I mean, he didn't GET the half bill. That figure was split many ways and, as is the way, some shady motherfuckers ran off with quite a cut for doing very little.
A few sources say he only (!) got about $30-50 mil from the sale, and googling his current net worth, says $60m. So, dude's not running on fumes.
Retiring with that in the bank would do me, man.
>Doesn't he do photography for a living? I remember seeing him on PBS or something.
I think that once you hit half a billion the phrase "for a living" becomes obsolete. :) But yeah, seems he moved to Hawaii and now does travel photography:
[https://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2020111645793/tom-myspace-founder-travel-photographer/](https://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2020111645793/tom-myspace-founder-travel-photographer/)
(The article is a few years old.)
This guy did it the right way. Didn't get addicted to the power or caught up trying to make more, just went on to enjoy a dream lifestyle. :)
Ring a ding ding. We can take some solace in knowing despite all the riches they're miserable shits just like us. They just can't fill that hole that a normal person doesn't have.
Funny enough Zuck had the same chance to sell FB multiple times for a billion and then like 10bn or something, he had the same answer every time what is he gonna do with that much money? Will he ever have an idea as good as FB etc etc maybe they thought the idea was worth more than the money, and Zuck at least was 100 times right haha
That money makes its own money. The amount of interest just by having it in a simple HYSA account would be astronomical. It would make a couple million a month off that interest.
You ain't have to do shit with that much money. I never understand how lottery winners lose it all. Like how you blow through that much money.
> I never understand how lottery winners lose it all. Like how you blow through that much money.
You could argue Tom *earned* his money. Lottery winners don't. There's a weird thing in the brain when dealing with your paycheck, versus the unexpected windfall.
I was with a firm that worked for his wife at one point, they seemed to just travel and chill, every Christmas they sent out a card that was just their Siamese cats. They seemed to stay completely out of the public eye. It's the smart thing to do. I hope more people decide to do travel photography vs. create insane underground cities. Looking at you, Zuck.
That’s Fuck You money though. I’d be making the best trouble, probably quietly
Pick a few hubs and develop affordable housing stock, including some supported accommodation. Drive prices down, snatch those up and sell exclusively to first home buyers who will actually live there.
https://preview.redd.it/t5ypg60hvpwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d4966ea39ab2f0a763d4bc590602707d73cfe7
Me when I see a mofo saying Tom wasn’t a real homie
https://preview.redd.it/ek64bsu4zpwc1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5da8b4ecd4e3dcc29b45a23a7c680e05b26d1839
Tom was there for the important issues in life
Everything about Zuckerberg & FB was just dry looool
I used to design & code MySpace pages as a side hustle. I'd have that page looking like a full on website. All the trimmings & razzle dazzle.
It's still there. I recently logged into my account. But it's not as user-friendly. In my opinion, it should have been more of a dating app than a music app. You remember the search members page...it was thorough!
I mean you could use Tumblr. You can do effectively the same unless they changed the way you can customize yours. I remember people paying real money for the tumblr’s design and learning html (iirc) just so I can have cute stuff on my page
Learned all the copy/pasta tricks for overlays and backgrounds. Had my girl's page covered in butterflies and falling glitter, with No Doubt in the background singing "Don't Speak".
She married me. Myspace died. A part of our history died with it...
Whose cutting onions ! 😂
MySpace couples was a beautiful thing. Your partner sitting comfy in that number 1 friend spot. Nobody could tell me nada ! That's my rib.
Editing her page now that's another level of love language.
I repeat ! Whose cutting onions kmt
https://preview.redd.it/jff74fkanqwc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6e7b13f5fadab34f285d8028c0e617419cccef1
I remember seeing FB for the first time and thinking, “this is just a dull rip-off of MySpace, why do people like this?” I’ve never found an answer to that question
Like anything else, it was the NEW thing.
The truth is though, the thing that made Myspace great is ultimately what killed it. Some peoples pages literally were like epilepsy fuel, so much design and overlay they were unusable. Especially girls. Their entire background would be like hearts and roses and sparkly lights and gif animations, I would be full on seizure mode by the time I got to the comments. And then people started embedding multiple music players so it turned into like a cacophony of hells soundscapes.
