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Hey, hey, heeeey… I’m baaaaaack!
Rested, re-energized… and glistening like a rotisserie chicken (a.k.a. dripping in armpit sweat).
In 2025, instead of churning out stuff to check a box, I’m focusing on content that fucking FUN. (Remember that stuff? It’s that thing we traded for likes, shares, and the existential dread of 'low reach' for years.)
Here’s the plan:
Be fearless. Post the weird, wild, slightly unhinged ideas. They might go nowhere, but they might also make your kindreds DM you love notes like, ‘Wow, you’re so brave/inspiring.’
Break the rules. Who says your subject line can’t be written entirely in emojis or that your email can’t begin with a gif of a hamster doing jazz hands?
Embrace the mess. Perfection is overrated. A typo isn’t the end of the world, but overthinking what you want to say will leave you staring at the screen like it’s a magic 8-ball with no answers.
2025 is about creating content that feels good, not content that just fills gaps + obligations. Because when we have fun, people notice—and let’s be honest, people are tired of the same old polished, predictable, perfectionist BS.
We all need FUN!
Not just on vacation, over weekends, and on holidays.
We need FUN on a regular damn basis…. especially those random Tuesdays that suck our souls dry.
So, here’s to being bold, weird, messy, and savagely real this year. Let’s create things we actually enjoy + do things that make us feel a little more fearless in the process.
YOU IN, Buttercup?
2025 Ass Slaps,
Dre ‘VP of FUN, Reporting For Duty’ Beltrami
P.S. I double-dawg-dare you to tell me one silly idea you’ve been too afraid to post about until now. If you fess up, I promise to fan the flames of your fearlessness like your own personal wind tunnel.
Who writes The Hot Dog Cart, anyway?
Hey, hey, heeey… I’m Dre Beltrami! 👋
Founder, This Digital Playground
Gangster, The Entire Internet (Since 2014)
Beer Hater, No Matter How It's Brewed (Since 1979)
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