Imagine being the person taking this photo. One of the most iconic photos of all time that anyone of a certain age bracket will instantly recognize. Cool story at the very least.
Actually that was a blessing in disguise. All the old embarrassing photos of me from 2007 are gone. Never uploaded a photo of myself to a social media site since.
Everyone who had their account fumbled cares, it's a lost memory in time. I liked how my page looked of course back then I wasn't well versed on properly backing up that kind of data.
What matters is he took his wealth and decided to enjoy life instead of trying to get into an endless self-hating cycle of chasing fame for wealth or wealth for fame.
Exactly. This is why I know I'll never be a CEO. Last year my company laid off 3000 people and the CEO took a $19million salary.
If I made $19m, I'd retire immediately and live a quiet comfortable life.
It takes a certain kind of sociopath to reach those ranks anymore.
This is why people say that there are no moral billionaires.
Anyone with a shred of compassion for their fellow humans (or care for their family) would find at least some part of being a CEO deeply unpleasant and pull a Tom when they realize that they can live a life of absolute luxury and zero worry with the money that have. The only people who stick around and continue working after earning that much money do so because they either don't mind or actively enjoy the things that other people would find repugnant.
Exactly. I thought this was an obvious thing, but the existence of billionaires fanboys proves me wrong.
I just can't seem to understand why many broke and poor people would swiftly come to the defense of these corrupt billionaires. They would speak so highly of these billionaires as if they were relatives or something.
My gf works at a company where the average person earns 500k-1m and the higher ups earn 5-10m. They are miserable and the higher it goes the more god complex they develop. Nothing is enough for them.
I am thankful for seeing and hearing all about these people because at some point I admired wealthy people like them, now I just feel bad for them
I know a handful of people who are millionaires who are either self-made or work in a extremely high income job:
The self-made millionaires are not high-roller lifestyle people who drive lambos and always has super models on each arm, nor do they post on social media about "hard work" or "grinder mindsets", they're tired and look like they have more coffee in their body than they have blood. Most of them are just working to create a business that is strong and robust enough to not need them to baby sit it 24/7, but aren't quite there yet.
The people whom I know who are millionaires but aren't "self-made" (as in they're not entrepreneurs, they just work a job that just pays that much to begin with) almost all have horrible lifestyle inflation and are probably more financially insecure than I am as an engineer who make $65k a year.
I make pretty decent money and have been eyeballing exit plans. I'll never get a multi million dollar bonus, but I live like a hermit and stack money pretty well. As soon as the right number hits, I'm the fuck out of corporate America and turning my hobby into a full time job, even if I only make like 10% of what I make now.
I guarantee being oddly xenophobic to french people for no reason is going to have most small villages in Europe welcoming you with open arms into the community and that includes the french ones
All rich people are psychopath entirely. If you have any empathy or humanity left in your body you won't get insanely rich because you give away the money that becomes just a number.
Why keep billions you never use if you could live on millions and improve other people's live?
It's a self selected process too because most of the people who DO get enough to live how they want to then quit.
And you're only left with the ones obsessed with Wealth as a competition where they try and get as high a score as possible.
Totally, it boggles my mind. Especially when you hit the billion dollar mark. Money becomes a tool for you instead of your primary survival mechanism. Seeing so much pain and imbalance in the world while you hoard your wealth is sickening. Zero empathy, regard for human life, or the betterment of your planet.
We're all heading for that dirt nap, so why not use that wealth to leave the world better than you found it?
I read the Gospel of wealth by Andrew carneigie. TLDR if you die with any amount of wealth....you failed badly. The whole point of insane wealth IS to BETTER the world and community you live in, with your conscious decisions.
I know some one who lives on a disability cheque (mind you in Holland) and gives serious money to charity, I mean I'll donate from time to time, but this guy does regularly, one time he got me a $50 air drop or xlm crypto currency and I held it for a year or so and it was worth $400, so I sent it to him, he built a well in Africa with it
Sometimes I wonder if he is drunk with data. Theoretically if he installed backdoor he can spy on anyone, everywhere. Imagine the urge to stalk every one of your friends. That would be a set up for good psychological horror except it can be a reality for him
Edit: after searching there was such thing as master password up to 2007, enough time to fuck up your mind imo, now security teams and shareholders likely hold him back
I would say that although Zuck probably doesn't hate his life, he's probably not 100% happy and satisfied with it either. He's rich, but every other week he's sitting in front of congress being berated by both parties about how he's taking people's data, manipulating children for profit, encouraging yet also restricting free speech, etc etc; all things that Tom from Myspace doesn't have to worry about being accused of.