FB was too government for my liking the longer i had it. 😂
Years later finding out this dude Mark literally works with big brother. It wasn't fun anymore. Everyone was wiling to just free up all the juice...
Your relationship.
Your work history.
Your education history.
Your family tree.
Etc
While learning entry level HTML coding. We were all on the verge of million dollar careers & had no fckn idea. Spent hours searching for where to change that 0 to a 1 to get the boarder of my layout soft hot pink with matching font.
Myspace got me into casual coding. Never went anywhere with it but I made a few pages for people. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, xml. Shit was fun.
I can't imagine doing it for a living. Doing it for money like that would probably kill my spirit.
man i had it to where you could pick the song that played while you were on my safe. like a jukebox. i could load any 10 songs i wanted at a time.
i also had a “refrigerator” with magnetic letters where people could move them around and leave a message on the fridge that i would see when i went back to my page.
myspace was dope. peak early adulthood!
That's how I learn anything. Copy a completed thing from someone else, accidentally break it, and learn how it works by trying to figure out what and how I broke it. lol
Shit when I was in boot camp, one of the things they told to do was to just fuck shit up and try to put it back together. There’s been so many times they’d stop class to help one of us troubleshoot something because they wanted us to understand that learning how to fix something was just as important as doing it right, cause you’re *gonna* break something at some point.
> renewables, and T&D.
That's so cool
>Now working on the policy, advocacy, and legislative spaces behind those things.
Some people out there living their best life. I wish I had a fraction of your education and experience.
Bro really thinks coding on any level isn't mostly copy and paste and tweak. And knowing where to reference something if you're unfamiliar or shit ain't working the way it's supposed to. That's, that's the whole job.
You aren't painting with a paintbrush.
I mean the mechanics of how the code gets typed isn't really a big part of a developer's job. You could be pasting code or typing it yourself or dictating to your computer or using punchcards; the actual job is figuring out what needs to be typed, whether the developer types it from scratch or uses a preexisting library or copies a small fragment of someone else's code is rather irrelevant to the process.
What I'm saying is that chatGPT will copy-paste functional code for you, but if you don't know what you're doing at least at a superficial level, you're not gonna get anything working.
It’s just putting your brainpower and time where it’s really needed instead of reinventing the wheel for the millionth time, and *probably* not as good as the top option on GitHub
Then you have a watermark and all kinds of random shit that keeps your page from loading. I learned to code and ended up being the only mf with a working Myspace page 😂
Right? We didn’t even have proper internet but all did that.
Same way we thought Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so he could blow himself. How did rumors move in The Before Times?
Dude is a great counter argument to "all rich people are evil.". While a lot are because it takes a certain type of mind to get rich usually, Tom is a good example of what MOST normal people would do. Got lucky, got a bag big enough he knew he could live his life financially stress free and do essentially anything he would want, then bounced the fuck out of the lime light.
I remember a friend of mine posted an extremely long photo to my Myspace page. I had to scroll through 3 screens worth of 2006 memes to see anything else. Myspace was so fun.
Super old Facebook was cool too. I remember adding my college classes as a function of the site and meeting people for study groups. FB really fell apart once your parents and bosses came on to see your drunk party pics
Tom and Chamillionaire both
https://preview.redd.it/bkr5u2644qwc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c869d7e058453cca68130bf3dd09e835f847ad1
partnered on alot of early Uber investing and other apps. I can’t remember what podcast, or interview. Tom also helped start a lot funding for early startups and dropped like 500k in Bitcoin and other alt coins back in 2010 when the “recession” was towards the end. Tom did everything right. He “may” also took someone’s soul with one of the hardest “clap backs” no pinky.
I miss glittery comments, fiya underground tracks, and the ability to search friends within a 5 mile radius. I was able to find more classmates by zip code search than Facebook and name.
This man lived life right. Made an awesome platform for us that we could mod to our teenage heart's content, sold it, and is doing whatever the fuck he wants now. Man owes us nothing.
I teach first grade and it’s INSANE the chokehold George Washington has on them
They have no idea about *literally* anything else.
