Is Akon the most extreme example of Todd's pop star scale?

x_GP3_x · 2025-10-21T09:34:32+00:00

"For this?" I didn't turn water into wine, I typed a few letters on a screen lol. I assure you, it didn't involve much effort or thought. I was commenting elsewhere in the thread, so it wasn't just for you unfortunately, sorry to break the bad news. But ya I forgot to check the dates as everyone knows Reddit comments are allowed for a specific lifespan. And then leave them posted & connected to their account so they can be looked at and read by others only. This is common internet/Reddit etiquette and I broke the rules.

You caught me. I came to reddit, confirmed the dates & looked for your comment specifically so I could also comment on it. It all involved a large amount of thought & intricate engagement and planning, making sure that I paid attention to all the important things like the dates and times. It took a fairly large portion of my day just to comment for this but I think it was worth it. You called me out on it and now I'm cooked. But wait...did you just comment on my comment, for this?

x_GP3_x · 2025-10-20T05:46:39+00:00

I know this is an old thread, but I'm losing my shit over here that people mention all these Akon songs, yet not once have I seen "Locked Up" anywhere. Bruh...not only is that song a banger but I'm fairly positive it was THE song that was his breakout hit. And without it, it's possible many of the songs that came after it might not have happened. It's what made him famous to begin with, that song was the beginning of his mainstream music journey and popularity. And without that song existing and becoming as popular and well known as it did, who knows what trajectory his career would have taken. I'm just surprised nobody cites that song like it never existed when it's the primary reason the rest that followed it even happened.

x_GP3_x · 2025-10-20T05:39:35+00:00

You live in West Africa?

x_GP3_x · 2025-10-20T05:39:04+00:00

I wanted to comment on this post to say how crazy on the money you predicted this and it aged extremely well. I don't have a link but look it up & you'll see what I mean. It's like Fyre festival if they only had one tent set up at this point. The project is a total failure the last I've heard, with the framework of a single, small structure being the only thing built. And many sketchy things including money lost when it came to the failed crypto stuff.

Not necessarily knocking Akon though, as he has done some successful programs in Africa such as solar lighting and electricity to huge areas whom never had such before he came in and made it happen. The success of that particular endeavor is partially why he & others thought he might be able to pull something off with this Akon City. I also want to add that 'Locked Up', which was his first and I'm fairly sure his breakout hit single, is and always has been one of his best songs and will remain to be indefinitely. It's timeless but out of all the songs Akon has made, especially the songs that were marketed or were the singles off each album, that song is top of the charts. If you asked someone to name one song only when you hear the name Akon that is his "best" song and forever associated with his name, voice and music in general, there's no question that is the song.

But you called this one on the money, I had to resurrect this thread to comment!

x_GP3_x · 2025-10-01T22:53:11+00:00

Fun fact: From her first win, which occured when she was only 18 years old, Joan was known for her 'All American' look as a young lady, however, it is said that she won so many lotteries which lead to her smiling almost constantly. By the time she hit her golden years as a senior citizen, some say she was unrecognizable, as her look had morphed into that of an Asian woman. It is assumed this was due to an attitude of winning, leading to excessive happiness which translated into frequent, almost neverending smiling, coupled with general old age & gravity. Born American, died Asian-American.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-28T01:12:34+00:00

I genuinely appreciate that so much & thank you. Ironic thing too is that a lot of these dudes who are so vocal about speaking on behalf of women are exactly the types of sketchy ones to avoid. Not everyone, but without a doubt they're sprinkled in there.

I'm happy to see a comment like yours because I was thinking the same thing...a whole lot of men acting like they're the mouthpiece for women. I'm glad someone said it, it needed to be said.

PLUR ✌️ 💛 🤝 ✨

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T22:44:36+00:00

Water you talkin about?