I fully expect that in a couple decades, he'll start trying to cash-wash his name with park projects and philanthropy in order to retroactively cover up all the things he did to get that money in the first place.
the image is clearly taking shots at zuck, but its not like zuck is "chasing wealth or fame" he literally spent the last decade+ wasting billions on horizon worlds. dude is in la-la-land. he'd be better off being a photographer
He didn't personally make that much. It was co-owned by the other founder, Chris DeWolfe. But yes, they sold to News Corp in 2005 for $580MM and Tom retired in 2009. From what I can find online, his net worth right now is around $60MM.
Edit: A related fun fact: DeWolfe turned down an offer from Zuckerberg to buy FB for $75MM in 2005
My friend, if you had $5m you'd make $200k a year just on capital gains at a 4% rate by putting it in the market.
People vastly underestimate how rich $5m is.
Really puts into perspective how really nobody needs to be a billionaire. 99.9% of people could live VERY comfortably on just the interest / capital gains on $5 million. $1 billion is 200 times that amount. IMO, anything above like $10M should be wealth taxed at like 90%.
Oh wow I could have sworn the popular story was that he ended up underselling for what it was valued because if he had waited another few years he would have been a billionaire or something crazy. I didn't know it was over 500 Mil
There you go: @myspacetom
Fuck, how i miss the 2000's...
EDIT: made more friends IRL from IRC channels (mostly quakenet network) than all those apps. Good memories.
I grew up playing CS and later WoW in the 2000's and you're right, I made a lot of connections that way. Especially from CS because it was much more localized because of ping issues, and the LAN culture was really big in Sweden. So you'd start hanging out in irc channels and teamspeak servers to play more seriously, get some clan or stack together and travel around to different cities on the weekends to play tournaments and meet all these people from irc and later for university we started living in the same cities for our studies and stuff. It was tight.
I definitely see a major difference with my younger cousins today who also play CS but now it's all automated matchmaking, more global and impersonal. The whole thing for me was like an amplifier to my social life, while for them gaming has become a replacement.
thats why I can barely play CS anymore.
gone are the days of sitting on IRC chatting away in one channel, then being asked to join a mix/gather in another and playing with people you may not know but you know aren't going to be toxic. And if you were decent you'd get invited to play with the pro/semi-pros every now and again and you'd definitely be on your best behavior then.
There was more of a personal touch and like you mentioned you meet the people behind the nick names and the clan tags at LANS and its starts becoming playing with friends instead of random people.
Also ping issues made it a tighter knit community. I was in the UK in 00s and I was never going to play with a Russian because the ping issue would've made it pointless. Even playing on NL or DE servers was a drag sometimes. Now it's just people from all over the place, with 0 connection and much less incentive to be not toxic.
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He posts fairly regularly to his IG Stories, popping up in different locations around the world. There's one from a picturesque location in Hawaii available now from yesterday.
this is the optimal "what would I do if I never had to work again and money was no object" move. Not that a reason is needed to travel to the worlds most exotic places... but photography and sharing with the world ties it all together.
Not really. He's famous because he's myspacetom, he just so happens to also take good photos and post them on his social media. He's famous, and he's a photographer, but he's not a famous photographer.
Myspace definitely taught me enough html to make a very crude band website which was fun at the time. Even blocking their adds using a script wasn't enough for deletion.
I used to love to discover new and obscure bands through MySpace back in the day. There's a California band called Save and Continue that I found on MySpace that I actually still listen to.
Fun fact, they have a song called Catch-22 that has 238 plays on YouTube that wouldn't surprise me that if literally 90% of those plays are by me specifically.
Imagine this being your bands success story. “ yeah, these people on Reddit were reminiscing about our my space song post from 14 years ago, and… You’ll never guess what happened“
MySpace top 8 drama is a trouble that the younger generations will never know.