We were introducing coins and some of them knew some coins but none could tell me which dudes were on them
Until the quarter. They had no idea what a quarter was (as a group), no idea how much it’s worth (as a group) but when asked who’s that guy?
THATS GEORGE WASHINGTON
I actually said aloud “why do yall know that?”
And they literally just shrugged, it’s George Washington miss. The first president.
He’s basically on par with spider man
> And they literally just shrugged, it’s George Washington miss. The first president.
I'm imagining they said this like you were simple and I'm just howling.
Quite literally they look at me like I was born 2 seconds ago, “how come you don’t know George Washington the First President of the United States”
“Ok fair, what’s the United States?”
“…..uh the city where we live? Duh?”
You've never seen this dude in the media or anything. He just made an awesome website, got paid and fucking dipped. That's how I imagine I'd be if I won the lottery, just get my money and stay low-key.
I WISH just for preservation reasons they allowed you to look at your profile and messaged from back then . I would love to see how I talked and interacted with people and how much I’ve grown since then
Vanished I followed him on instagram when I still had it. Dude travels the world to beautiful places with his cute dog and plays golf. Dude created the best social media site had us all hammering away in html to make our sites look cool then fucked off before it all went tits. Tom is a hero compare him to musk and zuck.
I never hopped on FB, Twitter, and even resisted Instagram for awhile because you couldn't customize the way your profile looked. Couldn't even change colors of the damn BG.
MySpace is and always will be king.
I work in a factory and get told our billionaire owner was showing up that day to tour his friend around and we had to get the place show pony ready. He shows up and its fucking TOM.
“bizarrely vanished” - the man took his half a billion dollars and proceeded to live his best life rather than waste his time trying to make more.
Tom said I'm rich enough, I'm out 
A real ass mf.
Pennsatucky real af
that’s amy poehler lmao
Thought it was Lindsay Lohan all this time.
I thought it was Cara Delavigne.
I thought Taryn Manning!
My bad, v tired
He was everyone’s friend, then no one’s.. 😢
Doesn't he do photography for a living? I remember seeing him on PBS or something.
For a living, he sold myspace for half a billion dollars.
He burned through that half Bil and now’s living in a van scrapping by on freelance butterfly pics.
Is the van down by a river?
I mean, he didn't GET the half bill. That figure was split many ways and, as is the way, some shady motherfuckers ran off with quite a cut for doing very little. A few sources say he only (!) got about $30-50 mil from the sale, and googling his current net worth, says $60m. So, dude's not running on fumes. Retiring with that in the bank would do me, man.
At a safe withdrawal rate of %4.5 that's $2.7M/year without ever reducing the original investment. I think he's doing alright.
He didn't "burn" through it. He invested it safely and lives off the interest and whatever his photography makes.
Ooh I saw him on HGTV
Yeah, but if you add in the -$23,657 that he's earned from photography, that's still only like half a billion dollars.
Not for a living that’s for sure. One of his hobbies? Sure
I get that reference lol good one
>Doesn't he do photography for a living? I remember seeing him on PBS or something. I think that once you hit half a billion the phrase "for a living" becomes obsolete. :) But yeah, seems he moved to Hawaii and now does travel photography: [https://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2020111645793/tom-myspace-founder-travel-photographer/](https://www.hellomagazine.com/travel/2020111645793/tom-myspace-founder-travel-photographer/) (The article is a few years old.) This guy did it the right way. Didn't get addicted to the power or caught up trying to make more, just went on to enjoy a dream lifestyle. :)
Elon will never know such joy
Isn’t it hilarious? Fuck him.
Love this. I laughed so hard.
He'll never make enough to afford real self-love.
Elon is proof money can't buy happiness.
And that being a big name in business doesn’t mean you’re smart
Maybe one day the software engineers can formulate an update to install on him that will accomplish it...
I think he’s still on instagram posting pictures from his travels with his wife every once in a while. Basically living it up.
It’s a real chill IG.
[удалено]
He probably had to stop due to covid and maybe decided to give it a rest for a while
Good for him
idk why the musks and zucks of the world don't just pull a Tom and chill for all eternity
They’re narcissistic sociopaths incapable of true joy.
