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Patient_Fruit_826 , Jess Bailey Designs Report

#2

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth My cousin recorded the audio of a fan for 8 hours about a decade ago and now has north of a billion “white noise” YouTube views and is one of the top podcasts on Spotify.

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 26 minutes ago

White noise has been popular for years. There is research that shows different types of White noise helps with different types of sleeping problems (racing thoughts, to do list type thoughts, etc.)

2points

#3

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth My uncle invented micro machines. Little toy cars in the early 90’s.
EDIT: when I see my uncle next I will show him this and all the people he brought joy to.

022ydagr8 , NineInchPope Report

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Jonathan 1 hour ago

Oh that is cool. Those little cars where awesome, I have many fond memories of them from when I was a youngling

3points

#4

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth A friend of mine once struck it rich overnight by selling "designer" pet rocks online, complete with little outfits and backstories. It was a wild idea that somehow took off!

mustafizn73 Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 26 minutes ago

Cute & different!

2points

#5

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth The person who made bank by livestreaming themselves sleeping on TikTok. Literally getting paid to nap—today’s dream job!

moongirlLupe , MART PRODUCTION Report

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whodunnitfan2013 2 hours ago

A literal dream job!

4points

#6

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Forgot that he mined a dozen or so Bitcoins over a decade ago on his spare notebook.

Remembered three years ago that he still had that laptop in a drawer.

sakatan , Kaboompics.com Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 24 minutes ago

D@mn!!!! Forgot about a laptop!

3points

#7

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth My uncle's company made wood shaving tools. One day martha stewart used one to grate cheese on her tv show. Thus the Microplane was born.

leelouislinden , Dopevoponop Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 25 minutes ago

Did he get credit?

1point

#8

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Kim Kardashian f****d a low rent rapper and got her mom to sell the tape. As far as ridiculous and absurd goes this is about as good as it gets. .

kimkardashian Report

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Johnny McFearless 1 hour ago

We all know the hidden word is fụçķẹḍ, Ethel.

6points

Dynekongen , milliondollarhomepage Report

#9

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth The guy that made the Million Dollar Website.
Selling 1 pixel advertisements for 1$ must be some of the most absurdly genius ways of making loads of money.

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PeepPeep the duck 1 hour ago

Yellow pages 😂

3points

DWwithaFlameThrower Report

#10

Go to work for a little startup called Dell straight after college in Austin, Texas in the 80s. Get a bunch of meaningless ‘future shares’ as a sort of ‘welcome to this startup’ sweetener. Work there for a while, company goes public, meaningless shares were suddenly worth a fortune. Epitome of ‘right place at the right time’.

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#11

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth My brother's friend worked minimum wage jobs. Then he and his wife started buying lube in large quantities from overseas and repackaging it in much smaller quantities in their garage and reselling it on Amazon.

Really just classic middleman stuff, but they made SO MUCH money that they quit their day jobs almost immediately and haven't looked back.

buffaloplaidcookbook , Jan Kopřiva Report

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Josephine Blogs 2 hours ago

P Diddy has entered the chat

10points

#12

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth A small time YouTuber (think under 500 subscribers) I personally knew used to make RuneScape videos. One day he decided to change things up and do Creepypasta readings. Bam, went viral and had 10,000 subscribers in two videos. Last I checked he's just shy of a million.

Kent_Knifen , Leon Bublitz Report

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D 17 minutes ago

Does anyone know what any of this means without googling?!

1point

Glittering-Gold3141 , EnigmaticDaze Report

#13

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Do y’all remember silly bandz? My friend’s dad came up with rainbow silly bandz and became a millionaire from that.

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 19 minutes ago

God! I HATED those d@mned things! They were all over the house for ages!

1point

#14

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth I went to high school with Bo Burnham. One day he had a youtube video go viral. Like a week later he was represented by the same agent as Drew Carey.

Ironically, the kid who joked about being unpopular was suddenly really popular due to the success from his jokes.

Arbiter_89 , boburnham Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 18 minutes ago

Just listened to his song "Internet".

1point

Sharp-Engineer-4090 , energepic.com Report

#15

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth A good friend of mine started trading stocks after retirement. He trades ETFs everyday in his underwear. He does it all on his phone or ipad. He retired 3 yrs ago. So far this year he's made $1.3 million. It is ridiculous.

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#16

Ok so university lecturer at my uni, he was a deep sea biologist. He was given a sea slug which had been collected on an automated underwater vehicle dive.

In the mucus of this sea slug, he isolated a bacteria which produced a protein digesting enzyme which worked at low temperatures. He sold this biological enzyme to one of the big company's I think proctor and gamble.

The whole "wash your clothes at 30/ low temperatures" biological washing powder etc. that was him .

Went from driving a ford escort,.to a jaguar, to retiring in about a week.

