how Big do you think this scooter fallout will be? Mega big news or die out in af ew days?
no idea but it looks like heâs already trying to get ahead of stuff by spinning the client split announcements to make it look less bad
which makes me think maybe thereâs more out there heâs hoping to get ahead of.
Folks need to understand that barring some kind of exit deal barring Scooter from being the first to comment (unlikely), the order of the headlines is the most telling.
It didnât lead with a splashy, moneyed International Man of Mystery is a Big Boy a Boss article. Scooter and the machine behind him are competent enough to set up this narrative months or weeks in advance.
The initial no reply, no comment, hedged comments, to confirming people are quite literally not talking to or creating art with Scooter says this likely went public quickly and people want to distance their brands AND their money from him.
Itâs giving financial entanglements, bad business ethics, and the asshole bully chickens coming home to roost all at the same time.
If Taylor Easter-egged this, we can see she flagged ethical and artistic concerns around the practice of Private Equities being able to buy art in the way that Ithaca Holdings did: with money from âthe Soros family, 23 Capital, The Carlyle Group.â These PEs are among the biggest and baddest billion-makers in the world and are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the tech-AI-defense (as in government military weapons and international arms deals) Bermuda Triangle of ethics.
And what family name is tied over and over again to all this?
Iâm no expert, but the Kushner bailout from Carlyle for their real estate debt and the comingling of Kushner family assets and funds in trusts also tied to Joshâs Thrive Capital investment firm which has a reputation for being one of the best investors in tech⊠all of which ties to government and tech wanting to harness AIâs capabilitiesâŠ
And on the record deals of Scooter investing with Josh repeatedly, from public deal listings to pop culture references to a zoom meeting with Diplo and the owners of Ableton (music production software)âŠ
She last set her sights on artistsâ rights and pay for streaming.
I think to take on Private Equity investors/buyers in the name of artistsâ rights is a worthy cause few other people could even imagine taking on. If this brought to light that dirty money, war money, corrupt money is being used to own art at the expense of artists⊠will the world care? How do you hurt people and firms with this much wealth? How do you make this stick?
I dunno man, this reeks of more money more problems and Scooter seems to have bought himself more than he bargained for. It reeks of long-term efforts to follow the money.




