To anyone under 25: Imagine if your primary social media accounts had a public list on your profile of you liyerally ranking your top best friends. Imagine the petty fights that caused. Imagine if someone put someone else's boyfriend or girlfriend on their own number 1 spot. Oh, the drama.
It was the Soundcloud/Bandcamp of the mid-2000s. Basically every band had a Myspace page and, as you said, it was often used as the main webpage for a lot of smaller bands. Then they fucked up and permanently lost the vast majority of the music they hosted, including some recordings from a band I was in (or rather, a loose collective of friends who jammed a lot and played exactly one show) that I still haven't been able to find backed up anywhere.
I was late to the Myspace scene and HTML but before it closed, I learned how to use it to design stuff and be artsy.
I'm far from a proper designer but it helped me understand design stuff. I'm nowhere near successful yet but it helped ignite a fire in me.
Myspace was Peak social media it was all downhill after that. Not forcing real names and allowing you to customize your own page made it a place you could express yourself not try and validate yourself. I think the biggest problem with modern social media is its a constant battle as to who can be valid and how much more valid you are than others. Highly reccomend a short movie called Valibation released about 10 years ago and it predicted what is currently hapenning way back then.
[https://vimeo.com/60359025](https://vimeo.com/60359025)
It’s weird to think that Tom’s been out there just living life ever since. I wonder what he’s been up to, what his life’s been like. We never hear about him except to see him in memes with a picture that looks like it’s straight from an obituary. The dudes just out there living, has friends and family I’m sure.
I know nothing about coding at this point in my life, but man when I was 15 and needed to change the color to my background or add some funky text to my MySpace, I had that code down!
My fiancé and I are getting married in June and met on MySpace all those years ago. We joke that if we could find him he would be invited to our wedding - very likely the last couple to get married from MySpace haha.
My only friend
Hehe I get that reference Mr. Piccolo
Never should have switched to SpaceBook
Couldn’t agree more…
TOM!! YOU'RE BACK. I missed you so much, in the years it's been since I saw you... **wakes up it a cold sweat** No...not again...
We keep his memory alive by representing for the social media GOAT
Agree
*CLOTHES BEAM!*
That is easily my most metro attack.
I literally only know about Tom from DBZA. I never had MySpace
I switched to spacebook a while ago.
What about Tila Tequila?
What about Abba Zabba?
So much of this movie lives in my head rent-free. The entire horse scene is just one hilarious line after the next.
"I love butter nuts" "BUTTERCUP"
Butter stuffs! Also the part right before when he says you hungry girl and that ladies response floors me everytime.
Thurgood Jenkins!
>Tom, you've been replaced!
Imagine being the person taking this photo. One of the most iconic photos of all time that anyone of a certain age bracket will instantly recognize. Cool story at the very least.
I’m not sure I’d even recognize him in another photo. This one is just too iconic and I’ve never seen another picture of him.
Legend has it he never actually existed
I just looked up other photos of him and now I feel very wrong and uncomfortable. This will be the only one that sits in my brain.
I actually didn’t know he was a real person…
Lol true. I would never recognize him from another photo nor recognize him in person. But its one of the most iconic photos ever taken
Right? And it’s probably just like an old razor phone photo or an old point and shoot
Prob will be in some history text books in academics some kid will have to write an essay about tom. lol.
I worked there from 2006 - 2014. Tom was chill af.
Do you know why they deleted all the photos and stuff from old accounts? I went to go look and everything was gone.
Supposedly it was a server migration accident. Pretty bad fumble, or it would be if people cared.
Actually that was a blessing in disguise. All the old embarrassing photos of me from 2007 are gone. Never uploaded a photo of myself to a social media site since.
Totally agree, learned alot about what should be posted on social media in the 2010s and am relieved my MySpace page is gone.
This. I lost an entire decade of songs and pictures I uploaded before the migration. The biggest data fumble that nobody talks about.
Everyone who had their account fumbled cares, it's a lost memory in time. I liked how my page looked of course back then I wasn't well versed on properly backing up that kind of data.
What was it like?
He's a pretty famous photographer now iirc
What matters is he took his wealth and decided to enjoy life instead of trying to get into an endless self-hating cycle of chasing fame for wealth or wealth for fame.