JAM88CAM Report

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Racing Tadpole 55 minutes ago

No the uni would have contested that discovery

2points

#17

I once knew a guy who bought a lottery ticket on a whim while waiting in line for coffee. He won, quit his job, and spent the next year traveling the world on a “find myself” tour. He came back with a massive tattoo of a pineapple on his chest and a story that made him richer in life than most millionaires. Turns out, the real jackpot was the freedom to be absurd.

Classic_Ad_7950 Report

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DrBronxx 53 minutes ago

Sure. Most people don't necessarily want to be rich - they just want enough money not to worry.

3points

#18

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Big lotto winners who aren't satisfied and keep buying more lotto tickets and win *again*.

I don't mean a mil or 2.. but those megaball types who hit 10 or more, then play and win million+ like a year later.

MirthandMystery , Waldemar Report

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DrBronxx 55 minutes ago

If I win the lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs. Like the DeLorean in my driveway.

2points

NorthernH3misphere , Artem Podrez Report

#19

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Telling them about Bitcoin and watching them go buy 20 plus a bunch of Ethereum.

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#20

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth Bro had an idea, patented it, pitched it to the owner of gopro, got 2.3 million for it

hes a good guy, but i am still a bit jealous.

NOT000 , Luis Quintero Report

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#21

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth I once watched a guy turn his viral TikTok dance challenge into a million-dollar merchandise line overnight. He just tossed on a silly costume, danced like nobody was watching, and somehow convinced everyone that wearing a chicken suit while moonwalking was the new black. Now I’m left wondering if I should start practicing my own absurd dance moves or just invest in rubber chickens.

Itchy_General_1290 , Ron Lach Report

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#22

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth A classmate in high school climbed and subsequently fell off a electric transmission tower and got hurt pretty bad. Even though he was an idiot, because there were no warning signs or a fence around it he received a bunch of money as a legal settlement from the electric company.

Herr_Poopypants , Art Wall - Kittenprint Report

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Bart 1 hour ago

One of the reasons I'm happy to live in Switzerland is that logic and personal responsibility is still applied here. If you need a sign not to climb a electric transmission tower than maybe Darwin is talking to you from the grave... We once had a tourist trying to sue a local ski rent shop because he fell (while skiing) and broke his leg. The judge dismissed the case in under 30sec...

4points

#23

“The Audio Of A Fan”: 50 Absurd Ways People Stumbled Into Wealth My ex back in high school (2015-2016) invested in bitcoin. he made really good profit then promptly spent it on the largest amount of d***s i’ve ever seen in my life. i mean stacks upon stacks of it. he rarely sold and just ran through it all with him and his two friends in like a month.

there’s reasons we aren’t together anymore….

skyfully , CardMapr.nl Report

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Texmaam 1 hour ago

What's d****s? Stacks of it. What is it?

1point

#24

Friend of an friend sold d***s in the early 2010s. Some sales were done in bitcoin. Went to jail for five years and came out with a what was now a few million in Bitcoin that he didn't touch during it's biggest booms. I suppose it took a decade but what had seemed like a huge f**k up left him an accidental millionaire and meant he didn't need to return to a life of crime when he got out. Went on to live a frugal lifestyle as a humble "crypto trader".

delph906 Report

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#25

PPP & ERC money during the pandemic! The general public doesn’t really understand how much money was handed out.

StonkiBoi_ Report

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Cee Cee 2 hours ago

And frequently governments were scammed.

1point

#26

Not rich but my friend told me about how he went to the strip club one night downtown. He stayed until 3:00 a.m. and then when he left, he walked outside to find a ton of $20 bills just blowing in the wind down the street, so he grabbed as much as he could. He couldn't explain where it came from, no one was around at the time and the streets were empty.

batmanineurope Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 10 minutes ago

Fishy

1point

#27

He and his brother developed an online game where two cowboys walk away from each other, then turn around and shoot and one dies.

The game was entirely automated. You could just bet money on who wins, and if you got it right you would x1.95 your money, with 5% going to the house.

They got unfathomably rich. Saw them race sports cars around the world. Last time I checked though, they went to prison for tax fraud.

CeterumCenseo85 Report

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DadManBlues 1 hour ago

'...they went to prison for tax fraud' is an example of when so much is not enough.

2points

Infamous-Draft4551 Report

#28

A house in a low-income neighbourhood caught fire. This copywriting whiz that was also a community leader started a campaign to raise funds for the family, purely on Whatsapp. He raised 200K over 2 days and handed all the money to them within the 3rd day.

ciqr09 Report

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#29

A friend was employee number 8 at a tech startup and resigned after they listed on the stock exchange with $35 million.

arouseandbrowse Report

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#30

Runescape - Someone I know made millions selling and buying gp (the currency of runescape) then got served cease and desist letters by the game makers (jagex) so sold his company to a competitor with a royalty deal.