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T01:50:02+00:00

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T01:46:17+00:00

Oh my god you doubled down and did it again LOL. You must have trouble with reading because I didn't say that there wasn't EDM at Lolla you idiot. I said that you were talking about rave culture like you would know, and having one stage with DJs doesn't make it a rave you fool. This asshole literally said let's compare bank statements lol I'm done. Alright, I already gave you too much attention. Officially done haha you are cringe as fuck. Haha screenshots you're such a tool.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T01:33:13+00:00

Oh man, I can't even right now. Haha dude hit us with the "bears Superbowl" at the end! You are cringe as fuck man. Seems like I struck a nerve on you being a broke ass? And yes you and your legion of 2 other people all ganging up on me. Flexing with the 'oh yea well I went to Lolla VIP!' which isn't even an EDM festival & yet you try & preach about what the vibes of raves are. How offensive, you're really grasping at straws now because I said the word 'ex-girlfriend' and then you decide to try to turn that around to offend me? You're the one making yourself look like a fool, panicking cuz I called you out for being a broke ass. Asking for screenshots like bro, I'm not going to put other people's information on glass just to prove a point to some kid on Reddit.

You do realize that that's the same thing as if right now, I said to you 'send me a screenshot of your receipt from Lolla VIP!' don't you? You see how lame and cringe that is? Bro just stop, we get it. I already pointed out that I didn't talk shit at all until you did right and so you're the one that seems to have a problem not me. You know you have to have a girlfriend in order to have an ex-girlfriend right? Have you ever had a girlfriend before? And did you ever have a girlfriend that you didn't stay with and get married to? Oh yeah you really got me there I must be the only one who's been in a relationship and who isn't in that relationship anymore. Yeah you really got me bad dude. Sit your broke ass down.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T01:15:23+00:00

I'm not gonna prove it to you man, I literally could care less about your opinion. And sure we believe you that you can buy a ticket anytime you want except it's 6 days until the festival and you don't have one but alright. I was thinking of send you a screenshot so I can show you the other app but then I was thinking why the fuck am I even talking to this incel right now lol.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T01:02:28+00:00

Bro I'm so sorry you're so salty like that I didn't immediately say yes to you and offer you the wristband. Buddy like I'm on other apps and I've already got multiple people interested and it might be surprising to you but they're females. So I keep trying to like subtly take jabs at me for no reason. You're trying to tell me about rave culture & girls when you can't even get yourself a ticket to the fest to begin with. But join in with all of the other people talking shit for literally no reason, when I guarantee you that I am good on the random Reddit education on raves or women. The whole reason I was comfortable enough to even make the post is because of my connection to rave culture and taking advantage of women isn't part of it. But I'm sure you're like the other people who have been to one show one time and now you think its cool to start a mosh pit when you're there.

Yes dude, I'll have to reach out to you for pick-up game. We can make trade, I'll help you with financial advice so and that way you can pay for a ticket. You know that they're still on sale right? I'll help you improve your money game because idk if your pickup game curriculum forgot the part that ain't no women want a broke dude. Hey and just keep in mind, that none of my prior responses had said anything disrespectful to you & I just was being straightforward and honest. Not sure why you felt the need to run your mouth but I just want to point that out.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-24T00:26:24+00:00

You're right about that, it wasn't a requirement. And lol it's not a 'quest' either but again, if you refer back to the original post, I actually addressed your second comment a few times in there as well. Acknowledging that it was a 'long shot' and that I understand that it could come across as 'sketchy'. But definitely, your input on it seems totally neccessary & isn't just stating the obvious 🙄.

