Aaah yes, circle pits are amazing. A wall of death is scary at first, but also a lot of fun. Forming a Conga line through the whole crowd is always a huge party.
One of the best feelings in the world is seeing the reaction of people who hang out with Metalheads for the first time. We had someone join our group at a metal festival and it was so much fun.
"Wait, why is that big scary guy over there wearing a pink unicorn costume?" Etc etc
Fuck, that sounds horrible :(
I wish you a good recovery with as little pain as possible!
You have a good strategy. Reading other people's stories is like reading a book. But instead of fiction, it's (hopefully true) small glimpses into human lives. I also love that for escaping my own reality for a short while.
What I have noticed for myself and other Metalheads is that the preference regarding the favourite bands and or subgenre might shift, or that the mix/percentage with non-Metal music might change a bit etc. But from my experience, people that have enjoyed Metal as teenagers still like it at older ages.
At Metal festivals and concerts you generally find a wide spectrum of all ages. I've seen grannies enjoying the show next to teenagers moshing. I've seen whole families, or talked to people that came alone from another continent to attend that festival. I've also done that myself once and had no problem finding nice people to hang out with.
@OP, are you asking for a specific reason, or just a general vibe check? Or are you a Metalhead yourself and wanna see what the perspective from other Metalheads in other communities is?
I was a bit confused by "Revenue derived from Google", so I checked the source that is cited for 2022 in that Wikipedia article. But I couldn't find the term "Google" or "Alphabet" at all. It only states that approximately 81% comes from "one customer" (Page 16).
So I checked further. The report lists the total revenue as 593,516,000 $, of which 510,389,000 $ comes from royalties (Page 4).
Further down, royalties are defined (Page 13):
Royalties - Mozilla provides the Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation.Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines incorporated in the Firefox web browser.
So 81% (ca. 413,415,000 $*) of these royalties, 70% of all revenue, comes from one of these default search engines:
Google
Amazon
Bing
DuckDuckGo
eBay
Wikipedia
I think the value on Wikipedia is wrong. There 81% of total revenue is used where it should be 81% of the royalities.
In conclusion
Mozilla earns a percentage of the revenue that is generated by the default search engines. 81% of these royalties (or 70% of Mozilla's total revenue) comes from "one customer". Wether this is Google, Amazon or an other one can only be assumed.
Well 50:50, the trick is to deliberately leave something out that you're sure will create a question. The problem is, however, that it won't replace another unpleasant question. It just delays it a tiny bit.
