What’s Trending: Friday, June 3rd, 2022
#LeBronJames
o The NBA player is officially a billionaire!
o According to Forbes, his net worth surpassed the billion dollar mark after he earned $121.2 million in 2021.
o He is the first active NBA player to reach that milestone.
o James has spent 19 seasons in the NBA and has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers.
o He’s taken home $385 million from playing basketball and earned more than $900 million from endorsements and business ventures.
o Michael Jordan is the only other professional basketball player to become a billionaire but unlike James, he reached that milestone more than a decade after his retirement.
#GoodWill
o A new strain of ransomware, dubbed “GoodWill,” has been identified by cybersecurity analysts.
o The twist is victims have to complete a series of charitable tasks in order to retrieve their data.
o The group behind the ransomware will direct their victims to perform three good deeds, record them and post them on social media to supposedly encourage others to follow suit.
o Some of the tasks include donating clothing to charity, feed five kids under 13 at a pizza place and take a selfie, and then go to a hospital and pay off someone’s bill.
#MillerHighLife
o The beer brand wants to ordain you as a minister!
o The Champagne of Beers has teamed up with none other than the Universal Life Church to create their own cadre of legal wedding officiants, aptly named the Officiants of High Life.
o The Universal Life Church (ULC) describes itself as "a non-denominational religious organization that brings together people from all walks of life" — but it has perhaps become best known for the ease at which the church will ordain people as ministers, allowing them to legally perform weddings.
o Anyone can now head to HitchedByHighLife.com to receive their official officiant status.
o Once you’re registered be sent a free Officiants of High Life package which includes an Officiant of High Life membership card and business cards, along with other swag.
o Additionally, ULC and High Life offer tips on how to perform a wedding, how to complete a marriage license, and an official "Hitched by High Life" wedding script which opens with "Thank you all for coming… Under your seat, you'll find a bottle of High Life" and concludes with "I now pronounce you drinking partners for life.”