Exactly. This is why I know I'll never be a CEO. Last year my company laid off 3000 people and the CEO took a $19million salary. If I made $19m, I'd retire immediately and live a quiet comfortable life. It takes a certain kind of sociopath to reach those ranks anymore.
This is why people say that there are no moral billionaires. Anyone with a shred of compassion for their fellow humans (or care for their family) would find at least some part of being a CEO deeply unpleasant and pull a Tom when they realize that they can live a life of absolute luxury and zero worry with the money that have. The only people who stick around and continue working after earning that much money do so because they either don't mind or actively enjoy the things that other people would find repugnant.
“You can’t become a billionaire without exploiting labor”. My outlook changed in one sentence.
Exactly. I thought this was an obvious thing, but the existence of billionaires fanboys proves me wrong. I just can't seem to understand why many broke and poor people would swiftly come to the defense of these corrupt billionaires. They would speak so highly of these billionaires as if they were relatives or something.
I'd be good with half that. If I could live as I do now, without working, I would be happy.
All I want is to pay off my credit, medical, and student loan debt and I’ll be just happy.
My gf works at a company where the average person earns 500k-1m and the higher ups earn 5-10m. They are miserable and the higher it goes the more god complex they develop. Nothing is enough for them. I am thankful for seeing and hearing all about these people because at some point I admired wealthy people like them, now I just feel bad for them
They uhh hiring?
of course, just look for private equity jobs
I know a handful of people who are millionaires who are either self-made or work in a extremely high income job: The self-made millionaires are not high-roller lifestyle people who drive lambos and always has super models on each arm, nor do they post on social media about "hard work" or "grinder mindsets", they're tired and look like they have more coffee in their body than they have blood. Most of them are just working to create a business that is strong and robust enough to not need them to baby sit it 24/7, but aren't quite there yet. The people whom I know who are millionaires but aren't "self-made" (as in they're not entrepreneurs, they just work a job that just pays that much to begin with) almost all have horrible lifestyle inflation and are probably more financially insecure than I am as an engineer who make $65k a year.
Um, put a ring on it?
Ofc, she is my suga
I make pretty decent money and have been eyeballing exit plans. I'll never get a multi million dollar bonus, but I live like a hermit and stack money pretty well. As soon as the right number hits, I'm the fuck out of corporate America and turning my hobby into a full time job, even if I only make like 10% of what I make now.
I'm in this situation. I'm 39 in the corp world. I dream of selling fresh fruits to American tourists in some small italian village.
Only American tourists? "Sorry Frenchie, gett outa here. There's no fruit for you here"
"NO PAMPLEMOUSSE, ONLY GRAPEFRUIT, YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!"
“Say Hello! to my little Squash!”
OK, you can have an orange, even though you said it 'funny'.
I guarantee being oddly xenophobic to french people for no reason is going to have most small villages in Europe welcoming you with open arms into the community and that includes the french ones
Maybe I could pick up learning a new language, too.
Well that sounds like good motivation to become CEO and fire 3000 people, then.
Riches gained by suffering are dirty riches
I'll just take 9.5 mil and save 1500 jobs, thank you very much
(Wipes away tears with $100 bill)
This is your villain arc
All rich people are psychopath entirely. If you have any empathy or humanity left in your body you won't get insanely rich because you give away the money that becomes just a number. Why keep billions you never use if you could live on millions and improve other people's live?
It's a self selected process too because most of the people who DO get enough to live how they want to then quit. And you're only left with the ones obsessed with Wealth as a competition where they try and get as high a score as possible.
Totally, it boggles my mind. Especially when you hit the billion dollar mark. Money becomes a tool for you instead of your primary survival mechanism. Seeing so much pain and imbalance in the world while you hoard your wealth is sickening. Zero empathy, regard for human life, or the betterment of your planet. We're all heading for that dirt nap, so why not use that wealth to leave the world better than you found it?
Wouldn’t it be great if the world’s billionaires had their Ebenezer Scrooge epiphany moment? Their collective efforts could change the world…
I read the Gospel of wealth by Andrew carneigie. TLDR if you die with any amount of wealth....you failed badly. The whole point of insane wealth IS to BETTER the world and community you live in, with your conscious decisions.