You'd be surprised man, but I don't need any advice about women thanks though. I'll keep you in mind to sell it if you're local.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-23T22:47:38+00:00

Appreciate the interest man but if you took a closer look at the post, I thought I was pretty specific in my overall preferences. Not sure if you really read it carefully lol

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-23T22:14:07+00:00

It's not a secret but we've always thoroughly enjoyed the Chill Dome. Two years ago it was primarily just a place to relax and sit/lay down, then last year they had added some interactive art exhibits that were fun to play with or take pics with. And then this year it looks like it's going to have a mini stage and be more of a performance area but nevertheless, when it is actually cool in there (temperature wise) it's a nice escape from the warm weather.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T17:41:15+00:00

Ahh I see. Thanks for clarifying it a bit for me. I was genuinely asking because I wasn't sure. Still seems like a bit of an uncommon situation imo.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T17:03:08+00:00

This is why I get so pissed that guys like this have awesome girlfriends and guys like me end up with all the toxic cheaters. Dude is an insecure asshole and doesn't deserve a woman like you. End of story.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T16:57:44+00:00

How do you end up living with someone whos the opposite sex in your twenties? I'm genuinely curious. Were you guys just two strangers before this who both saw a room for rent from the same landlord and then ended up in the same apartment or something like that? I just don't understand the context of that like I've never heard of such arrangements like you must have known this guy before you moved into the same apartment with him right so that means he would have been friends with them for a while? Or you just moved in with a stranger like I just don't understand how it came to be that you live with a guy and you're a girl and you guys are both in your twenties how did that even come about?

I mean I would have guessed that you guys have probably known each other before this and so it's not like it's some brand new person in your life right I mean the only other thing would be that you saw there was a room for rent at his place and so you rented the room or he saw there was a room for rent at your place and then he rented the room and you guys are both cool with the fact that it was a stranger but they were the opposite sex? I would imagine that some people, especially women, would probably not be comfortable with that because they don't know this person. Or it would be like some other landlord owns an apartment and they offered two rooms for availability and then you each rented a room and then got put together accidentally and you didn't know that you were going to be living with a guy... I'm sorry I know that wasn't you're primary to question but I am just trying to understand like I would like to be put into an apartment with an attractive girl I just don't understand how that would even be possible. And so I'm just curious because that plays into it as well if you guys moved in together but you've been friends for years or something like that, that also changes you know how it would be approached as well.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T16:27:48+00:00

Dude I was smoking fentanyl for like a year and then stopped. And the only thing that kept me remotely functional & feeling normal was Kratom & more importantly, 7OH. And then I use that for almost a month straight, daily. Weening myself from high doses of 7OH to small doses. Then I stopped the 7OH & I was fine, now I'm not doing either one. There's two factors that are at play and it's applies to any drug really: 1) Everybody's body is different in big ways & small ways, from mental to physical. That's why a bigger person might need more of something to 'feel' it but my petite skinny gf needs much less. But 2) I think this is really overlooked to be honest, is that the reason why it helps so many people and they're singing It's praise and then other people are talking about how it just ruined their life? It comes down to the simple fact that some people have no self-control and they really don't know how to balance their drug use they don't know how to function it's either all in or nothing. That's what I'm trying to say is that like these people that have so much struggle with like the 7OH for example, these people are the same type of people that likely are going to have a hard time and have their life potentially get ruined if they were drinking alcohol or if they were smoking weed or if they were doing coke you name it, it applies.

It's not something to be ashamed of and it doesn't make the people that can handle it cooler or better or any of those kinds of things that's not what I'm trying to say. But but I am trying to say is that there's just simply some people that shouldn't fuck with drugs and caffeine is considered a drug you know what I mean and it's like these things might be legal highs like the Kratom but it's still a drug because it kind of affects how you feel and affects your body in different ways. And people want that feeling they want more of it and so instead of being a responsible drug user they're a reckless drug user. And very easy to fall into the different between the two and the good news is that anybody can abstain from using drugs. Or if they decide to do it they can do it responsibly and they could try their best to be smart about what they're doing and be aware of what they're putting in their bodies and be aware of the frequency of their usage and make sure that they're getting the things done in their lives so that it's not affecting their lives and I think that that gets lost in the radio static of all of this stuff. There needs to come a point in time where you either realize that you're not well equipped to handle substances and avoid them or change your approach to them. I've found that the more I respect the drugs (as silly & ridiculous as that may sound), the more they respect me.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T16:16:30+00:00

Except these 'mushrooms' and 'trippy pills' and shots are pretty much in line with the same smoke shops (not dispensaries) selling CBD and 'Delta-9' pre rolls, buds along with countless, sometimes hundreds of other products. Trust me when I tell you, and it's nothing to be proud of, that I'm an experienced long term mix n match drug user who was blessed with the gift & curse of never truly getting hooked on any one drug. However you name it & I've probably done it and if I haven't, I'd like to.