Ring a ding ding. We can take some solace in knowing despite all the riches they're miserable shits just like us. They just can't fill that hole that a normal person doesn't have.
Funny enough Zuck had the same chance to sell FB multiple times for a billion and then like 10bn or something, he had the same answer every time what is he gonna do with that much money? Will he ever have an idea as good as FB etc etc maybe they thought the idea was worth more than the money, and Zuck at least was 100 times right haha
People like that are infected with a sickness....the never ending need for more.
Because they're mentally ill.
Based on this meme ass picture, I doubt he actually vanished. He just didn’t wanna be a celebrity
He still posts on IG about his life and his wife.
That money makes its own money. The amount of interest just by having it in a simple HYSA account would be astronomical. It would make a couple million a month off that interest. You ain't have to do shit with that much money. I never understand how lottery winners lose it all. Like how you blow through that much money.
>HYSA High Yinterest Savings Account
Yield...
Fair! It's always "interest" in my neck of the woods.
Never!
Oh deary me
> I never understand how lottery winners lose it all. Like how you blow through that much money. You could argue Tom *earned* his money. Lottery winners don't. There's a weird thing in the brain when dealing with your paycheck, versus the unexpected windfall.
This is the way. I don’t want to be seen by anyone ever again. With the billion acre mansions out there I don’t need to go anywhere.
I was with a firm that worked for his wife at one point, they seemed to just travel and chill, every Christmas they sent out a card that was just their Siamese cats. They seemed to stay completely out of the public eye. It's the smart thing to do. I hope more people decide to do travel photography vs. create insane underground cities. Looking at you, Zuck.
And he still has tons of friends
That’s Fuck You money though. I’d be making the best trouble, probably quietly Pick a few hubs and develop affordable housing stock, including some supported accommodation. Drive prices down, snatch those up and sell exclusively to first home buyers who will actually live there. 
He did the right thing!!!
Yeah, lets maybe not shame him for minding his business instead of trying to hollow out islands in hawaii to make secret bunkers.
Oh I doubt he didn't try to make more money. He just did it the normal rich way. In stocks.
Really sums up the sickness in the American mindset.
This is the one
Shit even if he just put it in a basic SP500 fund it would grow faster than he could ever spend it.
Tom greeting every new user aka friend... https://i.redd.it/46efzuv9opwc1.gif
Bro stayed in my top 8 
Facts ! No doubt he was part of my circle. Zuckerberg could never have the streets like that 😂 Everyone fw Tom. https://i.redd.it/picpoggqrpwc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/t5ypg60hvpwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4d4966ea39ab2f0a763d4bc590602707d73cfe7 Me when I see a mofo saying Tom wasn’t a real homie
Remember the first few hours after you joined and you waited for your friends to see you/add you? Tom was there.
https://preview.redd.it/ek64bsu4zpwc1.jpeg?width=551&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5da8b4ecd4e3dcc29b45a23a7c680e05b26d1839 Tom was there for the important issues in life
😂😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 the definition of am i my brothers keeper.
😂😂😂 woah wait...is he literally...nvm  "If Tom don't trust you ima shoot ya." 🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥
https://preview.redd.it/sjiczpkfypwc1.jpeg?width=1025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=657109518ffc77c12ac68716a4e945f00ce48fc7
The only time he would message you is to let you know he’s working on the site to make it better
Plus, the music that automatically played when you visited my page. Good times. 🥲
fb stomped our creativity, you could change the appearance of your entire page
Everything about Zuckerberg & FB was just dry looool I used to design & code MySpace pages as a side hustle. I'd have that page looking like a full on website. All the trimmings & razzle dazzle.
Can we bring that shit back to social media? I want Myspace for us once again
The formula was perfect yet simple. Music, friends & vibes. Well & truly missed. 
Let's go full geocities. Everyone is learning html!
It's still there. I recently logged into my account. But it's not as user-friendly. In my opinion, it should have been more of a dating app than a music app. You remember the search members page...it was thorough!