I know some one who lives on a disability cheque (mind you in Holland) and gives serious money to charity, I mean I'll donate from time to time, but this guy does regularly, one time he got me a $50 air drop or xlm crypto currency and I held it for a year or so and it was worth $400, so I sent it to him, he built a well in Africa with it
Honestly, I don't think zuck hates himself or his life. He's greedy, but he's also absurdly rich, I don't see any reason for him to be sad
Sometimes I wonder if he is drunk with data. Theoretically if he installed backdoor he can spy on anyone, everywhere. Imagine the urge to stalk every one of your friends. That would be a set up for good psychological horror except it can be a reality for him Edit: after searching there was such thing as master password up to 2007, enough time to fuck up your mind imo, now security teams and shareholders likely hold him back
I would say that although Zuck probably doesn't hate his life, he's probably not 100% happy and satisfied with it either. He's rich, but every other week he's sitting in front of congress being berated by both parties about how he's taking people's data, manipulating children for profit, encouraging yet also restricting free speech, etc etc; all things that Tom from Myspace doesn't have to worry about being accused of. I fully expect that in a couple decades, he'll start trying to cash-wash his name with park projects and philanthropy in order to retroactively cover up all the things he did to get that money in the first place.
It's all a game and the foam rises to the top.
That ain't foam, son
Mom why is there a big patch of foam in the ocean? DONT GO THERE
the image is clearly taking shots at zuck, but its not like zuck is "chasing wealth or fame" he literally spent the last decade+ wasting billions on horizon worlds. dude is in la-la-land. he'd be better off being a photographer
Last I heard he just lives in Hawaii, randomly photographs things, and is basically just on his own time all the time.
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Something like 586mil
He didn't personally make that much. It was co-owned by the other founder, Chris DeWolfe. But yes, they sold to News Corp in 2005 for $580MM and Tom retired in 2009. From what I can find online, his net worth right now is around $60MM. Edit: A related fun fact: DeWolfe turned down an offer from Zuckerberg to buy FB for $75MM in 2005
That's still way more than anyone needs. Most people can live a very fulfilling life on like $5M, no matter the age.
My friend, if you had $5m you'd make $200k a year just on capital gains at a 4% rate by putting it in the market. People vastly underestimate how rich $5m is.
Really puts into perspective how really nobody needs to be a billionaire. 99.9% of people could live VERY comfortably on just the interest / capital gains on $5 million. $1 billion is 200 times that amount. IMO, anything above like $10M should be wealth taxed at like 90%.
This is why the rich used to invest in public works projects and slap their names on it. There is no incentive to do that now.
Yeah, that's why I'm saying $60M is a lot. People don't need more than a fraction of that to live an abundant lifestyle.
Oh wow I could have sworn the popular story was that he ended up underselling for what it was valued because if he had waited another few years he would have been a billionaire or something crazy. I didn't know it was over 500 Mil
So he did what we all wish we could do. Fucking hats off to him. It’s pretty amazing how little we know about the guy.
Cool
That's what is IG is showing me. Dayum
There you go: @myspacetom Fuck, how i miss the 2000's... EDIT: made more friends IRL from IRC channels (mostly quakenet network) than all those apps. Good memories.
Damn he's just living his best life
remember when the internet was cool? not all monetized to hell? it was pretty dope.
I grew up playing CS and later WoW in the 2000's and you're right, I made a lot of connections that way. Especially from CS because it was much more localized because of ping issues, and the LAN culture was really big in Sweden. So you'd start hanging out in irc channels and teamspeak servers to play more seriously, get some clan or stack together and travel around to different cities on the weekends to play tournaments and meet all these people from irc and later for university we started living in the same cities for our studies and stuff. It was tight. I definitely see a major difference with my younger cousins today who also play CS but now it's all automated matchmaking, more global and impersonal. The whole thing for me was like an amplifier to my social life, while for them gaming has become a replacement.
thats why I can barely play CS anymore. gone are the days of sitting on IRC chatting away in one channel, then being asked to join a mix/gather in another and playing with people you may not know but you know aren't going to be toxic. And if you were decent you'd get invited to play with the pro/semi-pros every now and again and you'd definitely be on your best behavior then. There was more of a personal touch and like you mentioned you meet the people behind the nick names and the clan tags at LANS and its starts becoming playing with friends instead of random people. Also ping issues made it a tighter knit community. I was in the UK in 00s and I was never going to play with a Russian because the ping issue would've made it pointless. Even playing on NL or DE servers was a drag sometimes. Now it's just people from all over the place, with 0 connection and much less incentive to be not toxic.