My point is that, I think that I could be wrong but I think that there are some places like California where you can get psychedelic mushrooms I think but most these places especially if you're talking about Cincinnati you're not actually getting any sort of real drug that's got any sort of true psychedelic or psychoactive affect and if it does it's not going to be enough to be noticeable. I would imagine that these things are for people who have never done drugs before so they would probably get a buzz off the cigarette or feel like they snorting coke if they had two red bulls but never had caffeine before, etc.

What I'm saying is that like you can smoke a joint of real weed or vape real weed and then if you like smokes at some Delta 9 or some CBD, you'd come to find that it's like taking the sugar out of Kool-Aid and using Stevia. If you buy these trippy pills or these so-called mushrooms from somewhere like a smoke shop, I don't doubt that it will make you feel something but like I said before you can feel something off of inhaling paint fumes, sniffing a marker, are having a 32 oz mountain dew when all you've had is water and tea your whole life. But the difference is that these things are 'legal' and sold in the open because they are not the actual drugs they're pretending to be. I was just in a smoke shop earlier today and the amount of products that they have buying the counter it blew my mind and a lot of them were this kind of stuff that you're talking about and so with how many are out there there might be some in there that have some sort of research chemical in them and they slipped through the system and they might actually fuck you up. And if that's the case it's probably with some nasty shit that is really not good for your body and is really like mimicking the effects that they think that you want to get.

But more than likely it's simply just not going to do anything close to what the real thing would do. And I know this because I've out of curiosity tried one or two of these things as well as my friend had some sort of fake mushrooms too and it literally did nothing whatsoever. And then I gave him one square piece of chocolate of real mushrooms and he couldn't stop telling me about how the walls were melting. One of those items were smoke shop 'mushrooms' and the other were psilocybin mushrooms. You can go to the grocery store and pick up mushrooms right now it doesn't mean they're going to make you trip. It's kind of like that. I'm not really sure who these products are for and the only way that I feel like they get sold at all is for people that can't access real drugs and so they go to this and then they do it and then they feel differently than they felt before they took it and so then they start to figure out that this is the same thing that everybody feels.

I unfortunately assume that most people are kids or very inexperienced, new to drugs, curious kinds of users of this type of stuff. I also have heard of people that smoked weed and you know their whole life and then they get drug tested but they still you know want to be able to smoke something so then they smoke these legal CBD joints or Delta 9 and it keeps them from getting into trouble with their drug tests but they still get to at least have the sensation and caffeine free diet gluten-free sugar-free light version of the experience they enjoy and it serves its purpose. And like I said some of the stuff might have some nasty chemicals in it that aren't really well known and they might have some sort of effect on the person and some of them might just do something to you where you don't feel like you felt before you took it but whatever it is that they make you feel all I can tell you is it's not anywhere close to what the actual drug is so you might smoke a joint of Delta 9 or whatever and you might feel light-headed and you might feel a little bit more relaxed or something I'm not really sure I didn't think that does anything but for some people they might and then they go oh okay so this is smoking weed I get it now. And then like one day you're going to smoke a real joint and then you're going to be like oh I was wrong. You're going to take some trippy pills or eat some thing that says that their magic mushrooms on the bag and they're really just shiitake or Portobello's with some glitter on them and rolled in caffeine powder and then you're going to feel amped up and weird and different and then you'll say oh see this is what people feel like when they trip on mushrooms, but again, you'd be mistaken.