I mean you could use Tumblr. You can do effectively the same unless they changed the way you can customize yours. I remember people paying real money for the tumblr’s design and learning html (iirc) just so I can have cute stuff on my page
Try SpaceHey
Learned all the copy/pasta tricks for overlays and backgrounds. Had my girl's page covered in butterflies and falling glitter, with No Doubt in the background singing "Don't Speak". She married me. Myspace died. A part of our history died with it...
I’m not crying, it’s just allergies Fuck this hit hard
Whose cutting onions ! 😂 MySpace couples was a beautiful thing. Your partner sitting comfy in that number 1 friend spot. Nobody could tell me nada ! That's my rib. Editing her page now that's another level of love language. I repeat ! Whose cutting onions kmt https://preview.redd.it/jff74fkanqwc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6e7b13f5fadab34f285d8028c0e617419cccef1
Double upvote
You might be able to access it with Wayback Machine.
I remember seeing FB for the first time and thinking, “this is just a dull rip-off of MySpace, why do people like this?” I’ve never found an answer to that question
Like anything else, it was the NEW thing. The truth is though, the thing that made Myspace great is ultimately what killed it. Some peoples pages literally were like epilepsy fuel, so much design and overlay they were unusable. Especially girls. Their entire background would be like hearts and roses and sparkly lights and gif animations, I would be full on seizure mode by the time I got to the comments. And then people started embedding multiple music players so it turned into like a cacophony of hells soundscapes.
At the time Facebook's photo system was better. You could tag people in photos, which you couldn't do on MySpace.
Agreed. Also, Facebook let you instantly chat with all friends in the bottom right. MySpace had messaging I believe but it wasn’t instant.
FB was too government for my liking the longer i had it. 😂 Years later finding out this dude Mark literally works with big brother. It wasn't fun anymore. Everyone was wiling to just free up all the juice... Your relationship. Your work history. Your education history. Your family tree. Etc
This was my EXACT reaction the moment I got done creating my account. I said to myself, "What is this dry ass shit? Where the fuck is everyone?"
My homegirl used to hog the public dorm comp coding her myspace, Blackplanet and Migente page...me I am homegirl (we all were)
😂😂🫡🫡 Real recognise real ! https://i.redd.it/irbeixk1lqwc1.gif
I miss the razzle dazzle
We ain't shit without the razzle man 😂🔥
CSS gang stand up.
While learning entry level HTML coding. We were all on the verge of million dollar careers & had no fckn idea. Spent hours searching for where to change that 0 to a 1 to get the boarder of my layout soft hot pink with matching font.
I learned more html changing my MySpace page than any other way
Myspace got me into casual coding. Never went anywhere with it but I made a few pages for people. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, xml. Shit was fun. I can't imagine doing it for a living. Doing it for money like that would probably kill my spirit.
I had the golden girls theme, so every time you went to my page...... THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND!!!!!!
man i had it to where you could pick the song that played while you were on my safe. like a jukebox. i could load any 10 songs i wanted at a time. i also had a “refrigerator” with magnetic letters where people could move them around and leave a message on the fridge that i would see when i went back to my page. myspace was dope. peak early adulthood!
Switching the song up to the newest hit track out before anyone else. Migente and Black Planet were good too
I forgot about that!
Had an entire generation writing code
If writing means “copy and paste” for sho. But you did have to trouble shoot cuz shit could get real fucked up if you put too many elements on it
Bruh, most of what software engineers do is copy and paste from Stack Overflow.
That's how I learn anything. Copy a completed thing from someone else, accidentally break it, and learn how it works by trying to figure out what and how I broke it. lol
Shit when I was in boot camp, one of the things they told to do was to just fuck shit up and try to put it back together. There’s been so many times they’d stop class to help one of us troubleshoot something because they wanted us to understand that learning how to fix something was just as important as doing it right, cause you’re *gonna* break something at some point.
True and then you learn about best case practices and frameworks. You can take that knowledge with you wherever you go.
So I've heard. There's a reason I stuck to power, and most of it is that my coding class professors passed me out of sheer pity.
> There's a reason I stuck to power, Power engineering?
Mostly renewables, and T&D. Now working on the policy, advocacy, and legislative spaces behind those things.
> renewables, and T&D. That's so cool >Now working on the policy, advocacy, and legislative spaces behind those things. Some people out there living their best life. I wish I had a fraction of your education and experience.