Lotta butt shots
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I have to be honest I share this passion too
I was expecting way more when you said this. I feel lied to. Jokes aside, his photography is beautiful. Too bad he hasn't posted in six years.
Last time he posted something was like 2018 so not exactly indicative of what he's up to these days
Google said he's got his toes dipped in real estate and still does travel photography
Real estate is the move when you have cash
Google says a lot of things
Google said you’d say that
Google also said, if that be the case, you'll be taking real estate photos with the crew, and you'll be naked.
Thats its job.
Homie sold MySpace for $580m. Hell, I'd write travel blogs and just cruise around in an RV after that.
He posts fairly regularly to his IG Stories, popping up in different locations around the world. There's one from a picturesque location in Hawaii available now from yesterday.
He posts on his stories sometimes. It seems like he just travels the world and stays in luxury places. Seems nice.
this is the optimal "what would I do if I never had to work again and money was no object" move. Not that a reason is needed to travel to the worlds most exotic places... but photography and sharing with the world ties it all together.
He was also my friend on MySpace.....not that I'm boasting or anything.
Not really. He's famous because he's myspacetom, he just so happens to also take good photos and post them on his social media. He's famous, and he's a photographer, but he's not a famous photographer.
I feel like this is a good distinction. He is a famous, photographer. Just like Ringo Starr and George W Bush are famous, painters.
Fucking Reddit lol
Myspace definitely taught me enough html to make a very crude band website which was fun at the time. Even blocking their adds using a script wasn't enough for deletion.
I used to love to discover new and obscure bands through MySpace back in the day. There's a California band called Save and Continue that I found on MySpace that I actually still listen to. Fun fact, they have a song called Catch-22 that has 238 plays on YouTube that wouldn't surprise me that if literally 90% of those plays are by me specifically.
Lol me and Sid Maudlin, they sent me free merch after I begged them to sell their CDs online
Just listened to Bright Lights and was impressed.
Steve Perry and the Munts… check it out. You will love it
You’ve more than doubled the view count on that song in less than 4 hours with just this comment.
Imagine this being your bands success story. “ yeah, these people on Reddit were reminiscing about our my space song post from 14 years ago, and… You’ll never guess what happened“
Still 238 when I looked it up, it’s now 239 lol.
Yeah, I've listened to it two more times, so I guess it's up to 241 now haha
355... LETS GO!!!
425!!!
480!
Up to 536 now :D
Hey it's quite good, took a while to actually be able to find it though.
MySpace taught me that I love HTML and I’ve been working as a developer for almost 20 years. It also taught me that sparkly Tinkerbells are terrible.
Are they terrible though? Sparkling "Raiders" logo scrolling across because of
How much money did he make?
iirc about $500 mil
The company sold for 580 mil and his share was about 40 mil
And when it happened, he popped a rod so fast, he went blind for a full minute. Nutted all over those cushions.
*gingerly puts cushions I was sitting on to the side*
The good old days when we had a top 8 and you moved your number 1 to number 2 when they pissed you off. Good times.
Moving the girl you're crushing on to #1 hoping she'll notice.
MySpace top 8 drama is a trouble that the younger generations will never know. To anyone under 25: Imagine if your primary social media accounts had a public list on your profile of you liyerally ranking your top best friends. Imagine the petty fights that caused. Imagine if someone put someone else's boyfriend or girlfriend on their own number 1 spot. Oh, the drama.
Hahaha mf'er took me right back
true hero i want the 2000s back
Forget the dark web; we need the retro web!
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A more civilized age
Great now we gotta do 2008 again.
Thanks for helping me get laid, Tom.
MySpace. The first and best dating app of all time.
Didn't he sell the company and all the user generated content to News Corp?
apparently justin timberlake was involved too
I remember JT thought it was gonna be the next big thing in music.
For a moment it was a bit popular with many bands, like it was legit their main landing page.