Borntwopk Report

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#31

I once read about this guy who bought a bunch of rare Beanie Babies back in the day and flipped them for thousands.

6points

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 7 minutes ago

Some of the extremely rare ones are still worth a lot.

1point

theblackbeltsurfer Report

#32

A friend of mine used an app to create a bunch of different notebooks and diaries using free templates, then sold them through Amazon. Amazon would supply the books, print the covers onto them and sell them while my friend sat back and got paid for minimal effort. Doesn't really work anymore but they made enough to not need to worry about that.

LordEmostache Report

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#33

A day time TV show many years ago about flipping repossessed houses bought at auction where they showed three folks/couples buying a house, fixing it up and selling it. One chap bought two houses but did nothing to them, didn't even clean them. All he did was sell them at market value and made a bunch since the auction price was peanuts. The show edited it as if he was new to the flipping house game so maybe he'd have a better go the next episode even though his profit was more than the other folks. The next two episode he did the same thing with another seven houses before the production team realised that he had no intention of doing anything to any house and was only there to use the production crew's contacts and for them to do a lot of the legwork as required for the show. He made over £100k+ on nine houses with doing barely anything. The show stopping dealing with him after that.

darybrain Report

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#34

A friend of a friend was at the rubbish dump with a friend and found a bag filled with a bunch of cash. They split it and he hid it under his bed then used it to pay tradies and stuff. Very dodgy but sounds like something from a book.

MillyZeusy Report

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#35

Didn't one of the early investors/co-founders of Facebook (not Zuck) write a book about how fundamentally broken the current tech/capital markets are that he was able to amass >$1B fortune by doing just a few months' work?

foodfighter Report

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#36

Both the Cash Me Outside and Hawk Tuah girls.

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 8 minutes ago

What in the world!?!

1point

Middle_Manager_Karen Report

#37

Pointy hat on YouTube worked for it but still 2 years to a second income while working full time is a great fall back. Many of his coworkers don't realize he makes more in a one day shoot that they make all week.

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#38

Distant acquaintance was in China before Covid kicked in and anticipated the need for masks. Back home he went to his bank but they didn’t want to give him money so he borrowed 100k from local d**g cartel to buy a container load of masks from China. Fast forward 2 months and these masks were worth 2.5 million. He paid back his depth and is a rich man now.
Pretty bad**s move though.

mrNoobMan_ Report

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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 3 minutes ago

I call bull! Anyone caught selling the N95 masks for more than market value was arrested and charged. Yes, demand was through the roof, but because essential workers NEEDED them. IF it happened, I can't imagine he wasn't caught

1point

External_Invite_7146 Report

#39

Making s****y music.

Slade1111 Report

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#40

Became friends with some dudes in college who turned out to be the founding members of Dude Perfect. He’s now a regular and just won an Emmy for shows he’s done for them.

Another is Britney Dawn, just google her. It’s a whole thing. The crazy thing is realizing both these people went to the same high school, in the same year. In a class of like 100 people.

chadsomething Report

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#41

Get elected as a politician.

hotnfun1800 Report

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#42

Friend of a friend found 23 bitcoins on an old hard drive in 2017 which he got for selling some mtg cards he had from high school on mt gox in 2012, sold the btc in 17 then put it all in tesla at 70 Euros pre-split. He's dumb as a brick, i remember helping him get the coins off mt gox 12 years ago. FWIW his mtg cards would now also be worth well north of 75k. He bought a house for around a million and paid in cash a couple of years ago, drives a top specced Q7 and smokes 5g of weed a day every day. I go to clubs with him occasionally and with a designated driver around he gets everyone hammered on the most expensive stuff they have available. He's a good guy but he is completely convinced he deserves everything he has and he was bound to get rich one way or the other.

Ivanka_Gorgonzola Report

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#43

Selling immediately the land they inherited from their parents. it funny and ironic how the older generation kept the land and took care of it thinking about their kid's future that they have a place, a land to build a house on only yo be sold right away because their kids prefer the money more. My cousins already sold their portion of land even though their mom is still alive and is not fully subdivided yet. it was a mess.

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#44

Ring tones...

glarbknot Report

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Kirsten Kerkhof 1 hour ago

I can't believe I used to pay for ring tones. I have my phone permanently on silent now.

1point

chloe_fromthe_hill Report

#45

I germany during covid basically everyone was allowed to start a covid test station and anyone could go there and get tested and even had to get tested to go to work. But what a lot of people did they just collected hundreds of names family friends and distant relatives and booked them daily as tested. And the german goverment paid them around 15 € per test. People in bigger citys made millions without even testing anyone.

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Corvus 31 minutes ago

Sounds like fraud.

1point