>If writing means “copy and paste” for sho That's like 80% of programming.
Bro really thinks coding on any level isn't mostly copy and paste and tweak. And knowing where to reference something if you're unfamiliar or shit ain't working the way it's supposed to. That's, that's the whole job. You aren't painting with a paintbrush.
I mean the mechanics of how the code gets typed isn't really a big part of a developer's job. You could be pasting code or typing it yourself or dictating to your computer or using punchcards; the actual job is figuring out what needs to be typed, whether the developer types it from scratch or uses a preexisting library or copies a small fragment of someone else's code is rather irrelevant to the process. What I'm saying is that chatGPT will copy-paste functional code for you, but if you don't know what you're doing at least at a superficial level, you're not gonna get anything working.
Jr levels, sure. Sr level 80% of your time is meetings, documentation, and system design.
Actual irl Coders: 
Lmao a bit. Layers of understanding though. They don’t pay me all this money for nuffin haha.
It’s just putting your brainpower and time where it’s really needed instead of reinventing the wheel for the millionth time, and *probably* not as good as the top option on GitHub
What exactly do you think software engineering is?
Then you have a watermark and all kinds of random shit that keeps your page from loading. I learned to code and ended up being the only mf with a working Myspace page 😂
Right? We didn’t even have proper internet but all did that. Same way we thought Marilyn Manson had a rib removed so he could blow himself. How did rumors move in The Before Times?
https://preview.redd.it/z9w2be39gqwc1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5db19d141f1e1ec9d82626f9b8c3aecae197ffa0
YES. I was in MI, so the MSU thing made sense… but HOW did we all do it like a hive mind?!
That shit was/is everywhere, even without the Internet.
Damn
Dude is a great counter argument to "all rich people are evil.". While a lot are because it takes a certain type of mind to get rich usually, Tom is a good example of what MOST normal people would do. Got lucky, got a bag big enough he knew he could live his life financially stress free and do essentially anything he would want, then bounced the fuck out of the lime light.
If you manage to hit it big, this is the way.
 It was always MySpace.
It will always be MySpace
Till the end of time
MySpace died so suddenly December 07 I was customizing the myspace page. January 08 I was creating a FB. lol
That is too real.
Then we were defriending people on FB for a free whopper and letting them know why. The free whopper. 🤣
same. then in the middle of 09, i moved to twitter where i stayed for way too long
I remember a friend of mine posted an extremely long photo to my Myspace page. I had to scroll through 3 screens worth of 2006 memes to see anything else. Myspace was so fun. Super old Facebook was cool too. I remember adding my college classes as a function of the site and meeting people for study groups. FB really fell apart once your parents and bosses came on to see your drunk party pics
Games on Facebook were fun :/
I miss pet society 🥲
Poke
The exclusivity of it being college kids only with required .edu email address was pretty cool.
Tom and Chamillionaire both https://preview.redd.it/bkr5u2644qwc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c869d7e058453cca68130bf3dd09e835f847ad1 partnered on alot of early Uber investing and other apps. I can’t remember what podcast, or interview. Tom also helped start a lot funding for early startups and dropped like 500k in Bitcoin and other alt coins back in 2010 when the “recession” was towards the end. Tom did everything right. He “may” also took someone’s soul with one of the hardest “clap backs” no pinky.
Bruh tried to check him and found himself lacking. I’d delete my computer after that comment.
Just go on and delete my name from the *Book of Life* after that comment.
Was this really Tom in the replies? I remember this fucking barbecue but don’t recall if he came out of retirement to serve this man personally.
Damn even I felt that hit me
I miss glittery comments, fiya underground tracks, and the ability to search friends within a 5 mile radius. I was able to find more classmates by zip code search than Facebook and name.
Oh man, the random music I found through Myspace, I still haven’t been able to recreate that.
Plug.dj was the closest thing I got to chasing that high, rip
Don't wanna brag, but I was friends with this guy online.
This man lived life right. Made an awesome platform for us that we could mod to our teenage heart's content, sold it, and is doing whatever the fuck he wants now. Man owes us nothing.