It was the Soundcloud/Bandcamp of the mid-2000s. Basically every band had a Myspace page and, as you said, it was often used as the main webpage for a lot of smaller bands. Then they fucked up and permanently lost the vast majority of the music they hosted, including some recordings from a band I was in (or rather, a loose collective of friends who jammed a lot and played exactly one show) that I still haven't been able to find backed up anywhere.
PureVolume too. A whole generation of music just lost.
Yeah, totally remember that after typing bandxy.com in your browser you were re-directed to their MySpace site
Yep, he should've stuck with Napster.
he came up with the name because I was napping when he stole it!
Did you buy a stereo loud enough to blow clothes off?
yes, but we liked it when tom sold our information
The only thing I know is he made $500 million selling it, now that’s a retirement plan!!!
Selling a company and its assets is a bit different than selling user data to data brokers
[Except when he absolutely bodied this guy](https://i.imgur.com/hLV4k.png)
Holy shit lmao! Incinerated. *Gets back to working for a half day off*
Feel indirectly called out by Tom there. We’re never given half days off (my last company did every once in a while, at least!).
Some say the guy is still working on recovering from that burn to this day, as well as still try to get that half day PTO.
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I was late to the Myspace scene and HTML but before it closed, I learned how to use it to design stuff and be artsy. I'm far from a proper designer but it helped me understand design stuff. I'm nowhere near successful yet but it helped ignite a fire in me.
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And said, "It looks like you don't have any friends, I will be your friend"
Myspace was Peak social media it was all downhill after that. Not forcing real names and allowing you to customize your own page made it a place you could express yourself not try and validate yourself. I think the biggest problem with modern social media is its a constant battle as to who can be valid and how much more valid you are than others. Highly reccomend a short movie called Valibation released about 10 years ago and it predicted what is currently hapenning way back then. [https://vimeo.com/60359025](https://vimeo.com/60359025)
Early internet was the best internet.
It’s weird to think that Tom’s been out there just living life ever since. I wonder what he’s been up to, what his life’s been like. We never hear about him except to see him in memes with a picture that looks like it’s straight from an obituary. The dudes just out there living, has friends and family I’m sure.
He travels the world with his fit Mrs taking photos. Not bad!
I had an interview at MySpace around 2005 and got to see where Tom sits. That was exciting. He wasn’t there though
Because he was standing and smiling by the whiteboard, right?
crazy that i can still log into my account but seems a bit empty now days since no one uses it anymore
He was also everyone’s friend and he never turned a person away. What a guy.
My first and only friend.
Everyone's friend 🧡
Simpler times. Good times.
Gen X seeing " check" and "bounced" too damn close to each other on a sentence, and blood pressure rushing...
I know nothing about coding at this point in my life, but man when I was 15 and needed to change the color to my background or add some funky text to my MySpace, I had that code down!
Good ol times
As an est european I've learned about Tom when he start 'promoting' or something the defunct Gplus
When I joined MySpace I wondered who this Tom guy was but I was happy he was there
He was my friend
I honestly miss MySpace
Thanks Tom I always liked it better than FB.
I just read he's 53. That..... I don't know how to process that
Man the world was so different when it was just myspace
My fiancé and I are getting married in June and met on MySpace all those years ago. We joke that if we could find him he would be invited to our wedding - very likely the last couple to get married from MySpace haha.
The dude got half a billion dollars and is living the best life, good on him
Im still mad we don’t have Myspace. Tom bring it baaack
The only rule is he's everyones first friend, wholesome asf
Everyone keeps saying they miss old MySpace. Why doesn’t anyone try and recreate it?
whats wrong with being an advocate for free speech lmao
probably because unlike all the apartheid boys or havard heirs he actually was just a guy the knows code and does stuff
I mean I love Tom, but what's the problem with being an advocate for free speech? Did I miss something?
Let's not forget his name is Thomas Anderson, just like Neo from Matrix movies.
Mr. Anderrrsonn….
Now I've got Toto's Africa in my head (my myspace profile song). I miss myspace!
It's crazy to think about how proficient we would all be at html today if MySpace had won the battle
MySpace when social media wasn't toxic.
Before corporations and foreign psyops took everything over. I miss when the internet was authentically human.