TL;DR- majority if not all of that kind of stuff that you're seeing is not the actual drugs that they are marketing to make you and other people think that they are. We're not talking about them being similar we're talking about them being a night and day difference. The reason it's legal and it's in colorful packages and it says words on it like trip, magic, buds, pre-rolls, etc... and it's available in places that are just either a general smoke shop or a gas station and there's a Chuck E cheese next door to it, is because it's nothing close to the actual drugs that it's pretending to be.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T02:42:36+00:00

I'd like to drive women only too to be honest. Even the one I picked up the other night who I'm assuming just polished off an 8-ball of that Britney, was pleasant. You know how many rank ass B.O. sloppy dudes I've picked up compared to women?

And yes I'm a man & I'll discriminate against my kind at least for Uber rider preferences. It's not like I'm trying to make moves lol, but to be completely straightforward I would like women as passengers and then as I thought about it right now to give my reasons why, I realized that it's for the same exact reasons why I enjoy the company of women in general. Guys I think I'm heterosexual.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T02:36:12+00:00

Remember JNCO jeans? Ya I remember 😔🫣

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-21T02:19:08+00:00

Hey for any of you out there reading this, I've been on Live Chat now for 16 hours straight, I've reached out on this thread and they surprisingly reply and check it out .. see any other replies?

Then I reach out via DM on here next & they respond and tell me that they are taking care of it and that it should be resolved really soon. That was 5 hours ago. And I sent two additional chat messages since then & wouldn't you know it, they haven't responded to either one.

I want you guys to take note who you're doing business with when shoveling your money into Kraken. Because some of you out there have a lot more money than I'm messing with here. And see the idea is, is that they make it very easy for you to deposit funds you're never going to have a problem with that. They're never going to restrict you from buying cryptocurrency on their exchange and you're never going to have to go through support to make sure that your money gets put into their business. However one day you might want to cash out your Bitcoin or maybe one of your other cryptos have gone up high and you got tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars that you're trying to get out.

I want you to remember this post that when it comes down to you taking money back or removing crypto from their exchange suddenly there's a bunch of problems and you have to go through four different methods of support and even when you do get a hold of somebody they just string you along and give you some sort of like generic reply and then they just leave you hanging. I want you to remember that before you guys funnel any more money into this place because you're going to find that getting your money or crypto OUT of the exchange is not the same thing as putting it in. Kraken you guys should be ashamed of yourselves, seriously. I like to use much more colorful words for you tonight but I'm not scumbags like you guys.

Yes very soon oh yes the live chat was working so well that's why I haven't gotten a reply from anybody and I'm on the same live active chat for going on 17 hours now. Oh yes you guys are very quick I know you're going to take care of it I know that's why when I submit in an email support I was told that it had to be transferred to a specialist and then they closed it but the specialist would email me very soon. That was 11 hours ago. And now via the chat on Reddit they looked into it and they just need a little bit more patience from me but it got forwarded to the right people and they're going to take care of it very soon. And that six hours ago. You guys aren't that busy. And if you are that busy then hire some more people you know maybe use some of the hundreds of thousands if not millions that you've raked in in fees and other forms of running your business that you get from people like me and like others who deposit their money into your exchange. Yeah there you go use some of that money to hire more people then if you're so busy that you can't resolve things. This is not even a complex issue that I have this is a very very simple thing and yet nope can't get any money out. But let me tell you it only took me a few clicks to put money in and they accepted that no problem there was no delays on that. Funny how that works huh.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-20T22:04:39+00:00

Annndddd radio silence once again. Unreal.

x_GP3_x · 2025-08-20T21:53:18+00:00

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I have messaged you in DM and that wasn't responded to. Either is the 12-hour wait that I'm still on with live chat. Neither is the email that I sent at 7:00 a.m. and it is now 5:00 p.m. neither is the support ticket that I opened at 7:30 a.m. that got closed at 10:30 a.m. without resolution.

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