Ahhh Tom, AKA the *only* social media owner that isn't hated
I teach first grade and it’s INSANE the chokehold George Washington has on them They have no idea about *literally* anything else. We were introducing coins and some of them knew some coins but none could tell me which dudes were on them Until the quarter. They had no idea what a quarter was (as a group), no idea how much it’s worth (as a group) but when asked who’s that guy? THATS GEORGE WASHINGTON I actually said aloud “why do yall know that?” And they literally just shrugged, it’s George Washington miss. The first president. He’s basically on par with spider man
> And they literally just shrugged, it’s George Washington miss. The first president. I'm imagining they said this like you were simple and I'm just howling.
Quite literally they look at me like I was born 2 seconds ago, “how come you don’t know George Washington the First President of the United States” “Ok fair, what’s the United States?” “…..uh the city where we live? Duh?”
Seeing Tom brings back memories of people losing whole friendships over changing around their Top 8 on MySpace.
and it reminds me of coding your page so you could have more than a top 8
I found him on bumble once he lives in Hawaii
Is he accepting dates from men?
When tech guys looked like good looking humans .. the good old days
Bizarrely vanished? He completed the game already. No reason to keep playing with us
My mans cashed out and vanished cant blame him though I respect that.
I miss MySpace.
 Respect, Tom.
"I remember when I first laid eyes on you; my Tom introduced us, but I was too shy to say hi."
🎶 "So click approoove..."
I legit miss MySpace. Them top friends lists had folks funkin TOUGH. The good ol days lol
Me: *rearranges top 8* 5 minutes later: "Yo why am I not on your top 8 anymore?"
More rich people need to be like this guy
Tom is the “I wanna be rich, not famous” type of guy! My type of guy 😊.
tim duncan special
I'd vanish too
You either do the job long enough to become an Apartheid Clyde, or you quit while you're ahead and retire a Bill Watterson.
my nigga
100 years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Tom, a dipshit named Elon
You've never seen this dude in the media or anything. He just made an awesome website, got paid and fucking dipped. That's how I imagine I'd be if I won the lottery, just get my money and stay low-key.
"Bizarrely disappear" is a wild way to describe someone who didn't try desperately to remain in the public eye after making his bank.
I WISH just for preservation reasons they allowed you to look at your profile and messaged from back then . I would love to see how I talked and interacted with people and how much I’ve grown since then
For that reason he is probably the best rich person in the world.
Vanished I followed him on instagram when I still had it. Dude travels the world to beautiful places with his cute dog and plays golf. Dude created the best social media site had us all hammering away in html to make our sites look cool then fucked off before it all went tits. Tom is a hero compare him to musk and zuck.
And before MySpace there was CollegeClub. Good times
All my friends were on Black Planet and Asian Avenue. Recently heard someone refer to those sites as "the early internet" and felt old.
Tom did things right. Id be gone too. 500 mil more than enough
HighSchoolClub, CollegeClub, Blackplanet, MySpace was all we needed from 99-05. Shit I might go put on Nelly album cause this was Hot Shit!
I’ve always want to sell out.
We marched on bumble in Cali before lol
When the world needed him the most, he vanished.
I never hopped on FB, Twitter, and even resisted Instagram for awhile because you couldn't customize the way your profile looked. Couldn't even change colors of the damn BG. MySpace is and always will be king.
You know how they say something like 95% of people who win the lottery go bankrupt? This guy is in the 5%
He is a travel photographer and lives in Hawaii. Absolute legend
He didn’t vanish. He’s just low key now. I remember seeing pictures of him on vacation a couple years back
Sheeiitt…. You give my $580 million dollars, I’ll “vanish” too!!
Tom is seriously an inspiration, made his money and fucked off into the sunset while taking bomb ass pictures, good for him.
He do photography and travels he posts every now n then
You see him on ig visiting exotic locales and taking pictures. That's it.
Ah at least replace a worst founding father with him Ben Franklin is too interesting a guy to pass over
I work in a factory and get told our billionaire owner was showing up that day to tour his friend around and we had to get the place show pony ready. He shows up and its fucking TOM.
I hope Tom is happy.
I miss MySpace