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Stolen phones worldwide go to this one building
Jony Ive just cashed in for $6.5B with a 1 yr old company
Andrew Safranko
May 23, 2025
This Week in Dulture…
Approx 5 minute read:
🇨🇳 Found my phone, sort of
🌠 Universal is epic
🥷 Street Fighter 2026!
🤡 Spending $6.5B on a 1 yr old company
Dulture weekly mix
Rightfully so, there isn’t a new mix this week but there is one you haven’t heard before…unless you’re subscribed to the channel. You see, yesterday was DJ Shtoops birthday so how do you expect the man to put out a new mix when he had celebrating getting older to do?
In honour of Shtoops being another year older, I present to you his old school house mix - which really is a bunch of songs that were popular when we were teenagers. Old school is officially the Winamp days folks.
🎥 Most Viewed YouTube This Week
 #1 - Trailer for an insane action film |  #2 - A commercial for Sweetarts…? |  #3 - A video about YouTubers’ houses |
So if you recall, my phone got stolen last year.
I tracked it and tracked it until I couldn’t track it anymore, assuming they took my phone apart and threw it into some plastic bin with a sign…
I remember it being such a weird time because I had no access to internet or contacting anyone when I left my house for a day or so.
What kind of psychopath lives like that?
At any rate, Apple’s “Find My” app can only do so much. Eventually all it’s good for is being the digital museum of your lost iOS stuff.
I never knew why it was an iPhone (95)…
Well speaking of museums, if you’re like me and you’ve had your phone stolen, there’s a decent chance it ends up in the stolen phone museum in Shenzhen. Okay, it’s not really a museum per se, more like a giant building with many floors selling electronics - a bunch of which allegedly stolen.
THIS PLACE (4th floor to be exact).
Turns out phones stolen all over North America and Europe tend to end up in Hong Kong where they comfortably are transported into Shenzhen to be later sold for parts in the Feiyang Times building.
So I guess I’m going to Shenzhen to get my phone back. Or maybe build a new phone…it’s crazy you can go from place to place and get all the parts needed to build an iPhone from scratch 👇️
Universal Becomes Epic
Universal Studios just upgraded itself.
750 acres
5 new massive worlds
Over 50 new attractions
Universal Epic Universe officially opened yesterday giving you yet another reason to go theme park hopping in Orlando.
Starting at $140 USD for a 1 day ticket, Universal offers all kinds of ticket packages across the now 4 major properties in Orlando (Universal Studios, Universal Islands of Adventure, and Volcano Bay), essentially enabling park hopping for real real.
With Epic Universe specifically, you get Super Nintendo World, and that’s all that really matters lol.
Okay okay - you get a new Harry Potter world, a world based on the How to Train Your Dragon series, a scary world with popular horror characters like Dracula and Frankenstein, and this Celestial world which acts as the center of the universe and also where the hotel is if you decided to stay there on site.
I’m probably butchering all of them as I wasn’t there for opening day but stay tuned for Dulture in the summer when I give a first hand review of Super Mario World in Osaka ;)
Early opening day reviews span from a multitude of 5 star reviews of people just loving the place to 1 star reviews complaining about the Harry Potter ride being down constantly.
If you like theme parks then you don’t need me telling you what to do next.
Please Let This Movie Be Good
There is NOTHING worse than growing up with your favourite character / book / toy / WHATEVER only to have it made into a movie and for that movie to SUCK.
Where’s my Street Fighter fans at?
1994’s total blunder of a Street Fighter film was clearly just a cash grab, riding a combination of the video game’s popularity alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme’s streak of playing basically the same martial arts character in every movie he’s in.
THIS may have potential though…
Rumour has it Roman Reigns would play Akuma
Legendary, the studio behind the production, is still aiming for a March 20th 2026 release however no word on official casting has been made.
Jason Momoa was decent in the Minecraft movie, although he had Jack Black to help carry him at times but I think he’d make a good Zangief or Blanka.
If we’ve learned anything from Mortal Kombat, it’s that live action films based on fighting video games tend to suck so bad that it makes you want to boycott the game itself.
Kitao Sakurai, known for his writing and directing on a bunch of fun/quirky stuff including The Eric Andre Show is going to be directing this alongside “heavy involvement” from Capcom.
Lord knows if this means the film is going to be funny or if it’s going to be a try-hard action film that falls flat on its face…PERFECT.
Jony Ive’s Startup Was Worth $6.5B??
Think of a horror movie that scared you.
Now look at this photo.
They bout to give the whole world beautiful AI powered devices that gladly take over your life, where it doom scrolls for you so you can become the full-time zombie you become from doom scrolling while lying in bed.
The guy on the left is Jony Ive, the designer of many Apple products including the iPhone. The guy on the right is Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT OpenAI - the non-profit that is turning profit but might still be a non-profit?
Sam just bought Jony’s startup for $6.5B.
Here’s what happened:
Jony left Apple and started LoveFrom, a high end design agency or something…
LoveFrom got hired by OpenAI to lead all things design for the company.
LoveFrom I guess starts to share designs not only on software but also hardware and the team at OpenAI likes this.
In 2024 Jony decides that OpenAI is really interested in this hardware design stuff and that he needs to start a new company called “io” so that it can solely focus on it. (No clue why LoveFrom couldn’t do it but anyway…)
Fast forward to Wednesday, OpenAI acquires io, this one year old company that was founded because OpenAI liked some designs, for $6.5B…yes BILLION…dollars.
Then they did this odd video about the announcement where Sam Altman has this puzzled look on his face the entire time he’s speaking, like, did I really just give someone $6.5B??
Or maybe the whole video is AI 🤔
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