivers.

Pierce announced this would be his last season on Sept 26. Even on the morning of his last game, he kept the same routine with his pregame workout and food. His wife, Julie, two daughters, Prianna and Adrian, and son, Prince, were there, as well as several family members and friends. Pierce’s elderly mother, Lorraine Hosey, watched her son’s final game from home in Los Angeles.

“I didn’t have a lot of people here,” Pierce said. “Mostly, just my wife and kids. My mom is 74 years old and she sits on her couch and watches. I had some close friends, relatives and cousins. We’ll probably go do something tonight.”

After the buzzer sounded on the Clippers’ season and Pierce’s career, he hung around on the court for a while as several members of the Jazz offered respect, embraced him and said goodbye. The last person Pierce hugged before he left the court was, poetically, Rivers. Once in the locker room, Pierce said a warm goodbye to coaches, teammates, ball boys and even several media members. While Pierce held news conferences on numerous podiums in private rooms after playoff games, his last media scrum was in front of a table with chicken parmesan, grilled chicken and salmon and sautéed vegetables behind him.

Pierce was at peace with retiring.

“I allowed myself to be,” Pierce told The Undefeated. “You know it’s going to end one day. I just felt like this is the right time. My body and mind, having that still intact. My kids and family. In some capacity, I will be a part of the game. Maybe front office. TV. I still love this game, talking about it and being around it.”

Clippers athletic trainer Jasen Powell made sure to take one last look at Pierce’s body before letting him leave the arena. Pierce plans to spend more time with his family and his AAU boys’ basketball program. He has expressed interest in joining an NBA front office one day and has experience giving NBA analysis on ESPN. But there are no immediate retirement plans.

Wearing sunglasses, a pink dress shirt, a black pin-striped suit and white Air Force 1 Nikes, he departed by himself with a bag of basketball gear hanging over his shoulder.

“Signing off. Bags packed,” Pierce said as he walked to his car.